BEST OF QI! MOST VIEWED & FUNNIEST ANSWERS! With Stephen Fry & Sandi Toksvig 

Yes, very appropriately.

Technically knows that we’re he born 50 years earlier, there but by the grace of some invisible asshat, goes he.

Alan Turing and his Turing machine/binary numbers... It shortened the war and saved thousands of lives. Then the hypocritical British castrated him for being gay. They persecuted Oscar Wilde too, sending him to prison and forcing him into exile... Not cool.

It was terrible, the way that man was treated.

The great man deserved the respect shown from the audience . 👍

They do feel pain, which many people refuse to believe.

I love the way Bill is so cautious when he says it. He's been on this show long enough XD

Can't sneak anything past ol' Bill.

He has that wacky tone sometimes with ridiculous answers and it always cracks me up. The other one that's coming to mind is when Stephen asks "Who built England's railways?" and Bill responds back something like "Oh, some large beasts of burden! The railway... mouse!". Love that man.

Yes, he died on my birthday. 😥😥😥💜

“Long live Sean Lock” in the same sentence where you tell us he is dead…..????

@@Traitorman.14.3 long live in legacy and in memory.

​@@Traitorman.14.3 the king is dead, long live the king

You guys really must get over Sean Lock's death.

i realize I'm quite randomly asking but do anybody know a good site to watch new series online?

@Luka Layne Thank you, I signed up and it seems to work :) Appreciate it !

@Musa Jeremiah You are welcome :)

Myflixer seems a bit more complete though. Open it in a secure browser to avoid popups.

Data thiefs. these are bots/hacked accounts. Do not go there.

Same here! But for me i want to add `Would i lie to you`

That has been especially true when they are audience-free due to COVID

@@louisinjoliet8546 as much as I like the live laughter they provide, I love how much more natural it feels without the audience. It feels more conversational.

@@trickytreyperfected1482 *Conversational

@@pseudonayme7717 *Conversant

SHOW US THE ROUND THING!

It's also not a supernova - it's the Crab Nebula, which is a remnant of a supernova that was observed on Earth during the 11th century.

Omg I had forgotten that one, was ded at the time, thanks for your comment I saw it back!

I love Alan's sense of humour.

Pleased

@@2beer49 please

Especially considering the fact that 3 years prior he wrote and filmed “The History of Numberwang” sketch based around early computing, and entails everything they’re talking about. I’d be smirking too if researching history for a bit resulted in a paycheck from the BBC for two separate shows with added QI points of course.

I love how frustrated Susan gets because she hasn't got a comeback for it.

Savage respond and so beautifully executed

A bit of fry and Laurie is good... Blackadder is better

i hate that all of the Fry QI episodes are blocked in the US. it's stupid, it's pointless, and anyone who thinks its a good idea is deserving of loss of oxygen.

Rip

@@ghomerhust why did they do that??

​@@paulinegallagher7821They're available in the US. Not too sure why you can't watch them? Anyway if they are it's due to the fact they are too high brow for the US audiences.

once I first got into QI, he was part of my perfect, dream panel (which never quite happened), and as soon as I found Taskmaster a couple of years ago and got into it, he was immediately part of my dream team to be featured there.

What’s your dream panel, out of idle curiosity? :)

@@blueribenaberry I would struggle to keep that answer to four...after Phill and David Mitchell, a bunch of people could all claim a spot. Maybe we let Alan host and have Jo Brand and Ross Noble, idk

Phil and Bill together is an amazing episode every time

@@ethanderrick8486 Phil and anyone is an amazing episode, he's got banter with everyone

Clever, and much safer than having the purser know a secret keypad code (which can be extracted by torture). Unfortunately, it worked too well on that Germanwings flight .

You pushed tin? I know a few people who did that. Incredible job.

And less Sandy what’s her name tbh

@@ianmackinlay8925 she's sharp as a razor mate

@@larapalma3744 and more irritating than nails on a chalkboard

@@ianmackinlay8925 Hint - read the title...

22:50 *humbly suggest if the media that plays the item you stole is no longer commercially available you should just be allowed to walk out of jail.

@@rjwh67220 no she's not 🙄

@@ShiningBOT I mean a bit... She's used that same line on that girl several times (from memory) but I believe this is the only time where she had done fine! That was genuinely a pretty accurate snippet of the song. Like it was "good enough" you could tell where specifically she was at in the original based purely on the absolute notes rather than the relative ones. She's in the right key!

She's just being playful, the way that Sandi and that panel member (you'll have to forgive me, the full episode isnt here and i don't remember her name) have playful back and forth throughout the episodes they're in together, they act like they're at least somewhat friends.

@@tricursor2481 Sandi and Susan know eachother very well and have been on many things together, they're good at bouncing comments between them

For such a sweet lady, she can be absolutely brutally funny

What do they say about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?

They say...that theeeeeyyy....

I bet you _do,_ girl, *I BET YOU DO!!!* 😂

@@phogue1 What do they say?, What do they say? l will never understand why Alan has not become a household name here in the states?

@@221b-Maker-Street That was lightning in a bottle!

To be fair it should be pointed out that you people have pretty crazy and violent criminals, and allthough Iam against the death sentence, I dont want those guys to ever get out. I mean over here in europe it is big news if someone starts a shootout in a city, in chicago and detroit that would be a normal working day.

@@ABW941 That is true, but that has nothing to do with the criminal justice system and a lot to do with our practically nonexistent mental healthcare infrastructure and lax weapon regulations.

"There are more 17-year old black people in jail than in college in America". That's because we don't start college/university until 18 or 19 normally! Just a simple observation, since college means something different in the UK they expect 17 year old's to be in college.

Something else to consider. The prisoners ABSOLUTELY CAN refuse to work. In the vast majority of prisons it is a privilege to work, not a requirement. After all, what are they going do if you stop working? Throw you in prison? Of course, the cost to the taxpayer of keeping people in prison is also far more than the money earned from a prisoners work. The reason they're paid 25 cents an hour is because they owe, quite literally, a debt to society. Mostly their 'profit', such as it is, goes towards paying any sums owed to the victim or a victims fund, and slightly reduces the cost of their trial and imprisonment. QI is a fantastic show, but in this case they seem to have not done their homework and instead relied on what is the prevailing belief of the US prison system, school system, and so on. Our prison system is functioning as best it can in an imperfect situation. Now if only we didn't continue to imprison addicts, and instead focused on recovery...then maybe our prisons would empty out enough that we could actually start keeping violent criminals locked up instead of this constant catch and release.

@@tax1643 What happens when addicts commit crimes? Do we ignore their crimes in favor of rehab? I agree that they should get rehab, but if a junkie beats an old woman half to death for her social security check to buy another fix, the junkie needs something other than a stay in a posh rehab center.

Maybe that was after that episode?

It was only released in January this year. This QI clip however, is from nearly 12 years ago - January 2010!

@@MissRaindrop24 It was - 11 years after!

He didn´t inhale

I was thinking the same! So nice that echos are being spoken about. I can still remember my weird exholalia quirks from songs and books quoted still from my childhood!

Missed? Did something happen to him?! Edit: NO! I had no idea!

@@83gemm Yeah, sad times :/

The guy that studies snakes. R.I.P Sean.

We were hoping for sales of ONE 😂😂😂😂

Sometimes bastardising them as he tells them 😆

He's such a nice bloke

Hes incredibly quick. Its rare to see a comedian thats able to add a joke to whatever anyone says

@@smurfette_blues7922 its almost.. annoying

@@tomcross3000 lmao yes. You could say that. Especially his laugh.

A world treasure ...!

Especially the footnotes....

just sending Kudos to a pratchett fan. 😄

Love Pratchett ❤️

ayyyy Pratchett fans!💯

GNU Terry

hes been on it more than anyone else interestingly

There's plenty of him

YES!

His daughter is one of the QI elves.

Yes, excellent, Stephen's rudest and often funniest guest.

She is an excellent replacement. I will watch anything Stephen Fry is in, and having a full series with him as host was great for that, but like you says, Sandi plays the part very well.

I love them both as well, but yes Sandi was the perfect successor because shes as fascinated and knowledgeable with trivia as Stephen

The way he is able to think up these absurd scenarios and then has the physicality to act them out. And then also his anecdotes. I love seeing alan in any context. I am beyond excited to see him on taskmaster.

HE WAS SO INCREDIBLE xD

His monster impression in the last live task was the single funniest thing I have ever seen in my life

Rich Hall 👌

The most unfunny person on any show. Rich Hall that is. His US humour just doesn't land.

There was a huge difference between Enigma and Lorentz. For one thing, as it is mentioned, the Poles had early on secured a specimen of Enigma, so they knew what it was doing. Whereas no copy of the Lorentz machine got secured until just before the war ended anyway. That makes for a huge leap in sophistication to be able to figure out how to decipher the code. And it wasn't actually Turing who was the main man in that side of the operation, it was William Tutte, another famous mathematician who worked at Bletchley.

It looks like the Fry-narrated audio version of 1984 was released in January 2021, long after he left QI.

@@steve470 guess he liked it then!

@@steve470 Guess he couldn't stand not having read it, and did it as publicly as possible.

I had to read 1984 for my English GCSE

That tickled me too 🙂

"I'll put the pencil in"

If you play Fall Guys, this has another meaning

Well, she was kinda the logical choice for this but the more I see her the less I like her, with Fry that never happened ...another change is long overdue.

actually

I was a fan until I saw her speaking at a feminist event. It was not long after she took the QI presenter role. Where she highlighted her salary and compared it to Stephen Fry's, prior to leaving. There was a gasp from the audience at the difference. No acknowledgement that the pay difference could be based on talent, reputation, etc. Instead purely male/female 🤦🙄

@@LiamLewyShepherd Yes, I heard about it, quite appalling really, she lost all my respect with that. To make such a ludicrous claim, in showbusiness of all fields... 40% it was, if I remember correctly, all things considered that is somewhat appropriate, she isn't more than 40% as good as Fry at this.

Surely in a job that has no qualification requirements as such other than an ability to read cue cards and a sense of humour. One would think the salary would remain the same no matter who the host was or what their gender.

*the best

Haven't you heard what they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?

@@NomadUniverse Classic...

How about "why do the pillars of the pantheon look straight? because they are"

Alan had a point though, milk isn't good for humans

@@funkyfranx all things are relative

He is sooo clicheishly a high IQ gentleman.!

Churchill was an evil racist, who was happy to see "savages" go to slaughter.

@@thetessellater9163…spoken like a true Whig.

"Música no Coração" = "Music in the heart" in Portuguese

Sound of music in German: "Meine Lieder - Meine Träume" = my songs, my dreams I can't decide which one is the weirdest to be honest.

¿En serio? Yo la conocí como "La Novicia Rebelde" (The Rebel Novice); debió ser el doblaje latino.

@@valerianaranjocruz25 In Spain. Can't speak for the rest of the Spanish speaking world, but my wife told me she knew it as that.

How strange........'The Adventurous Student' is synonymous with 'The Rebel Novice' and makes a much better title........ What's wrong with 'O Som Da Musica'?

Same in spanish speaking countries

In german it's "my songs - my dreams"

That’s so awesome!!!

I live in spain. It's "smiles and tears" here

I searched for this comment his very expression said "if only you knew" to me

So the claim that it has never happened in commercial airline travel is still true.

They released the radio tapes of that incident for the ones interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vnWfgHAdajo.html

If im not mistaken a helios flight had a steward trying to land a plane that had lost all the oxygen in the cabin ,leaving all the other unconscious.

@@erik6732 shame it was too late and fuel was already depleted. Must suck to be that engineer whos error killed a whole planeful of people.

@@erik6732 the steward and his girlfriend had a go, and he briefly waved at the fighter jets flanking the Helios aircraft, I think

Yeah. Technically, the roundest thing in the universe is, in fact, the universe itself.

Oh not oblate spheroids again!

@@LoisoPondohva photos required as proof

And he said the “roundest” thing, which is obviously a circle.

You mean JOLLY round ones

Any landing that you can walk away from.

Very fast.

And then the entire class stood and gave you a standing ovation. Right? MegaFortinbras.

@@KingAnarchist Well, no. But Gould was pleased.

r/nothingeverhappens

I sat in one of his courses because I had lectures in Science Center B the hour before and the hour after. I found him to be rather full of himself, frankly. I also thought that his argument against gradualism was rather self-serving ("Victorians believed in gradualism because it fit in with their political views, but I believe in punctuated equilibrium *because it's true*").

I remember having to order his book Wonderful Life, this was years before electronic downloads.

Who's gonna tell her....

@@jackmehoffe9372 Tell what?

@@phoenix9531 I'm not entirely sure

@@jackmehoffe9372 what? Then your first comment makes no sense. Are you trolling?

@@phoenix9531 6 people liked it enough. Let's just sweep this under the carpet fire bird

I think we are the only country with this style of show. In premise you are on the show to score the most points. However, in UK shows we just have comedians tell jokes and score points as an after thought. The scoring on this show apparently has some weird formula. Very few people know how it's scored.

@@Jimmy_Jones Like the original "Who's Line is it anyway?" Always loved that, wish that was the case here, sadly true wit and silliness are not as cherished here.

@@Jimmy_Jones The points are immaterial, tbh. It's the *journey* that's interesting for us - I really don't care who wins. I just love the wit, the sparring, and the intellect. 😬

That narration makes it incredibly hard to listen to any other audiobooks cos they aren’t anywhere near as good.

@@TessaOswin He's also narrated 1984 now

@@ronvlaarsvar6867 that is so cool! So he has read it now!

“Harry Potter pocketed…”

The standard of education truly has crashed through the floor. Here's a tip: 'insure' and 'ensure'; 'bought' and 'brought' are not mis-pronunciations of each other.

@@trueaussie9230 I could sass back, but honestly I find this condescension bizarre more than anything. Firstly, the two are cognates, and second, unless we plan to employ our children on cruise lines or airplanes en masse, I fail to see the modern relevance of familiarity with the term, except insofar as being on TV with David Mitchell is concerned.

@@artstsym My condolences to your kids, should you ever have any.

@@trueaussie9230 Again, finding this amount of shade very strange. You seem to take strong offense at the idea that someone would confuse a very uncommon profession for a much more common one with the same root. Are you doing ok?

@@artstsym Yes. I'm fine. Thanks for asking. "Amount of shade"?!? What the hell are you talking about?! (Are YOU OK?) Notwithstanding the very simple fact that there are probably more, if not as many, 'pursers' employed in the world than there are 'bursers', both words are in common usage in the English language. (FYI - 'purser' is not strictly 'a naval term'. It's used in regard to any and all forms of transport.) The issue at hand is your apparent unwillingness to learn the language you are attempting to use. The reason the English language has different words with different meanings is to distinguish one from the other. I'm starting to believe you MUST be American. "US English' came about as a result of the inability of the American mind to grapple with 'complex' issues.