Frank Skinner's Banjolele Bonanza | QI 

Talent recognises talent.

Well John Bishop from Dr Who is on the panel

To me it looks more like "There's a whole avenue of comedy I haven't even explored!"

It's amazing how many really dirty puns are in Shakespeare. Except not many people notice them now because the accent has changed so much that the puns don't work anymore.

@@HermanVonPetri Same with the Canterbury Tales. Or the even older Decameron stories, if you like your sex with some morality thrown in.

​@@HermanVonPetri I think my favourite dirty pun in Shakespeare has to be "what, with my tongue in your tail?" from Taming of the Shrew. The rest of the play lives or dies on the interpretation/adaptation (the Shakespeare ReTold one with Rufus Sewell and Shirley Henderson is the best one IMO), but that pun makes me give a Sid James-level chuckle whenever I read it.

@@EleanorHucklesby Quite a naughty laugh. Haha. I like the one from "As You Like It" as the motley fool Jaques is talking to the Duke. "Tis but an hour ago since it were nine And after one hour more ‘twill be eleven From hour to hour we ripe and ripe and from hour to hour we rot and rot and thereby hangs a tale." In Shakespeare's accent of the time "hour" would have been pronounced "ooor" much like "whore." So rereading it with the word "whore" in place of "hour" explains why the Duke laughs so much at this little speech.

She was only the Constable's daughter but she let the chief inspector

@@petermortimer6303 that’s a great one 😂

Did you hear about the optician who fell into the lens grinding machine? Yes, he made a spectacle of himself.

She was only a moonshiner's daughter, but I loved her still.

Did you hear about the baker who got his hand caught in the bread slicer? He was sacked and so was she.

@@johnhrussell4885 Or the butcher who sat on the meat slicer and got behind in her orders.

She was only a mortician's daughter, but anyone cadaver.

Was he the fellow who invented the means to determine who won the game of cricket after five days?

Where was jeeves at the time?

@Johan Johannson Aka lap steel, maybe? Or pedal steel guitar?

They do make good kindling for an accordion fire.

Reminds me of the joke... How many holes are there in a bagpipe? Not enough.

If you throw a banjo, an accordion and a viola of the top of the Empire State Building, which will hit the ground first? Who the hell cares?

The difference between a banjo and an onion…….nobody cries when you cut a banjo in half……

I've bought all the Formby DVDs there are I think, and yeah watching him play is amazing. He'd like lightning on the uke.

Just as long as they don't try to shove it down my throat and give it to me straight as for like my mother i can take it regardless of how hard it might be to swallow.

She was only a woodcutter's daughter, but she gave all the men circular saws. She was only an optician's daughter, but two glasses and she'd make a spectacle of herself.

Oh, you baiter, you...

@@3rdmm A master of it, at that!

@3rd Millennium Man NOT a baiter, not even a master baiter. Have you ever heard the lyrics to RAP songs? Makes these sound like kindergarten nursery rhymes.

@Jack Guy And THAT'S cheeky? Hardly. Cute, but not cheeky.

A bunch of lousy twats, when I'm using windows.