Josh Widdicombe's Best Moments | QI 

I don't think anything is more tragically hilarious than that Taskmaster moment

He won a trophy on Taskmaster....

He won the series due to that point

​@@brianm6337yeah, the one with someone doing karate on top

He's got a brother and a sister. Clearly, he's used to playing to win!

I saw an interview with Alan a few years ago and I got the distinct impression that he thought his older brother was a bit of a shit.

@@DanDownunda8888 Sadly, his family was dysfunctional due to his abusive father :(

@@medievalist Yes, the Police said they didn't prosecute Alan's father for paedophilia because he had contracted Alzheimers. I don't see why not.

@@DanDownunda8888 Me either, he was guilty. Poor Alan.

Also, his whole bit about the Hairy Hand was not an answer to a question, it was a bit of trivia. So even if caught at the time, he would not have lost points.

But in many ways he let jesus down.

@@al201103 no, they dock points for stories that are apocryphal often. He did say the right road he said previously though, so he should not have gotten a klaxon

SB-G was a clergyman in the Wakefield area (specifically Horbury Bridge), and wrote, inter alia, Onward Christian Soldiers.

@@archivist17 Ah, so Josh's family was kind of right, they just got the wrong song. I can just imagine this being passed down the generations in the Widdicombe family, like a game of "Chinese Whispers" (or "Telephone", as the Americans call it). And, like, every time they pass it on, they always forget the name of the hymn. "Yes, and he wrote... umm, I think it was Jerusalem" -> "he wrote... what was it again? I think it was Come on All Ye Faithful" -> "Yes, he wrote... Amazing Grace, I think it was" - > "Josh, I was told that he wrote... ah, it was one of those hymn things... yeah, it was Abide with Me, I reckon". In the year 3000, there'll be a future Widdicombe, who swears blind that Sabine Baring-Gould wrote, in fact, every hymn in existence. All of them. Single-handedly. But, unfortunately, by the year 3000, no-one even knows what a "hymn" even is anymore. But, whatever they were, Sabine Baring-Gould wrote all of them.

Sabine Baring-Gould was actually mentioned on QI series G episode 11. Apparently he was a children’s birthday party and said to a child “And who’s little girl are you?” and she burst into tears exclaiming “Yours daddy”.

I know of Sabine Baring Gould as a recorder of folklore with books still in print now 😊

I think they were really stretching it for the Part 1.

@@DanDownunda8888 well there have definitely been more moments since it came out like the Bolivian Tree Frog

@@samfisher6606 ???????

@@DanDownunda8888 watch the episode “Quests: Part 1”

He is a target due to his Aunt being Anne Widdicombe. (Not actually true, just trying to spread a rumour).

And,just a 🥰 f*g nice guy!

@@Maya_Pinion He is :)

That would be a very short video.

Love his stories

@@mikelheron20 On the other hand it could be a very long video, 'cause even if there was only one thing from Gyles it would probably be an hour long anyways.

@@h-Qalziel It would certainly seem like it.

There would have to be multiple as each one would probably just have one of his stories! I'd enjoy them all, frankly. Fascinating character and very appropriate for this show.

I've always found Josh hot LOL - a touch of "incest" as we're apparently 24th cousins.

the planet has the same thing going on

I’ve ALWAYS found him absolutely adorable. 🤩

Martin Freeman is the same. Young Martin - who cares? 50 year old Martin - HELLO!

Happens. Some men (and some women) just grow into themselves as they get older. Added confidence that sometimes comes with age helps.

That time.ypu went on a trip to Dartmoor? And let me guess, they're invisible?

Well, that’s idiotic.

I'd love it if there was a compilation of all the compilation clips that DON'T have some absolute twat complaining about the very comedian who the compilation clip was about, like somebody forced them to watch them, or something. Sadly, owing to the tragic lack of originality and utter predictability of said twats, it would be a VERY short compilation.

Guys, I like him... it's just a joke

@@calumcooper3295 it's shit

And yet you seem to be on a first name basis with him

Why watch it

@@fredh1720 I didn’t. It was a reference to the fact it is 10 minutes when 1 second would have sufficed

@@TruthAndEssence What's not helping is that what you're saying is much less funny than anything in the video. Why would you waste your time commenting on something you know you don't like, when you could just ignore it entirely?

@@TruthAndEssence describes something as "awful". Admits they didn't watch it. Bravo.

@@Spearced I am saying Josh Widdicombe is awful. I’ve seen him appear on things before. He makes the show worse. Everytime he speaks in his little shit voice, it’s like… ok, that’s the mood killed. We just smile at him, then turn our heads like “ok then, moving on”