A collection of the best accents of Qi, including Alan Davies famous Mexican accent and his superb Australian. Includes a couple bonus Bill Bailey anecdotes also.
As an Australian, the bit when Alan says "Give us a call when you've run your first race" is probably the most Aussie thing I've heard. He nails it. The accent, the dry tone when he says it, just perfect.
Alan’s Australian accent is so authentic, he doesn’t overplay it like so many other comedians, it’s just the right amount of bogan without sounding ridiculous.
This is ruthless. Steven Fry does his best to try to contain the guests, who are intent on ripping the piss out of him, themselves and each other. Hitler wouldn't have stood a chance in a debate with this mob.
RIP John Sessions (January 11, 1953 - November 2, 2020), aged 67 And RIP Sean Lock (April 22, 1963 - August 16, 2021), aged 58 You both will be remembered as legends.
Alan is actually so funny and so incredibly smart, I love that although Steven takes the piss out of him for being less well read, he still has these brilliant moments where it’s so obvious he talented as hell. Such a god
Alan is actually rather intelligent even if he is less well educated. Usually, carachter roles kind of wear thin with the general public but Alan's adorable personality and comedically dim responses are a science he has mastered, and the way they both play off each other makes the show even more enjoyable :)
@@hensonlaura yes I’m glad that after the Mexican week on the great British bake off there has been backlash against the consistent use of mexican stereotypes on British tv that has been going on for years. I live in occupied Mexico and this has always made me cringe though I appreciate that Stephen tries to shut it down in his polite ineffective British way
Honestly when I was a kid at Catholic school we had a tailoring company that measured us and we ordered uniform shirts and pants from. Gannett or something. It wasn't even a nice Catholic school, it was like Maddy in Suite Life
"a fleet of Berties" I think it's rhyming slang, Bertie Wooster.... (It doesn't rhyme very well and I don't feel like writing it here but a bit of imagination should get the rest of the way.)
@@susanhd Susan, if someone doesn't know what rhyming slang is, they probably aren't British, in which case they won't know the epithet "poofter" either (unless they are Aussie where I think it is also still heard.) Best to write it out for an internet audience. I understand your hesitancy in using it. (I have the similar feeling about the word 'nigger' in the USA which is now perhaps the most taboo word in American English by far. I wouldn't be caught dead using it.) But no one would think any less of you for explaining it to someone who clearly isn't British. ;)
Weren't there Jazz Nazis? Or I guess they weren't Nazis, since the Nazis banned a lot of entertainment. Before them, Weimar Germany was a golden age for entertainment and jazz was huge, but the Nazis hated it because it was foreign and was "created by an inferior race". But there was underground jazz, including in concentration camps. If I remember correctly, the Kaiser wasn't a fan of early jazz in the WW1 era. But I admit when I started writing this comment, I was thinking of Soviet Russia, not Nazi Germany. There was an underground jazz subculture in Soviet Russia that copied jazz music onto records pressed on used X-ray film (because it was a firm enough plastic I guess), and because of the pictures on the X-rays, they called it "bone music" (roentgenizdat), "ribs" (ryobra), or "jazz on bones" (dzhaz na kostyakh).
I can't imagine that there was jazz in concentration camps. It is true that in some instances, musical instruments were given to prisoners for limited use. Films have played this up on a couple occasions. But jazz in the prisoner housing blocks? I'm very doubtful. In the Soviet Union ... Yes. Absolutely. It wasn't officially sanctioned, but many things weren't and still were commonplace.
For me this clip demonstrates exactly why QI was never as funny after Stephen left. Sandi is without any doubt the best person to have taken over the show, but there was something about Stephen that made it impossible for him to be replaced without something special being lost.
Agreed, i believe a lot of that just is Stephen having a slightly higher frequency of unpredicted jokes and gags that makes the laughs seem more natural
Binge watching the early ones like these some years ago I maybe unfortunately skipped any of them with Rich Hall. Attitude disguised as comedy with barely discernible wit. I couldn't figure out what QI thought he brought to the party.
I like when it's studying language and accents, and not just Alan making racist voices 20 years ago when that sort of thing was already in the way out. Oof.
no, it's just Alan being silly. As the comment above states, it's more of a reference to the Mexican and Spanish accents etc depicted in cartoons or old movies which we already know are exaggerated and inaccurate
No. It is called a joke. Did you really not pick up on the obvious Speedy Gonzales reference - or at least the sheer silliness in which Alan does that ridiculous accent?
@@glenndouglas8822 the bad Mx accent. Imagine an American hitting the English stage with an act showcasing an incorrect & insulting Indian accent. Would go over like a lead balloon.
@@glenndouglas8822 And we all know that racism is so non-existent in England that they left the EU just to stop furriners from entering. /s A half-Indian friend of mine said that just his last name would get his resume shredded before he could get an interview. Americans are not the only racists in the world.
I love QI and British comedians but, yeah. This particular video is just a compilation of casual stereotypes of which I'm sure many of the panelists would look back on and cringe.
Absolutely spot on (which is more than I can say for the impressions). If they'd tried to pull this crap with a bongo bongo african accent they'd have been rightfully run out of town. Racism against non-black ethnicities has been given carte blanche for far too long.
@@rooty Sorry but how is doing an accent racism? That is so narrow minded it is stunning. An accent makes no assumptions about anyones race. It is simple imitation.
@@VestigialHead that's like saying how is it racist to do a black and white minstrel show, it's just an impression. There is a whole tradition and history of racism that you are apparently completely ignorant of. Maybe ask yourself why none of these impressions have good english with a foreign accent, instead always being monosyllabic, broken english baby talk. A coincidence? Maybe ask yourself where these caricatures come from, where you've seen them before, and what attitudes have they always gone hand in hand with.
@@rooty Oh I am ignorant of it am I? Sorry mate but I am most certainly not ignorant of the history of African Americans in the slightest or actual racism through human history. I am much more well read than the majority of people. I just think that racism is actual racism and not the petty bullshit that the extreme left think it is. Abusing someone because of their race - racism, segregation due to race - racism, excluding someone due to race - racism. Imitating them in a show - not racist in anyway. This is as ignorant as claiming that someone wearing an Indian headdress to a fancy dress party is cultural appropriation. It is a massive overreach and exaggeration to mark everything as racism even when it causes zero harm and does not degrade a race in the slightest. As you should well know the extreme left use racism as a weapon to try to shut down their opponents and they have manipulated people into thinking the most ridiculous things constitute racism.
@@pandroidgaxie That's a bit of a poor attitude, either it's okay to talk about all races or none. I don't want your race, whatever that might be, to be treated differently from mine. It's called equality.
Stephen Fry could not pronounce the capital of Lithuania properly. Vilnius became Vilnus. I lost some respect from him then. And NO, I'm not Lithuanian.
@@laserpanda94 I can tell you're a native English speaker. You don't care if you mispronounce foreign names but you go crazy if your own name is mispronounced.
there’s always some 45 year old geezer on every british comedy video who sits around all day watching corrie in a council house who thinks he’s the bastion of good opinions, the world is a worse place whenever you people open your mouth
I've been watching QI since probably the first 5 seasons and it never occurred to me when I heard it before. Not that I care now, jokes can't hurt anyone, but it's only now that I'm noticing it and I re-watch these a lot.
"Gook" was never really a commonly-heard racial epithet in British English. It is very much an American thing. In Britain, it would be known mostly through American movies and television shows. In this clip, it was said while doing a parody of a dated accent which IS out of American movies. They are making fun of that. In this context, there's nothing really offensive about it, is there.
@@CrimsonKage If you are the brunt of "jokes" multiple times a day, every day, it starts to feel like the Death of a Thousand Cuts. You feel like you are being flayed alive, and/or begin to doubt that you are anything other than what these stereotypes say you are. Not only does it hurt ... it perpetuates the stereotype to others. Why would I think "jews are greedy"? I never even met a jewish petson until I was ten years old, but I was well-aware of the stereotype.
@@pandroidgaxie I mean, I'm not here to offend anyone, but it seems that being called something before you are aware that it's an insult makes it lose all meaning. I don't wanna be that guy that just says 'just ignore them' or something, but there is something to say about kids parroting out slurs before they are told not to by someone else. I think it's people's reactions to them that form whether a word is 'bad' or not. I wasn't allowed to say 'stupid' when I was a child, yet I went to elementary school saying 'n-word pile' because that's the version of 'dog-pile' I was familiar with as a kid. No wonder my teachers looked at me funny.
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