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This clip is from QI Series I, Episode 16, 'Ice' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Brian Blessed, Sean Lock and Ross Noble.

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@landkonnudur 7 лет назад

As an Icelander I'd like to point out that Alan sounded more correct in his pronunciation than Stephen.

@buckleygeneration 6 лет назад

könnuður Yeah, he garbled that quite bad.

@timberry7238 5 лет назад

Stephen's problem was he couldn't properly interpret the "phonetic" version he had in front of him ..

@andymcl92 5 лет назад

@Jake-Amir Blumenfeldwitz Kinda close. There a place in the south of Iceland called Höfn, which lots of tourists just sort of read out. But the umlaut changes the o from the vowel sound on gnaw to the u in hut, and the fn is a diphthong pronounced p, so the name really is Hup, like a mini hiccup.

@andymcl92 5 лет назад

Can I check what I think the pronunciation is? From memory, it's Ay (like pay, not Aye as Stephen said) ya fiat (kinda like the car) la yuh kootl.

@Vitringur 5 лет назад

@@andymcl92 No, but you are on the right track. Hubn would be enough for any tourist.

@adronos 7 лет назад

Brian Blessed is Gimli's tall estranged cousin

@jessicalee333 7 лет назад

That, or he's Tom Bombadil

@villanellepollastri8894 6 лет назад

Stefanos Ziomas so accurate!

@Devilsnightforlife 6 лет назад

Interestingly, John Rhys-Davies who played Gimli is pretty tall himself, at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m).

@larurentius 6 лет назад

Jessica Lee if Amazon doesn't try to cast him it's a crime

@emiltiwaz1022 6 лет назад

Jessica Lee - Brian Blessed IS Tom Bombadil. He's the living incarnation of Tom Bombadil. It would really be an enormously missed opportunity if the studios and director that produced and made the LOTR and The Hobbit won't make a sequel focusing on Tom Bombadil with Brian Blessed in the title role.

@ThePorpoisepower 3 года назад

Brian blessed saying "Shag Nasty" is one of the greatest things ever

@synthonaplinth5980 3 года назад

Agreed, I lost it at that.

@danieldionne2037 4 года назад

This episode looks like it’s filmed with people from the Lord Of the Rings.

@SublimeTrickaz 4 года назад

Funny you should say this, Guillermo del Toro's first pick to play Thorin was Brian Blessed :D (but then P. Jackson took over the project)

@metallsnubben 4 года назад

Sublime Trickaz The world was ROBBED

@TathD 4 года назад

They should let Del Toro make it again. I think we're all prepared to forget the Peter Jackson trilogy.

@Fae-Fey 3 года назад

@@TathD I hope you mean the "other" trilogy

@sal191_ 3 года назад

@@SublimeTrickaz He should play Tom Bombadil, if they ever make a movie about him…

@MyNameIsNeutron 4 года назад

Alan: Aya-fyala-yokul Ross: Eeja-fyally-jockrel Brian: EE-AYE-JAF-JALAAH, JOE COOL!!! Sean: ij-

@vasp99 7 лет назад

I could watch Brian Blessed do absolutely anything .

@TomRNZ 7 лет назад

I could watch him do absolutely nothing and I'd still be entertained.

@VaderTheWhite 7 лет назад

vasp99 The man's a British institution...and some say he belongs in one.

@akabaker98 7 лет назад

vasp99 He's the anti-Attenborough. Equally epic, just for etc...

@ze_rubenator 7 лет назад

It'd watch him do all of Europe.

@Milnoc 7 лет назад

I'd listen to him read off the menu in a fancy restaurant.

@Joe_larr 6 лет назад

I'd like to see Brian blessed shout at eggs until there scrambled?

@LowryYT 6 лет назад

Just Joeing Around why is this a question

@Joe_larr 6 лет назад

Lowry because I want answers

@Theblueshark27 6 лет назад

I am Dave! Yognau(gh)t and I have the balls!

@nirmalsuki 5 лет назад

That's a 2-second video.

@BennTheGamer 5 лет назад

SCRAMMMMMMMBBLLLLEEEED

@herbivorethecarnivore8447 4 года назад

2:33 Brian Blessed summons Cthulhu

@Tcrumpen 4 года назад

Who hath summoned the almighty one?

@witherblaze 4 года назад

The loud one, sire

@Prince__Teclis 4 года назад

No one, the almighty one is just screaming for his pet squid to wake the fuck up.

@twojuiceman 4 года назад

Brian Blessed has a beard to hide the fact that his mouth is actually 11 inches in diameter

@gabriellag2611 3 года назад

I remember this comment once in a while and laugh every single time.

@majordbag2 5 лет назад

I’d like to point out I didn’t even read the title of this video, I just saw Blessed with his mouth wide open in the preview and knew I had to click on it

@BlobTheIncredible 7 лет назад

The way Brian blessed said orgasm is hilarious

@zertxer_zertxer 5 лет назад

Shaboom-shazaam, it's an orgazzam!

@Shakes-Off-Fear 3 года назад

I wonder if that’s what Brian says in bed 😆

@thomasjones1682 6 лет назад

He's not wrong, volcanic ash makes very good fertilizer

@almostfm 5 лет назад

Which is why there were farms so from Pompeii so close to Vesuvius. But of course, there's the downside of building right next to an active volcano.

@Omar_ayach 5 лет назад

@@almostfm what down side?

@almostfm 5 лет назад

@@Omar_ayach You know-a volcanic eruption that buries the town and kills everyone in it.

@LordKaname3 3 года назад

@@almostfm meh minor inconvenience

@cnasper1 3 года назад

But there's no way reduced species like ammonia Is coming from a volcano

@__seeker__ 5 лет назад

Brian Blessed has one of the finest voices in audio recorded history.

@thenerdofthenorth8205 4 года назад

DIIIIIIIIVE!

@MrIcelander 7 лет назад

Well, in the panel's defence, Fry' didn't really get"Eyjafjallajökull" right either :/

@olliemad 5 лет назад

He did not a good job at all the time next year he said that the next week would work

@danielthorsteinsson9698 4 года назад

@slyther_ro ay-ah-fyad-la-yo-kud-L

@olenilsen4660 2 года назад

Far from it, as well. Alan got it pretty much spot on.

@Infernova99 7 лет назад

Where's Sandi when you need her to pronounce something xD

@jacobrichter 7 лет назад

Isn't she of Danish descent? As a Dane, I don't think I'd get much closer to the correct pronunciation than the panelists. Icelandic is almost Old Norse.

@Infernova99 7 лет назад

Jacob Andersen Really? I mean as a Swede, I think I might be able to pronounce it, given I heard the correct pronounciation at first, and I thought that you danes at least had a better chance of pronouncing than the englishspeaking

@jacobrichter 7 лет назад

Maybe better than the English, but the only reason I have any clue how to say it is because I saw a video on RU-vid about how to say it. That "tl" sort of sound they say for the double l's is unlike anything you'd ever end a word with in Danish.

@zZWentyloutZz 7 лет назад

+Infernova sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallajökull Tror inte att en svensk hade uttalat det så.

@Infernova99 7 лет назад

Näää. Men nu när jag hört rätt uttal borde jag kunna replikera ljudet helt ok

@copperdragon9214 4 года назад

The fact that the real answer and Brian’s answer both make total sense, makes it 30 times better.

@containsthestrange3902 2 года назад

I think it makes it 26 times better. We agree to disagree I suppose.

@malahammer 3 года назад

Brian Blessed really enjoys being Brian Blessed.

@lilymarinovic1644 2 года назад

Well if you were Brian wouldn't you enjoy being him? I know I would!

@tp8773 5 лет назад

I love how Brian literally screamed nonsense and got a round of applause

@221b-Maker-Street 2 года назад

Replace Brian with 'Trump' and that pretty much describes Trump rally audiences 2016-2022...

@michaelweiske702 Год назад

I understand what he was trying to say.

@veeresh103 4 года назад

I want children's bedtime audio book narrated by Brian Blessed. Hahahah

@lawrencecalablaster568 5 лет назад

Brian Blessed's voice is exactly the same as I always imagined it would be.

@almostfm 5 лет назад

You mean BRIAN BLESSED.

@Scum42 4 года назад

oh my god this thumbnail

@Asparagun 5 лет назад

Imagine if Brian Blessed's answer got klaxon'd and appeared on the screen word-for-word. That'd be a _blessing_ .

@LordBaktor 6 лет назад

Can there be anyone more epic than Brian Blessed?

@joliecide 3 года назад

The answer is none. None more epic.

@theawesomesausage 7 лет назад

pronunciation got murdered by everyone though

@Peter_Riis_DK 6 лет назад

theawesomesausage Alan was actually quite close.

@abukyle1999 6 лет назад

Those double l’s becoming spitty T’s is hard.

@jayazathoth8530 4 года назад

2:33 He's like one of the backward speaking guys from Twin Peaks.

@GeoffreyBronson 5 лет назад

The best pronunciation of 'orgasm' ever uttered by man.

@g33xzi11a 5 лет назад

It’s an ancestor to half of all humans?

@ChocolatierRob 7 лет назад

I recently got the 25th anniversary DVD of Flash Gordon just so I could hear Brian's audio commentary, it's a piece of art.

@lorcannagle 7 лет назад

That commentary is one of the finest things ever. Just for all the points he talks about how Flash Gordon is better than Superman due to the relative number of flying people in each movie.

@TheHutchy01 6 лет назад

@@lorcannagle I assume you can't use headphones with it though because you'll never hear again

@anton1990 8 месяцев назад

It really is one of the best and most entertaining audio commentaries ever recorded. Brian truly loves the film, as do I. “Isn’t that a great shot?! Look at that! Marvelous!”

@paulbin 5 лет назад

I like how Brian Blessed is such a decent and humble character. So mellow and endearing

@pleagaming407 7 лет назад

The British empire was bigger size wise, mongol empire was biggest land empire interconnected

@Gar96229 7 лет назад

Stephen was saying at the time it was the largest.

@yikesforever6006 6 лет назад

And by one ruler. I believe. Alexander and genghis.

@rthomas201011 6 лет назад

Stephen said largest empire the world has ever seen, meaning all time, which is incorrect as stated by the op.

@WarfightersWorkshop 5 лет назад

The British Empire was populated and buzzing with activity, 99% of the Mongol Empire was just a barren uninhabitable wasteland with no beneficial gains worth speaking about.

@giovannigam 5 лет назад

@@WarfightersWorkshop What about Canada?

@rphttech4520 3 года назад

Brian Blessed brings me immense joy

@India.H 7 лет назад

I came on RU-vid to find a particular video, but forgot what it was the moment I opened the app. I'm so glad I did though because otherwise I never would've watched this.

@giantnerd14 4 года назад

God damn I love Brian Blessed.

@olstar18 4 года назад

I thought I recognized Blessed's voice.

@ThatDamnPandaKai 4 года назад

1:32 Actually... the largest empire the world has ever seen is in fact the British Empire.

@BigBazz-Clips 3 года назад

think he means contiguous empire

@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511 2 года назад

dunno how old this is but brian blessed was born in 1936. what a boss

@aerorobnz 3 года назад

Brian Blessed and Sean Lock. Has there ever been a better pairing on QI?

@221b-Maker-Street 2 года назад

I love that clip where BB kind of accidentally wrestles Sean to the ground... 😆

@Shagthegoat 6 лет назад

What a shame that Stephen mispronounced it

@NEMOfishZ92 6 лет назад

Blessed went full star wars episode one XD

@harrytodhunter5078 4 года назад

*The British Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen, not the Mongol. BE was 26% of the world, ME was only 17%.

@utareangara5529 4 года назад

OMG i love Brian Blessed :D. he is what Santa would look like if he were real :)

@seanburns4168 3 года назад

If you have ever seen Brian Blessed In Blackadder the first series; or in Doctor Who The Trial of a Time Lord, or as King Hamlet ghost? You know that he is a fantastically fabulous actor

@lilymarinovic1644 2 года назад

My favourite performance of his is in "I, Claudius". Of course Derek Jacobi is brilliant but so is BB.

@seanburns4168 2 года назад

@@lilymarinovic1644 he has some fantastic stage and on camera presence. With his huge size and loud voice ah a very powerful performance is expected.

@Adumb_ 7 лет назад

God bless Brian Blessed

@evolutionhasevidenceopinio5234 4 года назад

Why would you want a fictional character to perform a made up childish irrelevant demeaning ritual to Brian? Do you not like Brian Blessed. I know he can be a bit imposing, but for the most part he's only in it (life) for the fun and adventure of life.

@timothylamont845 2 года назад

Brian Blessed IS The Most Interesting Man in the World

@jessicalee333 7 лет назад

It's more like "Eyyaf-yatla-yokutl" - the Icelandic "LL" being similar to the Welsh "LL" but a bit harder because they're vikings. AND more like "Cheng-gis Han" - with a more forceful "H" but not quite to the level "KH" is usually pronounced by English speakers - it's not a K, it's a forceful H.

@LowryYT 6 лет назад

Jessica Lee welsh ll is is more like an s

@francaperotti8343 Год назад

Brian blessed is such a blessing to humanity.

@The_Industry Год назад

BRIAN BLESSED!!!

@SavageGreywolf 4 года назад

You've heard of the dial going to 11? Brian Blessed broke the dial off.

@benbrady4652 7 лет назад

Anything and everything that ever comes out of Brian Blessed's mouth is hilarious and interesting in equal measure. I could no joke watch him eat a sandwich and I'd be in awe.

@JobForAMaxboy 3 года назад

Why has it never occurred to me before that Sean sounds exactly like Michael Caine

@pinkjarl88 7 лет назад

wrong pronunciation by steven

@fuchsiafreud 7 лет назад

it's actually "Chinggis" if you wanna get pedantic.

@bingola45 7 лет назад

Not in English, it isn't!

@fuchsiafreud 7 лет назад

Yeah, in poor authoritative English pronunciation of Mongolian, you're right. Not the kind of right I prefer, but right.

@bingola45 7 лет назад

The bloke's called Genghis Khan in English. I doubt he's called that in Mongolian. Especially modern-day Mongolian, which will sound nothing like the Mongolian of Khan's day. I doubt 'Mongolian' is called 'Mongolian' in Mongolian, either.

@vallireynir4584 7 лет назад

yeah, Alan's second attempt was better.

@lucromel 3 года назад

A good way to sound something like that out is to work backwards -kull -jökull -jallajökull -jafjallajökull Eyjafjallajökull.

@medievalist 5 лет назад

Brian Blessed pronouncing Eyjafjallajökull. I've died and gone to heaven.

@BertGrink 3 года назад

Brian Blessed is such a magnificent specimen!

@obi-wankenobi1233 5 месяцев назад

2:33 Don't mind me, just leaving a personal timestamp. Headphone users: turn down your sound.

@DarkLordoftheMeme 4 года назад

I've been to that volcano!

@mynameisvisutinnadda 5 лет назад

His mouth is amazingly large on the thumbnail

@glacier68 4 года назад

clicked merely to listen to Brian Blessed go off....

@bigwingedkuriboh 5 лет назад

I really do think this is Stephen's definitive QI outfit.

@InformationIsTheEdge 2 года назад

Brian Blessed is Hilarious! Talk shows, special appearances, interviews... He is such wonderful man to listen to!

@Sabrowsky 5 лет назад

"That's not what's on my card" *BULLSHIT*

@BigyetiTechnologies 3 года назад

I'd like to see a flat share sitcom with Brian Blessed and Richard Ayoade

@Wolfe911 3 года назад

I can't watch this without thinking of Black Adder.

@Eiensakura 4 года назад

Blessed be Brian Blessed.

@johnmckillop3820 2 года назад

What utter bullshit both postulations are. Good grief.

@Slarti 3 года назад

Fry's pronunciation is way off! Not even close.

@tgwnn 7 лет назад

It's actually not that hard to pronounce if you hear it.

@KasbashPlays 4 года назад

Brian Blessed is the man I want to be.

@kellywilliam3708 3 года назад

I always love when Santa Claus does these talk/game show things

@rogfed529 2 года назад

Ok but seriously Brian's answer was actually really intelligent.

@just-tess 2 месяца назад

they didn't have that one queued for the klaxon!

@OktoberStorm 7 лет назад

Alan is spot on.

@ThePixel1983 5 лет назад

Yes, almost. He's still missing the "LL" where your tongue is rolled back so it sounds like a speech defect to English ears.

@RoninDave 5 лет назад

Iceland, just with Brian's pronunciation. It's for the best.

@BambooAcrobatVerte 5 лет назад

Brian Blessed and Stephen Fry in one room? Consider my pants volcanoed.

@winmine0327 3 года назад

The halcyon days when the clips ended with silence.

@BovineDesigns 3 года назад

It's cold, quick to explode, and rides very tiny horses.

@thedandywarhol5729 5 лет назад

You can take Brian Blessed and put him with vikings and druids in the stone/bronze age era and he'd still be relevant

@UnderseaPumaKing 2 года назад

He's actually from the time period. Death has been too afraid to take him.

@madlarkin8 5 лет назад

These are mostly nonsensical.

@axelhstrand3121 7 лет назад

The answer to how Eiyafjallajökull is supposed to pronounce was the worst I have ever heard. More like the first guy's second attempt

@hf3923 5 лет назад

"The first guy" he has a name! And it's Alan

@EzraDair 4 года назад

Brian has eyebrows from the 50s

@Lord_Skeptic 6 лет назад

it means island mountain glacier

@bilal00276 6 лет назад

That motherfuckin volcano stopped Lewandowski coming to Blackburn Rover 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@KellyVergara 7 лет назад

dear Lord, that man is 98% teeth

@Albert._ 6 лет назад

Alan Davis was closest to the proper way of saying it.

@Lord_Skeptic 6 лет назад

it is pronounced ay-yah-fyad-layer-kuh-tel

@seanhilton765 4 года назад

God Bless the voice of Blessed

@lowercasej23 Год назад

"Catch a throatful from the fire vocal, Ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull, The volcano out of Iceland, He'll conquer and destroy the rap world like the white men." - MF DOOM

@polish_filipino 3 года назад

1:44 So basically Thanos was right

@MrRamazanLale2 5 лет назад

The background is an Ottoman soldier

@patrickneylan 2 года назад

So Stephen, you can pronounce Eyjafjallajokull but you can't pronounce Genghis Khan? The first 'G' is soft, because it obeys the rules of English pronunciation.

@maxh1063 4 года назад

2:33 Jabba the hutt

@c0mputer 3 года назад

Stephen was way off. Alan was closer. Aya fya la yö kul. The ö sound isn’t in the English alphabet. It’s like “oeh”.

@jeremykiahsobyk102 5 лет назад

Ah, well...who wants to live forever?? Hahahahahaha! DAIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

@AR-jx6wr 5 лет назад

Brian is hilarious.

@durkle1120 6 лет назад

A icelandic person i can say that they pronounced it horribly wrong even steven

@Jotari 7 лет назад

Brian Blessed was on QI! Must watch the rest of the episode this instant!

@pamelacass9642 4 года назад

Call up the episode on Have I Got News For You when he's the guest host. Hilarious.

@thetessellater9163 5 лет назад

Alan Davies can be funny sometimes, but quite often he can be so very annoying and childish - please try to sort this man out, Stephen.

@gumunduringigumundsson9344 5 лет назад

The name means island mountian glacier. Eyy ya fjotl aaaa joke uthll It is really easy to say if you have lived here since 12 years old or younger give or take.