QI | Royally Odd Epithets 

“Very powerful-“ “Hallucinogenics.” Holy hell, Bill Bailey kills me every time.

Since the Norwegian for "Top speed" is maximalfart and Danish speed cameras are labelled "Fart Kontrol" I can believe the first one.

Bill Bailey on absolute fire here!! .. hallucinogenics, pee-hole surgery, "being taken by a space octopus" ... lmao!! The man is a treasure!!

As an American, I'm so glad we haven't tried our own version of QI.

I’ve never heard Jeremy and Jimmy be so quiet

Bill and Alan were a great panel, to keep Jimmy and Jeremy silent for so long, you know they were on fire. "Steven... now... I've got a question about farts..." I love Sandi, but I miss Alan and Steven together.

Seeing Stephen laughing in the background shot of 5:14 is so nice to see. He is a national treasure.

Bill was on fire!

Bill Bailey jumps into those conversational gaps so quickly, amazing 😂🎉

Just experienced my biggest laughs in several months watching this, especially right at the end. Ah, the joy of Alan and Bill being on an improvising roll and keeping Clarkson and Carr apparently stunned into silence.

Bill and Alan are fucking hilarious.

That hallucinogenics line is honestly top 3 funniest things ever on this show. That killed me.

"WOOOEEEE, I'M BEING TAKEN BY A SPACE OCTOPUS!"

It's odd that Stephen Fry didn't correct 'poisonous snakes' to 'venomous snakes'.

Bill is absolutely on fire here haha so quick in those little gaps

BB's deadpan delivery gets me everytime.

"What shall we name our son? I was thinking maybe 'Dan'." "Eh, that's only so-so." "Well, maybe just Half-Dan then?"

Lol Stephen mentioning ivarr ragnarsson the boneless while I’m playing assassins creed Valhalla in a cutscene with him 😂

First came across the "blood eagle" myth in University when studying medieval history. Seems to be an example of Viking propaganda as, to date, there hasn't been any physical evidence that this actually ever happened. I absolutely love history, gives one so much to talk about when queueing for benefits!

The amount of people who can't wrap their heads around how Stephen's glasses work is staggering.

I love Stephen Fry but Bill Bailey is the goddamn national treasure.

In Sweden there's a saying: "Det är inte farten som dödar, det är smällen" meaning "It's not the speed that kills, it's the crash". But of course, the bad translation is "It's not the fart that kills, it's the smell" (note that "smäll" and "smell" are pronounced the same

0:30 - Why we love Alan.

How was he killed? ‘By his own trousers’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣 god I love Bill!!!

Love these clips, they are a brightener to my day.

This one has put tears in my eyes at 7am. Hilarious!

jimmy carr alam davies bill bailey jeremy clarkson AND stephen fry ALL on the same show at the SAME time is simply legendary

"pee hole surgery" Audience starts clapping

I looked up Janus Stark because it ran a vague memory bell and the very first article mentioned that the author of the article was reminded of the character Janus because Alan Davies mentioned him . . . . . . and now you'll do the same because of this comment.

Was Janus's first name Hugh?

Just when I thought I’d seen Bill at his funniest, the last 30 seconds of this happened. 😂😂😂😂

It's not actually known why Ivarr the Boneless was called "Boneless". He was carried around on a shield, and the sagas recorded that he had "no bones" (because he was born cursed), but the medical reality is unknown. He may have had something like brittle bone syndrome with weak bones prone to breakage, or a hypermobility disorder (which causes dislocations and gets worse with age), or he may just have been "lame" in the legs or paralyzed from the waist down. Other ideas, that "boneless" was a euphemism for impotence, or that his Latin title "exos" meaning "without bones" was supposed to be "exosus" or "the hated", have been suggested but don't seem to hold water.

Bill Bailey is the master of interruptions

We should start giving our modern leaders descriptive titles again.

"How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered."

Nobody gets into the toilet humor faster and BETTER than this program. Well done lads!

4 of the best guests. Ahaha. My stomach hurts from this episode.

The blood eagle was done by hacking through the ribs from the shoulder area, the lungs where then pulled out and layed out like a set of wings, hence the name. Naturally the victim would be alive during the procedure.

England has a few great royal names. "Sexburga (died 699) was one of four daughters of the English king Anna."

Missed a golden opportunity for a quip "the fastest way to a man's heart is through his..."

One of those times when the question went off the rails and yeat it was great :)

Alan Davies and Bill Bailey are national treasures.

This reminded me of history classes at school ........... Ahhhh, those were the days

Best clip ever

"So he farted once." 😄 Yes, and that was a momentous occasion!

i couldnt focus after Stephen took his glasses off in that magical way

I've never seen glasses like those Stephen is wearing they're QI in their own right

That pause at 2:07 when Alan realises the can of worms he's about to open

Laughed so hard my ribs hurt.

'"pee-hole surgery" Bill Bailey is the GOAT.

I was over 70 and I had both open heart and surgery through the groin.

I think far more patients would prefer colonoscopies if only the answer were “extremely powerful hallucenagenics”

Guy in the audience watches Vikings

I chose the wrong clip to watch whilst eating my lunch 😂😂😂

Having recently watched this bit in Vikings, I can now proclaim to be an expert. BTW: Lagertha is BAE.

It fascinates me that they had never heard of Regnar Lodbrog when they have previously impressed me with knowledge about english kings. But then i realized that they must obviously have grown up with those stories in the same way that we in scandinavia grow up with the norse myths. I never realized that was the reason ^^

Actually for a Viking blood eagle, the ribs were broken from the back and the lungs taken out and spread out behind the victim, so they looked like bloody wings.

Why is absolutely nobody talking about how Stephen takes off his glasses at 0:41??

Clarkson, Jimmy and Bill is not an easy lineup for Stephen to control

0:40 steven breaks his glasses in two to take them off :o

So interesting seeing this and playing AC Valhalla speaking to the sons of Ragnar

Oh my. It's rare that they make two mistakes so close together. Ragnar Lodbrok (Hairy-Breeches) was not a king, but a viking and adventurer. He was also semi-legendary and my not have ever actually existed. If real then he was, according to the stories, the _son_ of a king, but he never wore a crown himself. The Eystein of whose sculpted portrait they showed a picture is not Eystein Halfdansson Fart -- who is also semi-legendary and of no known date; recorded only from 10th century skaldic poems and sagas -- but a firmly historical King Eystein Magnusson of Norway who ruled in the 12th century alongside his brother Sigurd the Crusader.

Okay, having watches viking this is nerding me out! 😂

Pee-Hole Surgery - had me in stitches

5 champions in one episode

Stephen Fry should absolutely know that snakes are venomous, not poisonous...

Yup that was a cracking YT clip 👍😉☮️

Laughed my Aus off at this, brought back memories of when the family went to Germany to visit my uncle who was based there with the Army, I just remember one day we were driving about and my Grandad just came out with "what are all the signs that say arse fart for?" I'll never forget that.....

I've just had the entire series of Viking's on Amazon Prime ruined for me

Stephen said 'King Ragnar' and my brain autopiloted '...the Bloodedge'. I think I've been playing too many fighting games.

oh, "Blood Eagle", that sounds amaaaazing. show me, show me, show me!

The Blood Eagle (Wing) execution was done from the back. The lung were spread out hence "wings".

You're not hallucinating Bill, that's just your shirt you're seeing.

from what i know there are only blood eagles in literature. there is no yet documented ceremony of that kind.

3:22 didnt know such glasses existed!

I believe the "Blood Eagle" was through the back. The lungs, like wings. Thus, "Eagle"

Stephen's glasses!!! 3:21

I want Bill's shirt.

3:43 Stephen sawing.😃

I like the thumbnail

3:21 Stephen's glasses??!!

When I had my surgery very young they went in through my back to reach my heart?

Well that went off the rails pretty fast!

Æthelred the Unready always amuses me.

0:40 we just gonna ignore what Stephen just did with his glasses?...

Not only is blood eagle a very painful way to die (I imagine) it looks absolutely horrific. A very frightening scene if you want to give a warning or a threat.

You get the awesome hallucinagenics the *day of the procedure* ,Bill Bailey.

Damn, now I got the next season spoiled for me, I haven't made it that far in yet 😭

How in the fucking hell did that conversation go from royal epithets to superhero powers to heart surgeries to taking a TON of drugs when someone goes in for a colonoscopy? That is possibly the funniest bit of conversation I've watched recently that made no sense at all 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

He described the blood eagle wrongly. It was done through the back of the rib cage, as the lungs were then laid on the back/shoulders like eagle wings.

Funny thing was, some theories say that Ivar the Boneless was called that because of his inability to have children.

5:03 And this is why you never pause mid-sentence near a comedian.

Ragnar featured in the Kirk Douglas film the Vikings but he was thrown into a pit of ravenous wolves not snakes. Kirk Douglas played his son who, according to Qi, should have been called Ivar the Boneless.

Having had a colonoscopy, hallucinogenics would definitely have made the whole experience better

Ivar the Boneless and his dad, Ragnar were the main characters of the Vikings TV show :O

bill must have a very quick motorcycle...

I kinda just want to point out about the heart surgery bit. Probably depends on what kind of surgery it is but I've done 2 where they switched one of my heartvalves out and the 2nd time they did go through the thigh. BUT, IF that wouldn't have been possible they would have had to go through my chest with a tiny saw, again. I was only 22 at the time so might be that you have to be older than that before it's a risk.

3:12 "He was jealous of their bones"

Hate to be pedantic but at the same time I’m not sure as Stephen might have been correct. But the word for bone and leg in Norwegian are the same, so the “ice legs” might be a mistranslation and supposed to be “ice bones” which would make sense as the blades of the first ice skates were made out of animal bones, but ice legs also fits well!

Peehole surgery... I can't breathe! xD