QI XL Full Episode: Road & Rail | Series R With Cally Beaton, Aisling Bea and Holly Walsh

[@sillymoose]

I’ve gotten entirely hooked on this series and my poor partner gets the randomness “Did you Know?!” when he gets home 😂

[@ormirian7364]

My mum’s weird friend downsized her house after her husband died and bought a Rolls to travel about Europe in. A spring broke in some village in Italy and the company sent one out express. When she got back to England she contacted the company saying “you haven’t billed me yet?” and they replied “there must be some mistake madam - Rolls Royce springs don’t break”

[@Isrjisoneavalable]

She sounds like a woman with a lot of stories

[@ormirian7364]

@@Isrjisoneavalable she was - her name really was Winifred and she painted a mean watercolour

[@snap-n-shoot]

i have heard 30 different versions of the same story over the past 40 years….

[@yurifrl]

Tell us a good one friend

[@thisravenhasflown010]

The fact you started "my mum's weird friend" tells me more than I want to know... about you. 🙄😳

[@flaagan]

There's a great Top Gear clip where James May takes the lady who designed the road signs to a 'men at work' sign, and he gives her a sharpie to make the modification.

[@jred5153]

There is no such thing as “a great top gear clip” the show is rubbish. Fu@king childish men trying to make driving a car look important.

[@paulprichard7432]

I watched this episode a few years ago for the first time. It was the beginning of a wonderful relationship with QI. I've watched many episodes since. This program is wonderful. Light, mature, funny, wacky, and enlightening.

[@Ryno2094]

A relationship with a tv show? Grow up pal🤣

[@envoltaemla6652]

@@Ryno2094 if that's your conclusion then you need to seriously start reading books xD and try to cultivate that grey matter while you can. or don't! but don't bother anyone when you realise you can't keep a romantic relationship with another being

[@jred5153]

Ignore the trolls mate. Goodonya, enjoy.

[@magster6022]

I adore Aisling Bea, and Holly Walsh very sweetly and unassumingly wins most times she's on.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Another brilliant mix for the panel for this episode. Aisling is always so much fun to enjoy

[@Rony2453]

They are so funny in this one. Especially, aishley!

[@NickShaw92]

23:37 I've been to Halmahera - and it's quite beautiful really.😅 Yes, the jungle is dense and spiky...but no need to roll in nettles.

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

"Toksvig Transit - No matter how long the journey, we get you there in the shortest amount of time!" I love Stephen Fry, but Sandi has taken on the role and made it her own; one of the very rare cases where someone takes over a role and is as iconic as the original, the other case being Carolyn Jones \ Angelica Houston as Morticia Addams.

[@RealBradMiller]

Spot on!!

[@johnkean6852]

She's great but more 'profound' feminine talk than one would usually find on the BBC lol l note, being new to the SandQi. I also thought Sequin Fri was very funny. Wonder what he's doing now? (Retired abroad watching on YT.)

[@BumMcFluff]

Although she never gets up her own arse like Fry would do on occasions.

[@tselengbotlhole750]

I still miss Stephen. I think there is no one who can outdo him

[@readMEinkbooks]

Agreed, @jeraldbaxter3532. SF always came across as a teacher, whereas ST is like someone who's just discovered something really cool and can't wait to share it. Much more relatable. Also love how she loses it when the team gets out of control. Hilarious.

[@derekkarolak3241]

Really enjoy this program and it’s ever changing panel of guests. Watching from the great state of Maine US

[@jb888888888]

Cally is like the Gyles Brandreth of dating anecdotes.

[@avysark2034]

Who is Cally?

[@susie9893]

😅

[@agnesvanya2329]

My friend who was moving from California to Kentucky asked me to join her on the journey to take her car to her new home in about 2005. We were not pressed for time and decided to stick to Route 66 as much as possible, following a guidebook from the 1960s. You can't go the whole way to Chicago from California any longer. We did stop at the ghost town in Oatman, which was worthwhile, and the Elvis museum, but somehow missed the other landmarks Sandi mentioned. I have to say that we had our only decent meal on that journey when we deviated to Santa Fe, New Mexico. If you want to do that route, buy stuff to make sandwiches and buy fruit, salads, etc.

[@brummiejojo]

Must say, I now prefer Sandy to Stephen.

[@dmisso42]

When Enzo Ferrari was asked why the brakes on his early racing cars were so bad he replied "I make de car for to go, not for to stop".

[@megiab]

omg those match heads!!!

[@Masarisik]

Sandy’s Italian accent just cleared my skin, watered my crops, and fed my entire family 🙏🏼

[@Hexon66]

Just waiting for her to explain that you can't fool her, there's no Sanity Clause.

[@Ladypavs]

I remember traveling to my Grandparents on Rtr 66.. magical.., I highly recommend making the trip

[@RealBradMiller]

Toksvig Transit: Even if you're _short_ on fare, we'll get you there.

[@johnkean6852]

You. But no l worked hard for my salary in London before l retired and to see 100s getting on and off without paying ie touching in / out on the bendies was annoying to say the least.

[@armagosa1]

Am I the only person who saw the screaming faces in the lit matches behind them?😮

[@davidbright8383]

Looks like Alan…

[@lanceanderson8318]

The ONLY reasonable noise for an electric vehicle to make is the Jetson's car noise.

[@vink6163]

There's a video on YT of a Toyota Prius modified to do that, I think it works quite well

[@msbluejayway]

This was the last time the man with the beard joined in at audience participation.

[@annother3350]

I know -- from a show that is supposed to celebrate intelligence too!!

[@msbluejayway]

@Ann Other It just struck me as a bit mean. They asked him a question, he answered it correctly, and then they made fun of him.

[@annother3350]

@@msbluejayway I know!! It reminds me of how school used to be where anyone intelligent was mocked as a 'boffin' and ridiculed. Besides, its a question that could come up in anyones driving test - its not even that obscure!!

[@johnkean6852]

@@msbluejayway Arrogance rubs off once you get work at the beeb. Try phoning them even spills down to ancillary minions too LOL. What sauce when WE pay their salary. Try it, see the attitude you get, its truly hillhairyass.

[@rebefarfort1244]

I once went to a comedy show with a friend of mine we were sat in the front row he didn't enjoy it because the comic picked us out to comment on something. I found it funny. In general the rule for interacting with other people is the rule of 'saving face' (or at least it used to be). We go to incredible lengths to avoid making other people feel bad such as 'do you happen to know where... something or other is?' no way to feel offended if you don't and a positive feeling of being in the know or special if you do. But on the other side of this is comedy - (and this is a comedy not a quiz show) People choose to put themselves in the situation - the rush comes from being noticed. They are laughing with them not at them. I'm English we're not always easy to understand although I didn't really realise that until I had lived in a couple of other countries.

[@ritageorge8748]

I laughed out loud at what was so like a cousins Italian mimic-but found myself starting to clap at the French!

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Waiting and stopping are legally distinct terms. In both cases, the driver has to be with the vehicle, but if you're waiting, you have the engine running; whereas if you switch the engine off, you are stopped.

[@marka2520]

That can't be right because that would allow waiting.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

@@marka2520 - that depends on the definition of the sign. If it signifies a clearway in which both waiting and stopping are prohibited, then it doesn't. If the sign simply signifies no stopping, then waiting is permitted, albeit a fairly stupid thing to do if the traffic is moving quickly.

[@vink6163]

Where I live they tend to use the term 'standing' rather than 'waiting' - 'no standing' means you can't be stationary there. But it only applies to the side of the road, you can still be stopped in the middle of the road waiting for the car in front to move, which is what the clearway prohibits.

[@hy78an]

holly is brilliant

[@itiscujo]

I wouldn't steal a mile marker that said 69, but I absolutely would steal a sign that said 68.9

[@auroralong5437]

did Cally Beaton really do an attack helicopter joke in 2023...

[@Grumpy_Grandpa41]

39:04 Careful girl. Somebody is going to make that a thumbnail!

[@twenty-twenty]

I should be writing an LOI to acquire a company but here i am thinking how accurate those accents were..

[@ceostudio]

Every time I watch a show based in the UK and hear a fact about how small it actually is compared to other countries I just can’t wrap my mind around it! I’m currently on a 16 hour road trip from Colorado to Indiana and my first leg is almost twice the distance of the A66 they were mentioning! I’ve also done Route 66 including some of the original “ribbon road” and it’s so crazy to see how much the landscape changes, if you can do it it’s a fun trip. We were lucky to stay with family in Chicago, Vegas and LA which made it wayyy cheaper 😂

[@marycanary86]

"theres a DLR" even holly was ashamed of herself just then x'D

[@jb888888888]

7:30 _"There's lots to do / On Route Sixty Two"_

[@YTNFSCC]

In Germany there's a huge Metal Festival every year, and because drunk metalheads are, well, drunk metalheads, they went and stole the entry-signs of the town it was happening at, since that's what the festival was named after. Ever since they just completely remove those signs before the festival starts. I also vaguely remember them replacing them with something like "Town of Metal" or something, but then people stole those signs instead.

[@krissp8712]

Gotta love some adverse camber!

[@kieranclarges2514]

That's a very generous sized electric tooth brush... lol.

[@koenven7012]

there's a video from Tom Scott about the German model railway used to train train signalers.

[@lilangelbunny42]

40:55 what did holly say here? i ran the joke back a couple of times with my mom but neither of us could hear it unfortunately 😭 edit: i played it more quietly and heard the general shape of what she said instead of trying to hear each sound and figured it out! she says "just like panel shows they now put three women on it just to save so much money!" i'm cackling that is so funny

[@moi5219]

I think it’s always so fun when the panel is all women but Allen. There is such a special air to the studio.

[@Hazztech]

A fishy smell?

[@moi5219]

@@Hazztech can you explain?

[@aliencafe]

Reminds me of my uncle, who’s the only (and youngest) boy. He gets picked on so much, but lovingly!

[@bruhmoment1835]

@@moi5219vagina smell, perchance

[@happivaras]

Holly 😂😂😂

[@ourv9603]

Route66 or US66 does not go from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It goes from Chicago in the midwest on Great Lake Michigan to Santa Monica, Ca on the Pacific coast just north of LA. !

[@adam346]

38:20 cops in my area bought some of those Zero motorcycles that are fully electric and love to sneak up on people out hiking.. scares the absolute piss out of them..

[@johnkean6852]

Adam CEASE forthwith you'll give someone a coronary.

[@davideberhardt6150]

Aisling is completely hilarious 😄

[@moi5219]

She’s brilliant 😂

[@ghomerhust]

Holly's bit about the alarm, there is a girl who plays online shooter games, and she has a voice changer that makes her sound about 4 years old, and she creeps people out in the game as she plays by talking like a child from a horror film. "pinky" or something like that. the reactions of other players are absolutely priceless. "Come play with me!" "holy f**k what the hell is that?!"

[@tselengbotlhole750]

Get a grip on yourself 🤣🤣🤣

[@christopherdean1326]

Wow! Talk about sensory overload, Holly, Cally AND Aisling all at one time! 28:48. She's a limber young gel, isn't she? Henry Royce was such a perfectionist that, if he was in the workshop and saw someone using a tool either clumsily or wrongly, he would sack them on the spot.

[@johnkean6852]

You'd be called fascist if you did that nowadays or sued.

[@vink6163]

@@johnkean6852 Elon Musk seems to get away with doing it though

[@dianehrechko6370]

I mean what did you think was going to happen when you gave Allen the remote

[@christopherdean1326]

*Alan

[@johnkean6852]

She anticipated it but knew something theatrical would happen so gave him licence. (Gave him a ticket?)

[@Abby-xo1de]

Being from Missouri, it was bizarre to hear them talk about it

[@magster6022]

New Jersey used to have a Route 69. In the late 1960s, so many of the signs were stolen, that they changed the name of the road to 31. Problem solved.

[@Z4J3B4NT]

34:53 "Aaaaahh... wire"

[@Gab-pl3if]

they renamed the austrian town of fucking to fugging because they were so annoyed of all the people stoping to take a photo and blocking the road

[@sstills951]

Yeah that was a fucking problem.

[@Gab-pl3if]

@@sstills951 ha ha love it

[@johnkean6852]

@@sstills951 ... only a problem in a Viagra _cul de sac_

[@vink6163]

I reckon it was a missed opportunity to charge tourists for photos and to sell signs

[@skeletonwriter]

Wait until they find out about I69 in Michigan, USA

[@mrSkandalpolisen]

Why is there a screaming face on the burning matches?

[@armagosa1]

Thank god! I was worried it was just me!😂

[@growlerthedog]

Hang on, I've got it. Police cars should have four sound settings: - Silent - Normal car - Siren - 70s funk

[@johnkean6852]

Buttered malt loaf WAS great until they started using Echo marg on BR

[@pennygreening9210]

Sandi is just ooh la la

[@moi5219]

They already put engine noises in some cars, to make them sound beefier.

[@wasjosh]

It’s cute how the island people idolize highway 66.

[@mother2bach]

“Have you tried popping one tit out?” 😅 Aisling Bea is a fabulous gift to humanity ❤

[@magster6022]

This must have been filmed late at night. By the General Ignorance round, everyone but Allen and Sandi looks tired.

[@Purlee100]

There is a reasonably large country where you can, if you hit the traffic lights right, drive from the East Coast to the West Coast in less than two minutes! Believe it or not, it is New Zealand

[@Purlee100]

@@urbanskiboguslabsrecording7531 Not so! Portage Road, at the Northern end of the suburb of Otahuhu runs from the Manukau Harbour on the West Coast, to the headwaters of the Tamaki River on the East coast. You can drive coast to coast in under two minutes, so long as you get a green light at Gt South Road

[@johnkean6852]

@@urbanskiboguslabsrecording7531 Balls to admit when you're wrong - respect. And humerous too. Cannot wait to see NZ going zoon.

[@fafnir242]

I grew up on Route 66, so I knew that wasn't America

[@knudsandbknielsen1612]

So, Terminal 1 caught something terminal?

[@atgosh]

I love how Sandi thinking about boobs makes her forget that ostriches exist

[@maddiethomas5892]

3:30 Wait, did she say coast to coast was only 115 miles?! You wouldn't even be in the next state, here.... any direction and i live in the 2nd or 3rd smallest state! 😂

[@3970billbo]

The Blue Whale is in Catoosa, OK.

[@StevieCooper]

Ashlin B is on fire this episode

[@christopherdean1326]

Aisling, it's Irish.

[@matthewfulghum1438]

She missed the best part of Uranus, the fudge shop. "The best fudge comes from Uranus" is its honest-to-God catchphrase.

[@Hexon66]

A bit too on the brown-nose, I think though.

[@CJ-ft9yo]

A shit catch phrase as it goes !

[@sstills951]

Cally Beaton is a doll.

[@annwagner5779]

Ostrich?

[@SupachargedGaming]

Okay... BUT WHY ARE THE MATCHES SCREAMING FACES?!?

[@RatelHBadger]

No Geoff Marshall or that Jeremy Clarkson fella...

[@agnesvanya2329]

Packing the panel with all women, except for Alan, is not working for me. Maybe half and half?

[@tsvandyke]

24:00 ... "rail" - a 6 inch bird is the biggest FLIGHT-LESS birds in the world ... ( have they ever heard of an ostrich !? )

[@DodderingOldMan]

Maybe watch 10 seconds further...

[@Radio42]

i wonder why, the skåne flag is on the wall

[@InservioLetum]

Because it would look out of place on toast

[@johnkean6852]

@@InservioLetum Like marg on malt loaf?

[@ds-jm8mf]

I will never watch q I on utube because of the outrageous number of ads.

[@erikkennedy]

No one's going to make you.

[@johnkean6852]

If you press pause as soon as the screen goes black it cancels the ads. (I get 3 every 10 minutes sometimes, most irritating.)

[@vink6163]

Do you also cook your own meals and complain you don't like the dish? Or buy your own clothes but complain you don't like the style? Why would you set up your computer to play KZbin ads then complain that you don't like them? Just turn them off like everyone else

[@mannie7028]

Why is aisling pronounced Ashley?

[@DomWeasel]

It isn't.

[@seaking526]

It's Irish Gaelic and pronounced, Ashling

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Why must you be so American and think the world is just as much so?🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jerryhosford4557]

I am so glad I don't have to drive in England.

[@bluesque9687]

What is wrong with Aisling?

[@rick5793]

Lucky Alan gets to be surrounded by all those 🔥🔥 HOT women. What a beautiful bunch of babes.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Way to show your personality, cupcake 😂 of course you're set on looks😂

[@bcaye]

First question, America isn't a country. Also I'm glad she corrected that 66 doesn't go right through.

[@isabellaangeline2175]

Oh for fck sakes, grandma. 🙄

[@vink6163]

What then is the United States of America if not a country?

[@Hexon66]

Except it is though. Every would-be pedant wants to say that it describes continents, not a country. But it's clearly stated in the founding documents (and tellingly _not_ elsewhere). More importantly, for better or worse, 'America' and 'American' is distinctive in common usage.

[@JeffW2000]

Didn't know Aisling was so thick until this episode.

[@vink6163]

She's no different to any other episode?

[@oliviaginsbourg6541]

Cut those freaking clothes ads

[@nicksykes4575]

You must be overseas, it's all on-line betting ads here.

[@RealBradMiller]

Same as Nick, it's all Fan Duel and Draft Kings ads for us Americans. Stupid as hell! If you can get Opera web browser on your cell or PC, you can block ads and use a free VPN. It's a little wonky on mobile, you lose a few features, but it's just like using YT in any other browser. Cheers!

[@Harkeilla]

I think you meant to say "cut those freaking ads every 3 damned minutes!"

[@InservioLetum]

That's your job. Your computer can just filter them out, as can your router, a funtionality creatively termed "ad-blocking"

[@johnkean6852]

Press pause as soon as the screen goes black to cancel ads.

[@BlergleslinkVettermoo]

Qi is where UK comedians go after they've given up hope and decided to accept a paycheck for acting as paid clowns for the wicked English class system.

[@redchthonic]

Time to get rid of Alan. Not funny and disruptive

[@breakthru7608]

Shame about the guests. I can’t finish the episode. Not funny, thick and mocking the poor audience members.

[@BreezyE-d3n]

Not to mention racist and sexist

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Lol then scroll on. We will not miss you

[@magster6022]

Not enough dick talk for you, I bet.

[@olddirtymongrrel]

Rod Stewart having a hobby and being dedicated and good at it will not appeal to most people. But those who appreciate such craftsmanship and dedication would most probably be more mature, intelligent and artistic individuals. What everyone finds sexually appealing is different, so some women would most probably not find this hobby appealing, but it would be attractive to some women with similar interests. What I'm trying to say is if you have similar hobbies don't be dissuaded by not being appealing to some people, be aware they are not compatible with you. Be happy when you find someone who does have similar interests, this shared interests would strengthen your relationship.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

And where are your videos Dr Mongrel? 😂