CLASSIC QI! 1 Hour Of QI Series A With Stephen Fry!

[@raylenepreuss1430]

Love that Stephen immediately understood the Latin in reference to the Pope story.

[@lyalldawson7080]

I was surprised he wasn;'t already aware of it.

[@danielnixon8416]

It's a good story but complete and utter nonsense

[@spinny003]

​@@danielnixon8416 Not the worst thing those lot have done.

[@nybbleme]

Didn't they later ascertian the story is a myth?

[@SamuelBlack84]

He spoke Latin in Blackadder Back and Forth

[@s_nunyabiznez]

“You’re struggling toward being interesting” is a fantastic insult!

[@shaalis]

"Again your brimming with the thought that fills the room, but no". What a put down! It's beautiful!

[@torontomame]

"You're struggling towards being interesting" is the most hilarious put-down I've heard in ages.

[@Lucifronz]

The best part of QI is the panelists slowly driving Stephen insane. He's like a teacher in a classroom and all the students are the class clown.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

The part with the lava lamps and then Ronny and Jimmy going "sir, sir, sir!" is one of my favorites. Peak classroom vibes.

[@jacquelinedavis6607]

@@Lucifronz Especially Alan and Bill Bailey if they sit together. Goobers!

[@vivienneoneill5400]

I love both Stephen and Sandi,they are great in there own way. Thank you to both of them❤❤❤

[@zapkvr]

*their*. For Christ's sake

[@jacquelinedavis6607]

​@@zapkvrAs a teacher of 30 years my students had an immense trouble with homophones. My husband has a Master's Degree in Literature. Adding to his knowledge along with my teaching experience, misuse of homophones is unacceptable. If a person is not sure whether to, two, or too is correct there is an abundance of ways to be sure. That is if you care.😊

[@crowholdem]

I often use Og the Clever as a D&D character name. Thanks for that one, Bill.

[@Oleg_K.]

I find your choice very pleasing.

[@differntname2807]

*Ogg

[@maureensurdez7841]

The show is hilarious. I've only just discovered it so funny so outrageous. Great.

[@susie9893]

Well you have so many episodes ahead of you to enjoy 😀

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

They're taking them down. ​@@susie9893

[@garyhambly7952]

Thank you comedians.......makes live worth living

[@kingy002]

Bill Bailey has had the most guest appearances on the show. Bill Bailey = 47 Phill Jupitus = 46 Jimmy Carr = 42 Jo Brand = 41 David Mitchell = 32 Sean Lock = 27 Rich Hall = 25 It drops off quickly after that.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

Did Bill pass him up? Phil got a plaque for the most appearances a couple seasons ago.

[@kingy002]

@@Pagliacci_Rex I'm unsure as to what the answer is to that. I took the figures from Wikipedia.

[@gladtobeangry]

The description says Billy Connelly had a guest appearance on the show as well. I'm not sure who they are confusing for Billy Connelly, but I'm pretty sure he was never a guest on QI.

[@DerEchteBold]

@@gladtobeangry You're right, he certainly wasn't and there wasn't anyone with a similar name in series A, it should probbably say Bill Bailey.

[@drdassler]

Wow, Jupitus 46 times & he hasn't ever made me crack the smallest grin.

[@adamgarden977]

Crazy to see Gyles Brandreth on the QI episode talking about what rhymes with purple knowing now he has a podcast with Susy Dent called "Something Rhymes with Purple"

[@PianoKwanMan]

Oooo Dent has a podcast

[@adamgarden977]

@@PianoKwanMan Oh yea and they have a ton of episodes at this point. Its absolutely wonderful.

[@jacquelinedavis6607]

@@adamgarden977 Gyles is full of a most interesting life. Check him out on Google.

[@canoli72]

I could listen to Stephen Fry intone for hours. In fact, I’ve done just that for one. 🎉

[@joppadoni]

Not a particular fan of Harry Potter... But i Audibled the lot just because he read them and now i'm a bloody fan LOL. The fact he Did the Sherlock Holmes: Definitive Collection almost made me cry.. What a joy to combine Fry and the stories of Sir ACD.. WoW.

[@blackbird5634]

Once I started hearing him gasping and wheezing, sucking through his teeth between sentences because his busted beak won't take in air, I couldn't stop hearing it. He's in danger of drooling on the desk.🤣

[@jacquelinedavis6607]

@@canoli72 Do you realize how smart he is? And so is David Mitchell. Check them out with Google.

[@TrendeMende]

Points to Stephen for translating Latin of the top of his head

[@tobyhart]

that would be the crown. ad coronam.

[@Lucifronz]

40:46 David Mitchell and Robert Webb did a skit of that on one of their comedy sketch shows. Just describing James Bond and his behavior as if he's just some guy and it really highlights what a weirdo he is to the average person when you don't know about the cars, guns and espionage.

[@jennycalvin5927]

I love these early episodes. I miss Sean Locke and Jeremy Hardy. RIP gentlemen.

[@joppadoni]

Never agreed more with anything in my life ❤

[@jamesedmonds7519]

Lock. Not Locke.

[@joppadoni]

@@jamesedmonds7519 Gentle man not gentlemen. But hey, the use of the English language is terrible and you have to just get passed it with social media. Imagine correcting the use of 'your' all the time 🤣

[@karyldavidkidd7111]

I bloody love these compilations!!! I wait with baiter breath for more. Thank you

[@Glenn-F-Rice]

I recently discovered British comedy. Are You Being Served and Faulty Towers were my introduction.

[@sodone4593]

Baiter breath ehehe fishy. Red Drawf is a space faring British cult classic if you like that kind of thing. Bottom is more like a live action, disgusting, vulgar Tom & Jerry. Can't go wrong with Monty Python and Not The 9 o'clock News either, funny stuff 😂

[@Ron-d2s]

@@Glenn-F-Rice 'Allo 'Allo Black Adder The Young Ones Filthy Rich and Catflap

[@medusa3592]

​@@Glenn-F-RiceAbsolutely Fabulous & Little Britain are also very funny.

[@wintersmelody]

@@Glenn-F-Ricethere’s also Are You Being Served Again? From the 90s. Not quite the same but still fun! AYBS? Is my all time favorite show.

[@krishnajain4391]

Stephen: I won't insult you by asking you who painted this Alan 5 minutes later: Who painted that picture?

[@jeantillotson4091]

Why don’t all the people who complain here just stop watching. It’s perfectly acceptable to move on if you don’t like it, I for one don’t care what you think, move on, personally I love this programme.

[@vivienneoneill5400]

Me too.❤❤❤❤❤

[@Ricimer671]

Perfectly put!

[@isaacislaughter]

I like to complain about people complaining about people complaining, and wonder why you would read comments if you don't care what people think. This seems a perfectly legitimate place to express sadness over the change in the show. 😝🤪

[@jeantillotson4091]

@@isaacislaughter I’m not complaining, just telling people like you to move on….calmly

[@isaacislaughter]

@@jeantillotson4091 lol telling "people like you" to move on? That's pretty funny. Your hubris is staggering. A. You absolutely are complaining. B. Who do you think you are telling me anything? Move on yourself. 😁 Goodbye. Be well.

[@theowarner]

5:45 "The largest thing it has to swallow is its pride."

[@agahpashtollah4753]

“Do you know what you are doing on national television?” 😂😂😂

[@billberndtson]

12:08 There's a frog in North Haven, CT in the US that sounds like a woman shrieking in terror and pain. The 1st time I heard it I panicked and had to be talked down by locals.

[@donnarouse9432]

And Hugh laurie! Get sir Tony Robinson then you have Blackadder one of my favorite!

[@Daoibhéar]

4:50 I like how Stephen Fry can understand Latin

[@susie9893]

That was quite common for his generation. Both my parents studied Latin at school and claim their studies at university were far easier bcos of it. (They also get a lot more of the Asterix & Obelix jokes than I do ☹️pouts)

[@LeeAnneGuerin]

In Australia we have the motorbike frog 🐸 🏍 and yes they do sound like one

[@EthreVolair]

We should fly a kite with a really long string. I love this show, and I'm happy to have stumbled across it. Keep calm and carry on. I love you guys. An American.

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Oh, my dear person, we can tell.

[@avysark2034]

Your nation really has such a ridiculous need to proclaim its origins to as many as possible, it's pathetic.

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

I myself did not mean to go so far

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

George Carlin was fantastic. But who has taken up his sword and shield ?

[@zapkvr]

You're a bit slow fella. Series U is on right now

[@karensealy9782]

Thankyou 🎉

[@IMO1964]

Only fry could deliver this level of English toff and get away with it. Legend.

[@DeniseF]

"That was a dream" 😂😂

[@vakieh4381]

You included the diamond clip twice. Second one is at 43:06, first one is somewhere before then.

[@slytheringingerwitch]

20:15

[@nosnevets5]

I can't make my mind up if i'm watching QI or the Alan Davis show

[@susie9893]

Davies

[@DorisTorres-e5f]

I bloody love these compilations!!!I wait with baiter breath for more.Thank you. Make it easy to remember: SPA, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle..

[@sophitsa79]

*bated breath

[@THUGSBUNNY]

@@sophitsa79 he's a master- baiter

[@carolynnowak3823]

I might have done better in school if Stephen Fry had been teaching all my classes!

[@susie9893]

Ah yes, QI, the source of all my trivial knowledge ☺️

[@kathrinemccann.6397]

So miss Steven Fry.

[@tomfox6084]

I thought I’d missed news of him passing away for a second, before I realised what you meant 😂

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Why not learn Stephen's name and then you can miss him properly ?

[@richardelder6519]

PLEASE COME BACK STEPHEN!! Miss it so much!😭😭😭

[@vivienneoneill5400]

Don't worry you will get to love Sandi too.❤❤❤❤

[@callum105]

godamn look how young they are

[@llYossarian]

1:07:13 - Bell liked "ahoy-hoy" as the greeting but Edison preferred "hello" which quickly won out and _(supposedly)_ only _THEN_ did the concept emerge of "hello?" as a question.

[@8lue8erry8]

I wasn't expecting to see the dad from Saltburn again today, so thank you Robert E. Grant.

[@melissamarsh2219]

Richard

[@tedcopple101]

Ive just watched all of series 1 and the number of panelists who've passed away since is alarming.

[@aenamabag]

52:54 Joe brands joke there was subtle and underrated

[@aoulipa4165]

Sessions always wanna show off his knowledge, and I think that is charming.

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

Looking at this, enjoying it so much. Everyone so young and Jeremy Hardy whose lightning fast wit I remember form his BBC Radio 4 show, taken from us so young.

[@PatDK]

The fact about the frog sounds because of Hollywood reminds me of the Loon call in movies and 99% are nowhere close to where a Loon would be

[@jadedjane6241]

"the United Stated of so on..." 😂😂😂

[@christinavuyk2026]

Hirple really rhymes with purple if you’re Scottish 😂

[@vinnieredutd]

Hi was there helping you xxx

[@johnskrip7174]

Quite possibly the worst Kermit the frog impression I’ve ever heard😂

[@readMEinkbooks]

How to open jars - hit the bend of the lid (where it bends from the top down the side) hard with the back of a butter knife. It breaks the seal and the lid can be unscrewed easily.

[@sophitsa79]

I give it the knocks on the benchtop and opens every time. I'm not married.

[@readMEinkbooks]

@@sophitsa79 The knife is quicker

[@TheCesplin]

I just open it.

[@tc2486]

If the lid is metal, run it under the hot tap for 20 seconds - it will expand faster than the glass jar and open easily.

[@readMEinkbooks]

@@tc2486 The knife is much quicker. You don't need hot water or the sink. Because all you need is the back of any ordinary knife you can do it at the table if you're at breakfast needing marmalade for your toast. No need to get up and go to the kitchen. Just use the same knife you'll use to spread the marmalade.

[@allanlees299]

Alas, the QI researchers misled Stephen: democracy was not born in Athens. In fact, it was imposed on two of the Greek islands a century earlier by the conquering Parthians, who (it is believed, though there's no documentary evidence) wanted the Greeks to spend so much time squabbling with each other that they would be unable to unite to rebel against their overlords. Much of what we think we know about democracy is the consequence of Victorian invention and has no solid basis in fact.

[@bryntownshend6528]

3:04 Leighton Buzzard mentioned 🔥🔥🔥

[@BottleOfCoke]

Two words that rime with purple: Her pool

[@onemercilessming1342]

Make it easy to remember: SPA, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.

[@SunnyIntervalsORG]

And Pliny?

[@teipeu9033]

@@SunnyIntervalsORGWhich one?

[@ronmexico1652]

Then Giles Extemporaneous Trivia Rex

[@onemercilessming1342]

@@SunnyIntervalsORG We were discussing Greek philosophers. Pliny the Elder and Younger were Roman.

[@pauldootson7889]

Love these early episodes were the other 3 panelists tried their best to give semi sensible answers and then you just had Alan driving Stephen mad with his class clown antics, problem was everyone saw how many laughs Alan was getting and started stealing his schtick and pretty soon Alan was playing the sensible one

[@livb6945]

"Off my head on laudanum" anyone else hearing Crowley?!

[@Jazz41173]

Who is the gentleman at 13:00, in the white shirt? Also I thought forage rhymed with orange.

[@peejay6930]

Dave Gorman 🙂

[@Jazz41173]

@@peejay6930 Thank you. He seemed familiar, I realized I had seen him on Taskmaster.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Forage... oraNge yeah, not to me😂

[@moirarussell1950]

😂

[@zeitakulobusta]

How many game show hosts can mutter 'but he preferred to take it up the gary glitter' so stylishly?

[@ruffraff1059]

8.59 Looking at Adams appendage, I would have eaten an apple too.

[@tytn9978]

I knew that little bit about a newly-elected Pope. I think there is a scene in the tv series, "The Borgias" where this ritual is performed! I can't recall if there was just one of the Cardinals performing the "inspection" or whether it was several.

[@jrb5077]

It isn't true though. The whole Pope Joan story was debunked centuries ago, and there's no evidence that this ritual ever happened even in medieval times. Gyles Brandreth should really know better.

[@GingeDSI]

Why is the diamond clip in there twice?

[@smoath]

You don't think the answer is pretty obvious? If you had to compile over an hour's worth of clips, you might make the same mistake. And you might not want to sit through the whole thing to make sure that you didn't. You might just post it knowing people would be happy.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

@@smoath you just stop by and complain to complainers... how quaint 😂

[@Ludifant]

doesn´t whirlpool rhyme with purple??

[@ClaudeSac]

Only if you are really 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤣👍

[@heidimueller1039]

No.

[@TheManwithaview]

Scunthorpe was banned by various search engines some 30 years ago because they had a rude word filter.

[@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human]

One of my favourite football jokes is about them. "Which three teams have swear words in their names? Arsenal, Scunthorpe, and Fucking Manchester United".

[@Fcutdlady]

Sir Billy Connolly would be pissed off to hear the universe is beige

[@lonewolf4215]

Bongo Is also the nickname for a stream locomotive

[@pennygleeson5029]

Eau de Nil would have been ' nice ' 🤣🤣🤣

[@squidcaps4308]

The sound you think is eagle, is red tail hawk. Also used by Hollywood so much that it is now the sound of an eagle.. And.. tigers do not sound like they do in movies. And if you hear a bone snapping, that is wooden sticks or celery stalks being snapped, head smash is a pumpkin or a melon being hit with a bat etc. If you listen them eyes closed, you can often hear what they actually are, bit the moment you see it being associated with some action on screen, your head decides to combine the two. McGurk effect also demonstrates how easy it is to fool your ears, which is always funny to show to an audiophile who has no formal training whatsoever and claims they can hear things at quantum level..

[@josephrankin9406]

... "I wonder how many testicles a buzzard has." . 1 arrow and a rummage later ... . ... "Well I'm surprised ... I thought there'd be three."

[@Glenn-F-Rice]

Maybe somewhere out there

[@skully7763]

The canal jumper was Joseph Darby

[@fretlessman71]

52:38 - I'm dying to know what Jo said here after "SenF***ingSational", but I can't understand her...

[@seanrainbow6506]

Scunthorpe

[@fretlessman71]

@@seanrainbow6506 I guess you have to be british...

[@seanrainbow6506]

The word 'cunt' is within the word 'Scunthorpe'@@fretlessman71

[@trip7dan]

It's the name of a town here. Also contains a swear word in the middle

[@donny121able]

Some panelists insisted on knowing the questions pre show. Annoying but can probably guess which?

[@Xiy114]

What about a Bose-Einstein condensate?

[@DoubtX]

The bit about light being invisible is such an odd thing for them to have said. Sure light isn't visible if it's going somewhere other than into you eye, but everything you see is light. It's like saying that sound is inaudible (unless it goes into your ear)

[@ev6558]

He literally said you can see when it hits things.

[@trudimclaren4301]

Pluto should be a planet again, since they discovered the complexity of it's surface during the fly by. The whole thing of declassifying it as a planet was a smear campaign started by Clyde Tombaugh's rival from pure jealousy, once Tombaugh died. Pluto needs its planet status back!

[@ev6558]

What does the complexity of its surface have to do with making it a planet.

[@susie9893]

And besides, I lost all respect for (Disney) Pluto after that 😏

[@greonhal]

20:00, 42:20 "Oh no, he's done it again" indeed

[@Glenn-F-Rice]

In Russia they found where a meteor hit a carbon deposit. Instant diamonds

[@Frooderick]

Mohs Scale, after Friederich Mohs. Not “Moh Scale,” nor “Moh’s scale.”

[@Ron-d2s]

Mohorovicic not Mohs

[@gabbleratchet1890]

If it’s named after Friederich Mohs, shouldn’t it be Mohs’ scale?

[@ruffraff1059]

Apparently I'm wrong but thought it was common practice to wed a dead brothers widow. Allowing her to retain the status and honours of the married woman.

[@sethbolton3545]

I can't watch the ones without Steven, I don't think I've gotten through more than 5 episodes that he isn't hosting

[@zapkvr]

Is that Gyles? Jesus!!!

[@colkellahan6676]

Turtle rhymes with purple

[@tank9432]

Half rhyme

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Lol turple may but turtle doesn't. How come folks don't understand what a "rhyme" is here?😂😂

[@landerceuppens]

Can someone please explain the 'Pinto'-joke Alan Davies makes at 27:20?

[@Lucifronz]

Not entirely sure what "pinto" has to do with being small besides its similarity to "pint" or "pint-sized", but that seems to be the context he's using it in because he's referring to the "crude(ly)" drawn penises.

[@happivaras]

1:09:20~1:09:26 😂😂😂🏅🏅🏅

[@justandy333]

The whole thing about buying Alcoholic Drinks for children under 18 in a Restaurant or beer garden really doesn't hold up in reality. I recently went out with relatives (To a Restaurant), 1 of which was my cousin who was over 18. He forgot his ID and his dad tried buying him an alcoholic drink and was refused. He actually Said, I thought the law was I'm allowed to buy it on his behalf? Still got refused. The law may state what Stephen said, but in reality, If you're not 18 or you can't prove it if you look younger, you ain't getting served. Once again, what the law states verses what actually happens are very different.

[@traaansfer]

This season was also 20 years ago. Things were a lot more lax haha

[@J_Neptun3]

Stephen Fry is so hot on QI

[@cinderellacomplex7]

I'm glad they removed the stupid metal structures in front of the screens early on. Who thought that was a good idea? It partially blocks SCREENS that are supposed to show things.

[@donnarouse9432]

Its not easy being green!

[@susie9893]

Why are there so many songs about rainbows???

[@PaulBowers-ey1cq]

Ya gotta love Rich Hall , I don't care who you are. There's only one....

[@ruffraff1059]

37.35 Same thing in Australia. If eating in the restaurant, it's permitted for parents to buy their own underaged children alcoholic drinks.

[@henrikcarlsen1881]

Quote: "I'm giving him 3 points for that", as if anyone in the show cared for points :-) BTW, Spunk isn't chewing gum

[@jrnsurlan405]

In Denmark it is licorice. Named after a Pippi Longstocking story.

[@susie9893]

As if points mean anything in this show - the scoring is inscrutable

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Leave it to Alan "silly jism"😂

[@tobyhart]

I couldn't be arsed to be the Groom of the Stool.

[@ConicalRamirez]

I’d say the drink ‘The Bradford’ would be two parts vodka, one part rogan josh

[@Dave062YT]

Of course Kiwi fruit uses more than it weight in aviation fuel to get here ,just like every other fruit

[@onlymise2758]

man made electric light can be seen from the moon ...... maybe ?

[@Richard-yt9vi]

The scientific mame for blue whale is baleenpetera musculus

[@mywifeleftmeandtookthekids2635]

Sad that we really can’t watch the earlier series outside of the UK. DAMN YOU BBC!

[@treborif]

Henry 8th - invented gas lighting . .

[@happivaras]

41:16~41:23🏅🏅🏅

[@markrowland1366]

Santa's Reindeer must have been females. The males drop their antlers before Christmas.

[@archievii]

Good god. I know the scientific community finds all this interesting. But, what kinda person chooses the MOST boring color as the color of the universe?! Beige. I’d be fine with Eggshell, or even light latte cream. But, BEIGE. Is the universe part of an HOA now?!

[@aoulipa4165]

That's Allah 😂

[@archievii]

@@aoulipa4165 no it’s not.😂 it’s just people SO bored and sniffing TOO many chemicals. That they think to themselves. “What color is the universe?” “BEIGE.” “Yes!”

[@johnc3403]

..he preferred to take it up the "Gary Glitter" 25:45 ..pretty sure the production team didn't pick up on that one!

[@rtzx12570]

Turtle and murtel

[@TheEthanEdge]

they are generic rhymes, not true rhymes. In a generic rhyme the vowel sounds are identical, while the consonants are not exactly identical, but belong generically to the same phonetic group.