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

CLASSIC QI! 1 Hour Of QI Series A With Stephen Fry! Featuring Sean Locke, David Mitchell, Billy Connolly, Hugh Laurie and others!
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[@jennycalvin5927]

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

[@s_nunyabiznez]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@vivienneoneill5400]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@canoli72]

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

[@Rona1963]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@richardelder6519]

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

[@vivienneoneill5400]

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

[@DeniseF]

"That was a dream" 😂😂

[@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 ?

[@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 😂

[@user-wm3bf7pi3u]

@@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.

[@theowarner]

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

[@vakieh4381]

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

[@slytheringingerwitch]

20:15

[@busandcoach]

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

[@krishnajain4391]

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

[@LeeAnneGuerin]

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

[@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.

[@johnskrip7174]

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

[@aenamabag]

52:54 Joe brands joke there was subtle and underrated

[@callum105]

godamn look how young they are

[@user-gp5bk2kb8n]

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

[@IvoryB]

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

[@melissamarsh2219]

Richard

[@donnarouse9432]

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

[@bryntownshend6528]

3:04 Leighton Buzzard mentioned 🔥🔥🔥

[@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..

[@user-ee5tj4kc8t]

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 ?

[@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.

[@luapslev5826]

4:50 I like how Stephen Fry can understand Latin

[@jadedjane6241]

"the United Stated of so on..." 😂😂😂

[@lonewolf4215]

Bongo Is also the nickname for a stream locomotive

[@factanonverba6169]

Nah!! Bongo "The bongo is classified as Lower Risk/ Near Threatened by IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed in Appendix III of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES)."

[@GingeDSI]

Why is the diamond clip in there twice?

[@BottleOfCoke]

Two words that rime with purple: Her pool

[@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

[@carolynnowak3823]

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

[@donnarouse9432]

Its not easy being green!

[@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

[@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.

[@treborif]

Henry 8th - invented gas lighting . .

[@happivaras]

1:09:20~1:09:26 😂😂😂🏅🏅🏅

[@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.

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

Forage... oraNge yeah, not to me😂

[@moirarussell1950]

😂

[@Xiy114]

What about a Bose-Einstein condensate?

[@julianawinik8410]

If people think Alan Davies isn’t funny and Stephen Fry is entirely insufferable…WHY ARE YOU WATCHING QI!!?? 😅🤷‍♀️ go find your joy (elsewhere)!

[@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.

[@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.

[@jacturner6886]

Stephen Fry is so hot on QI

[@tristangordon9042]

2:55

[@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.

[@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

[@Glenn-F-Rice]

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

[@TangoDelta8111]

Stephen is filled with knowledge that no one needs to hear. I prefer Sandi

[@Mei-eq6xk]

Congratulations on giving an opinion no one asked for

[@vivienneoneill5400]

Sad you feel that way ,very sad.😢

[@happivaras]

41:16~41:23🏅🏅🏅

[@onlymise2758]

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

[@zeitakulobusta9708]

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

[@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.

[@Frooderick]

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

[@user-wm3bf7pi3u]

Mohorovicic not Mohs

[@gabbleratchet1890]

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

[@syvreta]

They suspect there may be another planet

[@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".

[@colkellahan6676]

Turtle rhymes with purple

[@tank9432]

Half rhyme

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

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

[@mywifeleftmeandtookthekids2635]

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

[@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

[@crispy.monkey]

A-ris-to-TE-les. That's how they pronounce it in Greece.

[@sodone4593]

That doesn't make pronunciation clearer at all. 😂 Are you saying Atisto-teh-les? Or Aristo-tee-les? 🙃

[@bfudge7963]

A-rist the Greek? 😅

[@buggyboogle9]

@@bfudge7963or just Ari.

[@bfudge7963]

@buggyboogle9 smashed it

[@lucyhellbroke]

Thanks, pumpkin. That clears everything right up.

[@spadebraithwaite1762]

Alan Davies, something funny is very quick. Something you need to keep churning out for four minutes is just fucking tedious.

[@benbutler9282]

a capital A is the difference - just saying

[@ChaosPromotions]

lol silly jizm

[@jamesadams8570]

ITS ABOUT TIME STEPHEN FRY SACKED HIS TAILOR

[@ConicalRamirez]

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

[@johnc3403]

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

[@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?!

[@katemcbride8715]

Women buy tools to open jars now. So we can happily live alone

[@JohnHall02]

Aye hate they cut out sum real words... Otha than that, great show...

[@jeanmariedoyle6123]

I’m wondering if there’s any way to counteract the effects of having to wear an ugly, hot and scratchy blue uniform to work every day? Also, I didn’t hear anything about what to »spray on my clothes » as the title states?

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

John Sessions seems like he goes from interesting to insufferable quite quickly.

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Dead young, poor fellow

[@Lucifronz]

Supposedly he was the one who requested and received the questions ahead of time, so... yeah... Not to speak ill of the dead (but I mean hey, fuck 'em they can't complain), but "insufferable" seems quite apt.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

@@Lucifronz yeah, I wasn't aware he'd passed. I always took that saying to refer to people waiting till someone was dead to talk smack about them.

[@orwellboy1958]

@@Lucifronz I think that it was Rory McGrath who wanted to see the questions beforehand.

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

Funny, I found it hilarious and endearing... and thank you all for pointing out yourselves. You must be perfect.😂😂

[@John-ObiJohnKenobi]

its ewar woowar not ewar woowoo say it out loud

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

Thank you, guy who needs to live a life of a jedi because his own is too boring... we would never have lived without you correcting that😂

[@drdassler]

How difficult is it to not repeat bits?

[@kurtwicklund8901]

Too bad for the guy eagerly telling his Pope story that the story is bollocks.

[@gertstronkhorst2343]

Stephen actually thinks he speaks Dutch. It's hilarious.

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

Your opinion is noted. Obviously from the reaction, we enjoyed Stephen... but please😂 go on...

[@gertstronkhorst2343]

@@cannaweallgetalong7168 He doesn't speak Dutch. That's not my opinion. Are you always this easy to trigger?

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

@@gertstronkhorst2343 you believe someone laughing at your opinion is "being triggered"?🤣🤣 Spend less time on social media mate, you are suffering from the "spotlight effect" as Sandi taught us🤣🤣 Unless you control my income or my future, you have no hold over me being "triggered"... carry on, carrion🤣🤣🤟🇵🇸🇸🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦋

[@gertstronkhorst2343]

@@cannaweallgetalong7168 You really take time out of your day to do this? Go do something useful. You won't convince me you're the cool guy you seem to think you are.

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

@@gertstronkhorst2343 1. I'm female, so good. 2. Again, if you read my comment, your opinion of me means little, just like your opinion of Stephen. 3. "Took time out" yet you do the same... we here call that "the pot calling the kettle black" 🤣 as you doing it then insulting me for doing the same is quite immature parenting 🤣🤣

[@danhill99]

Jeez 25.50- could “preferred to take it up the Gary glitter” have aged any worse as a euphemism for “gay”?

[@readMEinkbooks]

So glad they got rid of those awful cards!

[@paulwalker1793]

Some people can lick there own elbow.

[@zaf2917]

That would be me.

[@bryanslick8704]

In nearly every video, Rob Brydon is one of the most tedious people on television.

[@DarrenEden-ub4vj]

When Donald Trump was the host of the tv show, the apprentice they a man who worked there to change his adult diapers. Whenever he shit himself.

[@orwellboy1958]

You want to try that lie again, this time in English?

[@shaunnuttall90]

He shits himself whenever he opens his mouth

[@casim8842]

Many years ago, in the early 80s I believe, someone told Alan Davies (at a party) that everything he says is utterly hilarious. Sadly, he believed them.

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

Obviously someone told you the same, cupcake 😂

[@emilybarclay8831]

And your mother told you the other kids didn’t want to play with you because they were jealous of how smart you are. But we all get lied to, don’t we

[@lostfox27]

Pope Joan never existed

[@mikewilliams8951]

Allen Davis , Never knows when the Joke is Over . He keeps it up long after it has Stopped being Funny .

[@Morgana0x]

I love Alan but I agree with you Sometimes I just wish he would shut up.

[@therversonkanavathy7554]

I always wonder how much QI would have been without Alan Davis, Jo Brand, Sarah Millican, Teri Hatcher, and Lee Mack.

[@HoodaThunkit-sj3lk]

No you can't steven - Aboriginals are Australian in todays culture and American Indians are not.

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

Really? How is that princess?😂😂

[@HoodaThunkit-sj3lk]

@@cannaweallgetalong7168 They were the first and only humans on the continent. Oxford dictionary - relating to the indigenous peoples of Australia or their languages

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

@@HoodaThunkit-sj3lk first, why are you calling native Americans "Indian" when Indians are from INDIA? Where did you go to school? 2nd so you have decided aboriginals began only in Australia, and came from nowhere else? Where is your proof? 3rd. Which Native Americans are you saying this about? North American or South American? And 4 do you even know what you are talking about or is this a need to put down anything from America, cupcake?🤣🤣🤣🇵🇸

[@chiggs5904]

Alan Davies thinks James Bond is a bit of a pratt .😅😅😅 Total lack of self awareness.

[@jelt110]

Another blue whale.

[@chiggs5904]

When people say women comedians aren't funny are they thinking of Jo brand .😅

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

whooping like red Indians? Hopefully that will never appear in a script again.

[@Gecko....]

Alan is so tedious and unfunny 90% of the time. The court fool routine is so cringe, especially when he's a miserable, angry, man off the show.

[@gdj6298]

Thanks for the demonstrating that last concept.

[@Patriotic_Eagle1995]

Ahh... A more innocent time when Stephen Fry's casual arrogance and intellectual pretence were still charming, before he ate so much of his own shit that his self-awareness rotted away and left the bloated husk of a man we see today.

[@lucyhellbroke]

Are you OK? Do you need a hug? Good Lord. 😂

[@ajorngjdonaydbr]

Well that was a long walk down a beach to a cafe that was closed! What utter tripe are you talking about?

[@Lucifronz]

He said something that upset you once and you got pissy about it, didn't he? Then you decided everything he did was wrong from that point on to save your ego. If you don't like Stephen Fry, stop watching his content, jackass.

[@aidanhoward213]

The verb 'to empurple' also exists.