CLASSIC QI REACTION Mx02 XL - Military Matters (Jimmy Carr, Jeremy Clarkson, Sheila Hancock)

[@drjwww]

To this day, Sheila Hancock remains the oldest QI panelist, with Brian Blessed being the second oldest. She was 82 when this aired and, only a couple of months off 90 now, she remains very busy. Though you may not have seen her in anything, she's a film, TV and stage actress of very considerable standing and she also holds the distinction for being the longest-recurring panelist on the legendary radio show JUST A MINUTE, starting way back in 1967 and appearing on-and-off over the subsequent decades. She's a real all-rounder.

[@gavinhall6040]

Pencils up the nose and pants on the head was how Blackadder tries getting out of "going over the top" in the fourth version (1st World war).

[@Kuolonen]

One of the best UK TV-shows ever made.

[@babalonkie]

A must watch series...

[@ZondaFRoadster]

Wibble.

[@highpath4776]

Discharge by reason of insanity or being suicidal ( Melvin Hayes "chop suey" episode in it aint half hot mum

[@gavinhall6040]

@@highpath4776 not when he's talking with Stephen Fry who is one of the cast of Blackadder, who then does a impressions of a saying his character uses! Not sure its got anything to do with you're suggestion.

[@MrNikolidas]

Shooting a bazooka at a cow sounds very Pythonesque.

[@aidankirwan9904]

Now you have to watch Blackadder to understand the "underpants on your head, pencils up your nose" reference

[@nicksykes4575]

Sheila Hancock is an actress, both comedy and drama, her last husband was the late, great John Thaw, best known worldwide as Inspector Morse. As far as I know she is still with us.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Clarkson wasn't cancelled, he punched his producer which is why the BBC fired him.

[@Thisandthat8908]

... didin't renew his contract, which was due.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@Thisandthat8908 BBC jargon, he was literally fired for punching someone. Do you really think they shut down the most popular BBC show they had voluntarily?

[@SaturnusDK]

In the south of Denmark "ring-riding" where you spear an ever increasingly smaller ring on a rope with a lance riding on horseback is still a fairly popular sport.

[@jameslinham2733]

M series had an ongoing thread where Stephen performed a magic trick in each episode. There may have been a few episodes where the trick didn’t make the final edit, but most feature a trick.

[@RedS0n]

Fyi, the "original" Top Gear ran from 1977 to 2001, Jeremy Clarkson was on it but it was a much more serious Car review show. The Clarkson, Hammond, May version of Top Gear started in 2002 after a MASSIVE retooling of the show into a less serious, more comedic show with Stunts and Adventures.

[@jamesmccarthy962]

The underpants on head thing is a reference to an excellent comedy called Black adder that fry was a prominent part of though the star was Rowan Atkinson. Highly recommend you give it a try sometime (:

[@nescirian]

13:21 [smugly folds my galaxy z fold3 to prove I can, then frantically tries to get the youtube layout back to normal] the future's neat I guess

[@KingOuf1er]

Although not quite the sort of programme you generally react to here, you might like to sample one of the last five programmes in the Channel 4 series ‘Great Canal Journeys’, in which two great friends Sheila Hancock and Gyles Brandreth explore some of waterways of central England aboard a vintage longboat - very charming and illuminating.

[@Baiko]

Here (in Finland) the hairstyle mentioned near the end of the show is called 'irokeesi'

[@Sweeney541]

Sheila DID play Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd in the early 90s, so her talking about human in pies makes sense.

[@streaky81]

"more a James May guy" - why am I not surprised? :) Have you seen his Our Man In.. series?

[@basquat76]

Firing a bazooka at a cow. Where does that put you in the hierarchy of humanity?

[@Tomp4ul]

For reference, I was born in 1991, and I experienced the mysterious wild porn stashes. I can only imagine people didn't want to bring it home, so would hide bundles of magazines in hedgerows and small wooded areas.

[@snooks5607]

yea pretty much global phenomena for some decades, coincidentally I just stumbled on japanese VR porn that references woods magazines: NHVR-059

[@qwertyTRiG]

Do you know Thomas Benjamin Wild? He has a song about it. "Magazine pages discarded in the woods."

[@bobd2659]

Can't WAIT until you get to the new series once it comes out in XL. 2nd episode (T Animals), todays ep when I write this, I think you'll LOVE! New guests to get to know, and just a fun time! ALSO, the first FULL audience since the pandemic. Additional video was posted on their Twitter that you could find/use/save the link to from Sandi's preshow banter. Worth it as an add to the reaction! Pretty certain you're right, that was the ferris wheel at Pripyat. Hitlers family in the US...one worked for the IRS. Through a private collector (so illegal=legal with documentation) here in Canada, I've shot MOST of the AK47 variants at half-load, and Jeremy is right...you'd be lucky to hit the broad side of a barn. Never got higher up than those due to a death (my connection, my grandfather...not because any one killed anybody...though he DID die on that property...Heart Attack)...

[@BD-yl5mh]

I appreciate that you’re able to see the nuance in Clarkson. I think he operates with a bit more irony and self awareness than a lot of people give him credit for. Not saying he’s a GREAT bloke, but I think he’s a fantastic character

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

Neil , if you didn't get the pencils up the nose reference can it be you haven't seen Blackadder ? - if you love good tv It's a must . Sheila Hancocck i has had a long career as an actress , including some of the Carry on films and was married to the late great John Thaw ( Inspector Morse and the Sweeney ) . She is a good occasional panel member on radio and tv shows .

[@JamBar1873]

Jeremy Clarkson has done lots of programmes about the military, in particular the ones about the Victoria Cross, which are well worth a watch. He’s also raised lots of money for British military personnel, the Help For Heroes charity mostly. They should have got Al Murray for this show, he really knows his military history.

[@mussoletart8485]

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[@isladurrant2015]

I didn't know Sheila was a Friend/Quaker... it's a shame they weren't exempt from war service. Maybe check out her late husband's John Thaw work? Lol

[@carligula78]

i'm more of a Jams-May-Guy myself and i think you would like his shows "The Reassambler" and "James May's Man Lab"

[@apatternedhorizon]

Did you watch the actual Grand Tour series before the specials?

[@OutlawStar87]

Jimmy is right 😂 I can remember a couple times walking through forests and randomly seeing a ripped out page from a porn mag

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

Can't remember ?

[@OutlawStar87]

@@stewedfishproductions7959 thanks. Corrected

[@jonbolton3376]

As a fan of his you might like to check out a show called James May's Man Lab which ran for three series about 10 years ago, it was a fun show.

[@FLQueerLiberal1982]

Series T started this past week. Are you going to react to it on the channel? Although, XL episodes are better, but those take longer to drop now. Used to drop the day after, now it can be a couple months or more.

[@drjwww]

Watched this again in light of (at time of writing*) Clarkson's latest self-induced fiasco and felt I should add one small note here, which was true then: for whatever reason, Clarkson was always on best-behaviour on QI. Perhaps that's just how QI edited the recordings, because geniality and cordiality are so crucial for QI's ethos. But it is somewhat astonishing how he just deferred to Sheila and took his (very gentle) slaps from her. *"time of writing: Dec 2022, after he fantasized about Meghan Markle being stripped naked and paraded through so people could throw shit at her and claimed that "everyone [his] age feels the same way" and asserting that his hate for her on "a cellular level." Egad.

[@ninagray4441]

You looked massively stoned in the intro. Were you?

[@wozzywick]

I agree Clarkson is great, though I also really like the current cast of Top Gear (Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness, Freddie Flintoff). It’d be great to hear more about your travels, it seems like you’ve had some cool experiences