How Pink Is The Pinkest Pink? | QI

[@LoneManProductions]

Aww, they didn't finish the story. So, apparently, in response to Kapoor getting his hands on Pinkest Pink and dipping his middle finger in it, Semple created Diamond Dust, which is a glitter made up of glass shards to stop any finger dunking. He's also made Black 2.0 and Black 3.0, which look to the human eye almost identical to Vantablack and is apparently safer to use. All three, you guessed it, cannot be used or acquired by Kapoor.

[@benedict5704]

Good to hear that there is a happy end to this story

[@BlueRoseFaery]

Yes, my sister is an artist and uses the Black 3.0 for some night sky & space backgrounds, it's really incredible. The Pinkest Pink is also much more intense in person, screens can't replicate the intensity fully.

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

@@BlueRoseFaery ugh it was bright enough on screen! 😵 I like pinks, but not cerise shades! Probably my least favourite shade of any colour. Reminds me of my leotards and footless tights from the 1980's! We used to wear cerise and electric blue together! AND that included eyeshadow...think Pat Butcher!!! (With electric blue mascara!) What a state! We thought we looked soooooooo good...... 🤣

[@Damian_1989]

Lol, just how hilariously petty are these people?

[@SevCaswell]

@@Damian_1989 Pretty typical for artists I think.

[@kylanidy5300]

I love the look on Joe's face when he realizes that his joke answer of 'ran out of mummies is actually correct!

[@yourearsaregreen]

i love that they got comedians with art degrees for this episode

[@jimmyriddle5246]

Yeah, all these comedians......plus Hannah Gadsby

[@gabba279]

@@jimmyriddle5246 Hannah Gadsby is a professional comedian and has an art degree. So...whatever you're implying that she is not, here's a quick reminder that you do not define what people do, or how they are seen by others.

[@jimmyriddle5246]

@@gabba279 and you don't define what is funny. And I would've thought that was the major part of being a comedian. And what the hell having an arts degree proves is beyond me

[@geoffreys78]

The fact that Kapoor is suffering repercussions from his actions is making me happier than I think it should be.

[@babboon5764]

Revenge is Sweet ........ *And now available in a range of vibrant colours* ! In truth it slightly depends ~ Did Kapoor buy the rights because he sees a commercial area to develop, or simply because he's an utter 🐓 and spitefully wishes to deprive others?

[@Tensen01]

@@babboon5764 based on every single other action by this man, The latter.

[@ConstantChaos1]

not possible he deserves more reprocussions

[@Alacritous]

Oh no. He can't use that pink paint. The horror.

[@Alacritous]

@@babboon5764 It's not the color that's patented, it's the technology used to create the pigment. You can't just mix up a batch of Vanta Black in your bathtub.

[@EdenLippmann]

Fun fact: that pink you see in the video is not the Pinkest Pink. The actual pigment is so vibrant that it falls outside of the RGB colour-space, meaning screens literally cannot render it. You have to see it in person.

[@lohphat]

Tom Scott, is that you???

[@BlueRoseFaery]

Yes, it's much more intense in person. My sister is an artist & she has a few of his paints.

[@lenajesse]

The "vibrancy" reminded me of neon pink and other really vibrant pinks. I do wonder, that does the pinkest pink have as poor lightfastness as the other vibrant pinks have?

[@joyl7842]

not even HDR-capable screens?

[@EebstertheGreat]

@@joyl7842 No idea. As far as I can tell, the composition of his pigment is a secret. But probably not. Most HDR screens don't see that much more than sRGB in the purple areas. Maybe it's in Rec.2100, not sure.

[@OranDoesThings]

How interesting that the man that created the pinkest pink had the bluest of blue eyes.

[@john.premose]

Yes I think his eyes must have been enhanced in the photo

[@_Vesper]

I think he's been indulging in the spice

[@altersami9660]

It's photshopped or a had filter on it. You can check how looks normally.

[@mikevandebunt811]

Stuart's eyes are very blue, but not as blue as they look in that photo.

[@Codex7777]

Possibly blue contact lenses. I had an ex who wore blue contact lenses. Everyone thought they had amazingly blue eyes. They did have blue eyes, just not as blue as people thought. :)

[@adamgrogory]

Looking at the comments to see if anyone has pointed out that Pink Elephants on Parade is from Dumbo, not Fantasia and it was goddamn 36 seconds before me.

[@bloodink9508]

The colors are regarded by many artists to be the highest quality and do live up to their reputation.

[@blackbird5634]

*The REASON Rembrandt's paintings are stored (for part of the time) lying flat, is that he used Mummy Brown, and Mummy Brown NEVER completely sets. SO, when his paintings are hung on the wall, they begin to sag over time. In order to keep them from dripping right off the canvas, they MUST be, for some of the time, stored lying down. Do please tell Sandy and ask her if I get a point!🥰

[@andemaiar]

Noel's chuckle is love.

[@rocketforthree4479]

Just so we're clear, Anish Kapoor didn't not invent or even invest money to develop the Vantablack paint. Scientists in a laboratory invented it, and after it was invented he heard of it and bought the rights of it.

[@John_Smith_60]

And the "scientists" sold it to him. He did not steal it, while simultaneously twirling his moustache with one hand and petting a white Persian cat with the other. If people are blaming him, why are they not also blaming the scientists?

[@rocketforthree4479]

@@John_Smith_60 yeah, i do think part of the blame does fall on them

[@Vanilla.coke1234]

@@John_Smith_60 Nobody isn't not blaming the scientists. But Anish Kapoor is a massive CU in the NT and hated world-wide in the art community and beyond (deservedly so). So its more a "This asshole just did another bad/annoying/disgusting/evil/vile/villainous/etc thing. What a piece of shit" Not to mention he pretty much is the stereotypical moustache twirling villain of the art world, with full moustache twirling intent baked into a lot of his public decisions

[@EarthwormShandy]

Okay nerd

[@dingypt]

@@John_Smith_60 Thats not how it works... "scientists" invented it and he probably registered a patent which prevents everyone else from using it without paying him the rights of usage.. which is really sad and selfish of him.

[@darthmarticusLFC]

Funny, I’ve never heard of Stewart until last week where I’ve been blasted with multiple Instagram adverts about his new colour. Then this gets uploaded.

[@Autoskip]

I have aphantasia (the inability to see my imagination), but I also have a tub of the Pinkest Pink, so I failed at following the instructions for a completely different reason. Also, this video does not do it justice - screens cannot replicate how pink it is, and I'm looking at it right now and I even feel like my eyes aren't doing it justice!

[@emilybarclay8831]

I also have aphantasia, ain’t it fun. Off topic, but do you find you struggle with directions? I’ve always thought there was some connection between me not being able to picture locations in my head and my inability to remember directions or routes I literally just took lol

[@Autoskip]

@@emilybarclay8831 Not often - there's more than the 5 main senses that I can't imagine, and my spatialisation and imaginary proprioception are still quite strong, so when I'm trying to navigate, I'm not working off visuals, but a spatialisation of what is where. For example, when navigating around my local CBD (which, to be fair, I've got a bunch of practice doing), I'm not thinking that to get to the games store from the mall I need to turn right out the doors, take a left at the roundabout, and go 3 and a bit blocks, where it'll be on my right - I'm thinking that it's in that direction along that road, with that general terrain shape in between. I can hold an imaginary map in front of me, but it's not something I can see, and instead it's something I know in the same way that I know where the back corner of the chair I'm sitting on is without looking at it, or how I can touch any two fingers to each other with my eyes closed. Your imagination doesn't stop at sight - explore what you can know about what you're imagining, and see if you can use that instead.

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@Autoskip that’s similar-ish to me. I infuriate my mum when I’m describing routes because I won’t know the place name or the directions but I’ll remember a particular tree I saw on the road, having aphantasia combined with adhd makes my memory very, very poor lol

[@superfluidity]

Vantablack is not really a paint - it's a specialized process for coating surfaces to make them extremely black. Even if there was no special licensing agreement it wouldn't be something you buy in a tub or spray can and use at home.

[@andreww2098]

and it doesn't last, the carbon nanotubes in it breaks if you touch it, it was designed for sattelite camera housings not art

[@tahutoa]

@@andreww2098 _BLACK 3.0 Enters._

[@willman85]

Anish Kapoor owns the exclusive rights to use the spray-on version of the substance.

[@EveryFairyDies]

This story is exactly why I love Stuart Semple.

[@georgeharvey4226]

0:09-0:15 First of all, she says the name of the movie wrong. Second, the pink elephants are from Dumbo. Not Fantasia.

[@rosiefay7283]

OK, she got the wrong name. But she said the name Fantasia perfectly.

[@curseyoujordanshow]

Pinkest Pink is my favourite colour, at least insomuch as I'm able to see it on a computer monitor. I guess I could just order some for myself, but I don't paint, so I'd only be buying it to just sit it on my shelf and look at it from time to time.

[@RubelliteFae]

It looks to be somewhere nearer to rose or magenta. Though on the canvas Sandy held up it looked like a fuchsia. True pink is just red + white.

[@StarkRG]

The use of ground mummies as a pigment was likely a response to the quickly declining demand for ground mummies as a folk medicine. It was in use as an oral medication (meaning people ate it) for significantly longer than it was used as a pigment. Also, Vanta Black is no longer the blackest black. At 10 times darker, absorbing 99.995% of light (rather than 99.96%), the MIT-developed coating uses carbon nanotubes. Unfortunately, as far as I understand it, it can't be used as a pigment but must be grown on the surface. Nevertheless, Anish Kapoor can suck it.

[@Mr.Isquierdo]

How can you grow paint?

[@StarkRG]

@@Mr.Isquierdo It's not paint, it's a coating of carbon nanotubes, essentially a very specific form of carbon crystal.

[@xTheUnderscorex]

Vantablack uses nanotubes too, it's even in the name (vertically aligned nanotube arrays).

[@b_uppy]

I love the pink campaign.

[@drummygooders]

I swear I've seen multiple bits on QI that Tom Scott covered first. To be fair he's a very good source.

[@helenaren]

To be fair, a good deal of Tom’s videos were covered by QI first too

[@drummygooders]

A simbiotic relationship for the gods of knowledge.

[@mitchelljack1590]

They both get things wrong too

[@mikevandebunt811]

@@CasuallyAsian Goid point. It seems that this QI clip is old enough that no mention was made of the Black 2.0 or Black 3.0 that Stuart Semple has produced.

[@borandiUK]

@@mikevandebunt811 or they did mention it but it got cut due to time

[@dorothyhansen4374]

I believe the Pink Elephants appeared first in "Dumbo". So much from those decades ago are recognized now as inappropriate, but the artistry and innovation cannot be undervalued.

[@litigioussociety4249]

Pink Elephants on Parade is from Dumbo not Fantasia.

[@jacklovejoy5290]

There's also a scene of Pink Elephants on Parade in Fantasia

[@Charlesb88]

@@jacklovejoy5290 Actually, while elephants do appear in Fantasia, they are not pink but the standard grey color (You can find a clip of the grey elephants from Fantasia on KZbin if you doubt me). Only Dumbo features PINK elephants, at least among Disney films.

[@fuckel98]

you beat me to it

[@estefencosta1835]

@@Charlesb88 Who could forget. For a children's film Dumbo had some nightmarish imagery.

[@alwillcox]

In the scene where Dumbo's off his tits on absinthe.

[@Arksimon2k]

I knew this from the Tom Scott video!

[@TheHutchy01]

I quite like the metallics and purple they do.

[@CaptChrispy]

The OED defines a mummy as "the body of a human being or animal embalmed (according to the ancient Egyptian or some analogous method) as a preparation for burial." No mention of it having to be ancient.

[@superfluidity]

Apparently this pink is pinker than the pinkest pink any TV screen or computer monitor can display, so we can't really see how pink it is in this video.

[@rosiefay7283]

Fair enough, but it's no surprise that there's something where we can't really see how it looks just from a video of it on a screen. The only way a screen can show a colour, apart from black, is by *emitting* light. So watching a video of something on a screen is different from seeing it, if it gets its colour by *absorbing* light.

[@barneylaurance1865]

@@rosiefay7283 Everything emits some light and reflects other light. If we had better screens then you could imagine them emitting light as the same colour as whatever light this paint reflects.

[@TanakaMatsumoto]

I love how despite not being legally allowed to use said pink he felt it necessary to break said copyright law.... Maybe now he knows how other artists feel about his exclusive colour... Who am I kidding though, those pretentious asshole types never self reflect, he probably truly believes he deserves the right to hold a colour hostage and the right to deny others from being able to exclude him from specific colours like he's done.

[@EebstertheGreat]

It's not illegal for him to acquire the paint, he just can't buy it directly from the website. Or rather, he can, but he's not supposed to. And honestly, I'm not even sure that disclaimer is enforceable.

[@superfluidity]

I don't think you can copyright a colour - and even if you could, Kapoor didn't really make a copy of it. Any photo of the pink that Kapoor made wouldn't reproduce the colour exactly.

[@CharlieQuartz]

Don't let the headlines fool you Kapoor doesn't own a color, but a material engineering process which he uses to make a spray-on product. Black is the absence of light and Vantablack is a patented material which was able to capture more light than any material before it. MIT has since invented a material which is even better at absorbing light and is freely available to the public. I doubt Semple's agreement is legally binding like patent on the expensive materials process that goes into making Vantablack.

[@jonathanwood8847]

If you watch Tom Scott's video on it, he actually interviews Stewart Semple

[@MattTheSpratt]

@@superfluidity It hasn't stopped artists like Yves Klein. Yves Klein created a pigment called IKB, International Klein Blue, and acquired both a patent and a taste for litigation to prevent anyone else using his blue. Culturehustle and Stu Semple have hit back at with Easy Klein, their "Inkredibly Kleiny Blue" acrylic paint.

[@UberMan5000]

0:10 Slight factual error: the pink elements were from Dumbo, another Disney film released a year after Fantasia.

[@MikeDuddy-q2t]

I wonder if having exclusive rights to a color would ever be challenged in court. Surely if Ed Sheeran can win the case for chord progressions then that's the art equivalent.

[@gooseface2690]

Perhaps it's testament to how difficult it is to come up with something original in the world of art these days. Bah humbug Anish!

[@helenaren]

Tom Scott taught me about this one

[@davidparsons3432]

Hannah looks continously confused....

[@khymaaren]

She had no idea why she was invited to the show. I share that sentiment.

[@mitchweiner]

Alan in a suit and tie? The end is nigh!

[@YeeSoest]

That man went full "noone can have this? Well then anyone BUT YOU can have THIS much better item"

[@QuanTumm1357]

God I love Sandi so much. She was born to host QI

[@poro9084]

i remember when i read this story:D

[@mhansl]

I bought my wife a bottle of Stewart Semple’s Black 3.0 and had to sign. It’s amazing paint, BTW.

[@qkffn5118]

Sandi's reaction to Joe's answer makes it seem like she's thinking: "Why did we invite the artsy kid.."

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Hannah Gadsby and Noel Fielding also have art degrees; I think that was quite the theme of the episode.

[@mattkennedy9308]

@@clockworkkirlia7475 Yeah, I'm a little surprised Noel or Hannah had never heard of the dispute between Anish Kapoor and Stuart Semple.

[@HARRi81_UK]

Vantablack is a bit more than just a colour, being a very expensive material used by the aerospace industry and military, made of carbon nanotubes.

[@invisiblekid99]

And BMW.

[@writerinprogress]

Saw this on a Tom Scott video!

[@masonsleeter6645]

Does this mean that mummy brown is the most Tutankhamun (tut-uncommon) color?

[@Sam-gf6ue]

The mummy unravels itself to reveal a pot of Dulux Bathroom Matte paint.

[@onlyontuesdays99]

Pink Elephants on Parade is from Dumbo!

[@RubelliteFae]

True pink, is a tone of red. Most of what corporations sell as pink are imbalanced toward blue, that is, they are a version of *rose* (the area between red & magenta). This is odd to me because *people can clearly understand the area between red and yellow as orange,* but mislabel rose as pink. Even the one they are calling "the pinkest pink" is past rose into the fuchsia territory. 🤨 In RGB terms 255, 128, 128 (#FF8080 in hex) - 255, 254, 254 (#FFFEFE) is pink. As soon as the blue and green are out of balance you are veering away from pink toward either orange or rose.

[@rosiefay7283]

Pink is what people call pink. If a colour is pale red with a slight touch of blue, and people want to call it pink, why not? That's how "pink" is commonly understood. In fact I'd go so far as to say that the slight touch of blue is a more essential ingredient of pink than paleness. Some fairly un-pale shades can be called pink, e.g. hot pink, and fuchsia is thought of as a shade of pink.

[@RubelliteFae]

@@rosiefay7283 Colour names are some of the longest traceable bits of languages and develop ordinally. First from environment, then from paints made from natural materials. The colours that often get pink slapped on them have long been named after various flowers of the same colour.

[@RubelliteFae]

@@rosiefay7283 I didn't notice your name at first. Are we each other from parallel universes? 😄

[@jmalmsten]

The strange absence of the klaxon as they give their answers makes me slightly uncomfortable.

[@NewMessage]

Hannah clearly stole my answer in her head at the beginning there.

[@iknowright140]

This is the pettiest story every and I’m here for it!! 😈

[@Taylors_Ghost]

Please remember, his proper name is The Bean Guy, not Nish Kapoor.

[@decodolly1535]

Anish Kapoor.

[@rosiefay7283]

It's Anish Kapoor. It's Nish Kumar, for goodness sake.

[@thelittleowl8399]

fun fact. a group of people took pinkest pink and mixed it with lipgloss and kissed a piece Kapoor did in america (Can't remember the name but everyone calls it The Bean and Kapoor HATES it). There was a literal "Kiss the bean" day for no purpose other than in spite of Kapoor.

[@CAP198462]

Is that Semple any relation to the Kiwi Bob Semple?

[@spencerraney4979]

I’m surprised nobody else called out that Pink Elephants is from Dumbo, not Fantasia.

[@circomnia9984]

"During a railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as locomotive fuel." --- Discover Magazine, 2006

[@angusmctwangstick4079]

That was quite interesting... But. Can you actually quantify how pink the pinkest pink is? What is a unit on the pink scale called and how is it measured?

[@EterPuralis]

You've never drawn anything on a computer, have you? All paint has codes based on where they are on the RBG wheel. That's just for monitors, mind, but it is perfectly possible to measure color.

[@angusmctwangstick4079]

@@EterPuralis yes. But what is it measured in? What is one unit of colour called?

[@MattTheSpratt]

To be fair, Joe Lycett's Soul is probably somehow pinker than Stu Semple and Co.'s pinkest pink.

[@danielriley7380]

The pink elephants on brigade was Dumbo, not Fantasia.

[@Leornianæfre]

Well done Stewart Semple.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

“Run out of mummies?”, asked by Mummy herself

[@Woad25]

Who knew that Agent 47 was actually a British comedian..

[@RickRubinesque]

Bill Burr is so right.

[@ZipplyZane]

Unfortunately, it seems like his licensing didn't include in the licensing that you will not give it as a gift to Kapoor, and will take reasonable precautions to prevent him from otherwise acquiring it from you.

[@FutureDeep]

To purchase a pot of pinkest pink you must print your name upon a piece of paper.

[@robertjackson3552]

i saw nothing but thats aphantasia

[@karlwittenburg5868]

Stuart Semple has now legally changed his name to Anish Kapoor as another jab at him

[@francaperotti8343]

Blancmange came to mind

[@SteamboatW]

"Pink Elephants on Parade" is from Dumbo - not Fantasia.

[@ferretyluv]

It wasn’t designed for the military. It was designed for telescopes.

[@dandy-lions5788]

It's also being used by the military as an anti-radar coating

[@_robustus_]

Well that didn’t go where I thought it would.

[@Cdodders27]

Imagine dying and being mummified, only to be turned into paint

[@arushagrawal3018]

Better than the ones tht got....eaten. Yup. That was a thing!

[@earlfrancart5687]

umm elephant on parade was in dumbo not fantasia

[@wifipigeon01]

Is that one guy the berries and creme guy?

[@themarlboromandalorian]

Wasn't pink elephants on parade from Dumbo?

[@ThestuffthatSaralikes]

I yearn for some of the “blackest black” I have had this vision for a big piece I wanna do with it ever since I first of it. But it IS expensive- especially in the large amounts I would need… sigh.

[@randb4865]

No, the pinkest pink is Pepto Bismol.

[@EterPuralis]

Aw, you missed the fact that Stuart Semple started by making the blackest black. Anish Kapoor's black is just vanta black.

[@jackloke7606]

Pls. ask "Pink Panther"

[@verribarry]

Looks like Pepto Bismol to me

[@intheshell35ify]

I'm too old to say out loud what is the pinkest of all pinks.

[@Kundalini12]

So the thing you sign when buying the pinkest pink doesn’t state that you can’t sell it to Kapoor.

[@cyndywaskelisthecrowscall]

I used to work at Toys 'R' Us. The pinkest pink I can think of is the d**n Barbie aisle...

[@Phylaetra]

What is the pinkest thing you can think of? A blue whale...

[@seedy80]

I can't tell the difference between pink and purple.

[@ImprobableGarage]

The ceo of the company that invented Vanta Black (Surrey Nanosystems) stated that multiple artists requested to use it, and the company only wanted to deal with a single artist, so they chose Anish Kapoor. Anish applied but the company made the choice. All vlaims that Anish bought the rights or refuses to allow other people to use it are false. He can't "share" Vanta Black (which requires an industrial process to apply and is *not* paint) because he agreed to an exclusive contract with the company that chose him as the artist allowed to use their process. All the anti-Anish tales were startedby Semple (who was already a millionaire before all this started) to promote his black pigment, which had conviniently just come out when Semple started attacking Anish. I have no opinion on Anish as a person, but this whole "controversy" was simply manufactured by Semple to sell pigments. Notice how often Semple manages to tie whatever new pigment he makes back to Anish so he gets in the news and gets another round of free advertising.

[@EarthwormShandy]

Where is my comment?

[@stonkr]

I know the person with the pinkest bike...

[@notthemessiah9243]

Someone made a blacker one because of it

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

none more pink

[@darinfoat8410]

It’s like, how much more black can it be? And the answer is none. None more black.

[@blondie1169]

Joe should know all about pink.

[@lohphat]

Alan should have said "vagina and anus" after mentioning that he couldn't mention the first two -- just to keep us wondering...

[@SevCaswell]

He might have been able to say anus, but I think vagina is one of those words that's not exactly banned but is just not said, unless you're taking about the topic specifically. Also you're probably thinking of the Vulva not the Vagina, as the vulva is external the genitalia of a female and the vagina is the internal passage that links the cervix to the outside.

[@lohphat]

@@SevCaswell Thanks, Sheldon, I had no idea. 🙄

[@krzysztofkruszynski334]

Fun fact, pink as a colour doesn't exist... I mean physically. None of the colours really exist but pink most of them. Colour is just a representation of a certain wavelength created by our brains to make it easy to cope with light of different frequencies. And.... If youstart from ultra VIOLET(high frequency), that makes the edge of visible light, u can see blue, green... All the way to red (lowest frequency of visible light) you've seen it all. Infrared is comming next, and nowhere on the way was there a frequency represented as pink! There is none. Pink is our brains reaction to lack of green, and with pink it kinda closes the gap between blue and red, if you can imagine bending a spectrum of visible light into a circle... Kinda. Idk. There's no pink!

[@superfluidity]

Isn't pink just light red?

[@krzysztofkruszynski334]

@@superfluidity Great question! It seems so. But it really isn't. I can't comment with a link for some reason, so if you could google for HSL, or colour wheel with hue and saturation, you'll see what i mean

[@katiekitchen895]

There is pink, as we can see pinks from baby pink to fuchsia. Most people can describe it, by likening it to something, therefore it exists.

[@matthewsmith6057]

@@katiekitchen895 I guess the point is that, while people can recognize pink when they see it and name common objects that are pink, it can't actually be quantified in scientific terms in the same way that most other familiar colors can.

[@krzysztofkruszynski334]

@@katiekitchen895 to put it simple, there is no pink light. There is a mix of colours that human eye percieves as pink tho. Similarly, your phone screen (or any lcd screen) does not emit yellow light as it has only rgb diodes (same like our eyes, only rgb receptors), but a certain mix of green and red light triggers receptors in your eyes in the same way yellow light would. The difference is yellow light physically exists. There is a specific range of frequencies of a light wave that make yellow light, and there is none for pink.

[@lastnihilist9]

fantasia????!?!?! its dumbo , sandy.

[@laurencesmith2199]

Kosher hotdogs . Not even Germoline comes close .

[@BenjaminGoose]

Why's Joe dressed like an old lady?

[@hjt091]

He's dressed as The Scream, by Munch. The panelists are all dressed as paintings, because the episode was about Pictures (they removed parts of their costumes early in the show for practicality). Hannah is van Gogh's Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Noel is the Mona Lisa, and Alan is Magritte's The Son of Man

[@stephanniecb]

oh Sandi. liking pink isn't bad if you're a girl.

[@Art1_Sec8]

it's nice that QI is so inclusive, including unfunny people like Gadsby. it gives the rest of us hope

[@TK_Brainslug]

she hasn't been back since that episode

[@eggsngritstn]

Wow, I'm glad someone else has that opinion. I wondered why she was even there.

[@hjt091]

Humour is just one way of getting onto QI. The other is to be clever which, alas, rules you out.

[@theadamabrams]

I honestly can't tell if that comment is sarcastic. Personally, I find Hannah Gadsby hilarious. I could see why some people wouldn't think she's funny, but that's true for any comedian, really.

[@michaelbarry1651]

I was at Gadsby's show the day she announced her alleged* permanent retirement from comedy. To that point my partner and I loved Gadsby's TV comedy. She was performing what later might be called an earlier version of her alleged* later Netflix hit "Nanette". Never again will we bother. She allegedly* was nasty and unfunny in an allegedly* self centred and vicious way. When one audience member gave her a pretty allegedly* mild rebuke (ie 'Where's the comedy?') she allegedly* exploded in the most allegedly* unhinged, unprofessional and disgusting way, allegedly* demanding the alleged* audience throw the alleged* person out as allegedly* misogynistic, homophobic, etc. The audience allegedly* couldn't see why, so allegedly* she ranted until someone from the alleged* theatre came to do it. Allegedly* revolting behaviour. Allegedly. * * Reference to Australian alleged defamation law, which is allegedly a goldmine for alleged wealthy celebrities, millionaires and other alleged criminals who allegedly salivate to profit from their alleged thin-skinned, confected, aggressive-aggressive revenge. Allegedly the politicians who refuse to amend these laws are making the most money from it, especially when their alleged bills are allegedly paid by the alleged Treasury.

[@brianm6337]

That is what I call "Barbie/ Porn" pink. Not trying to be rude- but the shades are almost dead ringers of each other.

[@TheTroystreet]

I wish I was smart enough to create the purest form of a color just to basically say “F&@$ You” to another person.

[@malahammer]

Rubbish! The Pinkest Pink was invented by Pinky McPinkface.

[@FaultAndDakranon]

It is incorrect to say that the mummies were all made into paint. The English ate most of them.

[@TahoeJones]

A group completely deviod of testosterone.

[@emilybarclay8831]

You’d fit in perfectly