No Such Thing As The News | Series 1, Episode 1

[@alixmcknight]

It’s 2021 and I’m rewatching the No Such Thing as the News series for comfort and a good laugh. The QI elves never disappoint.

[@Endytivo]

Me too in 2023.

[@ixilion86]

2024! still amazing!

[@WCamden]

this is so strange finally seeing what they look like...

[@zero2hero17]

Haha so true. After listening to all the podcasts you always create a whole other image for each elve.

[@chemistryguy]

Totally. It's difficult trying to resolve the way they're supposed to look like with their inaccurate reality.

[@WCamden]

the funny thing is, in the podcasts since watching this I still imagin them as I originally did regardless of being wrong haha

[@JoyfulJasperJamesCalmClaire]

Will Camden Exactly what I was thinking.

[@purplemacaw4189]

+carol Chan +Will Camden , me to, on the podcast i still see them as totally different to how they really look

[@iarampatta1234]

They all look COMPLETELY different to what I imagined. I have no idea how I feel about this...

[@SeaMonsterCeph]

They actually look pretty similar to what I had envisioned. The biggest difference is really just that in my head, Andy and Dan's hair colours were swapped.

[@mickmickymick6927]

Dan and Andrew look close to what I imagined. I imagined James looking like Andrew but with browner hair and glasses.

[@VeranoggaSystems]

I definitely imagined James bald so pretty thrown off ngl!

[@joss5150]

I've seen a picture of them before, but never seen them speak, in my head I've mixed up all their voices.

[@sevenspiders]

It's so great to see what you guys actually look like! Anna, I always imagined as a bouncy, excited and intelligent young woman, and I was so glad to see she looked like one too! Love the show guys!

[@torque8998]

Oh my god. They're all so CUTE! 😂 Dead funny too 💛

[@endlessmasks]

discovered these were uploaded here thanks to the 20-hour live... comfort watching in 2021 ♡♪

[@PhilBoswell]

OK, whose genius idea was it to sort the playlist in reverse order?

[@chuckm.9744]

I'm glad I'm not the only person wondering the same thing....

[@sianchild]

1) I love Anna's top (where's it from?)2) I really hope it gets a second series3) You guys are my answer to that question "Who would you invite to a dinner party?"

[@mrfuzzer1]

Am i the only one here thanks to "Smart enough to know better" Oh and this is awesome btw! Finding a new podcast is like christmas. So much more entertainment to consume!

[@Wormetti]

What was corrected?

[@happivaras]

Grapevines have been turning water into wine/grapejuice for millions of years 😊

[@kellydalstok8900]

I was reminded of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which a machine produces a liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

[@damodrummer1]

The sound of one hand clapping in an invisible forest ;-)

[@eddyez2]

I think by corrected they mean they added some of the graphics and trivia at the bottom of the screen

[@justjoe7313]

Is the word lignite beeing mentioned at 15:00 as part of wood that is beeing dissolved? The correct word would be lignin.

[@Giganfan2k1]

Please tell me this is still on the air.

[@keeganharrison3769]

I am literally the biggest fan of you guys

[@karmanline2005]

because you bend spacetime?

[@syamilfaisal6662]

I imagined James as Morse from the tv show Endeavour, until now. Their voices are somehow quite similar

[@QuiggleSan]

Gaah, I listen to the podcast at 1.5x, so the theme tune sounds so slow here...

[@Furyjoell]

You can change the speed of the video, too.

[@CurveTheRain]

They look so different than in my head! 😅 i always thought Anna had short hair and that James was an actual child!

[@surfersmiles3880]

so strange love the show

[@falcychead8198]

So... The Black Rod is Leakey?

[@kieronholt5979]

Corrected?

[@charliehoward9278]

i love this too much

[@nickw3943]

A newish study revealed that woman are interrupted more often than men. I am a big fan of the show and they all interrupt each other for great comic effect and to keep the energy up but anecdotal evidence here is that Chazinski and Miller get interrupted more often. Great show!

[@danats3053]

Even if I now got a face to the voices, I still imagine someone else when listening to the pod xD

[@adambullen1048]

If the BBC funded more talent and the shows that come with it like this again, they may become relevant once more.

[@adambullen1048]

Thank you for making it available on mobile too!

[@user-mg3ow6jb6t]

BBC did you dirty. You guys deserved a bigger budget, Thank goodness you got the last laugh

[@janefrancis2321]

Is it just me or is Andrew Hunter Murray seriously yummy. 🤔

[@satern8466]

Andy is such a babe

[@ppleeatpple]

Are they taking friend applications? And am I disqualified if I'm not in Great Britain?

[@captainanopheles4307]

Or 10 000 pints of beer anywhere else in the UK

[@alexanderkinchen-goldsmith263]

This is so much better than the actual qi

[@mickmickymick6927]

They're so much funnier than the guests on QI, I'd love to see these four as guests on it. They had Carriad Lloyd on the podcast one week and she really brought the quality down, in fact most guests do. This group are just naturally funny, the comedians are just trying so desperately hard and only doing ok.

[@MyTeaIsMighty]

I expected Anna to be a lot older for some reason

[@jnelson0615]

I don't know if the pre- and post- cutaways to 'Broadcasting House' are there to lend credibility, but I think they add little value and seem a bit awkward. The middle part of both this and 'Fish' are my favorite of all comedy.. um..things... at the moment.

[@ZwizzeR]

Looks like they removed the clip that was shown in the Ukrainian parlament bit, could that be what was "corrected"?

[@Inucat]

yeah #i was just waiting to see it again but it didn't show up so I think thats what was missing

[@jummeh]

It's so weird listening at 1x speed, they sound so different!

[@craigkirby9202]

That was interesting. By the end of it you all had the right faces, but at the start it was all very wrong :) 120ThingsIn20Years/BullwinkleII/Craig

[@1surfer12]

That was *quite interesting (QI)

[@frankmackenzie8163]

i still have a hopeless crush on anna and a little bit andy this is terrible

[@vandanashinde5989]

Oof relate

[@valerieplushie1031]

17:20 that was published by the anti-doping ministry. Anti!

[@miagifodder5599]

The guy on the right is the biggest spin out. I thought he sounded like ago outsey type fit for blue peter.

[@mickmickymick6927]

This is so weird, it's liiterally just the podcast but filmed. It's edited terribly too, it'd be interesting to see it a bit more glossy with nice graphics and stuff. I dunno how popular it is though, it might be fine like this. I don't mind either way.

[@babblebob]

listening to the podcast I could always tell anna and james voice but it was always hard to tell apart Dans and Andys

[@coolbanana165]

It's true about the husband of a Queen, isn't it though? Isn't the wife of a King a Queen, but the husband of a Queen is a Prince (in the UK). Shouldn't it be equal? Kings and Queens should be considered equal, right?

[@coolbanana165]

***** My understand is the second one you gave. That a King is seen as a higher rank. But why should it be? If the highest female rank is below the highest male rank, isn't that sexist? (I'm from the UK, but I'm not claiming that makes me more right).

[@cutiekate8]

Sometimes a place is run not by a King and Queen, but by one person or the other, who happens to by married. The guy mentioned is married to the Queen, who was born royal and inberitaed the role. He's upset that his title/role is King Consort (A man married to the reigning queen) and not King.

[@653j521]

@Stevie G You are confusing Henrik with Philip. In the UK, the reigning monarch gets to give out titles to family members as she or he sees fit, if Parliament doesn't have a collective stroke over it. (I suspect Camilla will be queen some day if Charles is king, even if it violates the rules for him as the head of the Church of England, which he has said he doesn't want to be. Could be interesting.) Four of Henry VIII's wives were uncrowned but one of those was proclaimed queen, and George IV hated his wife so much he tried to divorce her so she couldn't be crowned with him, which indicates that by then being made queen was what everyone expected of the wife of the king and the only way to avoid it was death or a divorce case. There is a lot of historical guidance with a queen and her husband in the UK but not in Denmark where Henrik is the first. Albert was the only Prince Consort of the lot in the UK. Philip who was raised to the peerage as Duke of Edinburgh, is Prince of the United Kingdom. Queen Anne's husband got a peerage only, Duke of Cumberland. Philip II of Spain and Mary I's titles and claims were so complicated you can read up on it later. William III and Mary II are also complicated. Henrik was a Prince Consort then Prince of Denmark. It is always assumed that the husband will try to seize power from the queen so keeping him in check with a lower status is important to prevent the outsider, usually a foreigner, from succeeding in a coup d'etat. Apparently most of the women have agreed with that and haven't tried to change it. One must remember, though, that if the heir is a man, his queen is usually not his co-ruler and will not take over if he dies, his bloodline will, so she is also in a lower status position. In the UK the heir of either sex is normally above the spouse and not succeeded by the spouse, so in that way it is equal: man or woman, the heir has the power! You can, and many do, get a new spouse but it's harder to get a new heir. :) (In some countries, like Denmark, and some eras the non-heir queen would be called Queen Consort. The queen who is the heir can sometimes be called Queen Regnant. I haven't found any occasions in European history of a King Consort. Parliament wouldn't agree to it for Albert so Victoria settled for Prince Consort.) In 2017 Prince Henrik, who previous to his engagement to be married had no title, was diagnosed with dementia, which might explain his obsessive, immature behavior about his title, and his wife's unruffled composure, as well as her asking their son in 2002 to carry out official duties one day instead of Henrik, causing him to rush off in a huff, to whine to the media about his ill treatment. She knew him best. She had her reasons. I suspect one of them was he couldn't handle delicate situations, let alone being king, and she did the right thing, the loving thing. She did make sure their grandchildren, who didn't have titles, carried his last name, and his son's title as count includes Henrik's family name, which pleased him, like putting Mountbatten into the British line. He evidently didn't stop loving her because of her not making him king: www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2018022246519/prince-henrik-final-surprise-funeral/

[@davidhanley6135]

I had Anna as a brunette holly (female obviously) from Red Dwarf. Who am I kidding. I HAVE.

[@atheistcory4174]

Trudeau and Ukraine both very much in the news right now in March 2022!!

[@mfpendle]

I presume Anna is paired off, but I find her very attractive. But then they're all peaches.

[@ysteintovsland3008]

So funny :-)

[@jonathannoel7144]

I think Anna is the only woman I find to be funny. Love the show hope there are more to come

[@oontgrad]

Broaden your horizons...

[@jonathannoel7144]

oontgrad Haha, believe me I've watched plenty of female comics out there and they are just not funny. Anna is the only comic (if you can really call these guys comics) out there that comes it with witty remarks and is funny without using gender as a comic device. I like Ellen Degeneres, how bout that?

[@kellydalstok8900]

What you probably mean is that your sense of humour is different from women’s. Because I find Aisling Bea, Sarah Millican and Sarah Pascoe, just to name a few, very funny.

[@Jambohay18]

Would it be terribly gauche to say first

[@odorikakeru]

Go ahead, you've earned it!

[@drunkanddisorderlyanddrago2181]

Nope, First

[@captainanopheles4307]

It's only terrible gauche to say terribly gauche.

[@sarapoldaas1799]

Utter madness

[@mdemarco6695]

This so makes me wish that Dan and Anna were married....

[@CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

The comedy industry's version of "The Emperor's New Clothes"

[@thegurch7313]

Public comment

[@jamesgourley5903]

I have just watched the first episode of the new series, and what an irritating experience it was. First, there was the unbelievable smugness of the participants. They laugh inordinately at their own jokes and everybody else's, secure in the knowledge, judging by the audience cutaways, that they are preaching to young, trendy self-proclaimed ironists just like themselves. But even worse, this is the apotheosis of one of the most irritating of modern mannerisms - the insertion of the word "so" where it does not belong and has no meaning. So this was the worst tally of the useless word I have ever struck. So in this 28 minutes, it was used inappropriately no less than 36 times - mainly by Anna Ptaszynski, who was responsible for nearly half. So it is time to stamp this out. So it is time to have lessons in basic simple English for these people, who I assume are all university graduates - their smugness suggests this. So they should look in on their local primary school and ask for instruction. So, goodbye.

[@captainanopheles4307]

Antony Fiori I had a long rebuttal ready, but you saved me from that.

[@n0body550]

Captain Anopheles That guy talks about smugness but he talks as if the world revolves around him 😂 these guys are fairly successful we know what the fuck they mean be he wants things to be perfect the way he believes perfect is. I’d rather listen to smugness than fascism

[@fibonascii7545]

So I think you should like lighten up guy

[@gdj6298]

'Bye then. Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.