QI | Royally Odd Epithets

[@MsGrapeNehi]

“Very powerful-“ “Hallucinogenics.” Holy hell, Bill Bailey kills me every time.

[@lpsp442]

I was absolutely dying, imagining the patient recounting his experience with the "extra-dimensional moray eel" that opened his "fourth eye"

[@moeszyslak6102]

That must be where the stories of anal probing by aliens come from.

[@jwvandegronden]

5:11 and I'm actually laughing out loud! Love his quick quirky wit, often times even taking Stephen Fry by surprise! That has to be the most rewarding achievement on QI.

[@K1lostream]

What-If Machine - I'll just leave this here for you, then: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIHMiGaMbL99obs

[@susie9893]

Woo-ee, I've been taken by a space octopus! 😂

[@robertbilling6266]

Since the Norwegian for "Top speed" is maximalfart and Danish speed cameras are labelled "Fart Kontrol" I can believe the first one.

[@markmayonnaise1163]

@Aslan T Vorlon further* :)

[@markmayonnaise1163]

@Aslan T Vorlon Alright, probably unnecessary but called for.

[@DonxxSollozzo]

Top speed is "toppfart" in Norwegian. "Maximalfart" sounds more Danish, although any Norwegian would understand what that meant.

[@jonesbn92]

@@DonxxSollozzo In danish the same word is used as in norwegian, although spelt a bit differently (topfart)

[@General_Nothing]

Fart Kontrol would be a good band name.

[@JHA854]

I’ve never heard Jeremy and Jimmy be so quiet

[@SeventhEve]

lovely, isn't it?

[@Fcutdlady]

Jimmy I can tolerate but thank god somone shut up Clarkson

[@andrewphillips8341]

aww poor lambs. Daddy issues?

[@minners71]

@@Fcutdlady What's the matter buttercup? Can't you handle the truth?

[@lpsp442]

Irish genetics, they are unflapped by anal humour

[@keithallardice6139]

Bill Bailey on absolute fire here!! .. hallucinogenics, pee-hole surgery, "being taken by a space octopus" ... lmao!! The man is a treasure!!

[@funbergrundberg8494]

Bill and Alan were a great panel, to keep Jimmy and Jeremy silent for so long, you know they were on fire. "Steven... now... I've got a question about farts..." I love Sandi, but I miss Alan and Steven together.

[@jean-claudefrancoisbaroudd730]

Indeed ! Although I think we also have to give props to Jeremy and Jimmy for recognising that Bill and Alan were on a roll and let them surf without interrupting !

[@susie9893]

Yes every time Bill was on the show I knew I was in for a treat cos of the guaranteed banter between him and Alan

[@yamanmustafa7574]

*Stephen.

[@rosemorris7912]

Jimmy just looks horrified at the two of them.

[@StormcloudLive]

Seeing Stephen laughing in the background shot of 5:14 is so nice to see. He is a national treasure.

[@00jeffwc]

Just experienced my biggest laughs in several months watching this, especially right at the end. Ah, the joy of Alan and Bill being on an improvising roll and keeping Clarkson and Carr apparently stunned into silence.

[@JoelAWeiss]

As an American, I'm so glad we haven't tried our own version of QI.

[@jank6085]

You have

[@rainydaylady6596]

If Carlin and Williams were still alive it would have been outrageous. I'm not sure there's anyone in the USA who could be on the level of Stephen Fry though. Sad to say.

[@rainydaylady6596]

@@jank6085 We have? I must have missed it or it didn't last long.

[@AleCharlie]

@@rainydaylady6596 You would be surprised the amount of British television programmes that have tried to be replicated in the U.S that have more than often failed before even a pilot.

[@rainydaylady6596]

@@AleCharlie I think part of the problem is that your TV allows swearing. Other than damn or hell series here have to make up swear words like frak or gorram. Plus, it's the level of intelligence of the UK folks and the UK humour itself. I've never seen the USA version. Can you imagine how angry Trump would have been over some of the jokes about him on our TV? Lol it would have been glorious. 🤭🖖💕

[@TonyHavenMusic]

Bill Bailey jumps into those conversational gaps so quickly, amazing 😂🎉

[@Nilguiri]

Bill was on fire!

[@jacklangsdon]

Nilguiri and so was his shirt.

[@johnreed3608]

I'm going to need the name of Bill's doctor.

[@greatleapforwards]

whenever Bill and Alan sit next to each other its hilarious. they play off each other brilliantly

[@danielvandam]

He’s always on fire it seems to me, amazingly cool guy

[@Doivid_]

Bill is always on fire

[@eltzrothm1]

That hallucinogenics line is honestly top 3 funniest things ever on this show. That killed me.

[@Taricus]

Yeah, I just had surgery and it hurts to laugh, but I couldn't stop laughing when he was saying that LOLOL!

[@arthurteddy91]

"WOOOEEEE, I'M BEING TAKEN BY A SPACE OCTOPUS!"

[@okultra_exe9240]

bit of a coincidence considering octopi can fit through very small gaps like alan's comic book character

[@TheHutchy01]

Isn't that the national motto of Japan?

[@WhiteCamry]

To which Royal was that epithet applied?

[@TheHutchy01]

@@WhiteCamry Hirohito.

[@dliessmgg]

I've seen that anime.

[@onceuponamonkey]

Love these clips, they are a brightener to my day.

[@kuhj278]

The amount of people who can't wrap their heads around how Stephen's glasses work is staggering.

[@b_uppy]

George R. Carmichael A lot of gauss units involved.

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

Just as I read this he pulled them apart... I never would have noticed that lol

[@rainydaylady6596]

I knew someone with a pair like that. I want them.

[@TonyHavenMusic]

Bill is absolutely on fire here haha so quick in those little gaps

[@ilh8312]

BB's deadpan delivery gets me everytime.

[@Xezlec]

"What shall we name our son? I was thinking maybe 'Dan'." "Eh, that's only so-so." "Well, maybe just Half-Dan then?"

[@TheObscureRambler]

Considering that the meaning is literally hálfr "half" and Danr "Dane", you're only one letter off. =D

[@paulm3952]

The actor who plays the Mountain in Game of Thrones is Hafþór (half-Thor).

[@howardsmith9342]

I assume it referred to him being half Danish or something.

[@QuanTumm1357]

Lol Stephen mentioning ivarr ragnarsson the boneless while I’m playing assassins creed Valhalla in a cutscene with him 😂

[@jessicalee333]

It's not actually known why Ivarr the Boneless was called "Boneless". He was carried around on a shield, and the sagas recorded that he had "no bones" (because he was born cursed), but the medical reality is unknown. He may have had something like brittle bone syndrome with weak bones prone to breakage, or a hypermobility disorder (which causes dislocations and gets worse with age), or he may just have been "lame" in the legs or paralyzed from the waist down. Other ideas, that "boneless" was a euphemism for impotence, or that his Latin title "exos" meaning "without bones" was supposed to be "exosus" or "the hated", have been suggested but don't seem to hold water.

[@Tjalve70]

If I remember right, Ivarr the Boneless was a renowned marksman. So it appears that it was only his legs that were damaged, and not the rest of him.

[@lpsp442]

That's interesting Tjalve - since Ivar would have been an archer, is it actually possible to fire a bow well without good grounding from the legs? I would imagine that it's hard to fire a bow while sat, for instances.

[@clarenceclutterbuckiii7568]

@@lpsp442 The Ainu people of Japan do archery whilst riding horses, so it can't be that hard whilst sat.

[@lpsp442]

You raise a good point Clarence, and the Ainu are hardly the only people to practice horseback archery either. I was imagining Ivarr sat on a chair with a back, and I think a back on a chair might interfere with the ability to move the upper body and draw a bow properly. Since Ivarr had some skeletal-muscular weakness, could he have sat down ably in a backless chair AND fired a bow? Plausibly, but I'd like to see it investigated.

[@Eisenwulf666]

Don't we know where he was buried? We could analyze his remains. Although probably he had a traditional viking burial on a pyre or something..

[@brothyr]

It's odd that Stephen Fry didn't correct 'poisonous snakes' to 'venomous snakes'.

[@S3v3n13tt3r5]

Maybe the king extracted the venom and drank it as poison?

[@Aeghamedic]

Venom isn't poisonous if ingested. It needs to enter the blood stream.

[@jasonzabbidou1389]

No, but it is highly acidic and you could die just the same.

[@Aeghamedic]

Unless you have open wounds in your digestive system, like an ulcer, drinking snake venom won't kill you. Of course, it's not easy to know if you've got any open wounds, so it would be unwise to drink venom anyway.

[@eidolor]

However, may well be worth looking into venom-based lube if you're ever out to murder your "better half."

[@OrionFyre]

Missed a golden opportunity for a quip "the fastest way to a man's heart is through his..."

[@robertwareham8466]

Janus?

[@pamelah6431]

I was waiting for it, too.

[@lunsj]

I love Stephen Fry but Bill Bailey is the goddamn national treasure.

[@waynemarvin5661]

There can be only one?

[@lunsj]

@@waynemarvin5661 You make a good point. I propose the National Treasure Triumvirate: Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey and James Acaster. I welcome suggestions for additions.

[@ericacroft13]

@@lunsj Bob mortimer and Sean lock as well

[@sobersportsman]

This one has put tears in my eyes at 7am. Hilarious!

[@ScandGeek]

In Sweden there's a saying: "Det är inte farten som dödar, det är smällen" meaning "It's not the speed that kills, it's the crash". But of course, the bad translation is "It's not the fart that kills, it's the smell" (note that "smäll" and "smell" are pronounced the same

[@stackels97]

How was he killed? ‘By his own trousers’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣 god I love Bill!!!

[@matrixphijr]

0:30 - Why we love Alan.

[@Mithereaal]

Best clip ever

[@briananderson2452]

Nobody gets into the toilet humor faster and BETTER than this program. Well done lads!

[@bookwoman53]

We should start giving our modern leaders descriptive titles again.

[@owensims7491]

King Donald the Orange? Boris the Shaggy? Jacenda Grandteeth...?

[@greenredblue]

Bloviator the Puffed would be a good one for... Hm, maybe I should come up with something more specific.

[@michaeldukes4108]

@@owensims7491 Oh my God, with the unoriginal “orange”...

[@CorvusCorone68]

i wonder how many of these titles mentioned were posthumous

[@ZondaFRoadster]

Not practical, I'm afraid. We'd run out of swear words on the first day.

[@Bobbyfeta]

"How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered."

[@saila-5828]

new season starting at the end of this month - hype

[@GRAFFDEMON]

The quote is attributed to how Ragnar (the old boar) was killed by King Aelle. His sons (the little piglets) banded together and formed 'the great heathen army' which invaded England, to avenger their father.

[@Vistresian1941]

Kind of a shame the whole saga was summed up so quickly by Fry.

[@bobdob6293]

@@Vistresian1941 he barely mentioned tho and had a few incorrect facts e.g. aeller wasn't king of England only Northumbria

[@tergre54]

England has a few great royal names. "Sexburga (died 699) was one of four daughters of the English king Anna."

[@AngletarnPikes]

a relevant burger van in Huaraz, Peru: farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2812641441_146b969a28_b.jpg

[@demondwilson706]

"pee hole surgery" Audience starts clapping

[@chairwood]

Lmao

[@Procrastinater]

The blood eagle was done by hacking through the ribs from the shoulder area, the lungs where then pulled out and layed out like a set of wings, hence the name. Naturally the victim would be alive during the procedure.

[@KishoreShenoy1994]

I think you hacking through the ribs from the back rather than backside. Hacking from the backside would require Janus

[@MhmdRdam]

What does backside mean? (Not a native english spreaker)

[@Procrastinater]

Backside just means opposite of what is in view. Since the grammar nazis were in full force, or atleast was, i corrected it.

[@KishoreShenoy1994]

Backside can also mean the arse or butt

[@Procrastinater]

I will take the fact that this didn't even occur to me, as a win.

[@LPKelly380]

Just when I thought I’d seen Bill at his funniest, the last 30 seconds of this happened. 😂😂😂😂

[@seanmcdonald5859]

I looked up Janus Stark because it ran a vague memory bell and the very first article mentioned that the author of the article was reminded of the character Janus because Alan Davies mentioned him . . . . . . and now you'll do the same because of this comment.

[@jacksawild]

Bill Bailey is the master of interruptions

[@JoeMcKnz]

Alan Davies and Bill Bailey are national treasures.

[@xLegendblaster7]

I love seeing them both have a laugh with each other during the show 👍

[@Armuotas]

One of those times when the question went off the rails and yeat it was great :)

[@PlanetYTP]

Bill and Alan are fucking hilarious.

[@MyLateralThawts]

First came across the "blood eagle" myth in University when studying medieval history. Seems to be an example of Viking propaganda as, to date, there hasn't been any physical evidence that this actually ever happened. I absolutely love history, gives one so much to talk about when queueing for benefits!

[@DMNDR]

I read and saw a couple documentaries regarding this, and it was described as having the ribs opened from behind (i.e. cut open on the back) and the lungs spread either side of the spine to resemble wings, hence the name. So not sure why Fry said from the chest.

[@EnoVarma]

Douglas, I thought so, too. A lot of these stories were compiled by a 13th century Norwegian historian, Snorre Sturlason, who, I'm sure, did his best, but isn't completely reliable. I found his book in my parents' bookshelf - and read about the blood eagle - when I was ten. Which, in hindsight, might have been a tad young age.

[@styx85]

Snorri was Icelandic.

[@fisherking7798]

Didn't Thomas Harris mention it in in Hannibal???

[@weslaraye5305]

fisher king yep

[@madeleine6866]

Was Janus's first name Hugh?

[@Tasoq]

Madeleine PH I was hoping someone on the show would ask that lmao

[@mattsmith5267]

The class Bart Simpson prank phone call to Moe's. LOL.

[@lpsp442]

Exactly 69 likes... I want to like, but don't want to ruin the precious number.

[@MythicSuns]

Hugh was the middle name, and Iva was the first name. Apparently Iva was best friends with a Mr Jarrs, first name Hugh

[@SaintPhoenixx]

If his power is getting into small spaces, probably not, no.

[@edwinteo8216]

jimmy carr alam davies bill bailey jeremy clarkson AND stephen fry ALL on the same show at the SAME time is simply legendary

[@finding_aether]

4 of the best guests. Ahaha. My stomach hurts from this episode.

[@MarquessaBuffy]

I think far more patients would prefer colonoscopies if only the answer were “extremely powerful hallucenagenics”

[@Vulcanwoman]

A fancy way of saying " I had to take hard drugs".

[@lezzman]

But suppose you had to take them in suppository form? That would defeat the whole purpose, wouldn't it?

[@LynxSouth]

@@dyingsun23 True, but the best would be a relaxant just before that had as a core a nice dose of a hallucinogen that would kick in just at the end so you'd forget the physical experience. Kind of like how children used to get a lollipop.

[@tygrkhat4087]

@@LynxSouth I was semi-conscious during my colonoscopy. At one point I looked up at one of the large TV screens and asked if that was me on the inside. I was told it was and my thought was "Cool." I never felt a thing. But Alan asking about farts leads me to the post colonoscopy experience in the recovery room. You clean yourself out with the powerful stuff Stephen was about to mention, so they can get a good look at you. To help this, air is pumped into your colon. Well, eventually that air has to escape. All you hear in the recovery room is the sound of breaking wind. Fortunately, since everyone is clean on the inside, there's no smell.

[@greenredblue]

But I'm pretty sure all the proctologists would go on strike. Far too many patients running naked down the hallways with expensive camera cables dangling behind them yelling "I'm a hippogriff, Harry!"

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

This reminded me of history classes at school ........... Ahhhh, those were the days

[@hf3923]

I've never seen glasses like those Stephen is wearing they're QI in their own right

[@nat1XP]

i couldnt focus after Stephen took his glasses off in that magical way

[@bridersurris904]

Laughed so hard my ribs hurt.

[@ParviPaparazzi]

"So he farted once." 😄 Yes, and that was a momentous occasion!

[@oscargill423]

That pause at 2:07 when Alan realises the can of worms he's about to open

[@AnaisIsAce]

I chose the wrong clip to watch whilst eating my lunch 😂😂😂

[@louiscookson7811]

'"pee-hole surgery" Bill Bailey is the GOAT.

[@thedoc2102]

I was over 70 and I had both open heart and surgery through the groin.

[@JacobSiggery-qu1yi]

0:40 steven breaks his glasses in two to take them off :o

[@Mochrie99]

I'm assuming they're magnetic. They look cool.

[@torbgen]

Jacob Siggery they're called Clic glasses and, trust me, Stephen is the only one who can make them cool

[@dawnqwerty]

torbgen can concur

[@shellsbignumber2]

I rewound the clip when I saw that first, Amazed. I want a pair.

[@laurathornton1456]

torbgen My dentist has those and your right. Only Stephen makes it look cool.

[@michaelfarrell4824]

Guy in the audience watches Vikings

[@cruz1ale]

QI Series K was filmed in 2013, but the Vikings episode with the blood eagle scene was in series 2 and aired in April 2014. So while it's likely the guy in the audience does watch Vikings, it's not why he knew what Stephen was talking about.

[@ozymandias949]

@@cruz1ale they had another blood Eagle scene in a previous season. The one ragnar did to that traitor I think.

[@wich1]

Quite possibly the audience member read the utterly despised by Steven Fry book The DaVinci Code, there’s a blood eagle in there

[@F4R207]

The Blood Eagle, eller "blodörn", is a well known, mythologized, viking practice which most history and fantasy fantasts and your average Nordic school child probably knows about (I sure did well befor any tv-shows).

[@RichTMedia1]

So interesting seeing this and playing AC Valhalla speaking to the sons of Ragnar

[@ashrashand6039]

Actually for a Viking blood eagle, the ribs were broken from the back and the lungs taken out and spread out behind the victim, so they looked like bloody wings.

[@Chebab-Chebab]

Having recently watched this bit in Vikings, I can now proclaim to be an expert. BTW: Lagertha is BAE.

[@duke_hugo]

Clarkson, Jimmy and Bill is not an easy lineup for Stephen to control

[@savo6070]

Why is absolutely nobody talking about how Stephen takes off his glasses at 0:41??

[@lorddanielson2453]

5 champions in one episode

[@freebirdh604]

Yup that was a cracking YT clip 👍😉☮️

[@AbsolutelyAverage]

Pee-Hole Surgery - had me in stitches

[@TykusBalrog]

It fascinates me that they had never heard of Regnar Lodbrog when they have previously impressed me with knowledge about english kings. But then i realized that they must obviously have grown up with those stories in the same way that we in scandinavia grow up with the norse myths. I never realized that was the reason ^^

[@MoistPmql]

I've just had the entire series of Viking's on Amazon Prime ruined for me

[@F4R207]

Uhm, it's history, one expect that people should know this already (at least if you live in any proximity to Northern Europe/Scandinavia).

[@stevezakuani5289]

Uhm, most of the world does not in fact live near Northern Europe/ Scandinavia, so there is that

[@sawahtb]

The Blood Eagle (Wing) execution was done from the back. The lung were spread out hence "wings".

[@markorollo.]

Laughed my Aus off at this, brought back memories of when the family went to Germany to visit my uncle who was based there with the Army, I just remember one day we were driving about and my Grandad just came out with "what are all the signs that say arse fart for?" I'll never forget that.....

[@brienneoffriggintarth5510]

Ausfahrt :-)

[@brettjohnson536]

Okay, having watches viking this is nerding me out! 😂

[@theinternetshavecome1640]

Stephen said 'King Ragnar' and my brain autopiloted '...the Bloodedge'. I think I've been playing too many fighting games.

[@richardcooper9167]

3:21 Stephen's glasses??!!

[@krovek]

Stephen Fry should absolutely know that snakes are venomous, not poisonous...

[@jamiemctainsh3267]

You're not hallucinating Bill, that's just your shirt you're seeing.

[@Scotts2Sense]

oh, "Blood Eagle", that sounds amaaaazing. show me, show me, show me!

[@joealtmaier9271]

I believe the "Blood Eagle" was through the back. The lungs, like wings. Thus, "Eagle"

[@kalakritistudios]

3:43 Stephen sawing.😃

[@hughmoore3251]

I want Bill's shirt.

[@anotheraccount7637]

I like the thumbnail

[@limerence8365]

Not only is blood eagle a very painful way to die (I imagine) it looks absolutely horrific. A very frightening scene if you want to give a warning or a threat.

[@adrianflo6481]

from what i know there are only blood eagles in literature. there is no yet documented ceremony of that kind.

[@itsamindgame9198]

He described the blood eagle wrongly. It was done through the back of the rib cage, as the lungs were then laid on the back/shoulders like eagle wings.

[@ClebDoesStuff]

3:21 did Stephen just take apart his glasses in the middle when he removed them or am I seeing things? Are glasses like that normal? Surely they would be so inconvenient and keep fall off your nose

[@cmarq817]

I have seen this type of glasses before... don’t know the name though ...I think they use magnets 🧲 I found some online called CLIC readers ...

[@howardsmith9342]

Yes, they are held together in the middle by a small magnet. There's a cord around the back to hold them on, and you take them off by using the magnet in the front to open them.

[@gibwegian6361]

Hate to be pedantic but at the same time I’m not sure as Stephen might have been correct. But the word for bone and leg in Norwegian are the same, so the “ice legs” might be a mistranslation and supposed to be “ice bones” which would make sense as the blades of the first ice skates were made out of animal bones, but ice legs also fits well!

[@georgedickson6550]

0:40 we just gonna ignore what Stephen just did with his glasses?...

[@MonsieurBiga]

Clarkson's face at 4:46 is priceless "wtf am I doing here"

[@xNascentx]

5:03 And this is why you never pause mid-sentence near a comedian.

[@MariankGonzalez]

Stephen's glasses!!! 3:21

[@MySerpentine]

Æthelred the Unready always amuses me.

[@samugindert3042]

Thanks for the Vikings spoilers QI... :D

[@Stuck313]

Damn, now I got the next season spoiled for me, I haven't made it that far in yet 😭

[@khush7890]

3:22 didnt know such glasses existed!

[@macsnafu]

Well that went off the rails pretty fast!

[@lets_rock_and_ride5943]

How many adder bites would it take to be fatal?

[@gwishart]

If you're a shrew or field-mouse - one.

[@magnificentfailure2390]

You get the awesome hallucinagenics the *day of the procedure* ,Bill Bailey.

[@thedragonsnortchannel2609]

How in the fucking hell did that conversation go from royal epithets to superhero powers to heart surgeries to taking a TON of drugs when someone goes in for a colonoscopy? That is possibly the funniest bit of conversation I've watched recently that made no sense at all 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@drinks1019]

Funny thing was, some theories say that Ivar the Boneless was called that because of his inability to have children.

[@WarfightersWorkshop]

King Aella was the king of Northumbria at the time not England, You had the kingdom of Wessex, Mercia, Sussex, Kent, Essex, and East Anglia. All of which were separate kingdoms often fighting, King Aella just happened to be a Northern King that captured Ragnar at the time, if he even existed we don't know if he did most of his stories is based on myth.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

I have traced my family history and I am descended from Ragnar Lodbrok. One of his sons, Sigurd Snake in Eye, married Aelle's daughter Blaya. Since I am their descendant and I am definitely real, therefore they must have existed. I am blind in one eye and so was my Auntie Vera. Could this have come from Sigurd?

[@VestigialHead]

Where can I get these very powerful hallucinogenics?

[@howardsmith9342]

Make an appointment at the proctologist.

[@bushratbeachbum]

"Ah, Mr Bailey, here for your 11am colonoscopy? Just smoke this frog derived 5meodmt and we'll get on with it"

[@hux2000]

Wait, wait, wait. Screw the royal stuff. What's the deal with Stephen's amazing magnetic glasses at 0:40?

[@mikewilliams258]

Ragnar featured in the Kirk Douglas film the Vikings but he was thrown into a pit of ravenous wolves not snakes. Kirk Douglas played his son who, according to Qi, should have been called Ivar the Boneless.