QI | Where Did Stephen Leave His Passport?

[@schplengie1]

I love when anecdotes fall flat at the end like that. It's so human to get riled up about a story, retell it, and then realize it was really just a mundane occurrence.

[@jwvandegronden]

1:05 "Perigrine?! PERIGRINE?! Bahhh... Perigrine?!" Phill Jupitus always touches the exactly right chord with Stephen, which no other comedian does, not sure what that is, but the mirror he holds up to Stephen clearly is always bang on! What a guy. One of the funniest members of this enterprise!

[@marycanary86]

stephen is WEAK for phils "baahhhhhhs"

[@KaritKtana]

💯 Can't get enough of Phil! He's always hilarious

[@stevevasta]

🤣🤣🤣

[@howardsend6589]

Latent.

[@jwvandegronden]

@@howardsend6589 he plays with it to get to Stephen. Phil is very funny and on point

[@spiralpython1989]

I just love when Stephen loses it at one of Phil’s impersonations of Stephen. And Rob’s educational advice is almost as amusing.

[@matthewposton3243]

I love when Rob pretends that no one knows anything

[@manusk40]

It's a great character. I'm sure he based Bryn off it

[@Monkey80llx]

I love it when he thinks he’s funnier than he is, waits for applause....and then the audience realises they need to pretend he’s been funny and eventually applauds, just to make him feel better 😁

[@davidmaxwaterman]

...especially when he gets the meaning of the thing he is explaining completely wrong :)

[@heatherm7933]

HIs comedy is based on the mansplaining trope. It's very accurate.

[@philwilson4167]

@@davidmaxwaterman glad I'm not the only one who thought that

[@DeathlyTired]

The will to live, the will to live, the will to live, the will to live, the will to live, the will to live, the will to live...

[@youngdolo8]

Last 12 months has killed you mentally as well?

[@guarddog318]

Did it work?

[@IanKid]

They haven't responded is 2 hours. QUICK! someone check on them!

[@peterbanos703]

I can so relate to that nickname ...

[@scubaguy007]

You’ll find that at the bottom of every glass of wine. True story. 😉

[@jedisalsohere]

Rest in peace, Cal Wilson. Genuinely one of my favourite comedians, and I'll really miss her.

[@tariqshort4025]

oh i didn't know ):

[@cormacmacsuibhne2867]

I love it when Phil impersonated Stephen. I love it when he does that.

[@carpii]

it's like his only joke

[@Hellwyck]

@@carpii Never watched Phil live, have you?

[@zapkvr]

@@Hellwyck funny as cancer

[@Leo-sd3jt]

@@zapkvr cause his humor grows on you?

[@zapkvr]

@@Leo-sd3jt well not at my age. I'm only sixty. Maybe its only eighty year olds who find him funny. My prostate is a tad oversized. I'd rather have it removed than sit through any more Jupitus drivel

[@EebstertheGreat]

I think "see the wood for the trees" is referring to the woods the trees make up, not the wood that makes up the trees. That's why another version is "see the forest for the trees." The point is sort of the opposite of what he's saying. A person who focuses on minutiae while missing the big picture cannot see the forest for the trees.

[@gz3zbz]

That's how I always understood it.

[@davidmaxwaterman]

Agreed...perhaps it doesn't translate into Welsh.

[@ratholin]

I once gave a guy the heimlich maneuver at a restaurant because I thought he was choking it turned out he was giving a toast in Welsh.

[@stephenlitten1789]

He's Welsh...

[@ccrooper88]

The phrase actually comes from the surname of the architect Wood, who had a row of trees put up in front of one of the crescents he designed in Bath which prevented people from seeing his designs, hence "you can't see the Wood for the trees".

[@luuketaylor]

Julian the Cheese Grater. If only Bob Mortimer was on this one to lend his immaculate naming schemes to the panel!

[@yellowbelly7863]

@@aphid8494 his Gary Cheeseman story might just be one of his greatest

[@Chebab-Chebab]

Surely, Julienne.

[@him050]

Reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb sketch. The patented thigh pat when looking for something.

[@mastershifu9252]

That was the end of the story!😂😂

[@steliocontos1331]

The passport story is one among many others missing from the ‘Alan’s Anecdotes’ video.

[@zapkvr]

Its always in the last place you look. After you find it you stop looking

[@Twinrehz]

I think that expression confuses people, and it makes them use it the wrong way: It's my hypothesis that if something is in a drawer, and you systematically go through each drawer, it will "always" be in the last drawer; not the last drawer you opened, but the last drawer you have. Or it was in the first and you just missed it. Anyway, I believe it's meant as an expression for "being the last in the pile" or something like that.

[@him050]

I think the expressions means like the last place you think to look. So it’s always where you least expected it to be, not just simply the last place you looked.

[@him050]

Joseph Norm I think it’s just a saying that people say wrong, then people say it doesn’t make sense. Like people who I say “I could care less” 🤣

[@b_uppy]

I've made the same point. It is a poorly thought out bit of idiomatic speech...

[@Twinrehz]

@Joseph Norm Overthinking is my game

[@agesilaustr]

I believe Rob was joking when he mangled up the meaning of the "see the wood for the trees" thing. But looking at the comments I accept this is a matter of faith and have no arguments to back my view.

[@MrDJAK777]

I mean the tonal inflection and history of doing the same is something but I'm with you.

[@drwatsonca6945]

It is you can't see the forest for the trees.

[@NekogamiKun127]

*Stephen:* *Phil:* _Baah_

[@tyfaknee]

RIP Cal Wilson 😢 Oct. 5, 1970- Oct 11, 2023

[@angemaidment5640]

“That’s the end of the story”. Alan’s been watching too much “Play School”.

[@NewMessage]

Absolutely true story. Mine was eaten by a reindeer named Narvik.

[@glengraham7080]

Now *that* would make a good anecdote. :-)

[@Roronoa2zoro]

Where were you that they name their raindeer after Norwegian port towns?

[@odinvik7821]

@@Roronoa2zoro Probably Norway

[@rev.rachel]

“Almost exactly not” 😂😂

[@blackbird5634]

Alan Moore would agree that the act of speaking an 'incantation' of the thing you are seeking helps it to appear. Now the 'post hoc ergo proptor hoc' argument remains but I believe that saying the name of it will help you focus on it's location. I can say that as an older man movement is critical when looking for a thing so that if I'm sitting still it's harder to spot it, but if I move around, get my mind in a hunting mode it's easier to see something.

[@JustOneQuestion]

I always thought that in the saying 'can't see the wood for the trees' wood was referring to an area of trees rather than wood is what trees are made of. Did both Alan and Rob get this wrong or am I wrong? lol

[@WhirligigStudios]

I'm American, and we always say "can't see the *forest* for the trees," so that would lend credence to your version.

[@JustOneQuestion]

Ahh haha cheers guys, yea that's a pretty weird mistake to make then, I'm surprised nobody stepped in to correct them.

[@defeqel6537]

@@WhirligigStudios Honestly, I think it works both ways, essentially, the scale of your focus is wrong.

[@rutgerb]

@@WhirligigStudios in Dutch aswell

[@RubelliteFae]

@@defeqel6537 One is chiding myopia, the other chiding hyperopia. Since most people aren't great at seeing the big picture, it would make more sense to make a saying about that.

[@robmartin5414]

What would have been hilarious is when Phil was calling peregrine and held his arm out Rob had taken his billfold out and pretended it was a falcon in for a landing

[@1996mrconanedogawa]

But then Stephen, my mom will said look with your eyes not with your mouth....

[@ProbablyH1]

ive been using this method for years entirely becuase of this episode

[@petergaskin1811]

I left a laptop on a plane once. I managed to get back to the plane to retrieve it, but then spent half an hour explaining to a security patrol how I managed to get through two sets of supposedly locked security doors without a key. They wouldn't believe that I just pulled/tweaked a door handle to get one open until I showed them how it was done. Mind you, I'd done 40-odd years in the building Industry so knew a few tricks with locked doors.

[@wordreet]

I had to have a new photo taken for my driving license last year, and the person at the post Office insisted that I removed my glasses! Ridiculous! I've worn glasses since before I was born!!!!!! So, the only time I don't wear them is if I'm in water, sleeping in bed, or at the Post Office to get a new photo tooken.

[@wopfrog007]

“Actually, that face is ‘Silesian fishmonger.’” 😂😂😂

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

I heard "Hatchet-faced Silesian fishwife" as an alternative descriptor.

[@gothenix]

Which is all the more funny given that Silesia is landlocked

[@HandsomeBWonderful69]

Mine drifted away on the Oronoco once, that's when I learnt they float, thank Jebus

[@nadas9395]

Rob Brydon was so enthusiastically, and sure fired in his story, that I don't even remember what he was on about. But I do know he's right

[@poneill65]

Tip: Don't bother with garlic peelers,... put the clove in any closed container (saucepan+lid, etc) and shake it vigorously for a few seconds. Every single piece of skin will be removed. I pinky swear!

[@chrisgreen8803]

Bojack Horseman did a “Stella! Stella!!” joke and I was disappointed to be old enough to have got it 😂

[@Jesusexplains]

“WILSON ... WILSON ... !

[@kevinw712]

I've long hated the "it's always in the last place you look" saying. OF COURSE it's in the last place you look, why would you continue looking after you've already found it?

[@DanielRBW]

That's not the point of the saying or even the original phrasing. "It's always in the last place you'd think to look", i.e my Dad losing his car keys inside a multipack of Crisps for 3 weeks. You wouldn't think to look in unlikely places but items you lose for a long time have a habit of ending up in those places.

[@ararune3734]

@@DanielRBW That's only because if they're where you'd expect them then they're not really lost, are they?

[@DanielRBW]

@@ararune3734 If you have to search for something then it is lost. I.e it isn't where you thought you had left it. Even if you were to subsequently find it in a place that you might expect to find it still means that it was lost for a short period of time.

[@clown-eating-hippo]

@@DanielRBWAre you sure? If I drop my car keys in my backpack, have I lost them? After all, I'll need to search the container to retrieve them. That strikes me as an unreasonable definition of 'lost.' The search space - which need not be contiguous - must reach a certain size before most people would agree a thing is lost.

[@Bouzsi]

Surely (Shirley?) Julien would be the name for the mandolin...

[@Zeigler_]

Its crazy how much Cal looks like a Russian prison guard

[@romulusnr]

she should have gotten roles for that just for that bit

[@EdgyShooter]

Weird, was Robs explanation of the idiom deliberately wrong? As he took it to mean wood the material where I'm sure the usual expression is "couldn't see the forest for the trees"

[@acmiguens]

Dignity... It's funny because it's true 😂

[@joshme3659]

*skeleton dancing noises*

[@Maerahn]

@@joshme3659 Lol - "Hope next time it's not you - hoohoooo!!"

[@joshme3659]

@@Maerahn a human of culture i see

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks

[@richardpaxford5792]

Peregrin? PEREGRIIIIN!?

[@danieldrhhall]

Sounds a lot like Jan Hankl’s Flank Pat System

[@AuntieWelly]

My phone's name is Daniel. Daniel Dafone.

[@angrytedtalks]

Garlic peeler: André, not Andrew I once left my passport on a plane returning from Antigua. They let me through passport control on the strength of my driving licence. BA found my passport in the pocket next to the vomit bag in front of my seat and posted it back to me within 48 hours (the passport, not the vomit bag or the seat). I never thought to shout "peregrine" at any time.

[@gilwood7530]

I believe this to be true , mainly because if I go looking for something some other object catches my eye, like something I was looking for last week and I forget about todays quest ...repeating it helps me stay in the here and now

[@davidchorley9219]

Obviously Brando lost his bottle ... of lager.... Stella! Stella!

[@chrisgreen8803]

Bojack horseman gag that a lot people missed 😂

[@bradleybarnett9545]

I'm surprised none of them knew the term that describes not seeing the garlic peeler: domestic blindness.

[@amyparry5264]

Did anyone else think that was an Uncle Bryn moment? I kept waiting for "and I'll tell you for why..."

[@tarsierontherun]

I feel like Stephen was setting up to do the "dignity" joke himself, but Rob accidentally stole it from him lmao

[@superschmolz]

Why doesn't this work when I can't remember where I set my phone down?

[@echognomecal6742]

Now if I'm caught talking to myself, I have an intelligent explanation for it.

[@elnoruego6854]

A life!, A LIFE! A LIFE!!

[@TallSilentGuy]

I like the way the answer has got fuck all to do with the question.

[@RiverMersey]

Welcome, to QI...😀

[@millomweb]

The one thing that 'annoys' me is looking in the cutlery drawer for - whatever- now normally cutlery is handled by the handle - but attacking the drawer trying to grab the handle of whatever, I find quite difficult get grabbing the business end I find much much easier !

[@whyareyouhittingme]

What.

[@maxington26]

Do garlic peelers exist? Because I need one

[@decodolly1535]

If Stephen has one, 'garlic peeler' may be an employee.

[@maxington26]

@@decodolly1535 hahaa

[@KokkiePiet]

@@decodolly1535 Yeah, he’s 22, blonde and blue eyes

[@Evil_Peter]

Yes, I have one. It's a soft rubber cylinder where you place a garlic clove inside it and then roll it back and forth with your palm on a table. The peel comes right off.

[@maxington26]

@@Evil_Peter Ok thanks for that, I just ordered one!

[@gertvanderstraaten6352]

If you're looking for scissors it helps if you make cutting gestures with your fingers. Well-known fact.

[@thegoodgeneral]

Trying to host with Phill, Rob, and Alan on the panel looks to be chaotic as fuck.

[@jonathanarledge7006]

I love 💕 Rob

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

Oh, you left the old ending on this one!

[@abe_ismain]

Cool story bro

[@dogon8380]

Lord melchett

[@Farweasel]

'Where is the Garlic Peeler? ...... You're missing my point here' The Garlic Peeler knocked off and went home - Peel your own damn Garlic

[@zevfeitelson]

You know Alen's story would have been better if his passport turned out to be in his pocket

[@GoranNewsum]

Did anyone else see the green flash at 1:51?

[@BostonUnitedFM]

Alfred the Grater....

[@AuntieWelly]

Yes!!

[@samfisher6606]

Why isn't this in the make fun of Stephen compilation?

[@Isthatyoudermot]

Dignity 😂😂😂

[@EleanorPeterson]

As a kid I remember being FURIOUS that nobody else thought that the saying 'Can't see the wood for the trees' had a double meaning, and that the word 'wood' actually meant forest, copse, or spinney, and not just a piece of timber. FURIOUS, I was; killed and murdered several teachers fatally to death with a blunt tautology. Couldn't see the rage for the wrath...

[@ghosthost92gaming73]

I call BULL! I have just searched for my charger cable for ages and I was saying it at times and not saying it at others. Neither worked! I found when I checked a drawer I was adamant I had checked before and it wasn’t there. Turns out I’m an idiot!

[@dielaughing73]

It's always in the last place you look

[@ghosthost92gaming73]

@@dielaughing73 looking back it’s the first thing I do...

[@RiverMersey]

@@dielaughing73 yes, and there is a very good reason that it is always located at the last place that you look... For when it is found, you no longer look! 😀

[@AbjsutabelesSpannrrre]

@@RiverMersey I feel this line of logic could be applied to a great many thing in life too

[@TheSSSdriver]

Almost EXACTLY not!

[@BambooAcrobatVerte]

He left it with his handy.

[@Tillyard86]

Self esteem Self esteem Self esteem Self esteem Self esteem Self esteem

[@atomicexistentialism8428]

Rob got to it before I could

[@eddominates]

"Marbles"

[@matthewvirgo4042]

I really like Stephen's tie in this

[@bsjeffrey]

where is my mind?

[@aussieinnz4611]

OMG... 😂 Did mine run off with yours, They at the bar. Have a great day 👍

[@guarddog318]

I dunno about yours, but mine is in the laundry.

[@aussieinnz4611]

@@guarddog318 can you do mine for me while ya there 😂 I'm at the pub in my head, I'll have a shot for ya👍

[@joycastle.]

Way out in the water? Perhaps you can see it swimming...

[@aussieinnz4611]

@@joycastle. the only water is the ice in my Vodka❄️👍

[@jpjordan90]

Baaah. Peregrin!

[@sonicdiablo8968]

RIP Cal Wilson

[@RubelliteFae]

"Couldn't see the wood the trees," also said as, "Couldn't see the forest for the trees," is about not being able to see the big picture because you are too focused on the specifics-i.e., myopia. He thinks the saying is about lumber. 😅

[@peterclarke7240]

No. No he doesn't. "couldn't see the wood for the trees" is an incredibly common phrase, and nobody thinks it means lumber. Rob's entire comedy persona is about deliberately making himself looking foolish while acting as though he's clever. He's deliberately misunderstood the metaphor so that everyone will laugh at him. You can tell he's doing it because he puts on his "mansplaining dad" voice while going into a lengthy, overly complicated explanation of something that requires absolutely no explanation, a bit like I'm doing here. 🤣

[@RubelliteFae]

@@peterclarke7240 You realize that I was already laughing and you're telling me I was laughing for the wrong reason, right? 😄 🤔 Sorry, but I guess I found it funnier when I thought he was genuine.

[@einootspork]

"Eventually I found it................................ that's the end of the story"

[@omaeve]

Originally it wasn’t you can’t find the wood for the trees it was you can’t find the woods For the leaves

[@omaeve]

Who is lost some thing in our kitchen restaurant in the store detective was in the room he pointed to it and laughed and told us it was a good thing we were not the store detective

[@petergreer2741]

Garlic peeler?

[@J4k7193R]

No closing?

[@matambale]

Wait, you don't name your garlic peeler?

[@margaretcarter2296]

For lost objects you must “pin the devil”

[@c0mputer]

PEREGRINE!!!

[@specialized29er86]

I Stephen standing in for Sandi with the clip being posted a few days ago.

[@corberus3119]

no its a clip from an old episode(2012) when Stephen was still the host

[@amyshaw893]

The will to live

[@Lord-Gazimus]

Are Brydon and Fry on good terms now? Brydon said a mean joke once that offended him years ago.

[@matthewleong2726]

you can't smile in pictures anymore because the AI recognises non-smiling faces better.

[@artao5]

Where did I put that jar of dab/wax back on New Year's Eve? .... Nope. Still no luck LOL

[@WillBravoNotEvil]

Did Mr. Fry actually say Silesian Fish Man?

[@DomWeasel]

Fish Wife. Interesting he said Silesia when she said Russian prison guard. Maybe he meant to say Siberian.

[@AbjsutabelesSpannrrre]

@@DomWeasel well i suppose Silesia is a part of Poland and communist, so it applies as its "eastern block". I think the specificity makes it funnier

[@DomWeasel]

@@AbjsutabelesSpannrrre Poland hasn't been Communist since 1989 and has been a member of NATO since 1999... But sure...

[@DomWeasel]

@@AbjsutabelesSpannrrre Comintern was dissolved in 1943...

[@_Daio_]

The wood as in the forest, not wood, literally.🤣🤣🤣Can't see the forest for the trees.

[@immortalsofar5314]

Early teens have that blind spot - it's perfectly natural but annoying. I'd have a look and, if it was there, I used to ask my stepson "If I find it, can I hit you with it?"

[@b_uppy]

The expression is 'can't see the forest for the trees'...

[@weirdunclebob]

The phrase "can not see the wood for the trees" was first found in Sir Thomas More's Confutacion of Tyndals Answere, 1533 (source: phrases.org.uk). 'Forest' was possibly substituted at a later date for clarification and is more likely to be used in North America whereas 'wood' is still mostly used in British Commonwealth countries.

[@arjikera6825]

Love cal wilson

[@skurrvie3928]

Wait did steven say he once had a chair disassembeled cause he couldnt find his passport? What a guest to have onboard lol

[@stevie7666]

They're wood, aren't they?

[@iluvdissheet]

I like Rob. But he always seems to be a "host" and not a "contestant" on shows where he isn't the host. I think he reaches sometimes because it isn't always funny when he does it. I adore him on would I lie to you. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@janettemason7890]

It's always in the last place you look. Of course it is. Cos your not going to look further are you

[@miloallerton]

They don’t let you smile because they’re scanning your face for the database.

[@samuelcole9385]

PEREGRINE!