QI Series E FUNNIEST Moments! Featuring Stephen Fry!

[@BEVERLYRANDOLPH-lx4qu]

“They say of the Acropolis…” is just like “hardtack” on Tasting History. It does not and will never get old!!! 😂😂😂

[@squee599]

I'm tempted to get "they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is" tattooed on me now. It's up there with Kevin Bridges's horse story on WILTY.

[@BEVERLYRANDOLPH-lx4qu]

@@squee599 OMG, that’s a great one, too: “two Scottish guys trying to speak English.” I fall over every time he says that!!

[@gmaureen]

I've seen this numerous times over the years and it always sets me off...laughing like a hyena...one of their best moments.

[@ronniebillhicks]

This is easily (I'm American, so I didn't watch these live and don't know the whole series) THE BEST segment yet!!!!!,......I belted out laughing, it was so natural and hilarious!!!!!!!

[@ronniebillhicks]

​@squee599 if you're ever in Pennsylvania in America, I will give you that tattoo for FREE, no joke!!!!!!,......

[@MultiMolly21]

I realize that after watching these guys for several years that I love them all.

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

Rob’s exhalation of relief after sounding his buzzer 8:02 Priceless.

[@charliebone126]

QI is the greatest show ever made. Stephen, Bill, Alan, Sean and Rich were the funniest panel 😅

[@Saor_Alba]

I'm retired now, and the job I had necessitated that I travel extensively, mostly in Europe but not exclusively, which I did for over 40 years. I am Scottish and from the Isle of Skye originally, and when I was first hired for the job I was told by my manager to lose my Jock accent when abroad as I would not be taken seriously or be understood with my broad Scottish accent. This was the early 80s you understand when PC was not a thing yet, I thankfully ignored his advice after a short time and found to my pleasant surprise that I was greeted with far more friendliness when I spoke naturally to people in my "Jock accent" than in some unnatural enunciation that resembled Mrs Doubtfire.

[@mcarter9839]

😇🥰😇🇬🇧

[@RobespierreThePoof]

To be fair, there are some English speaking countries where a thick Scottish accent of any variety will be greeted with utter confusion. I'm thinking North America especially. I imagine you did run into plenty of Europeans who struggled to understand you, especially back then when the rates of English skills on the continent were much lower than they are now! But yes, there's nothing wrong whatsoever with that accent. It's charming, in fact. Those old attitudes about accents were always quite specific to the culture(s) of the UK and Ireland.

[@vivienneoneill5400]

I am enjoying all all the great QI shows.❤❤❤

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Good for you.

[@chad3358]

The coupling of: “there’s a train” followed by “PROSTITUTES!” is excellent

[@futrey9353]

eheh, "coupling"...

[@playerofguitars]

42:39 i love how you can hear an audience member shout “NO” when Stephen says the edge of a record spins faster than the centre

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

Not sure why he said no. I used to go on foot drill exercises when I was a St John Ambulance cadet. When ever we turned during marching, we had to keep our paces synchronized, so the rank on the inside of the turn had to reduce their pace distance, while the outer rank had to widen.

[@edwards8383]

​@@berniethekiwidragon4382same reason cars have differentials. So the outside wheel can spin faster than the inside wheel during a turn.

[@johnreynolds5383]

Even though the record spins at a constant speed, the velocity of the stylus is higher at the outer edge (or beginning) of the record than it is toward the center.

[@edwards8383]

@@johnreynolds5383 the stylus has no velocity it is stationery. The record has one constant rotational speed. But different points on the record move at different speeds as they cover greater or lesser distances, wilst tracing they're path.

[@smokeandkippers]

@@edwards8383 *stationary

[@lukemather9653]

Who agrees that the Olympics would be far more interesting if they included an regular person to compete alongside the professionals to compare against. It would be far more fun.

[@trooperdgb9722]

And if some of the old events were brought back? Lol. Power Boat racing? Duelling? (Wax bullets)

[@donkink3114]

They have taken the elitism too far.

[@gabbleratchet1890]

If you’re going to quote Bill Murray, at least have the decency to cite him by name.

[@foxfire1345]

olympics is not about having fun. its showing off the best of the best of their respective sports. you dont watch wrestling in the olympics, you’d watch WWE instead.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

You used to have to be an amateur to compete in the Olympics, but not these days.

[@townview5322]

If you, can, find the footage of Eric the Eel at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The crowd went wild, cheering him on. On a TV interview, one spectator said that he thought he might have to jump in and save him.

[@markloveless1001]

19:49: Oh yeah, hoping that was in this series. "They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is..."

[@Bajeeebus]

What do you mean? What do they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?

[@markloveless1001]

@@Bajeeebus He's gonna say! He's gonna say!

[@Bajeeebus]

@@markloveless1001 What did he say? What did he say??

[@JulieScanlan-s1d]

​@@Bajeeebus They say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is ........ absolutely hilarious and priceless. I love it. ❤❤❤😂😂😂

[@markloveless1001]

"Bloody hell, Stephen, this better be good".

[@thisravenhasflown010]

I have to say the guys look damn dapper during the Queen Victoria/ 34:30 Mr Bean section. Sean was dashing with that helmet. When one side of my family came over having the last name "Johnson" at a time when so many were entering America with the same last name... they were advised to change their last name. So they did. I think it was brilliant

[@michaelevans8868]

L 😅

[@michaelevans8868]

lPl😅

[@thisravenhasflown010]

​@@michaelevans8868not sure what you mean

[@asincerewoman]

I agree about the dapper appearance. I though Alan, in particular, look amazing in the cream colored uniform. Hubba hubba. He is Richard Gere/"Officer and a Gentleman" handsome, which is my highest compliment for male attractiveness!!!!

[@thisravenhasflown010]

@@asincerewoman he certainly did. I definitely agree

[@zzz5173]

Keep these videos coming. Class

[@judycater2832]

I’m so relieved to know that there are no smashed badgers in house dust. Thank you Jeremy.

[@hawkpaul8735]

NIce to see Jimmy Carr when he looked liked Jimmy Carr. This was a great compilation too.

[@asincerewoman]

Carr looks plastic these days. Mystifying to me how cosmetic procedures, which are often an adjustment of a few millimeters, makes so much difference in appearance!!!

[@markloveless1001]

For my friends across the pond, Hiram Ulysses Grant was his given name. The guy signing him into West Point got it wrong, and Grant was too shy to correct him. It is often given as 'Simpson', but that was a retro fit.

[@unkiemiloplays901]

That's so cute

[@gretchenbaker7435]

Thankyou I shall tuck that away to hopefully win a bar tab one day!

[@TheKira699]

People called him Sam, but he became Uncle Sam.

[@joshuarubin3684]

Harry S Truman's middle name also stood for nothing

[@markloveless1001]

@@joshuarubin3684 I have resisted for days, but that's all I can stan and I can't stan no more. The S was in his given name and it was quite deliberate, honoring both his grandfathers, both whose name began with 'S'. Grant's was a flub, Harry's was deliberate. If you are not an American, understandable. If you are, the principal wants to see you in his office right this minute. Sheesh.

[@markloveless1001]

I knew what General Sedgewick said. That was great.

[@myeyesarespiders]

The communicating as explorers and native Americans is pure IQ gold

[@pushthetempo2]

They say of the acropolis where the Parthenon is! What do they say what do they say!

[@TheGameFreak000]

47:56 "That Gary Oldman is a HELL of an actor." 😂 Well played, Jimmy.

[@Kernowexile]

Dalia Farmer. The look on his face. Miss you Sean.

[@rosiebeardshaw658]

I love them all! Nothing better than a good laugh!

[@beckyeinolf3300]

I'm really glad that at least compilations by letter are available. I would absolutely buy the DVDs, but they are either unavailable or are only playable in other regions. I'm keeping my eyes open for when they are availble for sale again, but for now I'm watching what I can online here.

[@Bren688]

My dad was an Irish Navi, he'd spend 10 hours grafting, 10 hours drinking and 4 hours sleeping. He lived on alcohol, cigarettes and lard yet was as strong as an ox and fitter than most men half his age.

[@nickthelick]

Regarding the spies stealing documents used as toilet paper... ... I first heard of that in the Dennis Potter series - "Lipstick On Your Collar"... Where Ewan McGregor's character (and his characters' colleagues) has to translate Russian documents that have come to the MOD precisely in the manner described here.

[@franktuckwell196]

Its funny that Westinghouse was associated with A/C current, yet when i drove trains for BR there was a westinghouse braking system fitted on our epbs (electro pneumatic brake) yet we drove on the third rail D/C system.

[@thinboxdictator6720]

11:17 - 11:23 *current* of 6600 *V* ? I know I saw that episode probably multiple times before and I don't think I've noticed that error before.

[@martinmollerup2265]

Whoops

[@SpeccyMan]

It could've been worse. They could've said amperage. 😉

[@neilacrabtree1617]

I think Greg Davies was adorable back in the day. I love a guy who can make me 😅 laugh.

[@robinsmith5442]

Grant's name in a bio I read was Hiram Ulysses Grant and it was the thing to put your initials on your trunk when going to West Point. He didn't want it to be HUG so he adopted his brother's name of Simpson.

[@franktuckwell196]

When i drove trains for British Rail, they were fitted with "Westinghouse" brakes.

[@SuperPol1981]

But what do they say about the akropolis?

[@AutomaticDuck300]

where the Parthenon iiiiissss

[@annwagner5779]

The weird thing is they don’t say that about the acropolis - they say it about the Parthenon itself. So the whole silly line was totally unnecessary. Thank goodness the Qi writers didn’t know that, because I’ve never laughed so hard in my life.😂

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Ah, SuperPol is indeed a learned person, because the Greeks WOULD have used a kappa.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

​@@annwagner5779isn't the entire thing an acropolis and the building is the Parthenon. There's more than one acropolis.

[@annwagner5779]

@@Pagliacci_Rex that’s right. But it’s the Parthenon specifically that has no straight lines - not the whole acropolis in Athens. I’m an art historian and we learn that fact (or supposition) about no straight lines in our first classes.

[@lloydevans2900]

Those polar explorers technically didn't use only their own power during that trip: If you define an "external power" to be anything beyond what sheer human effort can do, and I doubt that definition would be even remotely controversial. One of the forms of skiing they used was "kite skiing", which is basically what it sounds like: If you have a tailwind, you can fly a kite ahead of you, a bit like the sport of "kite-surfing". Which is basically flying a large "power kite" while standing on a surfboard, which generates enough force to propel the board and rider across the water at respectable speeds. This can even lift the board and rider several metres up into the air if the wind speed is high enough. Anyway, if you can fly a power kite of similar size and design while on skis, the same force generated by the kite can propel at least one skier to similar speeds, or can even propel the whole group if they can tether themselves together, albeit at lower speeds. So if they were using the kite skiing technique (which Rupert Lonsdon explicitly told us that they did), that would have been a supplementary power source. Which could arguably be described as a mechanical power source, since it did provide a propulsive force - it just so happens that the energy source to make it work is one of the best known renewable sources - the wind.

[@kieranbutler4805]

43:40 Sean is the goat ❤

[@AppleMonster93]

48:36 Bill Bailey's Spice Girls reference there, fantastic 😂😂

[@DeniseF]

Samoset , get off my land 😅😅😅

[@jonathangale9476]

I love the story about the handler in the zoo telling Bill to ALWAYS approach from the front. Oh no sorry NEVER ! 51 minutes

[@AndrewAHayes]

The photo of the railway workers is not period correct as the first railways were narrow gauge and that photo is standard wide gauge!

[@juliehamilton5799]

Just watching this , when trying to polish the glass dome… I’ve recently played around with engraving on glass and apparently a rubber or silicone burr will polish back to a clear (er) finish .. love that find though👍

[@happivaras]

10:32~10:38 Topsy was an animal rights activist, a fallen hero😢

[@charlespeterwatson9051]

Why'd you cut out the rabbit bit in the Winterval clip? They showed it in the QI Christmas Compliation.

[@stuplays6632]

12:48 -- 15:14.... there's a better ironic death than any of those... strange it was not included.. or discovered by the research team... The guy that "coined the term" ""Organic ""was on live tv one day doing an interview at age 70- something and life longevity was raised as a topic... and the guy says... something like..... "You know, I never thought I'd live as long as 70?(something)... (his interview age)... but now I am here.... I have never felt better in my life and I have decided I am going to live until I am 100! " they laugh.... interview wraps up.... he walks off set.... has a heart attack and dies 😮 still in the studio lol... CRAZY!!!

[@allanspeed5782]

"A second arse"!!! Epic!!!

[@agalgonzalez]

Eton is near Slough?! One area two worlds.

[@anonitachi6966]

QI is one of my favourite shows of all time and Fry is one of your national treasures, HOWEVER, the British, slaver mindset/culture, when speaking about Navies - "you fed them on beer and meat". 'You fed' them? What, like slaves? If the Brit wasn't cratious enough to supply beer and meat, they'd just starve? They couldn't eat unless the Brit said so?

[@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138]

You have completely misunderstood Stephen.

[@jessovenden]

It’s very wrong of me I know, but living on beer and meat sounds wonderful. I’d probably crave veggies thought. Maybe add potatoes and gravy?

[@markloveless1001]

yeah, you'd think the vitamin deficency would kick in after a while. Not to mention, Irishmen? And no taties?!

[@lpsp442]

One carrot a day would go a long way

[@davidevans3227]

i'm sure one of the crew on 'time team' tried it (archeology student) only for twenty four hours, while also trying to dig and carry dirt in a navvy type way, but got on with it quite well.. 🙂 😉

[@SuzetteGrist]

Actually, 1st people to circumnavigate the world were the huge galleons of the Chinese in 1412. They knew about scurvy and carried potted lime trees. There you go!

[@linmonash1244]

The word 'Funniest' followed by the Topsie The Elephant story is just....

[@danielsch.5324]

The Akropolis-incident couldn't have had a better cast to exploit it

[@apathyisdeath2977]

57:03 Who the devil worked on the aspect ratios here!?

[@beckyeinolf3300]

I friend of mine used to market greeting cards with drawings of elephants on them. The paper itself was made from elephant poo: Apparently there's lots of grasses in the poo, and they are good for making paper!

[@bradleybarnett9545]

@31:28 I was 16 when I visited Mademoiselle Liberté- the day Reagan got shot.

[@hhunstad2011]

Elephants are such magnificent animals. I can't imagine the poor things misery and horrific death.

[@markloveless1001]

4:42: Great Train Robbery FOILED

[@t.c.thompson2359]

I'm glad the American on the panel knew that Squanto spoke English.

[@gabbleratchet1890]

It’s a pretty famous fact about Squanto.

[@adam346]

for anyone that thinks the potential Russian names are weird.. remember we name our kids after emotions and the Japanese call them after stations like Hime or Princess. Yoshi, a boys name means joy. So it's not as weird as one might think.

[@jgage2344]

Strange that no one mentions the subliminal game Stephen plays when introducing the pilgrims and what they said ,,,he makes a grand pause and says HOW did they first communicate? No one fell for it and it gets forgotten…

[@darren.mcauliffe]

You in the effort to shrink the image, but left in the end of video clip. Why?

[@darren.mcauliffe]

Oh and you put in the same clip twice too.

Why is there no grass on the highest mountain? Everest double grazing!

[@photobackflip]

57:05 - someone forgot to right-click fit to comp size.

[@amberswafford9305]

They laugh at hanging an elephant but it happened here in Tennessee.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

What hasn't happened in Tennessee 😅 (a Minnesotan now living in Missouri 😂)

[@amberswafford9305]

@@thisravenhasflown010 I’m sure plenty of things haven’t. But not not hanging an elephant bc we’ve done that.

[@glyph68]

Fellow Tennessean... Did not know that!

[@amberswafford9305]

@@glyph68 it’s horrific but I’m still impressed they sussed out a way to do it.

[@glyph68]

@@amberswafford9305 I can't imagine being on site. Appalling. Why hang an elephant? If it's gone berserk, put it down fast. Hanging? I have a real problem with "humanity."

[@kenglasson2920]

The girl behind the ice guy is effing cute.

[@sekaramochi]

Dude seriously at 1:01:15 seconds, Steven introduced us the moon sex the first time

[@robcarter55]

Slough is in Berkshire not Buckinghamshire !

[@stocktonjoans]

Um, Actually . . . The anthropomorphic bat creatures in Star Wars are called "The Chadra-Fan" and they are a completely different species to Yoda and Grogu

[@Winston-lf7sb]

but do they make disney money?

[@swoodinnit2364]

holy fucking shit why have i seen 4 sets of adverts 12 mins in

[@jessicajayes8326]

9:35 They'll say "Aww Topsy" at my autopsy...

[@CrochetingEngineer]

Wait…are they impressed that it “only took” 5 years to go from London to Birmingham? That’s 120 miles….the transcontinental railway in America is over 1900 miles and they built it in 6 years…..

[@TheLemonCobweb]

14:38 Did I just hear the same laugh in this episode that plagued the most recent episode, Series U episode 7: Ufology?..

[@SuzetteGrist]

Dear Moaning Mins, if you dont like the personalities, dont watch the prog! Simple!! 😂

[@aramiscalcutt]

Stephen confuses Ulysses Simpson Grant (né Hiram Ulysses Grant) with Harry S Truman.

[@aprillorraine]

why doesn’t anyone ever talk about rob’s hair??

[@bethmiller9774]

Nikola Tesla should have been mentioned here.

[@donnarouse9432]

The reason they have seat belts on some flights is so. In case there is an accident, they can identify your body!

[@SpeccyMan]

And full stops generally do not appear mid sentence unless said sentence contains an abbreviation! The reason they have seat belts on some flights is so that they can identify your body.

[@Metallian2112]

Who here's watching without a TV license?

[@olivercox2565]

I’m watching without a TV

[@Metallian2112]

@@olivercox2565 Respect.

[@sfsigmaguy]

TV License?? What’s that?

[@SpeccyMan]

Who here cannot correctly spell TV Licence?

[@Metallian2112]

@@SpeccyMan Me 😢

[@someoldguyplays]

Is that how pub songs are made?

[@ajimonmorton3600]

Love the way you did this podcast n your words. I can see also in other times, you try to be as constructive as you can in your comments. You try to be fair n I appreciate that abt you. Love watching your podcasts! Keep it going, ignore the bad comments. ❤

[@karengray662]

Please, add subtitles!

[@MrShs812]

1:07:54 I have injured myself laughing

[@ChaosPootato]

"Utter arse of the highest order"

[@robynw6307]

53:25 Is David Mitchel predicting the "Miracle on the Hudon" plane crash?

[@Miss.Moth.666]

Space lift: how many moving parts? It works maybe if nothing got broken. But it will. Then just a disaster.

[@andrewbarnett84]

Built by Boeing?

[@StephenMountenayHenhawke]

3:09 Oh the humanity!

[@markloveless1001]

Herbert Morrison thanks you.

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

I'm sure we all thank you.

[@AAK540]

What is at the end of the earth... _Telford Town Centre_ That is the most random thing I've ever heard.. And being from Telford, its even weirder 👀 @25:45

[@stephenconnolly3018]

I've one attached and the other un attached lob.

[@SpeccyMan]

And neither has an e, eh?

[@quartermain101]

Who is the guy with glasses at 1:24:38?

[@medusa3592]

Sean Locke

[@WideOldDan]

Did Rhoal Dahl get the idea of the chocolate river from French sewers?

[@SpeccyMan]

Roald Dahl.

[@WideOldDan]

@@SpeccyMan thanks, I was doubtful of my spelling lol

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

Wonderful. Random tune in. Gratuitous animal cruelty. You’ve got to laugh.

[@shaunpowell7513]

There is a stuffed dog on thè platform àt slough

[@JulieScanlan-s1d]

Why.? I am sorry, but have I missed something please.?

[@oldschoolm8]

As much as I love Eddie the Eagle's spirit and determination, I do think the Olympics should belong to athletes who've trained extensively and are of the elite. It might not be quite as entertaining, but when it comes to athletics, I think most viewers want to see the best of the best.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

Including amateurs doesn't exclude others. It's all about the money and political penis measuring.

[@lindabirkett8803]

He just missed out on selection for the GB Olympic ski team. He desperately wanted to be an Olympic athlete and started training for the ski jump.

[@kingleech16]

When the olympics were re-established, they were specifically for amateur competitors, not professionals.

[@quartermain101]

Correction. 40:20

[@quartermain101]

The one next to Sean Locke?

[@donnarouse9432]

And zebras!

[@grahammccready2647]

Why do we so little of Phil Jupitus these days.? He will always be Billy Bragg's roadie to me

[@grahammccready2647]

missed out the word *see there

[@asincerewoman]

His child buffing workshop was genius.

[@cjpaeropaint]

I miss Fry. Better with him. Sandi's ok.

[@vivienneoneill5400]

I love both of them,they both make us laugh,wonderful people.❤❤❤❤❤😂❤❤❤❤❤

[@asincerewoman]

I think Sandi is as good as Stephen. How lucky are we to get them both?!?!

[@GirGir183]

1:09:20 La Cote D'Ivorie. I don't know how to type the "o" with a circomflex.

[@HanGoorhuis]

Côte, on your mobile phone press on the letter o and hold down...all the diacritics appear...

[@m.rogers9490]

THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD IS MAONA KEA

[@Weird-City]

Stephen looks like an old woman in that thumbnail.

[@paulhammons7077]

But he... 😅

[@joppadoni]

No mention of Darlington to Stockton Or George Stephenson during railways.. That is southern bullshit right there.

[@jamesguschke9338]

This caused Jimmy Carr

[@paulhammons7077]

Seagull. 😅

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

9:33 From all the anecdotes I've heard, Edison was a complete prick. 50:14 IINM, the same is true with dogs, cats and pigs (and I guess any mammal with patterned fur).

[@SpeccyMan]

Including humans.

[@donnarouse9432]

Any ideas out of robert heinlien

[@LeftIsBest001]

Too many ads, not watching.

[@markloveless1001]

Kick in for KZbin Premium then. Trivial, but oh how worth it.l