Why Where The Kray Twins In The Tower Of London? | QI

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This clip is from QI Series D, Episode 11, 'Denial & Deprivation' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Roger McGough, Vic Reeves and Mark Steel.

[@peterclarke7240]

Love how one of the ravens is named Baldrick. Nice little Blackadder reference, given it's Mr Fry who gets to read out this list.

[@ShannonJacobs0]

Why so many offensive ads and BS propaganda from KZbin? Has the google somehow misplaced all that personal information they collected about me? No, I think the EVIL google is deliberately trying to offend me with those ads.

[@peterclarke7240]

@@ShannonJacobs0 um... wut?

[@Unleashed75]

How the hell is it a Blackadder reference when the Krays were there 30 years before Blackadder was even a thing?

[@almostfm]

@@Unleashed75 Read the first sentence: "Love how one of the ravens is named Baldrick". A fact that Lord Fry himself brought up.

[@ulture]

and Muninn but no Huginn. Presumably one died :(

[@nst1981]

i could listen to Fry's Story Time all day long

[@4231jerome]

I always loved it when Stephen fry told stories . . He forever has pride of place in my ultimate dinner party guest list

[@blacksquirrel4008]

No doubt!

[@Dragonface013]

Idk why, but I love it when Stephen does a Cockney accent 😂

[@pkelly206]

here before the typo in the title is corrected

[@goonerbeagunner4life]

Same!

[@gefiltefish6704]

We're is the typo?

[@cheighes1]

Weir all confused.

[@macgonzo]

Ware was the typo?

[@dorkarama3135]

Where was the typhoo?

[@joyl7842]

That title typo... 🤣

[@Maya_Pinion]

Tom Hardy was brilliant playing both of them in the movie......

[@ericsilver9401]

Incredible actor just wish the directing was a bit better

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

My favourite bit.... Ronnie dancing at the house party to "then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love you" 😂😂😂 Don't know what it is but that bit cracks me up. He looks like someone's sweet loving Uncle...for 5 minutes... 🤣

[@jadeitegray3531]

"I got a joke for ya a paranoid schizophrenic walks into a bar "

[@refragerator]

Honestly astonishing that Stephen Fry wouldn't know Huginn and Muninn, trying to pronounce the former rather French. :D

[@austinroy5146]

This is like the first time I've seen Stephen not know something lmao

[@antoniogonzalez-santiagoma345]

First time around I actually missed Huginn and was about to comment how odd it is to only have one of Odin's ravens

[@1969Kismet]

To be fair, I dream of doing that when someone tries to pinch a chip off my plate.

[@Tao_Tology]

Why? Where? The Kray Twins?? In the Tower of London??? 🤔🤨😮😯😟😧😩

[@carolbeckett7922]

and the typo is still there 7 months later

[@EnoVarma]

Sandi is, of course, brilliant. But she's not an actor like Stephen. She can't tell a story or an anecdote like Stephen can, nor can she do voices like him. Mr Fry will always be The Lord of QI to me.

[@suzannemiles8153]

I wish they would have closed caption available

[@HunterHogan]

Perhaps, KZbin Studio in the UK functions differently than KZbin Studio in the US. But assuming that subtitles function the same in the UK and the US, KZbin Studio _automatically_ creates a transcript using voice recognition and _automatically_ publishes it. Therefore, it seems to me that the channel administrators are spending time _unpublishing_ the automated transcript. But, I could be wrong, or there could be a very good reason for removing the subtitles.

[@bravelyHomoSapien]

Description title: “Why WHERE the Krays…..” C’mon QI….Stephen would be appalled

[@salvadorbruschy5979]

You misspelled the title, it should read Why Where The Khray Thwins Ihn The Thower Ohf Lhondon? | QhIh.

[@NewMessage]

Should have taken his picture as he sat in a bloody daze by the piano, really.

[@TheloniousCube]

My thought exactly!

[@likebot.]

What's this, the four Yorkshiremen?

[@angmering5899]

Since everyone in the comments is apparently confused: - The Kray twins were infamous violent gangsters in London - David Puttnam is a film producer who produced Chariots of Fire (the film with the famous 'inspirational' Vangelis music theme) - David Bailey is a photographer who was known for documenting/influencing the 'swinging sixties' scene and took a famous portrait of the Kray twins - Summary of the story at the end; David Bailey and Reggie Kray were in a pub (basically a bar), a drunk guy recognised Bailey and started hassling him to take a photo of him, Reggie punched him and seriously injured him, the drunk guy and his friend ran away, Bailey called Reggie out on it (sidenote: 'tosser' is a slightly milder version of the insult 'wanker' - both mean 'a person who masturbates'), everyone in the pub went silent cuz Bailey had just yelled at a violent gangster, then Reggie just smiled and admitted he'd been thinking about punching the drunk man earlier anyway because he'd been stealing Reggie's sandwiches

[@Noukz37]

Thanks friend 🙂

[@kingelder2]

What happened to the QI set??

[@earlybird77]

How do i find the full length episodes of the older shows?

[@stjimmy1642]

Type in qi full episodes on KZbin and they all pop up

[@danmar007]

"Why Where The Kray Twins In The Tower Of London?" Because There The Kray Twins In The Tower of London!

[@JohnyG29]

were* they're*

[@Matthew-ut6ed]

@@JohnyG29 Joke's gone right over your head, mate...

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

You used the wrong spelling of were in the title

[@saawanjethwa9403]

Ngl, they were quite attractive in their youth

[@Gzeebo]

Who why where when were the Kray twins what?

[@zapkvr]

Haven't you seen Monty Pythons Flying Circus documentary on the Dinsdale brothers?

[@montymousester]

why where? Are you sure this is the QI official channel?

[@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025]

and Noddy!

[@WilliamAndrea]

What was the bleep?

[@gwishart]

The first bleep was for "fucking", the second was for " cunt".

[@decodolly1535]

KZbin is rather prudish and doesn't like people saying "fuck".

[@CalvinLimuel]

why *were

[@setharnold9764]

The last thing I understood was that the ravens in the tower had strange names, even by en_UK standards. "Separated by a common language" indeed!

[@decodolly1535]

They're not that strange. The current ravens are: Jubilee, Harris, Gripp, Poppy, Erin, Georgie, Edgar & Branwen.

[@setharnold9764]

@@decodolly1535 I wish I were on a first-name basis with ravens :)

[@weldeddaydreams]

I assume some part of this made sense for British people?

[@kieran10202]

The Krays were an infamous pair of crime bosses who scared London into submission.

[@ajkgordon]

Perfect sense, thanks.

[@robnorris4770]

The typo is still there, almost an hour later. Too many local cultural references for me to follow along with what this is about.

[@decodolly1535]

3 hours now. Based on the constant errors of spelling and grammar on the BBC News website, I've decided to view it as a guarantee that this is an official BBC channel.

[@AndrewTBP]

It says it’s the official channel right there in the About tab.

[@decodolly1535]

@@AndrewTBP Sarcasm lost on you I see.

[@HunterHogan]

Can someone translate this into English, especially the last story about a photograph and a mirror?

[@Slanghappy]

Coz they was Kray Kray, innit

[@lemedico]

Hit a like if you spot the title typo