I love this program. I love Sandi I actually named my Puppy after her. They have very similar characteristics: funny, tiny, cheeky and great heart. ❤😂

Ive loved Sandy since No 73 back in the 80s it must have been. She has a way about her and i knew she was one of the few people who could carry the show after stephen left.

@muddydog6605

4 ай бұрын

Yes, same. She's fantastic. I still remember Save the children dropping her when she came out. That must have been terrible for her.

So miss Sean Lock.

@15-Peter-20

5 ай бұрын

Rip

@chipperleon7204

5 ай бұрын

i stll cant believe hes dead its like Rik Mayall

@zapkvr

5 ай бұрын

So? Not much then.

@freyabaxter2433

5 ай бұрын

He was just so quick witted, have watched his clips over and over, still makes me laugh! miss him xx

@samsamsonson2201

5 ай бұрын

@@zapkvrfkwit

I have watched this beginning multiple times and it never fails to break me up into out-loud peals of laughter.

the knowledge of Stephen Fry and his ability to recount it accurately inspired me to continue learning through out my life ( although just turning 60 I find myself more studios than ever ) originally history and Christianity but also biology and technology/science thankyou Stephen.

@zapkvr

5 ай бұрын

So not Stephen Jay Gould, or Carl Sagan? Or Bill Nye?

@zapkvr

5 ай бұрын

You must realize the show is highly scripted

@sray1768

5 ай бұрын

@@zapkvr So yes, Stephen is highly intelligent. He is also extraordinarily well read and erudite, able to speak intelligently, and entertainingly, on a very wide range if topics

@Padraigp

5 ай бұрын

​@@zapkvrtheyre experts in their feilds theyre not general knowledge buffs which Stephen fry is. Carl sagan should inspire one to learn astronomy but Stephen fry inspires general knowledge. In a fun way.

@Padraigp

5 ай бұрын

​@@zapkvrit is but he also has an almost identical memory and a huge amount of knowledge.

Alan: Is there a film about it? Stephen: Not to my knowledge. Alan: Well then i'm in trouble.

When Stephen said "easier to do a handstand in the shower", I swear he sounded like the narrator from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 🤣🐬

@bronwyno6675

5 ай бұрын

One of the audiobook versions (there are several -- I can think of at least four) is narrated by Stephen Fry.

@pleaselookafterslugs

5 ай бұрын

If you mean the film version, he is the narrator!

@robiken

5 ай бұрын

@@pleaselookafterslugs I know. I love that movie 😁

@michaelhendricks9462

5 ай бұрын

The difference being that Hitchhiker's Guide didn't just "sound like Hitchhiker's Guide," it was also actually funny.

@Padraigp

5 ай бұрын

Um he is thr narrator! 😂

Funny to see Sandy as a guest in the first clip! Little did she know she would be presenting years later

@mjfan653

6 ай бұрын

While nobody will replace Fry, I must say Sandy is a great host. I cant imagine anyone else doing it better, maybe Ayoade would be okay, but his humour can be quite dry, in any case, Sandy does a top job, especially as she has had quite a fascinating life and as such quite a reserve of knowledge even without the QI elves, just like Fry

@rory4605

6 ай бұрын

@@mjfan653 Richard Osman would be great.

@pseudonayme7717

6 ай бұрын

@@rory4605 I would take Michael Palin or John Cleese ahead of Osman any day.

@zapkvr

5 ай бұрын

​@@pseudonayme7717Palin was going to be the host at the beginning with Fry and Alan as permanent guests. He took up travelling.

@SanjarTheKingOfKings

5 ай бұрын

She planned it from the start

Why has nobody mentioned that "Pleasure Gauge" yet? Lol absolutely hilarious addition 😂😂 The giant tortoise discussion is the most hilarious thing, how David genuinely laughs... oh... outside the Acropolis song...🎉😂😂 "A cloak that covers acts of murder" excellent description Mr Einstein. Jack Whitehall showing a proper asskissing😂

Jeeves would despair of Steven's fashion choices

@deborahchasteen3206

Ай бұрын

I can't believe the stuff his stylist puts on his body. Have Stephen ever even seen a mirror?

@bipolarminddroppings

4 күн бұрын

​@deborahchasteen3206 it's a comedy show. He's supposed to look ridiculous.

14:30 min mark...This happened to me and my mum ! I lost my brother [Scott] in 2008 and like Stephen I too can not bring myself to delete his contact details. Whilst waiting at the hospital once with my mum I stumbled across late brother's details so I cheekily said to mum "Let's ring Scotty !" and so we did. ( Bear in mind this took place about 6-7 years after brother's passing ). Ring, ring...ring, ring..."hello" ! OH ! wasn't expecting it to be answered so was already thrown. "Ummm, is Scott there please ?" I asked in all silliness with my mum laughing beside me. Well fuck me what happened next had all 3 of us, mum, me & the mystery caller, wetting our pants with laughter !! After asking for Scott, the response I got from the other end was ; "Speaking"...!! 👀 !!! 😂 Short story long, just a helluva coincidence in the end. We ALL had a good chuckle after we explained what we were doing and my 'new' brother Scott even invited us to stay if we were ever in town ❤ Long Live Dead Contacts 😅

@wavydavy9816

5 ай бұрын

That's really funny 🤣🤗

@michaelhendricks9462

5 ай бұрын

Just because it happened to you, so it's familiar, doesn't make it funny.

@wavydavy9816

5 ай бұрын

@@michaelhendricks9462 I love it when miserable people join in with the comments. Well done for piping up and getting involved👍🤗

@thegurch7313

5 ай бұрын

@@wavydavy9816 I agree what a sour puss that person above is! I bet no one living or dead ever rings him!!

@vickywitton1008

5 ай бұрын

Lovely story!❤

I'd listen to Stephen Fry recite the alphabet.

I was a lumberjack for fifteen years in Pennsylvania. The very real danger is, when you cut down a tree a branch will fall out of it or it will knock a branch out of another tree as it goes over, and that branch will fly back at where you are standing.

I wonder if Alan ever got his motorbike back 😅

@Desmo904

5 ай бұрын

I checked. No. DVLA says is was untaxed as of 1st June, 2004.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. I feel smarter for having watched this. -An American

@Mollypopithelen

5 ай бұрын

😊 Me too - Scotland.

@jimmysmith3277

5 ай бұрын

@@Mollypopithelen Same here even more so with Contronyms- Cumbria, England

@cannaweallgetalong7168

13 күн бұрын

Maybe share your location, instead of "America" as if proclaiming for all Americans. I'm sure we don't agree on everything -A different American From the "midwest" aka Minnesota and Missouri 😂

Always enjoy , a great show. Thank you

@12:08 "The man who never was" was not involved with the Normandy invasion. That plan was used in preparation to the invasion of Sicily

Great compilation! My dream team must be the one with Phil Jupitus, Dara O'Brian, Bill Bailey😂

I can relate to the guy forgetting his age. It changes every year so it's not that easy. I know my date of birth and work it out from there.

@stephenconnolly3018

5 ай бұрын

I too got it wrong the Australian CAA sent me letter telling me I was a year younger than I told them.

@Neddoest

5 ай бұрын

I decided to forget after I turned 35 bc after that, it was just a depressing number

@zapkvr

5 ай бұрын

Youre all weird. I can't forget how old I am. I've had this condition since I was seven

@Padraigp

5 ай бұрын

I was a year older for a whole year somehow just got it into my head I was 42 and completely missed out being 41 and then I was 42 for two years so when I turned 43 I kept forgetting I wasn't still 42 ... lol!

@cazzabojangles

4 ай бұрын

I have the same problem, but fortunately my birthday is the 4th of Janurary 2000, so it's quite easy to work out from there

Ahh this would be perfect if it weren't so short!

@michaelhendricks9462

5 ай бұрын

It would be even better if some of it was funny! But I get the "short" thing, I turned it off and went looking for something better in about 42 seconds.

You only take 1 stone crab claw at a time. If you took both the crab would be defenseless and starve

@deborahduthie4519

6 ай бұрын

I was wondering about that. Thank you.

"Chariots of Fire" was obviously a result of them buying from the falafel tent at Glastonbury

Alan's not wrong about the word "Shapesmith." It should come back. Sounds *way* cooler than "Personal Trainer" does!

@poilboiler

5 ай бұрын

Shapesmith is probably not used as a cover for drug dealer as often.

@RJMitchard1509

5 ай бұрын

Shapesmith is a character on the Amazon show Invincible

@TheycallmeMrWonka

4 ай бұрын

If you like the word use it. You don't need other people to use it as well. Just means you'll need to explain what you're saying to others alot more :)

It has happened now, that a person who had had one flying lesson, whilst having his second lesson, the trainer/pilot had a stroke and passed out and he was talked down by the control tower. This happened only last year (USA 2023).

Stephen fry and Sean lock are very missed. They were amazing.

The reason we dont have mixer taps in England is because hot water comes mainly through a copper tank when being heated whereas cold water mainly comes through plastic pipes so is more fresh as it is drinking water..!

@TheUberjammer

5 ай бұрын

To clarify, the above is meant to describe pre-brexit life. Obviously after Brexit, the hot water tank and tap were eliminated altogether and replaced by the heat from the decay of an iceberg lettuce.

@Pippis78

5 ай бұрын

Our warm and cold water also come from separate pipes - doesn't stop leeding them into one tap. You can still get only (drinkable) cold water out of it.

@Padraigp

5 ай бұрын

That's not the reason. Mixer taps also have two taps one nfor hot one for drinking water at least in the kitchen. But the middle tap part is shared so that you can have either hot or cold or both together to make warm or like warm or quite hot but not scalding hot. And most people have mixer taps these days right? Even irish people got those in the 1980s.

@captvimes

2 ай бұрын

@@Pippis78 sure if you want to play water lottery drinknig from what could be coming from the open tank in the loft that a rat has died in

@Pippis78

2 ай бұрын

@@captvimes Ok, I don't know how common such things are. Where I live all water comes from one source to all houses in an area and is stored in watertowers. Not sure still what you meant. Drinking tap water in general?

My heart hurts every time I see Sean Lock

@madislegirl

5 ай бұрын

Same

Oddly enough, when they were talking of deleting (or not being able to delete a person on their contact list), I actually forgot that they reuse those phone numbers. My Mum passed away and I couldn't delete her contact number. One day when I was really sad and missing her, I sent that number a text to that effect. I got a reply from a very kind person letting me know that I have the wrong number. So, I explained and they were so kind and told me that anytime I feel sad and miss Mum, I can send them a text and they'll be happy to talk to me. 😊

In the film Airplane, the man who talks to the passenger flying the airliner was Robert Stack, not Lloyd Bridges, although he too, was in the film.

Stephen J. Gould held a door for me once. He was on the board of the National Portrait Gallery, where I worked. There’s a distinction for you!

Sue is constantly brilliant. If there is any present moment, she's being funny in it.. constantly

@emriys1334

5 ай бұрын

Really? For some reason I absolutely hate her... she seems intellectual but when she talks I can just feel room temperature intelligence. In stark contrast to Sandy, when she talks I feel like I should wear a bow tie or straighten my non existant jacket, I want to impress Sandy and I want to tell Sue to shut the fuck up. Her Great British Bake Off appearances are even worse.

@vaguelyright6833

4 ай бұрын

Hi Sue

@littlestbroccoli

4 ай бұрын

@@vaguelyright6833 😂

Love Sandi

What happened to the man who never was? The identity of "the man who never was" was a closely guarded secret until 1998, when it was discovered that he was called Glyndwr Michael. His grave in Huelva, Spain (near the beach at Punta Umbria) now uniquely carries both his fictional and real names.

The tortoise story 1:19 is one of my fave QI stories...

@Ela167

5 ай бұрын

Mine too simply hilarious 😂

The thing about the Greek saying was wonderful

i enjoyed that guys was fascinating

Love the Monopoly story but I don't get why after finding out about that the Germans still gave out monopoly boards 😂

When they were talking about airline pilots, I thought of "Sully" movie of the real life of a amazing man who was at the right place at the right time. Another Tom Hanks movie about a real life hero.

The man who never was was carrying plans about the invasion of Sicily, not Normandy.

Bill Bailey.’That bald guy with the long hair!’

I love this so much, I am trying to share its brilliance with friends & family without much success. Some guests are clearly out of their depth but most are either brilliant or funny, some both

I caught someone trying to pilfer my garden gate the other day. I didn't say shit, in case he took a fence (offence?). Ah, Fffit, never mind!!!

@joelonsdale

5 ай бұрын

Mate, you're unhinged... Like your gate.

I do wish that whilst talking about Alan Turing and, colossus that the brillant engineer who took the theory & actually built the machine was recognized ie a chap named Flowers.

LOL! Stephen was born 2 years after me! LOL. Such a baby boy 💚

Respect.

Really enjoyed the comment what If someone dead calls you-my mom never took dad's name off landline phone(he died at 47-she at 87&1!2)&called NYC,CT&MAat least2times a week-one babysitter took a msg frm a'man' with a very high voice

Bill Bailey ❤

Oh Alan, you are so amusing......

The reason the UK has two taps (not everywhere but in most older buildings) is because hot water was traditionally stored in a tank in the attic where it was at risk of gathering dirt (from insects, rats, mice, etc.) and was therefore suitable for washing but not for drinking and therefore couldn’t be mixed with the cold water. You’re not supposed to use the taps whilst running if you want pleasant warm water, you’re supposed to pour a bowl of it.

2:15 The Arthur Legend, I’ve heard this bedtime story before.

Everything is NOW! The Golden Present.Your thoughts and beliefs create your own realities .

@pseudonayme7717

6 ай бұрын

Except all the stuff you know happened in the past, and all the things you know you are going to do in the future.😁

@lilymarinovic1644

6 ай бұрын

No, if I could create a reality I'd create one where I was obscenely rich, 6ft tall, effortlessly slim and a natural blonde. None of those have been created in my reality as yet.

This video is a great face workout.

@michaelhendricks9462

5 ай бұрын

Yes, scowling at people who obviously think they're making jokes, because they're laughing constantly as they speak, while trying to figure out what makes them think they're so funny... that'll really work out your face muscles.

@o-_-ojb

5 ай бұрын

@@michaelhendricks9462 Who hurt you?

"Is it the off switch?"

In the recording of the D-day discussion, the Secret Army had not come out of official secrets.

Jack Dee on ISIHAC is so friggin funny it is amazing. A very worthy replacement for Humph

@SpikeMoby

5 ай бұрын

Nobody could replace Humph but Jack Dee comes very close!

@zapkvr

5 ай бұрын

@@SpikeMoby Agree, he is very good. Literally the perfect replacement.

@nickthelick

5 ай бұрын

Samantha was eager to take Jack on after Humph... And ultimately very satisfied with him! 😉👍🏼

@torontomame

3 ай бұрын

"I Swear I Had A Cat"?

It wasn't Turing who built Colossus, it was Thomas Flowers who worked for the telephone company..

@pseudonayme7717

6 ай бұрын

Yes but Turing drew the plans for it, so it has to go down as a combined effort.

@Cheezsoup

5 ай бұрын

@@pseudonayme7717 No he didn't. the computer that he 'designed/drew' was the Bombe, not Collosus. Wiki has :- "It has sometimes been erroneously stated that Turing designed Colossus to aid the cryptanalysis of the Enigma.(Turing's machine that helped decode Enigma was the electromechanical Bombe, not Colossus.)

I do love to laugh.

2:45 OH MY GOD BILL BAILEY HAS A MASTODON SHIRT ON respect +100

The Holy Family re-located to Britain around 37 AD and founded the first Christian church in the world, decades before Christianity reached Rome. Joseph of Arimathea, known in Britain as Saint Ilid, came from Aramea (Syria) and is buried in Bute Park, Cardiff.

@thesmallerhalf1968

6 ай бұрын

Evidence?

@deborahduthie4519

6 ай бұрын

Wow, true? How wonderful. There haas always been a lot of holes in what I have learned of religion.

@deborahduthie4519

6 ай бұрын

@@thesmallerhalf1968Evidence of the whole period story, don’t you think so?

@peterww3241

6 ай бұрын

@@thesmallerhalf1968 A good place to start might be theBritainsHiddenHistory Ross KZread channel

@Kirsten_is_cursed10

5 ай бұрын

That doesn’t sound legitimate.

FYI, not all segments have their own section in the video. All segments after the "all great men short" segment are contained in that one.

God i love bill 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I really fancy Jo' Brand. Am I a pervert? Cool!

"Do you not want some points, or not?" isn't a double negative, it's a redundancy. "Do you not want some points?" is a rhetorical question implying that they do indeed want some points. "Do you want some points, or not?" would be an actual question with a choice of answers.

@flarey9495

2 ай бұрын

it was "Don't you not want points or not"

Surely the French for innuendo would be suppositoire.

@g.tucker8682

5 ай бұрын

Nice!

Some small commercial passenger aircraft up to ten seat including the pilots seat are single pilot operate. There have been several case of pilots dying or passing out and a passenger having landed the aircraft successfully by instructions from a pilot via radio.

Italians shout ‘ bis’ also I only understood it when I realised bisNonna is great grandmother, so grandmother, again! Bis!

Hey friends . I guess I'll see y'all at the bar 🤣

I could do this right now

that ol' country boy has huffed too much glue bro......

The UK two-tap dilemma: that is why the sink and plug exist. Put the plug in, fill up the sink with both cold and hot water, and it allows you to regulate the water temperature!

@lilymarinovic1644

5 ай бұрын

Yeah but most sinks aren't terribly clean. I'd almost rather risk boiling or freezing

@Finvaara

5 ай бұрын

That's also much slower and much more involved than simply mixing the temperatures within the single tap using two separate levers.

That feel when you tap your phone screen and the red line is almost across the bottom of the video ( ._.)

Heat pumps are a thing all over europe and north america

He was called gwyndor Michaels

Actually Apples logo came from the artist seeing a bite taken from an apple and seeing the pun in bite and byte like megabytes or terabytes

It wasn't Los Alamos, it was Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

I read 1984 last year

Is the random bursts of music deliberate, or have they just hired a sound guy who doesn't know which button does what?

@All4Tanuki

4 ай бұрын

If you watch the show itself and not detached clips, each contestant gets a unique buzzer sound assigned to them at the start of each episode. It's as idiosyncratic as the klaxon

@funniebunnie4u

3 ай бұрын

​@@All4Tanuki ~ Indubitably.... Or possibly, even more so, than the klaxon. 😉🙂❣️

1:07 Jacob Rees-Mogg will have something to say about that

In the “How would you land a plane?” section Stephen claims that’s there has never been an example in commercial aviation where a passenger has had to land a plane; United Flight 93 had to be brought down by passengers after the flight crew were murdered by the hijackers on 9/11. Unfortunately we all know how that ended.

I happen to know Aramathea was the original name for Gilford.

I think Jan Smuts was an exception

I would love to be sitting beside him he is so lovely. But I would love to be sitting beside Stephen before anyone I miss him

King Charles will be on the England money and I find this show educational and fun. Crab -arm grow back-might call it Dead Pool Crab.

Good for now

banana in tagalong (filipino) is saging

There was actually an incident of a plane losing both pilot and copilot, Helios Airways Flight 522, though it was in 2005.

@JulesMarshall-un2jv

4 ай бұрын

The whole plane lost air pressure, so there was nobody able to take control and be guided in

Did Dobby say executer and not executor?

ne ... pas, is NOT a double negative

If you know, you know!

11:01 sounds more like David Mitchell

Hitler showed Chaplin movies to subordinates.

So no means no, but yes is better? :) Reflexes....heh. I kicked my doctor in the bollocks when he positioned himself poorly and checking my knee.

like most governments they really had no idea

41:25 Surely you can't be serious.

Clarkson's India facts: 1. Wrong Aaaaaaand 2. Wrong

1:29:30 There are cases in which defendants have attempted to get out of criminal charges by claiming that their actions were the result of epileptic seizures. In People v. Grant, 360 N.E.2d 809 (Ill. App. 1977), the court held that the act of striiking a police officer was involuntary, but the defendant could be held responsible if it was found on remand that his drinking prior to the incident was reckless and caused the seizure.

Strictly speaking it came from the Od Testament first.

I NEARLY got that question right when Stephen said Joseph was named after plaice ....... But *then he wasn't called Joseph Fish after all* . No wonder folk are confused by theology is all I can assume.

0000 0000 Hmmm easy to remember *ANNIHILATE* !

Ouija board works by the ideomotor effect , same as water devining rods