Only Steven Fry can get away with saying "they're not posh biscuits, posh biscuits are ones cooked by your pastry chef" and still be loved by the most common of people. Over the past 20+ years he's the only person that has always been in my ever changing "top 5 living or dead dinner party guests" list.

@emaildomain

4 ай бұрын

I feel like unironically using the phrase “the most common of people” sort of undermines your credibility a bit lol I’m sure he would be a v entertaining dinner guest! (though, personally, I think I’d go for Sandi or Alan :) )

@Lucifronz

3 ай бұрын

And open his mouth about his prep school's official tailor. He endured a lot of jokes at his own expense all because he couldn't help but mention the relevance of "goringe" to his tailor.

@belindamay8063

3 ай бұрын

@@Lucifronz Does no-one remember Gorringe’s - a big shore in central London in the 1940s (Thirties too, probably) ? It’s a very odd name. Maybe Stephen’s tailor had something to do with them.

@janetmcbride165

2 ай бұрын

Oh I would invite Stephen and Jesus, akin to lighting the fuse and standing back :)

@krishnajain4391

18 күн бұрын

*Stephen

Fry's timing is exquisite. Easily overlooked.... but he's an effortless comedic genius who happens to know a great deal about everything. There's so much joy here..... I've listened to it all scores of times... and it still makes me laugh outloud.....

"Dammit, can't a man have a biscuit?" this might be one of my favourite quotes ever!

@lordeden2732

3 ай бұрын

Duke of Devonshire never said it! Utterly made up

@sleipnirvalhalla9322

Ай бұрын

@@lordeden2732 a theïst would say: "well, you can't proof he didn't say it!" 😉

lmao "depends on what trailer park you live in" is so good

Stephen is missed. That is not to say sandy is not adequate, she is. But Fry being such a know it all, in the best way possible, made the difference between QI and 'classic' QI

@lindseywarren44

3 ай бұрын

I agree. Stephen Fry is one truly brilliant man. He is a national treasure.

@MB-dg3lr

3 ай бұрын

That's a good word to describe her, "adequate"

@MrThing3

16 күн бұрын

Ah how I miss the classic comments. Not that these are not adequate, but I miss the clever comments.

I so love Rich Hall... I tire of the comments of Stephen compared to Sandi when they are two different people, with two different styles. Some of us actually enjoy both without a problem...😊😂

@MsClaudz

Ай бұрын

Hear hear 😂 👏 I recommend Rich Hall’s memoir (audiobook version!) “Nailing It”. You can tell he’s exactly the same in person and he’s lived a very random life.

@davidevans3227

Ай бұрын

is he the American? he tries to keep a straight face so much, but it's funny when he cracks a smile 🙂 x

Stephen, utterly personable under any circumstance. And mostly hysterical and always clever. A gift to the race.

@nitrorabbit

2 ай бұрын

Wow very nicely put ❤

The "man in shropshire who use to catapult cows" also use to buy job lots of mis matched bathroom suites from a firm I once worked for. He shot them out of his giant wooden catapult as well. In the 90s you'd travel down the road by his farm and if you were lucky you'd see dead livestock, toilet bowls or sinks flying along side you. He was a minted, eccentric nutter.

Sandy T. is a great host in her own right , but there is no one who brings the wit and comedic timing as well as the intellect like Fry .

I live in Tasmania Australia now, l do miss British comedy. QI takes me back home, l really love it.❤❤❤

@linmonash1244

Ай бұрын

I live in Tasmania, have been to UK ony once, but grew up on British children's books and later, Brtish comedy radio & TV programs & am thoroughly addicted. Thanks to KZread; I can now dip in and out of most of my old favourites - and do! Aussie comedy, sourced mostly from the Brit, has always had that same dry wit and 'taking the piss', as well as a lot of self depreciating one-liners, that is just one of Fry's specialities! Never smutty or cruel. It's always amazed me that USA 'comedy', presumably sourced from the same roots is so very different...

i just love alan's face @37:23 when he says he´s got loads of these punchline jokes. :)

@Lucifronz

3 ай бұрын

Stephen going off on him for judging his joke right after, too. lol

A brilliant ending. I just love Tom Holt's sense of humor. Turning pages is a comforting sound Can't wait for the next book, your reading makes the characters come alive ❤

'Koekje' does not mean cake in Dutch, it means (small) cookie. 'Koek' can actually mean cake, but usually we just use cake for cake. (The suffix '-je' means a small version of the thing. I.e. a dog is 'een hond' and a small dog is 'een hondje'.) A biscuit is a biscuit, but we pronounce it the French way...

What did Mussolini do? Stood around with his hands on his hips and frowning aggressively.

"Quite Unneccessary" would be an amazing program. Please make this...

I love Alan.

The other side of a rainbow is gold, pure golden glowing mist. Take a few steps, or drive forward, toward the sun, look back & there it is. I've only seen the effect in Hawai'i & Ireland. Once you see it, it is unmissable.

when I first discovered QI in 2007, it was like this all the time. I like it too with Sandy, but it is just not the same.

@TheBlackSeraph

3 ай бұрын

Sandy's not bad, but no one can really match Stephen Fry in this role.

@lindseywarren44

3 ай бұрын

I do enjoy Sandi, though. She and Stephen are so different. I really enjoy when Sandi gets tickled or Alan reduces her to tears of laughter. I feel that Alan is more animated with Sandi - a wee bit anyway. I simply adore the show either way. It is frustrating to have to wait for Series U!!

RIP Linda Smith. A very funny lady.

Hmmmm I was in charge of balloons at a school fair and the kids were all inhaling the helium. I called my husband who was an Anaethesist, oh he still is…. and asked, will they be ok? (In case you don’t know, keeping oxygen levels normal is a big part of his job) and he said, as long as they are having a couple breaths of oxygen in between, let them have fun. So….health and ducking safety! PoopooH to them, I would have enjoyed Mr Fry on helium. ( by the way the internet has taught me that as Australians, we do allow our kids to be kids and have fun more than some other countries)

The old version of what's red & sits in the corner. A baby playing with a razor 😂

16:00 What comes from Glasgow and glows? Frankie Boyle's liver?

@mikijensen1819

4 ай бұрын

why do i read this in Frankie Boyle´s voice and then hearing him laugh😂😂

@lindseywarren44

3 ай бұрын

Is Frankie not Irish?? I always thought he was...huh. He's brilliant on Taskmaster! So funny! I love him.

"I refuse to rise to the bait" says Stephen, having just risen to the bait.

As for animals without motives; there's a little bird in costa rica a wood wren that makes up and repeats five to seven note melodies; just apparently for fun. I notated over four hundred distinct melodies .

They should get a thousand penguins to march in synch at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo! That would be cool! 😂

🇬🇧 I remember Frys Chocolate. Stephens family company. They made a chocolate bar called Frys Five Boys ( which ive since gathered were Daddy Frys five sons in portrait) Now i particularly loved this confection but would only call it Frys 5 Naughty Boys. For some reason as i stared most arduously at the tiny chocolate faces, i determined that each boy had done something forbidden & was therefor very naughty I was 5 yrs old at the time. Ive never thought any different to this day! I wonder which boy was modelled on Stephen? Probably the naughtiest one! Peace 🇬🇧👧

@belindamay8063

3 ай бұрын

Fry’s Chocolate Cream Bar. Big great at Grandma’s on a Sunday.

@belindamay8063

3 ай бұрын

Typo : should be “ treat”. Sorry.

@itallia666

3 ай бұрын

@@belindamay8063 Har har, yes.. im actually eating my midweek treat of Frys Turkish Delight ( full of Eastern Promise..) I do like Frys Peppermint & Fondant Cream Bars Their dark chocolate isnt like anyone else's .. it has a fragrance about it, dark chocolate with.. violets or rose petals.. Didnt they also make a triple Choc sandwich bar with Milk, white & dark choc all sandwiched together.. mmmm Did they also make a box of Chocs Called Weekend? No that was Nestlès. Ahh the sweets of the past were much better than now. Remember Spangles? Toffo's Treets, McCowans Chewy Toffee, Everlasting Toffee Bars, Bliss bars, Promise Bars, Tiffin bars Bags of Lucky Numbers Chocolates, Rasberry Ruffles Miss them so. Cheers 🇬🇧👧

@lordeden2732

3 ай бұрын

No relation what so ever although he might wish it was so!

@itallia666

3 ай бұрын

@@lordeden2732 I suggest you go & check your statement, Stephen Fry belongs to the Frys Chocolate company that was. Hes talked about it many times! 🇬🇧👧

Thanks for that boys. 😂

Also pipers lung as the bag is a breeding ground. Glad they created antimicrobial bags. A good friend of mine died years back from "pipers lung". Exhale into the bag only, yes, but inhales are quite close to the mouthpipe.

Q: What's brown and sounds like a bell? A: Dungggggg!!! Got that waaaaaayyyyyy back from Monty Python.

That cat fact is survivors bias. If the cat splats no one calls the vet lol

So Stephen is just a big old thiccy like the rest of us?!😂

@lordeden2732

3 ай бұрын

It's easy to be clever when you have a team of researchers behind the scenes!

I was in first grade in 1966 and we sang good morning to you every morning...😊

C-sections were done in India successfully without killing the woman and so too were they done in South America but of course they could die later from infection

@phil-anthrophist3960

3 ай бұрын

That wasn't the question though,, it was specifically about Roman's and to trap Alan

First thing they talk about is wrong. OMG frequency and pitch are relative. If the frequency goes up so does the pitch. That's how sound works. *Facepalm It changes the timbre and pitch.

@RushfanUK

3 ай бұрын

Inhaling helium changes the resonant frequency of your vocal tract, which is the frequency at which it naturally vibrates. The less dense helium molecules displace the heavier air molecules in your vocal tract, making it more responsive to high-frequency sounds. This makes the higher-pitched tones resonate more in the vocal tract, amplifying them so they are louder in the mix, while making the lower tones resonate less in the vocal tract. The sound waves produced by your vocal cords travel through the helium much faster than they would through regular air, causing your voice to sound higher and squeakier than usual

@immasmashyourface

3 ай бұрын

@@RushfanUK yes, which increases the pitch. What part of my post made you think I needed a description? I play music. I know how sound, pitch, and frequency work.

@RushfanUK

3 ай бұрын

@@immasmashyourface try reading it several times, you might understand then.

@RushfanUK

3 ай бұрын

@@immasmashyourface You need to read because you are wrong, it doesn't change the pitch it amplifies different parts of the pitch, try reading it again and again.

@immasmashyourface

3 ай бұрын

@@RushfanUK At a pressure of one atmosphere, with pure helium in your vocal tract instead of air, the pitch of your voice will be about two and a half octaves higher than usual. So, if you voice a C note it can be any note up to 2.5 octaves above your natural C.

Nice

Helium, if it's not technical or diving grade, will potentially give you an incredible dose of benzene, or more commonly referred to as IDLH levels of benzene. Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health... The helium used for balloons is captured at oil refineries where, during the cracking process, helium is released from the heaviest all the way through to the lightest of the hydrocarbon processing. This helium, when not further refined, contains very high levels of benzene. The more you know...

Miss Steo. ☘️

8:40 who the hell puts cheese on a digestive?!

@sophitsa79

2 ай бұрын

I was wondering about this too! I'm so curious! I wonder if they also put Marmite on it

@elizamccroskey1708

2 ай бұрын

Stilton, or a young cheddar is wonderful on a digestive.

Helium increases the frequency but not the pitch ??

23:44 - He nails the danish!

@Qiriyie

Ай бұрын

I once taught my American friend to say "get that damned dead fish off my egg!" In Danish. Apparently her grandfather had been stationed in Denmark after WWII, and they kept serving him herring on eggs. He didn't like the fish. Since they didn't speak English, he had to learn to ask them in Danish to remove the fish...

One of these days we’ll finally get these series in the US 😢😢😢

@ssefk5861

4 ай бұрын

Just get a vpn like every other normal person 😂 rg21 7sn there's a postcode to use for the BBC sign up🎉🎉🎉

@susancarolan153

4 ай бұрын

Never, not able to share the quick wit, consistently. Xxx❤🦧💥🙏🏻

@andywfc1

3 ай бұрын

THAT WOULD be boring .....thought you lot knew it all !!!

The hare wallaby used to be all over Australia's East but pre-dated so heavily now extinct on the East Coast. There is a small population left in Western Australia. A Wallaby the size of a rabbit.

helium does raise the pitch of your voice bye tightening the vocal chords from its chilling effect ,any string made higher in tension gets higher in pitch, basic physics you learn as a musician, Q i is often wrong, because information or data, is not understanding, frequency is pitch A is a frequency of 440 cycles per second 880 cps up the octave a higher pitch, But i love this show it is alot of fun

@gabbleratchet1890

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. Stephen says that frequency is not pitch so confidently, but that just isn’t correct.

@DrMarv

4 ай бұрын

No, he's right but he didn't explain it very well. The lower density of helium causes your throat to emphasise and de-emphasise different frequncies than your normal voice, therefore, altering its timbre. Your vocal cords are still vibrating as normal and not being tightened.

@lordeden2732

3 ай бұрын

Hilariously WRONG

@Ben-no4lz

3 ай бұрын

But that’s not what Helium does at all. It doesn’t do anything to your vocal chords, it’s the Gas itself that causes the change in Timbre. The sound your vocal chords make is the same as always, but as Helium is a less-dense gas than air it allows the sound waves to move more rapidly.

@n8elgr8

Ай бұрын

Yes, this. If the frequency goes up the pitch goes up, regardless of the mechanism of action. It doesn't matter if it works by surprising some tones. if I do a Fourier transform and sum it together, if see It's a higher pitch because the low tones aren't there.

Yes Alan , you are correct. We are very bad. We’d be a laughing stock or food. As we deserve. Sigh.

The problem with the cat falling info is, if they’re only looking at cats that went to the vet, then you’ll reach a point of where they die so don’t get brought in.

One of my favorites: What's blue and smells like red paint?

@thefinewino

15 күн бұрын

blue paint

This show makes me wish I lived in Britain.

@lindseywarren44

3 ай бұрын

It make ME very, very homesick!

I'm absolutely certain the pitch does change

He's a Gentleman and that's my take on it 👍

The Corby railroad station opened in February 2009.

Yep. People change due to the moon. 😅

Which editor fucked up at 5:24?

Deep fried Mars bars are made and eaten in Dunedin NZ - of course Dunedin being the Gaelic name for Edinburgh and also being full of pot smoking students in kilts, with the munchies they are very popular . .

Oooh! Abbey Crunch. Better than Hobnobs. (That’s been scientifically established.)

Who's the man on the far right in the Biscuit/Cake discussion? I don't think I've seen him in anything else but he was lovely.

@emilyorton8248

2 ай бұрын

Arthur Smith 👍🏻

Isn't earths magnetic northpole already the geographic south pole?

8:33😢🤒🤕cut WAY to soon

With tides it's the land that goes in and out as the planet spins not the sea...

Frequency and pitch refer to the same thing Mr Fry

@fretlessman71

3 ай бұрын

Related, but not identical.

"increases frequency bt not pitch" - uh... that is the same thing.

@sodone4593

4 ай бұрын

Ehhh yes and no lol If they were entirely the same then you wouldn't need one of the words lol It's kind of like the same thing but viewed or in this case heard 😂 from 2 different points, kind of? I'm not sure I'm making sense 🤣

@gabbleratchet1890

4 ай бұрын

Pitches are defined by their frequencies. Stephen is simply wrong. He may have intended to say timbre, not pitch.

@apricity4290

4 ай бұрын

@@sodone4593 pitch is a musical term whereas frequency is a scientific term - for the same thing. Stephen either meant to say timbre or formant

@apricity4290

4 ай бұрын

@@gabbleratchet1890 yes that’s my point. Both words refer to the same thing

@Ben-no4lz

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@gabbleratchet1890He DID say Timbre. Thats what he said when the buzzer went off, it changes the Timbre not the pitch.

45:00

During a 60 Minutes interview with Eminem, he expressed annoyance with the contention that nothing rhymes with Orange. When pressed by the interviewer for an example, he came to "door hinge".

Jaffa Cakes: cake or biscuit? For many this question has a straightforward answer: cake, because they have cake ingredients, and do not go soft when stale (like biscuits.) And yet…it's a cake that we treat like a biscuit. It has biscuit friends and spends little time with its estranged cake family, and knows even less of its controversial cake ancestry. It takes pride of place at the top of ‘favourite biscuit’ lists. Its true nature is ambiguous (a word so dreaded it should be written in ghoulish font) and to restrict it to one category is to deny those qualities that belong to the other. Quite a dilemma. Except it needn't be. We categorise our world into manageable segments…but categories can change*. In ancient China animals weren’t classified geneologically by their inherent characteristics, but by their relevance to people at the time: e.g. ‘animals drawn with a very fine camel-hair brush,’ ‘animals that from a long way off look like flies’, even ‘fabulous animals'! I swear I'm not making this up. Uncertainty unsettles us. We crave clarity, order and stability, otherwise there is no limit to the potential of something, nothing to predict and prepare for; no end to the darkness that may actually only extend a fraction beyond our fingertips. Therefore, based on our need to make sense of complexities we force overly-simplistic definitions onto things, like a framework giving structure to the wind in a futile attempt to tame it. However, the boundaries between them are permeable and blurred; the truth flows in shades of grey, and no amount of scaffolding could stop a river from reuniting with the sea. Ignorance is reinforced by oversimplification; unwieldy, complex truths are "rounded up/down" to the nearest "whole" in order to become comprehensible, and through this process lose accuracy. Imagine a photo of a landscape at peak resolution; the image is sharp, the changes in tone and hue merge seamlessly, the colours are multiple and nuanced. Defining clear boundaries is so difficult it's like they don’t exist at all; it’s just a single image united as a complex, cohesive whole. But as the resolution is reduced, multiple shades of green instead become one homogeneous shade of green, until eventually a picture of a forest by a lake has become two pixels; one blue, one green. There is a point at which the comprehensibility gained by simplification, becomes a lie. Jaffa Cakes are…Jaffa Cakes. Maybe a broader definition isn’t even necessary. ~ *Categorisation that acknowledges the objective, INHERENT nature of something (like taxonomy/periodic table etc.) is indeed closer to representing the truth of what it is than categorisation that defines something via subjective (and therefore highly unreliable) characteristics. Categorisation certainly has vital uses and there'd be a lot of uneccessary confusion without it.

ashamed to say i didn't get the blood clot joke

"which affects the frequency but not the pitch" um... uh..... what?

36:42~36:51😃😆😄😂🤣😍

Ah back in the day when Dara had hair

@lindseywarren44

3 ай бұрын

A looooooooooong time ago! LOL

Straight or gay, he's a man with love and respect, I might not always agree with him, But he's exceptionally in his repose 👍

It actually is Danish

pretty sure that northern and southern hemisphere stuff is bollocks

The magna in the earth is rotating clockwise, slows down then stops and start rotating anti clock wise every few thousand years. This switches the magnetic polls. The rotating magna is the reason we have a magnetic field around the earth and the reason birds and animals can migrate to within a few metres thousands of miles away.

@zapkvr

3 ай бұрын

Magma.

@user-pv5ik7nq8y

3 ай бұрын

@@zapkvr quite rite, magma. I've got a speech impediment that's why it came out magna. lol

@theradgegadgie6352

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-pv5ik7nq8y Presumably a finger impairment as well?

@lordeden2732

3 ай бұрын

Utterly Wrong

@user-pv5ik7nq8y

3 ай бұрын

@@lordeden2732 thankyou. Nice to hear how wrong I am. I'm so usely, I'm utterly wrong. How great it is to be so ignorant. Thanks for pointing out my lack of intelligence. Where would I be without such intellectual superiors such as yourself? Please don't contact me again as my stupid intellect couldn't comprehend your magnificents therefore you would only be wasting your time. Got it.

Someone please inform Stephen that there are lions in India.

57:18 shame on you Stephen Fry, you can decimate half a population

Series B?

@GreatCdn59

4 ай бұрын

the show's series are alphabetical instead of numeric

@fretlessman71

4 ай бұрын

@@GreatCdn59 Of course! Somehow thought this was a B roll.

37:50 - BUG -EYED SACK OF SH*TSteven Fry quoting form the movie, ''WARGAMES'.

Well _Technically_ the buzzing of a bee comes from the ears of the being hearing the buzzing. If there was nobody to hear, it wouldn't make a sound. Including the bee itself, like a deaf bee with no other hearing being nearby.

@Ben-no4lz

3 ай бұрын

That’s not true though. “Sound” is simply the propagation of Vibrations. Whether or not someone is there to hear it…..those sound waves still exist.

@jb888888888

3 ай бұрын

@@Ben-no4lz "Sound is vibration, transmitted to our senses through the mechanism of the ear, and recognized as sound only at our nerve centers. The [buzzing of a bee] or any other disturbance will produce vibration of the air. If there be no ears to hear, there will be no sound." -- _Scientific American,_ 1884; adapted 2024

@Ben-no4lz

3 ай бұрын

@@jb888888888 So if I put a sensor or microphone next to the bee……the needle wouldn’t move or detect any vibrations unless I was there to hear it? “Sound is vibration” …..and those vibrations happen whether or not anyone is there to hear them.

@jb888888888

3 ай бұрын

@@Ben-no4lz Vibrations exist independent of ears to hear. However "sound" doesn't exist until there is a brain to interpret the vibrations. Your microphone can record all the vibrations in the world, they don't become sound until someone listens to them.

@Ben-no4lz

3 ай бұрын

@@jb888888888 That’s just pedantic nonsense. Sound is a just a type of energy caused by vibrations. You may as well say “Light doesn’t exist unless there’s an eye to see it”

Mad how old these clips look considering the show hasn't reached Z yet

@lordeden2732

3 ай бұрын

Z is going to be an incredibly short show

Qi went downhill after the first 6 or 7 seasons. It became less serious and actually about interesting facts, misconceptions, and knowledge. I think they got lazy.

He put on a final spurt..... Delicious. The thing about Fry is he's incredibly funny and knowledgeable simultaneously. Sandie just isn't as natural a comic. Nor is she as knowledge.

Cringe rhymes with orange!

Funny hearing the queen of childish sex jokes complain about the fungi bit...

Too many damn adds👎👎👎👎

Sooooo many adverts i turned off after 20 minits

@sodone4593

4 ай бұрын

Minits 😂

@patemblen3644

4 ай бұрын

Psst. "Brave" browser

There is no such color as Brown

@omggitsjonn

4 ай бұрын

Just dark orange lol

@randylucas2458

4 ай бұрын

@@omggitsjonn I think I learned that on this show (different episode)

@sodone4593

4 ай бұрын

Couldn't you then argue that pink isn't a colour? It's just a very light red?? I mean there are soooooo many names for colours, isn't brown just the word for very dark orange? This always confused me 😂

@lordeden2732

3 ай бұрын

WRONG!

@elizamccroskey1708

2 ай бұрын

This is only true if you work for a fancy paint company.

Stephen stinks on Jeopardy

Jo is so droll I can't stand it.

Alan Davies a man who likes the sound of his own voice.....

@lordeden2732

3 ай бұрын

No! An unfunny man who thinks himself hilarious

Hilarious ? Funny sure , but Hilarious ?

@sodone4593

4 ай бұрын

Others may find it very funny, just because you only find it funny doesn't mean the rest of the world should, good sir or madame 😂

I can’t stand this show. I mean most of the questions are flawed and most of the answers Stephen gives are wrong. The bee’s buzzing is just one solid example of just how much BS this show spurts. Also Stephen Fry has an ear piece in that he gets fed most of the knowledge he purports to know.

@lordeden2732

3 ай бұрын

Spot on it's ever so easy to appear to be clever when you have a team of researchers behind the scenes although they've got a lot of things wrong utterly wrong at time of recording.