The thing about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is... Is my favourite QI excerpt ever. Thank you for reacting to it.

@GorgeousRandyFlamethrower-

2 жыл бұрын

My favourite bit is in Series G, and it's the part about actor Rodney Bewes inexplicably appearing in a 19th century painting of Leonardo da Vinci's death by Mussini, which leads the panelists to believe that Rodney Bewes is immortal

@Mumscup

2 жыл бұрын

What is ? What is it ?

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely my pleasure, Kate! :)

I don't know why I almost died choking on my laughter, when Neil cried tears from his eyes at the Stephen slaughter.

Just for the record - across the entirety of Series E there was a recurring "Elephant in the room bonus" - also the reason behind those elephants on sticks you'd see across the compilation. The idea was that there would be a question in each episode which would somehow tie in elephants, and the panellist who played their elephant at the right time would be rewarded with bonus points. Hence, with that being an underlying theme of the series, having the compilation episode being entitled "Elephants" comes somewhat naturally!

@kateshelton8322

2 жыл бұрын

The episode I was in the audience for was the Children in Need "Entertainment" and Alan was the elephant in the room, he sat in a seat a few down from me with an elephant mask on until Stephen introduced him.

@kazkaskazkas8689

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the bonus points! However, I could never understand the system of points there anyway... 😆

"Elephant in the Room" was my favourite series-long 'joker-card' in QI. "Nobody Knows" in series I was pretty good too. I wish they'd bring it back!

It's funny how pleased it makes me that chaps like yourself love our daft little shows as much as we do...and I'd like to add that your editing is always on point and very sympathetically done, makes you a pleasure to watch (as well as the fabulous hair obviously, lol) :) x

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Lynn! :)

Qi is one of those shows where no matter the time of day or your mood, you can always watch it.. even if its on in the background.. makes you laugh.. gives you unusual facts and just makes you enjoy every second.. love it!

Me when I saw the title: "Bloody hell Neil! This better be good"

QI Series O Episode 1 "Ologies" contains what people are calling "Sandi Toksvig's Acropolis moment".

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

It's on my list! Patience. :)

I'm incredibly impressed your pulled it off so well. (I'm adding editing in an edit!) I still cry laughing at that one!

I have been waiting for this. I don't think Steven has ever been broken like that.

@stukay2803

2 жыл бұрын

Stephen is the rarest of comperes where if you know he's breaking up like he is here, it's gone waaaaay too far. The only other host I can think of that breaks up (where you *know* it's funny) in a similar fashion is our own Shaun Micallef. Not to the same extent tho. Also, that moment hasn't lost any of its brutal hilarity even after 15 years. Still gets me in tears. Question for Neil, have you reacted to the Emma Thompson episode yet? Similar very entertaining moment where she is talking about one of her Oscars.

@rebelpearl

2 жыл бұрын

@@stukay2803 He hasn’t that I am aware of. Series F episode 11. I love the story of Emma’s “trick/prank” on Stephen. That was a really good set of guests for that episode.

@stukay2803

2 жыл бұрын

@@rebelpearl I knew somebody would have the exact series and number for the ep. Couldn't think of it off hand.

@dave_h_8742

2 жыл бұрын

YES Neil you have got to do that one too ! Hankies at the ready.

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

Adding it to my list!

You edit these very well and I was helpless with laughter despite having seen that clip many times.

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Helen!

We don't talk about the pregnant pachyderm here in the UK, nobody mentions the elephant in the womb. 😎

As per usual with QI, some facts are disputed. I will now quote a joke from David Mitchell on his radio-based rival to QI, The Unbelievable Truth. 'The biggest European grower of bananas is Spain, not Iceland. Noone's sure of the exact numbers grown, because just after they start trying to tally them, daylight come and they have to go home." (The Unbelievable Truth Series 14, Episode 6)

@BrushQuill

2 жыл бұрын

"Come Mister tally man, tally me banana (Daylight come and we want go home)" For anyone that missed the joke...

@kdog4587

2 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh out loud when I first heard it on the podcast hahahahahahaahaha

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

Love Mr. Mitchell!

Been waiting for this one… I knew your recommenders would get it to you! Haven’t even watched yet and I can’t wait 😁 The Acropolis bit is my favorite moment from the Stephen Fry years.

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

“If there’s an elephant in the room Then you’re in the wrong room…” Mike Wozniak.

The acropolis where the parthenon is is priceless . I watched it this evening on my way home on the bus avd was stared at as a laughed outloud .

Absolutely brilliant! My sides are aching from laughing with you.

You really cannot beat this show.

Well done on the editing good sir, thanks for the upload Neil 😁👍

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Terry!

I'm not watching it for the prog but for your reaction to it 🙂 glad you enjoyed it.😁

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

It's so good!

I love it: watch the Godfather,read Hamlet, and watch Stephen and the Acropolis and Parthenon! I know which one is the silliest!

We knew you'd like it!

They really are relentless at times. Poor Stephen is so easy to wind up. :)

If you ever visit London seats for visitors are available and can be booked for most of these BBC panel shows. The shows are broadcast across Europe and the world, so there is a lot of competition for the seats.

Oh, FINALLY, you've reached the episode where they say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is...

17:50 What do they say, Neil, what do they say??? ...about the Acro--po---lis where the Parthenon iiiissss, it better be good, Neil!

Always great to see an upload from Neil. Taskmaster UK is back in a couple weeks. Looking forward to the reactions

@insertgenericusernamehere2402

2 жыл бұрын

I presume I'm in the minority here but this is the least I've looked forward to a series of taskmaster, I presume due to me only knowing one of the contestants. I just hope the people I don't know are good.

@OutlawStar87

2 жыл бұрын

@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 I know 3 of them, 2 are pretty funny. I've had past seasons like that were I didn't know most and was pleasantly surprised so here's hoping this one is good aswell

What a wackadoo group of contestants 🤣🤣🤣 man I miss Sean Lock 😢

Yeh that's Bill,he'll make a song out of anything, you should look out for his BBC news theme 👀🤷‍♂️👏👏😂😂😂👀👀

@dave_h_8742

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant news theme tune.

My pub quiz name is now "They say of the Acropilis." Not winning but waiting for someone to get the reference

More QI please Neil

I heard something weird on either the QI podcast or The Infinite Monkey Cage podcast. It said something like all the bananas in the world, all the banana trees come from 1 tree. It turns out that 100s of years ago there was a lot of varieties of bananas but something happened, I can't remember what (probably over farming them, Britain and it's huge trading routes), and left the whole planet with just a handful of trees all belonging to a single variety of Bananas. Luckily someone at that point said "erm.... Lets not take this last sackful, let's grow a few extra trees before we start shipping them all over the world". So all the banana trees in the world all come from that 1 that we decided to leave alone. TBH, thinking about it now, I might have heard it on David Mitchell's "The Unbelievable Truth" Radio show. So it might not be true. hehe

@Gaspode_

2 жыл бұрын

There are lots of cultivars of banana but commercially there is really only one (Cavendish) that are all clones. This replaced the previous commercial culitvar (Gross Michel) which was almost wiped out by a fungus that Cavendish is resistant too. The problem is as they are all clones, the same thing could happen to Cavendish with other diseases.

You edited this one reasonably

Elephants are my favorite animal. 🐘

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

Elephants rock!

Where are you finding these old episodes to watch? I look on youtube and I can only find series Q-S.

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

There a number of people posting them on KZread. Perhaps they're being blocked for viewers from the UK for copyright reasons? Maybe try with a VPN?

plz react to k-movie , ❕ These are my favorite movies💚 have a nice one☺️

Johnny’s right. Pickled onion are the best Monster Munch.

@NeilTalks

2 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to send me a packet to try!

@awmperry

2 жыл бұрын

There's a whole range of great UK snacks. They can send me a pack too while they're at it - I can't get properly acidic crisps here in Sweden. 😞

@qwertyTRiG

2 жыл бұрын

@@awmperry I can bring some Taytos to DWCon if you like.

@awmperry

2 жыл бұрын

@@qwertyTRiG You know, I don't think I've ever tried Tayto. Yes please!

@qwertyTRiG

2 жыл бұрын

@@awmperry Shall do, so!

Man, if you buffed up, you'd be the spitting image of Josh Brolin.

Real Wagyu is still quite hard to find. Most American Wagyu is either from a cross-breed, or given that there is almost no laws protecting the name, completely fake

One argument for not always having BBC diversity quotas is that last clip - it felt just like a load of men in the pub having a laugh. I'd be just as eager to have some all-women episodes like the classic all-woman 8 out of ten cats ep which was also special in its own way

To be "That guy" the archaeologists now recon that the acropolis is another building over by the side with female statues as columns holding up the small roof

A 100% cheaper every year? That's really only possible if it doesn't cost anything to start with.

@mikeyb2932

2 жыл бұрын

Would it not be for any cost that is reduced to zero from any original cost? Edit: ok I think you meant to write 1000%, like he said instead of 100%.

@SaturnusDK

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikeyb2932 That depends a bit on semantics, and how you see my answer being possible for any percentage value. An argument might be that it's an equal deduction of value every year. For example, if something is 10% cheaper every year you could argue that it loses 10% of the original value every year which is effectively taking the original value dividing by ten and then substracting that value every year until you end up at first zero and then negative values, or each year the value is reduced by 10% of the value it started that year with which effectively means it will take an infinite amount of years before it has zero value. The former method is the one I describe because I assume that the value reaches zero at some point while in the latter example it can never actually reach zero value. Given that premise, zero is the only value that allows for 100% reduction every year without going into absurdities of negative cost values.

@CaptainBohnenbrot

2 жыл бұрын

@@SaturnusDK Nooo, 100% cheaper every year is definitely not an equal deduction of value every year. (except for 0)

@SaturnusDK

2 жыл бұрын

@@CaptainBohnenbrotDid you just prove my point without realizing it? :D