As an Australian, the bit when Alan says "Give us a call when you've run your first race" is probably the most Aussie thing I've heard. He nails it. The accent, the dry tone when he says it, just perfect.

Alan’s Australian accent is so authentic, he doesn’t overplay it like so many other comedians, it’s just the right amount of bogan without sounding ridiculous.

1:35 I like how bill and sean lighten up at the exact same moment where both realized 'this will be a goldmine'

"An absolute fleet of berties" is now a sentence I'm going to file away.

That look on Bills face when Stephen mentions prep school tailors..........

@philward6582

2 жыл бұрын

Ken

@philward6582

2 жыл бұрын

000

@juliestone9371

Жыл бұрын

Still makes me laugh so hard. I thought I was going to die laughing when I first saw it.

Love how embarrassed Stephen gets over the good natured teasing; it's so endearing. None of us has a choice to whom we're born, of course.

Phill's Groucho impression is wonderful.

@zapkvr

Жыл бұрын

Its not. Its rubbish

@vivienneoneill5400

2 күн бұрын

.may be you are rubbish

@vivienneoneill5400

2 күн бұрын

You are rubbish 😅

Alan's aussie gets me every time

@zapkvr

Жыл бұрын

Its rubbish. Sounds more NZ than Aussie

This is ruthless. Steven Fry does his best to try to contain the guests, who are intent on ripping the piss out of him, themselves and each other. Hitler wouldn't have stood a chance in a debate with this mob.

I miss Sean Lock

Phil Jupitus' impression of Stephen Fry as Godzilla made me chuckle.

Wowza this sure was a different time

The Edward Fox impression is hilarious

Alan's Mexican accent gave me a whole new appreciation for Tarantino's Australian accent.

I have seen all of them and still could not stop laughing.

@vivienneoneill5400

2 күн бұрын

Me too.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

God I miss Sean Lock. "You had a tailor for a suit you wore when you were five?"

They have entirely too much fun!!

ahaha love allans mexican accent spot on also whtshisname doing steve fox

I keep coming back to this for John Sessions. He is a delight. His impression later of Alan Rickman was wonderful.

If Clarkson had done that Mexican accent , the embassy would have lodged an official protest.

My school outfitter was called C&A.

Alan's Aussie accent is pretty good!

As an Aussie, I have to say Alan's and Stephen's Australian accents are so good. It's very rare to see someone do it justice.

@zapkvr

2 жыл бұрын

As an Aussie, you're way off. And Alan sounded like Cal Wilson from New Zealand. Its,like he never heard an Australian before.

@petrluckhoff9186

2 жыл бұрын

As an aussie: ǝʇɐɯ pǝʞɔnɟ ʇǝ⅁

@EnoVarma

2 жыл бұрын

Neither of YOU sound Aussies.

@BumMcFluff

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe in country Australia, but not so much around the eastern cities, I would suggest.

@lillired857

Жыл бұрын

@@zapkvr he talks about visiting both in his standup

"I'm gonna play this fucking harp over here!" 😅

In the 1970's I worked for "Bodsham, Waters and Gorringe" . Fruiterers and green grocers. What a name!

@malahammer

Жыл бұрын

Which side were the plums worn my good sir?

RIP John Sessions (January 11, 1953 - November 2, 2020), aged 67 And RIP Sean Lock (April 22, 1963 - August 16, 2021), aged 58 You both will be remembered as legends.

@zapkvr

2 жыл бұрын

Ya think?

@jeffrey44

2 жыл бұрын

I bet you feel pretty silly now that no one remembers this Sean Lock fella. Yes, pretty silly indeed. Please don't delete your comment.

@imranali52

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffrey44 hey dude, are you replying to the original comment? What did he say wrong?

@bethdwyer6328

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffrey44 We all love Sean Lock is was a legend. What does your comment even mean?

@waynemarvin5661

Жыл бұрын

RIP And Long live? How does one manage that?

Thanks for this you’ve made a bad day a lot better.

Rip legends Sean locke and John sessions

2:14 That sounds like a ripping yarn!

thank you, just what i was looking for

Rich's face at 5:40. Bloody hell

@hesky10

Жыл бұрын

Practising his moe the bartender look

“Zees new uniforms are cool!” “Join zee Nazi Party; they’re cool, daddio!” “I burned down zee Reichstag! Cool 😎”

Brilliant

“Jazz Nazis” 😂😂😂

"I burned down the Reichstag.... _Cool"_ 12:42 🤣

I love them both.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

No one can replace Stephen Fry, he was PERFECT for this show

@jeffrey44

2 жыл бұрын

Sandi Toksvig replaced him.

@Drchainsaw77

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffrey44 Poorly.

@MGoose66

2 жыл бұрын

@@Drchainsaw77 but she is hardly a nobody…

@zapkvr

2 жыл бұрын

Well he was shit at the beginning. Go watch series A through D.

@Drchainsaw77

2 жыл бұрын

@@zapkvr No he wasn't. The entire show, cast, and writers were finding their feet for the first two series.

Wonderful! When can we expect part 2?

@KingRabbitCPH

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/hWF4xZqPkdaTgdI.html

Interesting to note that John Sessions looked more and more like Des O'Connor as he got older....

His Oz accent sounds like Stan Zemanek..Bill Bailey😄😄 ..how did this get past the yt algorythm? More Nazis than a south American ski resort...love it😀

Or even the Mexican invasion of Northern Italy.

“Ya got your woodcraft… and your killin’ gooks…” 😂😂😂

Anybody would think that Alan didn't go to public school...

@handlesarefeckinstupid

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't.

@oxcart4172

2 жыл бұрын

@@handlesarefeckinstupid he did! Unless you're an American! (Public schools are private schools in Britain)

@zapkvr

2 жыл бұрын

​@@oxcart4172 so what do you call schools which aren't private?

@oxcart4172

2 жыл бұрын

@@zapkvr State schools

Alan is actually so funny and so incredibly smart, I love that although Steven takes the piss out of him for being less well read, he still has these brilliant moments where it’s so obvious he talented as hell. Such a god

@danwic

2 жыл бұрын

Alan is actually rather intelligent even if he is less well educated. Usually, carachter roles kind of wear thin with the general public but Alan's adorable personality and comedically dim responses are a science he has mastered, and the way they both play off each other makes the show even more enjoyable :)

@katesendegeya864

Жыл бұрын

@@danwic how educated must he be to be considered "well educated"? He has an MA.

Phill Jupitus is an underrated comedian and impressionist.

@zapkvr

2 жыл бұрын

I think you mean overrated funny as piles

@rooty

Жыл бұрын

Loud =\= funny

Alan just making everything Mexican is priceless 😂

@luminousfractal420

2 жыл бұрын

In England, I had to mute it here before I got lynched 🤦

@hensonlaura

2 жыл бұрын

I live in Mexico and it is SO BAD, SO WRONG, that it's insulting.

@lukeet331

Жыл бұрын

@@hensonlaura Spiffing

@Matatabi6

Жыл бұрын

@@hensonlaura yes I’m glad that after the Mexican week on the great British bake off there has been backlash against the consistent use of mexican stereotypes on British tv that has been going on for years. I live in occupied Mexico and this has always made me cringe though I appreciate that Stephen tries to shut it down in his polite ineffective British way

@roberto8650

Жыл бұрын

@@Matatabi6 Occupied Mexico? Texas?

Still waiting on part 2 over a decade later

Honestly when I was a kid at Catholic school we had a tailoring company that measured us and we ordered uniform shirts and pants from. Gannett or something. It wasn't even a nice Catholic school, it was like Maddy in Suite Life

Viewing this again. Alan seemed so much more energetic,happy,in to it way back then. 😊

@BFHGokias

10 ай бұрын

Every job breaks your spirit eventually.

Jazz nazis thanks Bill & all the rest . RIP Sean Lock. Happy Easter all

"This pink polenta I love it."

@katesendegeya864

Жыл бұрын

I feel sure he wouldn't do that riff now.

@AngelLovee1234

10 ай бұрын

It's priceless how Stephen Fry brings him down a peg. And his blank stare at being completely outwitted (which was not difficult).

That Phil guy? I think his name is, he is Brilliant😂😂😂

Alan 🤦🏻‍♀️😂😂😂😍

@StrawberryYobert please fix the aspect ratio

Arte Johnon used to do that "incredible - but very stupid" on Laugh in during the sixties

“Sir I suggest a cummerbund for geography!”

"So you think this happened after the Spanish colonization of Mexico?"😂

Jazz nazziis

😂

Weren't there Jazz Nazis? Or I guess they weren't Nazis, since the Nazis banned a lot of entertainment. Before them, Weimar Germany was a golden age for entertainment and jazz was huge, but the Nazis hated it because it was foreign and was "created by an inferior race". But there was underground jazz, including in concentration camps. If I remember correctly, the Kaiser wasn't a fan of early jazz in the WW1 era. But I admit when I started writing this comment, I was thinking of Soviet Russia, not Nazi Germany. There was an underground jazz subculture in Soviet Russia that copied jazz music onto records pressed on used X-ray film (because it was a firm enough plastic I guess), and because of the pictures on the X-rays, they called it "bone music" (roentgenizdat), "ribs" (ryobra), or "jazz on bones" (dzhaz na kostyakh).

@48917032

2 жыл бұрын

You mean the Swingjugend? Yeah, those were most definitely not Nazis. Many were viciously persecuted for their love of jazz and swing.

@hensonlaura

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

@ems7623

Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine that there was jazz in concentration camps. It is true that in some instances, musical instruments were given to prisoners for limited use. Films have played this up on a couple occasions. But jazz in the prisoner housing blocks? I'm very doubtful. In the Soviet Union ... Yes. Absolutely. It wasn't officially sanctioned, but many things weren't and still were commonplace.

@slake9727

Жыл бұрын

Check out the movie "Swing Kids".

@JetsonDrums

10 ай бұрын

Jazzis.

What does John Sessions say in the homosexual-quote?

@susanhd

2 жыл бұрын

"a fleet of Berties" I think it's rhyming slang, Bertie Wooster.... (It doesn't rhyme very well and I don't feel like writing it here but a bit of imagination should get the rest of the way.)

@jeffrey44

2 жыл бұрын

@@susanhd Poofta!

@hellish88

2 жыл бұрын

@@susanhd Thank you! What about the bit before that? After «the other lot»?

@susanhd

2 жыл бұрын

@@hellish88 "the other lot in the Antony and Cleopatra play were an absolute fleet of Berties"

@ems7623

Жыл бұрын

@@susanhd Susan, if someone doesn't know what rhyming slang is, they probably aren't British, in which case they won't know the epithet "poofter" either (unless they are Aussie where I think it is also still heard.) Best to write it out for an internet audience. I understand your hesitancy in using it. (I have the similar feeling about the word 'nigger' in the USA which is now perhaps the most taboo word in American English by far. I wouldn't be caught dead using it.) But no one would think any less of you for explaining it to someone who clearly isn't British. ;)

You can tell a yank uploaded this because they wrote "a couple bonus" instead of "a couple of bonus" in the description.

Jazz Nazis, I almost died laughing!

There was six Marx brothers two of em were never in the movies. Gummo and Manny

@pamelaspooner8335

Жыл бұрын

Zeppo

@waynemarvin5661

Жыл бұрын

Manny died as an infant.

@zapkvr

Жыл бұрын

@@pamelaspooner8335 Zeppo was in the movies

@zapkvr

Жыл бұрын

@@waynemarvin5661 Correct

For me this clip demonstrates exactly why QI was never as funny after Stephen left. Sandi is without any doubt the best person to have taken over the show, but there was something about Stephen that made it impossible for him to be replaced without something special being lost.

@OB1canblowme

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, i believe a lot of that just is Stephen having a slightly higher frequency of unpredicted jokes and gags that makes the laughs seem more natural

@zapkvr

2 жыл бұрын

Crap. Its INFINITELY better without him

@probablygraham

2 жыл бұрын

@@zapkvr - excuse me for having an opinion.

@mrbad69

2 жыл бұрын

Stephen, is it you?

@jonbateman3245

2 жыл бұрын

@@zapkvr pure popplecock silly boy, what planet are you on?

old fry hates being put on the spot

Elvis Parsley hasn't done any singing since Aloha from Hawaii

Binge watching the early ones like these some years ago I maybe unfortunately skipped any of them with Rich Hall. Attitude disguised as comedy with barely discernible wit. I couldn't figure out what QI thought he brought to the party.

@fins59

2 жыл бұрын

Opinions are like arseholes eh Chris?

@lmm2103

2 жыл бұрын

just say you don't get his sense of humour

@hensonlaura

2 жыл бұрын

Aways wondered what Britain saw in him; I never cottoned to his humor.

@waynemarvin5661

Жыл бұрын

He manages to support Briton's attitudes toward Americans. Ignorant, boorish, and full of themselves.

@justincronkright5025

Жыл бұрын

@@fins59 I've only got 1... oh wait hang on.

I like when it's studying language and accents, and not just Alan making racist voices 20 years ago when that sort of thing was already in the way out. Oof.

@tooleyheadbang4239

10 ай бұрын

Oh Christ! Just don't laugh, if you don't find it funny.

@wikiwikiwa

10 ай бұрын

@@tooleyheadbang4239 I am entitled to my opinion and to share it with the uploaders. Toss off.

@tooleyheadbang4239

10 ай бұрын

As long as you aren't entitled to stop the rest of us laughing, then that's fine by me.@@wikiwikiwa

Ooo, some of these accents haven’t aged very well. 😬

@tooleyheadbang4239

10 ай бұрын

They haven't aged at all.

how wonderfully politically incorrect.

Is that what British people think Mexicans sound like?

@branthomas1621

2 жыл бұрын

Not really, it's more of a reference to Speedy Gonzales the Warner bro's cartoon character.

@lmm2103

2 жыл бұрын

no, it's just Alan being silly. As the comment above states, it's more of a reference to the Mexican and Spanish accents etc depicted in cartoons or old movies which we already know are exaggerated and inaccurate

@hensonlaura

2 жыл бұрын

The WORST!

@ems7623

Жыл бұрын

No. It is called a joke. Did you really not pick up on the obvious Speedy Gonzales reference - or at least the sheer silliness in which Alan does that ridiculous accent?

Pleeeeese never go woke !

I hope Alan doesn't bring that act to America. There could be problems.

@glenndouglas8822

2 жыл бұрын

What act?

@Hexen_Wulf

2 жыл бұрын

Well this was only like 15 years ago, so we're probably safe.

@hensonlaura

2 жыл бұрын

@@glenndouglas8822 the bad Mx accent. Imagine an American hitting the English stage with an act showcasing an incorrect & insulting Indian accent. Would go over like a lead balloon.

@glenndouglas8822

2 жыл бұрын

@@hensonlaura If it's funny then it's not a problem. UK comedians always use accents in their acts.

@pandroidgaxie

Жыл бұрын

@@glenndouglas8822 And we all know that racism is so non-existent in England that they left the EU just to stop furriners from entering. /s A half-Indian friend of mine said that just his last name would get his resume shredded before he could get an interview. Americans are not the only racists in the world.

Alan Davies leaps eagerly to give racist accents.

I love QI and British comedians but, yeah. This particular video is just a compilation of casual stereotypes of which I'm sure many of the panelists would look back on and cringe.

@VestigialHead

Жыл бұрын

Only smarmy doogoders have an issue with casual stereotypes. You do realise these harm no one right?

@rooty

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely spot on (which is more than I can say for the impressions). If they'd tried to pull this crap with a bongo bongo african accent they'd have been rightfully run out of town. Racism against non-black ethnicities has been given carte blanche for far too long.

@VestigialHead

Жыл бұрын

@@rooty Sorry but how is doing an accent racism? That is so narrow minded it is stunning. An accent makes no assumptions about anyones race. It is simple imitation.

@rooty

Жыл бұрын

@@VestigialHead that's like saying how is it racist to do a black and white minstrel show, it's just an impression. There is a whole tradition and history of racism that you are apparently completely ignorant of. Maybe ask yourself why none of these impressions have good english with a foreign accent, instead always being monosyllabic, broken english baby talk. A coincidence? Maybe ask yourself where these caricatures come from, where you've seen them before, and what attitudes have they always gone hand in hand with.

@VestigialHead

Жыл бұрын

@@rooty Oh I am ignorant of it am I? Sorry mate but I am most certainly not ignorant of the history of African Americans in the slightest or actual racism through human history. I am much more well read than the majority of people. I just think that racism is actual racism and not the petty bullshit that the extreme left think it is. Abusing someone because of their race - racism, segregation due to race - racism, excluding someone due to race - racism. Imitating them in a show - not racist in anyway. This is as ignorant as claiming that someone wearing an Indian headdress to a fancy dress party is cultural appropriation. It is a massive overreach and exaggeration to mark everything as racism even when it causes zero harm and does not degrade a race in the slightest. As you should well know the extreme left use racism as a weapon to try to shut down their opponents and they have manipulated people into thinking the most ridiculous things constitute racism.

Does anyone else find Alan Davis REALLY annoying?

@zapkvr

2 жыл бұрын

Not as annoying as Phil Stupidest

@arnoldioio

2 жыл бұрын

No

@vonn4017

2 жыл бұрын

no, just you....cretin

@dant5349

2 жыл бұрын

He is in these clips but I think he's a lot better in the seasons made in the 2010s

@MagicSecretsandMysteries

2 жыл бұрын

He was more openly racist back then

Woke pppl will cancel this if they find it!

@tooleyheadbang4239

10 ай бұрын

They are already in the comments. Get your DVD set now...

Lots of the terms used in this are really racist

@jeffrey44

2 жыл бұрын

Yet people say racist humour isn't funny. This video is proof that it can be.

@anonUK

2 жыл бұрын

Language police?

@pandroidgaxie

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffrey44 It's funny when it's not about you ...

@jeffrey44

Жыл бұрын

@@pandroidgaxie That's a bit of a poor attitude, either it's okay to talk about all races or none. I don't want your race, whatever that might be, to be treated differently from mine. It's called equality.

@lukeet331

Жыл бұрын

Back when comedians were free to be funny

Jupitus is just not funny

@ems7623

Жыл бұрын

Eh. Sometimes he is. Sometimes not. Not my favorite either.

@AllenKnutson

Жыл бұрын

He has his moments, e.g. suggesting that Fry's beer goggles would be "madeira pince-nez". Unlike my countryman Rich Hall who has contributed zero.

Stephen Fry could not pronounce the capital of Lithuania properly. Vilnius became Vilnus. I lost some respect from him then. And NO, I'm not Lithuanian.

@tiermacgirl

2 жыл бұрын

If you were I would have been interested in your comment.

@stu6533

2 жыл бұрын

Like you, I always lose respect for celebrities when they mispronounce Eastern European state capitals. It’s utterly career-ending.

@laserpanda94

2 жыл бұрын

How much respect do you think you've gained from this comment?

@mavenfrankeus7287

2 жыл бұрын

@@laserpanda94 I can tell you're a native English speaker. You don't care if you mispronounce foreign names but you go crazy if your own name is mispronounced.

@laserpanda94

2 жыл бұрын

@@mavenfrankeus7287 Do I?

Sorry chaps, but this simply so boring.

@markheyes287

2 жыл бұрын

Meh...i've seen worse 🤷‍♂️

@kenopsia9013

2 жыл бұрын

there’s always some 45 year old geezer on every british comedy video who sits around all day watching corrie in a council house who thinks he’s the bastion of good opinions, the world is a worse place whenever you people open your mouth

@hensonlaura

2 жыл бұрын

Only boring people think so .

Jazz Nazi's. 🤣🤣

When you could say 'gook' on tv x)

@CrimsonKage

Жыл бұрын

I've been watching QI since probably the first 5 seasons and it never occurred to me when I heard it before. Not that I care now, jokes can't hurt anyone, but it's only now that I'm noticing it and I re-watch these a lot.

@ems7623

Жыл бұрын

"Gook" was never really a commonly-heard racial epithet in British English. It is very much an American thing. In Britain, it would be known mostly through American movies and television shows. In this clip, it was said while doing a parody of a dated accent which IS out of American movies. They are making fun of that. In this context, there's nothing really offensive about it, is there.

@CrimsonKage

Жыл бұрын

@@ems7623 I should mention that I am American, even so, the only time I've ever heard the term was in Vietnam war films.

@pandroidgaxie

Жыл бұрын

@@CrimsonKage If you are the brunt of "jokes" multiple times a day, every day, it starts to feel like the Death of a Thousand Cuts. You feel like you are being flayed alive, and/or begin to doubt that you are anything other than what these stereotypes say you are. Not only does it hurt ... it perpetuates the stereotype to others. Why would I think "jews are greedy"? I never even met a jewish petson until I was ten years old, but I was well-aware of the stereotype.

@CrimsonKage

Жыл бұрын

@@pandroidgaxie I mean, I'm not here to offend anyone, but it seems that being called something before you are aware that it's an insult makes it lose all meaning. I don't wanna be that guy that just says 'just ignore them' or something, but there is something to say about kids parroting out slurs before they are told not to by someone else. I think it's people's reactions to them that form whether a word is 'bad' or not. I wasn't allowed to say 'stupid' when I was a child, yet I went to elementary school saying 'n-word pile' because that's the version of 'dog-pile' I was familiar with as a kid. No wonder my teachers looked at me funny.