Stephen's anecdotes are always "Well i was chatting with the queen..." and then Alan is just "I got drunk"

@nybbleme

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget shitting himself on Hampstead Heath.,. And losing his glasses

@goldenredstone04

Жыл бұрын

You forget he was high while meeting the queen.

@kored8688

Жыл бұрын

@@goldenredstone04 wouldn't you be?

@blackbird5634

11 ай бұрын

To be fair Fry keeps company with a lot of queens so it's not a rare occasion when he chats with them. 🤣

@InservioLetum

11 ай бұрын

@@blackbird5634 Thankfully he does have the breeding and refinement to engage correctly with ACTUAL royalty, and it was precisely that trait that made him such a delight as a host. He is as close to a renaissance man as this species has at the moment.

He is a magnificent story teller. I love his role in Qi, and as they explained in the making of, smart as hell too. I loved Stephen Fry, I thoroughly enjoy Sandy. But Alan being around makes it the class act it has been for over 15 years now. No one is irreplaceable but Alan is inching towards that threshold!

@wheresmyoldaccount

4 жыл бұрын

And he does the best Australian accent of any non Australian. He just nails it.

@DerEchteBold

4 жыл бұрын

@@wheresmyoldaccount The "How to cook a galah" story should definitely be in this compilation!

@jzneter736

4 жыл бұрын

Tyrey

@donnadizucchero

3 жыл бұрын

@@wheresmyoldaccount I think it's the attitude, he's truly an Aussie by heart)))

@captainhaire

3 жыл бұрын

This show is darn near perfect. Alan, especially, was the inspired choice.

Opening the door and accidentally walking on stage with Rick Astley is probably the most elaborate Rickroll ever 😂😂😂😂😂

@InservioLetum

11 ай бұрын

Rickrevolve in this case. 🤣

"...that's a stand-up routine I did. That's not true" I'm surprised that's the only time I've seen someone make that mistake.

@Noobie2k7

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah i imagine it happens to comedians a lot. They make up or exaggerate so many stories for stand up routines it's surprising they don't forget which is which more often.

@DomWeasel

5 жыл бұрын

It's on his Urban Trauma DVD; using cattle with Mad Cow Disease to clear minefields in Vietnam.

@AmmaraSHAH773377

5 жыл бұрын

Ulquiorra4sama omf i was sat here looking at your icon trying to think of the bleach character i knew it was and then looked at your name I was just saw trying to remember his name genuinly for almost 5 minutes im so stupid

@birkirorn9658

5 жыл бұрын

@@AmmaraSHAH773377 I like turtles!

@abrakadabra6584

5 жыл бұрын

Alan's probably the only one who would admit it.

QI KZread admin is a god. 10+ mins of pure unadulterated Alan.

@44yvo

5 жыл бұрын

I love the one about his dog and the frog.

@Fearthecow792

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, whoever they hired for these deserve more praise. Every single one, I'm obligated to watch!

@VestigialHead

5 жыл бұрын

Dave Lewis Pure unadulterated Alan. Is that what dyslexic homosexuals get up to late at night?

@VestigialHead

4 жыл бұрын

@Sarah Nyb Make sure you apply a liberal amount of bule before performing Alan.

@nyatella

3 жыл бұрын

the hero we don't deserve.

Alan has had the most rick-rolled of all rick-rolled moments ever

@lawrencecalablaster568

4 жыл бұрын

Mr.J Glokta Rick-revolving, moreso.

@AymenDZA

4 жыл бұрын

He rick-rolled rick himself on stage lol

@arvindhmani06

4 жыл бұрын

Rick was never gonna give him up.

@brianm6337

3 жыл бұрын

Only person on the planet to be Rick Rotated.

Alan is the ideal pub companion.

@CleverGirlAAH

3 жыл бұрын

AHAAAA!

@CarlB_1962

3 жыл бұрын

@@CleverGirlAAH 😀

@jarvinator100

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought him or Sean Lock. Pair of them together would be great to sit in a pub with.

Alan really is the heart and soul of that show. The epitome of being a good sport!

"i lost my passport on the plane once, it fell between the seats. but eventually i found it" -yes? "that's the story"

@Furnus105

5 жыл бұрын

"That's the end*** of the story."

@michikomanalang6733

5 жыл бұрын

I can't believe they didn't include the one with the two cats that got out in the car!

@KarmaPoliceRestThisHam

5 жыл бұрын

Please someone tell me what episode this is in?!

@Ocsttiac

5 жыл бұрын

@@KarmaPoliceRestThisHam J series - Journeys

The story with the frog and the dog was the funniest.

@jettison27

5 жыл бұрын

I liked the fart and the dog better

@Cruxador

5 жыл бұрын

And Jimmy's observation really tied it together.

@olamarvin

5 жыл бұрын

Agree.

@gmaureen

5 жыл бұрын

He said it was an Alsatian (German Shepherd) and that says it all. Smarter than a 5 yr old.

@wendyortelli8073

4 жыл бұрын

gmaureen Thank you! I was going through websites trying to figure out what kind of dog he had.

Alan Davies is so often the butt of jokes in this programme yet he is always good natured about it and he is invariably funny without being offensive to or about anyone

@spudragious

2 жыл бұрын

Except Mexicans and Australians lol

@colossaltitan3546

Жыл бұрын

Alan's anecdote about him shitting in a bush on Hampstead Heath will forever be one of my favourite moments in qi

@maxbrown7719

2 ай бұрын

For me it's gotta be the amount of funny animal impersonations he does. Top ones being him n Bill Bailey with the lobster walking and the 5 headed caterpillar 🤣 ​@@colossaltitan3546

Alan’s daughter: *Screams in horror after basically disembowelling herself in her bedroom* Alan: 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@EleanorPeterson

3 жыл бұрын

Eh? What's wrong with laughing at that? She spewed red lentil and tomato soup all over herself and ended up looking like Carrie. Yes, it looked like she'd committed hara-kiri, but... it was only red soup, man. Good job it wasn't mulligatawny; that's brown and looks like diarrhoea. ;-)

@ellenflanagan2220

3 жыл бұрын

Jo Brand was not amused by Alan’s lentil tale.

@martinputt6421

3 жыл бұрын

@@ellenflanagan2220 Jo Brand doesn't laugh at anything

@martinputt6421

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sidowse True. I don't like her sense of humour at all.

Just finished Alan Davies' 2020 memoir "Just Ignore Him" and my great love for his humour on QI just grew by leaps and bounds, knowing what he's gone through as a child.

@mikewazowksi7938

Жыл бұрын

absolutely it was so sad

alan rickrolling himself by accidentally walking onstage with rick astley is the most alan thing ever

I’m not even sure why “What’s mesh??” is so dang funny, but it is 😂

@odc52

Жыл бұрын

That’s most of his humour 😂😂… “I don’t know why this is so funny“

I love how alan's first reaction to something making a weird noise is to smack it with his shoe

@Crazycarswell

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that is why it was terrifying to learn he had children.

@megaverner

4 жыл бұрын

I did the exact same thing once. I forgot I was supposed to go to work sunday morning, went out drinking saturday night, came home, passed out and when my alarm went off four hours later I just picked up my phone and screamed into it: "WHAT IS THIS THING, WHY IS IT MAKING THIS NOISE?!" and literally punched it until it went quiet.

@hotpotat0es

Жыл бұрын

@@megaverner yaaaawn

I think Alan would make an excellent childrens presenter, kids pick up on energy, just like animals, they need somebody chill like him.

@donnadizucchero

3 жыл бұрын

I keep thinking whenever he's talking about his daughters and how bloody LUCKY they are. And how permanently exhausted his spouse must feel being the only adult in the family)))

@ararune3734

2 жыл бұрын

@@donnadizucchero And other stories women tell themselves to feel superior

@donnadizucchero

2 жыл бұрын

@@ararune3734 how do you mean?

@ararune3734

2 жыл бұрын

@@donnadizucchero "And how permanently exhausted his spouse must feel being the only adult in the family" This feminist trope is getting old. I'd expect her to get up to check on her daughter, being the only adult and all.

@donnadizucchero

2 жыл бұрын

@@ararune3734 he reminded me of my own father, it's just the only thing that I know pretty well; also a show biz person too; and neither me nor me mom are feminists, ahhahaha, I'm exreeeemely conservative btw in those "tropes")))

I work in hotels and every time a fire alarm goes off you always have a handful of guests who think it's only in their room. The funniest thing is when it happens around check out time and they phone reception saying "why are you sounding an alarm in my room?! I've got another 30 minutes until check out." Yes sir, we actually sound alarms to get people out the rooms, and the really late ones we break the door down with a hose in hand 😂

@CucumberpatchAddict

4 жыл бұрын

Luke Sparrow and if they still refuse to check out we just burn the whole place down, that's our policy XD

@panzerveps

4 жыл бұрын

In my old flat, the fire alarm would sound in every apartment than the one where the supposed fire was...

@brianm6337

3 жыл бұрын

Kinky. I asked for the knotted rope, you cretin!

Only one issue with this: *IT'S TOO SHORT, I NEED MOOOOORE*

@lonnwy

5 жыл бұрын

I agree entirely as yes it is too short, xx

The red lentil and tomato soup story was fantastic I cried with laughter literally rolling around on the floor

Stephen is the heart of the show, Alan is the soul.

@jocax188723

5 жыл бұрын

Lourenco Almada I would have said that Stephen is the brain, Sandi is the heart, but Alan is indubitably the soul of the show.

@Nilguiri

5 жыл бұрын

Sandi is like one of the kidneys of the show. Or maybe the liver.

@ReegusReever

5 жыл бұрын

and Sandi is the elbow.

@lovez2eat

5 жыл бұрын

I'd picture Sandi as much "the brain of the show" as Stephen. Her broad knowledge, sharp wit, and intelligence astound me. But they are/were both undoubtedly the heart of the show, too!

@hf3923

5 жыл бұрын

@@lovez2eat Stephen just has that special element to him that makes him much better as the QI host for me. Although Sandi is enjoyable too

Alan Davies is a treasure.

@skoot2u

5 жыл бұрын

yes,he should be buried.

The frog in the water bowl one was bloody brilliant

Long overdue! Must have been hard to narrow it down to only 10 minutes.

@adamkimmV

5 жыл бұрын

Wasn't expecting to see you here.

@medievalist

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed! No Blue Whale or Moon, so particularly impressive :)

Alandmark achievement for QI.

@cricketknowall

5 жыл бұрын

*A landmark

@str8balla0

5 жыл бұрын

That one flew over your head.. you bastard!

So what do you call it when you walk into Rick Astley performing Never Gonna Give You Up, in a revolving restaurant? Rickrevolving?

I could listen to Alan Davies telling stories forever. He's just a superb storyteller.

Two friends decide to combine Stephens knowledge and Alans humour to create a knowledge game show for all types of people. Who knew that learning could be so fun 😉

I still love the concept of a top secret skyscraper. And that's definitely the nicest story that began "I fired a machine gun in Vietnam"

Alan: ... Dog: "Sir, there's a strange creature in the kitchen, I need your help immediately."

Please do one for when Alan is doing impressions of people or animals,they're really funny

@nightsgrow6575

5 жыл бұрын

isra alkatip yes omg the animal ones are amazing!

@curiousgangsta

5 жыл бұрын

YESSSSS

@jasons2023

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5yY1LFtoaWqqKQ.html

@rosemorris7912

2 жыл бұрын

His impression of Sandi meeting Julie Andrews is comedy gold.

I don't know why british shows are so appealing...... Graham norton, QI even the older shows like blackadder and a bit of fry and laurie or even new shows like netflix's crown ....... Way to go Britain, keep it up

@raqueldobson1

3 жыл бұрын

Coz we are great at dead-pan realistic comedy, as are the Scottish & Irish... & we don’t take ourselves too seriously anymore, as most cultures who have been around more than 500 years don’t... 😊

Want to be a good story teller? Study the way Alan relates the frog in the water bowl incident. Raconteur Supreme.

@ianjones9961

5 жыл бұрын

Miming a lot of it out in an amusing way as you talk goes a long way. I'm also fond of the Richard Pryor method, where you personify everything in the story. You'll notice a common thread when Richard would tell a story, of how often parts of his body talked to him. "And my legs said, 'Fuck it!'" etc.

@nishdafish258

4 жыл бұрын

An example of good comedic delivery is Alan’s fire alarm story. It could have been a lot less funny if the punchline was anywhere else.

@rebeccaroberts8120

4 жыл бұрын

The impression of the frog in the water bowl cracks me up everytime!

@gopherfacts6915

3 жыл бұрын

@rohmarts I remember the frog in the water bowl story from when it was first broadcast. Always stayed with me. Glad it's up here. It's priceless.

@ThisCharmingMan1984

3 жыл бұрын

@@gopherfacts6915 Same with me: despite seeing it dozens- possibly hundreds of times, I always forget which episode it’s off, and have to google “Alan frog story” haha. I know the routine off by heart, but it still makes me laugh, every time I see it. All the best.

Alan's ability to mime anything is phenomenal. At 8:38 he BECAME that frog.

Alan’s France 98 story makes me proud to be Scottish hahaha

He really is the best self deprecating comedian I've seen.

I was hoping for Alan's scintillating tale of losing his wallet and passport on an airplane. "Then I found it...that's the end of the story."

It'd be great to have Karl Pilkington on. Him, Bill Bailey, Alan, and Ross Noble would be a panel rife with banter, with Sandi pulling her hair out trying to make sense of it all. That is my one wish to the QI Elves. Please see it done.

@ReegusReever

5 жыл бұрын

You're assuming Pilkington has any interest in these shows at all. The only way you would get him on this show is if it was an episode entirely dedicated to monkeys doing cool shit.

@MM-dq2pi

5 жыл бұрын

I think Brian May would be a great guest, on a space/music episode.

@zbr76

5 жыл бұрын

@Monty Python the Flying Circus That would be the greatest episode in QI history. Add Celia Imrie as the fourth guest and that panel would be MARVELLOUS!

@zbr76

5 жыл бұрын

@@MM-dq2pi HELLS YEAH!

@sirandrelefaedelinoge

4 жыл бұрын

Karl Pilkington is symbolic of all that is bland and unfunny...

Alan's dog was quite smart. Hope he appreciated it as such.

I love Alan's stories. I could listen to the entire running time of the show for a new Alan story.

There is no QI without Alan. I genuinely find him hilarious.

6:07 you can see stephen instantly picked up that he was also part of this story

Alan is such a unique comic personality. Please upload another one of these compilations.

I'm rewatching this for 2 years straight now ❤️ Alan IS QI

Alan is that person on QI who can get your mood higher no matter how shitty your day was (literaly no matter how much it was awful).

Alan is such good fun. Pure character.

I love when Colin tried to come back at Stephen after he made a joker about his reward, then was immediately shut down by him saying he was the first one to receive it

I love Alan so so much!!!

It's obvious where Alan's daughter got her sense of humour from, lol, xx

@heatherfoote6065

4 жыл бұрын

Too right mate

7:35 Brilliant from Alan.

@ReegusReever

5 жыл бұрын

Glasgow Celtic champions.

Alan... Alan... Alan... Alan... Alan... PARTRIDGE!!! AHA!!! AHA!!!

Alan really does have good anekdotes.

Great vid!! Wouldn't hurt to watch a part 2 in the future 😉

Just discovered this adorable human. What a feeling! Savouring the early stage of discovery while it lasts. Not surprised that I am immensely infatuated.

I can imagine a tv series similar to "As yet untitled" where Alan, Stephen, Bill Bailey et al just sit like this, yarning with each other and making us all fall about in the process. What better way to fill an evening?

i'm calling it... Alan is now a national treasure.

Thank you for showing my hometown! You rock!

Alan and Stephen were a magical combination 😊

Would really like to see a part 2 of this

My favorite part about the perrier award story is that Noel Fielding was also on that episode and he won Best Newcomer at Edinburgh with the Boosh a few years later. What a fantastically funny panel

Just love Alan Davies. Thanks for giving us 10 minutes of pure laughter laced happiness.

I'm just going to watch this on a loop for the next few days. I love this man 😍😍

I live for Alan's anecdotes

Just love Alan...QI is brilliant but about 70%of that brilliance is Alan.😂❤❤

Oh wow, these 10 minutes went by extremely fast, great compilation!

Fantastic compilation, thanks guys.

I want more of this! More of Alan!😊

Dude the intro is like this is a "in memory of" type of video

@earl_gay

5 жыл бұрын

'he was funny while he lasted'

@TiganWelsh

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, eventually it will be.

@Cruxador

5 жыл бұрын

You didn't hear?

@OlOleander

5 жыл бұрын

@@TiganWelsh now you've gone and made it sad

This made my week!! Needed wise words from alan💖

I feel like I’ve been waiting for this my whole life, thank you QI KZread!

Brian May would be a great guest on a space/music episode, QI Elves!

@marvinmeeker5765

2 жыл бұрын

He could tell about his dad's George Formby ukulele, or building his 'Red Special' guitar.

oooh I wish it was longer! thanks for the laugh, Alan's the best!

The video compilations y'all (texas) have been producing lately are fantastic, cheers!

I'm waiting for part 2!

Alan is such a star. I am in stitches!

That was lovely.

Whoever made that intro... perfect

This is the best thing ever ..... Please can we have some more ...

i adore this dude!

Absolutely wonderful, could listen to him for hours.

Watching this for the 3rd time now. Stays awesome

Thank you whoever you are created this!!! Oh Alan!

quickest 10 minutes of my life i love this guy

I would love more. I could listen to Alan tell stories forever. A bit of a crush, actually.

Such a naturally funny man

Alan is gold!

i love how pleased colin is with himself about rubbing the perrier award in alans face xD

Amazing

Oh Britain, what it must feel like to have your greatest national treasures already assembled and available for public appreciation at the click of a button...

9:10 Fry absolutely clamping Colin Lane with class.

Aw, bless him.

I love that frog story

Jimmys laugh makes everything better

What a legend

We need a part 2!!

You could call them... *Alanecdotes*

@Hagg-o-tron

5 жыл бұрын

You are Alan Partridge and I claim my five pounds!

@joekunedo

4 жыл бұрын

Anecdavies

@Vanastar

4 жыл бұрын

You could, but you shouldn't.

@sirandrelefaedelinoge

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hagg-o-tron _"AHAAAAA...!"_

@mevalgaav

3 жыл бұрын

Only if he tells them in Arabic

I just love who ever runs this KZread challenge

Awesome

I adore Alan

1:16 that's probably the best unintentional Billy Connolly impression ever