ah I see you too are on a QI marathon, congratulations

@spudragious

3 жыл бұрын

Why thank you

@Pltuoirno

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t tell me how to live my life

@Pltuoirno

3 жыл бұрын

But thank you

@KevinMacku

3 жыл бұрын

This is my first...what the fuck is going on with my life?

@drainedbag2169

3 жыл бұрын

Kevin Macku you are enjoying educational and funny content. Welcome to the rebel alliance. 😌

4:00 Burst out laughing not only at the "lice" answer, but also at how Sandi felt the need to turn right around. 😆

Poor David, he was on the right track in 1:47...

Sandi looks adorable in that "oh!" top!

They say of the acropolis where the Parthenon is...

@carolynworthington8996

4 жыл бұрын

Hastur _X ha ha ha!

@ChrisMelville

4 жыл бұрын

What do they say?

@heatherwillis-kershner1973

4 жыл бұрын

Hes gonna say! Hes gonna say! Hes gonna say!

@Dannysince1985

4 жыл бұрын

Blue whale

@spinal_capped

3 жыл бұрын

FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!!

Why didn't they call the Groom of the Stool an Arse-tocrat?

@sillaceestekay2069

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@5:01 There is no historical evidence that King Charles XIV of Sweden had such a tattoo. The tale was first told in an 1833 French play called The Bedfellow. In the play, it is believed that the king has a tattoo that reads something like "Death to Kings" but is later revealed to say "Long live the Republic". The play was a historical fiction and clearly propaganda. No historians have found any evidence that this element is true.

@someonefromsomewhere1009

4 жыл бұрын

Holly Gerding Stephen had just as much if not more inaccuracies and the show has almost always been about the comedians and the more interesting sounding trivia so accuracy has always been sacrificed a little.

@andrewtaylor6985

3 жыл бұрын

@Orion V Without pettiness, I have no career.

@andrewtaylor6985

3 жыл бұрын

@Orion V I'm not being petty, I'm being pedantic.

@patho1392

2 жыл бұрын

@@someonefromsomewhere1009 ĺ

@ems7623

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. But what conditions would lead to this tattoo business in a play becoming believed by people to be a fact? Indeed tattoos in Europe before the art of tattoo spread from Polynesia to the West via sailors would be very unusual, by my understanding. I would be happy to be corrected by any early modern historians who have different knowledge, but this is the common understanding among art historians. Then again ... 1833 ... I suppose it's hypothetically possible tattoos are starting to travel around the world. But i would have put it later than that. The earliest photographic evidence of European tattoos I've come across dates from the 1880s. Prior to that, you'd expect to find it in illustrations or textual descriptions, if anywhere but ... I really don't think it's likely

King George (i think, might have been Edward) actually got his tattoos while serving in the navy. He disembarked in China and got a tiger on one arm and a dragon on the other, done using traditional methods

@jonathanwebster7091

3 жыл бұрын

It was George V, Edward VII never served in the Royal Navy

As much as I love this show I must say, the "wrong answer" alarm sounds like it should be the right answer sound!!

Oh, that's quite good, Jamie Oliver, the Cooky King

Minute 3:24 proves David Mitchell is a brilliant comedian, I almost sprayed my iPad with tea and laughed so hard I expected a seizure. I just love him.

@jimmyusee

2 жыл бұрын

Did you enjoy him in Peep Show? I found it hilarious. Full of great one-liners. 👍 😁

Actually, Charles XIV John didn't have a "Death to kings"-tattoo, that's from a play. However, he did have "Long live the republic tattoo"

@Jotari

4 жыл бұрын

A "Long live the republic tattoo" tattoo or a "Long live the republic" tattoo.

@andrewtaylor6985

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jotari Neither. In the play it reads, "Long live the Republic". Uppercase on the R.

@georged366

4 жыл бұрын

floooooooooooooooood lol i would love it if he had “long live the republic tattoo” actually tattooed on him

Poor David he said the thing about the number being different in England and scotland and Stephen said no

@lilymarinovic1644

3 жыл бұрын

It isnt different - monarchs since the 1700s have had the same number in both countries and will continue to do so.

The groom if the stool looks like he's seen some shit. Which I guess makes that a very accurate painting.

Just a reminder, the Archbishop of Canterbury is a member in good standing with “Putting things on top of other things”.

@hopsta5628

3 жыл бұрын

Bahahahaha, I love it, watched the Pythons doing it just a few days ago

@peterfireflylund

2 жыл бұрын

Good thing he managed to NOT be surrounded by film on that day!

That first clip sure is early. Brand is sitting to Fry’s left (what??) and Fry is telling them exactly how many points they get.

The beautiful QIness in this episode!

I was hoping a compilation of kooky kings would give us Eystein the Fart, Ivar the Boneless, Louis the Universal Spider, et al.

@YuliaLinderoth

4 жыл бұрын

Louis the Universal Spider!?!?

@imokin86

4 жыл бұрын

@@YuliaLinderoth the nickname of a medieval French king who was very good at intriguing and plotting.

@CruellaDeMille

4 жыл бұрын

The scorchingly hot Charles II of Spain.

@KaritKtana

2 жыл бұрын

That clip has its own video :)

Anyone else watching this and part 2 on an infinite loop because YT's algorithm is screwed and the couch is far too comfy?

King Jamie VIII: Pukka! Groom of the stool: No, Your Highness, I said _pucker._

Jamie the eighth, it'd make for some good goose footage come Christmas's 😁🤣

0:34 gif-able moment

@QUARTERMASTEREMI6

3 жыл бұрын

True! I think I'll make it right now!

That was quite interesting.

9:35... Naive backwards is Evian... so is the bottled water company having a laugh at all the plonkers wasting their money buying bottled water which they can get equally as good out of the tap!

@BumMcFluff

4 жыл бұрын

Unless you're on a long car journey away from populated areas (for example), in which case bottled water may well be useful.

@BumMcFluff

4 жыл бұрын

@@elevatedaspirations Fair enough.

@Zoe-bx9bp

4 жыл бұрын

@@BumMcFluff and you could just fill a reusable bottle with tap water before you begin your journey

@BumMcFluff

4 жыл бұрын

@@Zoe-bx9bp That is also true. Provided the journey was foreseeable and you planned ahead. However if you have ever filled a filtered jug (for example) from a tap and seen the crap it collects, you might also prefer not to go this method. I personally refill bottles after I filter it, but not everyone has a filter.

@Zoe-bx9bp

4 жыл бұрын

@@BumMcFluff the 'crap' is not gonna kill you ( if there is something dangerous in the water where you live then I apologise) so there's no need to filter it

It was a fought after job because u had the kings ear' at them vulnerable times so u could influence the kings decisions.

@ev6558

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard that a lot before but let's think about it critically: you're the most powerful person in the country by miles, how much advice are you really taking from a guy you hired to wipe your ass?

I find it so hilarious that they weren't allowed to film the coronation

The groom of the stool would have access to the King's ears. For long periods of time, considering they were all constantly constipated because of their diet.

@markcreitzman8728

2 жыл бұрын

Now we know it was Josh Widdecombe’s ancestor

0:40 if im not mistaken,this coined the phrase "right-hand-man"

@louiswhitaker6997

3 жыл бұрын

Outgunned, outmanned?

Robbie Coltrane would be Robert IV - a great relief to any Englishman who shudders at the mention of Robert I.

"It looks _exactly_ like Edward VII. On the other hand, *[klaxon]* it isn't." That must've been scripted

3:30 ''I feel sorry for all the other finalists to be queen." is a wonderful joke! It is especially so watching as an American who's got ZERO understanding of the royal process and lineage BS the Brits go through to make a monarch.

The King of Hay-on-Wye, Richard Booth, died 11 days ago.

@typacsk

10 ай бұрын

And the king of Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski, died in 1994.

So what we're saying is that David was completely correct

@luke-alex

4 жыл бұрын

I agree that Fry was wrong to rebuff him, Mitchell was _pretty_ _much_ correct and on point. All British monarchs to date have _chosen_ to be known with one single number across the UK. This has always been the English number, so this number has occasionally (such as now) been technically incorrect in Scotland. Elizabeth could, if she chose to, use the correct Scottish number of I rather than II (in Scotland only); she would have the Royal Prerogative to do so. If Jamie followed the convention that Churchill suggested, by calling himself 'James VIII', it would be technically correct in Scotland but not in England (this would be the first time this has happened). However, there are ways to avoid this issue altogether. Monarchs sometimes choose to reign under a different name than their given one, so Jamie could reign as King Jamie (the first), which would be correct everywhere in the UK.

@calumcooper3295

4 жыл бұрын

@@luke-alex Ah that makes sense

3 AM gang

British television seems to have a complicated relationship with Jeremy Clarkson. It seems every once in a while, he says something horrible or questionable, and his repeats get pulled from syndication, or he's rebooked at the last minute, but QI seems particularly keen to continue having him on.

@decodolly1535

4 жыл бұрын

The BBC realise they shot themselves in the foot cancelling his contract for Top Gear because he's really popular. Clarkson still appears on BBC programmes like QI and Have I Got News For You because they are made by external production companies. So the BBC can factually make the claim that they themselves are not employing him.

@michaellejeune7715

4 жыл бұрын

Well the fact is everyone knows he's an asshole, but he's so entertaining.. I don't know if they should've kept him on. He did assault a person.

@TheHutchy01

4 жыл бұрын

He's a bit of a wanker but he's a bloody good presenter.

@jakechinn6561

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHutchy01 Yeah the wankery-ness kind of adds to it, you get too many insanely nice presenters.

@FloozyMcDoozy694

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaellejeune7715 if you look into the actual story instead of blindly believing he punched someone over a steak as the bbc would usually misconstrue a story you'd find out it goes much deeper than that but i doubt youd be capable of doing such a thing because apparently we should all blindly believe everything in newspapers without once looking it up.

The same position exists in Sumo and it is very prestigious.

Sandy should go back to Borintongshire

Jean Baptist Bernadotte didn't exactly rise to become king, he was adopted by the childless king of Sweden when he was past 40 years old😛

Wasn't the King's dunny raised up so that the Groom of the Stool could wipe the royal rear end?

They were talking about shite and then the video neatly segued into Jamie Oliver. How very apt.

Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, King of Sweden and Norway was my 6th cousin seven times removed. Wonder where that puts me in the line of succession?

"big adipose deposit." (Stephenese for "fat")

I really would rather watch full episodes.

The days when European royalty were into S&M big time!

Who's the woman on the left at 2:10?

@CrossEyeMusic

4 жыл бұрын

It's Katy Brand. The episode it's taken from is J04 - Jack and Jill

Sadly I can not picture an American version of this show

Am I the only one that had to turn this up to a staggeringly loud degree?

The story of Bernadotte's tattoos is false but there are some interesting real stories they could have used. My favorite is that the very beloved Empress Elizabeth of Austria, wife of Emperor-King Franz Joseph, who is still beloved and something of a celebrity in Austria, had a tattoo of an anchor on her shoulderblade which was apparently done by a sailor in Greece and, more scandalously, she had a tramp stamp or a tattoo right above her bottom of the Austrian imperial eagle.

@ems7623

2 жыл бұрын

Ah! That might be the easiest yet anecdotal reference to knowledge of tattooing in Europe. But could this not also be apocryphal? Given that it was sailors who brought the Polynesian art of tattooing to the Western world, surely aristocrats would have shunned it. And an Austrian Empress letting a sailor inject ink under her skin with a needle? It sounds all so improbable. Most aristocrats wouldn't let sailors anywhere near them! Truly, an Empress with a "tramp stamp" is pure nonsense. Not only is that slang term new in the past two decades, that variety of tattoos is only slightly older. I suspect you are retelling stories passed around drunken Austrian Biergarten with more of a basis in fantasy than fact. A fun story, but i seriously doubt it's more than that.

You actually pronounce the "s" in Méliès - yeah, French is weird like that.

CAPTIONS PLEASE!!!

The story about the Swedish/Norwegian king and his tattoo is sadly not true.

@JavieraScarratt

4 жыл бұрын

I can't say yea or nay for this particular story, so I'll take your word for it, but I have to say that it's frustrating how often QI gets things wrong, given the nature of the show. If your premise is to make fun of people for believing common historical or scientific myths and misconceptions, then you'd better not be spouting those same misconceptions yourself, but they do, and so the show often feels a tad hypocritical.

@ditzfough

4 жыл бұрын

CROWNED BY GOD. NOT BY THE CHURCH AS MY POWER IS DEVINE!!!

@andrewtaylor6985

4 жыл бұрын

Correct!

@nusquamesse1248

4 жыл бұрын

@Pipe Tunes Sandi made the claim, not the brilliant Stephen. She is phenomenally knowledgeable but even she can make mistakes, as have you.

7:00 Justin Timberlake- I'm a jerk, but listen.

and here I thought “advisor” was spelled with an “o”

Well please, come on, coronate something!

As far as Jamie Oliver goes, his real name is Jamie, not James. Assuming he uses his real name, as is normal, he'd be Jamie I, not James VIII

@DavidAndTheDog

4 жыл бұрын

Sarreq Teryx the problem is that your assertion “uses his real name, as is normal” doesn’t hold water. Until QEII, a whole series of monarchs chose to have an entirely different “ruling” name to their own first name.

@almostfm

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidAndTheDog There were a few (going backwards, George VI, Edward VIII, Edward VII, and Victoria) but most have used their first name as their regnal name.

@almostfm

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, I'm pretty sure his real name is James. But even if it is Jamie, to be technical he wouldn't be known as Jamie I until there was a Jamie II.

@sarreqteryx

4 жыл бұрын

@@almostfm you are correct, I was using his Wikipedia entry, which has changed since then.

..... Jeremys Iron?

I expected Alan to be more of a royal pain in Stephen's behind, really.

@mezalong

4 жыл бұрын

@Eric Burkheimer no he wouldn't, Stephen only does suck suck.

@CharlieQuartz

4 жыл бұрын

Why don’t we dispense with the jokes about queer people’s sexual preferences? It’s usually seen as rather distasteful to make comments about what straight people do in bed, but when it’s about gay relationships it’s given a social license. It must be very intriguing to wonder about the mysteries of the “gay animal,” but it makes many people uncomfortable. Stephen has made comments about his sexuality in the past, but that’s at his prerogative and we should be respectful of the personal parts of his life.

@mezalong

4 жыл бұрын

Fry has made documentaries about this, hence people's flippant remarks.

@CharlieQuartz

4 жыл бұрын

Eric Burkheimer I appreciate your response. However - also as a gay man - I don’t think it is our call to fantasize about someone else’s personal life. A couple of days ago an article was released about singer Troye Sivan which contained very personal questions about his preferences which are only based on the fact he is gay - including a case of the gross ongoing speculation over Shawn Mendes’ sexuality. He said he was uncomfortable and declined to answer the questions. To be clear, the jokes are only made because Stephen is gay. There’s a sort of context that being gay is different, weird, against the standard, that it’s taboo. Children go through a stage of making jokes about sex and body parts because it’s new to them and the mystery is something they want to experience with others without talking about it seriously. That attitude is very common in queer adults because we don’t often get the chance to experience our sexuality the way other children do, so we make up for it later on. Straight people also operate in this “it’s gay, lol” setting because it’s something they don’t experience themselves. I don’t think that’s a very healthy way to look at your own sexuality; we should grow out of the childish stage and realize a more nuanced, seasoned, and beautiful view of ourselves.

@CharlieQuartz

4 жыл бұрын

mezalong Stephen has revealed personal information in the past to help quash stereotypes and make known truths about the LGBTQ+ community in the past, but that does not make jokes at the expense of his personal life appropriate.

7:26 Is the Klaxon having a bad day in this episode?

So... a lavatory attendant went through the motions.

Sue Perkins: Hottest woman ever.

@mischadequeljoe4984

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf

@Dannysince1985

4 жыл бұрын

Errrmmm .....

Honi soit qui mal y pense

Aren’t all kings kinda kooky tho

On anagrams, in supermarkets and stores, staff call customers 'storescum'.....:)

death to all kings, until you are one. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

@andrewtaylor6985

4 жыл бұрын

The story about the tattoo is apocryphal. It came from an 1833 play made for propaganda. There is no evidence for a tattoo and in fact in the play the actual tattoo reads "Long Live the Republic". It is rumoured before the reveal that it reads "Death to Kings".

Aristocraps

Second

The US needs less shower like this rather than mindless reality TV

@MerkhVision

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t u mean “*more*” shows like this?

Royal families are so anachronistic. After the Queen passes so should it.

Anyone else finding the amount of cutting to different camera angles so much in this is nauseating?

@anthonycunningham8116

3 жыл бұрын

No, just you.

LOL. American with British roots here, and my first answer was James VIII. Like, duh.

Apparently, when Henry the 8th died (jousting, eye accident. That got infected) He was wheeled around on a barrow, through different areas, Until his body rotted so badly, that it burst open on the barrow, and spilled onto the ground, where the dogs of the town! Ate his decomposed organs and entrails; and licked up the liquids....... Mmmm yummy. Couldn't have happened to a nicer Guy!!

Surely the Swedish King could just add "Layers" to the end of his tattoo so it said "Death to Kingslayers"

Bloody awful joke, regal reasons, seriously do better.....it's not Christmas yet.

3:51 - yep, She's that *BORING* So completely forgetable. . . .

@krablord

4 жыл бұрын

You do seem like the kind of prick to side with Clarkson

Why didn't they call the Groom of the Stool an Arse-tocrat?