"you're struggling towards being interesting" is the best insult I've ever heard

@Sui_Generis0

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine hearing that in an interview

@CakeRocketProduction

4 жыл бұрын

@@thefriesofLockeLamora putting /r/ anything outside reddit is really /r/cringe

@Lumibear.

4 жыл бұрын

He can be a savage bitch sometimes but you know he loves Alan really.

@sinsoftheswamp8346

4 жыл бұрын

@@CakeRocketProduction you killed him

@Taricus

Жыл бұрын

@@CakeRocketProduction STOP IT! He's already dead! T_T

I just love Alan finally revolting at a "technically, no" question. You speak for all of us mate

@zbr76

5 жыл бұрын

"Finally revolting"? This is from the first series! But I get your point.

@turtlesruleandsavethem2109

5 жыл бұрын

Zach Brookes yuhhhhuiuuhhujyuhui

@zidane456

4 жыл бұрын

Nope not for me. It's the only reason I watch.

@henryambrose8607

4 жыл бұрын

@@turtlesruleandsavethem2109 I wholeheartedly agree.

@lightchipster

4 жыл бұрын

"The drivers will be relieved to know, that the sun wasn't there"

To be honest, I think Anne of Cleves got the best deal; literally the only reason they got divorced was because Henry didn't find her attractive, but he didn't bear her any ill will, so she was given a castle/manor house (can't remember which, but it was a big place) to live in, with her own servants etc. and she was still invited to all the royal events, including the 5th and 6th weddings, Edward VI's coronation AND Mary I's...

@Amateur_Pianist_472

6 жыл бұрын

+rob mcmahon gold digging was the point of marriage in those days. Marriages were arranged according to wealth and position. Marrying for love was not heard of. Men married for the dowry and women married for what the man could provide. Otherwise your family lost power and wealth. In those days it wasn't a bad thing at all, it was expected.

@Sabrowsky

6 жыл бұрын

And she kept her head.

@CathyKitson

6 жыл бұрын

He was truly horrible to all his other wives - even the ones he didn't kill. He threatened both Jane Seymour and Katherine Parr, and he was so vindictive to Katherine of Aragon he wouldn't even let her see their daughter on her deathbed.

@ikathiggs13

6 жыл бұрын

raphael44ify he was horrific to her, separating her from her own daughter and forcing her out of her court, trying to make her become a nun so he could remarry without a fuss apparently. Though of course that didn't work.

@Sabrowsky

6 жыл бұрын

well, he didnt kill her so I think she got off lightly compared to the other unfortunates

the brief trial and major seperation joke was amazing and didn't get the laugh it deserved

@alanwhite7912

3 жыл бұрын

The great Jeremy Hardy.

@stevevasta

Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍🤣

Keep Digging Alan, there has got to be a bottom. :D

@roguishpaladin

5 жыл бұрын

How many moons orbit the Earth? X3

@CharlieQuartz

4 жыл бұрын

I really want this to be a gay joke

@daganlove8536

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah and its stephen

He can't have had three because in order for the second marriage to be discounted then the first marriage must have been counted. And visa versa.

@LilyGrace95

7 жыл бұрын

well, like Stephen said, the Pope voided the second marriage (Anne Boleyn) on the grounds that he was still married to Catherine. However, when Henry set up his own church (because the Pope wouldn't let him divorce Catherine), he declared the marriage void. So technically, it could be argued that both marriages were void...

@donaldb1

7 жыл бұрын

Well, if you believe the Pope then marriage 1 was valid and marriage 2 invalid. But if you believe Henry then marriage 1 was invalid and marriage 2 valid. So there isn't an interpretation under which both were invalid. So I also don't get how 3 can be an answer.

@graphiquejack

6 жыл бұрын

donaldb1 Henry ended up declaring both marriages were invalid. Katherine of Aragon because she was first married to his brother, and Anne Boleyn we assume because he slept with her sister before they started their relationship. Anne Boleyn was on trial for trumped up charges of adultery, treason and incest, but Henry not only wanted her dead but also to invalidate the marriage so their daughter Elizabeth would be bastardized and out of the line of succession, so children from his third wife, Jane Seymour, would be the heirs to the throne. In the end, all three of his children from women who were at one time considered his queen and wife, ruled, so it was all for nothing in the end.

@Iamepideme

5 жыл бұрын

@@graphiquejack actually, as QI themselves say in the book, it was even less; before he executed his wives he declared the marriages invalid, whilst his 2 divorces were also officially annulled. In fact only his 3rd and 6th wives were technically his wives... So, 2.

@pivinne5536

5 жыл бұрын

Catherine of Aragon- Annulled Anne Boleyn- executed. He recognised their marriage but killed her for adultery among other things. Jane Seymour died so the marriage was valid. Anne of Cleves was annulled Catherine Howard was also executed so the marriage was recognised, and obviously Parr survived. 4/6 recognised. You could say though that as he declared Mary I legitimate and second in line for the throne that Catherine was legitimate, as she was legally no longer a bastard, but you don’t argue with the kings logic so w/ever

My primary school history teacher always used to say that Henry VIII had six wives in eight parts - as two of them had their heads lopped-off!

@MeanderingFox

4 жыл бұрын

@nicole nagy HORRIBLE HISTORIES!

@MeanderingFox

4 жыл бұрын

@nicole nagy yup!

@MeanderingFox

4 жыл бұрын

@nicole nagy we are fortunate in that respect.

Henry VIII owned a gun mace. That is a spiked mace with three gun barrels built into the center of the mace head. He called it 'the holy sprinkler' or his walking stick. He used to carry it when he went out into London at night to make sure the night watch were enforcing the curfew and keeping to their posts. One night he was arrested by one of the watchmen for carrying a weapon around after night which was illegal. He didn't recognize the king and didn't believe him when he tried to explain it. So the king of England spent a night in a jail cell until someone finally recognized him. He thought the whole thing was really funny though, so he gave the watchman a reward and promotion for preforming his duty and bought a months worth of coal for everyone he shared the jail with.

@williamadiputra2850

4 жыл бұрын

Huh, sounds like a great guy. I kinda like him

@rachelcookie321

Жыл бұрын

@@williamadiputra2850 he did also have two of his “wives” beheaded though.

Rest in peace Mr Jeremy Hardy, you were a brilliant comedian

Another fun fact: technically, Henry never consummated his marriage with Anne of Cleves, his supposed fourth wife. After a month of never going to bed with her, the marriage was quietly annulled (and Cromwell's head would roll for the embarrassment). Henry and Anne however continued to be friends, and he would grant her a large pension for the rest of her days.

@ikathiggs13

6 жыл бұрын

Douglas Slaughter I heard somewhere that she was referred to as 'The King's sister.'

@CaptHayfever

4 жыл бұрын

Not the Cromwell the rest of us are thinking of, I assume?

@ransherman1611

4 жыл бұрын

@@CaptHayfever that's two centuries prior to THAT cromwell...

@jasons2023

4 жыл бұрын

@@CaptHayfever Both are related.

@john.premose

11 ай бұрын

​@@ransherman1611one century

It took Michelangelo 10 years in total to complete the sistine chapel, he had to be dragged back in and held there until he completed it.

Stephen: Yes, he was syphilitic, and he was huge, and he was a mess of a man. Jo: He sounds bloody gorgeous, doesn't he? Stephen: As a young man, he was ... he was considered one of the most attractive men in all of Renaissance Europe. Jo: I prefer syphilitic and bloated, myself. At least they're easy. And this is the moment I fell in love with Jo Brand.

@hexoslaya3696

3 жыл бұрын

Why.? Are you bloated and syphilitic too?

@jacquelinefox4492

3 жыл бұрын

It's not personal. I'm sure you never met Henry VIII.

Jeremy Hardy. Bless him, I miss his humour. Died far too young RIP 👏👏👏

@zapkvr

3 жыл бұрын

He was wonderful on I'm sorry I haven't a clue

@stevevasta

Жыл бұрын

"How many toast racks did he have?" 🤣

His marriage to Catherine Howard was also annuled before her execution so from a strictly legal stand point he only had two wives Jayne Seymour and Catherine Parr.

@sanderflop

6 жыл бұрын

Three. There is no consistent point of view under which both Catherine of Aragorn and Anne Boleyn don't count. You have to acknowledge one of the two.

@alicemealing5199

6 жыл бұрын

No it should be two or four. The king considered both his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn invalid. Catherine of Aragon due to the not marrying your brother's wife commandment. Also, Henry annulled his marriage Anne Boleyn before accusing her of adultery (which makes no sense as if the marriage never existed how could she be unfaithful?) so that marriage also never existed in his eyes.

@kennycota5099

6 жыл бұрын

Henry annulled his marriage to Anne Boleyn before beheading her, so they both don't count from Henry's point of view.

@Coops1985

4 жыл бұрын

another commandment is that if a man dies without children, his brother has to marry his widow. did no one point that out to him?

@lisakaz35

3 жыл бұрын

@nicole nagy Henry didn't have the chance to hate her.

I love QI, the most good natured panel show out there

Alan looked utterly betrayed at 1:42.

I was in tears at Alan's buzzer sound effect alone, not enough people are talking about that

He had one wife. The one(s) before were ex-wives, the one(s) after were wives to be.

Did Stephen say, “he liked to take it up the Gary glitter?” Because that might have to be some of the best rhyming slang I’ve ever heard

@BioYuGi

4 жыл бұрын

I don't even know what that rhymes with.

@jerrell199

4 жыл бұрын

BioYuGi Hairy shitter 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Lord_Skeptic

Жыл бұрын

Shiter. It is a slang word for arse.

@markwillies7666

4 ай бұрын

​@@BioYuGiif u r being serious......the shitter

Rip Jeremy Hardy

@TheTradge

4 жыл бұрын

I had no idea he'd passed away, was always really funny! =(

@georgecaplin9075

4 жыл бұрын

TheTradge or me, and I found out late that Linda Smith had died as well.

While admittedly there is some debate over the number of wives Henry VIII had, it's nothing compared to the lack of precision regarding the number of husbands his daughter had, which we don't even know to the nearest hundred thousand, what with her being married to England and all. Imagine the wedding night.

He was buried in Windsor. He didn’t “explode” as such. He ruptured, which is common

That fact about Henry’s guts exploding from the heat. Is that Henry? I could’ve sworn that was William the Conqueror not Henry VIII.

@pearkore6821

4 жыл бұрын

They both did! "William died after his horse reared up during a battle, throwing the king against his saddle pommel so forcefully that his intestines ruptured. An infection set in that killed him several weeks later. As priests tried to stuff William into a stone coffin that proved too small for his bulk, they pushed on his abdomen, causing it to burst." "There are a couple of rumours as to what happened to Henry the 8ths corpse. One is that his coffin opened and the body was part mauled by dogs. Another is that his body exploded due to a build up of gases. But the more realistic explanation is that the coffin began to leak blood and bodily fluids. "

@Vinehorse

3 жыл бұрын

Whether or not he actually exploded, he wasn't in a good state by the time they got him to Windsor as he'd been dead for nearly three weeks. And it is unlikely to have anything to do with hot weather: he died in January.

Wasnt he a Woossie one? Best line of Alan’s from QI ever😂😂

Michaelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel in four years is even more impressive when you remember that he was a turtle.

It’s true what they say, Michelangelo was a party dude.

I thought Jo was going to say that his head was separated from the rest of his remains. That would have been a bit of posthumous poetic justice.

0:19 response never gets old

Anne of Cleves was my 12th great aunt and never left me a dime.

Have to see it from below-is that why Henry VIII fell in love with Anne of Cleaves from seeing Holbein's painting?

He can’t have had three. That would be accepting that the first marriage didn’t happen, and the second marriage didn’t happen because he was already married. You can’t say “he didn’t marry Anne Boleyn because he was already married to Catherine of Aragon” if you also say “He didn’t marry Catherine of Aragon because she had married his brother”. The two are mutually exclusive. Therefore he had four wives.

@gggrow

6 жыл бұрын

Not so. If the marriages were determined to be legally invalid on these grounds at the time, it doesn't matter if the grounds make sense.

@graphiquejack

5 жыл бұрын

He invalidated his first marriage because he married Arthur’s widow and his second because he slept with Anne’s sister before their marriage. In his mind, in May 1536, he was a bachelor. My count would be five wives. He had a marriage ceremony and slept with five of his wives. It was only Anne of Cleves that was not a real marriage. Though I guess you could argue that either Katherine’s or Anne’s marriage was invalid... the first if you buy the whole Leviticus passage, and the second because he married Anne before his marriage to Katherine was legally declared invalid.

RIP Jeremy Hardy

@kisbie

5 жыл бұрын

The first QI book unfortunately credits his 'trial and separation' joke to Jeremy... Clarkson. Not two people who could usually be confused.

@seyerus

4 жыл бұрын

Glad that left wing, horror of a man is dead!

@arildsther2626

4 жыл бұрын

@@seyerus He was a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a mate, a colleague. He also brought laughter to many people. But at the end of the day, his crime of daring to hold political views different to your own, made you hate him so much you felt nothing but joy when he died.

@seyerus

4 жыл бұрын

@@arildsther2626 So what? Why does it bother you what I think?

@arildsther2626

4 жыл бұрын

@@seyerus Because you decided to share it with the world. Why would anyone do that, unless they want people to know and care?

RIP Jeremy Hardy.

Bitter/Sweet to see the wonderful Jeremy Hardy. RIP.

See, Alan knows there's a difference between gay and flamboyant.

love how he used his original first name.

"Animal" isn't an insult or the word for those traits. Animals are amazing and beautiful, and humans are animals.

Divorced, beheaded and died... Divorced, beheaded, survived! Yes, definitely six! I love the song lol

A brief trial and a very major separation is a very tame way to describe Henry VIII's wives' ultimate fates.

Alan's trying really hard in this one!

4 + 6 + 8, 4 wives, 6 marriages, Henry 8th. Might help to remember.

Michelangelo was a party dude.

Henry VIII is buried in St Georges Chapel , Windsor Castle.

I believe that the exploding gut mentioned at 1:10 is actually George IV

God, I miss Jeremy Hardy. He would've made absolute mincemeat out of this shower we are lumbered with at the moment.

Michelangelo's "David" is also a perspective-driven work.

Um, Actually, it was William (The Conquerer) The First whose stomach exploded during his funeral

@mallaidhdevlin4512

6 жыл бұрын

Happened to both of them apparently....

@tatewinter8056

6 жыл бұрын

damnm

@p.j.l7193

5 жыл бұрын

I think that was a hazard of lying in state while all the lords came gape , took a while to get to the capital back then so most people would have started to "ripen"

@pivinne5536

5 жыл бұрын

Henry had pretty severe gastrointestinal issues from eating so much. Not only did his stomach explode I’m pretty sure a few limbs were crushed to stuff him into a coffin or the box they moved him in

@missjones580

5 жыл бұрын

'He filled the church with a foul smell' Read that in a book about king Henry.

"Michelangelo was very big strong man who just happened to prefer it up the Gary Glitter" - I'm guessing this particular piece of 'cockney charm' has now fallen out of use.

@pappy374

4 жыл бұрын

"Up the Gary" is still in common parlance.

@zapkvr

3 жыл бұрын

Well we know how Gary preferred it. The degenerate

4:35 "He preferred to take it up the Gary Glitter" That is a regretful line.

@TheRosscurtis

7 жыл бұрын

John Thorgard it's Cockney rhyming slang for "up the shitter". Referring to Anal sex. It's got nothing to do with any of Gary Glitter's unpleasantness.

@j.thorgard

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for telling somebody who watches QI that 'take it up the Gary Glitter' is rhyming slang. I and the other people who liked my comment took it as a non-sensical literal statement. You do see though, that the connection with Gary Glitter makes the rhyming slang all the more potent. Ps. I wish you no ill will.

@zaphodbeeblebrox6627

6 жыл бұрын

In fact for Stephen to use the term correctly he should have just said “ He took it up the Gary”... and leave the listener to work the rest of the rhyme out for themselves.

@Tupelo927

6 жыл бұрын

I specifically came to the comments section hoping to find out what Stephen said. I listened multiple times & couldn't quite catch it. Thanks, y'all!

@Aoderic

6 жыл бұрын

What he's saying, is that Gary Glitter is an arsehole, which is true. If you doubt me, read his criminal charges.

I'm still waiting for the Agony and the ecstacy anecdote.

I love Stephen so much!! 😂 ....and Alan and Jo are bloody awesome too!!

Pretty certain the king with the exploding stomach Jo was thinking of was William the Conqueror, not Henry VIII

@Doomsterlobster

5 жыл бұрын

No, there is a story about Henry VIII's coffin leaking fluids at Syon House (formerly famed Syon Abbey) while being transported to his funeral. Apparently later versions add the explosion twist. Even the original report is probably nonsense, however, since the source is Gilbert Burnet's late 1600s, early 1700s history of the reformation. The story about William the Conqueror is from Orderic Vitalis' Historia Ecclesiastica, written some half a century after the fact. Needless to say, that too was probably invented for dramatic effect.

Is it just me or does Stephen fry resemble ed Kemper the serial killer from America in this clip?

This is a funny "how many wives" clip on the British TV panel show Q.I. (Quite Interesting) and it's from an October 2003 episode in season one. 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

He was buried finally at St. George's chapel at Windsor Castle

Well if you want to go down the route of annulled marriages not counting. Henry was married twice. Jane Seymour and Cathrine Parr. Plus , Stephen commented Henry had syphilis. He didn't.

@roguishpaladin

5 жыл бұрын

The syphilis claim is one of those things which get taught as common sense or folklore, even though it's not true. It's not surprising that someone who went to school in the 60s and 70s might have learned something like that.

I believe it was in fact William the Conqueror, not Henry VIII whose intestines exploded when trying to fit him in the coffin to be buried at Caen, France

@georgealderson4424

4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Queen Anne!

I hear you Alan!

Steven Fry is a legend.

@gwishart

4 жыл бұрын

He's OK, but not as good as his brother Stephen.

I miss Jeremy and Linda Smith 😢

@pappy374

4 жыл бұрын

They could have been siblings!

@lmm2103

3 жыл бұрын

You're so right, they were extremely similar. Apparently they were very close friends. RIP to both

Question should have been how many official marriages

You guys act like you never met a bloke that changes the rules to suit himself.

Michaelangelo certainly wasn't the wussy one - he had a public spat with another artist which resulted in a brawl, breaking his rivals nose.

Alan Davies on scintillating form here. Lol.

0:00 "How many wive did Henry the Eighths have?"

My answer would be "One, at any given time."

@nicoletelovejoy5565

4 жыл бұрын

Incorrect, he wasn't married at birth. Nice try though!

@TallSilentGuy

4 жыл бұрын

@@nicoletelovejoy5565 Make that "Any given time within certain parameters" then.

It's rubbish - the fact that a marriage is annulled doesn't mean it didn't happen. It means its legal status is changed

@MatthewMcVeagh

8 жыл бұрын

***** ??? You've lost me. You've made a bunch of statements that don't seem to have logic or be based on evidence. Firstly, when we ask how many wives he had, we're talking in terms of modern-day standards, because that's what we mean by 'wife' now. Secondly the church was not 'the law', there was canon law and civil law and marriages existed in civil law and the church did not even always have much involvement. (Another documentary I watched talked about how people could often get married in the Middle Ages without involving the church.) Thirdly what 'the church' was changed during Henry's reign thanks to his decisions on how to deal with this very matter of his wives. If a man and woman are married, the woman is a wife. If later the marriage is annulled she is no longer a wife, and legally may be treated as never having been one, but she was judged one at the time therefore she was one in a conventional sense. The same sense that had applied all through the Middle Ages when you could be deemed as married without a priest officiating and without registering with the state, as is legally required now. It's a fact because it's socially recognised.

@MatthewMcVeagh

8 жыл бұрын

Phembo Jones I don't think so. I thought they were being pedantic and making stuff up. I was being realistic and natural and it's up to the individual whether they find it interesting or not.

@Egg-mr7np

8 жыл бұрын

+Matthew McVeagh Firstly, when we ask how many wives he had, we're talking in terms of modern-day standards, because that's what we mean by 'wife' now. That is an assumption that is being exploited by the game to try to be (quite) interesting.

@MatthewMcVeagh

8 жыл бұрын

Phembo Jones Is it? I think they're trying to overturn the assumption but ultimately the case they make is still not valid. It involves a kind of pedantry but also falsification and pretence. The sense that "We've had it wrong all this time" does not become solid.

@nbartlett6538

8 жыл бұрын

+Matthew McVeagh Actually it kind of does: an annulment means that the marriage never legally existed. Since marriage exists only as a legal construct, it can be cancelled by law as well. As Fry said, there may have been weddings but they did not result in legal marriages (as defined by the law of the time).

Offcourse Henry 8. as a scorned man would not acknowledge wives he divorced and beheaded. He even claimed that Anne Boleyn had used witchcraft on him. But even the less how much Henry 8 claimed he had not been married 6 times the fact is he was.

The guy in the extreme right with a purple shirt looks like French President Mácron.

@jpaxonreyes

4 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Hardy RIP

Marriages 1, 2, 4, and 5 were annulled, so it could be argued that Henry VIII only had TWO wives.

Ditto with William1st ( The conqueror). At his funeral in Caen when they tried to cram his body into an undersized coffin. The result was let's just say unpleasant.

he preferred man on man action. lol

Surely the correct answer would be 2? His marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled. His marriage to Anne Boleyn was annulled, Jane Seymour was acknowledged by Henry to be his only true wife and he was buried with her. He annulled his marriages to Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard and finally he died while married to Catherine Parr.

@kennethbrynleyjohnsweet4252

2 жыл бұрын

Or 0 because if the first marriage is illegitimate then so legally are the other 5

6 weddings and 2 exectutions

Henry also annulled his own marriage to Anne Boleyn shortly before her execution. He granted her the "privilege" of being beheaded by a sword rather than being burned to death (the standard penalty for treason) if she agreed to an annulment. Ironically, since the annulment meant that no legal marriage had ever existed between Henry and Anne, making even more of a nonsense of his claims that she was adulterous.

@johndean4998

4 жыл бұрын

Burning was the punishment for heresy. The punishment for treason was being hung, drawn and quartered (a gruesome ritual intended to act as a deterrent), unless you were of noble status in which case decapitation was the norm. Anne Boleyn's request to be decapitated with a sword rather than the less efficient axe was granted because of her royal status, and an expert swordsman from France was employed for the purpose.

@FlowersInHisHair

4 жыл бұрын

@@johndean4998 Sorry, you're not quite right. Anne was either going to be burned or beheaded - it was Henry's choice. She consented to the annulment, so he decided she would be beheaded. He thought the sword was more noble than an axe; that was his choice too. You can read her sentencing for yourself, there are multiple sources, but to save you googling I'll quote the Duke of Norfolk here: “[T]hy judgment is tis: that thou shalt be burned here within the Tower of London on the Green, else to have thy head smitten off, as the King’s pleasure shall be further known of the same".

Bit puzzled by this because if henrys marriages to Catherine of Aragon and anna Boleyn were not a marriage wouldn't that have made Mary I and Elizabeth I illegitimate so after Edward VI died surely then the line of succession should have gone to Henrys sister Margret of Scotland ? ( I know it did eventually with the Stuart era but it would saved a lot lives with no "Bloody Mary " on a rampage !

1:20 fairly sure thats a different king but ok...

@WolfGratz

4 жыл бұрын

Probably leaked rather than exploded.

he actually had 7 weddings, he married anne boleyn twice

@josephwhite519

3 жыл бұрын

Because the first time go round, he put the ring on the wrong finger.

@isthatrubble

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephwhite519 ........ no, because the first one made him a bigamist so they did it in secret

Does anyone know the "perspective" painting Fry is talking about?

@rusemode

4 жыл бұрын

This one? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein)

He had seven weddings (he married Anne Boleyn twice) and only TWO 'legal' wives - he annulled his marriages to the first and second Catherine (he pushed away Catherine of Aragon and chopped off the head of Catherine Howard after having gotten an annullment first of course); he annulled his marriage to Anne B and chopped off her head too! He annulled the marriage to Anne of Cleves in short order when he no longer needed the backing of her protestant brother (but didn't dare to do anything nasty to her because she wasn't English). The only two women whose marriages to him that he considered to be legal were those of Jane Seymour, the mother of his son, and thankfully his sixth wedded wife, Catherine Parr, managed to survive him - but only just as he had at one stage made out an order for her execution as well.

It was actually William the Conqueror's stoumach who exploded

Henry VIII looks like he just smelt his own trump.

One, at any given time.

Wasn't it William I who's stomach exploded?

@YvonneWilson312

5 жыл бұрын

You are correct. But that doesn't mean it didn't also happen to Henry VIII, which it definitely did.

@15schaa

5 жыл бұрын

Makes sense - just seemed unlikely it'd happen twice I suppose.

@Doomsterlobster

5 жыл бұрын

There are stories about both of them. It's probably not true in either case, though. Certainly not in Henry's, where the earliest source (Gilbert Burnet's history of the reformation written in the late 1600s and early 1700s) is already unlikely and only mentions the coffin leaking fluids. Orderic Vitalis wrote his account of William maybe 50 years after the fact, too - and the story of intestines spraying all over people is obviously for dramatic effect.

@WolfGratz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Doomsterlobster Absolutely correct! Sorry it took so long to read this far down!

@NaughtyFox1331

4 жыл бұрын

The situation is completely different and the type of "explosion" is very different. William was described as his intestines exploded outwards while we was on horse back in battle. So I imagine he took an aggressive blow and intestines ruptured. Henry the VIII was absolutely massive and infectious when he died, and the weather was stupidly hot, and his organs popped in the heat. sounds so unlikely to happen twice but tbh that's the madness of british history

I loved the way Stephen got all defensive about homosexuality!

@Eisenwulf666

6 жыл бұрын

raphael44ify the whole homosexuality theory for Buonarroti is kinda weak though. Yes ,later in life he wrote some poems and letters dedicated to a man,but when he was younger he had at least an affair with a woman,probably more. I mean it is a meek point but to presume he was an homosexual just because he was an artistic genius is a bit farfetched. Also ,it was the renessaince,everybody was having with both sexes and ,unfortunately,teenagers. Lorenzo De`Medici had countless women but also some platonic love for artists and poets and so on. It was never so black and white

@CathyKitson

6 жыл бұрын

Eisenwulf666 Yeah, ikr. Even later. They go on about Shakespeare - was he gay? Because he wrote some poems to Lord Southampton or something. The question is, who cares? I don't care if he was anally retentive or the worst flaming nana of all time! He was the most beautiful poet and playwright the world's ever produced, and his sexuality doesn't even come into it. Same with Michelangelo.

@Eisenwulf666

6 жыл бұрын

raphael44ify my point precisely

@Xezlec

6 жыл бұрын

Shakespeare's sexuality matters precisely *because* he was such a celebrated poet. It's another piece of evidence in the argument that gays (or perhaps bisexuals in this case) have given much to the world and shouldn't be hated, killed, criminalized, or banished. And by the way, the matter is not nearly as debatable as you might assume it is if you've only vaguely heard about it. In fact, the idea is no modern invention. Sonnet 20, for example, disgusted readers in the 1700s with its very clear and unhidden homosexuality. And the second edition in 1640 even went so far as to change the text to make the addressee a woman, to hide the unpleasant truth.

@Eisenwulf666

6 жыл бұрын

Xezlec i mean,do we need evidence to not persecute other human beings? I thought it was common ground. In that case cool,more power to the people who wants to put everybody in categories. Not even sarcastic,if saying Shakespeare was gay may save just one life ,then by all means. I mean,i fear tho that the target (homophobic people ,society,whatever..) could not care less about Shakespeare and his orientation. If a kid who is bullied in school says :" but shakespeare was gay too!" I fear he is going to get bullied even more :/ that said ,whatever helps people is good for me :)

4:07 we HAVE to stan

Three. Annulled and unannulled, Annuled, Died; Annulled, Annulled, Survived. Being uber pedantic, his first marriage was unannulled after his death. So Henry VII had three wives.

Henry the VIII had six wives and numerous mistresses. It’s not important how he tried to get various marriages annulled when the poor woman or the circumstances didn’t suit him. The fact is that he legally considered himself married to all six women. Had Catherine of Aragon borne him living sons, he would never have divorced her and Anne Boleyn would have been nothing more than a short-term mistress. Henry, however, was desperate for a male heir and when Anne couldn’t produce one rather quickly, he had her beheaded on trumped up charges which took the lives of at least five other men including Anne Boleyn brother, less than three years after their wedding. JaneSeymour did produce a male heir, Edward but she died of complications of the birth. Thomas Cromwell lost his head because he pushed the king to marry Anne of Cleves whom the King did not fancy at all. The fifth wife was a young girl, Catherine Howard who evidently got caught in flagrante delicto with various nobles and got beheaded for betraying the king. No one can really blame her. Henry was old and suffering from a range of illnesses, one being a wound on his leg that wouldn’t heal and according to contemporary records had a horrible smell. There are also indications that he suffered from Syphilis. The last wife outlived him.

Not counting Anne Boleyn as one of Henry’s wives does require us to recognise the authority of the pope in the matter, which was questionable enough already at that time, and especially nowadays doesn’t necessarily say all that much.

It was William the Conqueror not Henry the 8th that exploded.

Holbein's the fucking best!!! :D

Alan is right, in my opinion. whatever legal wranglings he did to get out of it, he took vows 6 times. He has fewer wives just because he broke them?

In England we has what was known as a common law marriage meaning the church didn't need to be involved

Actually he had 2. One that outlived him, one died in childbirth. The rest were annulled, therefore, they never happened

Where can I watch full episodes?

@gwishart

4 жыл бұрын

New episodes are on BBC Two, older episodes are on Dave. If you missed them, they're available on the BBC iPlayer and UKTVPlay.

Both Linda Smith and Jeremy Hardy dead - hard to credit.

@medievalist

4 жыл бұрын

And Victoria Wood :(

You can only annul a marriage that happened and thus, he was married...it was a piss poor question that should have been "How many OFFICIAL wives did Henry have".

So he had 6 weddings but two of them were ruled off side.

@roguishpaladin

5 жыл бұрын

...this is the best way to explain annulment ever. And then Henry played the game under protest and founded his own league afterward.

I used to have Alan's shirt. You're welcome.

There is no painting of Henry VIII holding a Turkey leg.....true fact