At 15:36 Stephen mentions the world population being 6.8 billion. This show aired in february 2010 and now, only 12 years later, the world population has grown by almost an entire billion.

@linebrunelle1004

Жыл бұрын

and each couple still fucks like mindless selfish rabbits.

@soberhippie

Ай бұрын

I remember watching a live show during which the population got over 5 bln.

Love Jimmy Carr with the whole idea of "it's like being on tv with your dad!" *slouches and moans*

At 14:49 Jimmy Carr starts laughing like a normal person and then changes back to his iconic laugh

@avysark2034

5 ай бұрын

His laugh is really just for publicity and to fuck with people who can't stand it. I personally don't mind it anymore since I learnt that about him =)

I am extremely shocked that Jimmy could do a actually pretty accurate music explanation for the difference between goth and emo, that he actually knew those bands :O

@MondayNightFriend

4 жыл бұрын

Same. And it went totally unappreciated lol.

@gladtobeangry

4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing those were the bands he liked when he was younger. They once showed a picture of him in his teens, and he was a total goth, and a nerdy one too.

@agalgonzalez

Жыл бұрын

He is wearing black eyeliner....

@jamesedmonds7519

Жыл бұрын

Why? I know what those bands are and I still think they're shit.

@monkeypeas

6 ай бұрын

Except it wasn’t accurate. My Bloody Valentine are in no way emo, if anything they’re noted for their lack of expressiveness. He probably mixed up My Chemical Romance and Bullet for My Valentine

Noel fielding would be great for this episode

@cidb.212

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. I was surprised by his absence.

@jamesmcclarty-miller7886

2 жыл бұрын

@@cidb.212 As was I

@bennylloyd-willner9667

2 жыл бұрын

He should have been guest host.

@happivaras

Жыл бұрын

Imagine IF foel nielding was funny?

@markmayonnaise1163

Жыл бұрын

@@happivaras it's about as difficult to imagine as you having a sense of humour.

I can't get over Mel G reverse cowgirl. Thanks Mel... I mean Sue!

So awkward when they reveal he's in the audience! Haha

@Renzsu

4 жыл бұрын

I've never seen that show on Dutch tv.. "people love it".. I'm not so sure ;)

@annebuizer1881

4 жыл бұрын

@@Renzsu it only lasted for 1 season in 2008/2009 ;)

@gladtobeangry

4 жыл бұрын

@@annebuizer1881 wrong choice of host. Arthur Japin is a lovely man, but he's not a presenter or a comedian. They should have gone with Wim T. Schippers, then maybe he could have made it his own thing. But the bottom line is that dutch comedy just isn't as good as british comedy. For every half-decent comedian we produce, the UK has five or six absolutely brilliant ones. And we all speak English really well, so we watch the original rather than the bad dutch copy. Mind you, if we have anything close to british comedy, Thomas van Luyn is probably one of the few worth comparing. At least they made the right choice there.

That Gothic look really suits Sue Perkins!

@DeBedschbacher

5 жыл бұрын

So this has been uploaded six and a half years ago and I am three days late to post exactly this?😂 But yeah, she looks marvelous!!

@pf161821

4 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Mel? ;)

@rumpelpumpel7687

2 жыл бұрын

Gothik look suits almost everybody tbh. Jimmy Carr thou, he looks like the third member of the dresden dolls xD

I miss Stephan! My dog woukd sometimes howl at his "hellooooooo" and "gooooood eeeeevning... gooood eeevining good evening"".

One of the best episodes :)

I find the air canada on the plane shaped coffin most appropriate.

Oof, Awkward, when Dutch QI was still in there baby shoes and they were hoping and presenting it as it was going to be a succes, but it failed after season two... Sadly

@DerEchteBold

5 жыл бұрын

Two? According to Wiki it was just one season ...with only six episodes.

@jorritoudhof2768

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but that's mainly because Japin has the charisma of a used handkerchief.

@suzyhangaround

4 жыл бұрын

@Baron Von Grijffenbourg haha, maybe that's the reason why sometimes Dutch comedians make it to become known in Germany, because the "comedy" here is mostly awful as well. But tbh at least a Dutch accent in German makes every joke about 50 % better because it's so lovely

@petertimowreef9085

2 жыл бұрын

@@suzyhangaround "But tbh at least a Dutch accent in German makes every joke about 50 % better because it's so lovely". That is such a kind thing to say, thank you neighbour.

@ClaudeSac

Жыл бұрын

In there?

The broken pillar on graves actually means much more than just simply a family member dying. It was used in aristocratic, or rich landowner families, where there was only one son to be the heir of the estate, and he died before his father, therefore breaking the family line, since daughters took the name of their husbands. So the broken family line is symbolized by the broken pillar. I'm surprised they missed that.

My poor cat. When they played the starling singing, my cat immediately turned to check out the bird feeder*, intensely seeking the bird. She is very frustrated that no bird is there. *Placed in a way that the birds can get to it but the cat cannot get to them, also she is an indoor cat.

Steven Fry in black, quite handsome!

@livb6945

5 жыл бұрын

Jeeves... 'nuff said

Mozart was not only buried in a pauper's grave, he was buried in a common grave into which lime was shoveled to reduce the possibility of contagion in case the soil was disturbed or washed away. The funeral fee was the standard for such common-grave burials. Not expensive, but not cheap. QI s t r e t c h e s the facts a bit to live up to its name.

gothic meanings actually have lots in common. it means outsider, barbarian, etc. and those terms all apply to the different types of goths of gothic.

In same cases people can have a flat line in an ECG without tripping with the cable, it’s s called asystole, it’s when the electric activity of the heart stops. It’s true that in asystole the defibrillator is no good but in some cases, if the doctors act quickly (for example injecting adrenaline), the heart can start beating again.

@pokerface7840

5 жыл бұрын

Yes he got the EKG part all wrong, How hard could it be to ASK A DOCTOR? Who said defibrillator is no good in asystole?

Daaaamn, girl! Sue is hella adorkable!

Jack Dee, smiling: now, that's scary.

The "see me rot" was already shown to be a hoax way back in late 2003 - before the first episode of QI even aired.

@insaincaldo

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, had me looking up QI. When I first caught it on tv, not being British local, I thought the show must be ages old.

Oh my, Stephen's Dutch pronunciation... There are no words. Haha

@roteredamus

5 жыл бұрын

Still better than people of Limburg.

@GirGir183

4 жыл бұрын

you mean very good, or very bad?

@fdv7609

4 жыл бұрын

It's allright. The g is pronounced way to harsh though

Fun fact that Stephen may have been heading towards before the conversation changed direction: Contrary to popular belief, the woman in the picture isn't actually the man's wife, it's his daughter.

With all due love and respect to the good people of the Netherlands, that presenter comes across about as smug and superior as “the Dutch version of QI” would predictably be ❤🇳🇱🥰

30:00 I think in another episode Jimmy gets the buzzer for "reverse cowgirl", but which episode is that?

Yonks ago, when I was still a goth, we had giddy goths. Those were people like me and my mates who giggled a lot but were often depressed. And liked the whole fashion statement. /;). ;)

"If you wanna be my amputee, you gotta..."

Only ran for like 1 season "Yes, people love it"

Did Jimmy know that he would be hosting Countdown after this for many years?!?!!!!

By the way are British people small or are the Dutch just very tall? Arthur Japin is about half a head bigger then most of the audience.

Great! xx

The problem with purposefully inuring yourself for insurance windfall...insurers use actuarial tables to calculate compensation for loss; 'losing' one's left hand would net less than losing the right hand. Diminishing returns?

22:19 the cut off date?

29:03 looks like it was that squid’s time of the month

6.8 billion people, and now we've surpassed 7.8 billion

I don’t understand why Fry keeps calling it Scandiwegian, Norway is included in Scandinavia, it’s Finland that isn’t?

@gtpliquid1290

6 жыл бұрын

He's being childish/playful with his words there, not scholarly.

@srenstraarupfrederiksen313

6 жыл бұрын

Jon jonsson - soap smells funny to you?

@BertGrink

6 жыл бұрын

Jon jonsson I'm afraid you're a little mistaken; Scandinavia is, and has always been, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Fennoscandia, on the other hand, consists of Finland, Sweden and Norway. In both cases, though, the name included the latin name for Skåne; Scania, so that region seems to have a key role, for some reason. Oh and by the way, smelling funny isn't as bad as you think - it's worse to smell bad :P Finally, and this is more of a joke, some years ago i had befriended a cam girl who lived in Sweden, and she loved to call the Scandinavian countries Swedenia, Norwegia and Denmarkia.

@barracuda909

6 жыл бұрын

BertyFromDK Scandinavia isn't named after Scania, Scandinavia refers to the Scandes, which is the mountainrange between Sweden and Norway.

@barracuda909

6 жыл бұрын

And to clarify, the geograpical area known as the Scandinavian peninsula is just Sweden and Norway, but the cultural area of Scandinavia includes Denmark.

Good god, is there any language Stephen doesn't speak?!

@DerEchteBold

5 жыл бұрын

Well, he surely doesn't really speak all those languages, he's an actor, he memorizes lines. Btw, often his pronunciation is so bad, no native speaker would understand ; )

@666rsrs

5 жыл бұрын

DerEchteBold his german is really good, though

@diggledoggle4192

5 жыл бұрын

@kevinthe hamster I think his mother is of Hungarian decent thought born in England

@SaintPhoenixx

Жыл бұрын

I would imagine his Swahili is lacking.

Sorry to say but I checked one of the Nederlands episodes of QI and the comments did not sound as positive, so the Brits got the better one!

This goth approves!

There's another version of van Gogh's ear mishap and it's that it was shot off.

26:26 *Ellaria Sand screaming*

Arthur Japin came to my school once. Huh.

I think Stephen almost got his wish when he said I would love to see it happen, we did not become Zombies, but we saw just how fast Covid 19 moved across the planet, I am sure that just how fast and how deadly this was for the world there are people looking at this very great interest and not for good reasons.

"I am quite afraid of it." lol

Should've had Noel Fielding, Russell Brand and well.. yeah Jimmy Carr for this one. Jimmy looks like a ventriloquist doll.

How to mummify yourself; Drink Jilly Juice 😂

20:00 Not sure I buy it. Why would the go to airline for a Ghana carpenter be Air Canada?

@Gunni1972

4 жыл бұрын

Coffins made to order for 400$? you are lucky if you find an urn for that price here.

Jimmy Carr hasn't aged a day

@SaintPhoenixx

Жыл бұрын

That'll be all the botox and veneers and hair dye and hair transplants.

Who is Mel?

@AndThatIsOwnage

10 жыл бұрын

Sue. That made me laugh so hard.

@LorenOnTheMoon

6 жыл бұрын

Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc were the hosts of the Great British Bake Off when this was aired. Stephen got them mixed up, it would seem.

@rimmersbryggeri

5 жыл бұрын

@@LorenOnTheMoon No is becasue she looks exactly like Mel Smith.. LOL

@gladtobeangry

4 жыл бұрын

@@LorenOnTheMoon They were a long running presenter duo, came to fame in the 90s, with shows like Late Lunch. Sue got asked for Bake-off and initially wanted to say no, then they offered to share the presenter role with Mel, and Sue was persuaded by the idea of reviving the old double act. She explained on Richard Herring's podcast.

your number for the amount of rice on the last square of a checker board would by even and you said last digits 635

And then he completely mispronounce Arthur Japin's name

@diggledoggle4192

5 жыл бұрын

@5putput 😂

@Gunni1972

4 жыл бұрын

I thought he meant Frederic Chopin.

I can't believe this is where I find out there was a Dutch version of QI

@likmijnreet4542

Жыл бұрын

did you check it out? I caught a glimpse once and it looked like a joyless, pretentious mingling of the minds.

@kieranbutt798

Жыл бұрын

The Dutch version was awful😂

@ClaudeSac

Жыл бұрын

​@@likmijnreet4542goeie username heb je! 😂

Chubby-Carr, Skinny-Carr, what's he now ?

@ClaudeSac

2 жыл бұрын

Hairy-Carr...

@ripdbtpoo1441

Жыл бұрын

Very successful.

Oof, somebody should tell Goliath that he is Grotesque.

The Dutch version was very saai.

@a3aan__uit389

2 жыл бұрын

weet jij waar je afleveringen kan vinden? ben benieuwd

@The_Real_Mier

Жыл бұрын

@@a3aan__uit389 Er staat een link ongeveer 4 comments hierboven.

@The_Real_Mier

Жыл бұрын

I haven’t seen it, but with Japin as the host I can only imagine it would be saai. Because that arrogant man will take it way too serious, as he takes himself way too serious. I’ll stick to the British humor, which is so much better than what the Dutch wannabes come up with!!

there were never horns on Viking helmets

15.39 corona proved the fact.

Todays joke on Alan… Arsenal nil, Nottingham Forest 1. Ha ha.

Yes, because what you want to do while out for a walk with "your best girl" is to correct her when she points out "the gargoyle". LOL You'll be dating your right hand before you know it. Or left if you swing that way; however, as we all know from "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", it does feel like someone else. Hold onto THAT thought.

It's such a Florida man thing to do, cutting your limbs off for insurance fraud...

If you saw a gravey yard like that, it would be a cimetary.

A hundred V.C.s? I had no idea that the Viet Cong existed right after the First World War. ;)

As a goth I feel offended, amused and smug.

28:41 ... "...equivalent to a human it would be eyes of a foot wide" ... "that'll be Natalie Imbruglia" sorry what? xD

@RealBradMiller

2 жыл бұрын

Idk, I'm already torn, her eyes look normal to me!

The loved one webcam is a hoax.

MEL?!??

Probably the hottest jimmy has ever looked

And the right answer is..... Piers Morgan!!!

I thought it was called exponential growth.

@badoem5353

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it is in this case since you double starting from one But 45.3.3.3.3.3.3.3.. is also geometric growth As is 1.2.2.2.2.2.2... Not just to the power of 2 Not sure how if clear enough 😅 though

How could you *ever* cut off a part of your body for financial gain? Unbelieveable....

Alan 1. Allan bites Jimmy 2. Jimmy bites Jack 3. Jack bites Mel/Sue 4. That, is not exponential. It's it purely linear. So, let's say a second each? 6.8 billion people...6.8 billion seconds. I make that about 215 years.

My bloody valentine are shoe gaze not emo,I think he meant my chemical romance possibly!

I'd love to think these went by unscripted, (for the most part anyway) but I can't imagine how those "VAN GOFF" and "VAN GO" texts came up precisely when they said it, if they weren't anticipated. I mean somebody must've prepared those beforehand. Although even if it were scripted, I wouldn't say it diminishes my experience. In fact, I wish my countrymen were smart enough to appreciate a local adaptation of this.

@DerEchteBold

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think they necessarily needed a script for that, these are just usual mispronunciations British people would come up with, it's not that remarkable to have these prepared. Btw, the Dutch QI actually failed miserably, even though the guy said they loved it ; )

@fredelmo

5 жыл бұрын

@@DerEchteBold And also the actual pronunciation of 'van Gogh' is near impossible if you are not Dutch. Or perhaps South African. The 'g' like we (the Dutch) pronounce it is REALLY hard for people who never had to make this sound. Like Polish people saying our 'uuu'. Near impossible because their throat doesn't know how to. Never practised. With these specific sounds you shouldn't let a foreigner pronounce it. Because it's never right. Just like I can't make the 'click' sound from Miriam Makeba her song, and with that I mean the language that I cannot remember the name of. Sorry..

@DerEchteBold

5 жыл бұрын

@@fredelmo I'm German, I can somehow pronounce it, I can also pronounce that click sound but not very loudly and I can't figure out why, tried it after that Trevor Noah was on QI, he is Xhosa, same as Miriam Makeba's father, the language is isiXhosa, or usually just called Xhosa as well, the X stands for the click I think. I looked up a few pronunciations and most people seem to do more of a smack rather than a click, don't know if that's really correct, Trevor Noah produced a really distinct click, as far as i remember. Btw, Liverpudlians should theoretically be able to pronounce Van Gogh accurately, they have that guttural 'g' or 'ch' like in Dutch, German or Swiss German, for example they say 'book' very much like the Swiss person would say 'Buch', just with a very short 'u' sound. Goedenacht!

@fredelmo

5 жыл бұрын

@@DerEchteBold I love elaborate answers! Xhosa was the one.. Also Spanish people should be able to say the 'g' ;). I guess it comes down to what you are used to! I can speak understandable German but you will always be able to tell the accent. Vice versa I guess ;). But I still need to find the first Englishman or Frenchman to say the G correctly ;). And I will applaud them when I will. There is, btw, no u sound in Van Gogh at all. It's more the 'a' of the all in the sentence before this one. British, not American!

@DerEchteBold

5 жыл бұрын

@@fredelmo Oh, of course, I mentioned the German 'u' sound just for the book example. But if the British would just say the 'Van' like 'fun Gogh' they would probably sound closer than they usually do. Btw, I'm a guitarist and there's a Dutch guitar electronics manufacturer called Van Weelden (with stuff I really can't afford ...but nevertheless) could you please try to explain to me how the 'Weelden' should be pronounced?

As a Dutch from the Southern part of the country I strongly disagree with that pronounciation of Van Gogh

@victoriatremblay2589

2 жыл бұрын

How do you say it? I say Goff that is what I was taught

@ClaudeSac

2 жыл бұрын

@@victoriatremblay2589 on the wikipedia there is a correct pronounciation: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Vincent_willem_van_gogh.ogg

Just because the Dutch mistakenly took far far far too much from Brabrantese and didn't stay as Frisian in their phonology isn't our fault in English.

@Radonatos

4 жыл бұрын

I like the wording, actually had to read it twice ;)

Why do they make such a big thing about Sue being called Mel?

@GirGir183

4 жыл бұрын

@@JackfruitMistletoe I know this, but what's all the tragedy about Stephen calling Sue the wrong one. It's just a slip of the tongue. It's not that important.

@insaincaldo

2 жыл бұрын

Fry, leaning the other way, tends to get more embarrassed when he stumbles into these things.

@SaintPhoenixx

Жыл бұрын

It's a minor slip of the tongue unless you're talking to 4 stand up comedians while on TV. It shouldn't have been a big thing but comedians latch onto anything like that, it's a red rag to a bull.

Sorry mr Fry, you read out the wrong number! It is impossible that a number based on doubling will end in an odd! So the chess board thing cannot possibly end in 15. Lockdown pedantry!!:P

@TheSittinDuk

4 жыл бұрын

It's one grain of rice on the first square, not two.

@gordonrotherham2500

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSittinDuk yeah I realised that about a week ago!

It's odd that Sue Perkins can be side-splittingly funny everywhere but QI, where she is usually quite the opposite.

@juulvandijk5041

4 жыл бұрын

You could call it... Quite interesting

Scandiwegian, What the hell is that? The Goths came from Denmark, and not Norway. The late King Frederik the Ninth of Denmark was also King of the Goths. I like Fry, but he knows nothing about scandinavia.

@realitymatters8720

5 жыл бұрын

Nobody knows where they came from, northern Germany, southern Denmark, and even Gotland, and östergöterland has been suggested. But, no conclusive evidence has ever been uncovered !

@TheBayzent

5 жыл бұрын

Götland is currently in Sweden though...well off shore Sweden but still...

@Dendarang

5 жыл бұрын

Every king and queen regnant of Denmark from the Christianisation up to the current queen, Margaret II, who refused the titles and just used "Queen of Denmark" instead, used the titles King of Goths and King of Wends, with "Goths" referring to romanticized image of Germanic peoples and Wends being an exonym for either West Slavs or Slavs in general.

@VulpesObscura

5 жыл бұрын

Scandiwegian is a common phrase used on QI to refer to that portion of the world, it's a recurring joke started by a panelist who identifies herself as 'Scandiwegian.'

Gothic doesnt exist!

Sue is the worst

@AravindPradhyumnan

4 жыл бұрын

no u