I thought Rhys was David Mitchell impersonating Austin Powers at first

@MrGustaphe

5 жыл бұрын

He gets that all the time.

@CommanderSuberox

4 жыл бұрын

I thought he was a gay Hugh Jackman

@RavixFourhorn

4 жыл бұрын

@@CommanderSuberox He gets that SOME of the time.

@nunyanunya4147

4 жыл бұрын

OH! took this comment for me to realize it wasnt cosplay :P the problem with famous people is there are so many ov them it hard to remember them all

@lewismaddock1654

2 жыл бұрын

Rhys is just a fantastic comedian. He's really a master.

As a New Zealander I find Rhys Darby hilarious, even though it's hard to pin down exactly why he's funny.

@rimmersbryggeri

5 жыл бұрын

His looks for one are quite entertaining.

@penelopehunt2371

5 жыл бұрын

He's the cleverest

@chriscoulson7684

5 жыл бұрын

Leggy blonde goodbye, goodbye.

@Shakes-Off-Fear

4 жыл бұрын

He’s gotten a few roles in Hollywood now like in Yes Man and the new Jumanji but he always uses his natural accent, probably just because he’s funnier that way than trying to imitate an American one.

@MrBonham

4 жыл бұрын

I'm also a New Zealander and honestly I have got quite sick of him.

"Chap or lady?" Just really taps into the British sense of humour that haha.

@ianmontgomery7213

4 жыл бұрын

Well Dale can be either sex. Dale Arden was Flash Gordons lady

@TheHadesShade

4 жыл бұрын

I never got that joke. Captain?

@zetetick395

4 жыл бұрын

I think Kiwis say 'chap' too, the Aussies as well.

@michaelcolbourn6719

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHadesShade Dale Winton is very camp. So they were laughing suggesting he could be classed as a woman because of this. Obviously noone thinks a camp man is actually a woman, but that was the joke.

@makinoahcelloduo9008

3 жыл бұрын

Rhys is a New Zealander, of course, not a Brit. Watch him on Flight of the Conchords.

Pepin the Short really did badly when it came to nicknames, he was the son of Charles the Hammer and the father of Charles the Great.

@illyrian9976

4 жыл бұрын

Charlemagne is called Karl der Grosse in german, with Gross meaning great but also tall (Charlemagne was supposed to be 6'2)

@metallsnubben

3 жыл бұрын

Illyrian Imagine it getting mistranslated somewhere and now he’s just Charles the Disgusting

@bakersmileyface

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there a Pepin the hunchback later down the line too?

@TheHutchy01

3 жыл бұрын

@@bakersmileyface he was Charlemagne's son. I'm not sure he was ever King though.

@Sabrowsky

3 жыл бұрын

I think he is the most unfortunately named king when his name is translated to portuguese. Because it translates to "Pepino" which literally means "cucumber".

Where it says "TV Format" in the title I was thinking of aspect ratios of TV screens, and that maybe Charlemagne's dad commissioned a portrait of himself or something using those proportions. Now, had it said "TV SHOW Format", I wouldn't have been led astray...

@ChristopherNFP

3 жыл бұрын

Glad someone else had the same thought. It is almost clickbait.

@JagoffCitizen

3 жыл бұрын

It's the only reason I clicked on it.

@Fuzy2K

3 жыл бұрын

He invented 1080p in a dream, but forgot about it when he woke up.

@michaelharrison1093

2 жыл бұрын

PAL or NTSC

@carltonleboss

10 ай бұрын

​@@michaelharrison1093Considering he was French, probably PAL

Rhys Darby competed for a stand up award (named after the late, great Billy T James), and his piece was brilliant. My friends and I still quote it, over a decade later. He came second and went on to do Flight of the Conchords, Jumanji, Yes Man, world tours, and be an author. I can't even remember the name of the lady who won. I guess he was just more willing to put the time and effort in.

Rhys Darby is a gem

Ordeal or no ordeal

Good to see Austin Powers joining the crew in QI.

As a New Zealander, I find Rhys Darby's accent odd. It's like he's doing the accent that non-kiwis expect Kiwis to sound like.

@pembertr0n

4 жыл бұрын

myUserName “He maybe did!” “Did what?” “He maybe DID.” “Okay, maybe he did, maybe he didn’t... what did he maybe do?” “Not alive... you know, DID.”

@SohamBhattacharya3105

4 жыл бұрын

@@pembertr0n 😂😂😂

@Septimus_ii

4 жыл бұрын

I imagine Henning Wehn sounds similarly odd to Germans

@myahcross4592

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. As a New Zealander I’ve never heard anyone sound like him in my life. He actually sounds a bit Aussie to me

@julianshepherd2038

3 жыл бұрын

Do you think he is an actor?

This clip features one of the last public appearances of Bush-Man, before his strange disparition, in a remote area of New-Zealand.

@patrickwells3653

7 жыл бұрын

Psycho Sam!!

@Mia_Thirtle

5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit I didn’t realise

The best Dark Age ordeal has to be Ordeal by Cake. A cheesecake was made weighing about an ounce, and the accused had to eat it whole. If they coughed, choked etc. they were guilty. The bread was made of unraised barley and the cheese was made of sheep milk

@bretthess6376

4 жыл бұрын

Ordeal by cake! Are you sure Terry Pratchett didn't invent this one? Only it would be Ordeal by Mrs. Cake!

Dark ages endurance test? My dad used to play a dark ages endurance test on me all the time, basically hold the something-or-other while I try to fix shit very casually.

A show where you touch a car sounds weird, but not half as weird as Jason finishing 2nd in a singing contest ahead of the lead singers of The Darkness, Scissor Sisters & Skunk Anansi as well as Ceelo Green, Kelis and Katherine Jenkins all whilst dressed as a hedgehog

@witherblaze

3 жыл бұрын

The masked singer?

S.R. Bindler's documentary Hands on a Hard Body is a great film that follows one of these contests in Texas in 1995. The thoughts of the contestants and their different motivations make for a fascinating human drama far beyond just standing by a pickup for three days.

4:22 "It's been seven hours now, still touching it" must be a hell of a thing to tune into without catching the context at the beginning of the game show.

Why is David Mitchell dressed as Austin Powers?

To the late Dale Winton.

@neptunestardust

5 жыл бұрын

TheHutchy01 ☹️🙏

@Dim4323

5 жыл бұрын

I remember the show touch the truck on channel 5

@1989Chrisc

4 жыл бұрын

He's dead????

@ScoopMeisterGeneral

4 жыл бұрын

@@1989Chrisc He passed away in April 2018.

@zetetick395

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScoopMeisterGeneral No way! Aww, he was a charming (if orange) fella!

Also, trial by ordeal continued well into the central middle ages and wasn't even effecively stamped out by the fourth lateran council in the thirteenth century... but other than that, all quite interesting.

The touch a car prize was and is a very popular radio thing for in the US. It's been done since the 70s but is parodied a lot more on comedy shows.

@Dim4323

5 жыл бұрын

I remember smtv did a spoof of touch the truck

Rhys was hilarious in The X Files episode "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster". His character was called Guy Mann (a.k.a. The Were-Monster).

So, did Pepin le bref hold contests where peasants had to touch an oxcart, last one touching it wins it ?

@notreallydavid

3 жыл бұрын

I'm laughing more than I ought to be.

Love that pause after "chap or lady?"

@Mochrie99

6 жыл бұрын

"Audience, behave!"

@SkidMcmarxx

4 жыл бұрын

I don't get the joke?

@DrZaius3141

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkidMcmarxx Apparently he was gay, so some less than creative people might construct a homophobic joke out of that question.

@jamesg6660

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrZaius3141 There's nothing "homophobic" about it. Dale was an incredibly effeminate man. Notice how Stephan is gay, but he didn't give a toss. Shove off with this "protection" we didn't ask for.

I watch these clips because I think they're quite interesting

He also wrote the musical "Pippin" :)

Longview, Texas had an annual "Hands on a Hardbody" contest at one of the local car dealerships. It was made into an indy documentary and a a musical.

wondered where mr beast got his ideas from lol

@fionnualac4632

4 жыл бұрын

Killem-all-batesy Was looking for this comment 😂

@chinaman1

3 жыл бұрын

He got it from Ralph's.

@Killem-all-batesy

3 жыл бұрын

@@fionnualac4632 cannot even remember commenting lol

Definitely a radio show contest in the US as well.

RIP Dale Whinton

Surbiton my home town... Was mentioned on qi My life is complete

@DanielMasmanian

6 жыл бұрын

You're not a Good Life fan, then

Stephen: "Audience! Behave!" :-)

It's really not that surprising to have heard of Pepin. He's mentioned in a pretty famous play. "King Pepin, which deposèd Childeric, Did, as heir general, being descended Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair, Make claim and title to the crown of France." Henry V (I checked, it is the same chap - pursuaded Pope Zachary to depose Childeric III in 751.)

Rhys is so charming.

1:42 Brian and Alan :)

Ryhs Darby is a genius

He also played a big part in KZread then.

imagine the truck standing outside in the sun on a summer day that would be a show i would watch xD

Gawd! What was that Japanese endurance gameshow called? I remember watching that waaaay back in the day.

I was hoping someone would mention the importance of the name change to "Dale's Touch the Truck" for the UK version.. avoiding the trap of "Dale's hands on a hard body" :')

Is that Murray?

@AutomaticDuck300

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Everett-last no, it's Mooray

@LaGuerre19

6 жыл бұрын

yes, and it's pronounced "Mary"

@dabildor6129

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Everett-last mlmlol m ml

@LunaVee3435

4 жыл бұрын

present

2:44 I know the blonde with the curly hair toward the left. Hi Sophie. ;)

i first seen that guy in yes man with jim carey omg he so funny

If anyone was born to wear the wig and silk, it's Stephen.

There also happens to be a musical

Wasn’t there a case where someone lost the game (not at the show itself but that type of endurance game somewhere else?) promptly went outside and shot himself?

I never questioned the “touch the car for the longest” radio competitions before. No one does that in the UK? It just seems like a regular radio competition. I also remember the one where the hosts would lock themselves in a jail in a mall for a couple days for some reason.

An hour?! 81 hours! *I'll sky plus it*

He played himself on Yesman.😗

Not sure why Dale didn't go with this title: "The documentary Hands on a Hardbody tells the story of a nearly identical 1995 endurance contest in Longview, Texas."

@BandanaDrummer95

7 жыл бұрын

Isn't that a musical?

@beatrix-persephone

5 жыл бұрын

BandanaDrummer95 it was adapted into a musical

I knew it was Pepin the Short. I've played Crusader King 2!

Why didn't anyone straighten Stephen's wig? It's driving me crazy.

Someone should tell Stephen about Mr Beast

Rhys Darby is what you get if Harry Connick Jr and Hugh Jackman had a baby.

Why is he wearing ramen on his head?

@poilboiler

7 жыл бұрын

It's a British thing.

@sarahgibbs1432

7 жыл бұрын

mcgeej18 judges where wigs

@AutomaticDuck300

7 жыл бұрын

mcgeej18 It's a judge's wig

@omarkhan5223

6 жыл бұрын

In an alternative universe, it is the ramen with a Stephen Fry up its arse.

@StreetfighterU

6 жыл бұрын

Omar Khan what 😂

I recall people doing these in shopping malls, when I was a kid

Wonder if they did a role call at the start...

It's crazy to think that 'Touch the Truck' as a concept failed lasting only 5 episodes. And then along came Mr Beast who dominated KZread nearly entirely using the same format.

Was thinking hole in the wall, kinda works for the cross thing.

Singapore has this competitions using SUBARU cars.

Americans might know Dale Winton as the game show host from Trainspotting

So... Pepin the Short is just the medieval MrBeast?

"Dale Winton." dear lord, tell me it's not Human Tetris/Hole-in-the-wall...

@ultimateninjaboi

7 жыл бұрын

"stand like this" "based on a Japanese game show..." I was SO terrified that it was actually gonna be Hole-in-the-wall

@Dim4323

5 жыл бұрын

BRING ON THE WALL

On the plus side, no one lost their head over it.

I thought it was common knowledge that Pepin the Short was Charlemagne's father.

@niallharrington3636

4 жыл бұрын

Yes did people not watch lotr

@qwertyTRiG

3 жыл бұрын

@@niallharrington3636 Pippin's son was called Faramir.

@niallharrington3636

3 жыл бұрын

@@qwertyTRiG it was a joke

@qwertyTRiG

3 жыл бұрын

@@niallharrington3636 That I knew.

@ChrisLawton66

3 жыл бұрын

You've an odd concept of "common knowledge", then.

Pre-mediaeval? The 'dark ages' are well within the mediaeval period. They are, in fact, the early mediaeval. All medieaeval means, is middle age. As in the age between the two classicising periods of the Antique/Classical period and the Renaissance.

@andrewtucker94

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I thought this

Did not King Pepin give the Donation to Rome? The medieval donation of lands to Rome that last for next 1100 yrs or so until Italy was unified in 1870 and 71 with Rome?

What? Dale Winton must be pitching if Fry calls him 'well turned out.'

I like the kiwi version of john oliver

I've heard of lots of ordeals ... but they can't hold a light to an hors d'oeuvre!

I was thinking of a physical format...

Just a little tip for anyone wanting to win a car, put a magnet in your glove.

This is assuming the person that came up with the game knew of "ordeals".

Never knew Austin Powers was on QI.

Dang, I thought it was Pepin the bald.

They wee doing this touch the car shit back in the 50s in America.

why did they laugh when the guy asked if he was a chap or a lady?

@Krontok

7 жыл бұрын

Dale Winton is a very camp gay man

@AutomaticDuck300

7 жыл бұрын

Krontok because Rhys is not from the UK so he'll be unlikely to know who he is.

Didn't know Austin powers took part in QI.

I have, no shit, heard a BOWLING match broadcast on the radio!

That reminds me of when an American Radio Station caused quite a few pee-related injuries when they did a Wee For A Wii competition back when the Wii first came out, essentially the last person to wee got a new Nintendo Wii, it caused quite a few major injuries because peeing is natural.

There is no way Pepin the Short invented trial by ordeal. It's already a method of judging guilt 200 years before he lived.

Wig and/or hat party

So if you couldn't say you were right by physical prowess, you choose a more capable person to do it for you. And this was how arguments of significance were settled in the presence of a king? Hmm. How does that translate to how things work today? It's who you know, and people outside the law consider that to be how things work?

So, t-posing for dominance?

thats not a truck that's a ute

MrBeast be like 3:05

Trial by ordeal...loss of a hand was the price paid by the loser in one ordeal and death in another, I was taught in history class, in the early 60s. Many of we eight year old boys made a fire on some derelict land, after school, to do our trial by fire. Lots of blister, screams and tears. The stuff that goes on in boys' heads is incredible and dangerous. 😜😂😂😂

What's he on about - they didn't have cars in the Dark Ages?

I'm always surprised he uses terms like Dark Ages

@saoirsedeltufo7436

5 жыл бұрын

H M why? It’s more accessible than Early Middle Ages and this show ought to be about accessibility of quite interesting facts

I have serious doubts that whom-so-ever came up with the idea for Touch The Truck did so as a result of some medieval argument solving process. Researcher, " Guess what guys, I was reading about old Charlemagne's dad, you remember Charlemagne, and his dad created a format for .........so how about this for a game show? " Yeah right,lol.

Allowing a break?! Bunch of casuals

Ordeals by t-posing

I demand a trial by Toyota Hilux!

Why is Austin Powers dressed as Harry Potter?

T posing to assert dominance.

That dude looks like a fancy British Bill Gates

is he a lady or a man?

@notreallydavid

3 жыл бұрын

probably

*Mr Beast just entered the chat*

Present

So this is where mr beast got it from

Wait till they hear about mr beast