"You look, James, as you don't believe me." "Well it does sound like a lie."

James and Joe are adorable together

@FEWhite

Жыл бұрын

O

@jessie3657

Жыл бұрын

they kinda look related especially when you sit them next to one another

@missoula2213

Жыл бұрын

That word you're using, I don't think it means what you think it means.

@timfriday9106

Жыл бұрын

They are both adorable separately and when they are together its just magnified by a factor of 10. lol

@joharakiri

Жыл бұрын

They'd be just a dream as a comedy duo

My favorite line, "they are not the same. That's racist."

@scooterdooter

Жыл бұрын

It's hilarious because people get murdered over racism!

@lessonsinfailing

Жыл бұрын

@@scooterdooter or because they're candies. Not races. Why would people being murdered be funny?

@grethendewaal5691

6 ай бұрын

I’m about to watch the episode and saw your comment. I instinctively read it in Acaster’s voice. I hope I’m right

@richardcooper9167

6 ай бұрын

@@grethendewaal5691😂 me too...

@MiniTrainLoco

3 ай бұрын

@@grethendewaal5691oh yes!

How awesome is the person who time-stamped the entire show based on questions and topics! bless you!

@macmanmanny3983

Ай бұрын

i recently saw a long compilation of 'Would I lie to you".. Someone started timestamping and you can pinpoint where tthat person got tired of it and gave it up. It made me giggle.

@DodderingOldMan

Ай бұрын

@@macmanmanny3983 These things are mostly AI automated by KZread. Sometimes it gets things very wrong or just stops working.

Not at all surprised that Alan is really entertained by James' sense of humor.

@ConstantChaos1

Жыл бұрын

I've always described James as an angry comedian with aspergers, I am really similar and I have it so it might be, who knows, and he works with people with mental disabilities which neurodivergent people tend to do

@ConstantChaos1

8 ай бұрын

@@haley1536 it's just like a 6th sense some people on the spectrum get i think its the same vibe that let's me interact with any animal (Ive worked extensively with wild animals both in the field and in a zoo setting) that gives it away to others who operate in the same way

“Would any part of you fit into a hole in a crumpet” has got to be one of the best, most subtle jabs ever

@zapkvr

6 ай бұрын

I like to get mine into a bit of crumpet

James Acaster is so clever.

I love that James Acaster always looks like he's mewing 😭

"What were the middle ages called?" "Now"🤣🤣

Joe Lycett and James Acaster. Nice

@somegirl558

Жыл бұрын

I find James Acaster an absolute idiot.

@gogyoo

Жыл бұрын

For like half a second I thought "we're going to see Bridget Fonda, noice!"

I grew up near Pando, the quaking giant and I’ll say, it’s incredibly breathtaking to stand in the middle of it and just be surrounded by life and history. Pando is a wonderful creature and it’ll truly be a heart breaking day if he dies.

@Zachary-

Жыл бұрын

It's dying because we kill off all the wolves that kill off all the deer that eat the new shoots. Our "conservation" is destroying the most unique life form on the planet.

@ConstantChaos1

Жыл бұрын

Well the thing is you can plant a quaking aspen from a twig so I'm going to start a new one if he's ever looking unwell

as an estonian i have to say that being referred to as a scandi country is a huge honour thank you

@deborahchasteen3206

Жыл бұрын

We love you - Hello to Estonia from the US! I wish we were a scandi country.

@nightsgrow6575

6 ай бұрын

It’s a long-standing joke in the nordics how Estonia desperately wants to be considered part of the nordics instead of the Baltic’s 😅

@MiniTrainLoco

3 ай бұрын

I’ve been to Norway. And I’ve been saving to visit Estonia. It will be my honor to visit another scandi country!! Much love from the Netherlands. ❤

I love James…

3:08 the way she just nods like “that’s reasonable”

As Alan found out this episode, people with phobias don't like it when you're using their phobia against them. And Bridget's doesn't even seem to cause extreme fear.

I also experience trypophobia but the zeros don't bother me at all. It's interesting how different things trigger people. One of the worst things for me is the backside of a fern leaf that has seeds on it. It causes such a feeling of revulsion that I can't look at them.

@rayd.3168

Жыл бұрын

Same! There was this picture of plant strings growing out of a wall that nearly put me into shock and they were not even round. But the zeros don't bother me. I think it's a matter of depth.

@remraft

Жыл бұрын

Samee, the zeros didn't bother me at all but I lose my shit at a lotus pod. Seeds on ferns get me too. Brains are fascinating!

@47f0

Жыл бұрын

It is intriguing to consider that our entire reality is definitionally an hallucination. If you could see the world through my eyes... Well, actually it would look pretty much the same. The eyes are basically electrochemical photoreceptors. They just deliver tiny voltages on the circuitry of the optic nerve, and one set of eyes works about the same as another. However... it's what the brain does with all of this sensory data as it tries to construct your particular view of reality that gets really, really interesting. Disturbances related to regular visual patterns are not uncommon. And some cases border on what is called associative synesthesia. And sometimes our compartmentalized senses are not so compartmentalized, causing some numbers to appear to be blue or a musical note to literally taste bitter, or smell like wet wool. It may be that the fern aversion may not be to all ferns that are bearing spores - staghorn ferns, for example, have large irregular fronds, and their spores are born on a single large patch on each frond - an image that may get processed in a slightly different manner in the brain.

@peskycritter79

Жыл бұрын

Wow. That's kinda fascinating.

@caroline4323

Жыл бұрын

Had to look up what a fern leaf with seeds looks like... Honestly, when she said it and I felt for her... The page full of zeros, I think I will look at zeros differently now. I will see holes instead of numerals now.

Cannot describe my delight adequately at James and Joe sitting next to each other on this episode.

They are, of course, leaving quite a lot out on the jig saw puzzle question. While it is true that high end wooden puzzles are made with lasers, your typical cardboard puzzle is made with a giant steel punch, which is why the edge of each piece is sort of compressed.

@cannaweallgetalong7168

4 ай бұрын

Anything like a "rolling press" which she also stated?

Regarding the weight of paint on an aircraft: This is why USAF bombers were polished aluminum in the late 1940's and 1950's. It's also why American Airlines only partially painted their aircraft.

@muir8009

6 ай бұрын

Modern jet liners are painted white for the obvious reason to reduce hear absorbtion. Bombers through the thirties to fifties weren't painted at all as paint produces drag. With fighter escort the higher speeds produced by bare alloy wasn't so necessary. Night bombers needed camouflage over airspeed. Day raiders did need extra airspeed hence their polishing. Apart from this programme I've never been aware of any references that paint was lighter. Especially that black isn't pigmented any more than white. Things like X15 was black mainly for ground and air visual spotting. Spitfires and typhoons stationed for V1 chasing were stripped of their paint and polished to increase their airspeed. Meteors of course were fast enough and didn't warrant it.

@kuchen_

6 ай бұрын

I don’t know about white paint weighing more than black paint for the same volume though. White pigment is usually titanium dioxide whilst black pigment is carbon, which weighs less.

@johnahearn7964

3 ай бұрын

Delta completely eliminated their in flight magazine due to C virus. Don’t miss it!

I love to eat to watching this show. It started with Steven and Sandi gives me apetite too. 😀

That’s so weird. I always get extremely dizzy and other weird feelings when I see a bunch of zeros in a row like that. I never in a million years suspected it was an actual condition with an actual name.

@hollybigelow5337

6 ай бұрын

I also get the same feeling sometimes when I see a bunch of hooks in a store on a shelf, especially if the shelf is mostly empty making the hooks more visible, but that one always made more sense to me because I have a recurring dream where the hooks were repeatedly stabbing me in the eyes.

James and Joe are one of my favorite comedic combos. Second only to Richard and Noel. ❤

@pepifogarty5016

6 ай бұрын

Agree!

@joshuah5556

6 ай бұрын

Julian and Noel a close third?

Haha anyone caught Alan mumbling “oh long Johnson”

The roman numeral additiom only works if you don't have numbers like 9 in them. Two 9s would get you 22 with this method

@jorgecanas-martinez405

Жыл бұрын

Im guessing its more like IX + IX = II XX = XVIII But you do have a point that its not a great method

@JohnGottschalk

Жыл бұрын

If you follow the other method of writing that they outlined you're fine though

@Jim_in_KCMO

Жыл бұрын

doesn't the method shown fail, if any number is written with the subtractive (smaller before larger) Roman method? Any of the IV (4), IX (9), XL (40), CM (900), etc. values cause the addition to fail. The problem is that the smaller numeral before the larger is actually "negative". That would throw off the addition.

I know at least a couple people with trypophobia. My spouse and an old colleague of mine. They both seem to think it's horrifying and intriguing at the same time. So I always ask them when I see something like that if they want to see it, and they invariably say yes, then proceed to be sick 😂

When James says about “Romans” he sounded just like Monty Pythons Life of Brian characters 😂😂😂😂

Why are the subtitles turned off?? The reason I came to YT for QI is because the BBC audio only versions are quite difficult to follow as a non-native English speaker! 😅

@avyitis3425

7 ай бұрын

You'll learn better this way because you'll actually concentrate on what they're saying, and not on what you're reading. I'm speaking from experience.

The white paint vs black paint on airplanes baffles me. I worked for years mixing paint and a gallon of white paint was almost twice as heavy as black. Granted I didn't work with airplane paint but basically every other type.

@ravenouscadaver8

Жыл бұрын

I had a Crookes radiometer on the mantle growing up, if you havent seen one that will totally do your head in, mate! haha and yea I've always found the pigment load required to make something appear consistently white actually annoying, coats and coats compared to darker colours.

@JohnGottschalk

Жыл бұрын

Did you paint on a silvery metal base?

@47f0

Жыл бұрын

It may be simpler than that... I seem to remember that Boeing used a white coat under any other colors. More coats obviously equals more weight. For decades American Airlines resolved the whole paint color problem buy mostly not having paint. They reckoned they saved about 130 lbs on each of their polished 737s. Another interesting area of weight savings is the cabin floors, due to fashion. Apparently the mid-eastern airlines that do not cater to many Western customers don't have to contend with women wearing high heels, and can get by with thinner cabin floor plating, which could otherwise become badly dimpled by the pressure concentrated on small high heels.

@helenamirian908

11 ай бұрын

Correct. White also contains pigment, titanium dioxide.

@rjwh67220

9 ай бұрын

What’s red and smells like blue paint? Red paint.

31:40 This method wouldn't work if you had a starting number that uses a roman numeral as a subtraction, like XIV (14) + VIII (8). This would also equal 24 in roman numerals, but in reality, it should equal 22

@Hexon66

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I wasn't sure why Sandi thought that was so amazing, as that's how any counting system would work, at least (as you pointed out) in addition. It totally falls down with the subtractive system of XIV. But I suppose she'd already expressed a preference for XIIII (which would work), with the clock.

I’ve visited Pando! It’s beautiful. I’m happy I got to see him before he goes

Love this show

Glad how the "Last Breath" bit was featured on Inside No.9;o)

Why not paint the plane with one light spray of sealant? No constant washing and possibly less drag.

@apaulosmith5653

Жыл бұрын

Like an airstream

all 4 people on the panel are from Taskmaster

I thought the Lorax was just a movie and that there was no way people would try to sell air

study from 21 years ago about the subway air. surely things have improved a bit.

JAMES !

@Myzelfa

Жыл бұрын

Correct

@ambert.3792

Жыл бұрын

ACASTER!

@AlwaysBolttheBird

Жыл бұрын

JOE!

@salyluz6535

Жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBolttheBird Yes?

John Mackintosh, the Toffee King of Chicago?!

Is the Taskmaster episode?

Boeing are to introduce aircraft without passenger windows. Cargo aircraft don't have passenger windows and aircraft without windows are both stronger and cheaper to make. A view can be provided by use of flat screens.

QI may be the greatest TV show of all time, with the possible exception of the Gong Show.

( ! ) is closer and make sure to use spaces, or you get (!) and that looks rude.

16:35 this deserved a bigger laugh

I'm not sure I'd call the fact that you can add Roman numerals by just mixing the numbers and counting them up brilliant. Each digit has its own value, so I think the word Sandy was looking for was trivial.

I have seen this last breath with my own eyes. The Henry Ford Museum is amazing.

Cars still leave skid marks on concrete; those have to be made of rubber...

Oof, the comment about the screws... 😂😳

I love Joe

Iceland is not in Scandinavia! :) Best regards, an Icelander :P

@kuchen_

6 ай бұрын

In English, the term Scandi is sometimes used interchangeably with Nordic.

If you can't get to Utah to see Pando, you can satisfy the urge by looking at forests.

During WWII the USAAF started using camouflaged bombers and fighters. Towards the end of the war, all the aircraft were uncoated aluminum as it saved weight, on a B-17, about 500 pounds per plane.

“How old are you darling?” “53” 😂

The tire stud pollution is mainly an issue during late spring when there’s really no snow anymore and people are about to change for summer tires. Also adding to the pollution is the crushed stone spread to roads and pavements to prevent people from slipping. These are collected by street washing vehicles after winter. The winter tire pollution is obviously worse in bigger cities.

I used to wonder the same about the road sign. How can a car physically make those skidmarks? Then I got it: the car spun. It was going straight and now it's pointing away from the direction it's going while it continues out of control

@Schmidtelpunkt

11 ай бұрын

Indeed that sounds like a solution - on tire gripping, the other one sliding around it. Just that the one sliding should make less of a trace.

@Erkle64

11 ай бұрын

The only problem I have with it is that there should be four of them. But I guess it's meant to be simple to read.

Joe's joke about not needing bolts did not age well

Delta removed all inflight magazines. Every seat has it's own video monitor, with over 200 movies/shows/sports.

So the "final breath" is actually air released post mortem by the relaxing of the corpse and usually takes place a good few moments after death so i dont fine it as fard to believe as others would think, he probably stopped speaking and breathibg for a momenr, being well educated the son knew what had happened and grabbed it, its profoundly weird bur as an american it also would 0% surprise me if it were 100% genuine, thats the weird shit eddison was about

Is that compressed air?

Analysing skid marks should be the new reading tea leaves.

“Skinny people with no bags” 😅

Dry fact from reliable source -dubbed wintertires are not allowed in Sweden since years back. Seems vital this fact is shared with the extinguished show producers. Varsågoda 😇

@nightsgrow6575

6 ай бұрын

What are you on about, of course you can use studded tires, but only between 1 oct - 15 April, or when winter roads are to be expected.

They have those plastic pieces under the food trey because when they make the hot food its a lid which allows it 2 stay warm or be heated. I believe now with Covid, keeping the food separate and free from contaminants in the air is a higher priority for them id hope. Just make sure you take bottled water and nothing from tap.. 😉

Those in the, "Air Market" need to leave the jar in the location they have collected said air for jar to acclimate its natural smell to the jar or container. Much like when you go to different houses different smells permeate and I your there long enough when you get home you smell like that place. Same concept. If you take only a moment it will still smell like the container you used.

21:37

You can also have two jigsaws of the same picture and the pieces wont fit in each other.

oooops! 5:14

@description and BBC: no "you" can't.

once and for all - neither Finland or Iceland are Scandinavian countries. They are Nordic countries. Scandinavia means Sweden, Denmark and Norway only.

Great show, as usual bedecked with a splattering of fallacious assertions. For instance: Skid marks are from car rubber - do enough burn outs and you will see accruing rubber deposoits and balding of tyre tread ....additionally, skid marks on concrete lack bitumen to validate the QI claim.

I only recently discovered that trypophobia is a thing, at the same time i discovered it affects me. Becoming aware of it actually made it worse for me: now i have only to hear the word or any reference to it ("that phobia triggered by a pattern of holes" or similar) and I'm plagued with mental images until i can clear my mind of it, which can take some time.

Mutual promises are valid consideration so it doesnt need to be something physical. A forebearance to sue may also be consideration. Not also physical.

Do they never use the buzzers? And do they not have the alarms go off when you get the wrong answer anymore? EDIT: I've watched further in and the klaxxons do go off, but I still don't know why or when a wrong answer triggers it.

@thomasdevisscher3561

Жыл бұрын

The alarms trigger when they say a wrong answer that the showrunners predicted beforehand. So it triggers when they say the key word or phrase rather than just on a wrong answer.

@yonelily

Жыл бұрын

The idea is not to worry about whether an answer is right or wrong, you get points if an answer is interesting and a klaxon if the answer is boring ( i.e. so predictable that the elves already thought of it and prepared a card).

@JohnGottschalk

Жыл бұрын

@@yonelily pretty sure you can only get negative points on this show :b

@zapkvr

6 ай бұрын

The clackson goes off when the answer is easily predictable.

the pound coin, needs an update yeah innit.

9:38 iceland & finland actually don’t belong to scandinavia, only denmark, norway and sweden do. if you add iceland and finland to that it’s actually the nordic countries

Odd that Bridget's trypophobia is holes of the same size/shape. It's usually irregularly shaped holes (I have it).

18:00 did she say her trypophobia makes her dizzy when she looks at lots of circles close together? I've got trypophobia but I'm absolutely fine with the google plex.

@kuchen_

6 ай бұрын

The triggers aren’t the same for everyone

Wow, skid marks made on concrete have heated up the bit.... wait a minute...

I think she means she has trypophobia

These lovely videos GREATLY EASE my poor, shattered, American soul, which has been battered and maimed by TWO horrible things! First, there were *the four years* of a person who lost the popular vote (but managed to take the "Electoral College" votes), yet STILL ended up in the White House, and secondly: *the 2 years SINCE* his losing both popular vote *AS WELL AS the "Electoral College" votes,* then his subsequent decision to *_TRY_** TO RIP our country to pieces* _DUE TO HIS NARCISSISTIC GREED FOR POWER!_ *ENOUGH **_IS_** ENOUGH!!!* *Thanks to you tremendous **_LAUGHING_** PEOPLE, I SHALL SURVIVE THIS!* Please, keep doing what you do, & do so very, very well. 😂🤣😄😂🤗 *I love you, each & every one of you!* 💋💖 🤟💜💙💚💛🧡❤🤟

It is astonishing that people get bamboozled by the airline stats and don't seem to consider the most crucial point: If dropping a single olive from the menu makes such a huge difference in emissions, imagine how much you save by a single person not flying. Air travel is an absolute abomination and we seriously need to figure out a way to curb it wherever possible.

@47f0

Жыл бұрын

First, it's a bit disingenuous of you to claim that a single olive saves that amount of fuel. That wasn't the claim. The actual claim ends up being multiple jars of olives, on multiple flights per day over thousands of miles of hundreds of aircraft every day over the course of a year that ends up saving fuel. It's also worth keeping in mind that this was Bob Crandall, who was pretty notorious for making claims like this to emphasize to the American staff importance of operating efficiently, hence making Bob Crandall and the shareholders more money. He was also instrumental in retaining the unpainted silver fuselage that American was famous for. Second, let me suggest that travel in general, especially any travel that involves fossil fuel internal combustion engines is something that we should reduce. I hate to even think of the number of useless flights I took to pointless business meetings back when I was working However... Anytime you hear about how awful airlines are, chances are pretty good that some evangelists, even if they really are on the side of right, aren't above using old studies and fudging the statistics. Many of them like to cite a 1970 study that shows that an airline passenger mile used about twice the energy that a car passenger mile used. That's basically true. That was also fifty years ago. Aircraft efficiency has greatly improved in that half century - much more so than cars. In 2012, the most recent year counted, driving one person one mile took 4,211 BTUs, while flying one person one mile required just 2,033. The assumptions made in this study were based on actual airline passenger occupancy and average car occupancy. Another area where airlines have greatly improved efficiency is in cabin occupancy. Better flight planning and ticketing software has resulted in fewer empty or partially full flights. By contrast, in the last 50 years, the number of people driving an increasing number of cars has resulted in a decrease in passenger occupancy for the average car trip. And while car occupancy has decreased, we have also tended towards larger vehicles offsetting any gains made by the few percent of hybrids and electric that are sold. SUV sales in America have consistently gone up in the past few years. It is also worth noting that while one aircraft has a pretty significant environmental impact to manufacture, that aircraft will be in service for 3 or 4 decades over tens of millions of miles, and the environmental impact of the number of cars that will be bought driven, worn-out and discarded for the same number of passenger miles is significantly greater. In real life, even though it's inconvenient, reality is often a matter of nuance and caveats, no matter how emotionally satisfying, although intellectually void, making sweeping blanket statements may be. So yes, if you can take a couple of co-workers and your Prius to that business meeting in Chicago from Dallas, by all means, road trip. But if you think you're saving the planet driving your Lincoln Navigator solo on that trip, well, book a flight on Frontier, okay?

@johnahearn7964

3 ай бұрын

I enjoyed a lovely trip to the Balkans in December & I’m leaving for Spain 🇪🇸 in a few days, and then Peru 🇵🇪 & Bolivia 🇧🇴 in March. You’ll pry my Amex gold card from my cold dead hands! You stay home & shut off your lap top & tv & sit in the dark. Do it for the earth!

@itsROMPERS...

Ай бұрын

This excessive focus is what bedevils us, when the real problem is not air travel, it even travel in general. It's human activity, and we need to find a way to bring it to an absolute minimum. In the future everyone will just hold still.

I would guess that Antarctica would have the best air quality, but what do I know?

@salyluz6535

Жыл бұрын

They asked what country, and Antarctica is not a country. It’s a continent.

@cameronjadewallace

Жыл бұрын

@@salyluz6535 not knowing what a country is, apparently 😅

@johnahearn7964

3 ай бұрын

I’ve been to Antarctica 🇦🇶 and the air was obviously clean but I’ve been to plenty of places with clean air.

@itsROMPERS...

Ай бұрын

I once saw a documentary on how they collect samples of standard "clean air" under specific conditions of weather in a place in Australia, so I don't think this is a settled issue.

@cameronjadewallace

Ай бұрын

@@itsROMPERS... That's unfortunate

Mel Andringa worth a google

2:25 Well Samoans are amongst the most heavy-set people on average. (That's a fact, not a racist opinion!)

@47f0

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen an Alabama Walmart?

@drewlovelyhell4892

11 ай бұрын

@@47f0 No... but Alabamans aren't an ethnic group. (Polynesians being heavy is a biological thing, rather than cultural).

Can you tell me the century that men were finally told that cullers were meant for women? LOL

So much for the coin with the Queens head as it's rubbish's now and will be replaced with the King's head.

west coast of tasmania has the cleanest air in the world, that is where they sample for global CO2 levels. QI wrong again.

Why do I doubt that Henry Ford was an actual friend of the most famous person of Jewish descent in the world? Dubious! Wasn't Ford famously anti-Semitic?

@itsROMPERS...

Ай бұрын

Ford was a card-carrying Nazi.

Any reason James is being such a jerk to Bridget? Seems to be more barbed than just banter.

@itsROMPERS...

Ай бұрын

It's his schtick.

I don't understand this show. It's just a lady stating facts and confusing comedians

@itsROMPERS...

Ай бұрын

When they announced the scores at the end I thought, "what?"

Makes me wonder about NYC. I used to commute there on the 6 train. I'd then blow/pick my nose with a tissue and it would be black.

If the current owner of the football club has over a billion pounds then why is it so expensive to by a ticket to get in. Doesn't he have enough money already that he has to strip us of the little cash we have to enjoy watching his team? Bloody Hell mate give us a break!!

I also live on a street called "Quality Street" ,but it's in a s#it neighborhood, in an even s#ittier city. The only good thing about this street is the end of it which leads to the highway that will take you out of the city and into higher quality streets.

"When old trees die, new ones are not replacing them." So you're saying there are several trees, rather than just one? Busted, Sandi.

@cannaweallgetalong7168

4 ай бұрын

Actually the only real large reforestation going on is in China and presently and they are using the wrong type of trees so they aren't producing an ecosystem and instead are dying.

Iceland isn’t Scandinavia, shame on her!

Cost saving measures can get rediculous. _Pizza Express_ their franchise at Liverpool Street Station (City of London) pizzas are tissue thin and the meatballs the size of rabbit droppings LITERALLY. But where do they cost save next year, by serving only the scent of a Pizza? Stop They have the Chef pizza prep area in the centre of each of their franchises which was unique for the brand to taut to their Bank for start up loans but in 30 years there has NEVER been a Chef preparing pizzas: that is done in a warehouse and the prepared food arrives frozen. The wine is lab alcohol with colour and flavouring LOL. Maybe it's a test to see how compliant / masochistic English / Londoner punters are when you abuse them thusly? I was expecting a camera team to pop out from a hidden wall and say gotcha! Sadly, this abuse will continue so long as they have a captive market since Liverpool Street is always busy with millions of people and gullible tourists.

(i)

I am shocked Alan is so detached from his fans he thinks you can buy an ironing board at a pound shop AND WORSE criminals are in the audience.

(I)

These British panel shows are things only Brits can understand. They just seem like an employment program for old has been entertainers straining to say witty things, and usually failing. Too cheap to write jokes. What else will these people even do?

Not even James could save this dreary exercise in banality.