*Sandi:* "I don't understand this game." *Also Sandi:* "I'm going to host this game."

@aenamabag

10 ай бұрын

Yes, and it's still apparent that she was right, she doesn't understand this game.

@RegenTonnenEnte

2 ай бұрын

What a shame.

I am ever impressed with Alan having the humility to be the butt of a show for ever so long. The silly thing is it's pretty clear he's very curious and knows a lot in all fairness.

19:45... Sandi rehearsing for her future gig.

50% of Dara O'Brien's contribution to anything is "Eeeeeeeeehhhhhh...."

Inland Revenue? Jimmy Carr should have been on this one

@meetaverma8372

2 жыл бұрын

Noice

@SPQSpartacus

Жыл бұрын

I had to check. The tax thing only came public about a year later. But yes, it would have been beautiful.

@Pille1842

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad for every episode in which I don’t have to listen to that arrogant prick’s fake laugh.

"A fool and his money are soon elected" [spooking intensifies]

@momsterzz

5 жыл бұрын

nickyboy isn’t that the sad truth

@vincentras2545

5 жыл бұрын

Brexit explained in one sentence

@Fcutdlady

5 жыл бұрын

Never a truer word said in jest

@diggledoggle4192

5 жыл бұрын

@@vincentras2545 Brexit wasn't exactly an election, refers more to Trump

@MechaEmperor7000

4 жыл бұрын

The brilliant and sad part is this sentence will remain basically true no matter when or where you are.

@19:40 Sandy starts auditioning for Stephen's job😂

@OptimusGPrime

2 жыл бұрын

*Sandi

@Comrade_Jason

Жыл бұрын

@@OptimusGPrime Sandi

With guests: Sandi Toksvig, Al Murray and Dara O'Brien. If you find this useful then please upvote to keep this near the top. Cheers Hair

@DerEchteBold

4 жыл бұрын

@@ottojagenstedt9740 Oh, just can it! Some people find it useful, I had several actually grateful replies when I did this. He shouldn't ask for upvotes though, I grant you that.

@ottojagenstedt9740

4 жыл бұрын

@@DerEchteBold I'm happy for you my friend

@DerEchteBold

4 жыл бұрын

@@ottojagenstedt9740 Don't you dare 'friend' me, asshole! I really don't like you, so don't ever expect me to be happy for you.

@ottojagenstedt9740

4 жыл бұрын

@@DerEchteBold You have a fucking problem, buddy. Amazing how the protectors of the internet always turn out to be the biggest assholes themselves huh?

If you go to 17:05 in this video you will hear that the word 'thousand' has been spliced in, presumably because Stephen Fry mispronounced the actual number during recording. It happens during a cutaway to Allan. I noticed it because I was listening through headphones and because the word was clearly obtained from a different recording. Please like this comment: if it goes to a million I will be the next QI host and perhaps my life will finally mean something. Thank you.

@RealBradMiller

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, I thought he just had a weird catch in his throat. Good ear.

@kommstein5692

2 жыл бұрын

good luck on that, mate

@dudesayingthings

Жыл бұрын

@@RealBradMiller same here. Fry does weird things with his voice sometimes, i never even noticed the moment.

@RealBradMiller

Жыл бұрын

@@dudesayingthings Guess they don't call it a vocal fry for nothing! Lol

I didn't expect the Newfoundland plug, but I'm very pleased to hear it! Instantly thought of cod tongues when they referenced fish tongues.

@carolmurphy7572

2 жыл бұрын

Just coming across this episode 9 years later and, as soon as I heard/saw the reference, I knew there would be a comment here from a Newfoundlander! Hello fellow Newf! 😀🇨🇦🐟

This was a great one, Al and Dara, and of course the to be presenter.

@ripdbtpoo1441

2 ай бұрын

presenter-to-be

Hi Nick from Fulham. I've been following your channel for many years now. Just wanted to know how you've been. Hope all is well with you. Thank you for all the videos you've uploaded. They've been a godsent.

I had heard that Ramanujan story before, but it never fails to astound me. To think of that while sick with a deadly disease. That's something.

One QI episode from which Jimmy Carr is conspicuously absent...

@charlesharper2357

6 ай бұрын

Because it hadn't happened yet.

The largest (heaviest) flying bird today is the Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) of Africa, males weigh about 18kg, females about half that. The largest bird ever to fly were the Teratorns (a type of Condor), the largest of which, Argentavis magnificens, had a wingspan of 3 metres, and weighed 120kg. Swans? What?

@swannero3078

4 жыл бұрын

Ed Lake This is just beautiful. I adore knowledgeable people. Of course nobody liked your comment bc today, even among people (evidently) who watch this type of shows where knowledge is the only weapon you wield, nobody really appreciates it, and consider people who are willing to share the information to be showing off. Thank you for this marvelous bit of trivia.

@111oooo

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKiV0cFtj5zAc6g.html

@XLightChanX

Жыл бұрын

well, there was this polish mute swan weighing 23kg, which beats the average of the kori bustard, so while maybe some fat bustards exist too, the heaviest flying bird recorded was a mute swan.

@skilletborne

Жыл бұрын

Well done, you failed to use google! While the QI elves could have stood to mention the Kori Bustard, there are two issues First off, males are not about 18kg on average, they are closer to 10. Their maximum size in exceptional specimens is about 20kg Mute swans average about 12, with exceptional specimens growing up to a maximum weight of about 23kg Second, this show was recorded in earlier days of information technology. After 10 years, any information should be taken with a grain of salt, so to show such rage at a small, debatable inaccuracy is simply childish. It would also do you well not to muddy the waters by mentioning extinct birds, which was not something mentioned in the fact. I can only hope you've grown as a person and learned how to actually study information since you posted this comment 3 years ago. Googling and using the highlighted extract is not research. It would seem the QI elves knew that, where you did not.

(In reference to the Bible) Cool story Bro, needs more dragons.

Great guest line up worked well!.

Sandi is great!

So Sandy has been a contestant. Stephen should return for an episode.

@OptimusGPrime

2 жыл бұрын

*Sandi

@dudesayingthings

2 жыл бұрын

Or several!!!

@mikeyb2932

7 ай бұрын

​@@dudesayingthingsand preferably as the host.

@dudesayingthings

7 ай бұрын

@@mikeyb2932 very much as a host yes. For the rest of QI, please.

OH I'm a Tax Inspector and I'm okay I sleep all night and I inspect all day :D

@DerEchteBold

5 жыл бұрын

What do you wear ; )

@tomfu430

4 жыл бұрын

He hunts some tax, he eats his lunch and goes to the lavatory

Sandy was born in Copenhagen! Hi from a QI fan in Copenhagen.

@good-questions

10 жыл бұрын

i thought she was born in america, moved to england when young, then moved to copenhagen and became a citizen later in life? not sure, just thought this is what i heard her say on the show once.

@floralskin

10 жыл бұрын

David Stanley go to 21 mins man

@good-questions

10 жыл бұрын

ok pip, will do. i like your name, man.

@floralskin

10 жыл бұрын

thanks man :D

@homersimpson8561

10 жыл бұрын

Dara O'Briain was born in Ireland. Hi from a QI fan in Ireland.

Anyone else notice that at 17:04 a voice has been dubbed over to correct Stephen?? O_O

@falcychead8198

10 жыл бұрын

Good ear. It would've been cool if they got Stephen Fry to dub it, but he's very much in demand in voiceover work and probably doesn't come cheap.

@Asidders

9 жыл бұрын

No, that's just a sign of editing, because the recording is much longer. It can be heard in nearly every show. If it was a dub, it wouldn't be noticable.

@eleganzaitself6115

9 жыл бұрын

It's Fry's voice, but he probably messed up or something happened so they just spliced in his "thousand" from another take.

@Shrivedh

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like he's mid-burp or something

@williamusrex6417

4 жыл бұрын

I thought you were wrong, that he was mid burp or something, but it is indeed a dub.

Technically, the "l" isn't silent, but "tl" is a single consonant in Nahuatl. It's a lateral affricate. And "aguacate" iteslf comes from the Nahuatl "ahuacatl," which ends with the same sound, and means "testicle."

Id have paid a lot more attention if there had been dragons in the bible...

12407 does appear in the online encyclopedia of integer sequences now, in sequences A211698, the negative of A160077, and technically A012407.

Dara errr o'brian errr errr.

Now that.. is quite interesting.

Woot. Swans are that heavy? Always assumed it would be an albatross or pelican that were the heaviest.

this episode is the start of sandy's career as QI host.

@OptimusGPrime

2 жыл бұрын

*Sandi

@charlesharper2357

6 ай бұрын

And the last really good one. I miss Stephen.

I enjoyed the presence of that dude I don't recognize! (whom I now know to be Al Murray). Pleasant chap here.

27:27 It's like David Mitchell's attire.

"Infantile", with Lee Mack, Ronni Ancon and someone I don't remember called Dave Gorman

This was an unusually good episode!

A similar tax on the width of a building's street frontage was employed in Japan.

It makes perfect cents

That whole thing about the nukes and reversing the charges, that must surely have been the inspiration for that scene in Dr Strangelove where Mandrake is trying to call the White House

UK has dual tax agreement with many tax havens. If you've got an Internet based company register it in Mauritius.

Surely Jimmy Carr should've guest-hosted this episode

Eddie Izzard-tax inspector :)

When mentioning the richest athlete of all time, Stephen Fry says he was a ‘Lusitanian Spaniard.” Now, Lusitania was what is Portugal today, a Spaniard would be from Spain - isn’t this a little like saying “he was a Scottish Englishman?”

@AdrianOkay

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, except probably very few in the public actually know where's Lusitania so he has to repeat himself

@williamusrex6417

4 жыл бұрын

Em, no. A spaniard living in Portugal. What do you find difficult to understand?

@dudesayingthings

2 жыл бұрын

What Williamus Rex said, but in more gentle terms, and also, Lucitania comprises some of portugal and some of Spain. And also, back then there was no portugal.

@SPQSpartacus

Жыл бұрын

I’d say in Roman times the peninsula was called Hispania and Lusitania was one of the provinces, so in the era it made Sense but merely translates badly.

I think there are certain crane species that would be heavier than a swan? And flamingoes? Love this show so not having a go, just trying to contribute. ;-)

In b4 OP

@charley bea I wear lipstick to school and I'm agender, but I'm male. If I put on heels, I'm still agender. If someone puts on heels constantly, it doesn't affect their gender.

@Charloteblahblah

8 жыл бұрын

+DeepSpaceDogs they were also talking about transvestites.

@KatieKat223

8 жыл бұрын

I dunno what this was but it's probably still stupid Orphelia Aria Fae

@Charloteblahblah

8 жыл бұрын

What does that mean? Do you not know what transvestites are?

@KatieKat223

8 жыл бұрын

Astra Aurora Amos I have no idea what this comment was.

@KatieKat223

8 жыл бұрын

I think I was tired.

There was a, question on an episode of QI, why was the fire fighters pole dissapering? Answer was single floor fire station. I know my local fire station is on the one floor, as are most of them here in Dublin Ireland that I can think of.

Romans performed censuses (censi?) BUT they were regional, not worldwide I think is the point. Plus, the Augustan censuses were of Roman *citizens*, which the Jews weren't (hence why they could be crucified). Josephus also contradicts the Biblical account, because he dates his census to 6/7 AD, nearly 20 years AFTER the reign of Herod the Great. I think there's consensus that, whatever the Hebrew laws, Joseph was a citizen of Galilee and wasn't relevant to a never recorded census of Judea.

@williamusrex6417

4 жыл бұрын

MegaCoxRox Nobody cares.

That's better can't have a Stephen fry clip on here with out a like :)

So , Bethlehem is in the West Bank, used to be majority Christian, is now majority Muslim, and no one is making any pilgrimages there this year. Used to be a major tourist town, not anymore.

29:24 There exists a Wikipedia page for 12407...that redirects to the 'Interesting number paradox' page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12407 :o

Tiger Woods was not the first to own a billion, it was Michael Jordan. Tiger Woods was the third athlete.

@InservioLetum

Жыл бұрын

If useless excess wealth is what you're impressed by, then you are forgetting the charioteers of old, who were not only the first millionaires, but the first billionaires as well. That said; it's only money, you do realise? Being good at putting distance between you and a ball is not impressive, as any pooch can teach you. Physical labour may have been impressive in ancient times, but we have fire, the wheel, and Nobel laureates now. Might be time to aim a little higher.

1:03 all south africans getting ptsd

Can’t help feeling that Sandi’s grifting! 😊

Lol she’s the host now so she got a lot of points

for the fish tongue.. perhaps something like the feet of the whale? or perhaps just the lesser evolved version of the tongue?

Being gay doesn't automatically mean you don't have a bias. Indeed, I have seen MANY members of the gay community being quite horrid about trans* people.

Who are the other two Greatest Mathematicians?

@1312vaibhav

4 жыл бұрын

Gauss and Euler. Probably.

TURKY hell no, Santa is ODIN...

Sandy is awesome

I am wondering if there is a children in need special for this series?

@williamusrex6417

4 жыл бұрын

moviefan221 There isn’t.

Inland Revenue such a weird episode name LOL

How is Jimmy Carr not in this episode? 😂

Did Toksvig make a variation of the joke 'knock the black off him'? That could've been career ending if anyone had noticed.

Since when Pakistan is in Middle East?

@DerEchteBold

4 жыл бұрын

What would it be called then? Certainly not far east?! Btw, I looked it up, Pakistan is actually listed as part of the 'Greater Middle-East'.

@danielgrey5754

4 жыл бұрын

DerEchteBold Pakistan is in South Asia

17:04 the word "thousand" was obviously dubbed in during editing - and badly at that, by someone other than Stephen! I'm honestly just baffled, did they really do such a shoddy job?

I think he read your msg, and will issue a public apology soon!

Joseph is the person I feel sorry for. He goes all the way to Bethlehem to be taxed, and he can't even claim Jesus as a dependant.

well its in the greater middle east.

Interesting, never really knew the linguistics behind it only at a superficial level. Perhaps you could answer why the base "teo" is God in Nahuatl as well as the completely unrelated Latin language family? I always ask linguists and Latin Americanists but no one seems to know, perhaps as there is no known reason why.

@mordirit8727

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, the answer will probably forever be unknown. Though much more recent, we have no records of that word's past, instead it being the root from which we understand words that followed it; in that way, "teotl" counts for us the same way dewós from the Proto Indo European root: we know it means "god", but where it came from? Nobody knows really, we can only use it to track the words that came from it.

17:05 Anyone notice the edit there?

Is there some kind of QI rule that means Sandi Toksvig must always win?

why did Alan have a klacson for tax on w indows

Jedi is ruled out for being silly, as opposed to what religion?

just type in google, you'll find a number of tests.

Where was the nobody knows part?, I think they should have said it for the dollar bill.

hellooooo and good evening good evening good evening , I am sure there is no such a thing as the "greater middle east" . Pakistan is on top of Indian thats why the area is called the "Indo-pakistani subcontinent" meaning it is a place on its own which is far from being in the middle east . P.S I live in the middle east Regards, fellow Qi fan

The only thing that annoys me about annoys me about Sandi is when she pretends that she is guessing,but actually knows.

Says who?

Its just not possible. If it did, the universe would collapse on itself.

And get an extra fine of having a gun without a license

Can Dara finish a sentence without going errrrrrrrrrrr at the fkn end of it.

@stuzaza

4 жыл бұрын

to err is human

Stephen has predicted the future: a fool and his money are soon elected. Donald Trump... oh The HORROR!!

@Muck006

8 жыл бұрын

We arent there yet ... unless you count as him being elected as a candidate (which is worth no points if he doesnt become president).

@mygenericusername

7 жыл бұрын

How about now?

Who is this Al Murray and why wasn't he on QI again? He isn't too bad.

@gerdforster883

4 жыл бұрын

He is a very funny comedian, best known for his pub lord persona. He also did a very good documentary on Germany (you can find it on KZread). However, I cannot answer the question why he was not on again.

Didn't work for Romney

Should of had Jimmy Carr on this one . Maybe he might not of been screwed by the Tax so much.hoho

@RuudJH

7 жыл бұрын

'should of' , 'might not of'? Stephen Fry will kick you in the nuts for such terrible language.

@Yeesha0000

5 жыл бұрын

TheTheoldgit what is it with you people replacing "have" with "of"? Is it laziness or bad education? Either way you need to stop doing it!

Pakistan is not in the middle east STEPHEN

What would be the point on a census if you had to go somewhere else to so it? You’d just be asking for irrelevant data. Better and easier to try and keep proper birth and death records. But then again, that’s easy to say in hindsight. The Roman Empire didn’t have that advantage. 😅

@mordirit8727

4 жыл бұрын

They had the second best tool for hindsight: they weren't huge idiots like Luke's author hoped people reading the Bible would be. Roman censuses *did* take into account where people lived. The Roman Empire was *gigantic* and Rome was an international capital; any story you read about the society in Rome will quickly begin talking about people from Hispania, Africa, Brittain, Gaul, Germania... Imagine the utter chaos that would ensue if someone with no brains went "okay, everyone back home to take a census of our population!"; massive groups of their society would have to spend *months* en route to their birthplace. Imagine a doctor going "well miss Augustina, you're due in a month... But alas, I have to travel back to fucking Africa to tell the Emperor where I was born, so I'll be gone for the next six months, so both you and your child will die, good luck have fun"

@dashroodle9507

2 жыл бұрын

It would result in far fewer double counts of travellers. Hebrews kept strict records of geneology and considered their ancestral origion as home. For Israel, going home for the counting would make a lot of sense.

@charlesharper2357

6 ай бұрын

@@dashroodle9507 Romans only counted Roman citizens.

first of all you trust wikipedia ............. second just ask a pakistani and end of story ;P

were they being offensive?

It almost feels a bit offensive to see Sandi as guest, now. She's the new queen; she's supposed to know everything!

@Saperak85

4 жыл бұрын

And yet she claimed to say "Avocado", but she didn't!! She's a cheater and I don't like her!

@Morrov

4 жыл бұрын

@@Saperak85 you know these episodes are edited down heavily? It was probably cut, no reason to lie for a basically meaningless point.

These are all happenstance objections. You note your observations as the rule, and equate the absence of transgender topics at LGBTQ events as the exclusion of transgender people. I've never seen transgender people excluded from LGBTQ events. I'm in the USA, at the University of Utah (SLC, the home of Mormonism). Of all places, this seems the most opportune to see transgender identity denied, but it isn't.

It shouldn't upset you, Stephen Fry and Sandy Toksvig are both gay and I highly doubt they have any bias against transgender folk.

If a mother sees their child(DMAB) put on high heels, they are not their son but their daughter(unless they identify as cross dressers). Transgender/Transsexual and Transvestites are not the same at all.

@BemusedExpression

8 жыл бұрын

+Charley Bea So what should a mother say if she catches her daughter NOT wearing heels? That she's a boy? Wearing heels is not what makes a person a girl. Sheesh! The transgender advocates are the most sexist people I know.

@thornofsociety6857

8 жыл бұрын

You are right they do not nor should stereotypes be placed on them, heck I rarely wear heels myself. I think I just didn't agree with the wording in the video or the comparisons, haven't watched the video in a long time. Basically I just meant they shouldn't make the child feel bad about doing it and should calmly discuss it with them. Sometimes kids are just experimenting afterall.

@sirandrelefaedelinoge

4 жыл бұрын

There are two genders - male and female; everything else is just wishful thinking.

@GramLikesBread

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirandrelefaedelinoge two sexes*. Gender is more of a cultural/psychological thing, so it's hard to strictly confine.

Mr Fry: First of all, Nahuatl is pronounced "Naw-wat". The L is silent. Sandy is correct that chocolate is a Nahuatl word. And guacamole IS a Nahuatl word, mole is a Nahuatl word, as is avocado, which comes from aguacate.

Is anyone else of the opinion that the transvestite / drumming thing is.. well.. extorsion? I mean... - I owe X ammount of money in taxes and this is what I will pay. - NO! You owe us 3X ammount of money! - I disagree. I guess the courts will have to settle this dispute. - No, we will publicly shame you for all to see! What'cha gonna do? Pay up! I highly doubt that the shaming is done after the lawfuill rulling of the court...

and yet you felt compelled to reply

Why would such a fanatical atheist as Quizmaster Fry say "Good Lord" every time he's surprised? It's like his pal Christopher Hitchens exclaiming "By the sword of Ali named Zulfiqar!".

@Christophe_L

4 жыл бұрын

Don't blaspheme?

@FrankieParadiso4evah

4 жыл бұрын

Well, it sounds like a Hindu exclaiming "by Jove!" or a Frenchman shouting "Donnerwetter!", it's out of place.

@Christophe_L

4 жыл бұрын

@@FrankieParadiso4evah It sounds like a posh englishman exclaiming "Good Lord". Perfect fit.

@FrankieParadiso4evah

4 жыл бұрын

@@Christophe_L Now that makes sense, ingenious Christophe! Stephen Fry's Jewish Austro-Hungarian grandfather was an irrepressible punster in five languages, so it runs, nay gallops in the family. But the best prank his erudite grandson ever pulled was making everybody (including his best friend Hugh Laurie and assorted Wikipedians) believe the story of his credit card fraud and imprisonment.

@DerEchteBold

4 жыл бұрын

@@FrankieParadiso4evah What makes you think that it's not true?

Fry is wrong in saying that the Gospel account of a Roman census is 'poppycock', since several are recorded by secular historians like Josephus - due to the fact that they caused uprisings in the provinces there IS some debate as to 'when' such a census took place in Israel, since the name of the Governor over Judea doesn't seem to match historical accounts the other issue Fry brings up; stating there was no need for Joseph to return home, overlooks Hebrew laws about property jus saying ~

@dashroodle9507

2 жыл бұрын

Fry is zealously anti Christian.

@charlesharper2357

6 ай бұрын

Travelling to take part in a census makes no sense. Why bother?

@charlesharper2357

6 ай бұрын

@@dashroodle9507 No...he's not moronically superstitious.

@ChristyOFaghan

6 ай бұрын

@@charlesharper2357 it might not seem reasonable to your 200+ IQ big brain, but taking ten years to respond - though never actually looking into those Hebrew property laws - _does_ ? far be it from me to doubt your intelligence, but it seems you could have taken some of that time to do a google or two, instead of waiting all these years for some randomer on youtube to spoonfeed ye so go ahead, look them up and get back to me... i've been on tenterhooks this last decade in expectation of your sparkling wit, so i can hang around a bit longer

In different cultures there were visual cues that quickly identified these communities, and were within expected behavior patterns. Historical transgender groups had fashioned identifying temperaments within their cultures (Pueblo Berdache, Navajo nàdleehì, etc.). It's not always because of "fear". Unless you call out all offensive jokes made about anyone's nationality, or other minority traits on QI in the name of égalité, your argument loses some persuasive power in being too case specific.

no offence but i trust wikipedia over you. sorry.

Does that mean the T should be omitted from the LGBTQ community acronym? Fair is fair I guess... if that's what you're trying to say.

Their comments about the transgender community greatly upsets me.

@theyonlycomeoutwhenitsquiet

4 жыл бұрын

Comments about sexual and gender based things that are outside the most common binary aspect of them, are always offensive to someone. It’s unfortunate, but unavoidable.

@sirandrelefaedelinoge

4 жыл бұрын

Oh diddums...!