The delivery of "because there's more than one" sends me every time. Bill Bailey is goated when it comes to how to deliver a joke perfectly

@Sawbucks88

6 ай бұрын

When I saw Stephen in his pilot (/bursar) uniform in the first second of this video, I immediately shouted “because there’s more than one!” out of pure instinct. 😂

@davebowman6497

6 ай бұрын

And this actually looks like he picked this up in that moment, rather than being something prepared in advance. Immediate reaction, and brilliantly delivered. Bill Baley is one of my absolute favourites as a QI guest. Even using a pen as an inagined pipe for a prop to play the classic English gentleman is funny every time. He and Alan seems to fit together well, often driving each other into the most hilarious stuff.

@CyanRuler

6 ай бұрын

Makes me laugh out loud every time, even though I know full well it’s coming

@jamesm9995

5 ай бұрын

Seriously?

@Weathrboy

4 ай бұрын

Was

"THAT'S NOT ROUND" "THEN SHOW US THE ROUND THING" Gotta love Phil

@markreynolds1436

7 ай бұрын

He does have a point.

@Pagliacci_Rex

3 ай бұрын

I want a hug from Phil, I imagine it'd be the closest to hugging a bear. Love him.

@CoriusFoxus

3 ай бұрын

"YES"

"we have sold two" and the way it was delivered, may have made me laugh harder than anything I'd ever seen on this program. And I've seen every episode way more than once

@johnm1050

6 ай бұрын

Quite! Fred MacAuley, a naturally very funny man. Naturally funny types (as opposed to brilliant script-delivery types, like, say, Ricky Gervais) tend to do very well on QI.

@cabletelcontar5440

6 ай бұрын

It's definitely in my top 5 QI jokes. I amuse myself regularly just remembering ve hav sold tvo!

@EdwardCullen667

6 ай бұрын

Omg I howl at that point! 😂 His delivery is pure perfection!

Rob Brydon talking lovingly in French to the machines always cracks me up 😂 "mon petit cher"

"Did he hit" xD that was pure malice

@Bucketheadhead

3 ай бұрын

You have to love the dark humour. I find it’s like kids with cancer; it never gets old.

@cabletelcontar5440

2 ай бұрын

​@@BucketheadheadDamn. That's so wrong. Funny, but wrong

What about “They say of the acropolis where Parthenon is…” That’s gotta be the most watched 😂

Telling Stephen Fry he does not look like a pilot but rather like a bursar is one of the bigger blunders on this show with one of the best recoveries.

@rimmersbryggeri

6 ай бұрын

Bourser and Purser is the same word though technically. Bourse means purse or curiously prostitute and female genitals.

Stephen Fry reading the complete Sherlock Holmes is the best.

@ripdbtpoo1441

7 ай бұрын

Haven't you? Should be compulsory.

@lynnettesue6240

3 ай бұрын

​@@ripdbtpoo1441Unsure if that was sarcastic, but I think they meant he narrated it for an audiobook. 😄 Like he did Harry Potter, as was mentioned in this vid.

@lilymarinovic1644

2 ай бұрын

And despite his confession that he had never read 1994, he recently narrated an audio book of it, so obviously that isn't true any more. The audio narration thing is quite the nifty side hustle - he can probably do it in his pjs.

4:08 As our host mentions, almost off hand, there is an "Auto land" system nowadays. I have had the unfortunate opportunity of experiencing this at LHR on a BA flight from HAM on a couple of occasions. The first time we hit the runway with such force that the pilot came on the intercom and apologised for it, explained that it was the computer and signed off saying that there's no way I'm taking credit for that abomination!

@lynnettesue6240

3 ай бұрын

😮 Is that normal? Pilots are just there as a backup these days? 🤣 Or was he napping? Like why wasn't he the one landing the plane?!

@JP_TaVeryMuch

3 ай бұрын

@@lynnettesue6240 From an insider, the pilots have been dissuaded from telling us beforehand ~ understandable opportunity for a bit of a scream from some passengers, I'd imagine. He was also apparently breaking rules by coming on the air and apologising. I think that you could file it under "Progress" to an automated future (by stealth) ...

David Mitchell is wonderful. So intelligent and funny.

“That’s no way to treat the elderly” looool

Another reason that the both-pilots-incapacitated scenario is very unlikely is that pilots can deadhead on airliners as part of their commute, so very frequently there are multiple additional pilots already on board (sometimes in uniform, sometimes not). This is less likely on completely full flights of course.

There is a code to access the cockpit. However, access is delayed and there is an 'override' so the pilots can prevent entry (that's how the co-pilot on the 'German wings' aircraft was able to keep the pilot out following a toilet break, as he piloted the aircraft into a mountain).

@bankslie4one

6 ай бұрын

Did they change the law because of that incident? Now two people have to always be in the cockpit?

Stephen: ..... the Earth is jolly round ... jolly smooth. So utterly English .... how can anyone not love Stephen Fry.

They demonstrated on MythBusters, that not only could ATC guide a non-pilot to land, but it would not be difficult or in any way dramatic.

Funny story: I had never been on a plane before, but my girlfriend had been regularly. She kindly made fun of my anxiousness, meanwhile routinely reading her favorite women's magazine. When the plane took off it suddenly made a terrible and strange noise. I was scared and looked at my experienced girlfriend for reassurance. She however looked more scared than me, pale a ghost. The man on the other side of me saw it happening and told us this type of plane could climb very steeply and this caused the (to us) alarming noise. Once the climb was over we got talking. I jokingly asked whether he was a pilot, knowing these things. Not exactly, but he had been a pilot indeed, in WWII, to be exact. He had been a bomber pilot. I had built model planes as a kid, so I asked what type of bomber plane. A Heinkel 111, he responded, he had been in the Luftwaffe. Nice guy, nothing nazi about him. Anyway, a reassuring thought to have an extra pilot aboard.

@philipkiejs1572

6 ай бұрын

That's cool

@utha2665

6 ай бұрын

I think you meant to say WW2?

@fritsvanzanten3573

6 ай бұрын

@@utha2665 You're right, I'll correct it. Thank you.

@Simon_PieMan

6 ай бұрын

Cool, how long ago was that?

@fritsvanzanten3573

6 ай бұрын

@@Simon_PieMan Late 90s

Poor Alan spoiling the ending of The Very Humgry Caterpillar for Jack! He seems so genuinely apologetic too.

I first read first _1984_ in the early 60s, but not in school. My older brother was into science fiction and had the paperback. I reread it in the 70s after college because I remember telling a friend some detail I finally saw the importance of. I reread it again a few years ago. Scary fiction in the 60s. Scarier and not nearly as fictional now.

@jakobthelibrarycard6261

5 ай бұрын

But it wasn't written until 1984, so your story doesn't check out. Just saying...

@devongal7801

5 ай бұрын

​@@jakobthelibrarycard6261written 1949

@wyllydw

4 ай бұрын

It was written or rather published in 1949 you nitwit

Wonderful show

I have read Brave new world. A good book but I wish I hadn't read it! Now that its actually happening. Merci Aldo!

The Bursar. An dealing with Alan is likely the cause for requiring the Dried-frog pills. #gnu-STP

Glad to see the clip where the title of the podcast, "No such thing as a fish" comes from

Sandi refers to the tunnel boring machine by the side of the motorway, bearing the sign ‘One careful owner’. However that particular machine was not used to bore under the Channel. It was actually used to bore the tunnel through the hillside on the UK side between Cheriton (the Terminal) and Shakespeare Cliff, where the undersea tunnel begins.

Jack Whitehall is famous for doing 6 stand-up gigs and getting a show on telly

For me it was the 5,732 provisions of the enclave of Baarle Hertog

the movie Air Plane was called Flying High outside the UK

It is easy to land the plane. The trick is landing it so you can walk away. Gravity will take care of your approach to the ground. It is just that sudden stop in the end.

I tell you whats sad, its when dolphins reject you. And as theyre pissing back off to the ocean you just look back to your carers on the shore and say "well, i suppose we just continue on with the medication then"

Wait . . . IS a seahorse a horse?!? 😱

The first one has happened. Helios airways flight 522. Plane lost pressurisation and as such all the passengers and crew were incapacitated. Flight attendant attempted to save the situation and fly the plane however was unsuccessful due to running out of fuel.

Comedy genius

The gyro doesn’t sense north. It just remembers which way it was spun up. And they’ve made plenty of similar devices as Inertial Navigation Systems.

Big klaxon for the researchers on the landing a plane myth. IF you were let into the cockpit apparently it's not difficult if you are talked in. They tested this on Mythbusters in a simulater and both Jamie and Adam landed successfully when being talked down and neither had any flying experience.

There have been private planes where a passenger has landed it. There is one where the ATC recording is on KZread. IIRC, they talked him down over the phone because he had cell service and didn't know how to change the frequency of his radio.

Recently, both a pilot and co-pilot fell asleep leaving the airplane pilotless for, I think, 45 minutes!

A gyro doesn’t sense north. It senses movement. To get direction, you need to know which way it pointed when it was spun up. Same as an Inertial Navigation System.

5:48 And thus a podcast was born

Having an English accent here in NZ causes people to assume I Know Things, and I get asked random general knowledge stuff (the Indian lady in the local shop keeps doing it, as did the nurses at work)... I call it the Stephen Fry effect.

We need a Ryan Air flight that costs ten pounds from São Paulo to Sydney, but there's only one pilot and maybe he's Stevie Wonder

"Never happened in commercial aviation", small plane happened whereby pilot had a heart attack, and his friend was instructed how to land the plane, and he did!

@slake9727

7 ай бұрын

Yes. That is not commercial airline travel.

@cc1k435

7 ай бұрын

Very different experience between small planes and jets for major airlines! The equipment is so much more to learn how to deal with.

@fsodn

7 ай бұрын

Yep, it's happened a bunch of times in private aviation. There are in fact "pinch hitter" courses for spouses of pilots who want to have enough basic knowledge to know what to do to get down safely in case their spouse pilot is suddenly incapacitated while they're flying.

@ripdbtpoo1441

7 ай бұрын

It happened to Rowan Atkinson (The Black Adder, Mr (ugh!) Bean,etc...)also. He was the hero that time, as his young family was aboard.

@fsodn

6 ай бұрын

@@ripdbtpoo1441 Having just googled that--to be fair, the pilot lost consciousness, Rowan kept the plane stable, the pilot woke back up and completed the landing.

I read Darkness at noon in high school. Well, I say I did.

My favourite is "Why was the March Hare so important to the Aztecs?" from Victoria Coren Mitchell's dream: kzread.info/dash/bejne/f6xp2pdtabnIYqg.html

@JimC

6 ай бұрын

"Burn the witch!" 😁

How'd Bill get on q i in that Disney ad?

All I gleaned from this is: various fish =\= pudding(dessert)

Wright brothers 120 anniversary!

Nitpick: neutron stars aren't perfectly round either. Especially not at the insane speeds they rotate at.

I think Jack Whitehall might have been the reason I gave up watching 'comedy' on the BBC

"that's no way to treat the elderly"

There was a flight attendant that tried to fly commercial plane after the crew passed out. There is a code to get into the cockpit. The flight was to Athens and by the time he took over the plane was out of fuel and despite his attempts the plane crashed killing all on board. 🙄😔

The first one has happened hasn't it? Flight 93, the plane during 9/11 which didn't reach its destination. The passengers seized control from the hijackers, but nobody knew how to fly it.

@TheGahta

5 ай бұрын

the qualifying statement was a civilian attempting to fly the plane Did that happen? Did they radio the tower? Or did the plane crash before that?

Tom Scott made a video were he was talked down and he did it successfully

I wonder if the cabin crew use their bells to indicate that there is a legitimate reason for opening the cockpit door? Those ding-dong sounds you hear when boarding can also be used as a form of secret code between cabin and cockpit, so they probably can tell the captain, via ding-dongs, that they're going to be replaced by someone utterly clueless. Apparently using the radio and contacting someone who can help on the ground is one of the hardest parts for a layperson to get right (along with adjusting the seat). The rest can be relatively automated, provided the airport has the equipment to assist with automated landings.

Mythbusters proved you could talk someone to land a plane but then they said there is an autopilot that can land the plane. Maybe this is old.

@JimC

6 ай бұрын

Could be. Mythbusters episode s05e25 "Airplane Hour". You can find it online easily. It's about 38 minutes into the episode. The fellow in charge of the NASA simulator said "most modern jets" can do it with the autopilot. Engage the autopilot, press a couple of buttons, set the speed, altitude, heading. Then near the airport, press the button labeled "app" (approach).

I don't get how Steven didn't correct them on the amount of tunnels under the channel... As there's actually three. One for each direction, plus a service tunnel.

They have a peep hole in the locking cockpit doors.

7:13 - Is that not the comedian Michael Fenton Stevens in the audience? Centre middle with a red and white striped shirt...

The tunnel guy who committed suicide used two guns, one on each side...

What is so terrible about not knowing how to adjust a seat you have never sat in before? The first time I ever sat in a cockpit seat the instructor showed me how to adjust it so I was comfortable and my feet reached the rudder pedals

@TheGahta

5 ай бұрын

nothing, its the banality of not being able to do "the basic things" in a commercial cockpit because its such a difference to private planes that shows how much difference there is even though both are pilots, contrary to common misconceptions thats being drawn attention to.

But what is the most interesting thing about the Acropolis where the Parthanon is and how many blue whales does the Earth have?

@theupwardspiral1580

5 ай бұрын

Hahahaha love it

How would someone who knew what they were doing land a plane, or how would I land a plane? If it's the latter, probably via a headlong plunge like a lawn dart.

@renejean2523

7 ай бұрын

If you'd played as much Microsoft Flight Simulator on a computer as I have, you'd fancy your chances.

@lilymarinovic1644

6 ай бұрын

I'd probably be the one who couldn't even.adjust their seat.

@davidbeppler3032

6 ай бұрын

I watched looney toons. Just apply the air brake.

Stephen Jay Gould, who I once took a class from, did not win a Nobel Prize.

@daviddredge1178

3 ай бұрын

Which does make you wonder what else is incorrect in this programme!

SHOW US THE ROUND THING

I am honestly shocked. These are all very well-known facts.

@stevethorpe

6 ай бұрын

QI has been running for 20 years. I don't know how old are all the episodes from which these questions were taken, but at least one of them was 2005. I'm sure most of the answers were not very widely known at the time of airing otherwise the researchers would not have selected them.

Compare this to American television game shows where they ask the players to name five words that start with the letter ''S'' and many of them can't name three!🤣 The gap in education world wide has become a grand canyon.😂

Slow down Plato!

God I miss Stephen Fry as host

The last bit has to be wrong, right? The earth is about 40.000 km in circumference and the highest point sticks up by about 9km. Surely that's a lot more rough than a billiard ball?

@DneilB007

5 ай бұрын

Nope. But then, if you scaled up the billiard ball, the peaks would very quickly collapse, to roughly equal height of the largest mountains on earth. Gravity limits the height of the mountains. But, at billiard ball size, there’s not enough mass to cause the peaks to collapse into the valleys. So the earth is smoother than a billiard ball.

For the first part, there are example of people in private planes losing the pilot and being guided on how to land by air control. Also private pilot's with no flight sim experience on a commercial flight obviously can't figure out a boing 747 but obviously flight sims are available has games and we're also used in professional flight some like the Microsoft flight sims. People who play those games could man a complex plane. Same thing happened in formula 1. They toke people who did competitive F1 sim racing and had them go against F1 pilots and some of the sim pros were better then the pilots because then end up having more time in F1 cars in races then F1 pilots

@3Immotommi3

6 ай бұрын

Do you have a reference for that claim about formula 1 because I am 100% sure it is not true

@peter4210

6 ай бұрын

@@3Immotommi3 F1 themself, they have a sim game which they market as realistic. They held a tournament and the top winer's went against F1 pilots. The players were much more skilled the the pilots. F1 pilots come from go-kart and other form of racing needing a few hundred hours of racing over many years to get a spot. Players get 100s of race hours in a year via sim. A few exceptions at the tournament was a few of the young pilots also had racked up some time on Sims. Microsoft flight sim users do how ever have better chances I believe at flying real planes then F1 sim pilots since Microsoft has a few dozen of years at making their sims for real simulator, having a community of real pilots and all plane control panels being usable allowing users to fallow the proper instructions for takeoff and landing as well as using the radios and fligh plan system. As well as setting up autopilots. F1 series is much more gamified

@leafan101

4 ай бұрын

It is worth noting that the f1 drivers did not lose to sim drivers in real races, they lost to them in SIM races. The original comment might have been confusing to some. Of course F1 drivers wouldn't lose to Sim drivers in real life races, given the insane physical fitness and the even more insane bravery and agression needed to drive in F1. But the technical "car handling" skill, as far as it can be simulated, is far from the only dynamic. As someone with their pilots license, regular planes are super easy to fly. Many of the hours of training are in safety and reactions to emergencies. It is just like a motorcycle or a car: super easy to do, but good training necessary to do safely. And the skills in a basic private car or plane don't perfectly translate over to a race car, big rig, commercial plane, or fighter jet. Each requires their own highly specialized training.

1. "They say of the Parthenon......." 2. "Tossing Ewoks into a pool of farts......" 3. "Because once they start talking you can't shut them up....." You've missed a few that imho are a lot better!

If nobody can see the "round thing." because its too small. How do we know ? 😮

@justapourguy

6 ай бұрын

*with the naked eye

Well they have something to do with each other because they are all vertebrates! All fish, and all birds, and mammals and reptiles and amphibians are descended from the first vertebrate. The reason a fish is not a sound taxonomic group is because it is a paraphyletic group. The clade that all fish belong to is also the clade that all vertebrates belong to. Likewise monkeys are not a proper biological clade, because the ancestor of all monkeys is also the ancestor of all apes. If we exclude the apes from the monkeys, then that is a paraphyletic group. And so we say simian.

I dislike being argumentative. I find it difficult to believe these are the top five. I've never searched for any of these, and I have rewatched a number of QI episodes.

@ripdbtpoo1441

7 ай бұрын

Perchance you should select your own...

@renejean2523

7 ай бұрын

@@ripdbtpoo1441- Perchance? Nice to see that word get an airing every once in a while.

@ripdbtpoo1441

6 ай бұрын

@@renejean2523 l knew that l should have chosen "Dr Dryasdust" as an email address ...

They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?

4 wrong.

If it is a minefield, Stephen, you have to ask yourself who put those mines there and why.

The thing about Gould and fish is simply false.

@tonymurphy2624

3 ай бұрын

It's been stated incorrectly,. What he actually showed is that fish aren't monophyletic and that the term isn't meaningful in taxonomic terms.

Audience laughter is WAAAAAYY too loud.

And in California, bees are fish.

Well we can’t actually see one or test it in any way but here are a bunch of facts and measurements we made up.

@Narokkurai

3 ай бұрын

How do you make up a measurement?

@SaneNoMore

3 ай бұрын

@@Narokkurai Never talked to someone who fishes? 😋

@Narokkurai

3 ай бұрын

@@SaneNoMore I have, but I don't see the point. A measurement is just an observation. There's nothing to make up.

@Narokkurai

3 ай бұрын

@@SaneNoMore The nice thing about science is that it can be repeated. Other fishermen can go out and capture the same fish and confirm its size. Some experiments can be done at home, and some require massive machines or large teams of scientists all over the world. But it's all the same science. You could, if you really wanted to, train to get a job at a scientific institution and make those measurements yourself.

@SaneNoMore

3 ай бұрын

@@Narokkurai True (though they often delve into realms that they cannot actually use scientific methods on such as the Big Bang). I was just making a silly joke about how they comment in the video about discovering things that can’t be seen.

to be most viewed is vs most published eg if i only push 6 question top 5 not hard to produce, so a shit show1 what you learn quickly is john davies is shit without 2 year old comedy and a prop, thus no tv appearances!

Huh but we're meant to believe civilians could fly planes into building in New yorks. Interesting.

More info about the Gyrotheodolite en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrotheodolite

Fish as a group is the same as vegetable. Biologically there is no such thing as a fish or a vegetable. Culinaryly yes, biologically no.

Why make a video of the most viewed? We’ve already watched them.