@@kaybrann Well explained! Splendid to know that there are still those out there capable of stringing a comprehensive explanation together using the minimum of words... forgive me, I'm old.
Phill Jupitus could make Stephen squirm like nobody's business. Still like the one episode where he dressed like Stephen (famous for Stephen asking "How many muscles are in your hand?" to which Phill responded "One, if you play your cards right." and proceeded to "flirt" heavily with Stephen
@@kuinchad because, it's quite personal and it could of been potentially an upsetting part of her life that may make her uncomfortable. I think it was a little thoughtless. Stephen is an incredibly thoughtful guy and I don't think for a second it would of dawned on him it may have been potentially awkward for Sarah. Having children isn't necessarily straightforward and may not be possible. Just think about it.
Whoever is in charge of these compilation videos, please create more that give you an excuse to get the "...acropolis where the parthenon is..." included 🤣🤣🤣
Sandy is fun and sweet , But Stephen is a whole different animal ! I'm a yank and a bit of a late comer ...Watching all the Fry and Laurie stuff and everything you guys enjoy has been a blessing to a bored tv viewer ...Phill is too funny ...the shiny children always kills me...Sarah is a sweetheart
We all have far better teeth than the Americans in the UK. We have far fewer veneers and caps or the need for braces. The so called good teeth in America mostly found in big cities and in the mouths of the privileged few who have medical insurance that have dental plans attached. Go else where in the U.S. And you will find people who's teeth make Gabby Hazed teeth look really good.In other words total Dental nightmares.
Phill Jupitus said once that he hated going on this show, because there could be things he’s known his whole life that are ’wrong’ such as when the sun sets etc. He only did this show because he enjoyed winding Stephen up so much.
@@Galerak1 he might see them as friends but given the opportunity they will revert to being comedians i.e. like a pack of hyenas who will cheerfully devour their own if it will get a laugh.
@@sblack48 _"he might see them as friends but given the opportunity they will revert to being comedians i.e. like a pack of hyenas who will cheerfully devour their own if it will get a laugh."_ That same happens with every good especially with male friends, there is no need to be professional comedian for that. It can be constant joking and one-upmanship and one proves their character by being able to laugh to themselves when situation arises and someone makes a good joke about you when there is opportunity to do so (which is usually sign of balanced ego if one can make fun of themselves), so kind of like "pack of hyenas" but without the need to actually seriously devour/embarrass each others, and best situations are usually when one manages to counter the joke with another and everyone is having fun. It's certain kind of testing of characters in friendly spirits, if it would be actually nasty, there is other tone in it. Very similar as in here, ~99% of jokes are benevolent and the whole idea behind the show is people coming up jokes about subject they talk about, sometimes about each others and Fry is a good sport and can easily also laugh at himself if he happens to be butt of the joke at certain moment. Similarly as he pokes panelist when he gets the change (usually Alan but there have been numerous cases like e.g. with John Lock and Fry calling 'Nurse! Nurse, he’s out of bed again!' when Lock started talking about walking banana plants - in which Lock was right. But Fry was obviously poking fun at Lock). Because that character interaction big part of this kind of panel shows. Like in 8 out of 10 cats mainly Jimmy Carr had created the lore that Susie Dent is huge pervert and everyone usually plays along because it creates funny jokes.
Theyre having a go at him for the dawn raid thing but i remember in the early 90s being in hospital for several weeks for something, me and another on our ward did that a few times on the hospital canteen. Got to find your own fun at times like that 😆
The British do this sort of humor so much better than Americans. A. An American auduence would be shouting "ohhhhh" instead of laughing. B. Half of these would have been edited out because they're not "slick."
@@jpaxonreyes Oh, you mean the American rip-off of 'Have I Got News For You'?! 🤔 US attempts to copy real humour are rarely successful. 'The Office' is the only reasonably successful example that comes to mind. (I might be wrong, but I understand the American version of 'The Office' had a lot of Canadian input and 'supervision' from Gervaise.) But, I'll give that show a chance and try to be impartial. 😉😊
@trueaussie9230 They spoilt Porridge with Stir. They ruined Men behaving badly, Miranda and many more I can't recall at the moment. Agree The Office was OK because Ricky was involved.
Widdecombe, who traces his ancestors back to Tudor nobility and was brought up on Dartmoor in a village called Widdecombe, accusing Stephen of 'growing up in an Enid Blyton novel'.
Bill bailey ribs stephen about his school outfitters... But bills school , which i attended at much the same time..had its own outfitters on the premises run by the bursar ; an ex army warrant officer..called jack wyers.....made getting uniform a bit like visiting the quartermaster....
Stephen fry is as much a national treasure as one could possibly be. The world would so much better off if there were more like him around. And Mr Christopher Hitchens too!
Fry has always been genuine and pleasant on top of being funny. When he has something to say it comes through a rational filter. Hitchens was contrarian lunatic for the last 20 years of his life. Never seen a person being respected for knowing absolutely nothing and talking absolute bollocks every time a camera was pointed at him.
I wish I could feel sympathy for him, but he brings it all on himself with his high-falutin ways. SMH 😉😊🤣🤣 BTW - for American viewers - that's facetious irony. 😉😊
well he's not really a comedian, he's more the entertainer type. So i don't relate him to humor really. I like him on a lot of his stuff, but i never saw him as funny on any panel shows or such.
Depends on the comedians and the subject matter, comedy being subjective and much of the best QI moments being on-the-spot improve and all. I'm surprised you didn't know that, if I'm honest. Seems really very rudimentary knowledge that only an absolute cretin wouldn't understand.
They actually covered this very topic! When you have more male panelists, the audience laughs more. When you have more female panelists, the panel laughs more.
already talked about years ago. Funny women are hard to find, because growing up women don't have to be funny in order to attract men. Many men need humor and comedy to stand out, women don't. Then you think of the funny women you know, many of them are lesbians who weren't trying to attract men in the first place. There are some funny women, but in the ratio of funny men to funny women, women are FAR behind in numbers and there is a reason for that. They don't need to be funny.
He is. The reason they keep making pederast jokes around him is because it must in some sense be true, and he must justify it to himself by thinking of himself as a romantic and sophisticated erudite like Oscar Wilde or something
@@thesalanianIt's fairly well-known he goes for younger men. Fry's first husband was 12 years younger than him and then Fry left him to marry another guy who was 25 years younger. But they've always been in their 20s I believe, never younger.
Oh, is that how it works? So, by that logic, that must mean there's some truth in the running joke that Stephen grew up in a dickensian pantomime in the 19th century. You absolute cretin.
@@thesalanian sex with boys is definitely on your mind, that's obvious. After all, "More lacquer, little boy?", was the only joke made about children, and if that's sexual innuendo to you, you've definitely got issues.
Stephen is that perfect mix of posh, cheerful, intelligent and self-effacing that makes it absolutely fantastic to poke fun at him.
He gets the joke, appreciates the joke, sometimes expands the joke even further.
@@Octodactylpus perfect description of a "sense of humor" yep humor sorry. 😂
Unlike that plebian Sandy
'Would Sir like to wear a cravat on the cross country run?'
@@seanclements6206 It's okay, you're allowed to be wrong about the spelling ;)
Stephen roaring with laughter at the "to whom" joke is just... I love it in ways I can't explain
The Acropolis bit will always have me crying with laughter, no matter how many times I've seen it. Up there with Joe Wilkinson's poem on 8o10cdc.
What is the poem about? It'd like to know, thank you.
@@pienjopienjo7697not being able to name other people's penises 😂
Its pathetic. It's labored and boring
@@pienjopienjo7697 Naming people's willies in a train station toilet
The acropolis segment is honestly still one of my favourite moments of television of all time.
Gotta love Phil Jupitus…
“more LACQUER, little boy?”
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Him and Bill Bailey; ROFL
That "you're all rotters and I hate you" always gets a smile out of me. 🙂
Stephen Fry should be declared a world heritage site.
"Madeira pince-nez" is the greatest thing I've ever heard
It's also the way he says it 😂
Can you explain this to me? I don’t know what any of those words are.
@@SimonFrackmadeira is a fortified wine and pince-nez are the posh glasses without arms that rest on the nose
@@kaybrann That’s perfect, thank you.
@@kaybrann Well explained! Splendid to know that there are still those out there capable of stringing a comprehensive explanation together using the minimum of words... forgive me, I'm old.
Bloody he’ll Stephen this better be good. One of the best lines ever
Rogue apostrophe got ya there huh😛
Phill Jupitus could make Stephen squirm like nobody's business. Still like the one episode where he dressed like Stephen (famous for Stephen asking "How many muscles are in your hand?" to which Phill responded "One, if you play your cards right." and proceeded to "flirt" heavily with Stephen
I think he said in an interview he would spend most of the time trying to screw with Stephen and he said the best way to do that is to flirt with him
@@G.A.M.E. I mean the sexual tension was palpable
I absolutely love Phil and you are spot on.
“I’ll put the pencil in.”
I've seen all off these lots of times and laughed to tears. This time it was the child buffing workshop that got me the most. 😂
It was "made on a loom by exquisite boys" that got me 😂
The beer goggles bit had me rolling.
4:00 I like how Phil’s whole bit about the child buffing workshop took the focus off of Sarah being put on the spot about not wanting children.
That was a little uncomfortable wasn't it?
Lots wrong with that moment.
@@jeffreyheeks why?
@@kuinchad because, it's quite personal and it could of been potentially an upsetting part of her life that may make her uncomfortable.
I think it was a little thoughtless.
Stephen is an incredibly thoughtful guy and I don't think for a second it would of dawned on him it may have been potentially awkward for Sarah.
Having children isn't necessarily straightforward and may not be possible. Just think about it.
Bill Bailey’s double-take and Sean Locke’s astonished, “You had a tailor?” for me was _the quintessential moment_ of QI.
I love how Bill's like "Am I the weird person here" until Sean asks the question, after which point Bill starts grinning.
I will never not laugh at "madeira pince-nez" and the "sherry monacle"🤣🤣🤣
Stephen Fry is a treasure
That last one had me in stitches. Love Stephen and the show (and super funny guests).
I like how there's a pause of disbelief where everyone was like 'did i hear that right' for afew seconds after the prep-school bit, lol
The acropolis bit has to be enshrined, it's always good
Whoever is in charge of these compilation videos, please create more that give you an excuse to get the "...acropolis where the parthenon is..." included 🤣🤣🤣
Pretty sure this one is pilfered from the official QI channel
And please let them edit out that chronically unfunny Alan thing..
I love the voyage of the delicious turtles.
Sandy is fun and sweet , But Stephen is a whole different animal ! I'm a yank and a bit of a late comer ...Watching all the Fry and Laurie stuff and everything you guys enjoy has been a blessing to a bored tv viewer ...Phill is too funny ...the shiny children always kills me...Sarah is a sweetheart
That last one brings me to the verge of throwing up every single time, convulsing in tears with laughter
"No wonder fuckin' Twinings had you pal..."
I shall never tire of the Acropolis bit. Never tire!
The parthenon debacle is the stuff of TV legend 😂
First episode of QI I ever watched and I have loved it ever since
One of the funniest moments ever on TV
I've literally had this tab open in my browser all week. This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
5:02 Stephen: "British children have the best teeth on planet Earth".
Americans: "We'll just pretend like we didn't hear that..."
We all have far better teeth than the Americans in the UK.
We have far fewer veneers and caps or the need for braces.
The so called good teeth in America mostly found in big cities and in the mouths of the privileged few who have medical insurance that have dental plans attached.
Go else where in the U.S. And you will find people who's teeth make Gabby Hazed teeth look really good.In other words total Dental nightmares.
Sandi’s a great host an all but i really do miss everyone taking the piss out of stephens poshness.
I agree. But I love it when Alan makes her cry with laughter.
Phill Jupitus said once that he hated going on this show, because there could be things he’s known his whole life that are ’wrong’ such as when the sun sets etc.
He only did this show because he enjoyed winding Stephen up so much.
I hated him going on the show too
Heck, Phil has said he hated QI on several occasions while being on QI.
Bloody great. Think I’ve watched it from beginning to end about 50 times 🥰
I love the way Phill Jupitus riles Stephen up!
He said that he figured out fairly early on that all he had to do was flirt with Stephen or do impressions of him, and it would embarrass him.
Sarah's little laugh when Widdicombe says "Sorry?" in regards to the "little dawn raid" always gets me. 😂
“Knock knock…” 🤣
That last bit will live forever in QI history.
I think Stephen Fry brings out the best in other people. A generous spirit
"I say. . . . . I do rather like this Pink Polenta!"
I forgot you grew up in an Enid Blyton novel was the best line with no close seconds, that was so funny!
It’s like you can’t expose a bit of vulnerability in front of 4 comedian/friends anymore. ya it’s exactly like that!
He sees them all as friends.... he doesn't see them as comedians. Dara on MtW really killed it with that comeback 🤣🤣
@@Galerak1 he might see them as friends but given the opportunity they will revert to being comedians i.e. like a pack of hyenas who will cheerfully devour their own if it will get a laugh.
“My prep school tailor”
I mean he was asking for it at that point
Dara O Briain says what?
@@sblack48 _"he might see them as friends but given the opportunity they will revert to being comedians i.e. like a pack of hyenas who will cheerfully devour their own if it will get a laugh."_
That same happens with every good especially with male friends, there is no need to be professional comedian for that.
It can be constant joking and one-upmanship and one proves their character by being able to laugh to themselves when situation arises and someone makes a good joke about you when there is opportunity to do so (which is usually sign of balanced ego if one can make fun of themselves), so kind of like "pack of hyenas" but without the need to actually seriously devour/embarrass each others, and best situations are usually when one manages to counter the joke with another and everyone is having fun. It's certain kind of testing of characters in friendly spirits, if it would be actually nasty, there is other tone in it.
Very similar as in here, ~99% of jokes are benevolent and the whole idea behind the show is people coming up jokes about subject they talk about, sometimes about each others and Fry is a good sport and can easily also laugh at himself if he happens to be butt of the joke at certain moment. Similarly as he pokes panelist when he gets the change (usually Alan but there have been numerous cases like e.g. with John Lock and Fry calling 'Nurse! Nurse, he’s out of bed again!' when Lock started talking about walking banana plants - in which Lock was right. But Fry was obviously poking fun at Lock).
Because that character interaction big part of this kind of panel shows. Like in 8 out of 10 cats mainly Jimmy Carr had created the lore that Susie Dent is huge pervert and everyone usually plays along because it creates funny jokes.
Theyre having a go at him for the dawn raid thing but i remember in the early 90s being in hospital for several weeks for something, me and another on our ward did that a few times on the hospital canteen. Got to find your own fun at times like that 😆
I think Phill Jupitus humor is so underrated, to me he is one of the funniest people alive...
The British do this sort of humor so much better than Americans.
A. An American auduence would be shouting "ohhhhh" instead of laughing.
B. Half of these would have been edited out because they're not "slick."
Do Americans DO humour?!
@@trueaussie9230- Listen to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" and see if it's your cup of tea.
@@jpaxonreyes
Oh, you mean the American rip-off of 'Have I Got News For You'?! 🤔
US attempts to copy real humour are rarely successful.
'The Office' is the only reasonably successful example that comes to mind.
(I might be wrong, but I understand the American version of 'The Office' had a lot of Canadian input and 'supervision' from Gervaise.)
But, I'll give that show a chance and try to be impartial. 😉😊
@@trueaussie9230 - I thought it was more similar to News Quiz.
@trueaussie9230 They spoilt Porridge with Stir. They ruined Men behaving badly, Miranda and many more I can't recall at the moment. Agree The Office was OK because Ricky was involved.
I rewatch this regularly, not least because of the buildup to the crowning glory of «Acropolis».
Widdecombe, who traces his ancestors back to Tudor nobility and was brought up on Dartmoor in a village called Widdecombe, accusing Stephen of 'growing up in an Enid Blyton novel'.
Stephen is the best!
...when he gets totally embarassed!
The bit about shiny boys kills me but even better is that it cuts to the next clip with Matt Lucas's literally shiny head lol
Stephen Fry is brillant!
Why do they all seem to have pipes under the desks everytime the poke fun at Fry?
Why wouldn't you have a pipe under the desk 😂
i was driving a semi the first time i heard the 'acropolis' bit... had to pull over, i was laughing so hard i peed a bit
I remember watching the acropolis scene when it first aired and nearly hyperventilating 😂
At the end of the video, it would have been slightly more amusing if it had included the next few seconds when Stephen said "Bloody hell, that hurt."
If anyone should live to be 120, it's Stephen.
07:25 - why is Phil dressed up like Barf from Spaceballs
Bill bailey ribs stephen about his school outfitters... But bills school , which i attended at much the same time..had its own outfitters on the premises run by the bursar ; an ex army warrant officer..called jack wyers.....made getting uniform a bit like visiting the quartermaster....
“Shut up and put your wine away!l
Stephen never having heard of Primark is absolute gold.
Don't forget the "gin telescope"!
What happened to the original version of this from the official QI channel?
Still there if you meant this one!
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Accidentally deleted?
Acropolis bit is one for the legends
this is just a reuppload of QI's 'Poking Fun at Stephen' video from 5 years ago
What a delight!!!
I love that he can laugh at himself. Too many stuffy people that can't take a joke out there
The Latin for beer goggles is vinoculars
He takes it all in good humour though.
Stephen fry is as much a national treasure as one could possibly be.
The world would so much better off if there were more like him around.
And Mr Christopher Hitchens too!
Fry has always been genuine and pleasant on top of being funny. When he has something to say it comes through a rational filter.
Hitchens was contrarian lunatic for the last 20 years of his life. Never seen a person being respected for knowing absolutely nothing and talking absolute bollocks every time a camera was pointed at him.
WHAT DO THEY SAAAAAAAYYYYYY
Stephen's right, every line in the Acropolis is gay.
They missed the war drums :)
they dont make shows like this anymore
You know, they say of the acrpololis...
It sounds like it's from a Gilbert & Sullivan opera.
Stolen video.
This video has been stolen from
Another channel
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Always the same guys 😂
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Phill jupitus‘ energy with Stephen Fry unfortunately is not being conserved into the new seasons with Sandi
MORE LACQUER, LITTLE BOY???
_Michelangelo?_ Bollocks
missing wor drums, fail...................
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I wish I could feel sympathy for him, but he brings it all on himself with his high-falutin ways. SMH 😉😊🤣🤣
BTW - for American viewers - that's facetious irony. 😉😊
You can’t affect to use Brown sauce, it costs too much.
Don’t like Matt Lucas - he can’t take a joke/criticism!
well he's not really a comedian, he's more the entertainer type. So i don't relate him to humor really. I like him on a lot of his stuff, but i never saw him as funny on any panel shows or such.
So which is funnier: QI with 5 male comedians, or QI with four female comedians plus Alan?
Depends on the comedians and the subject matter, comedy being subjective and much of the best QI moments being on-the-spot improve and all.
I'm surprised you didn't know that, if I'm honest. Seems really very rudimentary knowledge that only an absolute cretin wouldn't understand.
The former
They actually covered this very topic!
When you have more male panelists, the audience laughs more.
When you have more female panelists, the panel laughs more.
There’s no need to compare and pit women against men. Humour is subjective.
already talked about years ago. Funny women are hard to find, because growing up women don't have to be funny in order to attract men. Many men need humor and comedy to stand out, women don't. Then you think of the funny women you know, many of them are lesbians who weren't trying to attract men in the first place. There are some funny women, but in the ratio of funny men to funny women, women are FAR behind in numbers and there is a reason for that. They don't need to be funny.
Always found Fry creepy.
He is. The reason they keep making pederast jokes around him is because it must in some sense be true, and he must justify it to himself by thinking of himself as a romantic and sophisticated erudite like Oscar Wilde or something
@@thesalanianIt's fairly well-known he goes for younger men. Fry's first husband was 12 years younger than him and then Fry left him to marry another guy who was 25 years younger. But they've always been in their 20s I believe, never younger.
Oh, is that how it works? So, by that logic, that must mean there's some truth in the running joke that Stephen grew up in a dickensian pantomime in the 19th century.
You absolute cretin.
Probably just projection.
@@thesalanian sex with boys is definitely on your mind, that's obvious.
After all, "More lacquer, little boy?", was the only joke made about children, and if that's sexual innuendo to you, you've definitely got issues.
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