CLASSIC QI REACTION Series F Ep11 XL - Film (David Mitchell, Emma Thompson & John Sessions)
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Hope you enjoy my first reaction to Episode 11 XL of QI (Series F) starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, guest starring David Mitchell, Emma Thompson & John Sessions.
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Early on at college Stephen, Hugh and Emma put on a 4 man show in a local club. The forth member was a friend called Tilda Swinton.
As you mentioned Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson were both in Footlights Cambridge alongside Hugh Laurie. Also Sandi Toksvig was a member at the same time.
I think you got it spot on when you describe how it feels to watch QI. it's like a warm cup of cocoa when you come in from the snow on a cold night. A visit from a nostalgic best friend. Watching very small children discover the impossibility of chasing chickens. Just pleasure.
Love that!
yesss....it's like the time in school when you had the most entertaining teacher
The Unbelievable Truth is great fun to listen to, great game concept with comedian contestants, around 170 episodes by now, all hosted by David Mitchell
Another great episode of QI. As many have said, the Cambridge Footlights have just been a remarkable group for members. Fry & Laurie with Emma Thompson and other contemporaries. But others before, most notably Monty Python, the Goodies (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Garden, Bill Oddie). And since then, David 'eating bread and milk is demonstrably not harmful' Mitchell and Robert Webb were Footlights. Richard Ayoade was Footlights. Miller & Armstrong, Mel Giedroyc & Sue Perkins, Punt & Dennis, Little Alex Horne, all Footlights. Mark Watson & Phil Wang and your favorite David Baddiel from Taskmaster, John Oliver, Peter Cook, just remarkable.
It's not by chance. It's nepotism. They specifically train and get people ready to be famous. Of course not everyone does that goes there but don't be fooled, footlights is a way to ensure certain people become big in comedy.
and Miriam Margolyes
You should defo check out some "A Little Bit of Fry and Laurie", you'll love it. "Jeeves and Wooster" is also excellent with that pair.
I second that
A Bit of Fry and Laurie is probably my favorite sketch comedy show of all time.
Absolutely second this
Fry & Thompson also star in an excellent film called Peter's Friends (along with Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Brannagh etc)
John Sessions was a great actor & impressionist. He did a show with Phil Cornwall called Stella Street where lots of A-list actors lived in a random street in England. Mick Jagger & Keith Richards hilariously ran the corner shop and I’d urge you to check out a couple of clips of them, they’re short but pure gold.
He passed away a couple of years ago.
Stella Street was very good
John sessions was a legend and a art history graduate.
John Sessions was a bloody cheat and a terrible QI guest.
@@jeffrey44 each to their own
The term ‘Luvvie’ is used by actors to other actors because they work with so many different actors and often fleetingly that they can never remember their names. And so it is knowingly understood and accepted to greet each other with ‘Hello Luvvie’ or some variation.
Yes but over the years it has come to mean a camp or flamboyant male actor. There are actors then there are luvvies
Unlike trivia games as competition, QI is more like how my family plays trivia games. That is, sure we're trying to remember things and come up with answers, but the real point is learning new trivia and being surrounded by people who love to learn and gush and get excited over trivia.
Rest In Peace John Sessions
Along with Tony Slattery (who I think was on Whose Line Is This Anyway), Fry, Laurie & Thompson won the first Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe for their off-campus version of their Footlights revue, which was called The Cellar Tapes. And ultimately led to the Fry & Laurie tv series, which is genius end to end, and their co-starring in the great Wodehouse adaptations of Jeeves & Wooster, as well as Branagh's Peter's Friends film, with Thompson, which I join other posters in recommending.
I just googled the term OED luvvie and it said the first usage was in a piece in the Guardian in 1988 by, drum roll... Stephen Fry. So he was not being called a luvvie, he was the first to use the term in print!
I thought that Emma saying the citation was Stephen (rather than about Stephen) made that quite clear, no?
@@yesdcotchin having watched it a second time, you might be right, I just didnt pick that up the first time. I might have been laughing.
@@Mark_Bickerton I thought it must be earlier than that, one thinks Noel Coward ?
@@highpath4776 I wouldn't be surprised, but you'd have to take it up with the OED :)
QI gives me the same feeling as I used to get from talking to my highly intelligent parents. We could discuss anything and I would learn a lot of new stuff and they both had a great sense of humour, so I never got bored.
Down Pumba! LOL!
Emma was also in the first all female footlights show along with Sandi Toksvig. There's many others from the footlights - they're all great but it does kinda show that it's not what you know but who you know. I'm sure there was plenty of funny guys from Newcastle University who ended up 'just' being engineers and teachers.
The Unbelievable Truth is a must!
By Hollywood law, Danny Glover is the only actor who's allowed to say "I'm getting too old for this shit"
Sessions was brilliant on the UK version of Whose Line is it Anyway
It probably was Hugh Laurie, because Hugh and Stephen used to be a comedy duo. Also, Emma Thompson is just lovely.
I think the perma-grin is because even if the panelists aren't actively being funny at that moment, you still can tell they're having fun...and that rubs off.
John sessions was a regular on the original UK Who's Line is It Anyway.
First Pratchett and now possibly Fford. You have good taste in authors .
If you reacted to series K ep. 1 Knees and Knockers you could witness the continuation war between QI and the Unbelievable truth.
You can see the Cambridge footlights on UA-cam. Also if you want to see the whole gang together again you can watch the movies peters friends except for Kenneth Branagh
'Make Canadian vilains all you wan, we'd just be appy for the mention' That is a very Canadian sentence somehow! 😁
Neil needs to see A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
So pleased to hear a shout out to Jasper Fforde Neil I have all his books great reads this episode with the bread and milk rant is a favourite of mine too love you reactions Neil and QI
So good!
I call it the warm blanket effect… perfect show to make you feel good. Incidentally David Mitchell’s unbelievable truth does the same… great to fall asleep listening to or when driving long distances…
Q.I. is a warm cozy blanket.
Always assumed that the (sadly, late) John Sessions was in Footlights.
Did discover that Douglas Adams and Richard Ayoade were though, so that spans my sense of humour!
Cambridge Footlights comedy group has produced many British stars over the years, including half of Monty Python, Stephen Fry/Hugh Laurie/Emma Thompson, David Mitchell, and more recently Joe Thomas and Simon Bird from The Inbetweeners
One of my favorite shows.
Fry, Laurie and Thompson were in Cambridge footlights together as was comedian Tony Slattery. Strangely you mentioned Blackadder and I have a feeling that Rowan Atkinson also performed with them in footlights.
Rowan Atkinson went to Oxford, and the Footlights are a Cambridge institution. Rowan performed with Angus Deaton (Deyton?), and worked with material written by Richard Curtis.
Years after this episode was made, there was a film about Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, and by coincidence, John Sessions had a small role in it.
John Sessions, the rumoured contestant who had to see the questions before the recording.
The late John Sessions was extraordinarily knowledgable on a wide number of subjects like Rory McGrath on birds
True but McGrath cheated, the Bearded tit.
And he used to look up the answers to the questions before his QI appearances, completely missing the point of the show just to seem extremely knowledgable.
@@inyourroom77 If you can't prove it don't say it.
@@inyourroom77 If you're talking about Rory McGrath, then yes, he was notorious for wanting to know the questions pre-record.
Seeing the Ahsoka figurines on the back shelf just builds and builds my anticipation of seeing the Ahsoka series. I can’t wait. 😬
John Sessions was an actor and comedian, he was on the British version of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'.
Another great episode neil. This show is so amazing there is still many more to react to. An episode worth watching is from the first series called Animals with the 70s bird dance. It has some of the classic guest and just leaves you smiling at the end.
favourite episode. John Sessions is awesome!
The Luvvie section of this episode lives in my head.
Love Emma Thompson, she mentioned gettin an Oscar nod for In the name of the father. Its a movie you should definitely watch.
A fun parallel: at Cambridge and afterwards, Fry and Laurie worked with Emma Thompson who went on to become an Oscar winning actress. At Cambridge and afterwards, Mitchell and Webb worked with Olivia Colman, who...
I just need to say that I am a synaesthete with a high degree of empathy, and just watching the joy and your expressions cause me to feel the same emotions too. your videos are awesome, thankyou x 💖
You are so welcome!
If you ou are interested in watching an earlier episode, I would recommend series B, episode name Blue, or episode name Bear.
QI isn't a comedy show, its just a nice time with friends that happens to be funny. it really does just feel pleasant to be around
John Sessions is famous for his impressions.
Stephen is a big Apple fan mainly (he bought the third Mac computer ever sold in Europe) but he loves his tech toys. Even hosted the show Gadget Man before Richard Ayoade took over.
How can you love both tech and Apple at the same time???? 2 things could not be further from each other than those 2.
I believe that Douglas Adams bought the first. Back in the days when Apple had interesting tech.
Rip John sessions
Ff is a single letter in welsh
Just for info you should really consider listening to The Unbelievable Truth. There are many seasons and it makes great company on a long drive or while working through a tedious task...
Football is a lot older than you might expect, in fact King John tried to outlaw it!
That feeling of contentment that QI brings... Is it like being at a particularly good dinner party?
I can only assume, as I've never been to one that good! :)
@@NeilTalks Come to England !
I'm not even convinced they actually keep the score on QI, quite frequently if they have an older luminary in some field or other they'll 'win' regardless of whatever happened in the show.
I've noticed with QI when they have a guest with knowledge of a particular subject often questions arise relating to that subject.. I don't think he was coached.. I think there is an attempt to allow guests to show off their knowledge..
And rightly so
Like Ben Miller and his knowledge of Novel quantum effects in low-temperature quasi-zero-dimensional mesoscopic electron systems.
The nuka cola shirt is cool
I’d like to suggest series D episode 4 - Dictionary.
Stephen mixed up where the door sounds are from. They're from star trek, not star wars
Football started in the 12th century in England.
Must be into extra time, now!
John Sessions was a part of the 'footlights' crowd but did a lot of theatre rather than TV, so not so common on these shows. Great improviser. Died relatively recently far too young.
I always like when the famous Cambridge Footlights/Oxford Revue alumni cliques are penetrated by people who weren't in either (such as Sessions)
I didn't know he'd passed, how sad. I first saw him in the BBC production of Gormenghast. He was great in that.
Cleese, Milligan, Everett …. Sessions
I really liked John Sessions. Funny, smart as a whip. His Alan Rickman impressions were brilliant. But he was pro UKIP, and Nigel Farage. And as he was critical of Scottish nationalism, he supported abolishing the Scottish parliament, as well as the Welsh in deference to England.
Oh no he had an opinion!
react to "Atherstone Football" it's football played as it was in Shakespeare's time
You should check out Dave Gorman’s Modern Life is Goodish. It’s a brilliant series and really clever. It’s probably best to watch in sequence as there are call backs to previous episodes further down the line.
The reason Stephen, Emma and Hugh was in the same year at Cambridge is that Stephen was in Jail for 3 months for credit card fraud. As Stephen is a year older than Emma and Hugh.
17:41 hmm I thought the implication of including brain behind god is that the god was created by the brain, ie. doesn't exist. and since he couldn't say that out loud he did that just as moral support for future atheists. not sure did I read that somewhere or was it just my biased assumption
Wednesday is certainly not the furthest day from the weekend
What am I missing here? Do you mean if we only consider linear time moving forward? Because otherwise it seems to be.
@@dannykent6190 Depends if you go forwards or backwards since Monday is the furthest day from the next weekend but a day nearer the previous weekend.
Yes, which is why Wednesday is the furthest from both.
Yr a bit of a smarty pants lol
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Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry did 'A Bit of Fry and Laurie but before that did Alfresco with Emma Thompson amongst others, that was patchy. The Unbelievable truth is a good listen but would make a boring reaction video.