I like the idea of everybody in the audience putting on their masks to disguise where Alan is like if they didn't have them on the dog would have gone "Oh, there Alan is, it's that one!"
30 + years ago when I was in the military (U.S. Army) and we were going through our M.O.S. training a bunch of us heated some water up and put marijuana in it, and then Mopped the floors. We were tired of the " random " dog checks for drugs. It drove that poor dog nuts. We ended up there the whole day as every f'n place was checked for drugs, and they brought in two more dogs, who also went nuts. It was a stupid thing to do considering the consequences if we had been caught. But we had a laugh over that for months.
Winter temps in NYC -- at 6:30 -- virtually never fall to -20C (-4F). The average low in NYC in January (coldest month) is 27F (-3C). Temperatures in the teens (F) occur sometimes, but anything below 10F is rare, and below 0F is beyond rare.
@@dunker-roo9552 poor dogs, not allowed to be dogs, and getting abused on top of that, then put down if you're useless to them. granted, that's more common in the us.
Suffolk Police generously sent 2 working dogs to our youth club one evening. One was trained to sniff drugs, guns and money - a good dog to have at a party.
That last one reminds me of the Garda looking for a Polish guy who'd been caught by speeding cameras and in person a few times - they had dozens of outstanding fines that weren't paid. Turned out they were looking for someone called Prawo Jazdy. Which is Polish for "driving licence" :D
That last one was used in a CSI: New York episode. They thought there was a serial killer, it turned out all their cotton swabs had been contaminated by one of the factory workers.
The story about Michael Malloy is great, and for another telling of the story you may want to watch the video by Sam O'Nella. Hopefully someone finds it good!
The Spent Poets wrote an instrumental called You Can't Kill Michael Malloy, of which 25s was later taken as an interlude in Primus's album Frizzle Fry. That's the kind of useless trivia I hope will one day come up in a pub quiz.
Well, I think the audience's reaction is entirely reasonable. Malloy's claim to fame is that he survived a number of determined attempts on his life, so none of us would be talking about him or even know of his existence otherwise. The disappointment that we give voice to when we here that he was eventually killed is more to do with the fact that he finally failed to survive, than with thinking that all the previous attempts on his life were OK.
An autopsy revealed that he was poisoned by gas in a likely homicide, which tipped the insurance companies off that it was fraud and that led to the perpetrators being caught!
Sniffing doggo reminded me of a story about a drug dog who indicated on a chap's packed lunch at the airport (it was pizza) and the handler said to the dog "It's no problem, I know you have a problem with pizza" and doggo got his treat anyway.
In Canada's correctional system we have drug dogs to help screen visitors who are trained to become extraordinarily friendly, trying to play with them etc. with people who have drugs on them. Correctional Officers then bring you to a back room and have a rather frank conversation with you. Of course we also have a the more aggressive attack dogs as well, but this saves us from over litigious persons visiting our prisons.
That's the thing.... "They have a stand or sit indication" but he never said what that indication is nor will they ever say, so they can claim anything is an indication, and in doing that they can proceed further. Just another way to force control. I don't do drugs but I don't think a human interpretation of what a dog may or may not smell is valid to force proceedings to go further.
harlyn blanchflower I do miss Stephen he is such a darling, but I have to say I have rather taken to Sandi, which I never thought I would! Sandi is just lovely, charming, funny, clever, and well ........ really a female version of Stephen I feel! ❤️🦋🙏
I once farted in a pool and sucked the bubbles for extra air! Actually no, what i really did was, put a hose somewhere, then i farted, then i could breath under water. Like a virtual scuba tank for free :):):): human power!
I don't find that first one particularly funny or remarkable, because it seems to just be a display of "Look at how easily and quickly people can get their lives ruined for having weed!"
Or heroin or meth or any number of hard drugs. Sure they may catch a majority of people with personal supply, but they may also catch dealers or smugglers.
@@slowfreq if someone is in possession of a controlled substance then they are not innocent by definition of the law. Also most drug busts are not done in conjunction with a sniffer dog so your melodramatic concern regarding thier existence is unnecessary. In regard to people being imprisoned for weed possession etc, there is a growing movement for decriminalisation that is also being backed by an increasing number of politicians.
It's a risk that people consciously take. You have to expect punishment for doing something that's illegal. I don't want to demonize people that do take weed, I don't really care and it's better than alcohol (which should absolutely not be legal IMO, but I know that's impossible), but if you want to smoke weed, you will have to face consequences if you get caught.
Starting to get sick of these compilations where in some of them you get the same scene when in truthfullness its the full episodes i want to see, can't seem to get them.
If you’re referring to the “have they not met Irish people” but, then a) Irish isn’t a race, and b) I guarantee you there’s very few Irish people that would find that offensive.
pmailkeey Why is it terrible? It clearly works! Don’t forget that most drug busts don’t happen in an auditorium, aha! There is a sniffer dog (looking for fruit, fish and drugs) at my local airport, and he is on a lead. He stands next to the door, so that everyone has to walk past him single/double file to get to the exit and baggage collection. I have been pulled up a few times because it thought I had fruit (the smell sticks to bags for a few days) so it clearly works! He also walks along the baggage carousel :)
pmailkeey Rightio then...no need to start the insults. I was meaning why specifically do you think it is a bad thing to not use a lead (ie. maybe it’s because you think it is limiting the dog?), as I personally have only seen them on leads. If that was not clear, I apologise. I thought maybe you had expertise (or at least an educated opinion) on the subject. I’m more than happy to start over and have a civilised conversation if that is something that you are interested in, but if not then Happy New Year!
@@marysdanceworld6066 It's quite clear they know where to take the dog to find Alan. The dog should be off the lead and not be guided to him. In the real world, dogs will be somewhat guided - in that "go look over there" type thing. And of course, Alan was sat at the end of a row. For real entertainment, they should have planted people in the audience with drugs that no one in the studio knew about - to get a real reaction to the finding of what they believe to be a genuine audience member with drugs. As I said, if done properly, the dog would be off the lead - and should have been free to run through people's feet along the rows. It'd have been far more fun too!
@@millomweb Fair enough - I can definitely see where you are coming from! Originally I had thought you were questioning how they handled the sniffer dogs in real life! To see a dog catch a random person (even if Alan was planted there) would have very funny!!!
The British Police Service have trained dogs in the areas of drug and explosives detection and general Police service. So some are trained to restrain suspects.
I like the idea of everybody in the audience putting on their masks to disguise where Alan is like if they didn't have them on the dog would have gone "Oh, there Alan is, it's that one!"
The handler would have known and guided the dog there!
This is a very confusing comment if you haven’t seen that part of the video yet. Haha
it was likely staged anyway, drug dogs don't always work and they couldn't risk it not working live.
@@user-ln2go4xp6d Very, very true. More often than not, the dogs are signaled to signal. Tsk tsk, police.
Also dogs don't recognize humans based on facial recognition, it's much more to do with smell.
All the Sam'ONella fans eyes lit up when they heard the name Micheal Malloy
Me lol
Hey kids
Yessss
The story of the Irishman being plied with all kinds of "drinks" sounds like it should be a drinking song.
It's kind of like the same energy as Johnny Jump Up
why were they trying to kill him? i didn't get why
@@offtheleashman They had him sign life insurance policies with them as the benefactor(s) so if he died they would get all the money.
Actually there are a few songs about Michael Malloy. One is from the band, Primus, called "You Can't Kill Michael Malloy".
He didn't die in the snow because he'd drank antifreeze 🤣
All I want for Christmas is....Closed Captions on QI
Yes, that is rather unfair for the deaf community. I feel very sorry for you old chap.
Parker Erich Me too! Not fair on us that are deaf or hard of hearing! 😡😡😡
Watch it on the BBC or Dave - subtitles are available.
@@gwishart Australian, no access.
Well, I agree
But I'm not deaf. I just don't know brit
I love these would love to see it live but don’t know where to get tickets
florence bourgeois you find them in the pockets of elderly gnomes.
Just write to the bbc
Keep an eye on this: www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/
Not right now lol
Google something called Google. Then Google it.
30 + years ago when I was in the military (U.S. Army) and we were going through our M.O.S. training a bunch of us heated some water up and put marijuana in it, and then Mopped the floors. We were tired of the " random " dog checks for drugs. It drove that poor dog nuts. We ended up there the whole day as every f'n place was checked for drugs, and they brought in two more dogs, who also went nuts. It was a stupid thing to do considering the consequences if we had been caught. But we had a laugh over that for months.
So...the dogs had trouble "weed"ing out the culprits?
That is amazing! 😂
You are an evil genius
That just killed me. You were tired of the drug checks so you did something that assured nothing but extensive drug tests! Rofl.
I love stories like these, thank you for sharing!
I remember reading the story of Michael Malloy in The People's Almanac #2 years ago. Mike made Rasputin look weak.
Sam O'Nella's Academy also has a good cover of it.
Apparently he asked for another one of those poison anchovy sandwiches, that guy was practically unkillable until they cheated.
Winter temps in NYC -- at 6:30 -- virtually never fall to -20C (-4F). The average low in NYC in January (coldest month) is 27F (-3C). Temperatures in the teens (F) occur sometimes, but anything below 10F is rare, and below 0F is beyond rare.
even back in 1933?
The dog is trying so hard to be a good dog.
He's trying, and it's all that matters
All dogs are good bois and girls
And he succeeded with brilliance
You just wanna be a good boi and end up a Narc.. lol
@@dunker-roo9552 poor dogs, not allowed to be dogs, and getting abused on top of that, then put down if you're useless to them. granted, that's more common in the us.
I’ve long thought the famous mugshot of Harry Roberts the cop killer looked like a perfect blend of Stephen and Alan’s faces.
4:45 this sounds like good fodder for an episode of Citation Needed
A Citation Needed reference on a QI video. Meta.
Lets have a round of applause
*dog thinks world is ending"
4:48 ah yes all my years at the Sam o Nella academy have prepared me for this moment.
Suffolk Police generously sent 2 working dogs to our youth club one evening.
One was trained to sniff drugs, guns and money - a good dog to have at a party.
How many arrests?
@@MrWombatty None from the children but they we're only aged 8-11.
lmao, I misunderstood your comment as well! I thought by "youth" you meant college age or something, not actual children
@@louisryan5815 That would have been a totally different story, lol.
@@archstanton6102 ...& those in charge of the kids?
Thanks!
Have they never met Irish people before? 😂😂😂
yeah you were just too drunk to remember.....
Are you two related?
@@warbler1984 its Ireland, everyone's a little bit related.
@@Hobbyblasphemist
I thought you were going to say something else there.
That last one reminds me of the Garda looking for a Polish guy who'd been caught by speeding cameras and in person a few times - they had dozens of outstanding fines that weren't paid.
Turned out they were looking for someone called Prawo Jazdy. Which is Polish for "driving licence" :D
🤣absolutely hilarious
Somehow I'd imagined the manufacture of something like a cotton bud would be more hygienic.
Can’t wait for the QI Christmas present, if there is one.
Birko Bird I can .
That last one was used in a CSI: New York episode. They thought there was a serial killer, it turned out all their cotton swabs had been contaminated by one of the factory workers.
The story about Michael Malloy is great, and for another telling of the story you may want to watch the video by Sam O'Nella.
Hopefully someone finds it good!
Have done. It's good too.
I actually was looking for a comment like this
100% if i was there id have weed on me. thatd be good tv.
edit: why you should wait till the end of a clip before you comment. ^^
Shoutout Sam O´Nella
The Spent Poets wrote an instrumental called You Can't Kill Michael Malloy, of which 25s was later taken as an interlude in Primus's album Frizzle Fry. That's the kind of useless trivia I hope will one day come up in a pub quiz.
A morality lecture from.... Jimmy Carr.... lol
imagine someone having a joint in their pocket.
I'm guessing Alan uses the q tips for his belly button cleaning .
Cue tips*
@@JohnyG29 Cotton Swab*
@@JohnyG29 Don't know if I'm missing a joke here, but it's definitely Q-Tips.
@@swapode queue tips
They couldn't do the first bit on Mock The Week.
7:30 because I think the gas hose is a more intrusive and horrifying way of dying
Well, I think the audience's reaction is entirely reasonable. Malloy's claim to fame is that he survived a number of determined attempts on his life, so none of us would be talking about him or even know of his existence otherwise.
The disappointment that we give voice to when we here that he was eventually killed is more to do with the fact that he finally failed to survive, than with thinking that all the previous attempts on his life were OK.
An autopsy revealed that he was poisoned by gas in a likely homicide, which tipped the insurance companies off that it was fraud and that led to the perpetrators being caught!
1:16 “anywhere we want to put them”. Sounds like American law enforcement.
sound advice, alan
Sniffing doggo reminded me of a story about a drug dog who indicated on a chap's packed lunch at the airport (it was pizza) and the handler said to the dog "It's no problem, I know you have a problem with pizza" and doggo got his treat anyway.
They tortured someone SURE, but they cheated at torturing him???? Monsters
"stealing babies' faces and wearing them" That's not BabyFace, that's BloodyFace
Judge: For the heinous crime of Pear nibbling, I sentence you to 10 years hard labour.
Mug: But I only nibbled the one Sir....on me Mum's grave..Sir.
aaaw... i was expecting the pentelpen robbers to show up!
who is the blonde woman
Julia Zemiro at 2:45 , if that's who you mean.
Alan Davies
Where's the NMTB police line-up segment QI. Where is it
The handler is literally guiding the dog to Alan...
In Canada's correctional system we have drug dogs to help screen visitors who are trained to become extraordinarily friendly, trying to play with them etc. with people who have drugs on them. Correctional Officers then bring you to a back room and have a rather frank conversation with you. Of course we also have a the more aggressive attack dogs as well, but this saves us from over litigious persons visiting our prisons.
all the CSI nerds knew the cotton bud answer ...
an episode exactly describes this conundrum
alan should've planted the contraband on someone else as soon as he sat down
The dog didn't even indicate.. the heck?
Didn't need to, Davies almost took the mask off when the dog got to him.
That's the thing.... "They have a stand or sit indication" but he never said what that indication is nor will they ever say, so they can claim anything is an indication, and in doing that they can proceed further. Just another way to force control. I don't do drugs but I don't think a human interpretation of what a dog may or may not smell is valid to force proceedings to go further.
Alan had DRUGS ON HIMSELF lmfao
This seems a lot like do go on
Ask the RAF police how long it takes them to do a drug test.....
Stoners got really offended by the first clip, apparently
I was in the audience for the episode with Rex the sniffer dog. In reality he wasn't very good at finding Alan and his stash!
Again it's not about politicians... hm.
*insert topical gag here*
I wish Stephen was still presenting QI
I don't. He was great, and so is Sandi -- it's nice to see another voice/another brain/another approach in that chair.
harlyn blanchflower I do miss Stephen he is such a darling, but I have to say I have rather taken to Sandi, which I never thought I would! Sandi is just lovely, charming, funny, clever, and well ........ really a female version of Stephen I feel! ❤️🦋🙏
@@JJ21210 but she's not funny.
Who fancied the arse off the gorgeous soldier with the cute dog?
Hello
Goodbye
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CBK SAM Helloooooooooo! 👋
I once farted in a pool and sucked the bubbles for extra air!
Actually no, what i really did was, put a hose somewhere, then i farted, then i could breath under water.
Like a virtual scuba tank for free :):):): human power!
Gas hose like gasoline, or gas?
Gas like gas: not something liquid like gasoline
@@ChaineYTXF thought so... always gotta check though, could be Americans lurking around
Bit buggered if you have a dog that doesn't like toys.
StahliBoi I’d be chuffed my good boy wasn’t a nark
the fuckin masks haha
Well please come on, pick something.
Lol
That has to be the worst trained dog ever, he was all over the place!
It’s to bad that this is not super effective and in many cases causes more harm than it prevents. Especially if it comes to festivals.
What, QI?
I don't find that first one particularly funny or remarkable, because it seems to just be a display of "Look at how easily and quickly people can get their lives ruined for having weed!"
Or heroin or meth or any number of hard drugs. Sure they may catch a majority of people with personal supply, but they may also catch dealers or smugglers.
@@nathanthom8176 You know what they say: Better that a thousand innocent men are locked up than one guilty man is set free.
@@slowfreq if someone is in possession of a controlled substance then they are not innocent by definition of the law. Also most drug busts are not done in conjunction with a sniffer dog so your melodramatic concern regarding thier existence is unnecessary.
In regard to people being imprisoned for weed possession etc, there is a growing movement for decriminalisation that is also being backed by an increasing number of politicians.
It's a risk that people consciously take.
You have to expect punishment for doing something that's illegal.
I don't want to demonize people that do take weed, I don't really care and it's better than alcohol (which should absolutely not be legal IMO, but I know that's impossible), but if you want to smoke weed, you will have to face consequences if you get caught.
@Eric Burkheimer yes because there are so many recreational heroin users. Addiction has harmful side effects for the individual and society.
Starting to get sick of these compilations where in some of them you get the same scene when in truthfullness its the full episodes i want to see, can't seem to get them.
Don't watch them if you don't like them.
Sandi's annoying part at the end make me not want to watch Qi videos.
Doesn’t the casual racism rather discount a clip from a ‘best of’ status?
You mean the Irish bit?
Where was that?
@@MyScorpion42 That's not racist though. That's just accurate.
If you’re referring to the “have they not met Irish people” but, then a) Irish isn’t a race, and b) I guarantee you there’s very few Irish people that would find that offensive.
Jimmy Carr is of Irish descent so can it be racist to joke about one's own heritage?
Drugs dog - what a terrible set up ! If they did it properly, the dog would be off the lead !
pmailkeey Why is it terrible? It clearly works! Don’t forget that most drug busts don’t happen in an auditorium, aha!
There is a sniffer dog (looking for fruit, fish and drugs) at my local airport, and he is on a lead. He stands next to the door, so that everyone has to walk past him single/double file to get to the exit and baggage collection. I have been pulled up a few times because it thought I had fruit (the smell sticks to bags for a few days) so it clearly works! He also walks along the baggage carousel :)
@@marysdanceworld6066 The answer to your question is in my comment to which you replied. How thick does that make you look ?
pmailkeey Rightio then...no need to start the insults. I was meaning why specifically do you think it is a bad thing to not use a lead (ie. maybe it’s because you think it is limiting the dog?), as I personally have only seen them on leads. If that was not clear, I apologise. I thought maybe you had expertise (or at least an educated opinion) on the subject.
I’m more than happy to start over and have a civilised conversation if that is something that you are interested in, but if not then Happy New Year!
@@marysdanceworld6066 It's quite clear they know where to take the dog to find Alan. The dog should be off the lead and not be guided to him.
In the real world, dogs will be somewhat guided - in that "go look over there" type thing. And of course, Alan was sat at the end of a row.
For real entertainment, they should have planted people in the audience with drugs that no one in the studio knew about - to get a real reaction to the finding of what they believe to be a genuine audience member with drugs.
As I said, if done properly, the dog would be off the lead - and should have been free to run through people's feet along the rows. It'd have been far more fun too!
@@millomweb Fair enough - I can definitely see where you are coming from! Originally I had thought you were questioning how they handled the sniffer dogs in real life! To see a dog catch a random person (even if Alan was planted there) would have very funny!!!
it's really jarring as an American to see a dog trained by cops for this task that isn't also trained to react with violence
The British Police Service have trained dogs in the areas of drug and explosives detection and general Police service. So some are trained to restrain suspects.
Why is Nish Kumar allowed to even speak 😒😞😣
Never understood why they have him on any programmes, painfully unfunny and whinges about brexit every chance he gets
That woman is so annoying
please let's see a non gay host..prefer male..a funny male
Why do you care? Both Stephen Fry and Sandy Toksvig are funny and excellent hosts, why does their sexuality/gender matter?