Jeremy Paxman Savage Compilation - University Challenge

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  • Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
  • Some of the best Jeremy Paxman blunt moments. I included some of my favourite moments, where he was particularly rude. Looking to do some similar videos in the future.
    This video includes:
    'It's housed in Italy . . . somewhere, sorry' 0:00
    '...years separate the start of the Seven Years' War from the beginning of the Suez Crisis?' '6?' 00:18
    'William I? No, I'm sorry, that's the wrong answer! You know it's very wrong! It's only out by about 600 years or so!' 00:34
    'Inspector Clouseau?' 1:05
    'Well what else is it going to be?' ... 'Not all so easy are they?' ... 'Not all of them' 1:34
    'People of ignorance too' 2:14
    'Benjamin Franklin' 2:42
    'Stratford is in neither Yorkshire nor Wiltshire' 3:12
    'Brings you to a majestic zero' 3:27
    'Come on, let's have it!' 3:43
    'Or not' 3:54
    'Laurence Olivier? He wasn't that old!' 4:10
    'You've hopped around every century except the right one' 4:40
    'It's Little Dorrit; everybody knows that!' 4:52

КОМЕНТАРІ • 130

  • @decodolly1535
    @decodolly1535 3 роки тому +517

    My favourite is the suggestion of Inspector Clouseau as a romantic figure created by Charlotte Bronte!

    • @mediterraneandiet2483
      @mediterraneandiet2483 3 роки тому +52

      “Do you think me handsome?” Enquired Inspector Clouseau.

    • @ianmarsden1130
      @ianmarsden1130 3 роки тому +8

      That was a berm.

    • @stjohnssoup
      @stjohnssoup 2 роки тому +3

      I think he just wanted to say “Inspector Clouseau” in a funny accent. Inspector Clouseau considers himself to be very romantic.

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 Рік тому +1

      I misheard the name and guessed Heathcliff which was an Emily Bronte character.

  • @dod6031
    @dod6031 3 роки тому +378

    He’s such a wanker but we love him for it. Never change Jeremy.

    • @EightThreeEight
      @EightThreeEight 2 роки тому +4

      I wouldn't go so far as to call him a wanker.

    • @Ramboost007
      @Ramboost007 2 роки тому +25

      "Did you threaten to overrule him?"

    • @matthall3077
      @matthall3077 2 роки тому +7

      @@Ramboost007 “Not If You’re Doing Newsnight Paxman!”

    • @mezykin
      @mezykin Рік тому +13

      Sadly he's really having a hard time with Parkinson's at the moment 😔

  • @late8641
    @late8641 Рік тому +108

    Another one: when neither team recognized Beethoven's 6th symphony, he said "This is lamentable. Come on, this is one of the most famous pieces of classical music."

    • @Mster_J
      @Mster_J Рік тому +16

      Sacrilegious

  • @Wally-H
    @Wally-H 2 роки тому +177

    'Inspector Clousseau' LOL. I remember that New Hall disaster. I was at Cambridge Uni shortly after that happened and it was still the talk of the town. Possibly still the lowest score ever in the show.

    • @Dalexb
      @Dalexb Рік тому +21

      Under Bambers lowest scoring team is University of Sussex.
      Under Paxman lowest scoring team isUniversity of Sussex again. (i'm not laughing) 10 points both times.
      "However, a low score was also achieved by Victoria University of Manchester in their first round match in 1975 when, for much of the recording, they answered only with the names of Marxists as a protest against the Oxford and Cambridge colleges being able to enter separate teams." -wiki

    • @Wally-H
      @Wally-H Рік тому

      @@Dalexb Great insight, thanks for that.

    • @frederickgolding1913
      @frederickgolding1913 5 місяців тому

      More stupid than stupid.

  • @achitophel5852
    @achitophel5852 Рік тому +72

    Paxman was brilliant in this quiz, exactly the right tone and appreciated by contenders as much as the audience.

    • @zo7034
      @zo7034 10 місяців тому +6

      Especially after Amol being absolutely the wrong fit for the job

  • @ayoaye2276
    @ayoaye2276 Рік тому +50

    sad that such a sharp mind falls to this awful disease

    • @cramyt
      @cramyt Рік тому +1

      nobody’s safe. Horrible

  • @RenaissanceEarCandy
    @RenaissanceEarCandy 11 місяців тому +21

    "They're on French land boarders you smartarses"

  • @AFGuidesHD
    @AFGuidesHD Рік тому +23

    2:59 lol

  • @GeniusLad32
    @GeniusLad32 10 місяців тому +22

    Charlotte Bronte's Inspector Clouseau is something I would read.

  • @SolracFS
    @SolracFS 3 роки тому +51

    loved the ending, cut beautifully!

  • @cpl8857
    @cpl8857 3 роки тому +50

    3:03 Is it just me or is Mallon Stephen King’s doppelgänger?

  • @brendandax
    @brendandax 2 роки тому +27

    0:51 The horror in Smith's eyes

  • @petergreen2552
    @petergreen2552 3 роки тому +89

    "well what else was it going to be"? 😂

    • @escapedlunatic27
      @escapedlunatic27 3 роки тому +12

      That did seem the most likely. Suppose it could have been the shortest term rather than the longest, which would have been Bonar Law (210 days).

    • @isaac7472
      @isaac7472 Рік тому +6

      @@escapedlunatic27 now liz

    • @AFGuidesHD
      @AFGuidesHD Рік тому

      Yes it could well have been "least"

    • @jonathannash8471
      @jonathannash8471 7 днів тому

      ​@@isaac7472Except it was specifically 20th century. Liz Truss had her abysmal term in the 21st.

  • @diabl2master
    @diabl2master 3 роки тому +60

    So we see that Paxman's read the classics and knows his history.

  • @willmcconnell7233
    @willmcconnell7233 Рік тому +12

    If you have to guess a King, it’s always William III

  • @davidfearis7335
    @davidfearis7335 2 роки тому +31

    1:50 Amazingly they went on top become The University Challenge Champions of the series

  • @joejasat
    @joejasat 11 місяців тому +5

    To be fair, if they ask about a British prime minister, the answer is invariably Margaret Thatcher

  • @robrob9250
    @robrob9250 3 роки тому +29

    I am infuriatingly bad at this, it's doing my head in that I can't answer any of the questions xD

  • @bentheswitchsportsfan06
    @bentheswitchsportsfan06 11 місяців тому +6

    0:26 looks like we have predicted the first meme of 2024

  • @Locutus
    @Locutus 3 роки тому +43

    Can't believe that guy said Benjamin Franklin!!!

    • @JackTheladd
      @JackTheladd 3 роки тому +2

      Then the American gets it right.

    • @ChrisJVincent2000
      @ChrisJVincent2000 3 роки тому +22

      Benjamin Franklin was actually a good guess and is wrongly included in this compilation. Franklin lived in London from the mid 1750s to the mid 1770s and often spoke in the House of Commons about issues of direct and indirect taxation (particularly regarding the Sugar Tax and the Stamp Act in the early 1760s).

  • @mfeltes
    @mfeltes 3 роки тому +41

    I read questions for high-level quiz bowl tournaments occasionally and I'm struck every time at the range & depth of the players' knowledge. It's all very easy when you have the answers in front of you, but more to the point, they would be incredibly upset with me for editorializing and rightly so _because it's a timed game_!

  • @colloquialsoliloquy6391
    @colloquialsoliloquy6391 3 роки тому +24

    Ben "greencorn" Shapiro at the end there.

    • @Justice237
      @Justice237 3 роки тому +1

      Glad I’m not the only one who thought that

  • @GozUnlimited
    @GozUnlimited 10 місяців тому +3

    1:35 real life Sheldon

  • @matthall3077
    @matthall3077 2 роки тому +6

    1:53 Watch it Paxman!

  • @zak2659
    @zak2659 10 місяців тому +2

    most english looking man ive ever seen

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 3 роки тому +28

    Hapax lagomenon

  • @zouchmusic
    @zouchmusic 3 роки тому +15

    Haha, very good. He's brutal, but it's justified and not aggressive.

  • @scottpeacock5492
    @scottpeacock5492 Рік тому +2

    Jeremy Paxman was the best host for University Challenge along with his suceeded Bamber Gascoigne RIP Bamber Gascoigne.

    • @DadgeCity
      @DadgeCity 5 місяців тому

      Along with his what?

  • @grahamsowerby6087
    @grahamsowerby6087 10 місяців тому +5

    Easy when you've got the answers in front of you, Jeremy!

    • @devijankowicz9491
      @devijankowicz9491 5 місяців тому

      Gosh yes. In my day (Brunel University 1966) Bamber Gascoigne actually WROTE some of the Qs himself. A gentle man of great style, he always bought the losing team a pint and the winning team a dinner. Do they still do that nowadays?

  • @reconbravo104
    @reconbravo104 16 днів тому

    I like how two of them are about William the Third

  • @fusionsuper
    @fusionsuper 11 місяців тому

    1:41 The look of thunder.

  • @amentasanthropos1456
    @amentasanthropos1456 3 роки тому +17

    Fun fact: press 7 on your keyboard.

  • @dillydally7327
    @dillydally7327 2 роки тому +14

    Would Jeremy know any of these answers if they weren’t in front of him on a piece of paper?

    • @v1nce502
      @v1nce502 Рік тому +35

      From his responses to numerous incorrect answers (not just the blatantly wrong ones), he seems to be very well-rounded and knowledgeable to me.

    • @jamiengo2343
      @jamiengo2343 Рік тому +16

      @@v1nce502 he probably has a deeper knowledge of History and Literature and Politics than the Sciences say

    • @anglaismoyen
      @anglaismoyen Рік тому +1

      He probably does after hosting UC for decades.

  • @markcf83
    @markcf83 3 роки тому +9

    Ah yes, the fearsome Sir Paxman.

  • @ells101
    @ells101 10 місяців тому +5

    Paxman is the definition of haughty.

  • @at-mccold145
    @at-mccold145 3 роки тому +8

    3:01 steven tyler is well clever

  • @Armentitron
    @Armentitron 5 місяців тому

    Bro acting like all the answers were obvious if he didn't have them in front of him

  • @phillipphillippson8456
    @phillipphillippson8456 3 місяці тому

    I would love to see New Hall - Cambridge The Full Episode.

  • @WeaselKing1000
    @WeaselKing1000 3 роки тому +42

    Great to see the 'people of taste' guy put in his place. The 'only monsters have their steaks well done' joke is old and boring.

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye 3 роки тому +6

      Why put in his place ? He was talking "Tongue-In-Cheek" EXACTLY how Jeremy, himself, speaks sometimes and JP liked it and joined in.
      I have never changed a modern light bulb or any car tyre or even a plug but I am good at anticipating what someone is saying and I would have been, at least, as quick as him and I'm 67 years old now.

    • @WeaselKing1000
      @WeaselKing1000 3 роки тому +3

      @@Isleofskye I was just personally satisfied the chap got a withering comeback because I consider the content of what he said extremely unoriginal, and (ironically given the subject matter) a joke that's been done to death. The speed of his response in and of itself was admittedly quite impressive.

    • @aulbayne
      @aulbayne 3 роки тому +8

      @@WeaselKing1000 it’s not really a joke though, obviously everyone has different preferences for food, and how cooked their meat is, but it’s well know that “well done” is not the best way to cook steak. For this meat, the more it is cooked past medium, it becomes more uniform grey in color, and the steak itself is tougher, more chewy, has less flavour, and is dryer. That doesn’t mean I think people should be made fun of for what they prefer, but a lot of the time people simply haven’t tried it less cooked, or they believe it is like other meats such as chicken that needs to be thoroughly cooked

  • @matthall3077
    @matthall3077 2 роки тому +5

    3:44 Come On Let’s Have it!

    • @speakfreeley4473
      @speakfreeley4473 2 роки тому +1

      That one featured Janina Ramirez, who is now a Goth art historian.

  • @jrb1802uk
    @jrb1802uk Рік тому +2

    Griff Rhys Jones will always be the best presenter of University Challenge

  • @markeightfourone8693
    @markeightfourone8693 3 роки тому +5

    I'm surprised he pronounced Balliol fully - isn't the snooty way supposed to be Baily College? Your starter question for 3

  • @chrisquilley1168
    @chrisquilley1168 11 місяців тому +1

    Andrew quilley actor

  • @admiralbenbow5083
    @admiralbenbow5083 Рік тому

    Well I got little Dorritt anyway.

  • @syllevineo
    @syllevineo 2 роки тому +9

    He is sooo toned down now 😭

    • @dbs1013
      @dbs1013 2 роки тому

      Well he is quite ill so 🤷‍♂️😔

    • @mezykin
      @mezykin 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah he's slowed down tremendously of late

    • @nanashi7779
      @nanashi7779 2 роки тому +9

      That would be the Parkinsons

  • @sammysouth8372
    @sammysouth8372 6 місяців тому +1

    Now he’s gone I miss Paxman especially as his replacement is a total dodo and incredibly boring

  • @j444nsy4
    @j444nsy4 11 місяців тому

    Cheese mongers 😂

  • @DakotaReeves-v7e
    @DakotaReeves-v7e 6 місяців тому

    From the British game show "University Challenge", here are some funny savage moments with Jeremy Paxman (during the current BBC Two version). 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

  • @ericauld1
    @ericauld1 10 місяців тому

    Huzzah!

  • @benparker2163
    @benparker2163 3 роки тому +10

    Is Jeremy OK now? Or just his age showing?

    • @dnhy7951
      @dnhy7951 3 роки тому +53

      I think he announced recently that he has Parkinson's.He also suffers from being a grumpy old codger but nothing wrong with that.

    • @escapedlunatic27
      @escapedlunatic27 3 роки тому +10

      @@dnhy7951 It's an act that he puts on for TV - off camera he's actually a fairly nice bloke.

    • @mezykin
      @mezykin 2 роки тому +1

      He's definitely slowed down in recent times

  • @Bromley68
    @Bromley68 3 роки тому +13

    "William 1st" Christ almighty. Is this is what my taxes are helping to fund?

    • @nopeoppeln
      @nopeoppeln 2 роки тому +1

      it’s one of the only few shows that are worth my tax money. don’t worry, could be worse…
      strictly come dancing

    • @Bromley68
      @Bromley68 2 роки тому +1

      @@nopeoppeln The British higher education system was what I was referring to. The BBC isn't funded by taxation

    • @nopeoppeln
      @nopeoppeln 2 роки тому

      @@Bromley68 oh, pardon me.

    • @cshaffrey3438
      @cshaffrey3438 Рік тому +7

      Pretty sure it's just a slip of the tongue. He quite clearly knew it was wrong as soon as it came out of his mouth. I'm sure everyone has said far stupider stuff at quizzes when the first thing pops into their head which luckily wasn't televised

  • @charlieheckman
    @charlieheckman Рік тому

    1:34 ROFL! 🤣 😂 😂 😂

  • @swagon4545
    @swagon4545 2 роки тому +3

    Amol Rajan taking over
    Jeremy Paxman, Jeremy will be a massive miss... It will never be the same when he's gone like
    John Humphrys off
    Mastermind... & no he didn't stand down from his job... He was moreless forced to go... To make way in for the new...

  • @Doctor180185
    @Doctor180185 3 роки тому +19

    Bring back Bamber!

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye 3 роки тому +1

      Bring Back Bamber ? Or better still Paul...

    • @blueconcretezebra
      @blueconcretezebra 3 роки тому +1

      Paxman has made UC unwatchable. He's an unbearable oik.

    • @mezykin
      @mezykin 2 роки тому +3

      He passed away today sadly. R.I.P.

    • @eclectica1
      @eclectica1 2 роки тому +3

      Oh, to live in the past with your rose tinted spectacles.

  • @figulapt3784
    @figulapt3784 11 місяців тому

    The fact that he only do this when the answer is very obviously wrong shows that he has some high degree of knowledge in liberal arts related questions.

  • @Nige.
    @Nige. 6 місяців тому

    Latest Paxman looks like Brian Badonde

  • @dbs1013
    @dbs1013 2 роки тому

    This is like a poop except it's genuinely stupid 😆

  • @QPRTokyo
    @QPRTokyo 3 роки тому +3

    Bamber is a diamond. Paxton just stuffing.

    • @matthall3077
      @matthall3077 2 роки тому +2

      It’s Paxman

    • @eclectica1
      @eclectica1 2 роки тому +4

      I liked Bamber too, but enough of this pedestal nonsense.

  • @artistsanomalous7369
    @artistsanomalous7369 2 роки тому +9

    2:25 I'd never order a steak full stop, because _I_ have morals.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones 9 місяців тому

      *eating disorder

  • @charlesjackson2638
    @charlesjackson2638 3 роки тому +27

    JP lacks the grace and courtesy of Bamber Gascoigne. His putdowns define cringeworthy

    • @Xerox20077
      @Xerox20077 3 роки тому +60

      He also lacks Bambers total dullness and sleep enduring commentary

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye 3 роки тому +2

      He is not trying to be charming or graceful but "keeping it real"....haha

  • @nexpro6985
    @nexpro6985 10 місяців тому

    Are negative comments being deleted?

    • @Nige.
      @Nige. 6 місяців тому

      Yea

    • @jeremypaxmanappreciation6410
      @jeremypaxmanappreciation6410  6 місяців тому +1

      Bit of joking is fine but some outright rude comments that people can post elsewhere. No need for it in this comment section.

    • @Nige.
      @Nige. 6 місяців тому

      @@jeremypaxmanappreciation6410 bet you’re fun at parties

  • @onlyweatherlol93
    @onlyweatherlol93 Рік тому

    Also, that was such a poor answer from Morley after behaving so arrogantly 🤭 Lille is a city and arrondissement within the department Nord. I have no idea what he was thinking.