@5:01 There is no historical evidence that King Charles XIV of Sweden had such a tattoo. The tale was first told in an 1833 French play called The Bedfellow. In the play, it is believed that the king has a tattoo that reads something like "Death to Kings" but is later revealed to say "Long live the Republic". The play was a historical fiction and clearly propaganda. No historians have found any evidence that this element is true.
Holly Gerding Stephen had just as much if not more inaccuracies and the show has almost always been about the comedians and the more interesting sounding trivia so accuracy has always been sacrificed a little.
Interesting. But what conditions would lead to this tattoo business in a play becoming believed by people to be a fact? Indeed tattoos in Europe before the art of tattoo spread from Polynesia to the West via sailors would be very unusual, by my understanding. I would be happy to be corrected by any early modern historians who have different knowledge, but this is the common understanding among art historians. Then again ... 1833 ... I suppose it's hypothetically possible tattoos are starting to travel around the world. But i would have put it later than that. The earliest photographic evidence of European tattoos I've come across dates from the 1880s. Prior to that, you'd expect to find it in illustrations or textual descriptions, if anywhere but ... I really don't think it's likely
King George (i think, might have been Edward) actually got his tattoos while serving in the navy. He disembarked in China and got a tiger on one arm and a dragon on the other, done using traditional methods
Minute 3:24 proves David Mitchell is a brilliant comedian, I almost sprayed my iPad with tea and laughed so hard I expected a seizure. I just love him.
9:35... Naive backwards is Evian... so is the bottled water company having a laugh at all the plonkers wasting their money buying bottled water which they can get equally as good out of the tap!
@@Zoe-bx9bp That is also true. Provided the journey was foreseeable and you planned ahead. However if you have ever filled a filtered jug (for example) from a tap and seen the crap it collects, you might also prefer not to go this method. I personally refill bottles after I filter it, but not everyone has a filter.
@@BumMcFluff the 'crap' is not gonna kill you ( if there is something dangerous in the water where you live then I apologise) so there's no need to filter it
3:30 ''I feel sorry for all the other finalists to be queen." is a wonderful joke! It is especially so watching as an American who's got ZERO understanding of the royal process and lineage BS the Brits go through to make a monarch.
I've heard that a lot before but let's think about it critically: you're the most powerful person in the country by miles, how much advice are you really taking from a guy you hired to wipe your ass?
The groom of the stool would have access to the King's ears. For long periods of time, considering they were all constantly constipated because of their diet.
I agree that Fry was wrong to rebuff him, Mitchell was _pretty_ _much_ correct and on point. All British monarchs to date have _chosen_ to be known with one single number across the UK. This has always been the English number, so this number has occasionally (such as now) been technically incorrect in Scotland. Elizabeth could, if she chose to, use the correct Scottish number of I rather than II (in Scotland only); she would have the Royal Prerogative to do so. If Jamie followed the convention that Churchill suggested, by calling himself 'James VIII', it would be technically correct in Scotland but not in England (this would be the first time this has happened). However, there are ways to avoid this issue altogether. Monarchs sometimes choose to reign under a different name than their given one, so Jamie could reign as King Jamie (the first), which would be correct everywhere in the UK.
British television seems to have a complicated relationship with Jeremy Clarkson. It seems every once in a while, he says something horrible or questionable, and his repeats get pulled from syndication, or he's rebooked at the last minute, but QI seems particularly keen to continue having him on.
The BBC realise they shot themselves in the foot cancelling his contract for Top Gear because he's really popular. Clarkson still appears on BBC programmes like QI and Have I Got News For You because they are made by external production companies. So the BBC can factually make the claim that they themselves are not employing him.
@@michaellejeune7715 if you look into the actual story instead of blindly believing he punched someone over a steak as the bbc would usually misconstrue a story you'd find out it goes much deeper than that but i doubt youd be capable of doing such a thing because apparently we should all blindly believe everything in newspapers without once looking it up.
I can't say yea or nay for this particular story, so I'll take your word for it, but I have to say that it's frustrating how often QI gets things wrong, given the nature of the show. If your premise is to make fun of people for believing common historical or scientific myths and misconceptions, then you'd better not be spouting those same misconceptions yourself, but they do, and so the show often feels a tad hypocritical.
The story of Bernadotte's tattoos is false but there are some interesting real stories they could have used. My favorite is that the very beloved Empress Elizabeth of Austria, wife of Emperor-King Franz Joseph, who is still beloved and something of a celebrity in Austria, had a tattoo of an anchor on her shoulderblade which was apparently done by a sailor in Greece and, more scandalously, she had a tramp stamp or a tattoo right above her bottom of the Austrian imperial eagle.
Ah! That might be the easiest yet anecdotal reference to knowledge of tattooing in Europe. But could this not also be apocryphal? Given that it was sailors who brought the Polynesian art of tattooing to the Western world, surely aristocrats would have shunned it. And an Austrian Empress letting a sailor inject ink under her skin with a needle? It sounds all so improbable. Most aristocrats wouldn't let sailors anywhere near them! Truly, an Empress with a "tramp stamp" is pure nonsense. Not only is that slang term new in the past two decades, that variety of tattoos is only slightly older. I suspect you are retelling stories passed around drunken Austrian Biergarten with more of a basis in fantasy than fact. A fun story, but i seriously doubt it's more than that.
The story about the tattoo is apocryphal. It came from an 1833 play made for propaganda. There is no evidence for a tattoo and in fact in the play the actual tattoo reads "Long Live the Republic". It is rumoured before the reveal that it reads "Death to Kings".
Why don’t we dispense with the jokes about queer people’s sexual preferences? It’s usually seen as rather distasteful to make comments about what straight people do in bed, but when it’s about gay relationships it’s given a social license. It must be very intriguing to wonder about the mysteries of the “gay animal,” but it makes many people uncomfortable. Stephen has made comments about his sexuality in the past, but that’s at his prerogative and we should be respectful of the personal parts of his life.
Eric Burkheimer I appreciate your response. However - also as a gay man - I don’t think it is our call to fantasize about someone else’s personal life. A couple of days ago an article was released about singer Troye Sivan which contained very personal questions about his preferences which are only based on the fact he is gay - including a case of the gross ongoing speculation over Shawn Mendes’ sexuality. He said he was uncomfortable and declined to answer the questions. To be clear, the jokes are only made because Stephen is gay. There’s a sort of context that being gay is different, weird, against the standard, that it’s taboo. Children go through a stage of making jokes about sex and body parts because it’s new to them and the mystery is something they want to experience with others without talking about it seriously. That attitude is very common in queer adults because we don’t often get the chance to experience our sexuality the way other children do, so we make up for it later on. Straight people also operate in this “it’s gay, lol” setting because it’s something they don’t experience themselves. I don’t think that’s a very healthy way to look at your own sexuality; we should grow out of the childish stage and realize a more nuanced, seasoned, and beautiful view of ourselves.
mezalong Stephen has revealed personal information in the past to help quash stereotypes and make known truths about the LGBTQ+ community in the past, but that does not make jokes at the expense of his personal life appropriate.
Sarreq Teryx the problem is that your assertion “uses his real name, as is normal” doesn’t hold water. Until QEII, a whole series of monarchs chose to have an entirely different “ruling” name to their own first name.
@@DavidAndTheDog There were a few (going backwards, George VI, Edward VIII, Edward VII, and Victoria) but most have used their first name as their regnal name.
Apparently, when Henry the 8th died (jousting, eye accident. That got infected) He was wheeled around on a barrow, through different areas, Until his body rotted so badly, that it burst open on the barrow, and spilled onto the ground, where the dogs of the town! Ate his decomposed organs and entrails; and licked up the liquids....... Mmmm yummy. Couldn't have happened to a nicer Guy!!
ah I see you too are on a QI marathon, congratulations
Why thank you
Don’t tell me how to live my life
But thank you
This is my first...what the fuck is going on with my life?
Kevin Macku you are enjoying educational and funny content. Welcome to the rebel alliance. 😌
4:00
Burst out laughing not only at the "lice" answer, but also at how Sandi felt the need to turn right around. 😆
Poor David, he was on the right track in 1:47...
@5:01 There is no historical evidence that King Charles XIV of Sweden had such a tattoo. The tale was first told in an 1833 French play called The Bedfellow. In the play, it is believed that the king has a tattoo that reads something like "Death to Kings" but is later revealed to say "Long live the Republic". The play was a historical fiction and clearly propaganda. No historians have found any evidence that this element is true.
Holly Gerding Stephen had just as much if not more inaccuracies and the show has almost always been about the comedians and the more interesting sounding trivia so accuracy has always been sacrificed a little.
@Orion V Without pettiness, I have no career.
@Orion V I'm not being petty, I'm being pedantic.
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Interesting. But what conditions would lead to this tattoo business in a play becoming believed by people to be a fact?
Indeed tattoos in Europe before the art of tattoo spread from Polynesia to the West via sailors would be very unusual, by my understanding. I would be happy to be corrected by any early modern historians who have different knowledge, but this is the common understanding among art historians.
Then again ... 1833 ... I suppose it's hypothetically possible tattoos are starting to travel around the world. But i would have put it later than that. The earliest photographic evidence of European tattoos I've come across dates from the 1880s. Prior to that, you'd expect to find it in illustrations or textual descriptions, if anywhere but ... I really don't think it's likely
King George (i think, might have been Edward) actually got his tattoos while serving in the navy. He disembarked in China and got a tiger on one arm and a dragon on the other, done using traditional methods
It was George V, Edward VII never served in the Royal Navy
Minute 3:24 proves David Mitchell is a brilliant comedian, I almost sprayed my iPad with tea and laughed so hard I expected a seizure. I just love him.
Did you enjoy him in Peep Show? I found it hilarious.
Full of great one-liners. 👍 😁
Sandi looks adorable in that "oh!" top!
As much as I love this show I must say, the "wrong answer" alarm sounds like it should be the right answer sound!!
Oh, that's quite good, Jamie Oliver, the Cooky King
They say of the acropolis where the Parthenon is...
Hastur _X ha ha ha!
What do they say?
Hes gonna say! Hes gonna say! Hes gonna say!
Blue whale
FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!!
The beautiful QIness in this episode!
Just a reminder, the Archbishop of Canterbury is a member in good standing with “Putting things on top of other things”.
Bahahahaha, I love it, watched the Pythons doing it just a few days ago
Good thing he managed to NOT be surrounded by film on that day!
Actually, Charles XIV John didn't have a "Death to kings"-tattoo, that's from a play. However, he did have "Long live the republic tattoo"
A "Long live the republic tattoo" tattoo or a "Long live the republic" tattoo.
@@Jotari Neither. In the play it reads, "Long live the Republic". Uppercase on the R.
floooooooooooooooood lol i would love it if he had “long live the republic tattoo” actually tattooed on him
9:35... Naive backwards is Evian... so is the bottled water company having a laugh at all the plonkers wasting their money buying bottled water which they can get equally as good out of the tap!
Unless you're on a long car journey away from populated areas (for example), in which case bottled water may well be useful.
@@elevatedaspirations Fair enough.
@@BumMcFluff and you could just fill a reusable bottle with tap water before you begin your journey
@@Zoe-bx9bp That is also true. Provided the journey was foreseeable and you planned ahead. However if you have ever filled a filtered jug (for example) from a tap and seen the crap it collects, you might also prefer not to go this method. I personally refill bottles after I filter it, but not everyone has a filter.
@@BumMcFluff the 'crap' is not gonna kill you ( if there is something dangerous in the water where you live then I apologise) so there's no need to filter it
3:30 ''I feel sorry for all the other finalists to be queen." is a wonderful joke! It is especially so watching as an American who's got ZERO understanding of the royal process and lineage BS the Brits go through to make a monarch.
The groom if the stool looks like he's seen some shit. Which I guess makes that a very accurate painting.
Poor David he said the thing about the number being different in England and scotland and Stephen said no
It isnt different - monarchs since the 1700s have had the same number in both countries and will continue to do so.
Anyone else watching this and part 2 on an infinite loop because YT's algorithm is screwed and the couch is far too comfy?
King Jamie VIII: Pukka!
Groom of the stool: No, Your Highness, I said _pucker._
That first clip sure is early. Brand is sitting to Fry’s left (what??) and Fry is telling them exactly how many points they get.
I was hoping a compilation of kooky kings would give us Eystein the Fart, Ivar the Boneless, Louis the Universal Spider, et al.
Louis the Universal Spider!?!?
@@YuliaLinderoth the nickname of a medieval French king who was very good at intriguing and plotting.
The scorchingly hot Charles II of Spain.
That clip has its own video :)
0:34 gif-able moment
True! I think I'll make it right now!
I find it so hilarious that they weren't allowed to film the coronation
0:40 if im not mistaken,this coined the phrase "right-hand-man"
Outgunned, outmanned?
It was a fought after job because u had the kings ear' at them vulnerable times so u could influence the kings decisions.
I've heard that a lot before but let's think about it critically: you're the most powerful person in the country by miles, how much advice are you really taking from a guy you hired to wipe your ass?
That was quite interesting.
The groom of the stool would have access to the King's ears. For long periods of time, considering they were all constantly constipated because of their diet.
Now we know it was Josh Widdecombe’s ancestor
Robbie Coltrane would be Robert IV - a great relief to any Englishman who shudders at the mention of Robert I.
"It looks _exactly_ like Edward VII. On the other hand, *[klaxon]* it isn't."
That must've been scripted
7:00 Justin Timberlake- I'm a jerk, but listen.
Who's the woman on the left at 2:10?
It's Katy Brand. The episode it's taken from is J04 - Jack and Jill
3 AM gang
The King of Hay-on-Wye, Richard Booth, died 11 days ago.
And the king of Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski, died in 1994.
So what we're saying is that David was completely correct
I agree that Fry was wrong to rebuff him, Mitchell was _pretty_ _much_ correct and on point. All British monarchs to date have _chosen_ to be known with one single number across the UK. This has always been the English number, so this number has occasionally (such as now) been technically incorrect in Scotland.
Elizabeth could, if she chose to, use the correct Scottish number of I rather than II (in Scotland only); she would have the Royal Prerogative to do so.
If Jamie followed the convention that Churchill suggested, by calling himself 'James VIII', it would be technically correct in Scotland but not in England (this would be the first time this has happened).
However, there are ways to avoid this issue altogether. Monarchs sometimes choose to reign under a different name than their given one, so Jamie could reign as King Jamie (the first), which would be correct everywhere in the UK.
@@luke-alex Ah that makes sense
British television seems to have a complicated relationship with Jeremy Clarkson. It seems every once in a while, he says something horrible or questionable, and his repeats get pulled from syndication, or he's rebooked at the last minute, but QI seems particularly keen to continue having him on.
The BBC realise they shot themselves in the foot cancelling his contract for Top Gear because he's really popular. Clarkson still appears on BBC programmes like QI and Have I Got News For You because they are made by external production companies. So the BBC can factually make the claim that they themselves are not employing him.
Well the fact is everyone knows he's an asshole, but he's so entertaining.. I don't know if they should've kept him on. He did assault a person.
He's a bit of a wanker but he's a bloody good presenter.
@@TheHutchy01 Yeah the wankery-ness kind of adds to it, you get too many insanely nice presenters.
@@michaellejeune7715 if you look into the actual story instead of blindly believing he punched someone over a steak as the bbc would usually misconstrue a story you'd find out it goes much deeper than that but i doubt youd be capable of doing such a thing because apparently we should all blindly believe everything in newspapers without once looking it up.
Jean Baptist Bernadotte didn't exactly rise to become king, he was adopted by the childless king of Sweden when he was past 40 years old😛
The same position exists in Sumo and it is very prestigious.
I really would rather watch full episodes.
Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, King of Sweden and Norway was my 6th cousin seven times removed. Wonder where that puts me in the line of succession?
Wasn't the King's dunny raised up so that the Groom of the Stool could wipe the royal rear end?
The days when European royalty were into S&M big time!
Sandy should go back to Borintongshire
Am I the only one that had to turn this up to a staggeringly loud degree?
7:26 Is the Klaxon having a bad day in this episode?
The story about the Swedish/Norwegian king and his tattoo is sadly not true.
I can't say yea or nay for this particular story, so I'll take your word for it, but I have to say that it's frustrating how often QI gets things wrong, given the nature of the show. If your premise is to make fun of people for believing common historical or scientific myths and misconceptions, then you'd better not be spouting those same misconceptions yourself, but they do, and so the show often feels a tad hypocritical.
CROWNED BY GOD. NOT BY THE CHURCH AS MY POWER IS DEVINE!!!
Correct!
@Pipe Tunes Sandi made the claim, not the brilliant Stephen. She is phenomenally knowledgeable but even she can make mistakes, as have you.
They were talking about shite and then the video neatly segued into Jamie Oliver. How very apt.
and here I thought “advisor” was spelled with an “o”
The story of Bernadotte's tattoos is false but there are some interesting real stories they could have used. My favorite is that the very beloved Empress Elizabeth of Austria, wife of Emperor-King Franz Joseph, who is still beloved and something of a celebrity in Austria, had a tattoo of an anchor on her shoulderblade which was apparently done by a sailor in Greece and, more scandalously, she had a tramp stamp or a tattoo right above her bottom of the Austrian imperial eagle.
Ah! That might be the easiest yet anecdotal reference to knowledge of tattooing in Europe. But could this not also be apocryphal?
Given that it was sailors who brought the Polynesian art of tattooing to the Western world, surely aristocrats would have shunned it. And an Austrian Empress letting a sailor inject ink under her skin with a needle? It sounds all so improbable. Most aristocrats wouldn't let sailors anywhere near them!
Truly, an Empress with a "tramp stamp" is pure nonsense. Not only is that slang term new in the past two decades, that variety of tattoos is only slightly older.
I suspect you are retelling stories passed around drunken Austrian Biergarten with more of a basis in fantasy than fact. A fun story, but i seriously doubt it's more than that.
Why didn't they call the Groom of the Stool an Arse-tocrat?
You actually pronounce the "s" in Méliès - yeah, French is weird like that.
On anagrams, in supermarkets and stores, staff call customers 'storescum'.....:)
Sadly I can not picture an American version of this show
Well please, come on, coronate something!
death to all kings, until you are one. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The story about the tattoo is apocryphal. It came from an 1833 play made for propaganda. There is no evidence for a tattoo and in fact in the play the actual tattoo reads "Long Live the Republic". It is rumoured before the reveal that it reads "Death to Kings".
..... Jeremys Iron?
I expected Alan to be more of a royal pain in Stephen's behind, really.
@Eric Burkheimer no he wouldn't, Stephen only does suck suck.
Why don’t we dispense with the jokes about queer people’s sexual preferences? It’s usually seen as rather distasteful to make comments about what straight people do in bed, but when it’s about gay relationships it’s given a social license. It must be very intriguing to wonder about the mysteries of the “gay animal,” but it makes many people uncomfortable. Stephen has made comments about his sexuality in the past, but that’s at his prerogative and we should be respectful of the personal parts of his life.
Fry has made documentaries about this, hence people's flippant remarks.
Eric Burkheimer I appreciate your response. However - also as a gay man - I don’t think it is our call to fantasize about someone else’s personal life. A couple of days ago an article was released about singer Troye Sivan which contained very personal questions about his preferences which are only based on the fact he is gay - including a case of the gross ongoing speculation over Shawn Mendes’ sexuality. He said he was uncomfortable and declined to answer the questions.
To be clear, the jokes are only made because Stephen is gay. There’s a sort of context that being gay is different, weird, against the standard, that it’s taboo. Children go through a stage of making jokes about sex and body parts because it’s new to them and the mystery is something they want to experience with others without talking about it seriously. That attitude is very common in queer adults because we don’t often get the chance to experience our sexuality the way other children do, so we make up for it later on. Straight people also operate in this “it’s gay, lol” setting because it’s something they don’t experience themselves. I don’t think that’s a very healthy way to look at your own sexuality; we should grow out of the childish stage and realize a more nuanced, seasoned, and beautiful view of ourselves.
mezalong Stephen has revealed personal information in the past to help quash stereotypes and make known truths about the LGBTQ+ community in the past, but that does not make jokes at the expense of his personal life appropriate.
So... a lavatory attendant went through the motions.
As far as Jamie Oliver goes, his real name is Jamie, not James. Assuming he uses his real name, as is normal, he'd be Jamie I, not James VIII
Sarreq Teryx the problem is that your assertion “uses his real name, as is normal” doesn’t hold water. Until QEII, a whole series of monarchs chose to have an entirely different “ruling” name to their own first name.
@@DavidAndTheDog There were a few (going backwards, George VI, Edward VIII, Edward VII, and Victoria) but most have used their first name as their regnal name.
Actually, I'm pretty sure his real name is James. But even if it is Jamie, to be technical he wouldn't be known as Jamie I until there was a Jamie II.
@@almostfm you are correct, I was using his Wikipedia entry, which has changed since then.
CAPTIONS PLEASE!!!
Sue Perkins: Hottest woman ever.
Wtf
Errrmmm .....
Aren’t all kings kinda kooky tho
Honi soit qui mal y pense
Surely the Swedish King could just add "Layers" to the end of his tattoo so it said "Death to Kingslayers"
Aristocraps
The US needs less shower like this rather than mindless reality TV
Don’t u mean “*more*” shows like this?
Anyone else finding the amount of cutting to different camera angles so much in this is nauseating?
No, just you.
Royal families are so anachronistic. After the Queen passes so should it.
Second
LOL. American with British roots here, and my first answer was James VIII. Like, duh.
Apparently, when Henry the 8th died (jousting, eye accident. That got infected) He was wheeled around on a barrow, through different areas, Until his body rotted so badly, that it burst open on the barrow, and spilled onto the ground, where the dogs of the town! Ate his decomposed organs and entrails; and licked up the liquids....... Mmmm yummy. Couldn't have happened to a nicer Guy!!
Bloody awful joke, regal reasons, seriously do better.....it's not Christmas yet.
"big adipose deposit." (Stephenese for "fat")
Why didn't they call the Groom of the Stool an Arse-tocrat?
Indeed