What's So Un-British About A Roundabout? | QI
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This clip is from QI Series R, Episode 7, 'Revolutions' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Gyles Brandreth, Susan Calman and Jessica Fostekew. - Розваги
Gyles Brandreth and Bob Mortimer are the absolute peak of ridiculous but true stories
we were on holiday to see the jet stream and we were wearing these grotesque rubber masks
@@shorv Gulf* Stream
nobody likes a pedant
@@MoleskinemanI do. 😊
And yet completely different in their stories.
Gyles Brandreth is the most interesting man in the world (according to Gyles Brandreth).
Someone in his family must have invented "the historical footnote remark". And he MUST make a minimum of 15 every day or they lose the patent.... 🤷♂️ 😂
There is a difference between “most interesting man in the world” and “tiresome old git.”
Well, looking at his Wikipedia page, I'm not inclined to disagree...!
😂
A national treasure
Can never tell whether Gyles is taking the piss or not. But (partially) true or not, his stories are highly entertaining.
I believe 60% of what he says :)
The QI staff do a lot of research. I suspect whenever one of Gyles' forbears crops up, they save the question and lump a few together when he's on the show. It sets him up nicely.
@@christophercox9150Cool. And then it would become the Elves wondering if Gyles would recognize and bite.
Gyles Brandreth, the most connected man in the world.
We can have “Degrees of Gyles Brandeths”, like Kevin Bacon, but most of the world would probably be at “3.”
If you've ever attended a wedding in, or got married in, a venue other than a church or a registry office, you have Gyles Brandreth to thank. "The Marriage Act 1994 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Introduced as a private member's bill by Gyles Brandreth, it amended the Marriage Act 1949 to allow civil marriages to be solemnized in certain "approved premises". Prior to the Act, marriage ceremonies could only be conducted in churches and register offices. "Approved premises", for the purpose of the Act, include publicly available premises which are "readily identifiable" as marriage venues, support the "dignity of marriage", and do not have any official connections with any religion or religious institution. The majority of these approved premises are hotels, as well as stately homes, restaurants, and leisure clubs. The Act also allows couples to marry in registration districts in which neither member of the couple resides."
Must have taken a while to come into force as I married in 1995 and we had to register where we lived, for at least 10 days!
Clicked on this hoping for a family story. This man never fails to disappoint.
Helps that even the British royal fam is French if u go back enough. 😂
Everything is amazing when Gyles Brandreth is on it.
Gyles Brandeth's family were either very liked nobles back in the day or successful con-artists and bullshitters that have shared their family secrets only to descendants as a closely guarded secret. Like a real life Sly Cooper without the thievery.
Toast?
@@malahammer Can confirm, better than marmalade
Gyles Brandreth is the only person who can start a story with "You're not going to believe this but..." and I still believe it
God I love Gyles so much. He would be so much fun at a dinner party
You'd go to a dinner party, but leave a breakfast party.
You two can sit outside on the patio, while everyone else is having fun…
Just don't ask him to make the after-dinner speech!
@@Stephen_LaffertyRather the after-dinner speech, than the pre-dinner speech.
This is the fun, genius. Getting older people to talk is a bloody goldmine.@@EdinMike
Forget Kevin Bacon. Everyone in the world is somehow connected to Gyles by birth, marriage, education, job description, a chance meeting on public transportation, or a drink in a saloon located in a dusty town 100 miles from a paved road. You may not believe this but I’m his 6th cousin 4 times removed on my father’s side of the family. We exchange Christmas cards every year. 😂🎉😊
Not sure if 6 degrees of separation applies to Gyles...
He's the one responsible for it.
We're all at most 3 degrees away from him, and therefore at most 6 from any other person
@@PaulMutser I’m one degree of separation from both Kevin Bacon and Bill Clinton, so now I wonder if either of them know Gyles Brandeth.
Does Gyles Brandreth have a radio show or Podcast or something where he can document all his stories for hours and hours?
That way I can listen to his voice on loop for all of eternity.
Boy have I got news for you
He's got a podcast about words and etymology called Something Rhymes With Purple, along with Susie Dent
New episodes about every week and there are at least 200 already
@@magnussankaran1097 Wonderful! thank you very much
@@magnussankaran1097brilliant! Thank you.
Much as I love Gyles Brandreth, I can't help but point out that Louis Napoleon's many exiles all either occurred when he was not Emperor, or occurred after Haussmann's renovation of Paris (which began in 1853). The renovation was basically an even more ambitious version of his modernisation plans that were part of a series of pledges he made on election in 1848. There was so little progress made on these that he staged a self-coup (he was constitutionally limited to one term). I hope Sunak doesn't get ideas...
What's So Un-British About A Roundabout? | QI 1837pm 12.1.24 the flaneurs must have really enjoyed their round-a-bouts.
You just matched with Gyles Brandreth on Tndr.....
Even when Gyles spins a long yarn, there's always some semblance of truth deep down in it. And it's always funny.
Just imagine Gyles as the host of QI. The mind boggles.
One of my favourite episodes!
Haussmann as the designer of Paris was the answer to the £500,000 question of Who wants to be a millionaire on Charles Ingram's fraud run, that's the only reason I know he designed Paris.
Nicely observed
Gyles is a national treasure.
The original Paris roundabout had different priorities where those on it had to give way to those entering, which if traffic was busy would end in a gridlock. The British way of giving those on the junction the right of way is self clearing.
The French also _had_ give way to the right (they still do on most roads) and the British just copied it for roundabouts ^_^. This is why you see "Vous n'avez pas la priorité" under the give way signs on entry to a roundabout in France.
@@cigmorfil4101sorry, the traffic in France, which drives on the right, has to give way to the RIGHT?? I can't see how that's workable
@@dielaughing73 Perfectly true. The French do give way to the right unless there is a diamond symbol sign displayed at regular intervals alongside the road. In some towns this is even reinforced by the placing of stop lines on the carriage just before a junction on the right to force drivers to stop and let out traffic from that junction. The system is known as priorité à droite.
@@dielaughing73
Priorité à droite (look it up) means that traffic joining a road by turning right from a side road has priority over traffic already on that road - in a crash the driver coming from the left will get the blame (unless there are signs indicating otherwise, eg the yellow diamond with a white border indicating the road with priority). Thus for a roundabout joining traffic had priority over traffic already on a roundabout, often leading to gridlock; hence the signs "Vous n'avez pas la priorité" to clarify those joining must give way to those already on the roundabout (we could do with those signs, in English, in the UK).
@@iankp5901 that sounds like an absolutely horrible system.. but I've never tried it so I guess I don't know
An idea for a future episode: Gyles Brandreth
Giles "I have a rather interesting anecdote regarding that" Brandreth strikes again.
I fucking love Gyles. I love his stories, I love his sense of humor. I get the sense that he is not universally beloved in his native land? But I'm always happy when he turns up on QI.
He was a Conservative mp and that will alway divide opinion. I wasn't old enough to know who he was when he was an mp so have no opinion on his political career, but he's a great commentator on 90s British politics.
Adding to hesky's comment, he always turns up on TV whenever there's a royal event like a wedding or funeral and he often waffles on about the royals in an overly self-indulgent way. People my age (mid 20s) just know him as an old-money guy with lots of stories about rich people we could never hope to meet. I think he's harmless, but in the UK young people are having a hard time so his optics aren't great.
(P.S. Love your vids, gave me the courage to DM for my friends every week for 2 years. A river to your people :D )
I love gyles. I wish I could see him more. He is a treasure.
Starting to think he has an unfair advantage....
Has Gyles ever been on WILTY? I imagine that to be extraordinary.
He has. But he told stories he had previously told on QI and Something Rhymes With Purple, so it was easy to know he was telling the truth.
Gyles Brandeth is an international treasure.
I absolutely love Gyles. It's great to just listen to him.
If you've ever driven around Basingstoke in Hampshire, it seems to have thousands of roundabouts.
I met Gyles in 1974 at Bultins in minehead, when we all went on one of those school trips that were popular back then. A week of activities and trips out. It was a great week, even when I got left behind at the camp when their rest of my school went out all day. He was working in the library as one of the camp staff with a certain H.E. Todd, author of the “Bobby Brewster” books. We all had to call him ‘Uncle Gyles’.
I would have Gyles Brandreth to dinner every night for the rest of my life JUST to hear his stories! I love that guy :) :)
Many years ago...
I love Gyles
More than 100 years since the first UK roundabout, and a great many people still don't know how they work.
Forget about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Time to play Three Degrees of Gyles Brandreth.
considering that Tory Transport Minister Ernest Marples would only have been aged 2 at the opening of the original UK roundabout in Letchworth, it does rather throw doubt on the Brandreth family connection
And that BEE you see 🐝 on the bonnet in my Dad’s red car 🚗 is a direct descendant of the bee that inspired Napoleon to adopt the bee as his emblem … Can you believe it?
Gyles probably knows more about me than I do.
You couldn't play Six Degrees of Gyles Brandreth, could you? It's just be one degree, all the time.
Brandreth strikes again!
The first place I saw a roundabout was in England like 40-ish ago😂😂
Passing near that red car is a postman. The gleam in that postman's eye would soon become Gyles??😂
The modern roundabout as currently accepted across the world was invented by Frank Blackmore of the Road Research Laboratory in the 1960s. That includes the rules, such as priority to traffic on the roundabout.
The audience groaning is my favourite thing
What episode was this
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Gyles: One of my forebears…
*groans*
No, but seriously, he has grown on me over time. I quite enjoy his stories now and the connections, however obscure, do make things more interesting.
Please let this meme format rest in peace
True story Giles is really Cliff Clavin;-)
Gyles should HOST QI!!
Gyles is a bit like Wasabi.....full of flavor, but a little goes a long way. 😉
Gyles Brandreth, what a ledge! X❤
His ability to stretch a 30 second story to 3 minutes is.. interesting
Quite!
Can you tell that he was a Conservative politician?
Giles is marvellousLy entertaining. I’ve seen him live. I wonder if he still votes Tory!
He daughter is standing in Chester South and Eddisbury
Did Mr.. Brandreth go in and around the lake?
Napoleon III was never "restored" to Emperor
Yeah I thought he started off as Prez, became Emperor, before losing it all in Sedan (after technically declaring war on Prussia first) then he died soon after.
How did Ernest Marples and Gyles' father go to open a roundabout in the 50's or 60's that was made in 1909?
Were there only twelve people in Britain when Gyles was a boy? Because HE KNOWS EVERYBODY
Love Giles
Happy to be a purple person!!!
I think Giles is Englands answer to Forest Gump.
Dudes family has done almost everything in inventions chaaaaiiii
Gyles needs to come back on.
I don't know who this guy is, but I've seen him on here quite often. Does he just have a particularly pervasive family, or is this "my family" a part of a gimmic for stand-up?
And the red car is french!
Interesting as Gyles is i always expect the other panelists to pull out a copy of war and peace when he starts one of his stories as a joke,
Marple s and mr beeching have a lot to answer for!
I feel like gyles brandreth might be the nexus point of which the universe revolves around and collapses into!
Letchworth is a Garden City, not a New Town!
Being Australian, I have little knowledge of who Gyles Brandreth is outside of seeing him on QI but his appearances on the show make for some of the most interesting television I've seen.
Did a very quick glimpse and he was a conservative politician so yeah
It's odd the the British only took the *idea* of the roundabout back instead of taking the actual examples back to the British museum.
“And that is why, Paris looks like Southport”
The most frustrating part is that Gyles wasn't corrected on calling it Letchworth New Town when it is Letchworth Garden City
Letchworth Garden City was the world's first Garden City, and based on a masterplan by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin.
Hardly the most frustrating. Fry used to make howlers like this quite frequently.
What about Ebenezer Howard ? His statue is in the sunken gardens near the bowling green. I always thought he was the "founder" ... ? @@CuriousFocker
@@zapkvror perhaps more accurately the elves
@@CuriousFockerIt should have been Cleveleys near Blackpool.
But the instigator of the Cleveleys Cottage Exhibition, had some time off what he'd started, which sadly allowed naughty Letchworth, to sneak in and unfairly, in my book, claim the prize.
Booo. Unfair.
Sneaky Southerners. Lol.
i wanna party with Gyles!!!
as the Iplayer site says "BBC iPlayer only works in the UK", I can't watch it there. Since UA-cam also is viewed outside the UK (by a pretty large crowd too, I would think), please add that to the description 🙏
Sandy can’t even let him tell his story with out interrupting with “that’s where we get the boulevards”
Did Charles' father also accompany Marples when he fled the country?😮
“It’s not a family tree, it’s a family f**king forest!”
In the UK there are ( a few ? ) roundabouts with satellite mini roundabouts ( often called " magic " roundabouts , after the TV programme ) these are scary to negotiate ( imagine having them in the USA ! ! ) ....... DAVE™🛑
Just had to look it up, it seems there are five in the UK. I was particularly interested as I lived until a few years ago all my life, near one of them! In Colchester, Essex. Very familiar with it (handy experience for driving lessons too!), but I can totally appreciate for many unfamiliar with using them, the stress and anxiety they could induce!
Part of the problem to an extent is naming them a roundabout as essentially they are just a series of individual mini roundabouts, that just so happens to have a vacant area of greenery in the centre, also for those inexperienced, it would seem very wrong to choose to go anti-clockwise around the junction. thankfully giving way to the right still applies at each mini roundabout
When I had to use it everyday for my commute, I became very aware of which direction on a certain time of day would be quicker.... often, it would be much quicker to go the much longer way around it, due to some of the mini roundabouts packed with congestion
If the French invented the roundabout, why do they consistently fail to use them correctly? If I had a pound for every time I saw a French driver sneak onto a roundabout by eliding onto the right hand, outside, lane of the thing, only to circumnavigate a full 270 degrees round it before exiting and all without so much as a single flash from the indicators with which it is rumoured that French cars are as equipped as are English cars, then I would be a rich man indeed! 😂
Big fish.
Weve had a roundabout in Geelong for about a hundred years
In what movie did Gyles Brandreth appear with Kevin Bacon?
No one in Gyles family need to remember who theve met they just ask Gyles he know all their stories
Sandie: The Big Bang happen when....
Gyles: Sorry to interrupt you Sandie, but you will not belive this, true story actually, one of my forebears, Gylius, he had this fire cracker....
But we did it right, the French go the wrong way around.
Roundabouts are Australian. The first roundabout is about 3,000 years old. Aboriginal tribal warriors invented the roundabout. Why do Europeans think they invented everything?
L'Enfant didn't create it earlier? There are many circles in DC.
Maybe balckadder should a been called Brandreth and be about the true life of Giles Brandreth and his lineage
Does Brandreth really believe the rubbish he talks or is it part of his "act"? I honestly can't even tell?
His goal is to be entertaining, not super informative, rather like QI.
PLEASE, don't EVER EVER EEEEVER have Gyles back on.. can't stand that self obsorbed individual. Waist of time having him on, and his self observed stories take time from all the others.
Thank goodness the remote has a mute button and a fast forward button.