CLASSIC QI XL Reaction Fx09 - The Future (Rob Brydon, Sean Lock, Ben Miller)
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Hope you enjoy my first reaction to Episode 9 (the XL version) of QI (Series F) starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, guest starring Rob Brydon, Sean Lock and Ben Miller!
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Ben Miller is a comedian and writer, who just happens to have studied physics previously
A lot of the great British comedians studied something hard core before getting into comedy. Graham Chapman was studying medicine, Rowan Atkinson studied electrical engineering, Terry Jones was a medieval scholar, Jo Brand was a mental health nurse, Clive Anderson was a practicing barrister. It explains a lot about the perceived differences in English and American humor, I think.
@@karlmortoniv2951 Also on the flip side people called Brian were musicians before becoming renowned Astrophysicists lol
Ben Miller is an actor comedian. He began as a duo with Alexander Armstrong. He went on to play Richard Poole in Death in Paradise and, these days, is Professor Tempest in the series Professor T
And also he *did* indeed start writing a solid state physics thesis named "Novel quantum effects in low-temperature quasi-zero-dimensional mesoscopic electron systems", but he pursued comedy instead of finishing it!
Neil, you need to watch The Armstrong & Miller Show at some point, it's fantastic. I like it about as much as I do That Mitchell and Webb Look.
And he’s the voice of Monkey, opposite Johnny Vegas, in the PG Tips ads.
The phrase "My hovercraft is full of eels" in Esperanto is a Monty Python's Flying Circus reference to a bit with a wrongly translated English-Hungarian phrasebook.
The BBC also produce a radio show ( also available as a podcast) called The Infinite Monkey Cage which is a comedy science panel show presented by Brian Cox and a comedian called Robin Ince. Ben Miller has made multiple appearances on that, as has Dara O'Briain. Well worth a listen to if you enjoy this type of thing.
I came here to say this. 😊😊 Love those infinite monkeys 🥰🥰
@@danniantagonist I find it jumps around a bit too much for the entertainment compared to the old Science Now radio program. ( Rutherford and Fry too would be better more straight than the cutting accross each other )
Wholeheartedly agree, Infinite Monkey Cage is just THE best podcast the BBC has created. They embrace the nerd in every subject!
12:56 'Doodlebug' is just a nickname that the allies gave to the V1 rocket.
Mercifully, this was one of the last episodes of the panel sneering at knowledge. In a way, you can almost see it in this episode, as Rob and Sean both start out as the sneering schoolchildren, but Rob eases off on it while Sean just keeps going. By the time Sandi comes around, that streak is pretty much gone. The closest you get to that now is the panel going after Gyles Brandreth for having an anecdote about pretty much everything. Unfortunately, this was the only episode Ben Miller ever did-- who, if you've never seen in DEATH IN PARADISE, you probably saw in the original JOHNNY ENGLISH.
To be fair, even I think Miller leaned too heavily into "lecture" mode, when this is a light entertainment show.
Especially with a field like physics, that can have a lot of jargon, he needed to be more aware of his audience.
(I'm guessing he was delighted at the rare opportunity to talk about science topics he found fascinating, and overlooked that these were actors who primarily studied the arts.)
QI is a comedy show primarily which is why comedians are regularly invited onto the panels. New sub and ty for your reactions :)
Welcome!!
In one of Feynman's books, he mentioned attending the dinner for the Nobel Prize.
The Swedish princess asked what he did, and when he said "physics", she jested that they wouldn't have anything to talk about, due to how much wasn't known.
Feynman responded that they wouldn't have a casual conversation precisely because a lot is known about physics. Conversation is mostly about topics where the people talking don't know much, like the weather or economics or politics. (The princess was not pleased at his response.)
My Grandfather died in the 1952 London Smog. His lungs had also been affected by gas attacks in WW1 (though he survived the 1921 flu pandemic - which many ex WW1 participants did not), My Great-Aunt died in a dence fog- she was killed by a London Tram she didnt see or hear coming
Armstrong & Miller as WWII pilots is hilarious. Check it.
Yeh Ben legit studied for a PHD in physics at Cambridge....👀😱👏💜
There's a great tradition of comedians springing from UK Universities dating back to the 50s, most notably - but not exclusively - from Oxbridge where comedy groups The Oxford Revue and the Cambridge Footlights first came to prominence or, at least, began to break out of the campuses and into the public eye. Revue shows (a mixture of song, dance and satirical sketches) go back to the 19th century and, owing to the learned nature of the performers, became very popular with the more educated classes who could "get" the political and literature based targets the shows lampooned. It was in taking their revues beyond the city limits and regularly appearing at venues during the Edinburgh Arts Festival outside the scheduled festival events (what was then known as "The Fringe") that many comedians got their break. The Pythons, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Graeme Garden, Rowan Atkinson, Fry and Laurie, Clive James, Clive Anderson, David Mitchell, Sue Perkins, Emma Thompson and many more were all Oxbridge alumni who created the comedy bubble of intellectual British humour which was both embraced and burst by the "Alternatives"
Armstrong and Miller were great. Check out the 'Armstrong & Miller Physics Special' sketch. It touches on the difficulties of explaining science to laymen.
"Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?" is my usual response when people complain that there's more than one sign language in the world.
Ben played sheriff of Nottingham in a Doctor who episodes called the Robot of Sherwood and was in Johnny English films
I love the Armstrong and Millie's caveman sketches. "Mammoth good "
Ben Miller is a comedian, but in this episode he conceals it well.
Chinese can distinguish between R and L no problem, at least the northern dialects since they use both. In the south the R is pronounced differently (closer to Zh). But it's definitely not making fun of anyone, it is how they actually speak and the closest to the way they hear it. That's like saying people are making fun of English speakers for not being able to pronounce French sounds, when they say words like naïve, encore or mutton. No, these are obviously normal English words and the fact they originally came from French does not make them any less part of the language.
It is actually the Japanese who have trouble distinguishing R and L, because Japanese language only uses R, but it's a very lightly tapped R that sounds very close to an L. It is really something in between the L and R that English and many other languages use.
In my opinion, the two best QI regulars in terms of intellectual curiosity are Jimmy Carr and Sara Pascoe. They want to learn new information, they have interesting information themselves, and they're still funny while doing so.
There are two episodes from the I series that immediately spring to mind which are great if you're wanting more of a balance between comedy and intellect - "Illness", where one of the guests is the physician and science writer Ben Goldacre, and, appropriately enough, "Intelligence," which has what I'd call a QI-all-star cast plus a very important guest.
I’m sure they touched on the time travel in another episode, with regard to the , ‘why don’t we see time travellers now’ question. Was because you wouldn’t be able to travel outside the time of the technologies existence so couldn’t travel back to now.
Doodlebugs were the V1, called such because of the noise they made.
Recommend the Armstrong and miller WW2 pilots sketches.
The doodlebug was a nickname for the V1
Put 'Armstrong and Miller Pilots' into youtube and sit back and enjoy!
They’re called supply teachers in Ontario and Quebec
Maybe it’s different in the Chinese languages, but I know with Japanese they have their own phoneme that sounds to us like it’s in-between l and r, and so they’ll use that as a stand-in for either but it’s more that they aren’t used to saying l/r and just say their in-between one. So it’s less their inability to distinguish, but rather a difficulty pronouncing and not having it sound like their existing syllables, which *we* English speakers then fail to distinguish as being it’s own thing in-between since we’re assuming it has to be one or the other (we’ll hear the l when they say r and vice versa, since it’s skewing that direction).
Then of course, when they get loan words they write them down using their own characters also, and it loses the original reference to know which it is. Like, their google is literally written guguru, it’s not a misinterpretation if they have different information.
This was before Rob Brydon miraculously grew a lot fuller head of hair.
Your videos always drop at exactely the right time. Thanks!
Love that Sean made you nearly spit your drink out....👀👏😂😂😂💜
Doodlebug was English slang for the V1 (the little one with wings)
Ben miller's 'worst week of my life' series was up there with the funniest things I've watched.
Definitely up for more WILTY!!💜💜with copyright issues,I've seen a couple of reactors putting "This is here due to copyright" across the screen in white/see through 5/6 times👀🤔🤷♂️💜
The Armstrong and Miller show is like a more modern version of A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
A pretty good description, a double act sketch show with recurring characters. They're not unlike Mitchell and Webb too. Both clearly intelligent writers but also not above doing ridiculous and silly sketches.
I was curious about Rob and the time capsule thing so I did some digging and he was kinda right. According to University of Pittsburgh website, there's a cornerstone in the Commons Room from 1937, given as a gift to that years graduating class with instructions not to open it until 2437, 500 years after its creation.
A time capsule from 1891 was opened in Croatia and contained a message, noted achievements of the time, current prices and several newspapers and coins. One was discovered in Scotland containing a newspaper from 1894 and, obviously, a bottle of whiskey.
QI saying 1940 was the first was nonsense. Stephen sometimes has too much faith in the Elves being 100% correct in everything, it annoyed me him brushing Rob off as an idiot making something up without considering he is likely right. Rob was not necessarily correct in 1937 being the first but he was closer than the Elves.
Series F was from the year 08/09, this episode was from 2009, and several time capsules from the 1890s and early 20th century had been discovered and opened before this episode was filmed so I really don't know what they were talking about. Seems like lazy research, I found this all on my own in 10 minutes.
10 minutes of my sad life that I'll never get back.
Ben Miller played the sheriff of Nottingham in an episode of Doctor Who not long after this episode was recorded.
I don't know if his bell was a reference to that or just a big coincidence.
Who is Ben Miller, to most people in the UK and elsewhere he is a fairly famous sketch comedian and actor. He studied natural science at Cambridge but started pursuing a comedy career mid PHD. I'm guessing a lot of viewers very very surprised when they watch this episode because the fact that he has a science background isn't that commonly know.
The reason QI works is because it combines knowledge with humour.
And although I love the knowledge of Ben Miller I also love the humour of Sean Lock and have no issues with Sean taking the piss.
I don't think it's because of the distrust in intelligent people I think it's because of yhe format of the show were there needs to be a healthy dose of both.
I think it's one of the reasons why QI worked better with Stephen compared to the less funny (although still fumny) episodes with Sandy.
You can react to the long compilations of WILTY, of David Mitchell, Bob Mortimer, Claudia Winkleman, Lee Mack and a version for Rob Brydon. EmbraceTheSuck21 did it anyway. Or most of them.
I first knew of Ben Miller from the film Johnny English, but I later learnt of Armstrong and Miller.
UA-cam ''Armstrong & Miller.''
I’m with you, the physics is fascinating and I’d love for him to talk uninterrupted about it
I’ve always said that time travel is possible because we’re all travelling through (space)time at the rate of one second per second.
Ben Miller was also in the Jonny English series of films alongside Rowan Atkinson
Ben Miller can't tie his shoelaces. Swings and roundabouts! 😜
(I forget which show it was revealed on - it may have been Room 101 but I could be wrong)
IIRC, there are about 30 - 40 people who are 'certified' and can speak fluent Klingon, many more who can write it. Even the linguist who developed the language past the few phrases that were created by James Doohan (who was born near you) can't speak it past just a few phrases...but created the whole dictionary!
Ben Millner was in a comedy duo, they did a show called Armstrong and Millner show a sketch show which you should check out.
I'm mainly aware of Ben Miller from Johnny English's sidekick, Bough lol
Look up "The Armstrong and Miller Show".
Ben Miller isnt a scientist. He's an actor and comedian. Like how Stephen Fry is smart but no necessarily a scientist. Miller was the star of the first two series of _Death in Paradise._
He may have pursued acting and comedy as a career, but he does have a PhD in physics from Cambridge!
@@chrisgoddard9236 I didn’t know that. That’s like Rowan Atkinson or Brian May.
Ben Milller has also been on WILTY. You have reacted to one of the episode (09-09).
Have a watch of Armstrong and Miller WW2 pilots.. funny
With no relevance to anything other than Ben Miller's buzzer, April 3rd is National Fish Fingers and Custard Day in homage to Matt Smith's 2010 episode, The Eleventh Hour episode. Gotta be worth a taste test 😋
Great and fun reaction as always! When Are you getting back to the Norwegian taskmaster Kongen Befaler? 😁
There is a new series of WILTY running at the moment
More WILTY.
Thank you.
Definately more WILTY reactions! Shame you were targeted for copyright as lots of reactors upload it with seemingly no problems
Locke took the fun out of this episode.
I just realised... it's not just Japanese people that pronounce Rs as Ls, and vice versa (look up the advert for "Morning Rescue" for example). So I'm guessing it's something to do with east Asian phonetics or something? Does that mean the phenomena extends to Korea too?
Yes. In hangul (Korean) r and l are the same letter and the pronunciation depends on the placement of the letter. Or sometimes a merge of the 2.
Yes, more WILTY? please.
Duddlebug is a V1 specifically i believe?
Yes, the nickname derives from the sound they made in flight.
Yep. It was called a doodlebug or buzz-bomb because of the sound made by it's pulsejet engine.
I so agree with you about the disparagement of intelligence in North American culture. I suspect it is even worse here in the US than it is up there in Canada. I always found it frustrating on episodes of QI as well, since such an attitude is antithetical to the central idea of the show. Sean Lock does the same kind of thing in one of the two episodes that Rory McGrath was on. They both happen to be pretty good episodes, with Rory doing what Sean called “atomic number wheelies” at one point.
Did you ever watch any of the Christmas/New Year lectures by Dr Heinz Wolff?
It's a while back now and I think he's been gone a while, but I remember watching them on TV...
He was also a presenter of The Great Egg Race. It ran from 1979 to 1986 on BBC 2. The series name came from the initial challenge of making a device capable of transporting an egg in a rubber-band-powered vehicle the furthest possible distance without breaking it. After the initial egg-related challenges, other non-egg events were introduced.
@@peterjf7723 I had forgotten that...
Ben Miller is a comedian. actor and writer.
Hi Neil I'd like to recommend Series N episode 15 'Next' as a good one. It's also a chance to get to know Frankie Boyle a bit better. In his stand up he's acidic and full on and can be very divisive but in reality he seems like quiet a nice bloke.
I thought this was both a knowledge and comedy show? Not sure why you would object to humour as well as facts.
For some reason, many of your WILTY reactions are still visible to me here in Ireland, though they may be restricted in other countries.
100% agree with you at 7:50 on the tendency to make fun of intelligence - on QI of all shows, this shouldn't happen!
I disagree with "there will always be war and poverty", simply because it only exists because we exist. If we don't exist neither does that state of being... Too often our existence is conflated with planetary or universal existence, we aren't that significant...
It always makes me sad that the influence of the English speaking world made it so that my neighbour François Englert goes realitvely unknown despite the fact that he shared the Nobel with Higgs as they both discovered the existence of the particle at the same time in parallel research.
Lol, going through the episode, they talk about the V2 bombs, another one of those historical facts where parts of it get ignored because it doesn't involve England. More V2 bombs were fired at Antwerp, than were fired at London. Everyone knows about the Blitz, but nobody mentions Antwerp.
And now here I am the annoyed little Belgian, people in the comments role their eyes at.
Hi Neil I remember watching this episode in the past and being annoyed by Rob & Sean also. Ben Miller is comedy partner of duo Armstrong and Miller, actor, presenter but I believe originally could've been a Prof in physics.
Agree with you fella re. Rob and Shaun
I cringe at the making fun of Chinese pronunciation.
The thing about Singlish and other versions of English is that those alternative pronunciations may influence how we all speak English or become a new version of English.
Because they don't understand what Ben is talking about they go to what they know, which is trying to be funny. So mocking him is their way of trying to be funny. Simply because they can't engage in any other way.
I was rather disappointed with Ben because he is a comedian and actor and really was quite arrogant hogging so much time.