The big guy is Phil Jupitus. He's a regular on the comedy/music trivia show Nevermind the Buzzcocks. You will find a whole subsection of people who can't stand him, but I personally think he's very funny... especially in his QI appearances. Incidentally, buzzcocks also has a treasure trove of amusing clips... mostly with the first two hosts, but even some of the later guest hosts have good clips
Four of the QI Elves (researchers) started a podcast called "No Such Thing As A Fish" whose name is based on the fact mentioned in the video. They discuss little known, interesting facts they have researched for the show and it is both fascinating and hilarious.
Thanks! I'll check that out, nice with a smart podcast, tired of famous and unfamous and infamous people talking about their week - that I can get from Seinfeld.
i wonder if pilots have superstitions about riding on planes that have crashed before? or were made out of components from planes that crashed? there's a dairy company in the US, in Oregon state, called Tillamook; their company logo is a sailing ship, a reference to the ships that brought their merchandise to market in the early days, since they started in a remote valley; those ships were originally made out of driftwood, meaning wood from ships that sank
A neutron star is what you get when a star is massive enough to go supernova, but not massive enough to produce a black hole afterwards. Stars like our sun will become white dwarves when they die (they don't go supernova, they just blow off their outer layers and you're left with a small white core). Much bigger stars go supernova and become tiny neutron stars which are incredibly dense, even bigger stars will go supernova and become black holes.
It's also worth noting that because neutron stars are created when a sufficiently massive star goes supernova but not massive enough that they become black holes, naturally formed neutron stars are remarkably uniform in size. They can however merge with other neutron star to become more massive than would be possible from a supernova. There's still a finite limit at about 2.42 sloar masses where the smallest possible is about 1.17 solar masses, so two neutron stars merging with eachother will in most cases form a black hole unless both are very small before the merger.
Just a quick point. The English tunneller who broke through to meet up with the french tunnellers was indeed called Graham Fagg - so Stephen wasn't referencing cigarettes- it was his actual name. The guy at the end is Phil Jupitus, who always made it his mission to make fun of Stephen, and hopefully embarass him. Incidentally, Phil's daughter became one of the Qi Elves (Question setters and researchers)
I'm pretty sure KB knew that, he was just making a joke/making reference to the cigarette slang so youtube didn't block the video on grounds of there being a derogatory slur in the video.
I love the way you treat us (your audience) as we are your friends. Your pauses when you voice your thoughts on what you're watching makes it seem as if we are there with you having a coffee and a chat.
I read Nineteen Eighty Four when I was about 15, because I was obsessed with David Bowie at the time. When I found out that Diamond Dogs (still by favourite Bowie album) was based on Nineteen Eighty Four, I had to read it.
The big guy at the end is Phill Jupitus. He is hilarious, and there are many episodes in QI when he makes his personal mission to make Stephen uncomfortable by making dirty references and winking at him.
My Sat Nav used to have Stephen Fry’s voice. He’d say things like, would you mind awfully moving over the right hand lane darling? Or, I’m sorry to interrupt you darling but you need to turn right. 😊
I recommend listening to the audiobook of "1984". There is a version on Audible (along with "Animal Farm") read by Stephen Fry, so he certainly has NOW read it.
1984 was written by George Orwell in 1948. It starts with one of the most famous sentences ever: "It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" and, in 1984 itself, the book topped the US bestseller list. I remember reading it as a kid and was instantly hooked. I've read it again since and also well remember the (re-)showing of the TV play in the 1970s and bleak it was too.
MentourPilot tried to talk down Tom Scott in a flight simulator in a commercial jet and he at least got the plane onto the runway though he did hit the ground too hard and crashed, but as the real pilot said at least he got it on the runway where there were emergency services on hand, it's on UA-cam.
I'm an odd person with books. I buy the physical book for my shelf and for posterity. But I struggle to read and imagine the world due to having aphantasia, so having an audiobook where someone else reads it helps me enjoy it more.
Pardon the cheeky question, but when did you find out you had Aphantasia? I have a couple of friends who have Aphantasia, neither of whom found out until they were adults, and both of whom echoed what one so often hears about the diagnosis: that for all those years when someone would say, "Imagine you're lying on a beach on a sunny day - or any number of "just imagines" - they had no idea it was a literal instruction, or possibility. How was it for you?
If you want more QI you should look up the best of Phil Jupitus on it - it's mostly him making Stephen break, particularly when he reveals Stephen's plans for a "Child Buffing Workshop... where craftmen will get toddlers up to a high sheen". That or the time it was revealed, via Phil, that Stephen can't understand Geordies (Newcastle-upon-Tyne people).
I'm an audiobook person! I can't stay focused on a page, so I switched to audio and it's been a revelation - I've even listened to Stephen Fry do the Harry Potter books. It's great for long drives and things like walking the dog.
I agree and I have only recently discovered the delights of audio books.i recently on UA-cam listened to hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy read by Douglas Adams .
If EVER there were a time to read 1984, THIS is it. Bonus: it's utterly gripping. Also fascinating, terrifying, revealing and devastating. (Also, the John Hurt movie is fantastic...)
@@sameebah I don't think he was on the one with Carrie Fisher. He was on the one with Teri Hatcher though and hillarious on it. Licking all sorts of things.
My mate heard you can learn a language subconsciously by playing a foreign language audio book while you sleep...so he tried it...but the disc got stuck...and now he can stutter fluently in spanish
Have you ever come across Brian Cox? He's a physicist who makes excellent shows about the universe, his series 'Wonders of the Solar System' was amazing, maybe something to watch in your downtime away from here, he's our David Attenborough of the stars.
One thing to bear in mind, re evolution, is that appearances can be deceiving. Two things can be more closely related yet look less physically similar, than one of those things and another creature, which look more similar, but be more distantly related. It's all about when any two creatures last shared a common ancestor.
I think the fish thing is not so much that all the stuff isn't related, it's just that everything with four limbs* is technically just a very, very derived lobe-finned fish. We're all just basically a very small branch on the giant fish family tree. *amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Audiobooks are great to listen to when you are doing something boring or physical like cleaning, painting your house, travelling in your car, cooking etc. I like reading. Sometimes I need my brain to be occupied while I’m doing life stuff or it goes off on it’s own to cause chaos and the next thing I know the day has gone and I haven’t a clue what I’ve been doing.
Taking long walks through a park listening to an audio book is my favourite way to spend an afternoon. Great way to get out of the house, fresh air, exercise and educate yourself. Give 'em a second chance. Thanks for the vid. Happy subscriber. 👍👍
The great thing about audio books is that they are fantastic for long road trips ... music has repetitive rhythms and can contribute to falling asleep at the wheel. Audio books will (hopefully) keep you interested in the story and help keep you awake. I live in Oz and long road trips are a fact of life (I'll drive for 2 1/2 hours just to go shopping, that's just up the road).
The soil down the trousers reference seemed to confuse you, watch The Great Escape and you'll get it, a fantastic film based on real events during WWII, it got the Hollywood treatment so its loosely based rather than factual but its a classic film.
Phil Jupitus is a long time friend of the show, and was there early when Fry was telling us we have more than one moon. There's an episode called "Oologies", it's in the Toksvig era, and has Claudia Winklemam, Phil Jupitus, Bill Bailey and Alan Davies. The three gents have known each other for a long time, as they all started about the same time. The XL version of the episode is one if the funniest in my opinion. It goes off the rails so many times and all involved are hilarious. Another great vid bro, I think you look like you could have been Segals stunt double before he chose a different way of life.
The Muppets Christmas carol is the most accurate version of the book to be filmed. Michael Caine said he filmed it straight as if the Muppets were real. Well they are real aren't they
@@whitedwarf4986 Muppet Treasure Island, the film that made shock comic Kevin Bishop what he is (he plays Jim Hawkins and he was so determined to distance himself from that adorable kiddie he decided to be as crude loud and obnoxious as possible for the rest of his professional life)
In the study of evolutionary clades, there are two possibilities: 1) There's no such thing as a fish. 2) Humans are a kind of fish (along with everything else in the animal kingdom)
With the Channel Tunnel segment, Stephen was not talking about cigarettes: the engineer's surname is Fagg! Incidentally, it is a name shared by American politicians Peter, Harrison and Russell Fagg, U.S. Federal Judge George Gardner Fagg, American commercial artist Kenneth S. Fagg and President of the University of Southern California from 1947 to 1957 Fred Dow Fagg Jr and his son, the Dean of the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark. Oh, and originally 'fagge' meant a type of flat fish, so it links to the 'no such thing as a fish' round too!
I went to school with one Richard Fagg, a tall, gentle lad who lived on Vicar's Hill. I wonder what happened to him. Since then, I haven't come across another Fagg.
The Muppets didn't do a movie of 1984 (buthey f*cking should do, by the way) Victoria was talking about The Muppet Christmas Caarol - which is one of movies of Charles Dickens' classic that is most faithful to the book, belive t or not.
This video popped up on my suggestions as i was getting ready for bed, and once it's done I'm putting on my Harry Potter audiobook, read by Stephen Fry, because I fall asleep to it every night and have done since I was about 17. I recently found out a good friend also does the same thing, and they also have another friend who does it too. The HP audiobooks read by Stephen Fry is an institution in the UK.
'No Such Thing As A Fish' was taken as the name of the spinoff podcast, hosted by the QI elves (researchers) now over 500 episodes in where each week they just discuss interesting facts they have found out recently. Very listenable.
My favourite podcast is "No Such Thing as a Fish" hosted by a bunch of QA Elves. The first few episode almost put me off, but once you get into it and the host start to develop personalities and character, it's totally brilliant! Because of the links to QA, they occasionally have some really great guests too. Steven Fry, Sandi Toksvig, John Lloyd, Tom Scott, Bec Hill, Neil Gaiman, Lieven Scheire, Richard Osman, the list goes on. And is truly top tier stuff. If you like QI, you'll probably love this podcast too, if you stick with it long enough to get truly hooked like I did.
edit: 18:42 or a bundle of sticks. i was actually going to at the end of the video to recommend audio books before 16:54. Clockwork orange, 1984, animal farm by George Orwell are Fantastic Reads. by the way 16:33 he is saying this because Stephen fry is the Narrator for the audio books for All the Harry Potter Books. (i paused too early and forgot he tells you in the video.) but to answer your question as i check my audible account, i have 598 Books (maybe 40-50 refunded so over 600) and it also tracks your listening time as it stands i have 16months 13days 1hour 19mins so far. (with October being my most time listen to books at 219hours that month.) But back on recommending audio books it really great to have in the background, i was going to suggest it when you do editing for videos or something you can just have playing in the background. it's like subtitles, eventually you get so used to them that you can read/listen and not get distracted by them when focusing on your task. i get chronic migraines so i can't read books without a certain prescription glasses, and i just prefer having a book than ambient noise, white noise or music playing.
I live in the country and the nearest supermarket is 55km away so I do a lot of driving. I find that audiobooks both entertain and keep me alert. I read books too (not while driving although I have seen it done) but I would listen to as many as I read.
The BBC in the ' 50s did a series of "1984 " which my parents wouldn't let me watch . Fortunately I saw it a couple of years later when it was re-screened . Stephen Fry did the audio book for " Harry Potter " . 🇬🇧
The large chap complaining about the lack of roundness on the screen is Phil Jupitus. One of his best moments is about the sun casting an illusion, that really gets on his wick.
Phill Jupitus is one of my favourite reoccurring guests on the show. At least when Stephen was hosting. They seemed to be good friends and kept teasing eachother when he was on. I bet there was some funny stuff edited out from those episodes.
I like audio books and e-books. A necessity when space is limited. With my Kindle I can switch to audio in the car and pick up from where I was reading. Then when I pick up the Kindle again I can resume from where I was listening. I love technology, when it works. 😂
I answered " Pulsar" and sort of got it right, but the credit for my answer has to go to Professor Brian Cox as he taught me that one. Thanks BC. I'm smart about space stuff and stars and s**t now cos of you!
The guy who flipped out about the round shape is Phil jupitus. He had a great appearance on QI about the sun and mirages. You’d love that to react to. Cheers for the video’s 😊
There was a period of a few years when I was flying so often that at the end of 2004 my now late wife calculated that I had spent more hours in transit at Schiphol Airport than I had spent in any one other place on Earth - including at home! Somehow it never occurred to me to be concerned about all the pilots being ill at once. They, and I, had survived school meals for 13 yrs, so I presumed they could survive anything airline caterers might throw at them!! 😂
Black holes occur when very heavy stars collapse (about 25 x bigger than our sun). On the fish segment, the word coelacanth on Stephen's chart was spelt incorrectly (they spelt it coelocanth...tsk tsk)
When I was younger I liked to fall asleep listening to an audiobook. These days I like to put them on for long drives (luckily they no longer send me to sleep)
I need to read a book rather than listen to an audiobook. Apart from the narrator’s voice not always sounding right it’s practically impossible to skip back to an earlier page to check on something without a lot of mucking about. I read on my tablet and phone using the Kindle app, white background during the day, black background when reading in bed, make the font bigger when my eyes are tired, my entire book collection to choose from sitting in my pocket…perfect. The only Orwell book I’ve read is Animal Farm. What an insight into human behaviour and politics that was!
Victoria Coren Mitchell was/is scared of flying so she went to see a therapist, with some degree of success. Until, that is, her therapist was killed in a plane crash!
I do do audiobooks. I listen to it while I work, and also when I'm working out. I have about 700 books in my library, and have about 70 books on my to read list.
The Kindle is still very much a thing, I use mine daily. A phone is a very poor substitute - smaller screen and totally different technology; Kindle uses eInk which is much clearer and easier on the eye than phone or tablet screens. They are probably not as popular as they once were, but still very alive.
The quirk with 1984 by George Orwell, it was written in 1948, adapted for television by CBS in 1953, BBC in 1954 and again in 1965; for film in 1956 and 1984 - with John Hurt; Radio plays were done by NBC in 1949 and 1953, CBS in 1953, MBN (Australia) in 1955 with Vincent Price, BBC in 1964, 1967, 1984, 2005 and 2013.... then Audible in 2024 - staring Andrew Garfield, Tom Hardy, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, Romesh Ranganathan, Natasia Demetriou, Chukwudi Iwuji, Francesca Mills, Katie Leung and Alex Lawther. As an aside watch John Hurt's 1984, then watch V for Vendetta - John Hurt and Stephen Fry are in the supporting cast.
I happily admit not having read 1984, but I did read his other well known novel Animal Farm. Another great episode of QI is where Brian Cox is on and Ross Noble asks him on which planet in the universe Ewoks could live. Great fun. Series 9 episode 7
In 1991 I flew in to Heathrow on a Quantas 747 400 when the captain informed us that he was doing a fully automated landing that he had only ever done in training before but due to weather conditions being perfect was happy to do it with a full compliment of passengers.I thought by now it would be normal.
Most jet airliners can autoland, but someone still has to enter the right details into the flight computer, and flick all the right switches and buttons. The weather needs to be pretty stable too.
I both read and listen to audiobooks. Part of the listening to audiobooks comes from the idea that I can do that while I'm grocery shopping or other such household chores. With the amount of stories I want to enjoy, you need to find these kinds of shortcuts.
If you hate flying, don't watch Dave Allen's monologue on flying (although it's hilarious!) "1984" has been filmed at least three times - in 1956, in 1984 (starring John Hurt), and - ironically - in a Russian language version in 2023. The mock German accent at 23:20 reminds me of Alan Davies joking on one episode about the first drivers licences.
It's a long time since I read 1984. I was in sixth form college studying further maths, computer science and physics but there was an English lesson shoe-horned into the timetable. It wasn't much of a lesson. We were given an assortment of books to read and I was allocated Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall. I endured it so far and then borrowed a book allocated to a classmate. 1984. I remember quite enjoying it. Afterwards I resumed reading the Waugh book to its conclusion. As I said, it wasn't much of a lesson. We weren't quizzed on the books allocated. Just a way to keep us occupied, I guess. Reading 1984 was the only plus.
I love the "no such thing as a fish" segment because it's so blatantly obvious but only when you look at the comparison of the diversity of life on land. Just because its environment is the sea doesn't make something a "fish", in the same way that just because Humans and chickens and beetles and snakes all live on land that doesn't make them all one species.
The big guy is called Phil Jupitus. He had some absolutely hilarious interactions with Stephen Fry on QI. There is an 8 minute video on UA-cam called QI | Phill Jupitus's Best Moments. I can highly recommend it. I can also recommend QI | Poking Fun At Stephen if you haven't seen that
There are two films of 1984 - a VERY old one with Peter Cushing, and the John Hurt one made for release in the eponymous year itself. I certainly recommend both. The latter has an excellent and absolutely mortifying performance by Richard Burton as O’Brien. It is a highly troubling story in all its forms, but I enjoy lecturing on it when asked. Orwell was a deeply sensitive and thoughtful man, who saw very early on what totalitarian regimes were offering, and how it would end in misery. It’s a pity he died very young; 1984 was his last novel, and he died shortly after its publication, at the age of 46.
The big guy is Phil Jupitus. He's a regular on the comedy/music trivia show Nevermind the Buzzcocks. You will find a whole subsection of people who can't stand him, but I personally think he's very funny... especially in his QI appearances.
Incidentally, buzzcocks also has a treasure trove of amusing clips... mostly with the first two hosts, but even some of the later guest hosts have good clips
He writes for other people too.
Buzzcocks is excellent. Old and new.
The big guy ISN'T Phil Jupitus.
He's Phill Jupitus.
@onbedoeldekut1515 I thought someone might pick me up on making "never mind" one word... did not see this one coming though. Well spotted.
Oh yes! I forgot about him. I loved buzzcocks
Four of the QI Elves (researchers) started a podcast called "No Such Thing As A Fish" whose name is based on the fact mentioned in the video. They discuss little known, interesting facts they have researched for the show and it is both fascinating and hilarious.
great podcast :)
It is a great podcast. 👍
Thanks! I'll check that out, nice with a smart podcast, tired of famous and unfamous and infamous people talking about their week - that I can get from Seinfeld.
It’s a top podcast. It’s being going for years so I’d recommend starting at some of the older series.
Kindles are still going strong, far superior to a phone to read from, I use mine every day.
That’s good to hear I used to love my kindle.
I think the Kindle app became standard on Amazon tablets.
Same here getting spare for Christmas.
@@KingBoomerthink they clapped because Stephen Fry did the narration for the audio book of Harry Potter
Still using mine...
Planes don't crash very often, Normally just the once 😂
i wonder if pilots have superstitions about riding on planes that have crashed before? or were made out of components from planes that crashed? there's a dairy company in the US, in Oregon state, called Tillamook; their company logo is a sailing ship, a reference to the ships that brought their merchandise to market in the early days, since they started in a remote valley; those ships were originally made out of driftwood, meaning wood from ships that sank
A neutron star is what you get when a star is massive enough to go supernova, but not massive enough to produce a black hole afterwards.
Stars like our sun will become white dwarves when they die (they don't go supernova, they just blow off their outer layers and you're left with a small white core). Much bigger stars go supernova and become tiny neutron stars which are incredibly dense, even bigger stars will go supernova and become black holes.
Creating even crazier space dust
There's no such thing as a black hole. At least that's what I've heard.
It's also worth noting that because neutron stars are created when a sufficiently massive star goes supernova but not massive enough that they become black holes, naturally formed neutron stars are remarkably uniform in size. They can however merge with other neutron star to become more massive than would be possible from a supernova. There's still a finite limit at about 2.42 sloar masses where the smallest possible is about 1.17 solar masses, so two neutron stars merging with eachother will in most cases form a black hole unless both are very small before the merger.
@@SaturnusDK and if it all goes boom, thats where you get gold n stuff
Just a quick point. The English tunneller who broke through to meet up with the french tunnellers was indeed called Graham Fagg - so Stephen wasn't referencing cigarettes- it was his actual name.
The guy at the end is Phil Jupitus, who always made it his mission to make fun of Stephen, and hopefully embarass him. Incidentally, Phil's daughter became one of the Qi Elves (Question setters and researchers)
I love when Phil flirts with him and Stephen can't even look at him. "I'll put the pencil in!"
I'm pretty sure KB knew that, he was just making a joke/making reference to the cigarette slang so youtube didn't block the video on grounds of there being a derogatory slur in the video.
I love the way you treat us (your audience) as we are your friends. Your pauses when you voice your thoughts on what you're watching makes it seem as if we are there with you having a coffee and a chat.
Agree!
I read Nineteen Eighty Four when I was about 15, because I was obsessed with David Bowie at the time. When I found out that Diamond Dogs (still by favourite Bowie album) was based on Nineteen Eighty Four, I had to read it.
The big guy at the end is Phill Jupitus. He is hilarious, and there are many episodes in QI when he makes his personal mission to make Stephen uncomfortable by making dirty references and winking at him.
always thought jupitus was the weakest link, i cant think of a single occasion he made me laugh, different strokes etc.
Love Phil & his music history/radio shows helped him become team leader in buzzcocks
check out the shiny child episode with Phil Jupitus Sarah Millican
Don't care for him, his whole thing is 'LOUD = FUNNY' and I never found his gags that funny tbh but each to their own.
@@-Blackberry he was a better poet than a comedian
My Sat Nav used to have Stephen Fry’s voice. He’d say things like, would you mind awfully moving over the right hand lane darling? Or, I’m sorry to interrupt you darling but you need to turn right. 😊
That sounds amazing. Why did you change the voice?
Didn't know Sat Nav had a "luvvie" mode
@ it wouldn’t up date anymore sadly.
@lorrainet6798 oh that's unfortunate. It must be lovely to have his voice as a driving companion
I recommend listening to the audiobook of "1984". There is a version on Audible (along with "Animal Farm") read by Stephen Fry, so he certainly has NOW read it.
We don’t need to read it anymore we are practically living in it
@@cheryltotheg2880 You said the thing! Yay!
@@cheryltotheg2880 That's why EVERYONE should read it and understand that it's a warning not a manual.
I suggest you don't give Jeff Bezos money but buy a copy of 1984
"What is the roundest thing in the universe? " 24:25 Karl Pilkington's head
Weird innit!
Weird innit!
Learn English with Ricky Gervais and Kari Pilkinton..." Head like a f*****g orange!". Genius!
That's the first thing that came to mind. 😅
Karl Pilkington's head is smoother than a billiard ball.
Dystopian is the word commonly used to describe novels such as 1984, Brave New World and A Clockwork Orange etc.
It's the opposite of utopia, right?
@@samuelpinder1215 where as dis-topiary is being rude about overly ornate clipped bushes
1984 was written by George Orwell in 1948. It starts with one of the most famous sentences ever: "It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" and, in 1984 itself, the book topped the US bestseller list. I remember reading it as a kid and was instantly hooked. I've read it again since and also well remember the (re-)showing of the TV play in the 1970s and bleak it was too.
'No such thing as a fish' is from way back in the day when they called anything which could live in water, some sort of 'fish'.
MentourPilot tried to talk down Tom Scott in a flight simulator in a commercial jet and he at least got the plane onto the runway though he did hit the ground too hard and crashed, but as the real pilot said at least he got it on the runway where there were emergency services on hand, it's on UA-cam.
"Did he hit?", brilliant
Audiobooks are great to fall asleep to. My parents used to send me the cassette tapes when I was at university.
18:35 no, he means Graham Fagg, the dude who was in charge of the English side of the construction.
@28:50 Phill Jupitus. I suggest video "QI | Phill Jupitus's Best Moments"
Oh my god you must react to that!! You may die😂.
I'm an odd person with books. I buy the physical book for my shelf and for posterity.
But I struggle to read and imagine the world due to having aphantasia, so having an audiobook where someone else reads it helps me enjoy it more.
Pardon the cheeky question, but when did you find out you had Aphantasia? I have a couple of friends who have Aphantasia, neither of whom found out until they were adults, and both of whom echoed what one so often hears about the diagnosis: that for all those years when someone would say, "Imagine you're lying on a beach on a sunny day - or any number of "just imagines" - they had no idea it was a literal instruction, or possibility.
How was it for you?
If you want more QI you should look up the best of Phil Jupitus on it - it's mostly him making Stephen break, particularly when he reveals Stephen's plans for a "Child Buffing Workshop... where craftmen will get toddlers up to a high sheen". That or the time it was revealed, via Phil, that Stephen can't understand Geordies (Newcastle-upon-Tyne people).
Kindles are still really popular. There's an Amazon kindle for mobile but it's not the same as an actual kindle.
I'm an audiobook person! I can't stay focused on a page, so I switched to audio and it's been a revelation - I've even listened to Stephen Fry do the Harry Potter books. It's great for long drives and things like walking the dog.
I agree and I have only recently discovered the delights of audio books.i recently on UA-cam listened to hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy read by Douglas Adams .
"They haven't got any legs" classic Sean 🤣
If EVER there were a time to read 1984, THIS is it.
Bonus: it's utterly gripping. Also fascinating, terrifying, revealing and devastating.
(Also, the John Hurt movie is fantastic...)
We are in it now 😢🇬🇧
Phil Jupitus, yes he's very funny, especially when winding Stephen up
And his episode with Carrie Fisher . . . That one is hilarious.
@@sameebah I don't think he was on the one with Carrie Fisher. He was on the one with Teri Hatcher though and hillarious on it. Licking all sorts of things.
E--readers are more popular than ever; Nobody who reads a lot uses a phone , for obvious reasons.
1984 would be a good first movie reaction for your new channel.
I agree, and I have read the book, 100% true.
@@zpitzer "1984" is double-plus good.
I agree, even though it might, as it did me, give you bad dreams. A terrifying vision.
14:41 - just in case anyone wasn’t aware. That’s David Mitchell’s wife Victoria Coren-Mitchell. He is one lucky so and so.
My mate heard you can learn a language subconsciously by playing a foreign language audio book while you sleep...so he tried it...but the disc got stuck...and now he can stutter fluently in spanish
Have you ever come across Brian Cox? He's a physicist who makes excellent shows about the universe, his series 'Wonders of the Solar System' was amazing, maybe something to watch in your downtime away from here, he's our David Attenborough of the stars.
My wife's best friend calls him "totty for thinking women". (Totty is an English phrase usually reserved for airhead blondes with prominent bosoms).
One thing to bear in mind, re evolution, is that appearances can be deceiving. Two things can be more closely related yet look less physically similar, than one of those things and another creature, which look more similar, but be more distantly related.
It's all about when any two creatures last shared a common ancestor.
The big guy is Phil Jupitus, he loves taking the mick out of Steven, check out some compilations of him on QI.
You don't need a parachute to go skydiving.... you need a parachute to go skydiving twice 😊
I think the fish thing is not so much that all the stuff isn't related, it's just that everything with four limbs* is technically just a very, very derived lobe-finned fish.
We're all just basically a very small branch on the giant fish family tree.
*amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Audiobooks are great to listen to when you are doing something boring or physical like cleaning, painting your house, travelling in your car, cooking etc. I like reading. Sometimes I need my brain to be occupied while I’m doing life stuff or it goes off on it’s own to cause chaos and the next thing I know the day has gone and I haven’t a clue what I’ve been doing.
Taking long walks through a park listening to an audio book is my favourite way to spend an afternoon. Great way to get out of the house, fresh air, exercise and educate yourself. Give 'em a second chance.
Thanks for the vid. Happy subscriber.
👍👍
"How would you land the plane?"
My dark-ass humour: "Badly"
They are all "Landings", its the one's you can walk away from they call successful :)
Why couldn’t just do the joke without the role-play shit?
You: need to stop this.
Grow: up.
@@Jayfive276 I'm not the one getting bent out of shape about someone's comment online.
I'll type how I want to type, thanks :)
1984 was on our curriculum for Higher English, so I read 1984 in 1984.
yep me too
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you have to watch Phil Jupitus not accepting the fact about sunset
"Not there ... miraaaage"
Check out ‘hagfish slime’. It’s a defense mechanism of the hagfish to produce slime over its whole body when handled and looks pretty crazy!
The great thing about audio books is that they are fantastic for long road trips ... music has repetitive rhythms and can contribute to falling asleep at the wheel. Audio books will (hopefully) keep you interested in the story and help keep you awake.
I live in Oz and long road trips are a fact of life (I'll drive for 2 1/2 hours just to go shopping, that's just up the road).
The soil down the trousers reference seemed to confuse you, watch The Great Escape and you'll get it, a fantastic film based on real events during WWII, it got the Hollywood treatment so its loosely based rather than factual but its a classic film.
It’s strongly associated with Christmas as it’s been on every year over the holiday period since I was a kid
I was at the filming of the episode about planes. It looks a lot better on TV than it does in real life. Good night out but takes a long time!
Phil Jupitus is a long time friend of the show, and was there early when Fry was telling us we have more than one moon.
There's an episode called "Oologies", it's in the Toksvig era, and has Claudia Winklemam, Phil Jupitus, Bill Bailey and Alan Davies.
The three gents have known each other for a long time, as they all started about the same time. The XL version of the episode is one if the funniest in my opinion. It goes off the rails so many times and all involved are hilarious.
Another great vid bro, I think you look like you could have been Segals stunt double before he chose a different way of life.
It's nearly time for my annual watch of The Muppet Christmas Carol 🎄 I always watch that and It's A Wonderful Life. Gets me in the mood for Christmas.
The muppets Christmas carol is a lovely Christmas movie and Gonzos narrating is top notch
There are only 2 successful Hollywood versions of great British novels and they both start the Muppets!
The Muppets Christmas carol is the most accurate version of the book to be filmed. Michael Caine said he filmed it straight as if the Muppets were real. Well they are real aren't they
@@DarthAzabrush What's the other one?
@@whitedwarf4986 Muppet Treasure Island, the film that made shock comic Kevin Bishop what he is (he plays Jim Hawkins and he was so determined to distance himself from that adorable kiddie he decided to be as crude loud and obnoxious as possible for the rest of his professional life)
In the study of evolutionary clades, there are two possibilities:
1) There's no such thing as a fish.
2) Humans are a kind of fish (along with everything else in the animal kingdom)
With the Channel Tunnel segment, Stephen was not talking about cigarettes: the engineer's surname is Fagg! Incidentally, it is a name shared by American politicians Peter, Harrison and Russell Fagg, U.S. Federal Judge George Gardner Fagg, American commercial artist Kenneth S. Fagg and President of the University of Southern California from 1947 to 1957 Fred Dow Fagg Jr and his son, the Dean of the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark. Oh, and originally 'fagge' meant a type of flat fish, so it links to the 'no such thing as a fish' round too!
I went to school with one Richard Fagg, a tall, gentle lad who lived on Vicar's Hill. I wonder what happened to him. Since then, I haven't come across another Fagg.
The blonde lady talking about A Muppet Christmas Carol is Victoria Coren Mitchell, David Mitchell's wife
The Muppets didn't do a movie of 1984 (buthey f*cking should do, by the way) Victoria was talking about The Muppet Christmas Caarol - which is one of movies of Charles Dickens' classic that is most faithful to the book, belive t or not.
Every flim should be remade with the muppets
You’re leveling me out now , thanks.
This video popped up on my suggestions as i was getting ready for bed, and once it's done I'm putting on my Harry Potter audiobook, read by Stephen Fry, because I fall asleep to it every night and have done since I was about 17. I recently found out a good friend also does the same thing, and they also have another friend who does it too. The HP audiobooks read by Stephen Fry is an institution in the UK.
I read my Kindle Paperwhite every night, like millions do
how do millions of people read your Kindle Paperwhite everynight?
@@flucazade They all have excellent telescopes. =:o}
You really should watch the bits with Phill Jupitus, the guy in the glasses. He was a hilarious guest.
I drive for a living and spend hours each day behind the wheel ....audiobook s are a godsend as it makes the job a joy.
'No Such Thing As A Fish' was taken as the name of the spinoff podcast, hosted by the QI elves (researchers) now over 500 episodes in where each week they just discuss interesting facts they have found out recently. Very listenable.
"QI" offers humor and facts as well as getting to know British comedians...some US one's too.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
My favourite podcast is "No Such Thing as a Fish" hosted by a bunch of QA Elves. The first few episode almost put me off, but once you get into it and the host start to develop personalities and character, it's totally brilliant!
Because of the links to QA, they occasionally have some really great guests too. Steven Fry, Sandi Toksvig, John Lloyd, Tom Scott, Bec Hill, Neil Gaiman, Lieven Scheire, Richard Osman, the list goes on. And is truly top tier stuff.
If you like QI, you'll probably love this podcast too, if you stick with it long enough to get truly hooked like I did.
edit: 18:42 or a bundle of sticks.
i was actually going to at the end of the video to recommend audio books before 16:54.
Clockwork orange, 1984, animal farm by George Orwell are Fantastic Reads.
by the way 16:33 he is saying this because Stephen fry is the Narrator for the audio books for All the Harry Potter Books. (i paused too early and forgot he tells you in the video.)
but to answer your question as i check my audible account, i have 598 Books (maybe 40-50 refunded so over 600) and it also tracks your listening time as it stands i have 16months 13days 1hour 19mins so far. (with October being my most time listen to books at 219hours that month.)
But back on recommending audio books it really great to have in the background, i was going to suggest it when you do editing for videos or something you can just have playing in the background.
it's like subtitles, eventually you get so used to them that you can read/listen and not get distracted by them when focusing on your task.
i get chronic migraines so i can't read books without a certain prescription glasses, and i just prefer having a book than ambient noise, white noise or music playing.
I live in the country and the nearest supermarket is 55km away so I do a lot of driving. I find that audiobooks both entertain and keep me alert. I read books too (not while driving although I have seen it done) but I would listen to as many as I read.
The big guy id=s Phil Jupitus. He used to be a team captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Love that you have three Tombstone pictures! One of my favourite films 😍
The BBC in the ' 50s did a series of "1984 " which my parents wouldn't let me watch . Fortunately I saw it a couple of years later when it was re-screened . Stephen Fry did the audio book for " Harry Potter " . 🇬🇧
The large chap complaining about the lack of roundness on the screen is Phil Jupitus.
One of his best moments is about the sun casting an illusion, that really gets on his wick.
Good times to listen to audiobooks include; when driving a long way, when doing other things (cooking maybe) trying to fall asleep at night.
Phill Jupitus is one of my favourite reoccurring guests on the show. At least when Stephen was hosting. They seemed to be good friends and kept teasing eachother when he was on. I bet there was some funny stuff edited out from those episodes.
I like audio books and e-books. A necessity when space is limited. With my Kindle I can switch to audio in the car and pick up from where I was reading. Then when I pick up the Kindle again I can resume from where I was listening. I love technology, when it works. 😂
I've read the first 3 pages of 1984. And I'm not lying.
That's 2 more pages than I managed. I read half of the first page, put the book down and read Stephen King's The Stand instead.
@@carlgibson285the stand is a good read and brilliant for toning your arms
I answered " Pulsar" and sort of got it right, but the credit for my answer has to go to Professor Brian Cox as he taught me that one. Thanks BC. I'm smart about space stuff and stars and s**t now cos of you!
Phill Jupitus, some of his standup is proper hilarious, his whole Spider gag really hits close to home 😂😂
i listen to audiobooks at work (even gone through all the HP novels read by stephan fry)
The guy who flipped out about the round shape is Phil jupitus. He had a great appearance on QI about the sun and mirages. You’d love that to react to. Cheers for the video’s 😊
I have to use audiobooks being dyslexic which is the curse of my life. They’re very good to help you sleep if you have one on low in the background
There was a period of a few years when I was flying so often that at the end of 2004 my now late wife calculated that I had spent more hours in transit at Schiphol Airport than I had spent in any one other place on Earth - including at home! Somehow it never occurred to me to be concerned about all the pilots being ill at once. They, and I, had survived school meals for 13 yrs, so I presumed they could survive anything airline caterers might throw at them!! 😂
Black holes occur when very heavy stars collapse (about 25 x bigger than our sun). On the fish segment, the word coelacanth on Stephen's chart was spelt incorrectly (they spelt it coelocanth...tsk tsk)
Thats one of the greatest shows, you rearn stuff and its hilarious.
When I was younger I liked to fall asleep listening to an audiobook.
These days I like to put them on for long drives (luckily they no longer send me to sleep)
I need to read a book rather than listen to an audiobook. Apart from the narrator’s voice not always sounding right it’s practically impossible to skip back to an earlier page to check on something without a lot of mucking about. I read on my tablet and phone using the Kindle app, white background during the day, black background when reading in bed, make the font bigger when my eyes are tired, my entire book collection to choose from sitting in my pocket…perfect.
The only Orwell book I’ve read is Animal Farm. What an insight into human behaviour and politics that was!
I'm loving that your loving this show!
24:00 OMG! "Did he hit?" Rob Brydon - Quick Thought Genius.
Victoria Coren Mitchell was/is scared of flying so she went to see a therapist, with some degree of success. Until, that is, her therapist was killed in a plane crash!
I don't like flying either, it hurts my ears, and I'm virtually deaf for 3 days afterwards...
But Bill Bailey makes up a great guest averytime on QI.
I do do audiobooks. I listen to it while I work, and also when I'm working out. I have about 700 books in my library, and have about 70 books on my to read list.
The book 1984 was first published in 1948 and the film 1984 (with John Hurt) was released in 1984.
The Kindle is still very much a thing, I use mine daily. A phone is a very poor substitute - smaller screen and totally different technology; Kindle uses eInk which is much clearer and easier on the eye than phone or tablet screens. They are probably not as popular as they once were, but still very alive.
The quirk with 1984 by George Orwell, it was written in 1948, adapted for television by CBS in 1953, BBC in 1954 and again in 1965; for film in 1956 and 1984 - with John Hurt; Radio plays were done by NBC in 1949 and 1953, CBS in 1953, MBN (Australia) in 1955 with Vincent Price, BBC in 1964, 1967, 1984, 2005 and 2013.... then Audible in 2024 - staring Andrew Garfield, Tom Hardy, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, Romesh Ranganathan, Natasia Demetriou, Chukwudi Iwuji, Francesca Mills, Katie Leung and Alex Lawther.
As an aside watch John Hurt's 1984, then watch V for Vendetta - John Hurt and Stephen Fry are in the supporting cast.
That's what Prof. Gould said about hagfish in his Nobel winning paper! 🥇🧐
Karl Pilkington's head is the roundest thing in the universe ! 😂😂
I happily admit not having read 1984, but I did read his other well known novel Animal Farm. Another great episode of QI is where Brian Cox is on and Ross Noble asks him on which planet in the universe Ewoks could live. Great fun. Series 9 episode 7
In 1991 I flew in to Heathrow on a Quantas 747 400 when the captain informed us that he was doing a fully automated landing that he had only ever done in training before but due to weather conditions being perfect was happy to do it with a full compliment of passengers.I thought by now it would be normal.
Most jet airliners can autoland, but someone still has to enter the right details into the flight computer, and flick all the right switches and buttons. The weather needs to be pretty stable too.
I both read and listen to audiobooks. Part of the listening to audiobooks comes from the idea that I can do that while I'm grocery shopping or other such household chores. With the amount of stories I want to enjoy, you need to find these kinds of shortcuts.
If you hate flying, don't watch Dave Allen's monologue on flying (although it's hilarious!) "1984" has been filmed at least three times - in 1956, in 1984 (starring John Hurt), and - ironically - in a Russian language version in 2023. The mock German accent at 23:20 reminds me of Alan Davies joking on one episode about the first drivers licences.
Phill Jupitus is from the Isle of Wight. He took on the mantle of Ian Dury. Brave man.
It's a long time since I read 1984. I was in sixth form college studying further maths, computer science and physics but there was an English lesson shoe-horned into the timetable. It wasn't much of a lesson. We were given an assortment of books to read and I was allocated Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall. I endured it so far and then borrowed a book allocated to a classmate. 1984. I remember quite enjoying it. Afterwards I resumed reading the Waugh book to its conclusion. As I said, it wasn't much of a lesson. We weren't quizzed on the books allocated. Just a way to keep us occupied, I guess. Reading 1984 was the only plus.
I love the "no such thing as a fish" segment because it's so blatantly obvious but only when you look at the comparison of the diversity of life on land.
Just because its environment is the sea doesn't make something a "fish", in the same way that just because Humans and chickens and beetles and snakes all live on land that doesn't make them all one species.
I read 1984 in 1984! It traumatised me, especially the bit with rats. I also read War & Peace just so that I could say I had! Took me bloody ages.
24:25 the bloke earlier who commented "Karl Pilkingtons head" beat me to it . 😊
The big guy is called Phil Jupitus. He had some absolutely hilarious interactions with Stephen Fry on QI. There is an 8 minute video on UA-cam called QI | Phill Jupitus's Best Moments. I can highly recommend it. I can also recommend QI | Poking Fun At Stephen if you haven't seen that
There are two films of 1984 - a VERY old one with Peter Cushing, and the John Hurt one made for release in the eponymous year itself. I certainly recommend both. The latter has an excellent and absolutely mortifying performance by Richard Burton as O’Brien. It is a highly troubling story in all its forms, but I enjoy lecturing on it when asked. Orwell was a deeply sensitive and thoughtful man, who saw very early on what totalitarian regimes were offering, and how it would end in misery. It’s a pity he died very young; 1984 was his last novel, and he died shortly after its publication, at the age of 46.