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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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 think they (I'm not sure who though) try to distinguish between an anti-utopia and a dystopia. An anti-utopia is or was meant to be a utopia but got corrupted along the way or otherwise has a dark undertone, such as the mass-produced babies, mental conditioning and segregation in Brave New World, whereas a dystopia doesn't even try to pretend that it's good in any way... and this is the world of Airstrip One in 1984 where people are openly disappeared and the news and history constantly revised according to the Party's current needs.
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...)
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
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. 👍👍
@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.
'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.
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?
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 .
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.
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.
I'm no astronomer, but I seem to remember that when a star collapses/dies what it will become is dependent on its size. If I recall correctly when our sun dies it will become a white dwarf as it is a relatively small star. Heavier stars can become neutron stars, and the truly massive stars can become black holes. Probably a whole lot of intermediate types of remains from other stars
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.
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
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).
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 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)
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 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 😊
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.
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.
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.
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 Alan Partridge audiobooks are great, narrated by Coogan as Alan, I haven't listened to any other audiobooks but listened to his a couple of times when walking places, really good especially Nomad, lots of UK references though
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'd read it a few times before I reached 17. But then I was one of a group of nerds who were into politics. (Sadly, 65 years later, for my sins, I still am.)
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.
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)
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
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 machine that dug the tunnel is on display in calais port, I drive past it when I go fishing in France. Whenever I've seen a black hole there's always been a pink one next to it 😉
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
What is left remaining after a star collapses depends on the size of the star. It could be, from smaller to larger star, a white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole
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.
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.
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
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...
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!
That's why this man is one of my favourite reactors 😊
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.
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
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
@@lloydcollins6337New shit just got made.
"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.
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
I know I've read it but it was a long time ago, I need to read it again. Big Brother is Watching You!
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 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.
I read it when I was 18. Just the once, it is dreadfully dismal and the end is nothing to laugh at.
Me 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'.
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.
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).
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
Mine had David Beckham's voice. But I kept ending up in Victoria.
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
I think they (I'm not sure who though) try to distinguish between an anti-utopia and a dystopia. An anti-utopia is or was meant to be a utopia but got corrupted along the way or otherwise has a dark undertone, such as the mass-produced babies, mental conditioning and segregation in Brave New World, whereas a dystopia doesn't even try to pretend that it's good in any way... and this is the world of Airstrip One in 1984 where people are openly disappeared and the news and history constantly revised according to the Party's current needs.
"Did he hit?", brilliant
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 😢🇬🇧
It was compulsory reading for my English exam back in the day. I don’t remember much of the detail but I remember the gist, yes we’re in it now
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 good landing is one you can walk away from.
A very good landing is one you can walk away from and re-use the plane as well.
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.
👍👍
Don't know if you're aware but the blonde woman on the panel when talking about 1984 is Victoria Coren Mitchel and is David Mitchell wife.
Phil Jupitus, yes he's very funny, especially when winding Stephen up
@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.
'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.
18:35 no, he means Graham Fagg, the dude who was in charge of the English side of the construction.
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?
"They haven't got any legs" classic Sean 🤣
@28:50 Phill Jupitus. I suggest video "QI | Phill Jupitus's Best Moments"
Oh my god you must react to that!! You may die😂.
"The Earth is jolly round" has to be the most British thing ever.
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 .
Audiobooks are great to fall asleep to. My parents used to send me the cassette tapes when I was at university.
If I try to listen to an audiobook at home I fall asleep as well. I tend to listen on long boring drives. Then listening to audiobooks keeps me awake.
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.
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!
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.
I'm no astronomer, but I seem to remember that when a star collapses/dies what it will become is dependent on its size. If I recall correctly when our sun dies it will become a white dwarf as it is a relatively small star. Heavier stars can become neutron stars, and the truly massive stars can become black holes. Probably a whole lot of intermediate types of remains from other stars
Yes, the film is called "1984" and it stars John Hurt.
And the Eurythmics - Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart - did the soundtrack.
The big guy was the legend that is Phil Jupitus "I'm from Essex, we use the F-word like a comma" ....and we do👀👊👌🤷♂️😂😂💜
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.
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!
11:47 surely that a Graboid from the movie Tremors 😂
Saw the 1984 question on QI years ago,was a real giggle I have read 1984,steven fry is a treasure to the world
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
The big guy is Phil Jupitus, he loves taking the mick out of Steven, check out some compilations of him on QI.
"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 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.
I love audio books and go to bed listening to a couple of chapters. Love it!
You really should watch the bits with Phill Jupitus, the guy in the glasses. He was a hilarious guest.
Love that you have three Tombstone pictures! One of my favourite films 😍
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.
I notice Jack Dee on a couple of these clips - you really should do his stand up comedy - brilliantly miserable and so funny.
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).
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.
And sometimes made confusing through the convergent evolution of unrelated species.
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)
I always find it funny when people say ,” good to see you” on a podcast, when they don’t!
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’re leveling me out now , thanks.
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.
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 😊
The blonde lady talking about A Muppet Christmas Carol is Victoria Coren Mitchell, David Mitchell's wife
I'm loving that your loving this show!
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.
You don't need a parachute to go skydiving.... you need a parachute to go skydiving twice 😊
Phill Jupitus, some of his standup is proper hilarious, his whole Spider gag really hits close to home 😂😂
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).
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.
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.
I'm assuming Stephen Fry provided the narration for the audio book of Harry Potter
The Alan Partridge audiobooks are great, narrated by Coogan as Alan, I haven't listened to any other audiobooks but listened to his a couple of times when walking places, really good especially Nomad, lots of UK references though
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.
1984 was on our curriculum for Higher English, so I read 1984 in 1984.
yep me too
double plus good!
Me three
I'd read it a few times before I reached 17. But then I was one of a group of nerds who were into politics. (Sadly, 65 years later, for my sins, I still am.)
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.
you have to watch Phil Jupitus not accepting the fact about sunset
"Not there ... miraaaage"
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)
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
Thats one of the greatest shows, you rearn stuff and its hilarious.
phil jupitus being described as funny .. he would love that
24:25 the bloke earlier who commented "Karl Pilkingtons head" beat me to it . 😊
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' daughter, Emily Jupitus, works on the show as a researcher (or 'QI Elf').
24:00 OMG! "Did he hit?" Rob Brydon - Quick Thought Genius.
The big guy id=s Phil Jupitus. He used to be a team captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
"What's the film name of 1984?" - amazing.
It's nice that the end of the tunneling machine actually looks like the Union flag. With the diagonals broken off.
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 " . 🇬🇧
Superman is actually standing on Bertha, the boring machine that worked on the Alaskan Way viaduct project in Washington State in 2013 to 2015.
I first read “Nineteen Eighty-Four” in 1984 when we did it in English Literature when I was 15
The machine that dug the tunnel is on display in calais port, I drive past it when I go fishing in France. Whenever I've seen a black hole there's always been a pink one next to it 😉
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
I saw 1984 only a few months ago. Im so glad to have finally got round to it.
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
That was funny, and informative 😂🇬🇧
My son is blind and Audio books are essential especially when spoken by Steven Fry, his favourite.
In 1884 John Hurt plays the hero and in V for Vendetta he plays the tyrant. Stephen Fry is also in V.
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.
That's what Prof. Gould said about hagfish in his Nobel winning paper! 🥇🧐
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.
What is left remaining after a star collapses depends on the size of the star. It could be, from smaller to larger star, a white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole
You could absolutely do the UK Harry Potter Audiobooks, so brilliantly narrated by Mr Stephen Fry
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