CLASSIC QI REACTION Series H Episode 14 XL - Hocus Pocus (Lee Mack, Daniel Radcliffe, Graham Norton)
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Hope you enjoy my first reaction to Episode 14 XL of QI (Series H) starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, guest starring Lee Mack, Daniel Radcliffe and Graham Norton.
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the reason viewers havent steered you wrong yet is cause there is no wrong with qi, every single episode is great
The one with Rory McGrath is painful to watch
Series A and some of B are a little shaky as the atmosphere is very tense that early in the show since Stephen is on edge, by the end of B and onwards though Stephen was far more relaxed and the atmosphere more joviel
Daniel didn't attend Uni but did go to two very good schools and received A grades in his A Levels, think he just reads a lot and is naturally bright :) Graham Norton not only has his brilliant chat show, you really should react to some of those, (Bill Murray was hysterical) but has had a regular radio show for 12 years, he presents the UK leg of the Eurovision Song Contest every year , he acts, TV, film and stage, has written newspaper columns and is an award winning author, and that's just part of his career, as you said, he's a bit busy...lol
Private schooling definitely helps.
Debbie McGee (she's actually only 63) was the assistant and wife of one of Britain's best known magicians - Paul Daniels (died 2016). Daniels was very big in the 80s/early 90s, but magic sort of faded from popularity a bit. Debbie still makes an appearance here and there (you may have seen her on WILTY on the receiving end of one of Bob Mortimer's jokes), but is often known for being interviewed by Caroline Ahern in her alter-ego of Mrs Merton (a sort of spoof chat show) with the superbly crafted question/joke - "What first attracted you to the multi-millionaire Paul Daniels?".
I was surprised to learn that McGee was actually wealthier and more successful than Daniels when they first met.
Lee is from Southport. It's north of England, North of Liverpool, south of Blackpool if that helps at all
“I’m looking for the ones I’m looking for” lol
Lee is from Southport, love your reactions it's like rewatching all these old favourites by introducing a friend to them! PS thanks for getting me into watching Kongen Befaler ,Ive watched most of the first series now and am hugely enjoying them :-)
There’s another great Christmas episode you need to see, “No-L” from the L series, episode 12 with Carrie Fisher and Jimmy Carr. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If I remember correctly, the episode with Carrie Fisher was one of her last appearances on TV before she died. It might even be the very last appearance she did.
The Graham Norton Show is something you really should look into, they are around the same length as the XL versions of QI. One I could absolutely recommend is the episode with Sigourney Weaver, Sandi Toksvig, and Professor Brian Cox.
The one where a Mark Wahlberg got drunk and sat on Graham’s lap is fun. Whether Mark was playing it up or actually got a bit tiddly, Graham seemed rather at a loss - and, bless him, he isn’t that good an actor. 🤣
I think i recommended this a while ago but check out Modern Life is Goodish. Amazing show
I believe that for the most part, the special/non-comedian guests have at the very least questions that are aimed specifically towards them, to help include them more into the quiz.
If they famously played a wizard in film, and studied English medieval history (I'm not sure Daniel did), then those type questions will pop up.
Don't let Mr. Mack 'fool' you. He probably understood the i-before-e explanation just fine apart from a -- cognitive hiccup when Mr. Fry said there are more exceptions to the "rule" than there are words that follow it. He's practiced at humorously challenging pedantry by playing the fool (My favorite variety of irony). I strongly suspect he does it just for the laughs and NOT because he thinks refined knowledge is a bad thing. Challenging fussy pedants like Steven Fry and David Mitchell must be particularly fun.
Personally I think there’s a blend here. I think at the very beginning he was genuinely a bit confused what Stephen Fry was trying to say. However, he then very quickly spotted the opportunity for humour and to drive Mr Fry nuts 😜
@@davidburke2132 That's what I referred to as his "cognitive hiccup".
@@toddthechimeralinguist yep… get you now 👍🏻
Kind of like Rhod Gilbert and Sandi Toksvig's second episode hosting.
@@robinsmith5442 VERY like Rhod Gilbert on that episode! lol
Prior to the Industrial Revolution in Britain, class was generally rich [aristocracy and nobility - upper class] and poor [workers - lower class]. However, the industrial Revolution developed a middle class of factory owners, entrepreneurs and associated pen pushers. This developed into the upper class, the upper middle class, the lower middle class and the workers. This class consciousness is still prevalent in Britain although class categorisation became very hazy from the 1980s.
Still so thankful that you choose to react to the content you do. QI has been one of my favourite watches since it's airing in 2003 and I haven't ever turned away from it. It combines the relaxed and hilarious nature of our comedy panel shows with beautiful and dare I say, Quite Interesting information!
If you’re looking for an unconventional guest episode, they’ve had Terri Hatcher, Carrie Fisher and Corey Taylor from Slipknot on before (separate episodes)
Teri Hatcher was a fantastic guest! That was a fun episode.
@@jenniferd37 Especially for Phil!
@@bobd2659 That's for sure! :)
You piqued my curiosity about Daniels education! It seems he didn't go to university and was mostly taught by tutors on set (being Harry Potter also seems to have made school difficult due to his peers behaviour towards him). I'd guess that the tutors had time for a more personalised education and Daniel certainly seemed to have acquired more magic history than most!
I'm loving these QI reactions!
As a Magician's Assistant in the past, can confirm...Doves are VERY flexible!
The child actors in Harry Potter still went to school. A lot of the scenes in class rooms don't use props for the note books on the desks, it's the actual actors doing their homework.
Historically the middle-class was quite a small class, especially when compared to the huge working-class. The idea of a class system basically grew out of feudalism. Nowadays the middle-class is the largest class but before the second half of the 2th Century, the working-class was the largest class. For most of the history of the class system, the middle-class were viewed, by most, as a relatively small elite. They were definitely below the ruling class/aristocracy but were far wealthier than the working-class and had access to a certain degree of power. They were also likely to have had an education of some kind. The British view of the middle-class stems from this historical view. The class system, in the US, was present but took a different form, there being no aristocracy and no single historical tradition of class. The middle-class became something to aspire to, as opposed to Britain, where the middle-class was looked down on by the upper class and was largely reviled by the working-class. To this day, a large proportion of working-class Americans describe themselves as middle-class and a significant proportion of middle-class Brits describe themselves as working-class.
Daniel Radcliffe is a really good actor. Watch The Gamechangers great movie and great performance
More QI please Neil (I after e), Lee Mack is from Southport Lancashire, slightly north west of Bolton and Manchester
Lee Mack is originally from Southport. That’s on the other side of the country to Newcastle and Leeds (although arguable Leeds is kinda in the middle) in the North. It’s not far from a place called Preston, but is on the coast, a bit further north than Liverpool.
A good recommendation & reaction, cheers dude 👍😁🇬🇧
Graham probably doesn't need the money - one of the highest paid people on the BBC - TV show, radio show, his own company produces his own work etc.
Betty White would love being the punchline to the “oldest trick in the book” joke. :-)
QI makes me happy.
I had forgotten how awkward Radcliffe was before Guns Akimbo.
There's a little post-credits scene in this episode where Daniel's "disembodied" head in the bucket underneath the guillotine looks up at the camera and smiles
Alan once starred in his own TV show based on a magician that solves crime, it was called (if I remember rightly) Johnathon Creek
Graham norton was a regular panelist for a radio show Just a Minute hosted by the great, Nicolas Parsons. He also did a radio 2 show on Saturday.
I heard some guests actually demanded the questions in advance. And there has been those who also seemed to have looked up every answer. The reactions from the other participants and Stephen was noticeably less enthusiastic with some guests, so I guess those are the ones.
But I think Daniel Radcliffe knew all that. The Harrying of the North is something you don't need a higher education to know if you have had a British education, I think. When you are younger, the school knowledge is far easier to remember. So when the others are middle age, of course he's better. And the rest he shined at was magic history, just showing he's good at remember trivia he learned about the subject that movie series was about.
He was adorably awkward and nervous though. Radcliffe seems to be a humble person, not letting his fame get to his head, and being in this crowd of veteran entertainers in front of and audience may have been tough.
Debbie McGee was also in an episode of WILTY that you've reacted to lol👀🤔
J. K. Rowling chose the old Anglo-Saxon word for "bumblebee" to be the name of the headmaster of Hogwarts, because she imagined him humming quietly to himself while walking the grounds of the castle
I'm a big fan of QI. I've seen every episode several times. Also, not QI related but , unless my eyes deceive me, you have some Jasoer Fforde books there on your shelf. He's one of my favourite authors and I've had the pleasure of meeting him 3 times, he's super charming. Thanks for the reaction!!
Daniel Radcliffe went to the same school as me...except he joined the year I left, so I never met him.
He clearly made better use of that school than I did...
The whole thing about the magician having the non-mysterious name of Scott reminded me of Tim from Monty Python's Holy Grail.
I read somewhere that they allow the panel to know what subjects are going to come up but they don't give them the answers.
Graham Norton appeared on the pilot episode of QI, never been broadcast but is included, as an extra, on the 'A' series DVD.
If you can find it, it's worth a watch.
Radcliff appears at the end in a basket post credits
Norton has only been on twice
Graham Norton had a recurring role on Father Ted.
I knew Graham Norton first from panel shows, specifically Just a Minute.
I'm pretty sure that the IE rule is correct when given in the form I learned it: I before E except after C *when the sound is EE* . There are still exceptions, such as _seize_ , _protein_ , and _weird_ (if you pronounce _weird_ with a monosyllable, which I don't).
UA-cam's markdown parser is weird and broken, and refuses to work if it's touching punctuation. So I needed to add a space before any punctuation following markup.
We all know about the Harrowing of the North and other facts Daniel knew 😁 as it's taught in school History lessons, we aren't all stupid in the North of Britain.
Debbie Magee was Paul Daniels assistant in his magic act. She was a small fit little redhead and very flexible.
Daniel Radcliffe also attended the same school as me 🙂 (not the same year and not Hogwarts)
Please do QI episode No-L, it’s the Christmas one from the L series. Can’t say why! 😉
"Working class" is basically 80-90% of the population. Middle class is the very highly-trained professions - Think Surgeon, Barrister etc.... Upper class is the aristocracy.
Looks like they had a bigger budget for the Christmas edition, so they could afford Radcliffe and Norton. I wonder if they devised the episode around Daniel, once they had booked him.
I think they might have made a more Christmassy one as well that season. Two specials?
I learned recently (quite possibly from comments on your videos now that I think about it) that contestants have the option to get the questions in advance, but most don't use it. The spirit of it is in case they need to prepare jokes, but Stephen Fry has said there's one contestant who always asks for the questions, gives all the right answers, and is quite a bore about it.
That said, I don't think Daniel Radcliffe knew the questions ahead of time, he seemed quite surprised, excited and nervous when something came up that he knew about. I know he's an actor but I feel like if your goal was to come off as knowledgeable you wouldn't put on the giddy and flustered act.
My father is buried in Brompton Cemetery
Daniel is brilliant. Watch him on Fallon doing the elements song
As a friend called Neil it drives me mad, we have a one syllabull name no-one can spell lol
Watch Father Ted and Graham will appear in a hilarious skit on going on Holliday with the Church and other hilarity.
It's actually ... " i before e, except after C, only when the word rhymes with Bee ". Then you don't have all those exceptions. For example 'their' is not an exception it's just not included in the rule.
Really enjoyed your reactions to the lame Christmas cracker jokes/riddles! Christmas crackers have long been a tradition here in Newfoundland (I assume because of our being "Britain's oldest colony" and most of our population are of English and Irish descent). I am curious as to whether or not they are customary in the rest of Canada, as so many other heritages have influenced the development of Canadian culture in other provinces.
I think they're pretty common out here on the west coast as well. For my family, they're certainly an annual tradition.
Kelly Brook was in Smallville at one point
With his successful celebrity interview show I would think Norton doesn't need the money to appear on these game shows.
Definitely doesn't need the money, most of them don't pay much, but he does seem to enjoy himself when he does one. He was on Mel Giedroyc's show quite recently.
Lots of these people are doing quite well, I very much doubt Jimmy Carr does QI for the cash. :p
Yes, Daniel is surprisingly knowledgeable, but so is he! I was so surprised at how much he knew. Or maybe I'm just dumb. Is the mushroom thing well known?
Lee Mack did understand the question it’s is comedy stick he reactionary with his quick wit and he’s from Lancashire as for Daniel they after home school all children whilst they make the films with the best teachers money can buy it’s the law (not for best but the Harry Potter franchise could afford them) and as you suspect Graeme does a lot of studying for his own show yes he as researchers but he as to go through all the material to see what works you’ll notice that with Covid the lack of audience participation really affects his comedy he is better with them
Lee is from southport,not far from Liverpool. Northern and working class.
I was told that the _i before e except after c_ rule was only for words with _ee_ sound . It's fairly consistent then isn't it?
Id assume Daniel was privately educated / had a tutor between and whilst shooting the films. There would have been a legal requirement for him to be educated. So it's more than likely he's had one on one tuition. Maybe he just found history Interesting so his tutor concentrated on it more than other subjects.
Well, they did get an off-screen tutor while filming Harry Potter.
Can you react to some Graham Norton Show clips? I absolutely love him & his show.
The reason why posh people are called middle class in Britain is because you can’t be upper class unless you are a tilted member of aristocracy. I agree it’s an interesting difference.
Well, if you did this one I think series G ep 5 would also be fun.
Graham Norton also presents on the radio and writes books so I suspect he does not have much time
Don't be fooled by Lee. He is way smarter than he makes out.
Graham Norton also does an awful lot on GB radio!!
Isn't Lee Mack from Manchester way?
More of a Hallowe’en episode, surely?!
You should react to the best of Victoria Coren Mitchell.
No, they definitely don't give questions in advance on QI!
Lee Mack is from Southport, a coastal town between Liverpool and Blackpool
Why would "hocus pocus" make you think it was a Hallowe'en special?
Hocus Pocus is a movie with witches set at Halloween.
🙂
18:23 "Who's Kelly Brook?"
Hot. Kelly Brook is hot.
Radcliffe never went to university.
Radcliffe is only 14 or 15 in this episode, but they had school on set, and he's a quick study on a lot of things. He's also a voracious reader. Aaaand... in general, they got a better education on set than most kids down in regular school, in particular (sadly) American ones.
Actually he was 21.
I watched most of the episodes and I'm pretty sure that in some cases the one-time guest was given the answer to one or more questions. But I have to say that if it was the case with Daniel, he is a better actor than I previously thought. And he is pretty great, in my opinion.
Rory McGrath, which is probably why he didn't get asked back (as well as the other things - look it up)
Woah! Bad hair day or new look?
Graham Norton first found fame in the UK as the incredibly annoying Father Noel Furlong in Father Ted back in the 90s
Nope... In the movie you get 150 points and the game ends and your team wins.
In the books it's a tiny bit different. Catching the snitch still ends the game and gives 150 points but doesn't auto win like in the film.
I know it might seem that way because of Oliver Wood oversimplifying his explanation of the rules for Harry (and the audience) as "catch this and we win" in the first film, but it's generally accepted that the 150 points rule applies to the films too.
I assumed that school teams arent as good as the official team so they never need to worry about having a 150 point swing which would ensure the seeker's team lost the game
Wood playing for years would have realised that the game hangs on the whim of the seeker
You don’t need a degree to know history. Or anything for that matter.
Lee Mack is a very smart person, but he plays a lot on the ignorance for comedic effect, which I'm not a huge fan of.
Fake reaction.