CLASSIC QI XL Reaction Nx05 - Not Nearly (Gyles Brandreth, Jimmy Carr, Victoria Coren Mitchell)
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Hope you enjoy my first reaction to Episode 5 (the XL version) of QI (Series N) starring Sandi Toksvig and Alan Davies, guest starring Gyles Brandreth, Jimmy Carr, and Victoria Coren Mitchell!
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The QI audio sounded a bit low on this one, or I'm going deaf.
There was a period part way through Fry's reign where most of the episode would be just Stephen Fry reading out interesting stuff from his cards with the panel sitting there quietly and paying attention. Not many laughs, but the 'quite interesting' part of the show kicked in so I wouldn't call them bad. That might be as close as you get. Seems to me Ross Noble started appearing on the show around that time and seemed to have been told to bust things up a bit. Not sure if that's correct, just my impression as a viewer of many years.
having seen all of them, i'm not sure which period you mean. There are more and less active guests, but has always been the case. The first 1-3 seasons had a bit more of a question answer structure.
I've never seen a bad episode of QI
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I simply love Victoria Coren Mitchell....
Adam Savage still has that Penny wind tunnel from that episode of Mythbusters!
the one with the ventriloquist wasn't a complete succes imo.
Yep I agree, i think it’s Nina Conti?
I adore David and Victoria, and I know exactly why he makes her starry eyed and vice versa. I’ve got less material to go on with Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, but they’ve both made very passionate political statements I wholeheartedly agree with over the years and I’ve loved both of them in films, so they spring to mind as another equally beloved celebrity couple.
HAve you seen Would I Lie To You? David Mitchell is one of the team captains and Victoria was a guest on his team. THere is a clip "Victoria doesn't know this but..."
He has.
Can't think of many episodes that are particularly bad, but there were a couple during Covid that were recorded without any audience that meant it all felt a bit flat, and the guests seemed like they were over compensating with laughter!
I actually enjoyed those. Sometimes you’d hear an ‘audience’ absolutely cracking up, and it had to be the crewmembers behind the cameras because there was no one else in that auditory space. Something very delightful about people at work, who have to have seen everything QI has to offer, still getting entertained by the panelists on the show they make themselves.
Jimmy Carr remarked about QI along the lines of "Ideally, it should feel like a good conversation with friends"
The Covid episodes - once you got used to there being no audience - felt that way. And, let's face it, we were happy that they were done at all !
I can't think of any episodes I'd consider outright bad. Sure there have been annoying/boring/unfunny guests that drag some episodes down but there's no episode I'd say was _completely_ ruined by a bad guest; there's always enough good stuff with Alan/Stephen/Sandi and whoever else is on the panel to make up for a weak link, in my opinion.
As a fellow Neil born in the UK in the 80s, I used to get called "Orange Peel" a lot due to a joke from The Young Ones.
Difficult to say which is the "worst", but there have been some subpar ones. The Rory McGrath episodes were him just showing off. Like you, I get peeved when guests are intentionally being stupid or abrasive.
One episode for me that didn't quite live up to the usual standard was with Nina Conti (Series I Episode 6 "Inventive").
Someone I felt also should have done better, even though the episode itself wasn't bad per se, was Greg Proops (Series J Episode 10 "Jungles"). Maybe it was just my high expectations as a big fan of his.
As far as someone ruining an episode because I don't particularly care for their comedy, I would go with Vic Reeves and Ruby Wax, although thankfully their appearances were few and far between.
Episode 2 of series 7 (G-Animals) often gets mentioned as not being good. There are fun bits in it, but they did a thing ,that just didn't work. I won't spoil any details.
I don't think there are any really bad ones - the worst are just okay. But to recommend one for a totally different reason, you should check out Aviation from the first series. There's a special guest you'll be surprised to see.
I agree regarding David & Victoria . They are both impressive people and I like each of them independently and even more when they are together. This is unique to them. (Episodes of TUBT with Victoria are so good.)
When Neil started talking about towns having cover bands, I thought he was going to ask what the band name is for Penistone (South Yorkshire).
When looking for Gary Oldman movies, you need to make sure you do not miss the 'R' lol
I honestly can't think of a bad episode of QI, but the guest I was most disappointed with was Frankie Boyle. I'm a huge fan of his, but he hardly said a word during his episode (I'm guessing he said more during the actual recording, but knowing Frankie it was probably unfit for broadcast).
17:03 Made me think of a funeral I went to some years ago where the officiant was a bishop. Halfway through the thing his cell phone goes off and he has to dig it out from under his robes. Even high ranking church people make mistakes.
To come up with a bad episode of QI seems like an impossible challenge to me - none of them are! Though, naturally, some are better than others, and some guests less interesting than others, but all of that tends to be balanced out by better guests, the hosts, and of course, Alan. Therefore, one episode which I tend not to rewatch a great deal is Divination, simply because Alan isn't present for most of it. But the other guests aren't bad, and I don't recall anything notably terrible about it. Other people will be more cynical perhaps, but I can't name a bad episode of this show.
Turn up the QI volume, Neil.
Yes please! I kept turning up the volume this entire reaction.
My wife wanted a £300 handbag for Christmas. So, what I did to show her that it was silly was I wrapped up £300 in a supermarket plastic bag, and told her that she could keep the £300 in the plastic bag or swap it for the hand bag she wanted...
I think you have already viewed the episode but if the 'cheating' rumours about Rory McGrath are true then it would be my nomination. (C ep3)
Lifes to short to remember bad episodes. But seasons 6 & 7 (f&g) were pretty ropey as i recall.
It might have been the shock of changing producers from John Lloyd (nice Meaning of Liff refrence btw)
But it took a juvernile turn when it first moved to bbc1.
Surprisingly, despite my city being more than twice the size of Vancouver, I don't know of any sort of "local character" or any well-known music act here. I don't even think I know of any major music acts associated with the area besides a coupke of one-hit wonders from the 2000 and one rock and roll A-Lister who was born here and left almost immediately.
I pleased to say that the worst episode I’ve seen can no longer be googled. Hooray! It had a reality tv star in it (I think she was brought in to boost the younger audience number watching). Keep up the amazing work Neil
I'll mention 2 possible episodes, based on comments on the Internet (questionable accuracy) about which panelists were dreadful.
I haven't seen the episodes, so I can't judge if this is valid for their performance or people "hating" the panelist.
Maybe someone else who has seen either of the episodes can comment.
Some complaints are about Ruby Wax. That would be S8 E5 "H Animals" (2010).
(The episode had an average IMDB rating for that entire season.)
In response to the criticism, others felt that she wasn't bad, just out of her element and trying too hard.
The other was for Sir Terry Wogan. That would be S6 E1 "Families" (2008).
(That episode had the lowest IMDB rating for that entire season.)
He was a television broadcaster in the 60s, but I can't find any details about his QI appearance.
As others have said, the shows are entertaining even when one of the panelists is an anchor.
On one user-voted poll, the worst rated QI episodes were dominated by season 19 (2021).
Missing the audience and not the fault of the guests, I would say.
On IMDB, the clear "favorites" for worst are the VG (compilation) episodes.
25:11 but wasn’t THE Napoleon’s nephew the last Emperor of France?
There's a comedian called Linda Smith who I just can't watch, but that's just a personal view (episodes: Arts, Albania, Beats)
She died in 2006.
@@OC35 I'm sorry for her and her family, but it doesn't make it any easier to watch the repeats.
@@ukcroupier, I'm actually with you on this. It's personal to me but I think it's her voice or her face after her delivery of a joke.
The Nina Conti episode was hard to watch. I'm not sure what episode it was.
They do tours on your t-shirt, in UK. Fascinating had Most Haunted and Ghost Adventures filmed, available in UA-cam. Hilarious, imo. I'm sure you've seen it.
To me, the Rory McGrath episode is unwatchable
Yes - It's only the combined efforts of everyone else - particularly Sean - that drags it up.
I haven't seen all the episodes of QI, but I probably saw about half and my least favourite is the one with Ben Miller, Rob Brydon and Shaun Lock. I think you have already seen it. Ben is really trying to say something interesting and Rob and Shaun are being dicks and acting like they don't care about what he's trying to say at all. Especially because he is trying to talk physics, which is honestly one of the most interesting subjects in this world, it really rubbed me the wrong way, it's probably the only QI episode I ever saw and didn't love.
So the score does not not have a negative?😅
Don't know about worst episode. Generally more about particular guests. For example not a fan of Jimmy Carr so sometimes those episodes sometimes fall flat, depending on other guests in that episode.
I don't get the big cart horse joke 😅
It’s the old worst ever pop song thing, isn’t it. Ask the masses and you’ll get a straightforward response like [everyone] The Birdie Song. Everyone knows - or should know! - that the truly bad ones, as you said Neil, aren’t remembered, even if they were somehow in the charts. They’re anodyne. I have calculated there have been approximately 36.3 such QI episodes so far, but sadly I can’t remember them.
I can't think of a "bad" episode.... there are some individual comedians I don't care for, as I'm sure is the case for everyone, but there are no real clunkers.
The Olympics baron De
you'll find any of the newer episodes with Rosie Jones can be quite divisive, the Johnny Vaughan episode was a bit painful too
Yeah I don't dislike her as a person, but I really have to pay attention to understand and connect what she's saying, and sometimes by the time the joke comes out the moment has passed for me, so unfortunately I tend to get put off or skip past her most of the time. Saying that though I don't have anything against Rosie Jones, outside of the comedy side I'd be happy to sit through and hear her talk about her experiences and journey so far, plus I think it's great that she's around and it inspires people with disabilities to be brave and try and get themselves out there.
@@THEonlyAEON She can be bloody hilarious at times but panel shows often rely on the pace and speed of people's reactions to each other and her difficulties speaking tends to break the rhythm of the banter
@@chikkensoop Yes that is definitely a contributor to why. I have laughed at stuff she's said before, but it's as you've just said.
See...the thing about champagne is, the first Magnum gets you drunk...the second Magnum sobers you up!
And pot is certainly a performance enhancing drug...if there's a Mars bar at the end of the race! (Can't remember who I stole that joke from...)
I disagree with you... There should be no professionals in the Olympics.
If they want to have it otherwise then I think that the competitors should use drugs and any outside thinking to win.
Watchin a person run 100m in under 10 seconds is pretty exciting. Imagine with all the drugs he could do it in 6 seconds. I'd sooner watch that...
There are some guests I can just about tolerate, like Gyles for example. However he can often be counterbalanced by his fellow guests and the host.
Also there’s a few guests who have turned out to be less than pleasant people, that makes me less likely to rewatch their episodes.
You’ve already done my least favourite episode, Hypothetical.
I’d like to recommend Jam, Jelly & Juice from the J series, episode 2.
Cheers Nearly Neil!
I don't know who it is but you've already reacted to one of them, I hate know it all show offs on this show, even when you have the others to balance them out, if they're extremely knowledgeable AND funny I don't have a problem with it, but when the only reason they're there is to flex their knowledge on everyone else and being serious about it without joking around then it's an instant turn off for me. Fortunately I don't think there are many at all that are like that, I can only think of one off the top of my head and can't even remember the name.
People are most likely just going to suggest particular episode where they don't like a particular guest.
There're two episodes that annoyed me only because the 'fact' was too contrary to my own opinion (about chocolate digestives and which way they should be up and whether in making tea should milk or tea goes in first) but I can't remember which episodes they were featured in.
Also was not keen on the episodes where Sandi was dismissive of Bridget Christie for her trypophobia, then the other guests proceeded to bully her about it (Alan especially when he poked holes in some paper to show her)
So these are the worst by my criteria but even then they are still entertain.
I'm allergic to ventriloquism so can't enjoy the Nina Conti episodes, but that is all on me.
I also dislike the episodes with Clarkson, the man is a bore. Though he did bring out the Sean Lock classic (paraphrased Clarkson quote):
Clarkson: I ate a puffin, and the reason was... I had never tried one before.
Sean Lock: Have you ever tried one of my turds?
Series 9 Episode 6 has one guest that makes the episode essentially unwatchable despite having Bill Bailey on the panel.
Nina Conti? That is very much a matter of personal taste, personally I really enjoyed her on the show. I do get it though, ventriloquists aren't everyone's cup of tea.
@@Zomdra I don’t dislike ventriloquists. I just prefer funny ones.