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--->'''Stephen:'''Excluding a member of the human race, which [[TakeThat I'm not sure if whether that does or not]]\\

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--->'''Stephen:'''Excluding a member of the human race, which [[TakeThat I'm not sure if whether that does or not]]\\not.]]
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'''Stephen:'''Excluding a member of the human race, which [[TakeThat I'm not sure if whether that does or not]]\\

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'''Stephen:'''Excluding --->'''Stephen:'''Excluding a member of the human race, which [[TakeThat I'm not sure if whether that does or not]]\\

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--->'''Stephen:''' What's the deadliest animal in Australia?\\

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--->'''Stephen:''' What's the What is Australia's deadliest animal in Australia?\\creature?\\


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'''Stephen:'''Excluding a member of the human race, which [[TakeThat I'm not sure if whether that does or not]]\\
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** Sandi explains that whales sometimes slap the water to get rid of lice.
--->'''Daliso:''' [[FridgeHorror How big are whale public lice?!]]
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* "Telling Tails":
** When Sandi brings up the aurochs, Daliso hears it as "oryx," and Sandi has to clarify that she means a kind of early cow.
--->'''Rob Beckett:''' They're called "calves."
** Regarding DirtyMindReading:
--->'''Sarah Millican:''' I can tell when my husband's about to talk--I don't think that's telepathy, though.\\
'''Alan:''' You can hear him behind the tape. "Mmf! ''Mmmf!"'' "What's that under the floorboards, Sarah?"
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** The extended gag with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-nTSAuokRs Alan Davies and Bill Bailey pretending to be the horribly malformed hidden Osmond brother]] who writes all their songs, ending with Bill glomping onto Creator/DavidTennant and chewing on his boutonniere.[[note]]Unfortunately becomes somewhat FunnyAneurysmMoment when you learn that the Osmonds really do have two mentally ill brothers who live outside of the public eye.[[/note]]

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** The extended gag with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-nTSAuokRs Alan Davies and Bill Bailey pretending to be the horribly malformed hidden Osmond brother]] who writes all their songs, ending with Bill glomping onto Creator/DavidTennant and chewing on his boutonniere.[[note]]Unfortunately becomes somewhat FunnyAneurysmMoment HarsherInHindsight when you learn that the Osmonds really do have two mentally ill brothers who live outside of the public eye.[[/note]]
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-->'''Stephen''': Any flamencos[[note]]flamenco dancers - answers[[/note]] given in pyong[[note]]Pyongyang - slang[[/note]] score barney[[note]][[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Barney Rubble]] - double[[/note]].

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-->'''Stephen''': Any flamencos[[note]]flamenco dancers - answers[[/note]] given you give in pyong[[note]]Pyongyang - slang[[/note]] will score barney[[note]][[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Barney Rubble]] - double[[/note]].
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* Tricks & Treats:
** Jimmy Carr decides that "nut allergy" is a euphemism for lesbian.
** The RunningGag of Sandi ripping a cue card in half whenever Alan complains about something.
** When Sandi asks how to stop your toes from falling off, Eshaan suggests putting them in the freezer. Everyone else is baffled.
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* Testing:
** One question gets a great one-liner answer.
---> '''Sandi:''' What happens when you give a toddler cocaine?\\
'''Josh Widdicombe:''' Ten years in prison.
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'''Alan:''' Denmark's the same as Scotland, where ''you'' come from!

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'''Alan:''' Denmark's the same as Scotland, where ''you'' come from!from![[note]]Rhod is actually Welsh, for those who don't know[[/note]]
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* During a discussion about Aborigines in the Australia episode, Stephen brings up Native Americans. Alan says that it's more fun to call them redskins. Then, this:

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* During a discussion about Aborigines Aboriginal people in the Australia episode, Stephen brings up Native Americans. Alan says that it's more fun to call them redskins. Then, this:
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** The panelists comparing their experiences with driving tests.
--->'''Aisling''': I failed my theory test three times last year.\\
'''Sandi''': Have you passed now?\\
'''Aisling''': Nooooo~! I do believe I'm just too much of a genius to grasp something so simple.\\
'''Jason''': I failed the practical six times.\\
'''Aisling''': What did they pull you up on?\\
'''Jason''': I got to a junction; I looked right, I said "All right your side?" ''(everyone laughs)''
*** Unsurprisingly, Alan once failed because he HadTheSillyThingInReverse.

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*** Later on when the topic of the number of neurons people have in their brain, Sandi gives this remark in Bill Bailey and Alan Davies's direction.
--->'''Sandi:''' There are 300 times as many synapses in your brain as there are trees on earth. [[{{Deadpan Snarker}} That's not every brain.]]



** When the topic of neurons people have in their brain Sandi gives this remark in Bill Bailey and Alan Davies's direction.
--->'''Sandi:''' There are 300 times as many synapses in your brain as there are trees on earth. [[{{Deadpan Snarker}} That's not every brain.]]

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* "Oceans":

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** When the topic of neurons people have in their brain Sandi gives this remark in Bill Bailey and Alan Davies's direction.
--->'''Sandi:''' There are 300 times as many synapses in your brain as there are trees on earth. [[{{Deadpan Snarker}} That's not every brain.]]
* "Oceans":"Oceans":
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*** After giving the answer to the question that started it all off, Sandi confirms what Stephen told her when she took over.
--->'''Sandi:''' People often say to me what did Stephen say to you when he left. The truth is he shook his head and said you have no idea.

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** The background contains fake safety signs that say "Caution: Elves at work", "BEWARE GENERAL IGNORANCE", and "It has been 0 days since the last Klaxon on this show".

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** The background contains fake safety signs that say "Caution: Elves at work", "BEWARE "BEWARE: GENERAL IGNORANCE", and "It has been 0 days since the last Klaxon incident on this show".show".
* Television:
** In the General Ignorance round, Alan goes on a rant about how they used to record horse races by driving a car alongside them with a camera on top. His tone continues into the next question, which is about the colour of radiation.
--->'''Sandi:''' We've reached the point of the show where Alan's medication has worn off.
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** The background contains fake safety signs that say "Elves at work", "CAUTION: GENERAL IGNORANCE", and "It has been 0 days since the last Klaxon on this show".

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** The background contains fake safety signs that say "Elves "Caution: Elves at work", "CAUTION: "BEWARE GENERAL IGNORANCE", and "It has been 0 days since the last Klaxon on this show".
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** Soon afterward, Sandi brings up the "green book", a series of rules made in the 1940s that listed out what was not okay to broadcast. Some of these guidelines [[NoodleImplements are oddly specific]].
--->'''Sandi''': The vulgar use of the word "basket" should be avoided. [...] It conceded that references to [[Literature/TheBible Noah]] were sometimes permissible, but it added "...since there is anything to be gained by them, and since they can engender much resentment, they are best avoided altogether."
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* Tools and Tips:
** The background contains fake safety signs that say "Elves at work", "CAUTION: GENERAL IGNORANCE", and "It has been 0 days since the last Klaxon on this show".
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--->'''Alan:''' "In the boys' school, Sandi, you're taught to dictate."\\

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--->'''Alan:''' -->'''Alan:''' "In the boys' school, Sandi, you're taught to dictate."\\
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-->'''Eshaan''': ''Rock music like [[TemptingFate The Rolling Stones]]?'''

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-->'''Eshaan''': ''Rock music like [[TemptingFate The Rolling Stones]]?'''Stones]]?''

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--->'''Sandi''': There are health implications--\\
'''Alice Levine''': ''(having just finished her licorice)'' Thanks for telling us now.\\
''(later)''\\
'''Sandi''': But it has been so popular for so long that it was found in Tutankhamun's tomb.\\
'''Alice''': [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation In the]] ''[[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation tomb]],'' Sandi, in the ''tomb.''\\
'''Alan''': "While he's going, while the lid's open--put the licorice in."



'''Alice Levine''': And low blood sugar, probably.

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'''Alice Levine''': '''Alice''': And low blood sugar, probably.probably.
** "Which head of state did the Spice Girls sleep with?" Alice gets the klaxon for answering "Nelson Mandela."
*** The actual answer: the Han Emperor of China, whose concubines lived in quarters with Szechuan pepper [[ConspicuousConsumption mixed into the wall plaster]].
*** Sandi provides the panelists with a sample of Szechuan peppercorns, to demonstrate their "spicy-numbing" effect.
--->'''Sandi''': ''(to Jason Manford)'' No, not the whole thing, darling--you'll die... Bite it, and let it cover your tongue; may I advise you not to swallow it.\\
'''Alan''': This is the worst game I've ever played [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative since the licorice game!]]
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* "Sugar and Spice":
** Sandi has the contestants try out [[AuthorAppeal Scandinavian salty licorice]], or "salmiakki" as it's called in Finnish. She explains that there was a dispute within the EU over how much ammonium chloride to allow in foods: the Scandinavian members threw a fit when they realized it would make their beloved licorice illegal, and there was nearly a "Salmi-exit" before an exception was written into the law.
** The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist of 2011-12. The fact that nearly C$19 million worth of syrup was stolen from the [[SeriousBusiness International Strategic Reserve]] is a little funny in itself, if one ignores how many breakfasts were ruined as a result. The discovery of the theft, though, is the cherry on top: an inspector climbed a stack of barrels that he didn't realize were empty, and they nearly collapsed under him.
--->'''Rose Matafeo''': When is Creator/GuyRitchie gonna make that film?\\
'''Sandi''': It's thought--apart from the money--that the crime was motivated partly by bad feelings towards the FPAQ, the people who control [the syrup supply].\\
'''Alice Levine''': And low blood sugar, probably.
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'''Cally''': He didn't enter into the spirit of things at all, he started asking if we had [[UnEntendre clearance from the tower]]...

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'''Cally''': He didn't enter into the spirit of things at all, he started asking if we had [[UnEntendre clearance from the tower]]...tower...
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* In "Humanity", when Stephen says that slavery was only outlawed (not to be confused with abolished) in the UK in 2010, Alan asks if he's finally free this year.

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* In "Jobs", Fry brings up Alice in Wonderland, and consequently, the Tim Burton film, who he had the voice role of the Chesire Cat in. Pretending to struggle to remember who voiced the character, ala RuleOfFunny, Alan answers with "Hugh Laurie".

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* In "Jobs", Fry brings up Alice in Wonderland, and consequently, the Tim Burton film, who he had the voice role of in which Fry voiced the Chesire Cat in.Cat. Pretending to struggle to remember who voiced the character, ala RuleOfFunny, Alan answers with "Hugh Laurie".
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--->'''Joe:''' Can I just say, I've watched this show loads, and I've always hated that font."\\

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--->'''Joe:''' Can I just say, I've watched this show loads, and I've always hated that font."\\\\
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** It also contains Alan Davies' impersonation of a shark having an orgasm."[=OooOOOOHHH=]?!"

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** It also contains Alan Davies' impersonation of a shark having an orgasm."[=OooOOOOHHH=]?!"" [=OooOOOOHHH=]?!"
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** During the same segment, Sandi complains that a miniature figure of her is wearing a skirt.
-->'''Sandi:''' This is not what a lesbian on television looks like!
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--> '''Sandi and Alan:''' ''[Almost simulatenously]'' It doesn't happen!\\
--> '''Alan:''' Denmark's the same as Scotland, where ''you'' come from!

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--> '''Sandi and Alan:''' ''[Almost simulatenously]'' It doesn't happen!\\
--> '''Alan:''' Denmark's the same as Scotland, where ''you'' come from!

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