America has hundreds of celebrities. Britain, correctly, takes the funniest ten or so people and puts them in everything.

"It's like showing a very tired mason a whole cathedral" Is one of the best off the cuff metaphors i've ever heard.

David Mitchell is on my very short list of people I would like to make immortal. Mainly because he'd be absolutely furious, which is when he's at his best.

The sight of David Mitchell trying to look like he is not pleased to get a double teacher's pet award is very . . . human.

I love that Rob Brydon (a relatively short man wearing vertical stripes) said he has a “friend” that is short and wears vertical stripes to seem taller 😂

Can I just get several hours of Stephen Fry and David Mitchell earnestly enjoying talking about things they find interesting? Maybe a whole series?

I love how genuinely chuffed David looks at Stephen's praise. Finally winning the approval of his father-figure. It's beautiful

Can I just say, David's outfit is quite unnoteworthy, but not so unnoteworthy as to be in itself noteworthy. He did it.

“Welcome to the logically ruthless world of David Mitchell!” 😂😂😂

“I missed your angry logic, David”

And this is why David and Victoria Coren are a match made in heaven. Imagine what suppers are like in the Mitchell household.

David's view on customer service has really changed my life for the better.

All words are made up aren't they? Genius and correct

David Mitchell is so incredibly charming. His acerbic style of speaking combined with the poshness is an incredibly irresistible combination. Could watch him all day.

“If you’re ever trying to get the eye out of a fish and it blinks, it may be a lion.” is the strangest but yet most hilarious sentence I’ve ever heard someone say with a straight face.

In that last bit, he was genuinely pleased with himself. He looked like the school boy who ruined the curve for the rest of the class.

I can never get tired of these David Mitchell compilations

Lol, Rob Brydon's subtle joke, "I have a friend that's quite short who likes to wear vertical stripes" while wearing a shirt with vertical stripes.

"showing a very tired mason a whole cathedral" is just pure hilarity.

Something that is quite interesting is that the professor who discovered the truth about the horizontal and vertical stripes was in the audience. So Stephen let the panellists dig a hole for themselves by letting them take the mickey out his findings for a while and then introduced him 😂

David has genuinely managed to influence my thoughts on customer service and many other things like the message in "Kill The Poor" sketch... Not sure comedians are the best for helping you form an opinion on society but I feel like David is trustworthy enough.

I dont think I've ever seen David happier than he was for the double teacher's pet fanfare.

The amount of nonsense Mr Mitchell can cut through is amazing. Very much needed and appreciated!!

I can't wait for when David Mitchell finally gets on Taskmaster. We are getting Victoria, and we had Lee Mack. David's time has to be coming.

David Mitchell and Bill Bailey are the funniest people on QI. And both of them are wicked smart.

"In a sense, all names are made up, aren't they?" is gonna keep me laughing long after I've watched this video.

You know it's going to be a good episode of QI when David Mitchell makes an appearance. His angry logic coupled with quick witted panelists makes my stomach hurt from laughing. Stephens breaking down with laughter and Sandy's exasperation are just the icing on the cake.

His displays of absolute sincerity are what does it for me!

I love jimmy carr's laugh, its so genuine warm and spontaneous and not at all annoying to the point where upon hearing it a normally peaceable person wants to go on a random killing spree

”In a sense, all names are made up” David Mitchell is apparently Thor 😉

Someday David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade are going to throw simultaneus rants at each other and the purpose of existence will have been accomplished.

One of my favourite people on the planet. I'd watch him doing his shopping...at the grocers/grocer's/grocers'...

No one expected David's bee rant to go the way it went!

The absolute best, when Steven geeks out on David and Escoffier!

"Died in?" " A terrible house fire" 🤣🤣🤣

I think they all missed the fact that robs “friend” was himself

I love his attitude to customer service. It's like Jack Whitehall's father "I'm here to buy a shirt, not make a friend." Lol

Clever, quick and well educated....makes me so envious.

I love David's brain.

I love David Mitchell's sarcastic and on point humor

You seem to have missed when he went mental at Alan for saying we shouldn't drink milk as its bad for us. Best QI moment ever??

I absolutely adore Mitchell and his comedy. He’s brilliant

Rob Brydon is absolutely talking about himself and thought everyone would realise 😂

Why did no one realise Bryson was talking about himself, there and then wearing vertical stripes? Opportunity missed

David Mitchell and Alan Davies are adorable and I love the logical arguments David Mitchell comes up with, just great!

13:32 I love how excited Alan is that somebody is in trouble and it isn't him

David Mitchell`s description of terrible customer service is so spot on, I have often felt the same way from both perspective's in my life

8:49 Stephen was so happy to be getting angry logic so quickly

Among all David's other brilliant rants, I forgot the one about the mouldy teapot. An absolute little hidden gem :)

“There’s nothing funny about making people laugh” Fry at his best on that one!

I love David's *anality*. Intelligent comedians are different.

All the signs would be right or wrong depending on the meaning, I love that. Very “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”. I reckon David would like a well used Oxford comma.

"I learned how to use the apostrophe properly, apparently, now it doesn't matter! What I want, I want the time I used to learn that back." wow.

Dave's insights about customer service could apply equally here in Australia.

4:29 Johnny getting into thinking position cracks me up

"Angry logic" 🤣 That's the most spot on description ever

As much as I love Sandi Toksvig as host, and would love to see her do several more series, I really really would love to see David host QI someday.

Nellie Melba's father was, indeed, David Mitchell (1829-1916), a Scottish-Australian builder. David Mitchell (1974) was quite correct about that.

Mr. Fry and mr. Mitchell are treasures of british entertainment. They've made themselves into the fountains of timely truths( as the status quo doesn't stay true as time passes by..) .. ..

When you watch these compilations, you realise how much David mellowed after marriage. He just doesn't wave his finger about in the air anymore.

I love it when David gets into one of his tirades.

Having seen Andrew Hunter Murray in action, I'm pretty sure he's the QI elf who laid the Klaxons on David Mitchell during the "First World War" question.

I think David Mitchell might make me laugh more than any other entertainer. So often I have had to skip back because I have missed anything that came after because I was still laughing to much. His prepared material is very funny, but those times when he gets to just go off on something he finds irritating seems to perfectly align with my sense of humor.

11:04 David Mitchell doesn't realize he's making Bertrand Russell Point here. A lot of peoples lives were relying on calculations at that point, yet they couldn't prove that any of it worked. That's why they had to go back over all of it carefully and be much more rigorous. It's also why math teachers tend to use very precise language in describing mathematical formulas, theorems, and methods. They need to make sure things are precise enough that we can PROVE they are true.

I'm sad nobody got that Rob Brydon's short friend in vertical stripes was himself 😂

This just goes to show once again that, while David Mitchell is absolutely a star, Dara Ó Briain is the most wonderfully collaborative comedian. Any time anyone makes a joke, he not only knows the joke quicker than anyone else, he then also knows how to serve the punch line, how to make it funnier! Talk about customer service.. Dara is an artist.

I wish I was born David and Victoria's son. Nothing against my parents, but David Mitchell and Stephen Fry are just crack to me. I have never and likely will never, get enough of either of them. David's wife likewise has a sense of humour that almost always leaves me absolutely CRYING with laughter. Noel at 14:58 is what I feel like watching them.

David is often at his best when the "angry logic" comes out 😆

I love David’s smarts.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If I'm ever doing a pub quiz and I see David Mitchell in the room I'm leaving 🤔😂😂😂

3:40 this joke went over everyone's head. He was referring to himself.

David Mitchell one of the funniest men on the planet

Thanks for the belly laughs David!! Much needed

I love David Mitchell ♥

The look on Stephen's face when his lava lamp tips over has always been a favorite

Rob Brydon (1.7m tall) and wearing a vertical stripes, "I have a friend who's quite short and he likes to wear vertical stripes because they make him look taller." I get the feeling he was setting the others up to make fun of him for saying it's a "friend" who does this only to have David take it in a whole other direction.

Dave is so good in Peep show you forget some times how great he is in real life

Man, I never noticed before that in the clip about stripes, 2:44 everbody's wearing vertical stripes except Johhny Vegas who's wearing horizontal! Which proves their point!😂👍

Great stuff, and thoroughly enjoyable. Mitchell and Fry, unbeatable.

170cm Rob Brydon wearing vertical stripes: I have a friend who's quite short and he wears vertical stripes. 😂

David is 100 times more cool than any "influencer" or "KZfaqr" or whatever the latest silly trend of non celebrity is.

This is a great selection! I'd have liked to see his ideas on Pascal's Wager among it, but nonetheless I watch this every now and then to have a good laugh. :D

i needed this.

I honestly haven’t found anyone else, who has the ability to create analogies for such a wide variety of subjects.

They credited Bertrand Russell with Gödel's Incompleteness theorem. Russell was trying to prove the opposite of all that.

Mitchell was so right about jobs. Anyone on minimum wage clearly didnt choose to do that.

Ok I am not crazy. At 10:41 there is a missing set inclusion symbol in the Russell's theorem. I had to look it up, it's on p.379 of Volume I of the Principia if anyone is curious. They have: ⊢:. α, β ∊ 1. ⊃: α β = Λ . ≡ . α ∪ β ∊ 2 It should read: ⊢:. α, β ∊ 1. ⊃: α ∩ β = Λ . ≡ . α ∪ β ∊ 2 In modern notation: ⊢ (α, β ∊ 1) ⊃ [ (α ∩ β = ∅ ) ≡ ( α ∪ β ∊ 2 )] Which states that if α and β are discrete unitary sets the intersection (the members of the sets α and β they have in common) of α and β is the empty set if and only if α and β's union is a member of the set of duals (the set of sets that have two discrete items). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arqGrch8v5i8XXU.html

3:45 "a friend who is small and likes to wear vertical stripes to look taller". Said Rob Brydon in his vertical stripes. "A FRIEND"

The exchange at the end was like from an Oxbridge flirting society

David is amazing.

My favourite part of this is Alan shouting, "Common usage! Common usage!", immediately taking the academic view, instead of Stephen's subjective, one. It's a role flip that happened more and more as the show went on.

"What was the point of getting an education at all?" 😂😂😂

Nothing ruins a punchline more than having someone popping up at a critical moment and asking me if I've ever owned a diesel Mercedes.

David Mitchell is absolutely right about the HobNob biscuits. They're a brand from 1980s or so. I honestly had to Goole that one.

15:02 Noel is gazing at David w absolute admiration.

This really improved my mood. Thanks for loading.

8:44 The number of audience members' minds who were totally blown (including my own) when Thor shruggedly says "ALL words are made up" in Infinity War lol

A party game is "Who alive or dead would you to have dinner with?" It would be a coin-flip between David Mitchell and Stephen Fry.

David Mitchell and Sean Lock (RIP) were great on QI.

How lovely all of that was