"I suffer from a fatal condition, Ashling, which is: posh voice, no money." Best quote ever.

"Where are the duck's knees? Ask the flamingo." I inhaled my tea and nearly died LOL

That last solo from Alan had me tearing up. God he's brilliant

I’ve seen Alan’s Mad Hatterpillar probably a hundred times in these comps and it still just absolutely kills me 😂 the show is a national treasure

“Our Lord” is the most underrated joke of this complication

Alan singing "It's not easy being greeeeeeen!" gets me every time. He's adorable.

Alan should have been a cartoonist....man's got a hell of a imagination...

The amount of effort Alan has to put into carrying the show towards the end there was insane.

Why do I feel like the bit at the end is in a Monty Python film?

"Posh voice no money" is such a good line

Can animals count? Yes. Show a dog three treats and give him two 🤣

In Germany, we think all frogs go quaak. No joke in here, just true.

I think we should clone Stephen. We could use more of him.

"Ah and that's a fact story, that's a true fact story" Haahahahahaha

12:43 Cariad's mind being blown is the cutest damn thing.

Water Boatmen fact was really cool; always had them, newts, & frogspawn in my local pond growing up. Just found out recently from mum one of my childhood heroes, David Bellamy passed away. Always loved him and learned so much; will always cherish the episode he filmed at out beautiful East Yorkshire coast when I was a kid. 🙏🏻 🕊🌊❤️

That last bit of Allan impersonating the ant and the mad-hatter is genius! That us why he is on that show!

@6:46 -@8:03 . R.I.P earphones & ears. I still have ringing in my ears from that lol

Is it just me or am I the only one who thought that the end bit with. Alan going on about the ants sounded like something out of a Monty Pythons episode.

It's a crime that Stephen's "one, two, three, four, five, chicks" joke got no recognition.

I admire Stephen so much it’s ridiculous

I once was walking a path in the woods and heard a shriek so loud i jumped, turns out it was a frog i nearly stepped on. It was SO LOUD

Someone needs to do animations for all of Alan#s animal impressions.

Levelling the audio between clips is free...

Alans multihead rant!..l can see our old house from here!

In another qi short, Catherine offered the phrase shagging the dog, which shocked Stephen, but it's probably a common phrase. In the US Midwest (Chicago) shagging was used in baseball to mean run as fast as you can after the ball. Fu**ing, the dog, screwing the pooch meant that a person or crew wasn't complete their assignment, or were going very slow, or even not completing a job, which would result in a future problem.

Ya know I should know better than to watch this while getting stoned. 'Bout coughed up a lung laughing in the middle of a big toke!

*Encouraging that when some one suggests Jesus walked on water the laughter lifts the roof off. There's hope for us yet...*

I really thought the loudest one was going to be the pistol shrimp. Never would have guessed the boatman 😳

I was so down but QI on tap has me laughing my socks off

7:16 the audio tech has a fit

The 5 head caterpillar kills me every time

Thanks for uploading all of these!

Reginald D. Hunter has the best voice ever!

I have a 'motorbike' frog in my garden. It sounds like a bike being revved at the traffic lights.

Stephen Fry should do a Attenborough-esque documentary about animal "facts" that everybody "knows."

4:42 brilliant zinger from Jo 😁

I think the sperm whale at 236db would be louder given that db is on a log scale. though the pistol shrimp at 220 db which would be about 1/1000th of the volume (compared to 250db), might be louder for the size anyway, both can kill you through the sheer volume. (200db can kill) a guy put his hand in front of him to signal a whale to stop and his hand was paralyzed for 4 hours, and that's probably just on communication volume (which is around 180-190db), not stunning/killing. that's basically like putting your hand in a microwave. for comparison, sound level wise that's like standing on the launchpad next to a rocket.

Per ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, the sound frogs make is Rakkk-akkk-akkk-kaks, Rakkk-akkk-akkk-kaks! Koax, koax!

Honestly the best show in my opinion

Funny enough, the ability to count is actually a /cultural/ adaptation. Not an innate ability or an automatic one. I took an intensely in depth class on culture&cognition and essentially, without the formation of a culture who needed numbers, we really cant count very high or keep track of much at all. It's more complex than I can explain here, but there are plenty of cultures that still have no system of counting past any units of ten . They just visually have rough estimates, but without the actual introduction of units representing each number there is only so far adaptations and cultures can go. Hence, our advancements lolll

I've never been more entertained by watching five men rub metal tubes with their fingers to make noise than this

That metal rod sound was awful.

14:03 ...and then Alan takes things too far... and i love him for it... =D

It should be titled Allan being silly as usual!

Man this is so much better than American Jeopardy!

Sometimes I find Alan’s jokes to be silly and unfunny but then there are times when he seems to be working on another level, in a comedic flow state where his absurdity works and I could imagine him having his own absurd comedy show where he improvises most of the dialogue.

The thing about frogs saying 'ribbit' reminds me of the old corny joke: "How do you know when there are frogs in knee-deep water?" "I dunno. How do you know?" "You can hear them saying, 'Knee-deep. Knee-deep. Knee-deep'." Don't blame me. You didn't have to read this comment. And, honestly, if you didn't stop once you got to "old corny joke," there's no one to blame but yourself. ;-)

8:23 I didn't hear 'count' at first

“I live on a house boat” Less than one sentence later, “posh voice no money”

So weird seeing Jimmy in anything other than a custom tailored suit! 😂

Hows this for bad luck? I continued the video after pausing at the exact ringing rods bit by chance. When I continued, I used earphones and the volume was accidentally on full. I already have tinnitus too. 😣

That Ribbit shit was Hilarious 😂😂😂

Never heard a water boatman make any noise actually. Specially not one like a freight train

12:40 "You can keep your head on..."

When I watched this episode the first time I remember thinking: "Huh! So animals can think and count and have emotions? So the only difference between them and us is that we've got an opposable thumb? Interesting!"

4:18 perfect Kermit impression

Random fun fact, there are species of moths that also rub their genitals along their thorax to confuse bat's, it's an oddly awesome survival tactic

All the other contestants think they're funny and then Alan Davis pipes up and blows the competition away!

Nice that Danny got an ELP reference in there.

Love the 30s of tinnitus induction

jesus that crab wear dressed in everything bar the grand piano o-O

Technically alan was correct about the frog noise

I'm from British Columbia, all of the frogs I've ever heard made the distinct ribbit sound. I never realized it was only actually one species of frogs that ribbit and there's a variety of species in BC.

Apparently lions can tell if a pride is bigger then their own by the sound of the raw's and will move on.

Alan would have bee good on the. Muppets

Wow, "Red Indians," Stephen would be skewered here in the US.

Highlight was Stephen Fry referencing Mars Attacks.

I worked with a Polish person and they had a tattoo that said lebet and I asked what that meant and his nickname war frog so he had the sound that the frog would make in there language being lebet

What I'd like to know is where the bee's knees are.

Some joker's at work (railroad freight yards) would say over the walkie talkies ribbit ribbit. Shortly thereafter someone came over the radio and say, the cry of the horny toad rubbit rubbit.

A 3 foot frog is honestly nightmare

4:37 Yikes! If he said that on american telly, all hell would break loose.

There's plenty of pond skaters around here and I've never heard anything 🤔

This show is the bee's knees!

This channel and these compilations would be so much better if someone fixed the volume. It's frustrating as hell having to turn my volume up loud for one excerpt and then the next excerpt comes on and it blasts through my speakers like a freight train

I have posh voice no money syndrome as well. Still, I suspect Sandi has rather more money than I do!

Headphone users, turn volume down around 7:30. You're welcome

This is is still louder though *WAK WAK WAK*

frogs go croak

I think having the ring taken off a cormorant's neck so it can swallow a fish doesn't mean it can count. The fisherman can count, not the bird :)

A 3 foot long frog in 2020, that I find hard to believe.

Birds do have testes. They’re deep inside the body and proportionally much bigger than human testes, for example. Cockerel testes are quite a delicacy.

Alan was in good form.

When was the frog clip from? I didn’t expect to hear Stephen Fry saying “a band of red indians whooping.” Just caught me off guard.

Wings are the arms, knees in the legs

No Frog in germany does "ribbit"..... A rumor says that, if you listen closely, you can hear some go. "NEIN, NEIN, NEIN"

I hate to be that guy but the question was specifically about an animal under the water not on the water

Rip Cal Wilson

posh voice no monney i have that to

5:20 Stephen misspoke - would be awfully small at 2 millimeters! Meant centimetres.

can someone tell me how to make or find one of those water boatman sticks

Tinnitus warning!

Technically some plants also can count

The hidden zoo level Easter egg!!

Blue Whale!

"Like a band of red Indians wooping"...what? @4:35

I like Sandy, but I prefer Stephen.

WOW - “red indians whooping”

''our lord'' - and he as 5-year olds on his show too