All that and he gave the correct answer.

That old piece of shit Powell wouldn’t have let the little mermaid in

I enjoy him the most of all the guests on QI. And you are right, Johnny Vegas is living proof of entropy.

Chaotic Good.

@@richardpaxford5792just like Enoch 😅

🤣🤣

Funny as F'

Lost what?

It wasn't a duck I 'eard wot 'e said"

And he tops it of with the "To me it looks like you are just telling me to F off" XDD

Usually it's either Johnny Vegas or Joe Wilkinson. Because they're the only ones that present more bizarre scenarios than him.

Johhny is one of the few comic that can make Sean break his "character" of the straight man

@@hop-skip-ouch8798 Miles Jupp could do it as well

Oddly this was the first QI thing that came to mind after yesterday’s terrible news. I hope Johnny gives a eulogy at the funeral that’s just nothing but made-up bollocks.

Too bad we won't see it again.... RIP Sean.

kzfaq.info?search_query=tv+heaven+telly+hell+johnny+vegas

Bromance

Dude, I've never clicked a link faster in my life...

I'd pay money for that as well. Just not to the BBC.

We got a few non paying licence ass people up in here, ahhaa.

You've obviously never been to a Nursing Home. Fucksake, I wish it WAS like that. Comedy fuckin gold.

the timing and delivery is so good as well

tiedyeeyes1992 I work in a Nursing Home , arguments like this do occur .

Hilarious

Gotta love Bill Bailey

Time??

@@nandanhegde2650 0:30

i thought it felt like it was the other way round, an old married couple having another argument about something mundane 😂

@@Permafunk_VODs i see that now🤣🤣

Also they were high

It feels a bit like when you're at a family event and your auntie and uncle have one too many and start arguing about something that happened in 1996

@@leow3696 alan looks like the teenagee at the family christmas dinner watching the drunk aunt & uncle go off on each other

Miraaaage

is that what they say about the acropolis where the Parthenon is?

@@RS14988 everybodyyyyyy

@@RS14988 What do they say? What do they say?

That may be the first time I have seen the terms "common man" and "David Mitchell" in the same sentence.

As if Johnny Vegas’ comedy isn’t absolutely top-tier genius

@@LiquidSpiral I agree. But I get the OP's point. They both rant at inconsistencies - but come at them from a different angle. Both brilliant.

@@PaulRoneClarke Agreed! David comes from an angle of superiority questioning why on Earth anyone would do such a thing - while Johnny plays the part of a man who is one step away from an existential crisis, punching up at the world for not making any sense. Big fan of that!

hahahaha!

Not any more

@@warmfeetwinner760 lol

They were close mates

For a long while, I wanted them to do a companion podcast to QI's No Such Thing as a Fish where they, and other comedians, share facts and stories that are just utter bullshit. Could still be a good idea but Sean and Johnny together would have killed on such a show.

@@warmfeetwinner760 Sadly...

I sea what you did there

I'm familiar enough with Johnny's humour that I was able to predict your answer. LOL

that and charisma

He is about as funny as lung cancer

Love you

I bet Ross Noble is an even more interesting challenge :)

Next mission: understanding Big Narstie :D

I am driving my wife mad doing impressions of him when we are out.

@@medievalist As a non-native speaker, I would have never even thought of Ross Noble to be hard to understand, I'd say final bosses are Johnny Vegas and Kevin Bridges.

Oh man. Any suggestions for trying to understand different accents in a non-native language? I struggle so much with understanding Swedish (I speak Norwegian, but the Scandinavian languages except Icelandic are practically the same)... I’ve found that pure exposure doesn’t help if I can’t get subtitles or a transcript along with it

I loved his reactions, for an older, schoolmasterly type he's so out of his depth and a bit uncomfortable because Johnny's humour is so hard to respond to. They're polar opposites stylistically, or at least Johnny can go there but Stephen's a bit too 'proper' to.

@@auracle6184 Stephen is like a very upspoken fancy Teacher, who's nee to the school, and although is usually somewhat strict, has been told to be nice to Johnny because he's "gifted"

Fry's humor comes from seeing patterns that most don't see. Vegas' humor comes from destroying patterns. And the collision b/n them is brilliant.

Johnny is Sean's comedy hero.

He kills sean off all the time. Vegas and Joe Wilkinson are like seans criptonite

@@wetkneehouston6293 yeah honestly Johnny and joe are the only ones I have really seen make Sean loose it 😂😂😂

Tbf, it may have helped Johnny that Sean seems unfamiliar with The Little Mermaid.

RIP

And that Lady is Pam Ayres who is renowned for being gentle and warm and funny hence its even funnier. I don't believe she was actually mad though.

​@paulaus Pam Ayres has had a few outbursts on panel shows. Would I Lie To You she's gotten rather worked up over being accused of lying, when that's literally half the game!

Comparing it to Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is at least an original take on Johnny’s part. 😂

sean lock, who seemingly doesn't realise the entire thing is being recorded

Oh bloody hell.

Ba dum tss

Nah, there's something fishy about it...

Can't believe these puns are being (mer)maid I'm sorry

I sea what you did. Sorry I couldn't resist.

I think that's the thing with surrealists and one liner comedians. People forget that they have (generally) come up with the ideas and concept themselves. They're not just spouting random insanity - they have to be intelligent enough to put it all together "coherently". Like other comedians, it has to be organised and memorised and there has to be comebacks in case they get heckled. People watch comedians like Dara O'briain who monologue. Such comedians generally talk about science or philosophy and people think "wow! so clever" (which many of them are). Then they watch surrealists or one liners and think "they're insane".

There is a similar line in The Simpsons episode "Homer and Apu" (S5E13). Apu makes the family a spicy dinner and Lisa says "I can see through time!"

Yeah, QI gets most things wrong lol.

I've seen thousands of flying fish having spent 50 odd years working on the ocean. Can't recall one gliding for 45 seconds, 20 seconds tops.

lzw3 he used to be awful in the early noughties, but he's gotten much funnier of the last few years.

Michael Pennington is a very intelligent man. He wasn't understood in the early days. People get his humor now

Maybe you just got bitter and enjoy more to laugh at the self-depreciating misfortunes of others now.

I agree. I thought he was a shitty comedian, but yes, he has grown on me a lot and I have seem some genuinely good stuff from him.

Moomin. No, this is not just northern humour, because everyone has a similar sense of humour ( Except the southern softie twats ) but his early stuff was just a bit bland or a bit moronic... later stuff is slighty more weird and funny, plus sure, Ithink attitudes change so maybe people simply didnt get it, and now they do?

I'm not sure Johnny Vegas knows what Johnny Vegas says.

i sometimes struggles to understand what he says but when someone kindly points out what he is saying in the comments it always makes me laugh so hard

I'm not the only one?Good

The perkz of being a northerner. Clear as day for me :D

@richard cunningham, faaark mate, I seldom miss a word, and I'm so South I'm,.... 🌏⬅️🙃🇦🇺 ps, nothin soft down here 😉😂

*Long Silence* "This is what I imagine life would be like in a nursing home..."

Anyway, what was the biggest nuisance in the Victorian theatre?

Getting heckled by Sherlock Holmes?

It's like watching an old couple argue 😂😂😂

I think that's the mark of a truly great comedian, that his peers have such admiration. Johnny Vegas is held in truly high esteem by my other favourites like Sean Lock, Chris Morris, Stewart Lee, Lee Mack etc.

Lose what?

That's the one I was looking for! I absolutely adore his exclamation from that part. "So a line looks straight because it's straight but I can't be God on a jetski!?"

correction: the time when miles jupp got that black and white framed picture of him as his mascot on cats does countdown

For a couple of examples (in case you're curious because they're well worth looking out for): Joe Wilkinson's "Hanging About In A Train Station Toilet, Naming People's Penises". TV Heaven, Telly Hell with Omid Djalili talking about bongos (and mouth noises). 8 out of 10 cats when Bill Oddie makes a statement about his daughter's friends. Anything involving Bob Mortimer for the most part. If you have more examples in the future, I'd love to know them cause they're always good to watch; seeing Sean Lock (and other comedians for that matter) enjoy other comedians is a brilliant thing.

Alex M. I see what you did there 😅

What did they say?

They say of the acropolis, where the parthenon is, that there are no straight lines.

Alex M. BECAUSE IT EES!!!!...

He's going to say!

Eric Burkheimer True...😅😅😥

You have to feel sorry for him in order for his jokes to work.

Why do you feel sorry for him?

Why do you feel sorry for him? He's brilliant in his own right, his humour is very unique and although his jokes doesn't always work, when they do, it's worth it to suffer through the rest.

I don't know about the OP, but I feel sorry for Johnny because of his troubled past, which came through rather clearly during his early stand-up days, to the point where the Johnny Vegas act was more of an angry rant than a stand-up routine. Not to mention the fact that he was near constantly drunk, on and off stage. One only needs watch what's available here on KZfaq to get an impression of what he was like back then, like the 2000 Melbourne Special for instance, where he basically goes off on the audience for 5+ minutes, or the 1998 Johnny Vegas Television Show- a TV movie so depressing, you can't even find it listed in his filmography. You have to stumble upon it, to know it even exists. And as a tip for this particular iceberg, there's "18 stone of idiot", which quite possibly shows him at the lowest point of his life, around 2005. There was a lot of misery in the guy's life, and even though he's a completely different man nowadays, having a family and all, you can still see glimpses of his old self in seemingly inconsequential stuff like that one poem he wrote on Cats does Countdown, which was quite possibly written based on personal experience.

Sean Rea absolutely 😂😂

A gift of utter shite

Delete this.

Clearly your on drugs mate. Proberly cannabis or heroin

Yes, I proberly am. To think that a comedian can be funny because of a light hearted sense of humour with a "beautiful idiot" attitude where your able to laugh with him about amusing misconceptions and almost truths. Absolutely no-one could find that amusing without the assistance of psychoactive drugs.

Rasmus Kirkebæk-Jensen daym! Mind blown

Nah

Alan hosted once in a Christmas special and Stephen competed

Liger 9 not really, it was just a small part of that show where Alan and Stephen agreed to switch places temporarily.

Detonate? Bloody spellchecker. I meant DEFINITE

In the E-series, in the episode "eating", they were asked which animal was the first to be herded by humans, specifically for food. Johnny ends up shouting "EGGS.. EGGS.. EGGS, They were easy to move around the field".

Yeah, I couldn't believe "Fuck the pigeons, am I gay?!" wasn't on here.

He's worn of a lying cat t shirt on the Last Leg. Also Bill Bailey has worn a Naruto t shirt on QI.

Yeah that was dope! Never would’ve expected that in my British panel show