I really love this show ! I'm a yank that gave up on American Tv and found so many amazing shows and discovered some great comics/actors/ personalities

I'll always say, shows when Allen wins are the best, because it means the guests really played along and had fun

I wrote a novel that was genuinely banned in China. I'm very proud.

I LOVE that Sandi really gave it to Jimmy on that Dickens' quote. It's nice to see. Jimmy's usually the one to give the last joke/zinger line.

15:02 Well this is interesting.. In Hebrew the parallel letter for Q is named "Qoph" or "Qooph". In the Kabala it is said that each letter holds power, and that is one of the reasons they have names. The name for "Qoph" - though in modern Hebrew means a monkey, actually derives from the root of the word "Heyqeph" which means _"to circle"_ and it is associated with "Kidush" - the Holy (much like Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho by circling it 7 times). The name for the eye of the needle in Hebrew is also called "Qoph" (Qoph Ha-makhat = the "Qoph" of the needle) and that _does_ come from the Greek letter qoph and was named as such for its visual similarities to the eye of the needle.

They would use that orcastra theme with the type writer often in cartoons. It made it more catchy. I remember chasing around my cats and we would have a thing where every time the ding or return was sent we would stop till the music continued. 😆 Those 2 cats managed to stick around for 18+19 years. Where still playing and active till their final days.

Omg, me as well. I've been watching QI, Wilty, mock the week and 8 out of 10 cats since 2019 and I rarely go back to the regular swill on here in Wisconsin. Ive loved British humor starting with Benny Hill in 1980 and Who's Line Is It Anyways, the original British one with Stephen Frie and Sandra Tosqvig since the late 80's. Thank you very much, Britton!

I’ve been to the Aladdin theater in Portland to see the Decemberists play! It’s a great venue, and it’s not downtown so traffic and parking is way easier to deal with

Scandinavians did not invent the idea of dreaming. One example is Herodotus describing king Astayages of Medea had a dream that a vine sprouted from his daughter’s womb and covered all of Asia, around 6th century BC.

The pronunciation of "apenstaartje" (@) hurted my soul :O

23:20 I always thought that Q stood for Quartermaster, which is why they tried naming John Cleese's iteration "R" as a tribute to Desmond Llewelyn, who'd played him forever. But it was a dumb idea, so they went back to Q.

An excellent episode. Everyone on top form.

The friend that cut her finger off was almost definitely Sarah millican because she told the story about cutting her finger off using a sharp kitchen appliance when she lost the safety part of it and just figured she sliced vegetables without it and had to be rushed to the emergency room with the separated digit unfortunately they were able to reattach everything apparently

Ahh, Seattle, my home city!

@15:26 The @ used to be the character that meant "attention" when you sent it to a modem, started every command hence "at". I was a computer nerd in the 80ties.

Love Lou Sanders "early onset erection" oh hahaha! And Jimmy Carr... his laugh is contagious! Also Tom Allen.. This was great! They added to the team of Alan and Sandi quite beautifully

Explosive toothpaste sounds very plausible to me.

loving your show !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We could never have a quiz show like this in Australia. Our comedians aren't educated or witty enough.

If there happens to ever be any elves in the comments... I've not heard of a name for the '@' sign, but I learned from an English teacher that ampersand (&) comes from Latin, 'and by itself, and' Am per se = and solo Then tacking 'and' to the end.

FYI One can get a keyboard with retro typewriter keys that even make the clacking sound if you turn it on.

In formal logic, the symbol “@“ is called “a-round.” I can’t tell you more about this, as it’s been many, many years since I’ve studied philosophy, but I’m sure the interwebs could help. :)

Kudos to Jimmy for properly representing the return key, which is not the same as enter. ;p

They don't know for sure about the pox blankets. It was only mentioned once ever from a letter from Fort Detroit by whoever was running things there, English or French, probably English. That doesn't necessarily mean it happened, can't remember if the letter was after or before it was to happen.

In the graphic novel League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Mister Hyde is presented as a hulking brute easily half again as tall as Jekyll and massively built. He addresses this, explaining that as he indulges in his dark urges he grows in strength, while Jekyll, being so focused on repressing himself, cannot help but dwindle and diminish. He later sacrifices his life saving his compatriots, calling into question whether he truly was all that was evil in Jekyll after all, considering his last act was one that while brutish and physical, was also noble.

The QWERTY keyboard was specifically designed to _slow down_ or limit the speed of a typist, to avoid the keys jamming on the original mechanical typewriters. And we've never fixed that! There is an alternative keyboard layout which is much, much easier and more intuitive to use. But we have stuck with QWERTY😳🤦🏻‍♀️

'tide' is not Danish Sandi - just because it's a Germanic cognate and it otherwise died in English in other contexts doesn't mean we got it from Old Norse. It was already in Old English. Plus, Old Norse isn't 'Danish'

Dreaming indeed comes from the Edda, the collection of nordic myths.. In Svartalfheim dreams would be made and nightmares would be actual monsters.. And the marvellous Chris Hemsworth regularly took his top off.

Did Sandy just use the typewriter return arm with the right arm? How so, I thought it was to the left.

the @ sign means "at the rate of"

They say the song does not soud anything like thr Bond theme, but it is basically the same song

Perhaps if a Quockerwodgers a Quakebuttocks with his Quicksticks, they'll both need a Quaff-tide to Quench- Coals!

In Finland the @ sign was called cat’s tail (kissanhäntä) or sometimes miuku-mauku referring to the sound cats make. Both terms went out of fashion as the use of the character increased, but old farts like me remember.

I like the letter Q. I called dead Lizzie the Qunt on our coins.

Lou is the best. Never fails to get a laugh or a quicksticks from me.

Alan should make children's cartoons.

Q is not useless. Klingon has 2 of them, but no Ks.

So based on context clues from this episode, and another where they were eating Quavers, and the panel were more enthusiastic then the few times that the panel were allowed tastes of alchohol, Quavers are the British Isle's answer to Cheetos? Fun fact, my favorite Cheeto is a puffed Cheeto that has been sitting in a bowl open to the air, under a porch, in 90 to 100 degree ferhenhieight weather with at least 80 percent humidity, for at least three hours. So basically a stale, wet puffed Cheeto. There's nothing better, and there is not other way to create that kind of texture, and taste. It is heaven.

Q and Qu can be replaced with K or Kw in every case. Kween, rekwired, kwickly, kwixotic, kwench...

18:40 My God Alan that was BRILLIANT comedically lolll The quickness, the delivery and face loll and the "victim" Sandi, being a feminist lol What a great joke. That's a comedians joke in that we appreciate it more. The audience however, can be tricky everyone's so selectively outraged.

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Lou Sanders is very quick at putting a duvet cover on - turns out she does have a telent after all.

I think people need to learn to preface their comments with ‘in my opinion…..’ otherwise your ‘comment’ reads like a statement of fact, which it isn’t, it’s just your opinion.

@ symbol is correctly referred to as an asperand.

Sandy is so clever.

why tf would anyone need a blanket cover.. ffs.

Scandinavians inventing dreaming is a strange hoax to spread, considering, you know, it was in the Bible, and probably even earlier.

I love the show but Lou Sanders is really not as funny as she thinks ..

With the exception of Alan and Sandi, it looks like everyone's had a lot of surgery.

Lou sanders spoilt the entire show, she wasn't at all funny or knowledgeable..

Alan davies as talentless as his tailor!