Haha yes

Lee has a habit of going too far.

They really are quite a pair aren’t they

Lee can be fucking annoying.

Audiobook narration is pretty much done by sitting down in front of an autocue and just running straight through in one sitting, maybe with a few retakes here and there. You just go into autopilot and none of it sinks in.

@@TwoWholeWorms frequently not an autocue. My aunt does audiobook reading off of a kindle at home and in several audiobooks, you can hear page turning from time to time or pauses where pages finish.

Sarah O'Brien No he didn't

And you win

In the same way that the star trek actors knew nothing about star treck, he probably knows nothing about harry potter. He's an actor, he reads his lines, gets paid and moves on to another job. He's now he golden boy of the modern Hammer Horror films but I doubt he knows the history of the company.

+Sarah “nerdyandcrazy” O'Brien FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT.

It must suck to be 160 points behind the other team, then catch the snitch. hahah.

I wonder if he was aware?

DevilboyScooby knowing Lee- I’m almost certain he wasn’t - it will be steadings from countdown all over again. 😂

@Elite Mangudai they shuld have that on WILTY, "did lee once accidentaly speak mandrin?"

You do know he wrote a cook book in chinese? 🤔 😂😂😂 Wilty

@@livb6945 with the help of his Chinese fella Steve Jenkins who only speaks Chinese

Don't think he's going to do it in one part. Things got quite ahead for him.

He hasn’t yet but yes he’s great.

Ten points is really good!!

Clever wizard...

Narrator: "he didn't"

Oh, that's not true at all. I'm Stephen's biggest fan, but you wouldn't have known. Of course I wouldn't kick Daniel out of bed for eating crackers either.

Yes!

Omg!!)) you are absolutely right! Never thought about it. And his nose is perfect for this role!:)))

I dont agree actually. But i could be wrong. I preferred the first one.

The first one was definitely the best, but the fry would have been better than the second one. He’s not super skinny like dumbledores described to be but Hermiones hair wasn’t bushy either so some allowances are okay.

I mean the first one died :( they HAD to replace him unfortunately.

Well he grew up in that world and under the spotlight...maybe as a teenager he was just sick of it...everyone has a right to their own opinion and growth. I'm sure he sees it differently now.

Oh come on! Have you ever tried it? I know it looks silly, but its brilliant fun and much tougher than you think it is!

That wasn't disgust it was just him acknowledging it's not a good sport or entertaining to watch (for the right reasons at least)

I was just disappointed no one connected muggle quidditch with the earlier definition of muggle. "No wonder they like it so much." Where were you Lee???

It was funnier when I didn't know that. :-P

A lot of writers do that, actually. Cemetaries are pretty quiet, so they're a good place for a walk to clear your head, plus if you're a writer struggling to name your characters you might find some interesting names.

No he can't. Nick is only *nearly* headless.

Did you ever hear the rap song Charlie Brown and Linus made of it in the movie A Boy Named Charlie Brown?

@@beenaplumber8379 Wow! Just did. That song did NOT simplify matters |^D

The I before e thing is still mostly right. The words that they listed as exceptions to that rule are mostly words where you pronounce the I and e separately anyways so there's no chance of confusing which letter goes first. Eg. Very few ppl will be confused that "hacienda" is spelled "haceinda." The rule is designed for when the 2 letters are pronounced as one vowel.

@@Delinae And I learned a little bit extra, about except when it makes an 'a' sound like neighbour and weigh. Though learning a bit of German and how they pronounce the ie/ei sounds also helped.

@@rosemarysmith5967 Interesting, I don't really know German - I guess ie is pronounced like ee and ei is pronounced like ei?

You'll do for me! 👍

Pretty sure he just meant that it usually means you win the game

Explain the joke please.

I don’t get it either I looked her up and she was a magician/magicians assistant... why is she referred to as the oldest I don’t get

@@shreyasshenoy2698 She isn't exactly young anymore and she was the assistant (and wife) of a famous magician, don't think there is something more elaborate at the bottom of this joke. I guess you can only find it really funny if you're British and familiar with her.

@@DerEchteBold thank you very much

FETUS RETREATUS!

That's the secret side of Madame Pomfrey's job at Hogwart's...

Well most of europeans know how to practice safe sex, and I'm sure it's even easier in the Wizarding world, so I assume it wouldn't be THAT big an issue. However it probably would happen every now and again, so I'm sure there is a potion for the featus to go away, as well as procedures for what to do in the case of wanting to carry out the pregnancy

Abortio Instanto !

I figure they got magical contraception, although someone did float the idea of some kind of blanket magic spell in the castle to prevent pregnancy. Alternatively, we all live in naive belief they never had sex.

Because that is true comedy, bot a shitfest of overused jokes.

Now HE would have been the perfect replacement for Richard Harris!

@@beenaplumber8379 Didn't he say that having done Gandalf he did not want to be Dumbledore?

@@acmejia I think I've heard that before, but if he had stepped in after Richard Harris, he would have done an amazing job. I can understand why he might not want to be identified with both Gandalf and Dumbledore though. When I first read Chamber of Secrets, I imagined Christopher Lee from the early 70s as the perfect Lucius Malfoy, but actually he would have made a great Dumbledore too. Imagine the ironic casting of someone who has played so many villains in his life playing a kind and wise old wizard like Dumbledore! It would have been the perfect counter-point to his Saruman.

It was the quidditch cup final in the third book, IIRC. Gryffindor needed to score a certain number of points before Harry caught the snitch because of how the league table worked out that year.

@@dudesayingthings Yes, Gryffondor were playing their archenemy Slytherin, and they needed a win by 60 points or more to win the cup because Slytherin was leading the points table by 50 points if I remember right. If they won by a less margine than that, they would win the match but lose the cup. Also, in the Quidditch World Cup 1994 final between Ireland and Bulgaria, Irish were leading by 160 points, and then Bulgarian seeker Viktor Krum caught the snitch so that final score made Ireland lead by 10 points, so even though the Bulgarian seeker caught the snitch, Ireland won by points.

@@mayureshutpat7312 yesss to both those points 🤘🤘😊😊

Same in Norwegian, mareritt. And in Swedish, it's not too dissimilar; mardröm. Meaning mare dream, so it still ties in with nightmare.

Their point was that the exceptions *outnumber* the cases where the rule is actually correct. Even saying "generally" would be incorrect, as that would imply that the majority of cases are spelt that way (which they are not). You wouldn't say "generally, human beings do not have cartilage in their ears". There are probably people who do not have any as part of a medical condition, but it is in no way "generally" the case when the number of people who have cartilage in their ears far outnumbers the people who do not. There are 923 cases which break JUST the "except after c" part of the rule, and that's not even including words which just break the i before e part. their, weird, deity, height, seizure, forfeit, albeit, a/theist, weiner, being, caffeine and protein... That's just to name a few common ones (and which don't fall under the "eɪ" exception often added on more recently). As Stephen said, there are allegedly 21x the number of words which break the rule than the number which conform to it.

Neighbour? Weight? Either those violate the rule or Weird and Protein do. And "either" depending on where you are from. Some say it like I-ther and some say EE-ther. There are too many exceptions to make a rule here. It's too inconsistent.

@@squashiejoshie200000 Right you are. 🙂

The blade retracts into the block that it's hanging from. It's pushed back by the piece of wood over Dan's neck. When he sets up the fake head eludes me. I think it was a matter of audience distraction and putting the camera on Stephen or something. I've seen a version where the fake head is inserted immediately, but they showed Dan's face making expressions. Unless they added that later with editing?

@@beenaplumber8379 but where does his real head goes? That's what puzzles me the most.

@@szczurek2725 I'm not certain how or when they switched the head, but I saw Alice Cooper do this live, and I was at an angle where I could see everything. (I didn't want to see how he did it though - his tricks are an awesome part of his show. That's just where I was in the audience.) As I recall, he put the fake head in place when it looked like he was putting his own head in. He was actually leaning over a bench with his head behind the blade and block, and from a proper angle, it would have looked real to me. He did it with his head facing the audience, like Dan did in this episode, so I suspect it was similar. The difference here is they show Dan's real head smiling and moving after it's in place. That is what I suspect they added later in editing. I don't think the audience saw that live. I think he put the fake head in place and moved it around a bit with his hands, that's all. (The movements just before the blade drops are all stiff and phony.) But I don't know. I only saw how Alice Cooper did it, and it might not be the same mechanism. The audience reaction tells me it was a good trick in person, from their perspective (which isn't close-up). Maybe the cameras made it too obvious, so they added some editing for our benefit. It's a disappointing thought because magicians usually don't resort to camera tricks, but in the end, it got us all wondering, the audience was shocked, and we were all entertained, so... ok! We got to see Harry Potter become eligible for the Headless Hunt!

@@beenaplumber8379 Ah, makes sense! Thanks for explaining :) I personally always like a trick more when I know how it's made. Only then I can really appreciate the skill and the knack.

If you watch carefully, the bottom part of the quilotine is fake where Daniel is resting his head. When the mechanism was released he just moved his whole body down in the basket (the basket is open from the back). so he went from crouching to lying down. With those black curtains in the bottom you cannot see him.

smoke and mirrors :) but without the smoke

He sawed him in half, obviously.

With magic ...obviously!

NEEEEEEEEERRRRDDD!!!!! I'm really sorry....the urge is too strong..

+stttttipa I'm not Asian but ok XD

Why should he care?

don\t know if he should care but he should know since he spent eight years playing Harry...

He said IN THE MOVIE the team that catches the snitch wins the game, which it does. He was implying that it was different from the books, which it was!

Idk what happened to your reply. But that would be 180 proof, not "180% proof".

It is possible to say "percent proof" (which is American-style proof) as opposed to traditional proof. Liquor proof was invented by the British and was originally based on the result of an indirect test, because equipment to directly measure percentage of alcohol was [expensive/not invented yet/not portable/whatever]. The more modern American "proof" looks silly at first because it's percent alcohol multiplied by 2 - why wouldn't you just state the percentage and be done with it? But percentage times 2 gives an answer that is close-ish to the result of the original British proof test. Customers would have complained and asked stupid questions if their liquor bottle said "80 proof" last week and "40%" this week, and we all know that alcohol customers in particular are REALLY touchy about thinking they're being cheated.

@@davidr2704 It looks silly at first, and it also looks silly after being explained :p But thank you. It makes some kind of sense now.

It's still hilarious

Lee is brilliant, but QI really isn't his natural habitat (ironic because he's super intelligent, genuinely, and usually uses a persona) making a lot of his comedy not land. He's similar to Sean Lock, another highly talented panellist who struggled on this show. I assume it's because they were so used to being team captains of their own goofier shows in which numerous professional comedians will "battle" to get the funniest and fastest punchline they can out of a scenario, meaning those juggling silliness with a quick-wit automatically thrive. Unfortunately, that sort of stuff is FAR less suited to the QI format, and so their default TV shtick here just makes them seem a bit buffoonish. Meanwhile David Mitchell, who is sharp but seems to usually take a pause before he tells a joke, often landing on the followup punchline, fits in like a dream!

@@eoghanclark165 Lee can be a total idiot. I remember an episode of 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown when he ruined a gag that Jon was setting up by pushing a button that Jon had under the desk.

Some people have a weird idea what plagiarism is. Some people call what she did extensive background research.

@@beenaplumber8379 for starters, I remember when Fellowship of the Ring movie came out, some American radio host called it a rip off of Harry Potter. You do the math.

@@avinotion Some American radio host is a bit too stupid for the job. How is that relevant? What's the math problem you want me to solve for you? What's Tolkien got to do with the question at hand anyway? You do know that Tolkien got a lot of his mythology from background research of historical myth & legends as well, right?

The quality is somewhat sufficient ...there are much worse episodes around.

No, it ends in d, right? Plafond? There will always be regional dialects. They don't teach those in Oxford English classes in other countries. In some regions it's pronounced with a harder plosive consonant. It's not what you were taught, but that doesn't make it wrong. Rules of spelling, grammar, and pronunciation are descriptive. They describe usage. They do not dictate it.

It takes a lot of intelligence to be as comedically stupid as Lee Mack. Watching him reminds me of Sean Lock during "Carrot in a box".

Are you stupid or what? He makes money while acting like a moron! What have you done in your life Useless creature...and unlike you he is on tv and similar and nobody gives a crap about you...

Lee is very sophisticated. Remember what John Cleese said: The most effective way to irritate someone is to make it appear unintentional. Everything you write off as stupid is a deliberate setup. And every complaint from Stephen drives the gag on. You might not understand this kind of comic interaction, but your lack of understanding doesn't mean Lee is stupid. Lee and Stephen are working the live audience together, as a team, and they respond!

yes he is

Are your feeling hurt? Buhuuu baby

The audience clearly disagrees with you.

He never knows when to let it go...