"I hear voices, but I ignore them and just carry on killing" - Sean's QI persona :D

He was really good at keeping a straight face while delivering an utterly sick burn.

@bodoti qwiu Nice copy paste

Name a hundred comedians I'd swap for Sean lock. The guy is the last of dying breed

you should watch the big fat quiz of the year 2008 sean lock was both funny and nuts on that!

That's always been one of my favourite quotes of his... :')

That’s one of my favourite lines.

Must've been a full moon

And now that he's dead, in a couple of weeks we'll find out he wasn't joking about that...

Hahahaha 🤣

@zuygj bnsv So bloody funny.

@RoachDoggJr Nice seeing you in the comments again after OneyPlays

He didn't say that, though. He said "Do you get called tosser a lot?" because it's a question & tosser isn't a name.

@@solongsuicide9 do you go round correcting grammar on every KZfaq comment? I'll be honest mate, its a KZfaq comment, I'm not submitting an essay to my uni. Touch grass.

@@solongsuicide9 Tosser

That aged well :)

You know that’s what he shouted as he Assanged his way into heaven. What a legend.

@@benm2784 My boy was great at assanging vegetables

Too soon, bro.

Right in the feels...

@@Ryan-gq3qc my

Love it

But then, it turns out to be cold hard fact!

Cool story bro

When Stephen said "You're absolutely right Sean" I actually said out lout "kaboom" hehehe

No its brighter, but not in a good way

Same is true whenever an American is born.

I wish I had said that Advent3546. Well done. I have had many a laugh watching Sean. Cheers.

100% it was the same when Robin Williams died too.

@@MartinMcMartin Absolutely. I miss him every day.

And then he tried to get treated by dolphin therapy and they rejected him.

*on

@@solongsuicide9 on*

While walking his banana plant. Slowly.

You really aren't making any friends here, are you?

Rory McGrath's face when he got asked "Do you get called tosser a lot?".

@@mjt8199 He does in my house.

@@mjt8199 like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle !

Sean was just saying what we were all thinking

@@Dd-ue4ct As he so often did :) Except he was much cleverer at articulating it than most of us.

Ahhh carrot in a box will always be one of the funniest clips ever

And Koala's

@@Smiley5z God those 2 bits were perfect.

OMG! YES! Even thought I’ve seen it 10000 times the “carrot in the box” makes me laugh my ass off EVERY time! Sean is right up there with DaveChapelle as one of my favourite comedians. I bloody miss him already 😣

@@Smiley5z yes, yes, a thousand times YES!

What a lovely thing to say about Sean Lock🇩🇪 Surely he would have appreciated that👌🏽👏🏽😁

But we love German comedy. Well, we love Henning Wehn anyway.

@@renejean2523 wen?

I'm German and I second that, whole-heartedly! Almost nobody here knows who he is, but those who do will surely miss him. :(

@@thomasdecker7976 - No, Wehn.

Well said

I wish they had written loving memory tbh

This is the first celebrity death that I have been properly affected by.

@@LuminalSpoon me too :(

@@LuminalSpoon Me too...I'm so tearful..but then Sean and his comedy have been part of my life for so long now, that every day I wake up, then remember, and feel incredibly sad .. Rest easy in heaven 🙏 sweet man, you are missed 😢

Expressing knowledge shouldn't be classified as showing off. That's a mark of wilful ignorance and anti-intellectualism.

McGrath asked for the answers before hand, and was allowed such because most of the guests ask for a couple to form jokes around as it’s just a bit of fun in the end. But Rory just used it to answer EVERY question right. And while Fry’s hands were tied, Sean’s weren’t.

@@Ranger1812 it absolutely was showing off

@@Ranger1812 as already mentioned, Rory asked for the questions beforehand, and he researched uninteresting facts related to those questions so he could seem smart, which is pretty pathetic... But even if he didn't "cheat" in this way, it still wouldn't be anti-intellectual to make fun of his behaviour. It's not the least bit intellectual to memorise pointless trivia about latin terms and to reel them off in a comedy show, to the boredom of everyone. If anything it shows a complete lack of intellect, in that only a fool would think that anyone would find his uninteresting recitals impressive.

@@Ranger1812 Please explain this to me in excruciating detail whether I want to hear it or not. I'm quite sure everyone will find you fascinating and terribly clever.

I still can't believe it. People are always saying "Which celebrity death hit you the hardest?", expecting Elvis or someone like that. For me, Sean Lock is way up there. I'm really disappointed that I didn't see him live before he died.

it feels weird watching old clips of qi or cats and thinking he is no longer with us. just sucks.

Absolutely agree. Was so shocked to hear the news. Sad doesn't even cover it. 😔💔

He will live forever here on all the clips on KZfaq and that’s all I need right now ☺️

@@lauramacgillefhinnein5106 I'm still at the shocked stage one week later: haven't got the the sad stage yet.

My fav was on 8oo10c about the Scottish referendum: ‘we should sell it off. So like it’ll be called the O2 Highlands.’

Mine too

Loved that one too… they were incredibly close friends, which I hadn’t realised. Bill’s tribute to Sean was v touching…

The best one

Bill actually used that line in a live show. Dandelion Mind if I remember correctly

Wow that's fantastic!

He'd have loved this, mate!

He would have been really happy that he helped. He had a reputation of being a really nice bloke

There are other people love, but, DAMN! Wasn't he frikkin' funny?!?! ❤😭❤😭👍

What a wonderful tribute. Best wishes to you.

In Rory's defense, he did make six blokes at Oxford go, "Teh heh."

@@ForOrAgainstUs - I don't recall who made that quip. Remind me.

Absolutely hated Rory in that episode, such a pretentious bore. Sean made it watchable.

@@silverysnowfox Pardon my Australian forthrightness, it's a stinking hot day and I've had a couple of, well a few, beers, but that Rory wanker is the biggest fuckwit I've ever seen on KZfaq. :)

@@renejean2523 Sean did

The producers knew they had to bring two heavyweights when Rory came, otherwise it'd be the worst episodes... RIP Sean

That was freakin' awesome. The look on Rory's face after the tosser remark was priceless. He didn't like that one bit and the made it way funnier.

Damn. Dunno which one was Rory McGrath.

@@Ndlanding the guy saying all the latin names of birds

I got that look off Rory over the veg in Waitrose. Used to live near him. Never seemed happy when i saw him out.

Haha yepps

It was in that arena that he proved he's not only a hilarious comic, but a bona fide genius.

Because he was intelligent enough to know the difference between an interesting conversation and verbal masturbation. I'm pretty knowledgeable about some topics but I wouldn't completely interrupt the conversation so that everyone could listen to me prattle on minutiae of details like an encyclopedia. Rory was just being a prick and was called out on it.

@@Dendarang And Stephen, being of a similar personality, was in a verbal masturbation competition with him. That conversation would likely have gone on for ages if Sean hadn't stepped in with his antics.

@@felisd I don't know that that's fair to Fry. He was just trying to explain the difference between 'the latin' for a species, and what people who actually spoke latin called it. His point made, I think he'd have moved on.

@@WalterLiddy No, it was perfectly fair. He immediately went to the defense of another know-it-all. If you recall a previous episode with Jimmy Carr (can't recall which one) where Fry was trying to tell an overly long serious story and Jimmy keeps making jokes about it. Fry got really pissed off, which made it better from my point of view.

When he starts picking his teeth I die laughing every time

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLaXmqVlssy0np8.html is the clip referred to here.

Stephen 
Who made a famous appearance at Nottingham Goose Fair, according to mythology? Sandi 
Robin . . . Sean 
Puff Daddy. Alan 
Wombles. Stephen 
Robin . . . It's like herding cats, isn't it? Sandi 
This is how . . . I once opened the goose fair, yes. Stephen The good girl said . . . Sandi Robin Hood, mister Hood. Stephen 
Thank you, yeah, teacher's favourite tonight. Sean 
And he was a goose? Stephen 
No, but what was Robin Hood famous for? John 
[mimes drawing a bow] Sean 
Killing geese.

And more rice

So they can then be thrown onto a sea of frozen methane. And, thus, the comedy torch is passed on.

He, Linda Smith and Jeremy Hardy are forming a QI panel in the afterlife

It's what he would have wanted.

gosh I remember that! with weaving gesture to boot!

McGrath is an arsehole who also (allegedly) cheated on They Think It's All Over. I like someone spotting it very quickly and coming up with a deliberately silly way to provide the audience with something better. The comedians are given a few questions to come up with material ahead of time but more use it to craft "spontaneous" jokes rather than try to win a competition where nobody really cares about the points. The best guests are those who are actually smart/witty & come up with knowledge/entertainment on the rest of the show.

Rumored to be one of a couple of guests who insisted on getting the questions in advance so that they could research stuff ahead of time. So Sean shutting him down straight away was definitely appropriate.

Spot on.

@@chrisharris144 and he was never invited back

Glad I'm not the only one who appreciated that. It's the first thing I thought of when I heard the news Sean had passed away

It's a wonderful story isn't it. Damn it's sad he's gone

This is a nice comment, but I’d prefer to say the world was delightfully darker WITH him haha. Brilliant guest on any panel show, tv won’t be the same without him.

I died laughing, so I couldn't have written this.

Well at least the killings will finally stop. One of my favorite running jokes and he will be sorely missed.

Wait what? Sean passed away? When did this happen? Thats so tragic 😔

@@Starkiller5121 just a few days ago, I believe on the 16th

@@tecwzrd - And he never got to realize his dream of re-animating all of the top Nazis and creating the show "Nazi Island."

e.g. "That's a challenging wank!"

Sean Lock knew and understood that they're all on this panel show to make people laugh and be entertaining, whereas I think McGrath was so focused on showing off how much stuff he knew that he kinda forgot that! Read the room Rory!

@@SunnyIntervalsORG Rory was never invited back for that reason. He ruined the episode. I remember Alan and Stephen both joked in a later season how bad it was

Iirc rory knew the facts before the filming of the show?

@k c The joke Rory made about the Latin for 'bearded tits' sums it up. Sean hit the nail on the head when he said that only 4 blokes from Oxford would have found that mildly amusing.

@@SunnyIntervalsORG beautiful retort and expert delivery

It shure was.

The rural Buddha

@@samadhoosen6014 exactly what I was going to write

Can I add, that's a challenging wank, from Cats does Countdown?

Are you sure you're being honest enough, though?

​@@JohnSmithShieldsI was going to say the same thing "now that's a challenging wank"

dude, funiest moment on youtube

Got a link?

@@GlidusFlowers I can't find a link but it's from Series 2, Episode 11

@@MrGreenman137 You didn't try very hard 😉 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hs6Roc6Eq5fTeGw.html

@k c I was sad they didn't include the bits on clubbing seals and Nazi Island, forgot those were both on Countdown

Thanks for that I just pissed myself

Quite literally, it's what he would have wanted. He was born to entertain, passing away doesn't mean he can't still do that.

Try laughing with them

If anything, you're honouring them by appreciating their work even after they've passed. I aspire to be a comedian someday, and personally can't think of a better homage than for people to still enjoy the work I once put so much passion into.

Uhm I think that was his adult life...to make us laugh...why feel bad for laughing cause he was just dead

well, he at least left us a great legacy even when he's no longer here, he can still make us laugh that makes him a great comedian, i suppose

I don't think you should take any shame I would have but I just almost couldn't believe it

@Ian Thompson That is garbage.

@@judgeberry6071 What?

@@multanocte6431 Crying does not make anyone stronger. It's a complete myth. If anything it damages your health. In fact it can kill a person in many different ways. So yeah I am saying it is garbage.

@@judgeberry6071 what a weird place to try and score points on someones thoughtful comment, get a grip please mate.

"Big Fat Quiz" is a good one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5hngZWBmcfTg6c.html

@k c I'm Dutch and Sean was right.. lol!

True - I don't think I ever saw him on QI that I didn't get several good, solid laughs. What a master...

The whole of the Germany episode itself could be a highlights one

@@DrDespicable Stephen’s Twitter tribute to Sean rightly acknowledged that the best episodes of QI were the 27 Sean was in.

“No, I’m not gonna make nice jam” is my absolute favourite QI line and no-one else could have thought of it but Sean. I’ll miss him so much.

@@kisbie i also crack up when he answers "what did nostradamus get right?" with "the hat" xD the only time sean ever thought inside the box was when there was a carrot in it

@@CucumberpatchAddict Someone on Twitter made a meme of that photo of Hitler going, “Look. I’M ready. You’ve spent ages getting dressed, let’s just go out.” 🤣 So many off-the-cuff phrases and bits of weirdness that have lodged in my head. Draughts makes you go bald!

@@kisbie ahaha, forgot about that one, what an image xD

undisputed!!

Wish that was true

Being stuck listening to McGrath was purgatory. Sean was **escaping** to the underworld.

@@telectronix1368 I don't bloody blame him! Lol I was considering opening up a portal myself listening to that! Thankfully Sean was there to save us all! Legend!

That's a brilliant description, and maybe explains why other comedians admired him so much. Sometimes even if you can't guess the punchline, you can timewhen and where it will land. With Sean you often got blindsided by his ideas, and before you'd realised it he was off in another direction. Genius.

If it's any consolation, the world is a better place because Sean was here. Better to have loved and lost and all that...

I didn’t know what to say and then read this and realized you said it for me. Thank you. ☺️

'Fewer' doesn't make sense there.

@@NumberOneChin Maybe appreciate the spirit of the message rather than the grammar. The implication is to have a world where there are more good and decent people and less horrible and mean people. It does not help the world when a decent person dies of cancer and some asshole lives to be ninety.

@@TheAppleLoadout See, now in your message, 'fewer' would have made sense. ;)

The perfect joke with the perfect delivery

Bumped into him at Liverpool Street Station once. Can confirm his TV persona is very true to life.

Apparently he was given or requested the answers beforehand to that show. What a twat

@@TheManWithNoName786 Although Stephen Fry wouldn't say who it was, he did confirm it wasn't McGrath. My money's on Clarkson.

@@telectronix1368 I heard it was Clarkson

@@lmm2103 Prob correct. A man as funny as a kick in the bollocks and all the comic instincts of an amoeba.

Linda smith is another.

@@hughanthony2001 Jeremy Hardy too.

I hope there is never a final season. I love QI. Cats and QI are how I was introduced to Sean Lock. I started binge watching all the episodes after I found the shows and will sorely miss Sean on them.

Hold up, when did John Sessions die?

@@jimmy_the_squid9456 Last November, of a heart attack, aged 67.

You can do. You just have to decide to. Try it, look at someone in a new way, appreciate them before they are gone, it's a much better use of your time :-)

The Dalai Farmer!

@@LordMacBeth79 that one exactly!

The whelks had me crying. God it was funny.

@@zapkvr His Rectum of the Year anecdote on Cats does Countdown is pure comic genius