David wheezing anew at each new facet of the giant tortoise story is so fun to watch.

Love the tragi comedy of the giant tortoise story. Reminds me of growing peas in the garden with the kids. We never quite managed to get any inside the kitchen to complement a meal, they're too frickin delicious! "This time we're going to do it! The kitchen is just over there!" num num num.

Alan taking no time at all to realise that he didn't not want not to hear Giles' promisingly lengthy discourse on the English language :')

Giles perfected his filibustering skills as an MP.

I am a major fan of "Do you know what they say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is?".... 5 solid minutes at Stephens expense, to get to "NO STRAIGHT LINES " Brilliant

They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is...

Good compilation do bloody miss Sean

Sandy getting a fact right during an angry rant then going on to host the show years later is such a divine coincidence.

While Clarkson is a...divisive character, he's always a brilliant guest on QI.

The entomology of sabotage was amazingly interesting.

"I was enjoying.." Oh well in that case blah blah "No I didn't mean I was going to come back to it" Oh :')

The thing about the jacquard loom, is that before his version of the machine it was something done in the family. Each family had their looms and would either sell or use it's products, but they were complex dangerous machine and often operated by children. Jacquard made his loom to be simpler smaller, more practical to help families in their clothes making. The problem was merchant, in a quest to improve profit, would buy lots of these loom and put them in a factory. Which did reduce the price of clothes but also took away a vital income for french families. They then would have to send their children in cities to work in those loom factory to make up the income they lost, which of course put the child at great dangers being alone in a city working on machine that would often take your hand or fingers off... So during the revolt of the canut (French cloth workers pf lyon) they would destroy jacquard loom, not for a hatred of technology but because of the risk it put them at...

Smiling was not a thing because first people sat for paintings for hours a day, for days and even weeks. Who could hold a smile so long. Then when photographs happened, you had to sit perfectly still for quite a long time whole the plate captured the image. Only automatic cameras allowed for more action shots and more fun poses.

Julian Clary's story about meeting the Queen is likely my favourite story!

And this is why I think Sandy is the best person who could’ve taken over Stephen’s role on QI - an absolute gem

2:06 Testicularis chocomaltum (Mars) is the wild Malteser. Native to the British Isles, discovered and named by the American candyologist Forest Mars Jr in 1937. 7:20 It's not "duck". It's almost never "duck". 14:00 Paat Boone recorded a cover of Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame"as "Isn't It a Shame"

Stephen being confused how hetro sex works is the best

One of the funniest bits ever on QI

That's all we need at this point, litigious giant tortoises.

Sean forgetting how to talk in response to David Mitchell's tortoise confusion...pure class!

I once saw (no pun intended!) a medical saw designed for cutting through the skull prior to brain surgery. It was like a small circular saw but it was powered by.........clockwork.

"What do you think, darling, that's he's got a periscope!?" 😂😂 I couldn't help but think something along the same lines. What do you mean he's looking in that spot? Hows that possible?

Tortoise and chips goes down nicely with mushy peas and a cuppa.

"Mister Software" Genius

13:38 exactly, it can be so complicated in french.

11:47 the '...or not' is a tag question, so not part of the main question. It is negative; so, assuming that it is correctly formed, the main question must be positive - 'Do you want some points?' (or not).

Every time i see Giles, i get a craving for waffles.

I wish I had of known about this show when it was 1st aired

12:35 Here Alan just tries to avoid that Gilles gets into some lengthy story.

Ah, I see mR Mitchell was trying to use the Douglas paradox!

Without taking away from Sean and his glorious-ness, rewatching that RM clip was actually a little disconcerting. I think that RM was talking about his favourite subject with such intensity, to the extent that he is cut off by the class clown, is completely recognisable. It’s completely unimaginable that everyone else would find it boring. It’s a fairly common trait in some neurodivergent people. I’m being vague because I don’t want to be an armchair doctor, but I’d say there’s a reason he behaves that way. I’m really glad that I haven’t been crushed like that since school. My friends now realise that it can’t be helped, and either just change the subject or tell me what I’m doing. Without malice.

The Rev has a proper brain on him.

The giant tortoises again makes yet another appearance on Q.I. Anytime soon a fastfood restaurant chain may grab the idea if Q.I. keeps repeating it.

Dark Man for my daughter and Jeopardy for my son. What was on television while I gave birth

There's no Latin name for Maltesers 🤣🤣

The first recorded successful C section of a non mythical being was carried out on the dying mother of the second mauryan emperor while giving birth to him some 2500 years ago.

If these tortoises are THAT delicious, why are we not farming them? Who wants to do a start-up of a giant tortoise meat farm? We can call it Darwin Delicacies

Jo Brand is so underrated. 🤣

I love Gyles Brandreth lol

If half the population was decimated, only one in twenty were killed. 16:14

The poor tortoises.Humans are such heartless bastards.

17:34 lost me right here😢

"We've been eating nothing but maggoty bread for 3 stinking days!..... yeaaaaaaa, why cant we have some meat ?....... what about them? They're fresh!.... looks like meats back on the menu boys" Sailors scream and ferociously eat the tortoises 😂😂

I relate to pistachios more than chocolate. Perhaps that’s why I’m not obese line too many are Especially packs of monkey nuts. 21st century ‘equivalent’ to our hunter/gatherer genes

i wanna eat a giant tortoise

It’s the largest dictionary because it combines/repackages 2-3 languages

13:40 Eydie Gormé disagreed.

Humans desire to eat every creature they find is both bizarre & despicable.

We sacrificed that species to able us to eradicate more

If they're so delicious why can't we breed some for eating. I want to try a giant turtle so bad now. It's almost cruel that we can't eat them haha also they come with their own bowl. Gutted.

Actually, regarding the language English and German, German contains approximately 8 times more words than the English language

Alan is the only contestant who gets to read all the questions before filming, according to Stephen Fry. Keep that in mind 😅

Do you not want sweets or not? My mother said this to me one day..and my answer was yes...mum was a tricky one... 😳😏and so was l..

"Je ne sais pas" isn't a double negative in French, it's just that the negative is split around the verbe. You can remove one side or either for stylistic reasons ("je ne sais" sounds very erudite, "je sais pas" sounds childish) without affecting the meaning at all.

A gay and lesbian walk into a bar... They have an absolutely splendid conversation on where you should look during a babys delivery.

Id expect fry to know what decimated means... half the irish population was decimated so. 10 percent of the 50 percent lived. The other 50 did because they werent in war. So thats 55 percent of irish population left... i think i did the math right

They’re original name was tastes like chicken

This list is wrong. There is no Monsieur Clicky or Big Graham Osmond.

16:13 Half the population were decimated??? Come along Stephen, you can do better than that.

The phrase Sandi said in Danish was grammatically incorrect.

Fry said that half the Irish population were decimated by Cromwell - which would be 1/10 (decimated) x 1/2 = 1/20 Is he misusing the word decimated just to mean killed or destroyed?

"Its not unusual" isnt a double negative

That's just not true about giant tortoise classification. The Aldabra giant tortoise (Seychelles) was formally named in 1812 (Aldabrachelys gigantea) & the Galapagos Giant tortoise in 1824 (Chelonoidis niger, Quoy & Gaimard, 1824). Since Phylogenetic Classification has replaced the Linnean system, and DNA studies have allowed unprecendently accurate and fine-grained tracing of evolutionary relationships, the taxonomic classification of many if not most animal species on earth, including Humans, has changed. I love Stephen Fry and his knowledge but he can be howlingly wrong

I will never get over the fact that Alan Davies attacked and injured a homeless man

Hun skal ikke forsøge at tale dansk. Pinligt 😂

I would dispute the Civil war killed the greatest number of British soldiers. It killed English soldiers Scottish soldiers and Irish soldiers. None of them would have called themselves British.

Sandy the hard-core lesbian makes me not want to watch my favourite show anymore. Just don't find her funny or watchable.

A Gigli saw is what was used for surgery, especially for cutting through bone for amputations. It also found a use for obstructed labour, to help with birth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigli_saw