Only Steven Fry can get away with saying "they're not posh biscuits, posh biscuits are ones cooked by your pastry chef" and still be loved by the most common of people. Over the past 20+ years he's the only person that has always been in my ever changing "top 5 living or dead dinner party guests" list.

"Quite Unneccessary" would be an amazing program. Please make this...

Fry's timing is exquisite. Easily overlooked.... but he's an effortless comedic genius who happens to know a great deal about everything. There's so much joy here..... I've listened to it all scores of times... and it still makes me laugh outloud.....

lmao "depends on what trailer park you live in" is so good

"Dammit, can't a man have a biscuit?" this might be one of my favourite quotes ever!

Stephen is missed. That is not to say sandy is not adequate, she is. But Fry being such a know it all, in the best way possible, made the difference between QI and 'classic' QI

Stephen, utterly personable under any circumstance. And mostly hysterical and always clever. A gift to the race.

I so love Rich Hall... I tire of the comments of Stephen compared to Sandi when they are two different people, with two different styles. Some of us actually enjoy both without a problem...😊😂

Sandy T. is a great host in her own right , but there is no one who brings the wit and comedic timing as well as the intellect like Fry .

What did Mussolini do? Stood around with his hands on his hips and frowning aggressively.

The "man in shropshire who use to catapult cows" also use to buy job lots of mis matched bathroom suites from a firm I once worked for. He shot them out of his giant wooden catapult as well. In the 90s you'd travel down the road by his farm and if you were lucky you'd see dead livestock, toilet bowls or sinks flying along side you. He was a minted, eccentric nutter.

I live in Tasmania Australia now, l do miss British comedy. QI takes me back home, l really love it.❤❤❤

i just love alan's face @37:23 when he says he´s got loads of these punchline jokes. :)

A brilliant ending. I just love Tom Holt's sense of humor. Turning pages is a comforting sound Can't wait for the next book, your reading makes the characters come alive ❤

'Koekje' does not mean cake in Dutch, it means (small) cookie. 'Koek' can actually mean cake, but usually we just use cake for cake. (The suffix '-je' means a small version of the thing. I.e. a dog is 'een hond' and a small dog is 'een hondje'.) A biscuit is a biscuit, but we pronounce it the French way...

when I first discovered QI in 2007, it was like this all the time. I like it too with Sandy, but it is just not the same.

RIP Linda Smith. A very funny lady.

The other side of a rainbow is gold, pure golden glowing mist. Take a few steps, or drive forward, toward the sun, look back & there it is. I've only seen the effect in Hawai'i & Ireland. Once you see it, it is unmissable.

I love Alan.

Hmmmm I was in charge of balloons at a school fair and the kids were all inhaling the helium. I called my husband who was an Anaethesist, oh he still is…. and asked, will they be ok? (In case you don’t know, keeping oxygen levels normal is a big part of his job) and he said, as long as they are having a couple breaths of oxygen in between, let them have fun. So….health and ducking safety! PoopooH to them, I would have enjoyed Mr Fry on helium. ( by the way the internet has taught me that as Australians, we do allow our kids to be kids and have fun more than some other countries)

16:00 What comes from Glasgow and glows? Frankie Boyle's liver?

As for animals without motives; there's a little bird in costa rica a wood wren that makes up and repeats five to seven note melodies; just apparently for fun. I notated over four hundred distinct melodies .

🇬🇧 I remember Frys Chocolate. Stephens family company. They made a chocolate bar called Frys Five Boys ( which ive since gathered were Daddy Frys five sons in portrait) Now i particularly loved this confection but would only call it Frys 5 Naughty Boys. For some reason as i stared most arduously at the tiny chocolate faces, i determined that each boy had done something forbidden & was therefor very naughty I was 5 yrs old at the time. Ive never thought any different to this day! I wonder which boy was modelled on Stephen? Probably the naughtiest one! Peace 🇬🇧👧

Also pipers lung as the bag is a breeding ground. Glad they created antimicrobial bags. A good friend of mine died years back from "pipers lung". Exhale into the bag only, yes, but inhales are quite close to the mouthpipe.

Q: What's brown and sounds like a bell? A: Dungggggg!!! Got that waaaaaayyyyyy back from Monty Python.

I was in first grade in 1966 and we sang good morning to you every morning...😊

The old version of what's red & sits in the corner. A baby playing with a razor 😂

Thanks for that boys. 😂

"I refuse to rise to the bait" says Stephen, having just risen to the bait.

They should get a thousand penguins to march in synch at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo! That would be cool! 😂

Nice

The hare wallaby used to be all over Australia's East but pre-dated so heavily now extinct on the East Coast. There is a small population left in Western Australia. A Wallaby the size of a rabbit.

That cat fact is survivors bias. If the cat splats no one calls the vet lol

One of these days we’ll finally get these series in the US 😢😢😢

Miss Steo. ☘️

The problem with the cat falling info is, if they’re only looking at cats that went to the vet, then you’ll reach a point of where they die so don’t get brought in.

23:44 - He nails the danish!

So Stephen is just a big old thiccy like the rest of us?!😂

C-sections were done in India successfully without killing the woman and so too were they done in South America but of course they could die later from infection

Helium, if it's not technical or diving grade, will potentially give you an incredible dose of benzene, or more commonly referred to as IDLH levels of benzene. Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health... The helium used for balloons is captured at oil refineries where, during the cracking process, helium is released from the heaviest all the way through to the lightest of the hydrocarbon processing. This helium, when not further refined, contains very high levels of benzene. The more you know...

This show makes me wish I lived in Britain.

Yes Alan , you are correct. We are very bad. We’d be a laughing stock or food. As we deserve. Sigh.

helium does raise the pitch of your voice bye tightening the vocal chords from its chilling effect ,any string made higher in tension gets higher in pitch, basic physics you learn as a musician, Q i is often wrong, because information or data, is not understanding, frequency is pitch A is a frequency of 440 cycles per second 880 cps up the octave a higher pitch, But i love this show it is alot of fun

One of my favorites: What's blue and smells like red paint?

Helium increases the frequency but not the pitch ??

First thing they talk about is wrong. OMG frequency and pitch are relative. If the frequency goes up so does the pitch. That's how sound works. *Facepalm It changes the timbre and pitch.

8:40 who the hell puts cheese on a digestive?!

I'm absolutely certain the pitch does change

He's a Gentleman and that's my take on it 👍

Happy Birthday is public domain now.

There's a mob of kangaroos at my letterbox and it's currently 8°c on the south coast of nsw.. In between the big cities, there are many regional towns and they tend to have more of the quintessential Australian flavour. You do get a lot of roadkill between Sydney and Canberra, it's mainly freeway .

The Corby railroad station opened in February 2009.

Oooh! Abbey Crunch. Better than Hobnobs. (That’s been scientifically established.)

"increases frequency bt not pitch" - uh... that is the same thing.

It's too bad that Fry and Davies never played Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in a silly movie.

Who's the man on the far right in the Biscuit/Cake discussion? I don't think I've seen him in anything else but he was lovely.

Yep. People change due to the moon. 😅

Frequency and pitch refer to the same thing Mr Fry

Deep fried Mars bars are made and eaten in Dunedin NZ - of course Dunedin being the Gaelic name for Edinburgh and also being full of pot smoking students in kilts, with the munchies they are very popular . .

ashamed to say i didn't get the blood clot joke

Which editor fucked up at 5:24?

8:33😢🤒🤕cut WAY to soon

During a 60 Minutes interview with Eminem, he expressed annoyance with the contention that nothing rhymes with Orange. When pressed by the interviewer for an example, he came to "door hinge".

Ah back in the day when Dara had hair

45:00

Jaffa Cakes: cake or biscuit? For many this question has a straightforward answer: cake, because they have cake ingredients, and do not go soft when stale (like biscuits.) And yet…it's a cake that we treat like a biscuit. It has biscuit friends and spends little time with its estranged cake family, and knows even less of its controversial cake ancestry. It takes pride of place at the top of ‘favourite biscuit’ lists. Its true nature is ambiguous (a word so dreaded it should be written in ghoulish font) and to restrict it to one category is to deny those qualities that belong to the other. Quite a dilemma. Except it needn't be. We categorise our world into manageable segments…but categories can change*. In ancient China animals weren’t classified geneologically by their inherent characteristics, but by their relevance to people at the time: e.g. ‘animals drawn with a very fine camel-hair brush,’ ‘animals that from a long way off look like flies’, even ‘fabulous animals'! I swear I'm not making this up. Uncertainty unsettles us. We crave clarity, order and stability, otherwise there is no limit to the potential of something, nothing to predict and prepare for; no end to the darkness that may actually only extend a fraction beyond our fingertips. Therefore, based on our need to make sense of complexities we force overly-simplistic definitions onto things, like a framework giving structure to the wind in a futile attempt to tame it. However, the boundaries between them are permeable and blurred; the truth flows in shades of grey, and no amount of scaffolding could stop a river from reuniting with the sea. Ignorance is reinforced by oversimplification; unwieldy, complex truths are "rounded up/down" to the nearest "whole" in order to become comprehensible, and through this process lose accuracy. Imagine a photo of a landscape at peak resolution; the image is sharp, the changes in tone and hue merge seamlessly, the colours are multiple and nuanced. Defining clear boundaries is so difficult it's like they don’t exist at all; it’s just a single image united as a complex, cohesive whole. But as the resolution is reduced, multiple shades of green instead become one homogeneous shade of green, until eventually a picture of a forest by a lake has become two pixels; one blue, one green. There is a point at which the comprehensibility gained by simplification, becomes a lie. Jaffa Cakes are…Jaffa Cakes. Maybe a broader definition isn’t even necessary. ~ *Categorisation that acknowledges the objective, INHERENT nature of something (like taxonomy/periodic table etc.) is indeed closer to representing the truth of what it is than categorisation that defines something via subjective (and therefore highly unreliable) characteristics. Categorisation certainly has vital uses and there'd be a lot of uneccessary confusion without it.

With tides it's the land that goes in and out as the planet spins not the sea...

36:42~36:51😃😆😄😂🤣😍

Moved to Canada went it wall mart ask for biscuits got sent to the pet section

Isn't earths magnetic northpole already the geographic south pole?

@8:15 Funny thing is, there is now 8 states of matter and it is a matter of some debate and has always been.. What about timecrystals and aerogels, right?? Bit of an unfair question for general ignorance, since the answer given has never generally been agreed upon as fact.. However 4 was definitely wrong, even at that time.

"which affects the frequency but not the pitch" um... uh..... what?

Someone please inform Stephen that there are lions in India.

57:18 shame on you Stephen Fry, you can decimate half a population

Straight or gay, he's a man with love and respect, I might not always agree with him, But he's exceptionally in his repose 👍

It actually is Danish

The magna in the earth is rotating clockwise, slows down then stops and start rotating anti clock wise every few thousand years. This switches the magnetic polls. The rotating magna is the reason we have a magnetic field around the earth and the reason birds and animals can migrate to within a few metres thousands of miles away.

Series B?

pretty sure that northern and southern hemisphere stuff is bollocks

Well _Technically_ the buzzing of a bee comes from the ears of the being hearing the buzzing. If there was nobody to hear, it wouldn't make a sound. Including the bee itself, like a deaf bee with no other hearing being nearby.

37:50 - BUG -EYED SACK OF SH*TSteven Fry quoting form the movie, ''WARGAMES'.

Mad how old these clips look considering the show hasn't reached Z yet

Funny hearing the queen of childish sex jokes complain about the fungi bit...

Cringe rhymes with orange!

Qi went downhill after the first 6 or 7 seasons. It became less serious and actually about interesting facts, misconceptions, and knowledge. I think they got lazy.

Too many damn adds👎👎👎👎

Sooooo many adverts i turned off after 20 minits

There is no such color as Brown

Jo is so droll I can't stand it.

Stephen stinks on Jeopardy

He put on a final spurt..... Delicious. The thing about Fry is he's incredibly funny and knowledgeable simultaneously. Sandie just isn't as natural a comic. Nor is she as knowledge.

Hilarious ? Funny sure , but Hilarious ?

Alan Davies a man who likes the sound of his own voice.....

I can’t stand this show. I mean most of the questions are flawed and most of the answers Stephen gives are wrong. The bee’s buzzing is just one solid example of just how much BS this show spurts. Also Stephen Fry has an ear piece in that he gets fed most of the knowledge he purports to know.