Phil, along with Alan and a lot of other guests on QI, is what I like to call a "collaborative comedian"; he's funny on his own but loves playing off of others and having others play off of him. Ignore how dirty that sounds. 😉
@@mooniejohnson And yet, those team players are often maligned by the naive crowd that would much rather laugh at someone repeating a punch line for the third time than give the team players their dues. Nish Kumar is another one of those - pretty much every comedian loves him, because he enhances everyone around him.
Yes, it's the thing I miss most about Stephen no longer hosting. I think that they should have Stephen on as a guest every so often, and if it coincided with Phil, all the better.
As a Newfoundlander I can tell you that our ugly sticks are usually composed of a 5 ft stick usually an inch thick, with beer bottle stoppers nailed up the length of it, the bottom end would usually have a rubber boot nailed to it, the top would have a tin can. Some people put a mop on top of the tin can and some googly eyes on it to give it a bit of character. Instead of just hitting it off the ground we would have another stick about a foot long used to run up the bottle stoppers, strike the can, or the stick itself. "Me fadder usemakem" li'l newf slang for you
@@cijmo Waste of a good stick that is, a mop or broom handle is great for a quick gift shop one, but the best ones are made from a good length of alder tree. Use alder and you can get 6-10 sticks outta a nice bed, make a few, keep one, give couple to the by's, sell rest, buy beer, get on a tear in the shed, (collect more tops break sticks), recover, make more, repeat.
@@shampoo1991 What'd you do with old hockey sticks? I know some held up tomato vines, I also know someone who never had a finer walking stick than an old hockey stick.
@@DomWeasel According to the information I can find, the "battle of Vienna" in 1683 was because of the Ottoman siege of Vienna, so the song is about a siege AND the battle of Vienna.
@@Twinrehz It's one of those historians insistences. Vienna was subject to multiple sieges and had many battles take place within sight of it and 1683 is referred to as The Battle of Vienna as opposed to The Siege of Vienna. So while you're correct, it's still called the Battle rather than the Siege.
The reason I scrolled down. Thank you, sir/maddame. I was literally about to search "Pterodactyl and the Dinosaurs" because I thought that was just his way of saying "pterodactyl". lol
I just want to take a minute to thank whatever elf came up with changing the exit bit of the video to someone closing the computer. I ADORE Sandy and I got really stressed when I felt like I had disappointed her by not choosing a video fast enough in the older version...
Agreed. I mean, I did not get stressed from the other one, but it just felt pointlessly rude. The world is crap enough as it is, no need to pile it on.
Neither Haydn nor Beethoven used this instrument, they both used triangle, cymbals and bass drums in the symphonies mentioned. If you want a good example for the usage of a similar instrument, check out Mahler's 4th symphony.
@@decodolly1535 Yeah, Jona Lewie was the answer. As Michael Caine might say, not a lot of people know that. But you do and no doubt so does Danny Baker.
And yet she is a successful comedian and you ain't! She's more popular than you, she's richer than you and she's probably happier than you! And she definitely doesn't give a flying fuck what you think! Think about all of that!
Where did you ever get this fool-hardy notion that humour has "levels"? That there's some sort of hierarchy of comedy, where Captain Satire pulls rank on Private Parody. Where jokes can be objectively ranked on some scale for the "social status" they afford you. And we, of course, look down our noses at fart gags - the riff-raff chavs of the "basic comedy" council estate, unworthy to lick the shit off our shoes. Because we're oh-so-bloody-awesome with our superior gentle dry wit, lording it over them all. The scum. Seriously. Do you realise how fundamentally insane that sounds? Why, I'm so much better than you, as I only laugh at jokes delivered in Received Pronunciation, over cocktails and canopies. We'll have none of your vulgar slapstick in this house!
@@klaxoncow A brilliantly delivered rebuttal, I must say. But it misses the point that humour which is "basic" is only dismissed because it is of a type that becomes boring after too much exposure. For most people, fart gags and innuendo become so predictable after following the same "basic" structure that they give diminishing returns. A comedian who models most of their act around the same simple jokes will see less and less people return. If your jokes are so simple, predictable, "basic" that your audience knows them before you say them, why should they go to you for them? Its a rule of survival for comedians to change their set frequently in order to stay relevant or keep their audience because complexity and creativity interest us.
I'm frankly shocked that "Mrs. Beethoven" wasn't a klaxon.
SAME it was my first thought as well 😂
Evidently it was just too good
Im guessing they had a klaxon prepared for "Elise", but nobody said it
There's another episode where that exact joke was a klaxon, kind of the earlier series it was like jo saying mrs mozart
Love how Phil doesn't just drop knowledge but instead sets Danny up for the alley-oop. Class act.
Right? Setting up someone to totally upstage you shows a real gift for the art.
Phil, along with Alan and a lot of other guests on QI, is what I like to call a "collaborative comedian"; he's funny on his own but loves playing off of others and having others play off of him. Ignore how dirty that sounds. 😉
@@mooniejohnson This is why I love panel shows so much! I hardly watch stand-up routines anymore
Floss Man- and it's those guys (and gals) that we want to see over and over on these shows.
@@mooniejohnson And yet, those team players are often maligned by the naive crowd that would much rather laugh at someone repeating a punch line for the third time than give the team players their dues. Nish Kumar is another one of those - pretty much every comedian loves him, because he enhances everyone around him.
The look on Phil's face when Stephen says Ultravox!
Good thing Lee Mack‘s daughter wasn’t there during Phil’s singing 😂
Well I need an explanation. There is lee mack in comment and i want to laugh...
@@rupeshkanth Look up the Would I Lie To You?! story about making his baby daughter cry.
@The Pendulum thanks I might have missed that clip. It was worth it..
That's a very specific reference that I really appreciate
Lovely cross-reference 👏👏👏
I'm genuinely surprised that Steven knows Vienna... though that magic between Jupitus and Baker is fantastic to watch
Yes, it's the thing I miss most about Stephen no longer hosting. I think that they should have Stephen on as a guest every so often, and if it coincided with Phil, all the better.
@@juliannicholls I had hoped that they'd invite him back for Christmas specials on Alan's team
As a Newfoundlander I can tell you that our ugly sticks are usually composed of a 5 ft stick usually an inch thick, with beer bottle stoppers nailed up the length of it, the bottom end would usually have a rubber boot nailed to it, the top would have a tin can. Some people put a mop on top of the tin can and some googly eyes on it to give it a bit of character.
Instead of just hitting it off the ground we would have another stick about a foot long used to run up the bottle stoppers, strike the can, or the stick itself.
"Me fadder usemakem" li'l newf slang for you
Isn't it a hockey stick? Or not necessarily, that's just our most obvious source LOL?
@@cijmo Waste of a good stick that is, a mop or broom handle is great for a quick gift shop one, but the best ones are made from a good length of alder tree.
Use alder and you can get 6-10 sticks outta a nice bed, make a few, keep one, give couple to the by's, sell rest, buy beer, get on a tear in the shed, (collect more tops break sticks), recover, make more, repeat.
@@shampoo1991 you've got it all worked out, haven't you
@@shampoo1991 What'd you do with old hockey sticks? I know some held up tomato vines, I also know someone who never had a finer walking stick than an old hockey stick.
@@cijmo i just give them to kids to play with
"Beginning with J, and has a connection with the siege of Vienna"
My brain: *JANISSARIES ARE YOU READY TO DIE??*
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The song's about the 1683 Battle of Vienna, not one of the sieges of Vienna.
@@DomWeasel According to the information I can find, the "battle of Vienna" in 1683 was because of the Ottoman siege of Vienna, so the song is about a siege AND the battle of Vienna.
Things I did not expect to see under a QI video: Sabaton
@@Twinrehz
It's one of those historians insistences. Vienna was subject to multiple sieges and had many battles take place within sight of it and 1683 is referred to as The Battle of Vienna as opposed to The Siege of Vienna. So while you're correct, it's still called the Battle rather than the Siege.
It's funny because Stephen is, by his own admission in Moab Is My Washpot, slightly of the light-fingered persuasion.
I thought I was one of the very few who'd read Moab. I found it in a 'reduced to clear' box in my local bookshop years ago.
I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more... jingling Jonny
Jimmy Carr wouldn't have missed "Well, it must be Mrs. B's one then" when Alan said "triangle"😁
@@DavidOakesMusic agree, he has his moments but he too often goes for the easy dirty joke. My favourite is Bill Bailey at all times.
And when it stops jingling, she knows he’s finished.
OHH OHH OHH UURRGGHH.... DING DING DING!
Jingle balls, jingle bal- wait…
The snoring is also and indicator.
For anyone wondering, this is the song that Danny mentioned: th-cam.com/video/p62dmF2Bdpw/w-d-xo.html
The reason I scrolled down. Thank you, sir/maddame.
I was literally about to search "Pterodactyl and the Dinosaurs" because I thought that was just his way of saying "pterodactyl". lol
We in New Zealand also use the lagerphone. It was my instrument of choice in a folk band.
As funny as this is, whenever I see any clip from this episode I can only think of the child-buffing workshop.
As soon as I read your comment, I started thinking about the cherry monocle...
"You up and down it..."
That's what Mrs. Beethoven said.
I've seen it used by German military bands but never knew what it was. They call it the Schellenbaum.
As a teenager Beethoven used to often up and down his jingling johnny
But the title doesn't end with a question mark, it ends with an interrobang! Or it ends with the letter I, depending how you read it
nice to see Phill Jupitus is a roller derby supporter.
When you get the mix of guests and trivia just right…
Re- Vienna song..... I always thought it was 🎶 oh Theodore 🎶 as a kid.
I just want to take a minute to thank whatever elf came up with changing the exit bit of the video to someone closing the computer. I ADORE Sandy and I got really stressed when I felt like I had disappointed her by not choosing a video fast enough in the older version...
Agreed. I mean, I did not get stressed from the other one, but it just felt pointlessly rude. The world is crap enough as it is, no need to pile it on.
Oh! My bad. Wrong Stephen.
The Dutch have a kutpiel?
Kuttepiel. A name made out of a nice combination of the female and male naughty bits. Let's say it's something like a pussyknob...
Zei hij nou The Dutch have the kutpiel op 3:25?
Tampax do a tampon with tinsel string.
It's just for the Christmas period.
I miss Danny Baker
LOL, you just made me Google to see if he was dead!!
@@mrfocigaz4942 Sorry, not dead. But no longer on TV or radio due to MM comments.
Phil's singing!
Isn’t that what you always see Jester’s holding?
Neither Haydn nor Beethoven used this instrument, they both used triangle, cymbals and bass drums in the symphonies mentioned. If you want a good example for the usage of a similar instrument, check out Mahler's 4th symphony.
For a bonus point, who was Terry Dactyl of Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs?
It was just an alias used by another group, whose name I can't remember. But I know Jona Lewie, of "Stop the Cavalry" fame, was a member.
@@decodolly1535 Yeah, Jona Lewie was the answer. As Michael Caine might say, not a lot of people know that. But you do and no doubt so does Danny Baker.
0:30 Don't all jonnies have bells in them? 😅
Yeah bell ends
Can’t figure out if that was clickbait or not. I was looking forward to interesting Stephen anecdote
Legendary!
Jingle Bell-Ends
Fur(ey) Elise?
Shows how confused I am getting about time. I thought Stephen quit QI before he was in The Hobbit.
Fry was in the second and third parts of The Hobbit, which came out in 2013 and 2014. He was on QI until 2016.
I distinctly remember him humblebragging about it on QI. Dunno in what episode, though...
Good old lagerphone
A bell in the...
What, end?
I wen't out to correct that. They were sweet.
The venerable Mr Fry's had a few bevies methinks.
3:10 I was going to mention the lagerphone but then Stephen did.
More cowbell!
I don’t get it. Did I miss something in the hobbit?
Didn't make the cut because Stephen had stolen it 😄
You are not alone
It doesn't look too out of place from all the weird pompous shit they had going on in Laketown I suppose?
Nah just missed that "no" was a possible answer.
@@MrDJAK777 Trolling, eh?
More cowbell.
You gais !! Gooo !
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside_Shuffle
I missed it, what did Stephen actually take from the Hobbit?
They were joking that the Jingling Johnny was a prop form the Hobbit based on how it looks fantastical.
Was Stephen in the Hobbits?
He played the Master of Laketown in the Hobbit films.
@@patrickmanion9646 ow yeah, he did. I remember.
He was also the voice for the Goblin King. "That'll do it!"
@@sookiedog4740 No, that was Barry Humphries.
@@patrickmanion9646 so it was. Thank you. Hard to think Dame Edna was the voice.
/insert "bell end condom" joke here
That looks remarkably like an "ugly stick" . Needs a rubber boot.
This show is better with just Stephen and Allen.
God Sarah millican has the most basic humour in the world
And yet she is a successful comedian and you ain't! She's more popular than you, she's richer than you and she's probably happier than you! And she definitely doesn't give a flying fuck what you think! Think about all of that!
Absolutely
Where did you ever get this fool-hardy notion that humour has "levels"?
That there's some sort of hierarchy of comedy, where Captain Satire pulls rank on Private Parody. Where jokes can be objectively ranked on some scale for the "social status" they afford you.
And we, of course, look down our noses at fart gags - the riff-raff chavs of the "basic comedy" council estate, unworthy to lick the shit off our shoes. Because we're oh-so-bloody-awesome with our superior gentle dry wit, lording it over them all. The scum.
Seriously. Do you realise how fundamentally insane that sounds?
Why, I'm so much better than you, as I only laugh at jokes delivered in Received Pronunciation, over cocktails and canopies. We'll have none of your vulgar slapstick in this house!
says a person who stole their name from a one dimensional character from blazing saddles.
@@klaxoncow A brilliantly delivered rebuttal, I must say.
But it misses the point that humour which is "basic" is only dismissed because it is of a type that becomes boring after too much exposure. For most people, fart gags and innuendo become so predictable after following the same "basic" structure that they give diminishing returns.
A comedian who models most of their act around the same simple jokes will see less and less people return. If your jokes are so simple, predictable, "basic" that your audience knows them before you say them, why should they go to you for them? Its a rule of survival for comedians to change their set frequently in order to stay relevant or keep their audience because complexity and creativity interest us.
I've just learnt that I've been pronouncing Janissaries wrong for years.
What has this channel come to? Watching Phil Jupitus abuse Stephen's Jingling Johnny.
I am the first comment lol :) Love QI
No, sorry, you weren’t :p ‘twas I 😁
But do continue to love QI. It is worthy.
@@LegacyFTW lol you wish hehhe
Just look at the time stamps lol. I was 2 minutes before you, bud.
@@LegacyFTW Are you guys gonna fight? Let's hope it's to the death.
I've had hernias funnier than Phil Jupitus.
I read it as “furrier than” 😂