QI lives off the wrong guesses and anecdotes of the panelists, so if everyone knew the answers it would be fairly boring. Guess thats why he hesitated.
@@paulm3952 i guess he had to read up on some things, his time at hogwards was not the best time for learning ancient wizardry. But honestly he was great, that episode is golden
@@Wabajak13 Who's Susie? Do you mean Sandi? I've watched QI since the 1st series, and there is a reason Sandi was asked to take over from Steven...and that she is just as intelligent as he is. The number of times she has come up with the correct answer to random and quite bizarre questions is amazing. I would love to see them both being guests to see which of them was the most intelligent. That would be Quite Interesting. :)
That Debbie McGee joke was brilliant, and what made it even funnier was how Lee misread the room and had to walk it back. When Stephen mentioned that hieroglyphs had no consonants and he said Rameses, I thought his punchline was going to be "Remiss".
Interesting bit of trivia about that line, The actor was suppose to say this comedically long name but he forgot it so he just said "Tim" and they decided to keep it. The way I heard it the name was suppose to go on for a "uncomfortably long time".
@@livelifeincolour in the video, watch the magicians left hand holding the bird. He conceals its head under his finger and the “head” he pulls off is a fake one in his other hand, the rest is all a bit of showmanship. So how the old magician managed to hide an ox’s head is miraculous
@Eric Burkheimer I once tripped on the stairs at a theatre and the gentleman who caught me was Gyles Brandreth so I'll vote for him being a decent chap. (If politically misguided) He could easily have stepped aside and watched me bounce all the way down to the foyer.......
Deco Dolly So in your opinion, the purpose of a good polititian is helping people that are tripped on the stairs? How does that qualify anyone for any job? Imagine a paralel world where these are the exams 😂😂😂
Not to diss the magician but you can see him tucking the birds head under his left thumb and taking the white cotton ball out from his right hand... Bad camera angles for shooting a magic trick...
I noticed that they switched cameras then very quickly switched right back. Someone on the production team said "did we just do that?" To a chorus of "noooooooooos"😄
After watching in slow mo, I can reveal that "Scott" pushed the dove's head forward with a finger so it looked decapitated while gripping hard so the bird seemed dead. He pulled a fake head out of his sleeve.
Camera: focuses on hieroglyphs depicting water and feathers Sandi: It could be a saw of some kind. And of course you can write without vowels. Hebrews and Arabs got by without them for centuries, and Jews still read from the Torah without them. This is because Hebrew, like all Semitic languages, forms words from consonant-based roots -- usually of 3 consonants -- with shades of meaning indicated by the vowels. (There are also affixes and particles that can affect the meaning as well.) This means that, in writing systems designed for such languages, all related words will be spelled similarly. It was the fact that this was not the case in Babylonian cuneiform that clued historians to the idea that cuneiform had not been designed for their Semitic language. This led to the discovery and decipherment of Sumerian.
You caught exactly what I was thinking. It could be a coincidence she said "saw." We also can guess the vowels from other context clues, but with sound shifts, they might change. Some reconstructions aren't anywhere near what we expect.
So you mean to say that in the thousands of years Egypt ruled the area not one lower kingdom sent them a jackal as a gift for tribute? Got to love how science works now a days.
I've figured out how he did the trick at the end! He's got a fake head palmed in his right hand with the bird. Then he picks up the bird with the other hand and pushes its head under, while one finger holds onto the rubber band on the fake head. Then when he throws it back he actually palms it and let's the bird go with his left hand
I was actually expecting the magician to restore the head of something bigger than a dove. Like a goose, I was thinking an ox but that would be hard to film in the studio for like 20 seconds
Honestly I'd really like to see it done with an ox. I feel like sleight of hand becomes a lot more impressive when the object in question can't actually fit in your hand. Or how you'd hide the real head of the ox since not only is an ox head relatively large (whereas birds... not so much) before we even start considering the horns. And most oxen don't even have wings, so there's not a lot of hiding places. It's of course possible that the ancient scroll wasn't *entirely* factual.
This probably wasn't intentional, but Sandi said "a saw," they did a close up of the symbol for feather. It kind of looks like a saw, so I'm not sure if I should give the BBC the benefit of the doubt.
the QI guys gotta find a way to equalize the audio on this... I'll watch 4 "best of" in a row, with my headphones, and have to change the volume with every episode. Last episode (best of planets) was quiet, had to turn my headphones up. This one right near deafened me.
It's a shame that trick was ruined on camera although maybe it looked better irl I really can't bring myself to properly appreciate "magic" tbh especially when you can easily see what's really going on
@JamesGiantPeach I'm going to refrain from taking advice on what is or isn't humor when the person dispensing that advice has no idea how proper diction and grammar works.
I could understand palming a goose or duck head, and having the animal tuck their head around under your hand or armpit. But how the world does one palm an ox's head?
It's probably a similar type of misdirection, if not the same exact thing. An ox could probably be trained to do something on command which, from the right angle and with the right effect, could look like its head was separated from its body. Magicians are clever.
Argument time about the Anubis being a wolf. The Elves were only partly correct. Anubis is based off the Golden Wolf, HOWEVER.. It's actually part of the Coyote DNA-wise, which is a part of the jackal family.
They're all very much in the same family anyway, they're all in the same Genus - so of course QI is splitting hairs here as always. But now that Golden Wolves are no longer called "Jackals" (which is the change that made Anubis no longer the Jackal-headed god he always was), the Coyote is more closely related to things called Wolves (including the Golden Wolf) than to other things called Jackals. Which makes sense, it's native to North America and there are no Jackals native to North America, but there are Wolves. Also the Golden Jackal which still exists separately, is the only Jackal that's that closely related to the Coyote, the others are a bit farther off. So they don't have as much of a Jackal family per se. Again, they're all the same Genus anyway, so QI is just being QI.
No curse, "only 6 died within the first decade of the opening." If it were 10 men ages between 20 and 40, and 6 died in the next decade, wouldn't that still be alarmingly high for the early 1900s? Even if it was 6 out of 100 age 30? I mean, my graduation class was in 85 and if 6 classmates out of 450 had died between ages 30 and 40, we'd be investigating if their was a connection to the school we all went to for four years.
It wasn't 6 out of 10 men, though. It was 6 out of 58. And your guess at the age range looks pretty dubious considering Carnarvon was in his fifties and Howard Carter was 48.
The QI TH-cam team are keeping me alive during this lockdown
Me too! This and TwoSet Violin.
Me too! This and Tim from grand illusions
If you haven’t already, listen to the QI elves’ podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish. It’s fab too
Linz Mcd thanks for the recommendation 😁
A month late, but if you like this you'll LOVE CGPgrey on TH-cam
It’s sweet how Daniel is so hesitant to speak up in front of these people!
Scared of the klaxon!
He got very excited while answering. I would be too, if I knew the correct answer.
QI lives off the wrong guesses and anecdotes of the panelists, so if everyone knew the answers it would be fairly boring. Guess thats why he hesitated.
He is actually quite a lovely young chap. And talented, too.
Yeah, good actor.
"Thief of Bad Gags" is a very underrated pun and I wish it had gotten a laugh.
Pun?
Ha, I was thinking the same, but then I realised that I preferred feeling smug because no one else got it :P
@@LeafBug12 A reference to the film 'Thief of Baghdad', which is also what Aladdin was sometimes called. I think.
When Tim Vine says “continue” I can’t help but feel insulted.
I got it. Funny stuff.
Alan, being on this show for so long, has learnt so much.
Daniel Radcliffe was so nervous. I love it
Apparently he was so nervous that they were going to ask him magic questions, so he studied up before he was there.
He had dyspraxia which can cause anxiety.
He might not have been drunk enough.
@@paulm3952 i guess he had to read up on some things, his time at hogwards was not the best time for learning ancient wizardry. But honestly he was great, that episode is golden
That's a dumb thi g to say lol
At 7:30, anyone else think Fry slipped in an excellent pun: "thief of bad gags" from "thief of Bagdad"?
That was probably the best one, and everyone missed it. There's no way it was an accident.
Milton Berle had this as a title many, many years ago back in the 1950s.
Tiger woods eating a Cornetto is one of Alan's best lines. Say what you see, say what you see.
I'd love to see Mr. Fry appear as a guest on QI
It might get boring when he knows all the answers and corrects Susie haha
@@Wabajak13 Who's Susie? Do you mean Sandi? I've watched QI since the 1st series, and there is a reason Sandi was asked to take over from Steven...and that she is just as intelligent as he is. The number of times she has come up with the correct answer to random and quite bizarre questions is amazing. I would love to see them both being guests to see which of them was the most intelligent. That would be Quite Interesting. :)
@@florrie2303 yeah... But quite a few times it was obvious she had been given the questions beforehand when appearing as a guest.
He's been a contestant once already.
@@xxxenricop lol uhuh, sure buddy
How have I literally watched every bit of QI available, and still laugh my ass of at it?
Because funny is funny, and seriously funny can stand multiple viewings
That Debbie McGee joke was brilliant, and what made it even funnier was how Lee misread the room and had to walk it back.
When Stephen mentioned that hieroglyphs had no consonants and he said Rameses, I thought his punchline was going to be "Remiss".
*vowels.
How Rameses of you.
The “Scott” bit was a bit like the Monty Python bit sorcerer.
Mysterious sorcerer: “There are some who call me.... Tim”
Interesting bit of trivia about that line, The actor was suppose to say this comedically long name but he forgot it so he just said "Tim" and they decided to keep it. The way I heard it the name was suppose to go on for a "uncomfortably long time".
HIP bath HIP bath
La va to ry la va to ry
Bi det bi det
*DOUCCCCCCCCCCCCCccccccche...*
Hmm yes
Oh, I thought he was saying B-Day because I'm from the U.S.
We know what a douche is in the US. We are just so mature we use it as an insult. 😄
@@SmashPortal I hope you're joking?
Apparently he learned that from Donald Sinden. I'd have loved to hear Mr Sinden do it with his wonderful voice.
Lee’s way ott *OH MY GOD!!!!* always gets me 😂😂😂😂
Yep, much more entertaining than the trick itself.
The Thief of Bad Gags is one of the greatest puns I've ever heard and no one batted an eye
That was actually Milton Berle.
th-cam.com/video/8DLk0wsdQ2s/w-d-xo.html
@JamesGiantPeach you must be fun at parties
I think Daniel was terrified he would set the claxton off the entire time he was answering, there.
There.
@@c0ldc0ne And everywhere
After only seeing Tim Vine on Taskmaster, good to know he's still doing the puns and dad jokes.
I'll have to look for that. I first saw him on The Chase.
Check out his stand up
That's all he does basically he's known for one liners
I have the feeling that trick was done differently with an OX.
"Alright, I have chopped off the ox's head. Now, if you'd just turn around for a few minutes, I will magically restore it to life!"
I would release Moses and his people if I saw that.
That’s a magician with an enormous top hat
@@jonathangarmuth8975 i read Moses as mooses 🤦♂️ so now i have a mental image of someone doing this trick with a moose 🤣
MC tube as the rubber band
knowing how the trick with the bird worked, i wanna know how the hell someone did that with an ox
How does it work?
@@livelifeincolour in the video, watch the magicians left hand holding the bird. He conceals its head under his finger and the “head” he pulls off is a fake one in his other hand, the rest is all a bit of showmanship. So how the old magician managed to hide an ox’s head is miraculous
@@kieranbennett7453 I had to watch the video at the slowest speed and I just barely saw the slight of hand...
My guess is that he didn't and what was written down was bollocks.
How did I not know that Daniel Radcliffe had been on QI??
God Bless this channel. I can watch (some) QI in America without paying Jeff Bezos or using a VPN.
I love the QI youtube channel!
Maybe hapi was actually female and the frogs were all in denile.
I'd like to take this moment to apologize for that joke...
Brandreth strikes again.
Douche had me laughing quite a bit.
@Eric Burkheimer Went on a weird tangent there
@Eric Burkheimer I once tripped on the stairs at a theatre and the gentleman who caught me was Gyles Brandreth so I'll vote for him being a decent chap. (If politically misguided) He could easily have stepped aside and watched me bounce all the way down to the foyer.......
The old HIGNFY episodes with him are always funny to rewatch.. :) That man sure knows how to use himself for comedic effect.
Deco Dolly So in your opinion, the purpose of a good polititian is helping people that are tripped on the stairs?
How does that qualify anyone for any job?
Imagine a paralel world where these are the exams 😂😂😂
@Eric Burkheimer Did you get lost on the way to the comment section of the Guardian?
The "get stuffed" moment never fails to make me grin like an idiot
Yep. And I like to think that no Australian would have heard an insult in it.
Not to diss the magician but you can see him tucking the birds head under his left thumb and taking the white cotton ball out from his right hand...
Bad camera angles for shooting a magic trick...
I think it was kinda intentional.
pretty sure he also threw the fake head into his sleeve as he "restored" it onto the bird
ya very transparent, and someone said 'intentional' - why would it be 'intentional'
Worst execution of trick and bird ..ever.
I noticed that they switched cameras then very quickly switched right back. Someone on the production team said "did we just do that?" To a chorus of "noooooooooos"😄
The whole "Akkio Scott!!" bit was *very* reminiscent of 'Calling down the Dove from Above' on good, old _Shooting Stars_
Love Stephens outfits
Wow, the video editing skill's in this video are great! i'm very impressed
"No curse". Cause of death: *shaving accident.* Fine, but I'm not going there.
Wait... Did Daniel Radcliffe actually have to sit History of Magic when he was filming Harry Potter? This seems like an answer to an obscure OWL exam.
I think he actually knew that from doing Now You See Me 2. The trick was feature in the movie. I think he likes magic movies.
@@violacola The film came out in 2016, this episode in 2010.
@@VaiskiH time travel
@@sebastianadams"52,560 turns should do it"
@@johnluujl My god, you actually calculated this
My answer for "name a common Egyptian character" was Mohamed al-Fayed
Daniel Radcliffe is such a bloody gent. Does the UK proud
I always thought Anubis was when they play lots of episodes of Coronation Street back-to-back on Sunday morning?
No, it's a haemorrhoid cream
You're unsure if you thought that? Come back when you are, then.
Damned auto-correct of British London.
"If all the frogs were getting it on and one whipped out a camera" had me in stitches!
Everyone talking about Daniel Radcliffe, but Lee's Debbie McGee joke was 100% brutality xD
I love Alan's "Eric Morecambe caught out by 'Mr. Preview'" face when Daniel Radcliffe comes out with the Westcar Papyrus and Dedi.
Great fun, as always, cheers guys!! 😁🙌🏻🌈
So Hapi’s harem was in fact a hoppy one
That magician looks like a cross between Simon Pegg and Fred Astaire
And a bit of Paul Daniels too I thought
After watching in slow mo, I can reveal that "Scott" pushed the dove's head forward with a finger so it looked decapitated while gripping hard so the bird seemed dead. He pulled a fake head out of his sleeve.
Camera: focuses on hieroglyphs depicting water and feathers
Sandi: It could be a saw of some kind.
And of course you can write without vowels. Hebrews and Arabs got by without them for centuries, and Jews still read from the Torah without them. This is because Hebrew, like all Semitic languages, forms words from consonant-based roots -- usually of 3 consonants -- with shades of meaning indicated by the vowels. (There are also affixes and particles that can affect the meaning as well.) This means that, in writing systems designed for such languages, all related words will be spelled similarly. It was the fact that this was not the case in Babylonian cuneiform that clued historians to the idea that cuneiform had not been designed for their Semitic language. This led to the discovery and decipherment of Sumerian.
You caught exactly what I was thinking. It could be a coincidence she said "saw." We also can guess the vowels from other context clues, but with sound shifts, they might change. Some reconstructions aren't anywhere near what we expect.
@@paulm3952 We also have the advantage of a late stage of the language written out in the Greek alphabet, with vowels.
So you mean to say that in the thousands of years Egypt ruled the area not one lower kingdom sent them a jackal as a gift for tribute?
Got to love how science works now a days.
I've figured out how he did the trick at the end! He's got a fake head palmed in his right hand with the bird. Then he picks up the bird with the other hand and pushes its head under, while one finger holds onto the rubber band on the fake head. Then when he throws it back he actually palms it and let's the bird go with his left hand
Nah he just glues the head back on after ripping it off
No really??? Gosh. Its not like its bleedin obvious or anything.
@@CMOT101 bro you don't have to do the accent. we get it, you're british 😂
6:56 I thought Tim was going to say something along the lines of "are you sure the god's name wasn't Hoppy?"
I love that Daniel knows that because of Harry Potter.
The Algorithm brought me here after searching for "how to escape a zip tie".
What was that banshee shriek at 6:10?
Julia Zamiro
Thanks
I was actually expecting the magician to restore the head of something bigger than a dove. Like a goose, I was thinking an ox but that would be hard to film in the studio for like 20 seconds
Honestly I'd really like to see it done with an ox. I feel like sleight of hand becomes a lot more impressive when the object in question can't actually fit in your hand. Or how you'd hide the real head of the ox since not only is an ox head relatively large (whereas birds... not so much) before we even start considering the horns. And most oxen don't even have wings, so there's not a lot of hiding places.
It's of course possible that the ancient scroll wasn't *entirely* factual.
Daniel was great as Harry Potter, but today I learned he would have made an even better Hermione.
This probably wasn't intentional, but Sandi said "a saw," they did a close up of the symbol for feather. It kind of looks like a saw, so I'm not sure if I should give the BBC the benefit of the doubt.
These things are always intentional. Video editors at the BBC get their kicks like that. They do it on all programmes including the News.
Ted you had one job. "Hapi's frogs must have been hoppy"
You're right that was poor
Reminds me of Jay Leno (I think) making a joke about the frog that was found in a McDonalds snack: the hoppy meal
@@mvl71 oh no please don't let me turn into Jay Leno lol
3:03 what's this guy's name? his voice is awesome
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Dada. Well done Harry.
10 points to Gryffindor!
Who's the guy in blue shirt in the bit that talks about Hapi the Egyptian God (starting 5:25)? He is quite quick witted.
Never mind. Someone had already mentioned that in the comments - Tim Vine.
I feel like at certain points of history, doing this trick would have gotten you killed for sorcery. Lol
You should put in a couple more adds in these videos
The Vice President of the magic circle should pay more attention to where the cameras are located 😂
OH MY GOD! HE WASN'T THERE AND THEN HE WAS THERE WHAT HAPPENED!?
ok yeah I need
i watched that on .25 speed and still couldnt see how he did it
There should be a BBC comedy channel on Mexican Sky 🥺
I would really like to see this trick done with oxen.
the QI guys gotta find a way to equalize the audio on this... I'll watch 4 "best of" in a row, with my headphones, and have to change the volume with every episode. Last episode (best of planets) was quiet, had to turn my headphones up. This one right near deafened me.
It's a shame that trick was ruined on camera although maybe it looked better irl
I really can't bring myself to properly appreciate "magic" tbh especially when you can easily see what's really going on
@2:51 jimmy holding back a cocaine joke 🤣🤣
Daniel Radcliffe, silently saying thank you to whatever History teacher covered Egypt when he was in school. 😁
3:23
Sandi: "wtf did I just hear?"
Cannot believe nobody went for "Who's your Deddy"
Stephen’s ‘Thief of BadGags’ went unnoticed :(
No one caught Steven's Thief of Bad Gags joke and that makes me sad.
@JamesGiantPeach I'm going to refrain from taking advice on what is or isn't humor when the person dispensing that advice has no idea how proper diction and grammar works.
7:31 - Was this missed, or am I the only one that liked the pun?
Should've answered with "toadally".
A year later, I didn't think of that, but did think "Are you sure his name wasn't "Hopi"?
so...a simple question..."the rug pull"
Daniel Radcliffe with the clevers
there was the old Egyptian cart wash, it was called, Toot and Come In
That trick was soo easy to look through lol
Can't believe they missed "crocol harum"
10:43 is hilarious how you can just see the string
Do remember to subscribe is quite interesting.
I could understand palming a goose or duck head, and having the animal tuck their head around under your hand or armpit. But how the world does one palm an ox's head?
It's probably a similar type of misdirection, if not the same exact thing. An ox could probably be trained to do something on command which, from the right angle and with the right effect, could look like its head was separated from its body. Magicians are clever.
So apparently Harry was listening to Hermione at some point.
of course the names of any egyptian god or pharoah they mention here are all greek transliterations . With Anubis being Anpu / Inpu
11:09 Graham Norton has made a good point...lol
Dad jokes are quite unusual on QI!
I get how you can 'pull off the heads of doves' to restore as its a factor of their anatomy, but an OX?! How the hell is that done?!
Nice shirt Steven (purple one)
Dan is so nervous.
Give it up for Daniel.
How would you do that to an ox
I never knew Cal Wilson appeared on QI. 😢
Argument time about the Anubis being a wolf. The Elves were only partly correct. Anubis is based off the Golden Wolf, HOWEVER.. It's actually part of the Coyote DNA-wise, which is a part of the jackal family.
They're all very much in the same family anyway, they're all in the same Genus - so of course QI is splitting hairs here as always. But now that Golden Wolves are no longer called "Jackals" (which is the change that made Anubis no longer the Jackal-headed god he always was), the Coyote is more closely related to things called Wolves (including the Golden Wolf) than to other things called Jackals. Which makes sense, it's native to North America and there are no Jackals native to North America, but there are Wolves.
Also the Golden Jackal which still exists separately, is the only Jackal that's that closely related to the Coyote, the others are a bit farther off. So they don't have as much of a Jackal family per se.
Again, they're all the same Genus anyway, so QI is just being QI.
So you mentioned doing that with an ox
Sorry, me mum couldn't make it to the show tonight.
I defy anyone who did not dramatically say
''Hip Bath, Hip Bath, Lavatory, Lavatory, Bidet, Bidet, Douche'
So noted. Your punishment will be coming forthwith.
I'd love to see Stephen on Jeopardy.
Hearing a former Blackadder cast member mention a shaving accident, made me slightly giddy
I'm still waiting for Steven to give someone a court marshalling
Scott the magician could have done the trick smoother
No curse, "only 6 died within the first decade of the opening." If it were 10 men ages between 20 and 40, and 6 died in the next decade, wouldn't that still be alarmingly high for the early 1900s? Even if it was 6 out of 100 age 30? I mean, my graduation class was in 85 and if 6 classmates out of 450 had died between ages 30 and 40, we'd be investigating if their was a connection to the school we all went to for four years.
It wasn't 6 out of 10 men, though. It was 6 out of 58. And your guess at the age range looks pretty dubious considering Carnarvon was in his fifties and Howard Carter was 48.
That bloke in the first clip, with the goatee... I can't remember his name. I wonder what happened to him.
Andy Parsons?
@@Vergil21a That's him. Thanks. Not seen him on TV for ages.
I'm used to seeing him in casual shirts on old clips of Mock the Week. It's a little odd seeing him this dressed up.
He looks a little out of his depth there.
Wow British tv is so much more bombastic than in the US
Less yelling though