Lol, I know when his team read that script there was one or two who were trying to figure out if they could get everyone out quietly while he was blindfolded
Fun Fact: You can always remember whether polar bears are from the Actic or not (they are), by learning a bit of etymology,. Arctic comes from άρκτος which is Greek for "bear" (which is from PIE *rktho- "the brown one"). and ant- meaning "negative" is where we get Antarctic. So the Arctic Circle is literally "The circle with bears" and Antarctic Circle is literally "The circle with no bears".
Dave G is unique. I love his style and delivery. No one else has ever taken this stance and the thing to never lose sight of is that the research is what makes it ... and his lead-ins from his prep are quite brilliant.
Having read Dave’s book, “Too Much Information”, and thus already knowing about the Richard Branson list, I was very much looking forward to hearing the audience’s reaction to why he’s considered to be a family man.
Weirdly, I happen to know how to say “Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu. I am actually from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Anglesey and it was something I just learned as a kid. I havent said it for years until now, and I was amazed I remembered it straight away.
I live in Tregele by Cemaes Bay, so we're almost neighbours! Only moved to Anglesey in 2014, previously rented a crappy house in Rhosybol and before that I was living in Deeside, North East Wales.
I found out the other week I still know all the lyrics to Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry and if I ever get a name a town I'm going to call it WealwayshanginabuffalostancewedothediveeverytimewedanceIgiveyoulovebabynotromancesodon'tyougetfreshwithmegogogoch.
I've been a fan of Dave Gorman since 'Are you Dave Gorman?'* and it still amazes me how consistently good his one man shows and TV shows are (never managed to see the maths based one though, or at least the clips I've seen were maths based). The call backs, stories and hijinks (especially knowing they're real) would rival any "purest" stand up comedian! Plus who else is willing to ruthlessly follow the tripe that are horoscopes for a month. Major dedication to detail and excellence! Plus the fella is from Stafford, so I'll always have a soft spot. Keep up the good work Dave mate! *Edit: I've always called it 'The Dave Gorman Project' but apparently it isn't lol...
Fun fact, I first saw Dave Gorman at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith in 1999, doing "Dave Gorman's Better World". I worked just up the road and got free tickets. Very funny, and not dissimilar to this show except he used an overhead projector. I now live the the US so I missed this whole "Modern Life is Goodish" show until last week, and I'm now gorging on them.
My favorite sentence in The Witches of Eastwick" by John Updike. "The room's one window, too high for a woman not standing on a stool to peer out of, had lozenge panes of leaded glass, thick glass bubbled and warped like bottle bottoms."
If anyone wants it for some reason, here is Dave's whole mnemonic for Taumatawhakatangi written out: The angriest uncle makes a terrible auntie when having a kiss and tickling a naughty girl. I have a nice grandma and kindly older aunt. Unfortunately, an uncle or two are mean, and their elderly aunts take umbridge regularly. Independence party UK are kind about polish immigrants. Kind? I mean are unkind. Now, get a helpful older relative, or not helpful kindly uncle. Prepare all the kids and infants while helping elderly non-uncles (aunts). Keep it tight, and never agitate the angriest hairiest uncle.
Early identifier and caller out of the native ad. God bless you, David Gorman. Now, in 2021, The New York Times, the US "Paper of Record", prides itself on its pioneering native ad work. Native ads account for more than HALF of ad spending. They're much more lucrative because people confuse them for actual content. It's evil! And I don't see anyone raising the alarm bell. @dave?
He is NOT the kind of man who does these things. He is mature now. For he... Has grown a beard. That's right. This isn't the sort of thing a man with a beard does now. He has a beard. He will write a novel.
@@frankshailes3205 Are you trying to suggest a smartie/penguin value ratio of 4.61spp (smarties per penguin)? That's madness! It's at least in the high teens.
...everybody knows that polar bear/penguin thing. What is an interesting fact is that until the 18th century there was a species of penguin that lived at the other end of the Earth.
Bangkok's original full name is the multiword record - Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit
If I recall, Shrek's facial features are rumoured to be based on a French wrestler (Maurice Tillet) although this hasn't ever been confirmed by DreamWorks. That would be a legitimate 'fun fact'!
One of the Found Poems had someone use the incorrect phrase "The proof of the pudding is in the baking", if I recall correctly - not sure if that happened before or after this episode.
Taumatawhaka... etc. was used in the intro to a song from 1979 called 'The Lone Ranger' made by a band called Quantum Jump. I have also heard that it was originally going to be used as the title for the Mary Poppins song Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious but was deemed as being simply too long
Love the one guy in the audience who did seem to reach forward under their seat after he told them to all wear a blindfold during the taumatawhakatangi bit
Fun fact. Most people use the term factoid wrong. a factoid is something that's isn't correct, but it's adopted as truth by so many it becomes a "fact". That's a factoid. Very much the same as a Fun Fact. On the radio the term fun fact is use as an obscure fact all the time. It's just wrong. Amazingly the word factoid, has itself become a factoid. Now that's an ironic fun fact.
Wow, really? There's a segment on BBC Radio 2 called "Factoids" - I wonder if they know the true meaning? Probably not, as they are treated as fun facts (like, the actual correct use of fun facts, from what I can gather...)
The 15 fun facts about Richard Branson sounded like it was generated by an AI, it has the style of a lack of context and awareness only an AI could obtain.
It was back in 2014, when this episode released, but more recently they've made it mandatory until 18, unless you have an apprenticeship, or full-time employment
At the time it was. It is now mandatory to remain in education until 18, although it doesn't have to be traditional school. British schools are very different from American ones.
I wouldn't have said it was normal. Most people went on to some further education between secondary school and university, so it all pretty much lines up in terms of timing. Confusingly, one type of this further education between what Americans call high school and college is called college.
@@szbnahl Well that's good then. Was confused as the likes of Channel 4 and I assume Dave normally flagged and block these shows and claim copyright. Its like Time Team which I no longer believe Channel 4 have the rights to any more, some episodes they do. So the original creator now has them on his channel yet there are still some on there that channel 4 are having blocked from viewing in the UK.
I do not claim to be the spokesperson for the welsh, but none of us actually speak it anyway. Fun fact: Welsh language is spoken mostly by the english trying to either A). Woro out how the hell to even start pronouncing the seemingly random letters or B) To take the piss
I'm just wondering with some of these if he's accidentally bumped into some of these sites that have computer generated content because writers are somehow too expensive.
There's an episode of QI on which Stephen Fry claims that some escaped penguins have established a colony in the north polar region, and so could be preyed upon by polar bears.
There's a big difference between "we'll give away X pounds" and "we'll award a prize that is exactly X pounds". He didn't say that the value was limited to X.
With the real deal they did give away the amount that the object reached in auction every day; it's just that for Mon to Fri they also gave away extra cash ("earned" from all the phone calls and texts) that they didn't do on Sun, nor did they say they wouldn't (nor didn't say that they would).
Who ever doubted you could have sex in a tent? People have sex in almost every concievable situation; in the grand scheme of things, a tent is barely removed from a bed
What is the most sensible way of entering a competition? 1 By phone (costing £1.54) 2 By text (costing £1.50 + network rate) 3 Online (FOR FREE) 4 Stephen Fry 5 I'm going to go... with the Pope 42 Douglas Adams
Dude I love in NZ and we just call that Te Mata peak cos it's a freakin mountain. And no it's not an English word its a Maori word that no bastard can say EVEN FREAKIN MAORI we ALL just call it Te Mata peak cos we are lazy and stuff trying to.say that shit out loud
Fun fact: Dave Gorman is one of the most successful Jewish comedians in the world.
rofl
“Actually”
he's one of the most successful Jewish comedians in the world to actually hike around the Pacific rim
False. He's a Buddhist Nigerian
Actually Krusty the Clown made the list but Dave didn’t.
"Don't all fuck off" might be Dave's funniest single moment.
Lol, I know when his team read that script there was one or two who were trying to figure out if they could get everyone out quietly while he was blindfolded
Fun Fact: You can always remember whether polar bears are from the Actic or not (they are), by learning a bit of etymology,. Arctic comes from άρκτος which is Greek for "bear" (which is from PIE *rktho- "the brown one"). and ant- meaning "negative" is where we get Antarctic. So the Arctic Circle is literally "The circle with bears" and Antarctic Circle is literally "The circle with no bears".
That's seems like more work than learning that Polar Bears are from the Arctic
@@omegonchris But is it more fun?
That’s a fun fact.
“You read that correctly.”
“No I didn’t.”
The slow burn on that audience laugh was just delightful.
Charlie Brooker once described David Dickinson as an "ageing Thundercat". I hope that makes someone here laugh as much as it did me.
That also describes Tim Martin of Wetherspoon.
my profile pic agrees
Dave Gorman looks a bit like a thunder cat too, just well trimmed 🤔
Dave G is unique. I love his style and delivery. No one else has ever taken this stance and the thing to never lose sight of is that the research is what makes it ... and his lead-ins from his prep are quite brilliant.
Wow, my book is the source of a "fun fact"! I feel fulfilled!
Having read Dave’s book, “Too Much Information”, and thus already knowing about the Richard Branson list, I was very much looking forward to hearing the audience’s reaction to why he’s considered to be a family man.
Weirdly, I happen to know how to say “Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu.
I am actually from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Anglesey and it was something I just learned as a kid.
I havent said it for years until now, and I was amazed I remembered it straight away.
I live in Tregele by Cemaes Bay, so we're almost neighbours! Only moved to Anglesey in 2014, previously rented a crappy house in Rhosybol and before that I was living in Deeside, North East Wales.
I found out the other week I still know all the lyrics to Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry and if I ever get a name a town I'm going to call it WealwayshanginabuffalostancewedothediveeverytimewedanceIgiveyoulovebabynotromancesodon'tyougetfreshwithmegogogoch.
Taumata-etc. reminds me a bit of Japanese romaji 😅
I'd probably be able to memorise it too if I could be bothered 😬
Nice. Although the audio goes shoddy after about 10:30 in the vid and never gets better.
just before, but yeah
For me it's just bad for a few seconds.
its got an echo for the rest
That's 'actually' true
Still well worth watching..
10:20
Glad this episode is on TH-cam now,
The “same as always” bit has always been my favourite moment of the show
I've been a fan of Dave Gorman since 'Are you Dave Gorman?'* and it still amazes me how consistently good his one man shows and TV shows are (never managed to see the maths based one though, or at least the clips I've seen were maths based). The call backs, stories and hijinks (especially knowing they're real) would rival any "purest" stand up comedian!
Plus who else is willing to ruthlessly follow the tripe that are horoscopes for a month. Major dedication to detail and excellence! Plus the fella is from Stafford, so I'll always have a soft spot. Keep up the good work Dave mate!
*Edit: I've always called it 'The Dave Gorman Project' but apparently it isn't lol...
Anyone else read this comment with an imaginary string quartet in the background?
@@Betty_Virago Haha nicely nicely my dude, I like your style!
Fun fact, I first saw Dave Gorman at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith in 1999, doing "Dave Gorman's Better World". I worked just up the road and got free tickets. Very funny, and not dissimilar to this show except he used an overhead projector. I now live the the US so I missed this whole "Modern Life is Goodish" show until last week, and I'm now gorging on them.
@@ziploc2000 Well worth binging on mate!
Thank you so much for uploading these. Only upon watching them now do I realise how much Critical Thinking they contain.
In defense of the "Stephen Fry...?" lady, it's honestly a pretty decent answer if you think of the Ten Commandments you'd actually like having.
Haven’t laughed this hard in ages. Literally bent over the back of my couch in hysterics at “Stephen Fry?”
Thanks for making full episodes available, Dave!
Can't stop watching these bloody things now. I wish I could stop but they are really good so in a way I'm glad I don't. Addittive!
Just recently saw an episode of DRD with a prize sum of £65,000! Dave wasn’t as wrong as he initially seemed.
When in doubt, Stephen Fry is your guy!
At least until you can get hold of Sandi Toskvig.
I would love to see the ten commandments as written by outspoken atheist Stephen Fry.
or Mother Theresa.
My favorite sentence in The Witches of Eastwick" by John Updike. "The room's one window, too high for a woman not standing on a stool to peer out of, had lozenge panes of leaded glass, thick glass bubbled and warped like bottle bottoms."
If anyone wants it for some reason, here is Dave's whole mnemonic for Taumatawhakatangi written out:
The angriest uncle makes a terrible auntie when having a kiss and tickling a naughty girl.
I have a nice grandma and kindly older aunt.
Unfortunately, an uncle or two are mean, and their elderly aunts take umbridge regularly.
Independence party UK are kind about polish immigrants.
Kind? I mean are unkind.
Now, get a helpful older relative, or not helpful kindly uncle.
Prepare all the kids and infants while helping elderly non-uncles (aunts).
Keep it tight, and never agitate the angriest hairiest uncle.
Love how he always mentions Mrs Gorman.
Early identifier and caller out of the native ad. God bless you, David Gorman. Now, in 2021, The New York Times, the US "Paper of Record", prides itself on its pioneering native ad work. Native ads account for more than HALF of ad spending. They're much more lucrative because people confuse them for actual content. It's evil! And I don't see anyone raising the alarm bell. @dave?
A few episodes watched and I'm hooked. This is my kind of funny
By his own code of ethics I feel that Dave is now obliged to prove he can eat 86 penguins in one sitting.
He is NOT the kind of man who does these things. He is mature now. For he... Has grown a beard. That's right. This isn't the sort of thing a man with a beard does now. He has a beard. He will write a novel.
@@chrithwaddle just as soon as he proves he can get 10 googlewacks in a row
Well he ate 397 Smarties or however much it was in the dishwasher episode.
@@frankshailes3205 Are you trying to suggest a smartie/penguin value ratio of 4.61spp (smarties per penguin)? That's madness! It's at least in the high teens.
Fun fact - Dave Gorman is fun and has facts.
...everybody knows that polar bear/penguin thing. What is an interesting fact is that until the 18th century there was a species of penguin that lived at the other end of the Earth.
It's great to see an episode that I'd not fully seen before.
Funnily, I thought of Stephen Fry too. 😁
This is why I don't do pub quizes. Even if they do have a science round, I always fear the annoying "That's not what it says on the card" excuse : - (
Bangkok's original full name is the multiword record - Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit
If I recall, Shrek's facial features are rumoured to be based on a French wrestler (Maurice Tillet) although this hasn't ever been confirmed by DreamWorks. That would be a legitimate 'fun fact'!
It's fun, but if rumoured and never confirmed, it's not really a fact either
@maffoo so hence why he said “would be”
24:48 spooky that I came here after a Stephen Fry video.
David Dickinson looks like the love-child of Ian McShane and John McCrirrick! 😂
These videos are actually funny
One of the Found Poems had someone use the incorrect phrase "The proof of the pudding is in the baking", if I recall correctly - not sure if that happened before or after this episode.
Ay shoutout to our Welsh aliens with their vowel-deficient language 😂
Welsh has seven vowels, more than English.
@@gwishart You'd think they would use them more often too, instead of stringing consonants together
Taumatawhaka... etc. was used in the intro to a song from 1979 called 'The Lone Ranger' made by a band called Quantum Jump. I have also heard that it was originally going to be used as the title for the Mary Poppins song Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious but was deemed as being simply too long
Good track. It was sampled into a rave track about 1991, too.
The Welsh town name I know from All the Stations
Geoff and Vicki forever
an excellent series that i was slightly put off by the middle aged blokes being quite unwholesome about vicki in the comments for every episode
Gorman's high pitch sounds like professor McGonagall 😂 can you say one time "babbling, bumbling band of baboons"
Love the one guy in the audience who did seem to reach forward under their seat after he told them to all wear a blindfold during the taumatawhakatangi bit
The New Zealand place name can be heard as the intro to a 1970s record called The Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump.
Fun fact. Most people use the term factoid wrong. a factoid is something that's isn't correct, but it's adopted as truth by so many it becomes a "fact". That's a factoid. Very much the same as a Fun Fact.
On the radio the term fun fact is use as an obscure fact all the time. It's just wrong.
Amazingly the word factoid, has itself become a factoid. Now that's an ironic fun fact.
Is this a true? Or is this a Fun Fact?
Wow, really? There's a segment on BBC Radio 2 called "Factoids" - I wonder if they know the true meaning? Probably not, as they are treated as fun facts (like, the actual correct use of fun facts, from what I can gather...)
"Keep it tight, and never agitate the angriest, hairiest uncle."
The Kiribati pronunciation 👍
I am convinced that Richard Branson is a family man.
that '15 fun fact about Branson' is one of those advertising ploys. Its small facts with a page full of adverts
You don't say! 😉
@@luke-alex i do say
Did an aeroplane fly over at 10:23?
Tho shalt not sue the NHS Mr Branson
The 15 fun facts about Richard Branson sounded like it was generated by an AI, it has the style of a lack of context and awareness only an AI could obtain.
Best intro song out there
What is going on with the audio from 10:25 ?
Daniel Stephenson shit, shit is going on with the audio
I was about to place a comment from NZ.. But you did well there mate.
Those call in quizzes are easy so that more people ring or text the premium number
its not what you tell but its the way you tell em; DG has it. he just has it. multiplied by data and reserch and hes the man
I can pronounce the New Zeland name, I have a record with it on and learned it off that, I was also an unpopular child.
the track was called the Lone Ranger by Rupert Hine and the band was Quantum Jump 1970s band :)
It's also on the Raumschiff Edelweiss song. It's used as Klingon.
I love a found poem.
Audio is broken after 10mins or so Dave!
Watching the subscribe count on this channel is like one of those clicker games:
IT'S GOING UP, PEOPLE!
9:03 Angry France Noises Intensify
So, are you saying that it's normal for people to complete schooling/graduate in the UK at the age of 16?
It was back in 2014, when this episode released, but more recently they've made it mandatory until 18, unless you have an apprenticeship, or full-time employment
It was in 1966
At the time it was. It is now mandatory to remain in education until 18, although it doesn't have to be traditional school.
British schools are very different from American ones.
I wouldn't have said it was normal. Most people went on to some further education between secondary school and university, so it all pretty much lines up in terms of timing. Confusingly, one type of this further education between what Americans call high school and college is called college.
I still can't work out if this channel is official or not.
Given that Dave's linked to it from his blog and Twitter, either it's official or it's run by a very thorough hacker.
@@szbnahl Well that's good then. Was confused as the likes of Channel 4 and I assume Dave normally flagged and block these shows and claim copyright. Its like Time Team which I no longer believe Channel 4 have the rights to any more, some episodes they do. So the original creator now has them on his channel yet there are still some on there that channel 4 are having blocked from viewing in the UK.
Dave, the channel have rights to run repeats, but Dave Gorman owns the shows content and can publish as he likes 👍
The David Dickenson prize amounts suggest to me that they just didn't hand out the prize and kept adding to it to encourage viewers to enter
The thing about tents is true. It leads to in tents pleasure :-)
I can actually say that New Zealand place name. Learned it years ago. A little party trick :)
You shouldn't have to put the word True before Fact either, because if it's not true, it's not a fact.
The woman in the tent was getting pegged 😂
38:10 For a moment I thought it was Collin Furze
36:00 why from the fun factory of course
According to Wikipedia, "Trinidad obtained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1962."
I was thinking "why does every L that appears in that Welsh name have to be double L's?" then I noticed the quad L! Dafuq, Wales?!
I do not claim to be the spokesperson for the welsh, but none of us actually speak it anyway.
Fun fact: Welsh language is spoken mostly by the english trying to either A). Woro out how the hell to even start pronouncing the seemingly random letters
or B) To take the piss
I'm just wondering with some of these if he's accidentally bumped into some of these sites that have computer generated content because writers are somehow too expensive.
There's an episode of QI on which Stephen Fry claims that some escaped penguins have established a colony in the north polar region, and so could be preyed upon by polar bears.
Fun Fact: 1 third of of people who watch this actually won't complain about something!
Two fifths
Fun Fact: Everyone who sees this will be satisfied.
Fun Fact: 12% of commenters will probably reuse the format of an already established comment.
Fun Fact: Someone will always add another comment two years after the original.
@@davidcollins9512 😂😂😂😂
There's a big difference between "we'll give away X pounds" and "we'll award a prize that is exactly X pounds". He didn't say that the value was limited to X.
There's an amount that he's giving away in cash. There's also today's competition prize. Why is DG conflating these two things?
wait? isnt the UK still on all 4 continents?
yeah thats right.
France is too
"Same as always"
9:03 Angry United Kingdom Noises Intensify
After the sound drop at 10 mins, spent 5 mins checking my headphones, than had to go watch the rest on Dave. Not goodish.
Nope... I've come back: unskippable ads on Dave unbearable.
fun facst.... dave gorman predicting kelly-anne conway and '"alternative facts" here? XD
Was expecting a police murder tent picture to come up
With the real deal they did give away the amount that the object reached in auction every day; it's just that for Mon to Fri they also gave away extra cash ("earned" from all the phone calls and texts) that they didn't do on Sun, nor did they say they wouldn't (nor didn't say that they would).
Just a joke.
I'm guessing Dave Gorman knows the real reason for the prize amounts. Don't you think?😊
Around 10 minutes in, turn up the volume so as to avoid the sound quality drop. It will still echo but it is still audible.
Who ever doubted you could have sex in a tent? People have sex in almost every concievable situation; in the grand scheme of things, a tent is barely removed from a bed
For the American website Celebrity Toob to criticise another country's education system is hypocritical
Not gonna lie, the pronunciation of llanfair pg killed me a little bit😅
Well, same as always
Am I the only one that forwards through the found poems?
Mate the found poems are the best bits!
And miss all that Gorman Goodness??? Heresy!!!
They're my least favourite bit. Just the public being idiots, which you can find anywhere and everywhere, every moment of every day.
I go to make a cup of tea. There's only so many times I can listen to La Folia.
God the amount of times I've corrected those fact sites on twitter!.. 🤦♂️
24:07 Eric Andre
I believe there is another word, other than Shrek that could follow actual and that would be if the movie was based on an actual Ogre.
So is a fun fact like an alternative fact?
There is nothing fun about "alternative facts"
where is the queen?
I thought the longest name of a place is Bangkok (Krung Thep.... etc etc)
That's not a single-word placename. But it is a placename I didn't know about, so thank you for teaching me something
"The proof of the pudding is in the..." what?
I know this one! It's fucking!
... Sstephen Fry?
What is the most sensible way of entering a competition?
1 By phone (costing £1.54)
2 By text (costing £1.50 + network rate)
3 Online (FOR FREE)
4 Stephen Fry
5 I'm going to go... with the Pope
42 Douglas Adams
I don't think there are that many men "after Mother Teresa"
Dude I love in NZ and we just call that Te Mata peak cos it's a freakin mountain.
And no it's not an English word its a Maori word that no bastard can say EVEN FREAKIN MAORI we ALL just call it Te Mata peak cos we are lazy and stuff trying to.say that shit out loud
TBH i thought of the pope or the ABoC
Fun Thought: Can anyone actually prove that Mother Teresa wasn't a man in drag?
its pronounced toumatafhakatangi