@@bennylloyd-willner9667 😂 It's a just a particularly annoying comment that people have been putting under every comedy orientated video on TH-cam for years now. I'm just glad to see it annoys other people like it annoys me.
Jan Peternelj why do the brits always try to make spelling harder? Color is colour. Humor is humour. It’s just confusing. Just use our dictionary and throw yours out.
@@Cypher791 -- Nein! Nein! Nein! This is untrue! Germans enjoy jokes as much as the next person! I have examples of course: ... Joke #1 - Why are there so few crimes in Germany? ... because it's illegal! ... Joke #2 - How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb? One. Germans are very efficient. ... Joke #3 - How many Austrians does it take to change a lightbulb? One. Germans are very efficient. ... Joke #4 - How many Czechoslovakians does it take to change a lightbulb? One. Germans are very efficient. ... Joke #5 - How many Swiss does it take to change a lightbulb? Unknown. Germans are very efficient, not stupid.
Now I understand the cheese joke. When I lived in Germany, my first host father told me a joke that he really liked, but I didn’t understand. It basically went “So a frog goes into a grocery store, and the worker asked him if he needed anything. “Quark””.
Water Boatmen fact was really cool; always had them, newts, & frogspawn in my local pond growing up. Just found out recently from mum one of my childhood heroes, David Bellamy passed away. Always loved him and learned so much; will always cherish the episode he filmed at out beautiful East Yorkshire coast when I was a kid. 🙏🏻 🕊🌊❤️
Cariad is a very nice woman, indeed. The other redhead, I forget her name, in fact she makes me forget my own name even... She is the cutest thing ever. Her fairy-like beauty and youthful alabaster skin draped with that vivid crimson hair makes me loath myself beyond mortal comprehension. She's like some pagan demi-goddess, a symbol of all that's wonderful in life, the gentle swift of a butterfly wing, the spots on a trout, and the earthy vanilla undertone of a fine whisky. A woman whom the forest elves would celebrate and serenade on the misty dawn of summer. I too suffer from posh voice, no money...
Is it just me or am I the only one who thought that the end bit with. Alan going on about the ants sounded like something out of a Monty Pythons episode.
In another qi short, Catherine offered the phrase shagging the dog, which shocked Stephen, but it's probably a common phrase. In the US Midwest (Chicago) shagging was used in baseball to mean run as fast as you can after the ball. Fu**ing, the dog, screwing the pooch meant that a person or crew wasn't complete their assignment, or were going very slow, or even not completing a job, which would result in a future problem.
We have the screaming lady toad in our garden. They just scream. The neighbors little daughter went up to her mother one night and said ”Mommy. Is that a lady screaming?” It’s a horrible noise and my dad doesn’t care about it because he’s half deaf and his room is on the opposite side of the house. Come to think of it, I think those toads are one of the reasons that I moved out.
The thing about frogs saying 'ribbit' reminds me of the old corny joke: "How do you know when there are frogs in knee-deep water?" "I dunno. How do you know?" "You can hear them saying, 'Knee-deep. Knee-deep. Knee-deep'." Don't blame me. You didn't have to read this comment. And, honestly, if you didn't stop once you got to "old corny joke," there's no one to blame but yourself. ;-)
Nothing wrong with old corny jokes mate! I don't particularly like they types who are elitist about comedy. Dad jokes, chuck Norris 'facts', slapstick stuff like Bottom or the Young Ones, Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, Father Ted(being Irish and being 12 when the first season came out was a real zeitgeist moment), Black Books... Stupid jokes like what's pink and fluffy? Pink fluff... Stuff like that tickles my funnybone as much as Gervais stuff or Chapelle, Rogan, Pryor, Bill Hicks.
Funny enough, the ability to count is actually a /cultural/ adaptation. Not an innate ability or an automatic one. I took an intensely in depth class on culture&cognition and essentially, without the formation of a culture who needed numbers, we really cant count very high or keep track of much at all. It's more complex than I can explain here, but there are plenty of cultures that still have no system of counting past any units of ten . They just visually have rough estimates, but without the actual introduction of units representing each number there is only so far adaptations and cultures can go. Hence, our advancements lolll
That is really fascinating. Wish I'd attended the same class. Any links or refs would be much appreciated. Meanwhile, I love my pi 3.1415926535897932....
I think the sperm whale at 236db would be louder given that db is on a log scale. though the pistol shrimp at 220 db which would be about 1/1000th of the volume (compared to 250db), might be louder for the size anyway, both can kill you through the sheer volume. (200db can kill) a guy put his hand in front of him to signal a whale to stop and his hand was paralyzed for 4 hours, and that's probably just on communication volume (which is around 180-190db), not stunning/killing. that's basically like putting your hand in a microwave. for comparison, sound level wise that's like standing on the launchpad next to a rocket.
Sometimes I find Alan’s jokes to be silly and unfunny but then there are times when he seems to be working on another level, in a comedic flow state where his absurdity works and I could imagine him having his own absurd comedy show where he improvises most of the dialogue.
Hows this for bad luck? I continued the video after pausing at the exact ringing rods bit by chance. When I continued, I used earphones and the volume was accidentally on full. I already have tinnitus too. 😣
When I watched this episode the first time I remember thinking: "Huh! So animals can think and count and have emotions? So the only difference between them and us is that we've got an opposable thumb? Interesting!"
You are probably not being serious but one thing that not many animals have (include our primate cousins) is visual self recognition (i.e. Cannot tell that their reflection is their own and not another animal). Counting is about as common as object permanence in animals which makes sense as they are somewhat related; Sandy's duck example isn't an issue of counting for the duck but of the ducks lack of object permanence.
I know this is an old comment but it really has to be said that humans are not the only ones with opposable thumbs. There are around 10 animals that have them: apes, lemurs, possums, koalas, even chameleons to name a few.
I'm from British Columbia, all of the frogs I've ever heard made the distinct ribbit sound. I never realized it was only actually one species of frogs that ribbit and there's a variety of species in BC.
An Alan and Frank Oz collaboration would have been amazing. The multiple heads bit he did always reminds me of the character with two heads in the Labyrinth.
Some joker's at work (railroad freight yards) would say over the walkie talkies ribbit ribbit. Shortly thereafter someone came over the radio and say, the cry of the horny toad rubbit rubbit.
They can tell if they outnumber the roarers (eh?) by two -in which case go and beat 'em up- or not -in which case, go carefully. Solitary male lions would approach roaring lions even if they knew they were outnumbered. They weren't asking where the party was. Cat fight cat fight!
I worked with a Polish person and they had a tattoo that said lebet and I asked what that meant and his nickname war frog so he had the sound that the frog would make in there language being lebet
This channel and these compilations would be so much better if someone fixed the volume. It's frustrating as hell having to turn my volume up loud for one excerpt and then the next excerpt comes on and it blasts through my speakers like a freight train
Birds do have testes. They’re deep inside the body and proportionally much bigger than human testes, for example. Cockerel testes are quite a delicacy.
@@gwishart "red indian" i caught it too. But this was from an older episode, probably wasn't regarded as offensive. I get what he was trying to do, draw distinction between Native American Indians (which, Indian shouldn't even be part of it) and actual Indians.
It's just a metal rod with some rosin. You could buy a suitable rod from a hardware shop and rosin from anywehere that sells dance and sports accessories.
It was an old episode dude. Early 2000s. And the British, at that time, may not have known it was becoming seen as an offensive reference. I mean, in the U.S. it's only become viewed by the masses in the last 10 or 15 years.
"I suffer from a fatal condition, Ashling, which is: posh voice, no money."
Best quote ever.
Well ... I have a solution for Sandi: Speak Danish! Problem solved! No posh voice! ^^
I’ve seen Alan’s Mad Hatterpillar probably a hundred times in these comps and it still just absolutely kills me 😂 the show is a national treasure
Ooh no no. You never see me
International treasure, thank goodness.
I think Five Heads Gary is my favourite Alan animal impression
Would love to get a transcript of this part and his Julie Andrews "she never shuts up" stream of consciousness 😆
Funny how Fry is 90% PLUS of the clips and advertisements! poor sandy!
"Where are the duck's knees? Ask the flamingo." I inhaled my tea and nearly died LOL
That last solo from Alan had me tearing up. God he's brilliant
Alan singing "It's not easy being greeeeeeen!" gets me every time. He's adorable.
“Our Lord” is the most underrated joke of this complication
Where are the jokes rated? I'd like to see that list to see how underrated it is😊
@@bennylloyd-willner9667 😂 It's a just a particularly annoying comment that people have been putting under every comedy orientated video on TH-cam for years now. I'm just glad to see it annoys other people like it annoys me.
Alan should have been a cartoonist....man's got a hell of a imagination...
I can just about imagine Alan's badly drawn stick figures!
totally a Monty Python kinda guy
Why do I feel like the bit at the end is in a Monty Python film?
British "humor"
''Humour''
@@janpeternelj2309 American spelling since Ik ben Amerikaans ya Dutch bastard >.o. But fair point since I enjoy British 'humour.'
Jan Peternelj why do the brits always try to make spelling harder? Color is colour. Humor is humour. It’s just confusing. Just use our dictionary and throw yours out.
@@generalhyde007 maybe you should throw your dictionary out and use ours.
"Posh voice no money" is such a good line
The amount of effort Alan has to put into carrying the show towards the end there was insane.
Can animals count?
Yes.
Show a dog three treats and give him two 🤣
In Germany, we think all frogs go quaak. No joke in here, just true.
We know Germans never joke.. ✋😑
@@Cypher791 -- Nein! Nein! Nein! This is untrue! Germans enjoy jokes as much as the next person! I have examples of course:
... Joke #1 - Why are there so few crimes in Germany? ... because it's illegal!
... Joke #2 - How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb? One. Germans are very efficient.
... Joke #3 - How many Austrians does it take to change a lightbulb? One. Germans are very efficient.
... Joke #4 - How many Czechoslovakians does it take to change a lightbulb? One. Germans are very efficient.
... Joke #5 - How many Swiss does it take to change a lightbulb? Unknown. Germans are very efficient, not stupid.
The Bonesaw .. I stand corrected ☝️😆
Now I understand the cheese joke. When I lived in Germany, my first host father told me a joke that he really liked, but I didn’t understand. It basically went “So a frog goes into a grocery store, and the worker asked him if he needed anything. “Quark””.
@1993DJC so...we keep no nouse but biting frog (with fangs) a secret, neighbour?- cheers from indonesia.
I think we should clone Stephen. We could use more of him.
Qi isn't the same anymore, just can't watch it.......
Amen
too right.
@BijuuAzzyZside Fan funny thing is Stephen does not believe in the Arc;)
@@bulldogjoe1804 how can he not believe in a giant boat?
"Ah and that's a fact story, that's a true fact story" Haahahahahaha
Water Boatmen fact was really cool; always had them, newts, & frogspawn in my local pond growing up. Just found out recently from mum one of my childhood heroes, David Bellamy passed away. Always loved him and learned so much; will always cherish the episode he filmed at out beautiful East Yorkshire coast when I was a kid. 🙏🏻 🕊🌊❤️
Yeah I was really surprised at that fact, I assumed it was going to be pistol shrimps, not something I've actually seen before!
@6:46 -@8:03 . R.I.P earphones & ears. I still have ringing in my ears from that lol
Ugh.....as annoying and migraine inducing. As annoying as when packing beads rubbed together. Makes you want to punch anything causing that sound.
Thanks for the warning - took my earphones out when it started.
12:43 Cariad's mind being blown is the cutest damn thing.
Cariad is a very nice woman, indeed. The other redhead, I forget her name, in fact she makes me forget my own name even... She is the cutest thing ever. Her fairy-like beauty and youthful alabaster skin draped with that vivid crimson hair makes me loath myself beyond mortal comprehension. She's like some pagan demi-goddess, a symbol of all that's wonderful in life, the gentle swift of a butterfly wing, the spots on a trout, and the earthy vanilla undertone of a fine whisky. A woman whom the forest elves would celebrate and serenade on the misty dawn of summer. I too suffer from posh voice, no money...
@@raven_of_zoso455 cringe and creepy
@@raven_of_zoso455 Alice Levine
That last bit of Allan impersonating the ant and the mad-hatter is genius! That us why he is on that show!
Is it just me or am I the only one who thought that the end bit with. Alan going on about the ants sounded like something out of a Monty Pythons episode.
Racist.
STFU Justine
Or the Labyrinth
He sounds like Brian’s Mum (Terry Jones) in The Life of Brian
My first thought!
It's a crime that Stephen's "one, two, three, four, five, chicks" joke got no recognition.
I don't get that joke.
Got it, Chicks means six. I see now why there was no recognition.
@@johnsheehy6172 😂
Looks like it may have been edited out?
@@arh6624 Umm no it is at 9:06.
I once was walking a path in the woods and heard a shriek so loud i jumped, turns out it was a frog i nearly stepped on. It was SO LOUD
I once heard a frog being chased by a cat, and the scream was almost as large as a human
I admire Stephen so much it’s ridiculous
Alans multihead rant!..l can see our old house from here!
Ya know I should know better than to watch this while getting stoned. 'Bout coughed up a lung laughing in the middle of a big toke!
lmao. An everyday occurrence for us avid fans😎
Someone needs to do animations for all of Alan#s animal impressions.
In another qi short, Catherine offered the phrase shagging the dog, which shocked Stephen, but it's probably a common phrase. In the US Midwest (Chicago) shagging was used in baseball to mean run as fast as you can after the ball. Fu**ing, the dog, screwing the pooch meant that a person or crew wasn't complete their assignment, or were going very slow, or even not completing a job, which would result in a future problem.
Sorry but I don't get it - if "shagging the dog" means running fast after the ball, why does it mean being lazy?
I was so down but QI on tap has me laughing my socks off
Levelling the audio between clips is free...
M8. Stfu
@@blaidddrwg-ye9dy It's not too unreasonable to expect them to adjust the audio. What if someone had their volume too high?
@@tommythecat7752
Well I doubt adjusting the volume level of your own phone/pc would be such a monumental task to do...
@@ivnislykun why should everyone have to adjust when you can do it while editing the videos together quite easily.
Thanks for uploading all of these!
I really thought the loudest one was going to be the pistol shrimp. Never would have guessed the boatman 😳
The 5 head caterpillar kills me every time
Stephen Fry should do a Attenborough-esque documentary about animal "facts" that everybody "knows."
Snoop Dog does a few funny nature shows.
I have a 'motorbike' frog in my garden. It sounds like a bike being revved at the traffic lights.
We have the screaming lady toad in our garden. They just scream. The neighbors little daughter went up to her mother one night and said ”Mommy. Is that a lady screaming?” It’s a horrible noise and my dad doesn’t care about it because he’s half deaf and his room is on the opposite side of the house. Come to think of it, I think those toads are one of the reasons that I moved out.
Ship Creek :Must be an Aussie......am I right?
@@curiouscuriouser2670 correct👍
*Encouraging that when some one suggests Jesus walked on water the laughter lifts the roof off. There's hope for us yet...*
Back to Reddit with you
Britain, mate
We laugh at Christians
7:16 the audio tech has a fit
4:42 brilliant zinger from Jo 😁
Iron Boots “brilliant”? Its literally her entire act.
Per ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, the sound frogs make is Rakkk-akkk-akkk-kaks, Rakkk-akkk-akkk-kaks! Koax, koax!
Reginald D. Hunter has the best voice ever!
’Delicous’ as I like to call him
@@Reznor1983 Yeah and his sister scrumptious 😄
Honestly the best show in my opinion
I've never been more entertained by watching five men rub metal tubes with their fingers to make noise than this
The thing about frogs saying 'ribbit' reminds me of the old corny joke:
"How do you know when there are frogs in knee-deep water?"
"I dunno. How do you know?"
"You can hear them saying, 'Knee-deep. Knee-deep. Knee-deep'."
Don't blame me. You didn't have to read this comment.
And, honestly, if you didn't stop once you got to "old corny joke," there's no one to blame but yourself.
;-)
Nothing wrong with old corny jokes mate! I don't particularly like they types who are elitist about comedy. Dad jokes, chuck Norris 'facts', slapstick stuff like Bottom or the Young Ones, Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, Father Ted(being Irish and being 12 when the first season came out was a real zeitgeist moment), Black Books... Stupid jokes like what's pink and fluffy? Pink fluff... Stuff like that tickles my funnybone as much as Gervais stuff or Chapelle, Rogan, Pryor, Bill Hicks.
14:03 ...and then Alan takes things too far... and i love him for it... =D
It's not too far though - It's just hilarious quick-witted humour :D
That Ribbit shit was Hilarious 😂😂😂
Man this is so much better than American Jeopardy!
So weird seeing Jimmy in anything other than a custom tailored suit! 😂
Funny enough, the ability to count is actually a /cultural/ adaptation. Not an innate ability or an automatic one.
I took an intensely in depth class on culture&cognition and essentially, without the formation of a culture who needed numbers, we really cant count very high or keep track of much at all. It's more complex than I can explain here, but there are plenty of cultures that still have no system of counting past any units of ten . They just visually have rough estimates, but without the actual introduction of units representing each number there is only so far adaptations and cultures can go. Hence, our advancements lolll
That is really fascinating. Wish I'd attended the same class. Any links or refs would be much appreciated. Meanwhile, I love my pi 3.1415926535897932....
Like Terry Pratchetts trolls. One, two, three, many, many one, many two, many three, lots
I think the sperm whale at 236db would be louder given that db is on a log scale.
though the pistol shrimp at 220 db which would be about 1/1000th of the volume (compared to 250db), might be louder for the size
anyway, both can kill you through the sheer volume. (200db can kill)
a guy put his hand in front of him to signal a whale to stop and his hand was paralyzed for 4 hours, and that's probably just on communication volume (which is around 180-190db), not stunning/killing.
that's basically like putting your hand in a microwave.
for comparison, sound level wise that's like standing on the launchpad next to a rocket.
Past quite interesting and into very interesting. Perhaps you should edit? Spirit of the show and all that 😄
“I live on a house boat”
Less than one sentence later, “posh voice no money”
Sometimes I find Alan’s jokes to be silly and unfunny but then there are times when he seems to be working on another level, in a comedic flow state where his absurdity works and I could imagine him having his own absurd comedy show where he improvises most of the dialogue.
It should be titled Allan being silly as usual!
4:18 perfect Kermit impression
Hows this for bad luck? I continued the video after pausing at the exact ringing rods bit by chance. When I continued, I used earphones and the volume was accidentally on full. I already have tinnitus too. 😣
That metal rod sound was awful.
Youre not a waterbug
I quite liked it.
@@justincoleman3805 maybe you are then
I thought it sounded great.
12:40 "You can keep your head on..."
Nice that Danny got an ELP reference in there.
Love the 30s of tinnitus induction
jesus that crab wear dressed in everything bar the grand piano o-O
When I watched this episode the first time I remember thinking: "Huh! So animals can think and count and have emotions? So the only difference between them and us is that we've got an opposable thumb? Interesting!"
You are probably not being serious but one thing that not many animals have (include our primate cousins) is visual self recognition (i.e. Cannot tell that their reflection is their own and not another animal). Counting is about as common as object permanence in animals which makes sense as they are somewhat related; Sandy's duck example isn't an issue of counting for the duck but of the ducks lack of object permanence.
I know this is an old comment but it really has to be said that humans are not the only ones with opposable thumbs. There are around 10 animals that have them: apes, lemurs, possums, koalas, even chameleons to name a few.
Never heard a water boatman make any noise actually. Specially not one like a freight train
All the other contestants think they're funny and then Alan Davis pipes up and blows the competition away!
Random fun fact, there are species of moths that also rub their genitals along their thorax to confuse bat's, it's an oddly awesome survival tactic
Technically alan was correct about the frog noise
I'm from British Columbia, all of the frogs I've ever heard made the distinct ribbit sound. I never realized it was only actually one species of frogs that ribbit and there's a variety of species in BC.
Likely you have heard other species but did not connect the noise with frogs.
8:23 I didn't hear 'count' at first
Same was like wtf animal cum?
Yeah I heard something else too
aurtura pal! Same here 🤣🤣🤣 I heard cum 🤣🤣🤣
Woogieboogie me too 🤣🤣🤣
Alan would have bee good on the. Muppets
An Alan and Frank Oz collaboration would have been amazing. The multiple heads bit he did always reminds me of the character with two heads in the Labyrinth.
Wow, "Red Indians," Stephen would be skewered here in the US.
I have posh voice no money syndrome as well. Still, I suspect Sandi has rather more money than I do!
A 3 foot frog is honestly nightmare
Highlight was Stephen Fry referencing Mars Attacks.
What I'd like to know is where the bee's knees are.
I hate to be that guy but the question was specifically about an animal under the water not on the water
Some joker's at work (railroad freight yards) would say over the walkie talkies ribbit ribbit. Shortly thereafter someone came over the radio and say, the cry of the horny toad rubbit rubbit.
Apparently lions can tell if a pride is bigger then their own by the sound of the raw's and will move on.
They can tell if they outnumber the roarers (eh?) by two -in which case go and beat 'em up- or not -in which case, go carefully. Solitary male lions would approach roaring lions even if they knew they were outnumbered. They weren't asking where the party was.
Cat fight cat fight!
I worked with a Polish person and they had a tattoo that said lebet and I asked what that meant and his nickname war frog so he had the sound that the frog would make in there language being lebet
This show is the bee's knees!
And the wasp's nipples 😊👍🇳🇱
Headphone users, turn volume down around 7:30. You're welcome
frogs go croak
When was the frog clip from? I didn’t expect to hear Stephen Fry saying “a band of red indians whooping.” Just caught me off guard.
This is is still louder though *WAK WAK WAK*
I think having the ring taken off a cormorant's neck so it can swallow a fish doesn't mean it can count. The fisherman can count, not the bird :)
Think the original clip was longer and explained that the cormorant won’t dive again until thing on its neck removed
A 3 foot long frog in 2020, that I find hard to believe.
This channel and these compilations would be so much better if someone fixed the volume. It's frustrating as hell having to turn my volume up loud for one excerpt and then the next excerpt comes on and it blasts through my speakers like a freight train
No Frog in germany does "ribbit"..... A rumor says that, if you listen closely, you can hear some go. "NEIN, NEIN, NEIN"
Birds do have testes. They’re deep inside the body and proportionally much bigger than human testes, for example. Cockerel testes are quite a delicacy.
4:37 Yikes! If he said that on american telly, all hell would break loose.
Why? Does "Fowler's toad" mean something rude in American?
@@gwishart "red indian" i caught it too. But this was from an older episode, probably wasn't regarded as offensive. I get what he was trying to do, draw distinction between Native American Indians (which, Indian shouldn't even be part of it) and actual Indians.
Wings are the arms, knees in the legs
posh voice no monney
i have that to
There's plenty of pond skaters around here and I've never heard anything 🤔
They meant relative to it's size I believe.
The hidden zoo level Easter egg!!
Alan was in good form.
Technically some plants also can count
The Venus Flytrap?
can someone tell me how to make or find one of those water boatman sticks
It's just a metal rod with some rosin. You could buy a suitable rod from a hardware shop and rosin from anywehere that sells dance and sports accessories.
"Like a band of red Indians wooping"...what? @4:35
Whooping means to make
a loud cry of joy or excitement.
It was an old episode dude. Early 2000s. And the British, at that time, may not have known it was becoming seen as an offensive reference. I mean, in the U.S. it's only become viewed by the masses in the last 10 or 15 years.
@@gwishart lol
I like Sandy, but I prefer Stephen.
Rip Cal Wilson
5:20 Stephen misspoke - would be awfully small at 2 millimeters! Meant centimetres.
nope. water boatman are between 2mm and 8mm in body length. stephen never misspeaks.
@@antonyaiken except when regaling us with what people say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is.
Subscribed to QI maybe get your own material ? Just a thought
Oh Alan, you never learn do you? Lol.
When did he miss an episode?
WOW - “red indians whooping”
Tinnitus warning!