University Challenge: Press Special 1/1/1999 (50fps)

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  • @davidtydeman1434
    @davidtydeman1434 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Boris displayed the same behaviour he later brought to the Prime Ministership

  • @kaytieanddreambreen4554
    @kaytieanddreambreen4554 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Watching this now in 2022-2023 knowing it's paxman's last season on the show... makes me sad.

    • @sarnobat2000
      @sarnobat2000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      His anxiety inducing speedup as the episode purses is patented

  • @SgtLion
    @SgtLion ปีที่แล้ว +84

    If only the studio had fallen into a pit of lava that day, we'd have been spared so many arseholes.

    • @jarrodanderson2124
      @jarrodanderson2124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      you sound like a fun guy

    • @Rootle2
      @Rootle2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Keep Hitchens at least

    • @MrEggcake
      @MrEggcake 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Rootle2 fuck no

    • @Rootle2
      @Rootle2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@MrEggcake At least he's one of the only pundits who can think, whether you agree with him or not

    • @rumbalala
      @rumbalala 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Absolutely, Johnson particularly.

  • @sidpheasant7585
    @sidpheasant7585 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    First key thing to be noted - by the world - left and right are represented on each team. A wondrous-looking thing in and of itself, by the standards of 2024.

    • @chrish2359
      @chrish2359 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      An only connect episode did the same thing last Christmas. Much needed, I agree

    • @MrYorickJenkins
      @MrYorickJenkins 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good point now that you mention it

  • @arleneauditor4802
    @arleneauditor4802 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The funniest challenge I've ever watched so far. I love it😂

  • @benslater3588
    @benslater3588 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Johnson confidentally and wrongly arguing that Diana/Artemis were the Gods of Fertility and Love was pretty funny

    • @jackjones4248
      @jackjones4248 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well for some people it is a hunt

  • @captainweekend5276
    @captainweekend5276 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Imagine if after watching this in '99 someone told you that in about 20 years Boris would be PM...

  • @ProuvaireJean
    @ProuvaireJean 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    22:16 - Paxman's hesitation in ruling the answer incorrect is due to the fact that the movie is a remake/version of Johnson's answer under a different name.

    • @janisauzins4103
      @janisauzins4103 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I believe in fact a "gender swap"

    • @getthatcameraoutofmyface
      @getthatcameraoutofmyface หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't think that's why, yes, His Girl Friday is a version of the 1928 play The Front Page (also made into a 1931 film which is about half as good as His Girl Friday). I think Pakman's reaction is more "wtf?" because it's freaking Cary Grant in the photo, Grant hadn't acted in a single movie when The Front Page (the film) came out, and His Girl Friday is one of his best-known roles. His Girl Friday is one of the three or four most famous newspaper films ever made, so it's weird someone, let alone a newspaperman, would know and guess The Front Page and not the right answer. It's not like Pakman was considering giving him credit for guessing a movie using the completely wrong title.

  • @davidfearis7335
    @davidfearis7335 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    5:15-5:50 Trust Boris Johnson To Pick A Fight With Jeremy Paxman

    • @ProuvaireJean
      @ProuvaireJean 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He's overly hasty, argues, and gets it wrong twice on the same question, while - granted - being entertaining in the process. A portent of things to come?

    • @shitpostgrotto2982
      @shitpostgrotto2982 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mr. Paxman's got the answer in front of him and Boris still tries to bloody defend his mistake! He likes to be right but never had the smarts for it for sure

  • @BanalayerPete1972
    @BanalayerPete1972 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Tony Parsons is more chipper and relaxed than I would've expected. Boris Johnson should've stuck with punditry. He was harmless then.

  • @Pwecko
    @Pwecko ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Boris was very good at the Beano.

  • @simonbletsoe7059
    @simonbletsoe7059 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    That lad Johnson is smart. He'll go far.

    • @TheLucanicLord
      @TheLucanicLord 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not far enough. I hear PLuto's nice.

  • @celestialteapot309
    @celestialteapot309 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    We've been putting up with these shits for years!

  • @jackjones4248
    @jackjones4248 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You can almost tell when Johnson is about to buzz in - classical mythology, art, politics or the beano

  • @ChequeTwice
    @ChequeTwice ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “…..and their team captain….” Oh dear 😅

  • @MultiVince95
    @MultiVince95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Friday 1st January 1999

  • @lnhart7157
    @lnhart7157 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    should be called Parsons vs. Johnson

  • @NothingToDismay
    @NothingToDismay 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    20:48. It clicked as soon as cocaine was mentioned!

  • @quintiniusverginix7827
    @quintiniusverginix7827 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    5:45 rare belly laugh from Peter Hitchens

  • @jackjones4248
    @jackjones4248 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The claim that syllabaries are used in Japanese is very questionable

  • @fusionsuper
    @fusionsuper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Paxo still in the chair as usual.

    • @TheAutisticGamer11
      @TheAutisticGamer11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He's unfortunately stepping down after the next series due to parkinsons

    • @matthall3077
      @matthall3077 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheAutisticGamer11 Amol Rajan Will Replace Paxman But It Won’t Have The Studio Audience

    • @ProuvaireJean
      @ProuvaireJean 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The rate at which Paxman used to fire off questions is in stark (but sadly understandable) contrast to his current pace.

  • @JamesPawson
    @JamesPawson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Does Bojo have ADHD? I am Canadian, so I haven't seen much of him on tv over the years.

    • @aaropajari7058
      @aaropajari7058 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      He has Tosser Syndome.

    • @hakc97again
      @hakc97again 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aaropajari7058 i reckon he has NPD and ASPD hence why he reckons he's beyond the law

    • @berylmatthews8495
      @berylmatthews8495 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      he is amazing 😉

  • @nobodydoesithalfasgoodasyou
    @nobodydoesithalfasgoodasyou 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Quark was a perfectly satisfactory guess, not sure why Paxo felt the need to sneer. Force of habit, I suppose.

    • @castelodeossos3947
      @castelodeossos3947 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Extraordinary how some people's loathing of the good Mr Paxman makes them use just any old nastiness to describe his reactions. To describe his reaction at 9:57 as a sneer is not just wrong, it's simply st*p*d. Such corruption of the language is one of the worst manifestations of Wokery.

    • @nobodydoesithalfasgoodasyou
      @nobodydoesithalfasgoodasyou ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@castelodeossos3947 I do not loathe Jeremy Paxman. He is as far as I know a perfectly decent and honourable man, but it cannot be overlooked that he is pompous and self-regarding, which possibly explains your affinity for him.

    • @Rootle2
      @Rootle2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think he doesn't like Johnson for some reason. But yes, derision is just the Paxman style

    • @BanalayerPete1972
      @BanalayerPete1972 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@castelodeossos3947: I agree with the gist of your comment, but you ended it by misusing the term "Wokery".

  • @saadahmad9298
    @saadahmad9298 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh Boris, you are still the same

  • @DavidMiller-ps5rr
    @DavidMiller-ps5rr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Has Boris Johnson always dressed like a toe-rag (tow-rag?)?

  • @geephlips
    @geephlips 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Soccer being used instead of football as recently as 1999. Interesting.

  • @Tandy683
    @Tandy683 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gwaan boris

  • @gurrrn1102
    @gurrrn1102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    8:49 is Rishi Sunak

    • @ep5019
      @ep5019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sadly the CONcervative membership voted wrongly back in August but it would so good of Klaus Schwab to help the parliamentary party get the right answer second time round

    • @WilliamCooper2005
      @WilliamCooper2005 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@trainrobber661 Blair still running the country from his lair.

  • @andrewwilliams8187
    @andrewwilliams8187 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Boris is pretty cleaver

    • @BanalayerPete1972
      @BanalayerPete1972 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But not politician material. No integrity.

  • @sticksman1979
    @sticksman1979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Moore and Aitkenhead were crap.

    • @craigsimons817
      @craigsimons817 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes they were but very easy on the eye, which is probably why they were there.

    • @BanalayerPete1972
      @BanalayerPete1972 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Aitkenhead got several answers right. I suspect mild misogyny.

    • @imagineslowed1099
      @imagineslowed1099 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      misogyny alert ^

  • @gazoww
    @gazoww 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    لاقخهس لاخقهس

  • @johnlawrence2757
    @johnlawrence2757 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    JP has not aged well, at all, has he….even considering the Parkinson’s

  • @philmitchell91
    @philmitchell91 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Did Peter Hitchens lose his sense of humour after the episode of this show was finished filming?

    • @Scodouk
      @Scodouk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He became a parody of himself.

    • @Rootle2
      @Rootle2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I think he just became progressively more depressed with the state of the country

    • @BanalayerPete1972
      @BanalayerPete1972 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Rootle2: He's an arch-Conservative!

    • @Rootle2
      @Rootle2 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@BanalayerPete1972 I guess so, but change has happened so rapidly in the lifetimes of old people alive today that anyone who didn't change their mind for a few decades might be considered arch conservative too

    • @BanalayerPete1972
      @BanalayerPete1972 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Rootle2: No one's being cruel to conservatives. If the right wing ideal is to make poor people poorer, or to be allowed to use abusive language to mock the disabled, to use two instances, they're making their own lives harder as well as others'.