"We are in trouble as a species if people refuse to believe in things they couldn't do themselves " Brilliantly put.

Stephen and Sandi having a discussion about straight sex will always be hilarious.

Stephen and Sandi. You really can't pick better hosts. Both of them are absolutely amazing.

God, I miss Sean Lock.

Anyone else notice that Fry dresses like a Batman villain?

Can't help but feel Sean is one of those comics Stephen truelly admired

I sure miss Sean. What a great wit.

Well, there's another one. The Giant Tortoises segment has been repeated so many times on Q.I. because it's so delicious. Most Q.I. viewers can recite the segment forwards and backwards whilst drinking turtle soup. lol

I can imagine that tortoise walking around for 155 years shouting 'Mum?...Mum?...Dad?...Nigel?'

That guy Sean Lock, OMG what a super quick witt he had such a tragic loss, RIP Sean

“If I ever talk to him again, he was going to be sick in my eyes”. Savage!! Love it ❤

Has there ever been a smoother transition of a tv host? It’s like fate.

This video just cheered me up after a pretty pants day. I haven't laughed so much for ages.

Sean and David are absolutely brilliant and hilarious!

One of my favorite shows ever! I rewatch old Steven episodes every year..it never gets old. ❤ Thanks for this fab vid ❤

32:25 Alan and Victoria were both later made to do a multiple negative task on Taskmaster. Only one of them got it right, even though they were both on that episode of QI years ago.

I have gotten a habit of watching these, as I tend to get both humor and a bit of knowledge from each. Informative stuff, quite interesting, and throw in the normal large dash of comedy. Fun to watch...And, this, believe it or not, is an "American" talking!

thank you for uploading this ever since Stephen left the program and appears a pull all of the old clips of him that everyone had on the channels of the previous shows the very hard to find and I appreciate Stephen very much.

67% of schoolchildren haven’t heard of Oliver Cromwell…?? I can understand them not knowing all the ‘ins and outs’ of the man, but to have not even heard of him is extraordinary… what are they being taught in history…??

Wow! A funniest QI moments compilation without the Acropolis where the Parthenon is clip. I can't believe it. 😂

I just noticed that this is another show that Rob Bryden attempted to take over in an administrative coup, on air. *lol*

They couldnt have chosen better having sandy take over, but i do miss stephen. Did he ever come back as a guest on Sandy's show

QI speedrun. Love to see it.

As a Dane watching, I was puzzled when she started speaking Danish...! Never heard of her before. Learning about her now, I remember seeing her father on Danish TV when I was a child (Claus Toksvig).

Regarding the crabs, when caught, they only take one claw... they need to let the crab keep one so it can eat and continue to grow new claws.

Vague recollection of a landlady of a B&B shouting up the stairs, 'Ain't you not coming down for no breakfast?'

17:15 "Vanished like a fart in the Sahara" would be the Finnish equivalent.

Jeremy Hardy's giant thermometers joke is a classic.

If there's anything that brings joy to my day is to watch Sean almost brake character because of the amount of sillyness of his own joke 😂 0:56

@11:34 It was said of George Washington that, as he was always the tallest man in the room, he was bound to lead something. It was said in a telly series (John Adams), but I reckon it says a lot about those that those us of average height call The Tall. PS Sean Lock was bloody brilliant, wasnt he?

I love David Mitchell's younger look. 9.33.

bridens fire facts is still the best thing ever on qi

shivers at the chain saw bit.. now I feel really bad for Dara Obriains mother lol

The stripey honk-shoo pajamas have never suited a man more than Alan Davies. Those might be his actual sleepwear

Sean and David Mitchell. Perfection Missing Sean still 😊

14:15 According to the late, great Douglas Adams "The other Shaltinacks Dupelberry shrub is always a more mauvey shade of pinky russet."

These are brilliant

About the stone crabs. Australian aborigines in the northern territory routinely harvest the one dominant claw from mud crabs and leave them to grow another and next year harvest the old, now dominant claw.

'Explosif! Just reading'... brilliant!😂

21:02 this joke made me sit, bolt upright, to laugh whole-heartedly and proper.

This was SO funny. The tortoise bit was the best!!😂

The funniest thing I heard as a kid, was my best friend’s dad describing a lady from church’s voice. He said That woman has a voice on her like a fart in a cracked jerry.😂😂😂

The insurance company plaques on houses is, or should be here in rural Tennessee. The next county over, from where I live, in rural Tennessee, they separated the fire dept. taxes from the county taxes, so if there's a fire and they send firemen to your burning house, if you didn't pay the fire tax, but your neighbor did, they'll watch yours burn and protect your neighbor's house. It happened a year or two before I moved down here in 2016. There are a lot of mobile homes around here and the fire dept. would never reach them in time to save them anyways.

32:35 Interesting. This was before Alan and Victoria were on Taskmaster. One certainly retained the information better than the other.

The orphan negative bit is deleriously funny. I could feel Sara's awe at realizing something new. 17:28

Re Ouija, wiki says: The name was given from a word spelled out on the board when medium Helen Peters Nosworthy asked the board to name itself. When asked what the word meant, it responded "Good Luck."

Rob Brydon: “Smoke doesn’t burn you”……ahem excuse me?

Just discovering this show and it's hilarious 😂

Contronyms might be the coolest things I have ever heard of

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

The "conspiracy" of a moon landing being faked... with all the "evidence" proven right here is so beautiful. I love this show, the panel has a relaxation while "on the job" regardless what it is comprised of that episode. They connect and work together making every clip "laugh out loud" funny... That giant tortoise saga... they played off each other 😂😂 Thank you

Tree Surgeons have a chainsaw chain with long ropes and use that same sawing action, for difficult, encumbered branches.

Regarding the naming of the giant tortoise, it makes me think of something my boyfriend always tells: if we were ever to find alien life, 100% guaranteed we would eat it. To find out what it tastes like. And I am sure the answer would be "chicken".

Fry and Toksvig are both like affable teachers that you enjoy annoying or horrifying every so often.

You know what I love about Eddie? Everyone else is trying to find the punchline and he's trying to figure out how to help people still indentured in his head. God save the Queen. You marvelous, lipstick loving bastard. An edit: I was just googling and *Suzy Izzard is a magnificent, lipstick loving bastard. Keep beating it up, miss.

No disrespect to Sandi but people may not recognise how brilliant Stephen Fry was on QI

"your impression of someone on drugs is of someone who's never taken them." Damn... She crushed him. EDIT: I had to stop the giant tortoise segment multiple times to catch my breath from laughter.

What happend to the fire mans pole. He tiled my bathroom. 🤣😂🤣

Napoleon was lauded as short because he was always surrounded by his Garde Impériale for whom the minumum height was was 5'10"

2:49 that face -loool

"0-1" that really got me laughing

‘Explosif!!! .. just reading.’ Alan is just so great

"Double negatives are to do with maths" God damn Algebra

I was amazed to learn that the symphysiotomy procedure was routinely used in the UK, especially in Ireland, up until 1980s and is occasionally still used today if there is no safe alternative....😩

RIP Sean Lock and Jeremy Hardy. The fact that Jeremy Clarkson is still around demonstrates that there is no god.

"you were filming an episode of Bones" :D I remember., some of that :D

I loved Stephen in "Bones" and Gyles anecdotes.

I miss Stephen as host, ngl. Would be great if he came back for season Z

54:46 It's the Chris Farley bit with the eagle eggs in Almost Heroes, but in real life!

Poor old Rob trying to get those last wisps of hair to cover that cul de sac on his melon. He should just accept the baldness and go with it.

Soon as Fry goes, so do I....

Short guys are like tripods 😂

It is like the grown-ups were embarrassed to be fighting in front of the kid.

I absolutely love Rob talking about smoke and fires 😂 one of my favourite QI moments 39:40

I wish I could try turtle now, just to see what it was like… RIP turtles, and RIP Sean..❤

Good show

"Half the Irish population were decimated by Cromwell"… that’s not how decimation works, Stephen.

'On the medieval roundabout' is a fantastic name for a band

41:00 my boi Rich is wearing a Conan O'Brien shirt 👕

The expression isn't "shagging the dog" - especially since Shag isn't a Canadian or American phrase. Although it may have be rephrased in her case. While the phrasing may be understandable, she got the definition of the saying wrong. The expression is "You Really Screwed the Pooch on That One" or shortened to "Screwed the Pooch" which means making a huge inexcusable mistake - typically by not paying enough attention to what you were doing. It isn't about not working hard - it's about making a massive mistake. It's funny seeing weird spins on expressions, or how saying the same thing in different words doesn't sound right. Like how "We have no time to stand around looking pretty" is not the same as "This isn't the time for being sexy doing nothing"

The tortoises mentioned in the programmed that they were not properly catolouged is incorrect! The catalogue system was written under the title of (Delicious Recipes) 😂😂😂😂

I'm Canadian and "shagging the dog" is the most common way to say "doing nothing".

The inventor of the Ouija board game has a board carved on his headstone.

Damn that tortoise story nearly killed me.

I don't understand how the Ouija sales dropped in 1972 and the Exorcist didn't premiere until 1973.

We say shag it in Newfoundland. Katherine is from Sarnia. You might want to explore outside of Ontario once in a while. And it's spelled "Wales".

Allways find it funny how Giles brandreth seems to forget he's on a comedy show and treats it like he's on fucking mastermind everytime

Toksvig killed me

RIP Sean 😢

Where is the Parthenon song? 😊

Davids wearing his Special dressing gown i see

That chainsaw thing - why didn't they just do a caesarian? Julius Caesar was said to have been born that way - hence the name of the procedure - so it was certainly known about in the 1700's. Though, come to think of it, I think his mum had already died, so she wouldn't have objected much. Shakespeare lived round about then, and in his play Macbeth, Macduff says : Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripped. ... so if Shakespeare knew about it, it was probably common knowledge.

*_Gazing at the Bourne Identity_* - Oh, please stop! Oh, thanks. 😎

Did they not know that most crustaceans regrow their claws?😅

I am learning Korean, and I just learned the phrase, 울다가 웃으면 엉덩이에 털난다. (uldaga us-eumyeon eongdeong-i-e teollanda) It means, if you cry and laugh, you get hair on your butt.

Just because a person is terrible doesn’t men people shouldn’t know who they are. In fact they should absolutely know.

Memory, Stephen. You have a good memory. That's it.

It's not "Live" Ghost Boxing, Sean!

So, its sophomore year. We're all high on pot, or maybe not, doesnt matter, about 8 of us in a dark dorm room, with 4 of us sitting around a piece of paper, that had a to z, and 0 to 9, written down, and a coin in the centre. One of the guys asked a question, and it didnt work, the other guy asked a question and apparently the coin moved on its own but the answer was wrong, then another guy gave it a go, and the coin moved apparently on its own again and gave him the right answer. Finally when it was my turn, I kind of felt it was rigged and that one of them was moving it around, so i lay flat on my belly with my head tilted sideways facing the paper and eyeing the coin, and went ahead and asked a question, the answer to which no one in the room but I knew, and to my utter shock, our fingers hovered over the coin as it gently traversed across the paper mapping out the right answer. Cant believe it, right? Neither could we. But, the most fascinating thing is I had the same explanation that Stephen said the originators did, that it was a way through which one themselves communicates the information through some extra dimension, and that the force was strong with me and one of my mates.

17:30 I had to double take on the name above that taxi, I thought it said fake taxi at first