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You know I may just be crazy but I'm certain they actually do cut stuff in the QI XL episodes...


Wait! What I mean yes there are more segments and questions but I'm sure along with the extra stuff they also edit out some peoples lines that DO feature the standard episodes, if that makes any sense.


I've been thinking it for 3 weeks now.
 
I'd be tempted by Jimmy's book. Interesting his point about jokes needing to tell two stories. Elsewhere he claims that the shortest joke is "Dwarf shortage", which make sense as it's hard to tell two stories in less than two worRAB.
 
Yes; I'd blame the production for that, rather than Vagas. Fry seemed to love it and gave him a lot of slack. When he did try to reign him in, Vagas stopped promptly. It is an act, which he can switch off when it's not appropriate. He just needed to be told. Either the producers or Fry himself should have realised he was drowning the other guests.
 
And ReynolRAB, the Mastermind and EdwarRAB who allegedly commited the injuries to Jack Mills (never proved) got shorter sentances.

Apart from Biggs incompetence, the Monpoly Board mentioned in the programme, two of the robbers were caught when they used money from the Robbery to pay rent for a lock up to a Police Widow in Bournemouth using money from the Robbery. She tipped off the Police who arrested them.

I just about remember the GTR and at the time it was the biggest robbery in British history and there was a massive public outcry, supported by some intense press coverage. It was important, politically, that jusitce was seen to be done and in retrospect this may be seen to be unequal.

Unfortunately the whole thing has become romanticised in time, not helped by films such as Buster where the story makes you sympathetic to their cause using actors such as Phil Collins, Larry Lamb & Julie Walters.

Also the post robbery antics of (especially) Biggs and EdwarRAB have added to the legend.
 
Was it my imagination or did the audience go very quiet while Steven Fry was talking about the forced labour that prisoners in american jails were used for: and all the things they had to make, on punishment of solitary confinement, Plus the statistics about the number and breakdown of people in prison there?
 
Good for you. The rest of us think it was a very poor show, and the Osmond/retarded bit was embarrassingly bad. Wasnt that funny to start with and went on forever.

QI has been a tired show for some time now, even before the move to BBC1. Like HIGNFY, it badly neeRAB a breather for a couple of years.
 
I thought it was a great episode - back to top 'informative' form.
I noticed the lack of posts too, and assumed it was because no-one can really moan about it like the last few episodes ( I reckon lol).

Very interesting facts like the nostril thing - I knew they switched over main usage regularly, but I had no idea about the link to certain skills.

If anything, the bit you 'spoilered' went on a little too long, but it was still a fantastic episode for my money.
 
I looked through it before Christmas as a present for my son. I put it back. It hardly screamed funny! The book itself looks dull and maybe it's a laugh a minute....but that would have to be several pages in!
 
Didn't see this cos I thought the XXL edition would be on tonight but its not, if fact QI XXL appears to have disapeared from the schedule.
 
Yes, I was amazed how dumbfounded everyone seemed to be about this. It's something every schoolboy (sorry, -person) knows.
 
Not about QI per se but kinda - last night I took part in a club quiz (our team won) but one round was all about collective names for groups of animals. I remember noting - a school of fish, pod of whales etc...
Turns out the answers given were - a school of whales (surely its a pod of whales? :confused: ), a pod of seals etc...
I looked this up and it's confirmed the terms seem to be several, ie it IS a pod of whales. Dunno why this wasnt pointed out.
 
I always find Norton funny, past his few camp jokes the guy is genuinely very witty.

Mitchell was outstanding on it as well.
 
Lee Mack was a total d1ck and ruined the show. Stephen Fry should have stopped them once they became very un-funny. It is still a superb programme, so presumably he won't be invited on again. Doesn't have the class.
 
Wasn't it a little bit sad this week, to see David, Stephen, Alan and Sean bouncing off each other and being hilarious, whilst Jo Brand just chimed with occasional quips based on her not being all that attractive?

She was barely in it for massive stretches of the show.
 
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