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This programme contains some strong language.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Good evening. Good evening. Welcome to QI, where we're all kings for the day.

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Joining me at court are His Majesty King James VI, Jimmy Carr.

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APPLAUSE

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His Majesty King William III, Bill Bailey.

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APPLAUSE

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His Majesty King Jeremy the Only, Jeremy Clarkson.

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-APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

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And King Alan Davies.

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APPLAUSE

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Before we commence our battle royale, let the trumpet sound.

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Jimmy goes...

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ORNATE FLOURISH

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Bill goes...

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ORNATE FLOURISH

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Jeremy goes...

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ORNATE FLOURISH

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And Alan goes...

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PARTY HORN

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Why am I not surprised?

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Here are some kings I'm sure you're utterly aware of but can you

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tell me how they got their nicknames?

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These are all real kings and their real nicknames.

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Constantine - you should be able to guess where he comes from.

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-Sorry...

-Greece.

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Has your crown slipped?

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Yeah, it's, look, it's done that, you see, that's a...

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-Like that.

-It's a medieval torture.

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Yeah, this is what they put round royal dogs to stop them

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nibbling their stitches.

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Imagine the crown maker...

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Has your head lost weight?

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-Yes, it has, yes.

-It's lost even more hair than when we started.

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-Yeah.

-That's right.

-That's very unfair.

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Yes, I do apologise. It's just...

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You're welcome to take it off.

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Try and get it down the other way.

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Shall I try and go through it?

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Yeah, try and go through it. I think this is...

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APPLAUSE

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And that's the last we ever saw of him.

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That's not a good look.

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You, honestly, you look fine. You look fine.

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That's so like something out of Lord Of The Rings now.

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-Even more than ever.

-I'm going to make this my passport photo.

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What do you do? I'm a fighting king. What do you want?!

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But you can take it off now, you can all take off your crowns.

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Oh, God, thanks, thank you. Thank you very much, yes.

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-So, this brings us to these names.

-Names, right.

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Constantine...

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Constantine the Great, the first Constantine was?

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Was he a Greek?

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He was a Roman emperor,

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but he moved the capital from Rome to his new city, Constantinople.

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And he became Christian,

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and this one is a descendant of his who became very unpopular

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and his enemies claimed that, when he was baptised,

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he was so nervous, he pooed in the baptismal font.

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We've all done that.

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-We've all had nights out.

-Yeah.

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So they called him Koprononym, which is the Greek for Crap-Name.

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-Oh, I see.

-Poo-Name. Kopronym.

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Was he christened then as a child or as an adult?

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-I think...

-Because it's worse, I think, as an adult.

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Yes.

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It's embarrassing if you're an emperor and that's all they call you - Poo-Name.

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-You're still an emperor.

-I'm still emperor.

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So what were the other ones? Let's have a look.

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See if you can have any sort of mild guess.

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Louis the Universal Spider.

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He was actually Louis the XI of France.

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Could he climb up the water spout?

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No, that wasn't it.

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It's because he had webs of conspiracies all across Europe.

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Oh.

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It wasn't because he got stuck in the bath.

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-They all had names. Friends of Philip the...

-Spaniard.

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Philip the Good.

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Oh, right.

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-"The Good" shows a lack of imagination, doesn't it?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, the Good.

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Good, it's good though, isn't it?

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It's better than Dave the Satisfactory.

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That's the best you could have hoped for on your reports.

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That's probably what channel we're on now, as people are watching.

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APPLAUSE

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Yeah. Graham the Outstanding.

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He was considered good because he pursued so many crusades

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which is not considered good these days. Went off to the Holy Land and killed people.

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-We'd never do that today(!)

-No.

-No.

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As if. So the next one is King Eystein the Fart.

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-Is that meant to say Einstein?

-No. It is Eystein.

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-He got it wrong?

-Eystein the Fart.

-Eystein the Fart.

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So he farted once.

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"Fart" is Norwegian. Speedy, fast.

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Oh. So it's just a typo, really.

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No. It's correct in Norwegian.

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It's lost a little bit in the translation.

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He travelled a lot and he was the first source we have in writing of ice-skating.

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He described his own "ice legs".

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-Fshhh!

-Exactly.

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Yeah. Oh, ice legs.

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He was succeeded by his son, whom you will like, who has one of the best names of any king.

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Halfdan the .Mild

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Halfdan the Mild?

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-Ah.

-Surely that's a "half a mild please, Dan"? Isn't that?

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That's pretty good. Halfdan the Mild.

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Yeah. Foreign policy was like, ah, it'll be fine.

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Right, let's go to King Ragnar.

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Why was he called what he was called?

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Hairy Breeches. Oh, um...

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Was he very hairy?

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He wore hairy breeches.

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His wife made them out of animal hide

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and they were there to protect him.

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As you can see, he's here being killed. How's he being killed?

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By his own trousers.

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-No.

-Does it kill the animals before she made the clothes?

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His Viking ship capsized off the coast of Northumbria,

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and he was thrown into a pit of poisonous snakes.

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What, in Northumbria?

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By the King of England, who was at the time King Ella.

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-Where did he find these poisonous snakes from?

-Adders.

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Yeah, but, no, that wouldn't kill him though.

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Adders, that would give you a bit of an itch. They're not really poisonous.

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It may be a made-uppy story.

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But Ragnar was eventually avenged by his son,

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who was called Ivar the Boneless.

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He'd be called Ivar the Viagra these days.

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Yes.

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-He could get through railings.

-Yeah.

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And he got his revenge on King Ella...

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It's a pretty good super power. Didn't one of the Fantastic Four have that?

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In Valiant comic there used to be Janus, who was an escapology person.

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A bottom with a J in front.

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But he could, yes, that's right. And he could get through tiny gaps.

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Oh!

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LAUGHTER

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Ah, there you are.

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-There you go. Janus.

-Every week, he was in a situation...

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A Janal situation.

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..where it would be really helpful if he could get through a tiny gap.

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I don't know how the writers kept coming up with these scenarios

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where the only solution was for Janus to get through a tiny gap.

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But he was always going through drain grids and that sort of thing.

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And avoiding the door that was open.

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-That'd be too easy.

-Quite often he'd forgotten his keys.

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That's King Ragnar, the Hairy Breeches,

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being killed by King Ella, who came down on him in a pit.

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He was avenged by having his ribs opened

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and his lungs spread out against his chest, which was known as...

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-Say it again.

-The Blood Eagle.

-Very good, yes.

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Audience, ten points.

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He wasn't that boneless if he had a ribcage.

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No, he did it to the man who killed his father.

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Well, then presumably this person was, it was against his will.

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Yeah. It wasn't just, come on then, wey!

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-Help yourself.

-See? Fill your boots.

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I saw a documentary about heart surgery

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and to get through the sternum, they used a power saw.

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-I mean, it was...

-ALAN WHIRS

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-It's quite hard to get in there.

-Yeah.

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Or a little toffee hammer. And it takes a lot longer.

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-Yeah.

-It's a very small power saw.

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-It's not a huge...

-I mean, it's not a great big one.

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-No, it's not a logging thing.

-STEPHEN MIMES POWER SAW

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-It's a tiny...

-ALAN WHIRS GENTLY

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But when you're over a certain age, they can't risk doing

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that to you any more and they actually go up through the...thigh.

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Penis.

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Well, you were going, "up through, up through"...the penis.

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What a pity.

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Pee-hole surgery.

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APPLAUSE

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Requires a steady hand, obviously.

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Don't be absurd, they go up through the anus.

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-Oh, of course.

-Oh, dear!

-So sorry, Stephen.

-They go up through a major...

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Yeah, like your mate through the tiny cracks in the...

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Janus.

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That's why he was called Janus.

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-I've got a job for you, Janus.

-Oh!

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Up you go. Oh, God! Steady, chap.

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Stephen, now, I've got a question about farts.

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Oh, yes?

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Do you think that farts smell before they come out?

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I'm not going in to find out!

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Quite a philosophical one from you, Alan.

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If you went up someone, when Janus goes up to do the heart surgery...

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Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

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You wouldn't have to hold your nose, is what I'm saying,

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you'd be free to use both hands.

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If you have a colonoscopy, 24 hours before,

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you have to take these unbelievably powerful...

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Hallucinogenics.

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APPLAUSE

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Whoa! Oo-ee!

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Ho-ho, I'm being taken by a space octopus!

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Pushing on, name a cobra beginning with K.

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King.

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KLAXON

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Oh, Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy. A king cobra isn't actually a cobra.

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It has its own genus, which is in fact ophiophagus,

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which would tell... It sounds like "off your face."

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Off of your faces?

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No. Ophiophagus. Phagus means?

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Eating. Eating. Ophio...

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It means snake. So it's actually a snake-eating snake.

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A snake-eating snake.

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Yes, it is, that's right.

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I saw a cobra eat a snake.

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Well, maybe you can make up for your lack of points,

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by making the noise that a king cobra makes.

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I'm just going to get that klaxon again, aren't I?

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-It doesn't make a noise.

-It does make a distinctive noise.

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-Was it... All right, OK.

-"Hello!"

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Very good. So just imitate a king cobra if you can.

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-Does it hiss?

-BARKS

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-We're all...

-Meow!

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-KLAXON

-Does it bark?

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Oh, you did the hiss.

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I didn't, it wasn't me, I was barking.

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No, no, no, Alan did the hiss.

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-You did the bark so you get points back.

-So does it hiss?

-Does it hiss?

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-It barks.

-What do you mean, it barks?

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-It barks like a dog.

-It barks. Like a dog.

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-Who does the research?

-Do you want to hear it?

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It just seems that we should get some...

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-Here we go. Here, here we go.

-SNAKE BARKS

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There you go.

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There's no way that that's a snake.

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It is a king cobra. Fact.

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Bring him out, bring him out.

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Bring him out, yeah.

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Just to prove it...

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-AS EAMONN ANDREWS:

-You thought he was over there

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but he's here tonight. Please welcome...

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Can we hear that again?

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-Stephen Fry's barking cobra.

-It was a guess.

-Ssh.

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SNAKE BARKS A barking cock-alike.

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-ALAN BARKS

-It feels like if we play that a few times, it would

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sound like the TARDIS. Shall we just...?

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-OK, keep going.

-See if we can...

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SNAKE BARKS REPEATEDLY

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Anyway, it has a little sort of special place in its trachea

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and a kind of kazoo-like membrane and it makes that noise.

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I'm surprised we didn't know that.

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Wait a minute, a kazoo, a kazoo-like membrane?

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Well, a membrane, yeah.

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It doesn't sound like one, I grant you. It doesn't sound like one.

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OK.

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What else is interesting about king cobras? How venomous are they?

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Really venomous.

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More venom than any other snake. It's not as venomous but they've more of it.

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They've got more of it, and then they envenomate more often.

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-They venomate a lot.

-And they chase you.

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Yeah. So they're really bad.

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-They chase you while barking.

-Yes.

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-With more venom than...

-It's warning enough to stay away.

-Yeah.

-So, now.

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Oh, dear, why are we just always in this region?

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It's so unfortunate.

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Why might a Frenchman want this up his bottom?

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The French love shoving things up their bottoms.

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KLAXON

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Who knew, who knew I was going to go there?!

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We knew it was you, yeah.

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-Of course!

-It's true that if you ask for an aspirin in France,

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they will, their first action is to...

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-Oh, straight up the bottom.

-Is it to get tape worms?

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No, it is a surgical instrument and it was devised for one particular...

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-What's our theme this evening?

-Kings.

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-Who's the most famous king of France?

-Louis the XIV.

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Louis the XIV, the Sun King.

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-Yes.

-And he was very fond of riding, and enemas,

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-as they all were in those days.

-Was he constipated often?

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It was worse than that, he developed a condition which has

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a particular name. And...

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Faecal concreting.

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It's in the faecal area.

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I don't know, I just made it up.

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It's when a duct appears between two organs and connects them, which they

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shouldn't be connected, it causes great pain and it's called?

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That's a hernia. Ask, ask rib-cage man, he'll know.

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It means a little pipe and it is?

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-Fistula.

-Fistula.

-Fistula.

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-They're very good, this audience.

-Yeah.

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Are we doing QI Historical Embarrassing Bodies?

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Anyway, Louis XIV had a terrible fistula, and his doctor...

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-Oh, no.

-That's the dilator.

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Oh, no.

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-That's to dilate.

-That's what they used for the common man!

-No.

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The king had to have that too, he had to dilate it with that.

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I'm afraid that would have hurt a lot.

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Yes, but you still haven't got to why he'd want to put a cobra up his bottom.

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That was to pierce and slice the fistula.

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What?!

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-Yeah. And it worked.

-Really?

-It worked.

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So Felix de Tassy, the doctor, was given

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an estate and became hugely popular and no less than 30 courtiers,

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mimicking the King, said, "Yeah, I've got one of those too."

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You know, it's a really cool thing to have,

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suddenly having a fistula was the thing at Versailles.

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So he had this huge order book, basically. But to be fair to him,

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he didn't perform the operation on anyone who didn't need it, he was good enough

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to spot when people were faking, just by trying to mimic a king.

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What is the instrument on the left? Does that have a name?

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I don't know if it actually has a name, I guess it's a fistula...

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It's called a...AAAGH!

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APPLAUSE

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Moving on. What has 20 legs,

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five heads and can't reach its own nuts?

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Wait, hold on. 20 legs, what?

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-Five heads.

-Five heads.

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Westlife.

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Oh, you're so lucky. You're so lucky.

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I know what the klaxon was.

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I presume the klaxon... Shall I?

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-Yeah, go on.

-One Direction?

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-KLAXON

-Whoa!

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I've thought, I've got to go somewhere a little bit away...

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You're so behind, Jeremy, it's very sweet.

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Some kind of hideously mutated tyrannosaurus squirrel.

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-It's got the word king in it, oddly enough, and it's...

-Is it a plant?

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-It sounds like a gypsy band, but it's the Squirrel Kings.

-Squirrel Kings.

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-What would Squirrel Kings be?

-The best squirrels.

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Well, oddly enough, no, it's really unfortunate, normally

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they squirm around on the trees, but sometimes trees exude a sticky sap.

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-Yes.

-And when that happens and the baby squirrels

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get their tails in the sticky sap, their tails get stuck together

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and you can get this, where they're absolutely stuck together.

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AUDIENCE: Aww!

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Oh, that's fucking hysterical.

0:16:300:16:33

APPLAUSE

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Seriously, they get stuck together?!

0:16:370:16:39

You are so bad. The audience goes, "Aww!"

0:16:420:16:45

It's not... That's the funniest thing I've ever heard of.

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And they're never going to be organised enough to all say

0:16:490:16:52

"Right, ready, steady, all run off in different directions."

0:16:520:16:54

-They'll never be able to do that.

-I'm afraid they will all perish.

0:16:540:16:58

If you saw the damage squirrels do... They are appalling rats.

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Talking of rats, people call them tree rats,

0:17:020:17:04

and the phenomenon was first spotted in rats in Germany and in museums

0:17:040:17:07

and universities in Germany there are examples of huge rat kings,

0:17:070:17:10

where rats have been shoved together and preserved in alcohol.

0:17:100:17:13

That's a vast one - pretty disgusting-looking, as you can see.

0:17:130:17:15

Which trees? Are they lime trees that cause this?

0:17:150:17:18

I want to know specifically. Is it a lime tree?

0:17:180:17:21

-Just one that exudes a lot of sticky sap will do you.

-Lime.

0:17:210:17:24

Lime does exude a lot of stuff, and some trees, of course, exude a lot.

0:17:240:17:27

-How do the tails get stuck together?

-In the rats' case, I don't know...

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Not the rats, no, I'm more interested in the squirrels.

0:17:310:17:33

-Why would they...

-I'm not going to be the one

0:17:330:17:35

who teaches you to murder squirrels.

0:17:350:17:37

It's not murder, it's pest control for the sake of Britain's woodland.

0:17:370:17:42

They go up the tree and they get it on their tail?

0:17:420:17:44

-What makes them go near another one?

-They wriggle over each other

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looking for their mother's milk, they're at that stage.

0:17:460:17:49

-They're baby squirrels?

-Yes, they're babies.

-Oh, that's a bit sad.

0:17:490:17:52

LAUGHTER

0:17:520:17:53

Oh, he has got a heart, ladies and gentlemen.

0:17:530:17:55

Yeah.

0:17:550:17:57

Oh, yeah, we'll catch you in a minute.

0:17:570:17:59

You'll be caught on camera smearing Pritt on the bumper of your car.

0:17:590:18:01

LAUGHTER

0:18:010:18:04

All right. Now how could King's Cross Station possibly be improved?

0:18:040:18:09

Turn it into a car park.

0:18:090:18:10

Turn it into a car park!

0:18:100:18:12

-A Wagamama's.

-LAUGHTER

0:18:120:18:14

This was a plan in 1931.

0:18:140:18:17

Oh, to improve it?

0:18:170:18:18

-Was it the Germans' plan?

-It was the age of optimism and pride

0:18:180:18:21

and speed and machinery and, oh...

0:18:210:18:23

Was it a bit after that?

0:18:230:18:24

So it was the roof... Yeah...

0:18:240:18:26

-Glass. Crystal.

-The roof was flat.

0:18:260:18:28

-Runway.

-Yes!

0:18:280:18:30

It was to have an inner airport for London...

0:18:300:18:32

-No way, what, land...?

-..on the roof of King's Cross.

0:18:320:18:34

-And look at that design.

-What?!

0:18:340:18:36

Why is Boris Johnson messing around with the Thames Estuary

0:18:360:18:39

-when we could have one there?

-Isn't that brilliant?

-It's brilliant

0:18:390:18:42

apart from whoever's in the middle where there'll be some traffic.

0:18:420:18:45

-It's controlled.

-I can see where the crashes are going to take place.

0:18:450:18:48

It's controlled. You have radio.

0:18:480:18:52

Wait a minute. That's a device for gluing squirrels' tails together.

0:18:520:18:55

-That would be... Wouldn't that be great?

-Isn't it? So great, isn't it?

0:18:550:18:58

And obviously the jet era would have got rid of it,

0:18:580:19:00

they're not long enough for jet runways,

0:19:000:19:02

but they are long enough for ordinary prop airplanes.

0:19:020:19:04

-Light aircraft could land.

-They could.

-People could commute

0:19:040:19:07

-to London and it would be great.

-I know. Really great.

0:19:070:19:09

And they had elevators designed so the airplanes

0:19:090:19:12

would be hangared in, and then lifted up.

0:19:120:19:14

That's not just form 4B homework.

0:19:140:19:15

-They took it seriously.

-That was serious?

0:19:150:19:17

Yeah. It is lovely, isn't it? I'm very impressed with it.

0:19:170:19:20

Quite difficult to land on a kind of a bend, though, isn't it, like that?

0:19:200:19:23

-I think you use the straight bits.

-LAUGHTER

0:19:230:19:26

That would have been an amazing pilot's last words.

0:19:260:19:29

"This is tricky!"

0:19:290:19:32

Now, kingfishers - most of the kingfishers in the world

0:19:340:19:37

live near what?

0:19:370:19:39

-Water.

-Rivers.

-Well, no, they don't.

-Forests.

-Kingfishers?

0:19:390:19:43

No, most of the kingfishers in Britain live near water.

0:19:430:19:46

-But most of the kingfishers in the world don't.

-Sea?

0:19:460:19:48

No. Not near water at all.

0:19:480:19:50

-Why are they called kingfishers?

-That's a British word for them.

0:19:500:19:53

Because we in Britain see them by the river.

0:19:530:19:55

They're called kingfishers all over the world.

0:19:550:19:58

No, they're called "alkuon" in Greek.

0:19:580:19:59

What do you think we call them...?

0:19:590:20:01

-The Greek for kingfisher?

-Halcyon, exactly,

0:20:010:20:03

-but it doesn't mean "fisher".

-There it is, fishing.

0:20:030:20:05

It's... In Britain.

0:20:050:20:07

-Sorry, why does it...?

-Fishing again.

-In Britain.

0:20:070:20:10

-In Britain.

-The evidence is there behind you.

0:20:100:20:15

-In Britain.

-No, but if you go to...

-Go to Africa.

0:20:150:20:19

-Somewhere that isn't Britain.

-Africa.

-For example.

0:20:190:20:22

I've seen a kingfisher not anywhere near a river, you're right.

0:20:220:20:25

-In Africa...

-They're mostly all like this.

0:20:250:20:28

Mostly in Africa they live in disused termite nests.

0:20:280:20:30

-It looked lost.

-They live in disused termite nests.

0:20:300:20:33

-"You haven't got a fish on you, Bill, have you?"

-Yes.

0:20:330:20:36

"I mean, you haven't seen a river round here, have you?

0:20:360:20:39

"Water or anything?"

0:20:390:20:40

What is the colour of that kingfisher?

0:20:400:20:43

-It's turquoisey really, isn't it?

-Azure? Turquoise?

0:20:430:20:46

-It's brown.

-It's brown?

-Yeah.

0:20:460:20:48

This programme's getting more and more ridiculous every week.

0:20:480:20:51

It is a sort of optical illusion.

0:20:510:20:53

In fact, the actual colour pigment is brown,

0:20:530:20:57

but it iridesces it.

0:20:570:20:58

I must remember, I'll go to the middle of the Sahara Desert and get

0:20:580:21:02

one and then put it in a darkened room and see what colour it is.

0:21:020:21:05

Yeah. Perfect. Just because it's not near a river

0:21:050:21:08

-doesn't mean it's in the Sahara Desert.

-It eats fish.

0:21:080:21:10

Are you saying that the colour it is isn't the colour

0:21:120:21:15

-that it appears to be?

-No, because all colour is perception.

0:21:150:21:17

But that's kind of what I meant by colour.

0:21:170:21:20

-Yeah. But the...

-That's a bluey colour, that fella.

0:21:200:21:22

But if you examine it, in terms of its actual pigmentation...

0:21:220:21:25

-Right up close.

-Right up close,

0:21:250:21:27

rather than where it is presenting with the light striking it.

0:21:270:21:30

-Oh, right, so if I examine it without any light.

-No.

0:21:300:21:33

Oh, that feels brown.

0:21:330:21:35

I just don't understand when you do this on this show,

0:21:350:21:38

you go, "That brown thing is a blue thing

0:21:380:21:40

"and that blue thing is a brown thing."

0:21:400:21:42

I know, but iridescence is a very particular quality -

0:21:420:21:45

in the same way that petrol is not rainbow-coloured.

0:21:450:21:48

You put it on water in a puddle and it seems to be, but it's not.

0:21:480:21:52

-It's pink.

-Nobody knows what colour petrol is.

0:21:520:21:54

-Well, quite, exactly.

-Yeah, that's right. It could be any colour.

0:21:540:21:58

No-one has ever checked.

0:21:580:22:00

Nobody's ever gone, "What colour is this?"

0:22:000:22:02

They used to have pink or blue diesel, didn't they, for farmers?

0:22:020:22:05

Red diesel. Which you're not allowed to put in your car, and I don't.

0:22:050:22:09

No. Quite right.

0:22:090:22:11

Evading tax, Jeremy, it's a slippery slope.

0:22:120:22:15

All right.

0:22:150:22:17

Just saying.

0:22:190:22:21

OK, how many King Henrys of England have there been?

0:22:220:22:25

ORNATE FLOURISH

0:22:250:22:27

-Say it.

-Eight!

-No!

0:22:300:22:31

KLAXON BLARES

0:22:310:22:32

There were nine, in fact.

0:22:340:22:35

Henry II had a son, who was known as Young King Henry,

0:22:350:22:38

who according to the French tradition was anointed King

0:22:380:22:42

while Henry II, his father, was still alive.

0:22:420:22:44

And so he wasn't given the reginal number III, but he was King,

0:22:440:22:49

and he died at age 27 or so and he was quite an amusing fellow.

0:22:490:22:53

He was very popular, he died young, but when he was 17,

0:22:530:22:56

he...he got in trouble with his father for refusing to turn up home

0:22:560:22:59

at the castle for Christmas.

0:22:590:23:01

Instead, he held a feast in Normandy in which he invited

0:23:010:23:04

only knights whose name was William.

0:23:040:23:08

It's a randomly peculiar thing to do.

0:23:090:23:11

So he was actually Henry, the second and a half.

0:23:110:23:14

Yeah, kind of, yeah.

0:23:140:23:15

I love the idea of that party, though.

0:23:150:23:17

He's been to so many fancy events, he's gone,

0:23:170:23:19

"I can't remember everyone's name. I just want Williams."

0:23:190:23:22

And he arrived and went, "Hello, William. All right, William?

0:23:220:23:25

-"William."

-"Bill, Bill, Bill."

0:23:250:23:26

Saves you having to bother with the name,

0:23:260:23:29

like the Beefsteak Club in London,

0:23:290:23:30

where all the staff are called Charles, whatever their names,

0:23:300:23:33

so people go, "Hello, Charles, I thought Charles would be here."

0:23:330:23:36

"No, milord, Charles is ill, so Charles is here."

0:23:360:23:38

-Is this a real place?

-It is a real place

0:23:380:23:40

-called the Beefsteak Club, yeah.

-You're a member of that?

-I am, yes.

0:23:400:23:43

It's very old and very good fun.

0:23:480:23:50

Don't mock me.

0:23:530:23:54

Yeah, we just go to a caff, but, yeah.

0:23:540:23:58

That makes you more real.

0:23:580:24:00

"Charles, oh, Charles, yes, Charles, tea please, two teas," you know.

0:24:000:24:04

The staff from there are probably watching this, going,

0:24:040:24:07

"Oh, it's that Stephen Fry,

0:24:070:24:08

"he thinks everyone's called Charles. Bloody idiot."

0:24:080:24:11

We can't just tell him now.

0:24:110:24:12

Someone's just told you that the first day you arrived.

0:24:120:24:14

It's a practical joke on you.

0:24:140:24:16

-All right.

-Did they also ask you to go for a long wait?

0:24:160:24:18

No, they didn't.

0:24:180:24:20

Name the Queen's official residence.

0:24:200:24:22

ORNATE FLOURISH

0:24:240:24:26

-I'll go Balmoral.

-Ah!

0:24:260:24:27

KLAXON BLARES

0:24:270:24:29

2A Pall Mall.

0:24:350:24:37

-2A Pall Mall, SW1.

-Yeah.

0:24:380:24:41

No.

0:24:410:24:42

ORNATE FLOURISH

0:24:420:24:44

I'm going to say official residence, Buckingham Palace.

0:24:440:24:48

KLAXON BLARES

0:24:480:24:49

-I meant Windsor Castle.

-No!

0:24:490:24:51

KLAXON BLARES

0:24:510:24:52

A submarine is sinking somewhere.

0:24:560:24:58

-Yeah.

-Berlin.

-Jeremy Klaxon.

0:24:580:25:00

-Sandringham?

-Sorry?

-Sandringham?

0:25:000:25:04

Oh, Alanny-wallany-woo. Not Sandringham.

0:25:040:25:06

KLAXON BLARES

0:25:060:25:07

I'm feeling left out.

0:25:090:25:11

I wonder why there's three different pictures.

0:25:110:25:13

-It's 3A.

-It isn't...

0:25:130:25:16

Center Parcs, Surrey. I don't know.

0:25:160:25:18

The Eagle's Nest.

0:25:180:25:20

Does she have a static caravan?

0:25:200:25:22

If you are the American Ambassador, you present your credentials to?

0:25:220:25:25

-It's actually the Queen...

-The court of...?

0:25:250:25:27

-St James's Palace, is that her official...?

-The right answer!

0:25:270:25:30

-If only I could award you more points...

-I wish I didn't have

0:25:300:25:33

this speech impediment that made Buckingham sound...

0:25:330:25:35

St James's Palace is the official residence of the monarch,

0:25:350:25:38

although she does, of course, spend most of her time in her second,

0:25:380:25:40

third, fourth, fifth homes.

0:25:400:25:42

OK, it's time for a little experiment.

0:25:420:25:45

-Here's some potassium iodide. It's a catalyst.

-Oooh!

-Yes!

0:25:450:25:49

My experiment also involves me having,

0:25:490:25:52

for health and safety reasons, to wear these.

0:25:520:25:54

Cowabunga, dude, you look awesome!

0:25:540:25:56

Tell us, O mighty king.

0:25:560:25:59

ALL: Oooh!

0:25:590:26:01

-Oh, stop it, no!

-I can tell from that sample you've had asparagus.

0:26:010:26:05

Well...

0:26:060:26:07

..what that is, is H2O2. Does anyone know what H2O2 is?

0:26:090:26:13

-Water water.

-Yes. Double water.

0:26:130:26:15

It's H2O, it's water with an extra oxygen molecule,

0:26:150:26:18

but it has a different name.

0:26:180:26:20

AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Hydrogen peroxide.

0:26:200:26:21

They're a good audience. Well, that's partly because three quarters

0:26:210:26:26

of the women have got blonde hair.

0:26:260:26:28

But it's quite unstable and it's always trying to

0:26:280:26:30

lose its extra molecule and turn to water and to oxygen gas.

0:26:300:26:34

And we've mixed it here with some ordinary detergent,

0:26:340:26:38

some washing-up liquid.

0:26:380:26:40

So could you go and stand next to Bill?

0:26:400:26:42

-It's not really violent, let's just say...

-Well, why...?

0:26:420:26:45

Let's just say...

0:26:450:26:46

Hang on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

0:26:460:26:48

What? When? What am I, a human shield or something?

0:26:480:26:51

It's all right, you're this side of him, it's not that violent.

0:26:510:26:54

Stephen, you don't seem too concerned about my safety.

0:26:540:26:57

You can stand next to Jeremy, that's a good point.

0:26:570:26:59

It's that much nearer Alan.

0:26:590:27:01

It's really, you'll see, it's not going to be dangerous.

0:27:010:27:05

-It isn't dangerous.

-It might be dangerous.

-It isn't.

-Just hold me.

0:27:050:27:10

It's basically...

0:27:100:27:12

Do you want to sit on my knee?

0:27:120:27:13

-Don't stop, I liked it.

-Here we go, are you ready?

0:27:150:27:18

Do you want to count me down, audience?

0:27:180:27:19

Count me down from three. Three...

0:27:190:27:21

-Oh, what comes next?

-AUDIENCE: Two...

0:27:210:27:24

one!

0:27:240:27:25

LONE AUDIENCE MEMBER: Zero.

0:27:250:27:26

GASPING

0:27:260:27:27

APPLAUSE

0:27:270:27:29

-Oh, very good.

-There you go.

0:27:290:27:32

And so...

0:27:340:27:35

That's quite a money shot!

0:27:350:27:39

Stephen, are you suggesting if I get some of that potassium...?

0:27:400:27:44

That that will really make you perform in bed? No.

0:27:440:27:46

-Well...

-That's amazing!

-..that magnificent...

0:27:480:27:50

-Whoa, it's still...

-Oh, yeah, that's it, baby.

0:27:530:27:55

It's a rather horrible yellow at the edges, though, isn't it?

0:27:580:28:01

Yeah, it does get like that! Do you know what? I've been away.

0:28:010:28:04

Anyway, that brings us to the final scores, while it's still flowing.

0:28:040:28:07

And...let's have a look here.

0:28:070:28:09

I'll have to hurry you, because you're going to be invisible.

0:28:090:28:12

In last place, with minus 38 points, it's Jeremy Klaxon.

0:28:120:28:16

APPLAUSE

0:28:160:28:19

Second equal...second equal,

0:28:210:28:25

with minus 19, Bill and Jimmy.

0:28:250:28:27

APPLAUSE

0:28:270:28:30

APPLAUSE OVER SPEECH

0:28:300:28:31

Do my eyes deceive me?

0:28:310:28:33

Tonight's runaway winner with minus 18, Alan Davies!

0:28:330:28:39

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:28:390:28:41

Though the unquestionably knowledgeable audience

0:28:450:28:49

takes the ultimate palm with plus eight!

0:28:490:28:52

So from Jimmy, Jeremy, Bill, Alan and me,

0:28:550:28:59

good night.

0:28:590:29:00

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