QI - Worst Song

[7CellarDoors]

Worst song? But Lady Gaga has made so many....

[MJFAN666]

MYCROFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O

[ThePerfectLifeTv]

Lil B!

[nomsdeguerre]

That woman isn't funny at all. All she does is say, something Fuck, something dick...just potty humor stuff...Jo Brand on the other..hand... leaves me rofl.

[Ine7tia]

@nomsdeguerre In fairness, Jo Brand is fairly predictable as well. Men are all stupid, do you know my husband, etc.

[TheImmortalness]

Mycroft from the Sherlock Holmes movies and Mycroft from Sherlock :)

[Martmeisterpaladin]

0:29-0:30 What is the name of that song?

[IoEstasCedonta]

Blind Guardian write children's songs?

[mushroomshrub]

Hey! I spy Mycroft nee Mark Gatiss! I must go find this episode, I haven't seen it.

[pelicanflashdance]

It's still better than Ke$ha

[Krolblach]

@pelicanflashdance Where does that meme come from? 'better than Ke$ha'? I've googled it and can't find any info.

[pelicanflashdance]

@Krolblach Not a meme (that I know of), I thought of it myself :)

[Krolblach]

@pelicanflashdance Oh, fair enough. I thought I'd seen it somewhere else. Funny whatever :)

[gillywibble]

Is this where Sean Lock got the Womble idea from for 15 stories high? If not, nice coincidence!

[gerrabath]

Who is that woman????

[SonOfFurzehatt]

@gerrabath The late, great Linda Smith.

[gerrabath]

@SonOfFurzehatt oh really? when and how did she die?

[SonOfFurzehatt]

@gerrabath February 2006 of cancer. One of the greatest losses to British comedy.

[gerrabath]

@SonOfFurzehatt Thanks for that. I found a pre illness picture and recognised her straight away. Such a sad shame.

[QuackMooMeow]

Baby, baby, baby whoah.

My baby, baby, baby, nooo..

or some shit like that.

[Cresendoll]

Whoa, was that Mark Gatiss? I must see this episode!!

[Twihard12LostForever]

MARK GATISS!!!!!!!!!!

[KitchenKiller95]

@Twihard12LostForever

thats what i was thinking!

[Leowen2]

@1939PlymouthRatRod2 , I'd have to agree mate.

[Leowen2]

Anything by the beetles, no talent expect the guy who was shot.

[Tordah26]

@Leowen2 No, you're an imbecile.

Listen to Helter Skelter and shut up.

[Resimaster]

Anything by 'Elbow'.

[ThatGirlWithTheCards]

@Resimaster OMG, I'm not the only sane person here! :D *high five*

[Resimaster]

@ThatGirlWithTheCards Yeah, boring depressive shit. Girl with the cards? You a poker player?

[ThatGirlWithTheCards]

@Resimaster No, no, I just like card games and TCGs in general :)

[TheLyricist86]

@1939PlymouthRatRod2 TROLL

[HULLOHULLO15]

The pieces of music in this are sublime!

[eleriel]

@1939PlymouthRatRod2 the Beatles, on the other hand...

[xxsangrealxx]

The 2 Mycrofts on one show!

[machoTit]

i was buried under a womble mountain.

[failrailtf2]

Sean Lock is such a champion

[Szaam]

Free Myra Hindley!

[50033836]

"You fuck off, you stripey bastard." RIP Linda Smith, you'll be sorely missed.

[SpamChicken]

I reckon this is where Sean got the Womble experience for his sitcom 15 stories high.

[Thisshitisfuckedup]

A joke from a woman that doesn't involve how shit her partner is in bed, how blood and children tend to come out her vagina or about how shit men are in general. There is hope for comediennes yet.

[Myster36]

@Thisshitisfuckedup whats a comedienne?

[Thisshitisfuckedup]

@Myster36

Femenine for comedian.

[coltmanm]

@Thisshitisfuckedup linda smith died in 2006

[Thisshitisfuckedup]

@coltmanm

...and we're back to square one.

[coltmanm]

@Thisshitisfuckedup i think comedienne actresses are good

[ProperMuzik]

@Thisshitisfuckedup Your a sick loser whos never had a girlfriend.

[smithysproductionz]

@Thisshitisfuckedup i actually agree with you....women comedians are fucking awful

[SweetMintPie555]

@smithysproductionz Jo Brand and Sarah Milican are great, you may not like them yourself but others like myself do, therefore not ALL comediennes are awful.

[smallfatblob]

Anything from JLS.

[GotischOberst]

I swear, I need subtitles sometimes.

[Jonsk12394]

1 minute of silence is alot better than most songs made in this millenium

[XOXheartAmy]

Alan's story about the Wombles reminds me of this time I went to the Beatrix Potter museum in the Lake District and there was this two/three year old boy there (I was probably about five at the time). This guy came out, dressed as Peter Rabbit, and the wee boy looked round, there was this massive man dressed as a giant rabbit, and the kid shat himself. That was possibly the best part of that holiday!

[bored0stiff]

@XOXheartAmy Ha! That made me laugh as much as the video did, thanks! When I was a kid me and a friend went to the National Railway Museum in York and my friend wet himself when we met a man in a fat suit who was supposed to be the Fat Controller from Thomas the Tank Engine, he was 22 a few weeks ago and I still bring it up in conversation...

[mushitsme]

its friday, friday....

[Sem5626]

gotta get down on friday

[GiefGoldPlx]

Friday.

[darthesgoobis123]

i think justin biebers "baby" replaces this song :)

[nekontears]

is that steven moffet? (sp?)

[FiddeliK]

@nekontears Mark Gatiss

[stupidintellect90]

@nekontears haha...I'm always confusing Steven Moffat with Mark Gattis too, they look nothing like each other though.

[thoughtfulwishing]

Stephen's laugh at the end is hilarious.

[h33I0]

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY

[bellboy64]

@h33I0 Swagger Jagger, Swagger Jagger... :(

[MeitanteiHiryuu]

@h33I0 thanks.. now that's stuck to the fabric of my brain ._.

[SaFadaShaa]

@h33I0 it can't be Friday because, in the eyes of these geniuses, Friday can not be refered to as a song to begin with.

[Nogli]

Free Myra Hindley!

That shouldn't have been funny. It was bloody hilarious.

[majordbag2]

"You fuck off you stripy bastard" I love it!

[RachelMadeThis]

Was this episode prior to Sean Lock making Fifteen Storeys High?

[TheGumdropButtons]

4'33 for christmas #1!!!!

[cybogoblin]

@leemaycry Both of them ;)

[TheMikeyReilly]

100,000th view!!!!

[9hello123]

That is the first time in my life I have laughed from a woman comedians joke.

[hideyourloveaway128]

From the title of this clip, I assumed that they would begin an in-depth discussion of Yoko Ono songs, and which one topped the list of the worst song ever, as her's all qualify.

[cofpaddy]

Free Myra Hindley lol

[CosplayingCassie]

I bloody love Mark Gatiss.

[Exodus199999]

@JovianSatelite Yeah, once, I think it was the pilot :)

[lilleahhere05]

free myra hindley!

[lmh92]

@JovianSatelite He was a guest in series 1, episode 1. I'm not sure if laurie ever reappeared, however

[Tsukasamacleod]

@JovianSatelite once



[batmanofni]

Mark gattis is a writer/actor, he's very good at it, but why did they have him on Qi.

[damechastain]

"I saw the Wombles-"

"Don't lie!"

Stephen sounds so excited!

[jaygirl942]

@damechastain

Didn't he say "What, live?"

[hjenkinz]

@damechastain he says "Live?"

[SabraMagdalena]

Free Myra Hindley! XDDDDD

[brandon71085]

The Hungarian composer György Ligiti, composer of some truly interesting pieces, "composed" a piece titled "0:00" to sort of poke fun at Cage. He claims it is the most frequently performed piece.

[douchebarge]

@brandon71085

Subsequently, the American lawyer Georgie Litigious, sued him.

[henrycrumm]

free myra hindley♪ LOLOL

[Crackajack69]

what does the woman say at 0:21? 

[SabraMagdalena]

@Crackajack69 I think she said, "Was it the Womble'ing F*ck You Party?"

[misy49]

@SabraMagdalena I thought it was simply Wombling F*ck Party, like an orgy

[SabraMagdalena]

@misy49 Could be.

[chrisofnottingham]

Trivia question:

Why is the Cage 'composition' specifically 4 minutes 33 seconds?

Have a go at working it out and if you can't, mail me on youtube and I'll tell you. No really, I will.

[EpicPlaythroughs]

@chrisofnottingham Because everyone walked out of the theatre by that point?

[chrisofnottingham]

@EpicPlaythroughs Plausible but not the right answer. Send a Personal Message request if you want to know the genuine and actually Quite Interesting answer.

[slashingraven]

@chrisofnottingham Not sure exactly why Cage made it 4'33", but an interesting coincidence that was pointed out to him later was the connection between his 273 second piece and the temperature of absolute zero, -273 degrees Celsius.

[chrisofnottingham]

@slashingraven Ah, well that's what I was referring to. The way I heard it, it wasn't a coincidence but a deliberate reference to the temperate at which all motion ceases and finally gives us complete silence. It's like everything you actually do hear during a performance is due being warmer than absolute zero.

[slashingraven]

@chrisofnottingham According to the Wikipedia article concerning 4'33", John Cage didn't actually realize the correlation until Lee Crampton told him about it in 1983.

[jlim2397]

@chrisofnottingham The maximum length of one of those old 78 records was 4 minutes and 30 seconds per side.

[Rebekah270984]

If I want to listen to silence I can sit at home and turn the telly off!!!!

[stupidintellect90]

wahoo !!!!!!!!

i used to sing the wombles song every week at primary school

[henrycrumm]

LMFAO free mira hinley♪

[TashkentFox]

4 minutes of silence is NOT music, it's like saying a totally blank canvas is art.

[tabloidal]

@TashkentFox

In and of itself, it is certainly not much of anything, but given the body of work in which this silence is included, it can still be considered an artistic choice. Interpretation is all the more important in situations like this. Have you seen Fountain by Duchamp? I imagine only interpretation could save that piece.

[TashkentFox]

You'd have to have a very liberal interpretation of 'art' to consider Fountain a piece of art, Marcel didn't even create it himself, a cast iron company made it, he just bought it for a few dollars and signed a psuedonym on it.

[tabloidal]

Exactly. Nevertheless, that piece gets fought over time and time again. It can only be defended by interpretation. The onlooker (listener) has a huge impact on whether something is received well. Moreover, had the 4 minute silence been apart of an otherwise longer song, it might be looked at differently. it's all relative, though, and my point is to do no more than point out how interesting of a situation it can be.

[TashkentFox]

Yeah, if it had been simply a movement of a symphony it wouldn't have been so controversial.

[bersa888]

@TashkentFox : hard to say... but, as a musician, I can say that, without rests, music's dramatic effect(s) and power would suffer terribly. Just think of Beethoven's music with no rests (the beginning of his 5th symphony, for instance). Because music is a "temporal" art (not static, that moves through time), rests (silence) become certainly as important as the sound (notes) itself. You could think of silence in music as punctuation in writing or speech.

[lovelock512]

someone did that once

[Mattbyob]

your a genius! I'm going to be a millionaire now!

[einarus]

The music in that composition is not the silence, per se - it's the sounds of the environment (concert hall, stadium etc.). So the composition itself has a different sound every time it's performed.

That being said - it's still frickin' boring.

[TashkentFox]

Mercifully, it's not possible to play the full piece on British radio, equipment in radio stations automatically cuts back to the presenters microphone after 2 minutes of silence because the machines assume something has gone wrong.

[slashingraven]

@TashkentFox Why would they make that an automatic function? Sounds like something the mixer operator should be responsible for...

[Nitro20101]

The point of the pieces to hear the noises that the crowd makes while watching the orchestra playing nothing.

[happeningfish77]

which, a) no canvas can be "totally blank," and b) I'd call it art in the right context.

[ntroup]

ahh man, i miss linda smith. she was a great comedienne.

[henrycrumm]

PML free myra hindley

[noirgris0]

Batt writes all of Katie Meluas songs

[mousesandwich]

What do they mean 'all of them'? The Womble songs were great! Nothing makes me happier than 'Wombling in the Rain'

[HittokiriBatosai]

Bat oblique stroke cage? Huh?

[irvbnm]

He wrote Batt(the guy's name)/Cage(the original artists name) as if Cage had anything to do with it.

[HittokiriBatosai]

ohh, oblique stroke means slash. lol, thanks for clearing that up, I was totally lost.

[henrycrumm]

oblique stroke means /  <one of those

[qwertydeluxe]

Batt/Cage

[finehomemadewine]

Does anyone remember the poem "Lazy Poeter", which was an empty page? Whose was that one?

[ViktorValentine]

"Oh fuck off you stripey bastard"

Beautiful

[Vuurvogel2]

I love the real hearty laugh from Allen after the Myra Hindley joke from Sean.

[booshloverfor4ever]

mark gatiss is so dashing!!

i hate that woman though she's realy rude and inappropriate, and shes not funny! in my opinion!

[dafarreller]

+ 1

[okayillgonow]

0:27-0:41

"Three Mira Himley"

WTF does that mean!?

[spellbinder777]

free myra hindley...In prison for the infamous "moors murders" in the 60,s

[okayillgonow]

Oh... ... ... Oh!! Now I get it~! XD LOL~!

[Zed1967]

He's actually singing ''Free Myra Hindley'' who along with her boyfriend Ian Brady kidnapped, raped and murdered children during the 1960s around Manchester England.

Hindley died in prison in 2002, Brady is incarcerated in a high security mental hospital.

[okayillgonow]

Oh... well... sorry. ^_^' I already found that info on the internet. ^_^'

But that's why it's so funny.... in a morbid sense. >:D

[britishleylandcrap]

He says "Free Myra Hindley" She was a convicted child murderer jailed in the 1960's. Type her name into wiki and all will be revealed :P

[okayillgonow]

Don't worry now I understand.

[333222777888]

"Free Myra Hindley" - she was one of the Moors Murderers - an infamous child murderer who had some people fighting for her release - they didn't succeed and she eventually died in prison a few years ago.

[BillandBenRgangstas]

"you fuck off you stripey bastard"

still laughing :P

[KevL75]

I never thought about it before, but what the hell is a Womble anyway?

Some kind of hedgehog?

But their ears are weird so that's that theory out.

[zeldagoblin]

When we were kids we thought a womble was someone with only one testicle....

[KevL75]

Well...interesting.

You could say 'Quite Interesting' :)

10 points to Liz.

[wildste]

A Womble is a Womble, thats the name of its species

[egskilekki]

RIP Linda Smith. what a lady!

[kiwimci]

@egskilekki she'd dead? oh no!

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Is "Bright Eyes" referencing the same song Art Garfunkel sings on?

[Tomewmew]

Yes. On the movie Watership Down.

[jcbc402]

"you f**k off you stripy bastard..."

haha..

[10MrsDavidTennant10]

Poor Alan. He is traumatized by Wombles...