April Fool: First ever shot of the shark-whale - Last Chance to See - BBC Two

[tetodoom]

they got a pic of my dick in the under the water

[Ortw1n]

haha a whale-shark does really exists!! look on google pictures!

[HeadChestOrFoot]

@Ortw1n Yeah but not a Shark Whale boss. Come on....

[LvndrHppE]

If you squint your eyes, tilt your head and turn the sound off, that Mark guy kinda looks like Alan Rickman.

[frenzymania11]

: ) i thought it was real....

[mythplatypuspwned]

sowhatwasit?

[KoldBloo]

i love the half-assed fossil they made that was just two lines xD

[ZombieSurvivor214]

lol i knew its fake when i found out he was using a mac

[soundslave]

This video would have been better if Stephen wasn't in on it. Then at the end Mark says 'april fools' to him.

[lemonlaurance]

yeah thats called a whale shark

[tammyh1976]

hahaha its good but have to admit i liked the flying penguins! :o)

[TheDM100G]

it looks like a dick...

[MrPasty]

Did anyone that was done with elemantary school actually fall for that?

[ELuhn]

The shark whale has become almost extinct largely through the over-harvesting of spaghetti trees, which is the shark whale's staple diet. The conservationist organization Greenpeas is trying to rescue the shark whale population by weaning them onto Pot Noodle and macaroni & cheese.

[35mm35]

@ELuhn, Rolling on the floor cackling here. 

[StephenFryphile]

Oh my fucking god. They are genius! I would never have guessed that they were acting that :O

[ThePaperCUTS]

LOL! It just goes to show that Stephen Fry is so convincing :p.

[flon57]

the actor plays Gordon Gordon on US show Bones

[Js5s141]

@flon57 Lol he's more famous for just being himself rather than the short stint he did in Bones. It's Stephen Fry if you don't know.

[flon57]

holy shit, BBC goes to great lengths for April Fools

[cripplefinger]

If this is fake... ANYTHING COULD BE FAKE!

[megamaxmax4]

The funny thing is shark whales are fake but whale sharks are real

[ELuhn]

@megamaxmax4 That's because it's the male whale that mates with a female shark. A male shark could never mate with a female whale.

[rockingrugger]

@bigbluefish11 but he's also seriously doing a documentary called "last chance to see". This was obviously a joke while filming the vid.

[rohitvip]

Looks like a gaint sting ray to me....oh well it's all fake.

[HaniiPuppy]

@bigbluefish11 "The larger british man is an actor"?! I realise it's a cliché, but that's Stephen Fry! Calling him merely an actor is a vast understatement;- he's an actor, a host, a comedian, a linguist, an intellectual, a writer, an author, a man with the ability to paint a masterpiece which can incite the very core senses of the heart with nought but the coalescence of the sound of his voice and the creative linguality of his mind.

...

how was that? :P

[Goldie6434]

@HaniiPuppy Trudat!

[6Metal6Preacher6]

The photo looks like a big cock lol

[chill579]

im soory but this joke was just offensive to sharks *sarcasm*

[TAFHUC]

"there's nothing like it!"

Except maybe a Whale Shark :)

[BakuganGurl258]

wow that was a pretty funny aprils fools joke

[SavingPrivateBob]

lmfao!

[LittleNerd]

Hahaha! You ride them!

I'd have been cracking up!

[Wowbagger86]

.. and now I saw the April Fool's headline.. d'oh!

[Wowbagger86]

If what they are talking about is what we now know as a Whaleshark (not a Shark Whale) then this is really funny, cause my generation takes it for granted to know about these animals :) Guess back in the 80'ies they where newly discovered...

[Wowbagger86]

No, guess I was wrong.. just read that Whale Sharks where identifyed in the 18 century.. well well

[NuklearAngel]

@Wowbagger86 the other problem is that this was the 2009 april fools joke... so there was no "back in the 80's" about it.

[Wowbagger86]

@NuklearAngel I happened to notice that ....8 months ago ;)

[twitcher64]

I think the myth of the shark whale is identified as different from the whaleshark because those were identified as sharks back in 1828.

[georgia10123101]

* giggles* quite good

i enjoyed that :)

[blowtorchacurlyfry1]

stephen fry makes it.

[wixie20]

Funny it just looks a giant tadpole... XD

[Chick6517]

Hmm interesting video I might say. haha cool video. you should make more. try adding more effects?

[mysteryeskimo]

Why are people complaining about it being obvious - all April Fool jokes are obvious! Now, its not funny, thats true.

[LilLouise18]

Last year's Flying Penguins were better.

[rhomastoss]

usbport64

your comment speaks volumes of your own ignorance and stupidity.

[thechosenone2411]

I agree, after all you have to be pretty stupid to judge the whole a nation just from one one piece of footage and are you forgetting something usbport64 you cant mock a country for being stupid when after all I see that your using English a language England.

[losarman]

well a language tat was spoken by abt 16k people 450 years ago and only became really popular when the americans started to use

[shanghaisolutiondub]

@losarman You have made my day.

[losarman]

at least someone liked it. what the english forgrt is that in elizabethan times, parliamnet was conducted in french as they had no regard for it themselves. also the main reason why english became the language of the modern world is because the verbs are so simple. it is a gr8 language tho

[StandTogetherForever]

usbport64 - Ever heard the expression "The pot calling the kettle black"? I think you should look it up son.

[1LittleJess1]

wht a fuckin waste of my time, heres me expecting smething funny.

this was just plain shit.

i agree completely with lexiVSM,

it was awful

[LexiVSM]

I watched that clip again because I was astonished at how awful it was. I presumed that I must have missunderstood it in some way, but having watched it again, I am gobsmacked as to how unfunny (obvious) that was. I felt compelled to comment again upon how unfunny that was. Totally unbelievable/ obvious April Fool from the outset. Sack the head of the Aprils Fool department at the BBC!!!

[LexiVSM]

The BBC is really dumbing down beyond belief!!! You would have to be extremely uneducated / stupid to fall for this. Most children over the age of 12 are taught that whales are mammals and sharks are fish. Shame on you Stephen Fry for being part of this!!! I would have expected something more cerebral from you.

[deeton]

It's an april fools joke, get a sense of humour

[warmygreenfields]

@LexiVSM "Most children over the age of 12 are taught that whales are mammals and sharks are fish" blablabla... The same children are taught about the existence of the WHALE-SHARK, the biggest shark of all and also the biggest fish. Are you upset about its name too?

[warg29]

Hah! Poor Stephen. :) What a bizarre April Fool joke..

By the way, doesn't Stephen look so well and healthy these days? Quite handsome!

[pixie0dust0bitch]

i liked the spaggeti trees! that was an old one man!

[GraceTheCheez]

yeah remember that? fun times ^^

[ZroseZ]

this is so not funny... what a waste of time

[crazymurdav]

Fav april fool ever still has to be Burger Kings "Left handed whopper" joke. XD

[juiceproducer]

I loved the penguins last year, but this one is a beaut! Many coz "Steven Fry finds Extinct Shark Whale" is a great headline!

[juiceproducer]

I love it! Lord Melchet finds a rideable shark-whale with a USS Enterprise shaped head!! Good on you BBC!!!

[aislingbury]

shark whale? that's really stupid given that there is an animal called a whale-shark!

I agree, the penguins were far superior.

[zzredd]

penguins were OSOOOO much better. If you are going to make something outrageous, geez, SHOW US! This was a waste of a few minutes and not even at all the tiniest bit funny. Just lame.

[LyVictor]

Not funny, mainly because even if such an animal existed, most people wouldn't even care.

[stevenw13]

good, but not as good as the penguins last year

[PaleoRAS]

that's good, not as good as the spagetti trees or flying penguins, but still good

[MichaelBradley1988]

lmao - nice april fools, if i saw that on the discovery channel i would have believed it 100%

[brandon220786]

I kinda didn't find this a very successful April Fools- because there actually is an animal called a 'Whale-shark.' Obviously it doesn't look like that, but when my friend told me about this I just assumed he had got the names the wrong way round.

[cameraguy37]

As opposed to soft erect penis? Dickhead for bringing it up really aren't you? well done.

[sportsportsport]

lol, calm down. It is just weird because his sexuality is juxtapose to his persona on screen. It is an observation. Stereotypes of gay people exist for a reason. But Mr. Fry is different!. And I think he's awesome.

[berrj1]

love the new layout!

[juniorrod3]

gay.

[nickwantsmorepancake]

i like steven fry allthough he seems to sort of, manly to be gay

[CrescentStudios]

*facepalm

[marksoutof10]

Fucking ignorant idiot.

[crazzer123]

Thats not ignorant. idiot

[nickwantsmorepancake]

how am i ignorant?

[bigloot420]

it's like the one in Life Aquatic

[gammaray0wn]

why do they have to put april fool in the title, in case stupid people havnt looked at the date. what a shame.

[Saiko]

April fools isn't meant to last all day and it's passed that now.

[spongebob8001]

WEWT WEWT

upsidee down :D

[Buddaman990]

Its good, but the name spoils it.

[AodanMRG]

So funny :P

[tytoalba451]

Actually, there is such a thing as a whale shark, but there is no such thing as a shark-whale.

Sorry. When it comes to animls, I'm big on semantics.

[leahcim38]

> When it comes to animls, I'm big on semantics.

Ok then tell us what kind of animal is a semantic and why do you like them so much?

[Chubbery]

shame you aren't big on humour...they aren't stupid enough to do a whole programme on an animal and get the name wrong by accident....look up a whale shark - they don't look like that one.

[tytoalba451]

@tytoalba451 Nice one.

[Daarisha]

There is actually such a thing as a whale shark though

[Talwynhawkins]

so glad everyone else thought it was april fools too. i immediately dismissed it as that but started to believe it when i couldn't find anyone else in a agreement!

[Warhead3000]

No the Lock Ness monster makes more sense than this joke.

[scottishchimera]

its Loch Ness monster not Lock!

[BGertii]

Calm Down. :S. Lol.

[tyzwain]

Lol well done Stephen!

[Warhead3000]

Cross species - half fish and half mammal.....bollocks.

Happy April fools

ride the giant penis

[PelataValo]

is it just me

... or does it look like the star ship enterprise

[Blodsten90]

Yup, it does! That's what I thought too.

[mesto17]

yup, definitely a cock

[MaxSafeheaD]

LOL!!!

[Duck1985]

I actually believed it when I first saw it lol

yep april fools

[hwone]

april fools!!

[giganticdingdong]

No wonder steven fry is getting excited...

[hbsharkman]

cool its a penis.

[retroremo]

april fools

[Alexrose12345678910]

Yeah, sure :P .

[ROCKonTWITCH]

April fools

[cleocatra]

Shark-whale :D

[ECTBWHO]

haha... No comment...

[mozigirl]

lol

[Schizomanicman]

Excellent attempt, but I'm not being fooled lol

[laplinp]

Uploaded before April Fools though...... Hmm.... Ol' Stephen never mentioned it on Twitter, so false xD

[perrythefish123]

Wot the fuck?

[riverofgod]

Nice try, BBC...

[joegunn16]

wait..... is this an April Fool's joke??

[joegunn16]

ok, i just googled it, shark-whales to exist!

[isawienilmen]

Do they? I've just googled it and nothing came up. You can get whale sharks, but not sure about shark-whales...

(I'm studying zoology, so I like to think I know a little bit about animals!)

I'm guessing an April Fools

[joegunn16]

actually yes i just searched "shark-whales" again and it's all about the whale shark. maybe it is a prank then?!

[isawienilmen]

I'm thinking a prank, I'm afraid!

It'll be amazing if it's real though!

[glennis25jr]

if it is a april fools joke, its bad luck to do it before actual april fools, and last years one which i think was the penguins flying was insane, but if this is a aprils fools joke, they kinda down graded..ALOT

[isawienilmen]

It's April Fools Day NOW! Has been for the last 44 minutes

[TWL333]

Whoa. That is AMAZING.

RRR.