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  • watching these qi clips makes me feel so unintelligent...

  • This was awsome, I loved how, a bit latter, when Stephen makes another question, Rob says "Are you mocking my forefathers again?" and Stephen answers "You have four fathers? Thats is amazing!" xDD

  • i love the Welsh accent...

  • what episode is this?

  • bloody hell look at those cards

  • One thing QI has taught us, nothing is sacred in the name of humour. Everything is open to an opinion: but in the best possible taste.One can over analyse life and its petty politics, it is the insecure who read hatred into things.No matter where you live, folk will have a "Slap-Stick" view about an aspect of a "People" or a "Social Class". English Southerners take the piss out of Northerners and Northerners take the piss out of Southerners.I see no Civil War.We do live in more enlightend time?

  • Wow seriously, how can such a fun show make for such vitriol remarks below?

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  • @11ohbaby who are you talking about LOL? england or wales?

  • @gratzy2 I think it's a random American who thinks he knows every-thing but actually looks like an idiot xD

  • @Boyfromasension true true. no point in even talking to him LOLOL

  • @CrimsonComms laugh while you can but mark my words it will eventually happen. People will be people at the end of the day. And next time you want to grace me so much with your monkey like presence in my inbox, try having something more meaningful or intelligent to say. Or how about you try reading a fucking book instead of wasting braincells on a computer screen.

  • @Pimpywimpy25 Jesus Christ, I jokingly responded with two words. I didn't need a paragraph of indignant "I am more intelligent than you" bullshit from a guy with no sense of humour. I mean, why did you bafflingly presume that I don't read? You can't go with the 'stupid illiterate' line of insulting when you don't even know me; I just finished reading King Lear.

    Welsh people are awesome. Internet arguments are embarrassing. Let's stop.

  • @Pimpywimpy25 your arguments mean sooo much more when you swear.

  • @Museite Stephen Fry would disagree with your sarcasm.

  • @uiruu lol, not now, Bernard

  • This is how violence within ethnic minorities start, Jews, Pakistanis, Basques etc...as Christopher Isherwood said in "Single man" the more you alienate or dehumans people the nastier they become. And if you allow Welsh racism to be acceptable without giving a damn about it...well then....

  • @Pimpywimpy25 *stifles laughter*

  • Tis a great shame that Rob Brydon completely undid all of what he said by being in Gavin & fucking Stacey, which in my eyes put the public's perception of the Welsh back a good few centuries...

  • Im welsh but live in Portugal and I don't understand why Wales Ingland Scotland and Ireland cant get on...Grow up people,that's just sad

  • @JafaCakesMonster They all have long histories with each other.

    For example, England and Whales were basically at war for an incredibly long time

  • @GreyTalloN Wales*

    yeah but that's just stupid..

  • @JafaCakesMonster So your country has been invaded and you've been annexed to your conquerors ever since, who also take the time to bag you and your culture out. How do you feel now?

  • @Mia646 I didn't leave Wales because i didn't like it,I felt it because my father lives in Portugal.And btw Wales has been invaded by who?

  • @JafaCakesMonster thats history; countries invade and get invaded.

    but this talk is strange coming from an Australian, you know that country where scum was exiled to . . . not exactly a kind history for that country either.

  • @JafaCakesMonster

    I find it amusing that the Welsh, Irish, English, Scottish, Australians and Kiwis all call each other sheep shaggers.

  • @Xeno426 well there is louds of sheep...

  • @Xeno426 English people aren't really a 'sheep shagger'.

  • @calmdownalan ...ah shut up and laugh mick

  • wtf are these brits talking about

  • @hempartist420 You wouldn't understand, because you are American.

  • @MegaLolburger yeah that's the fucking point

  • @hempartist420 Exactly. And you will never understand nor will it be funny to you, so fuck off.

  • @MegaLolburger I actually enjoy this program very much, I just don't happen to be one of those people that think that all people from one country are exactly the same, like you think American's are, it's a pretty childish view of the world really...

  • @hempartist420 Then how could you NOT understand it?

    Nope I don't think all Americans are, just the majority. It would take a lot of re-working on the American education system (particularly history and Geography), getting rid of FOX news and a justifiable explanation as to why Bush was elected TWICE for me to think otherwise.

  • @MegaLolburger well if you hadn't noticed British people have a different culture than Americans do(fortunate for you), and some phrases and words are unfamiliar to us Americans just like it is in reverse. I should have known a self important twat like yourself would make a big deal out of it... please fuck off

  • @hempartist420 can i just ask how a joke about wales sparked an argument between an Englishman and an American. This is a comedy quiz show, surely there are more important things to argue about and that deserve your attention? oh and my opinion? both countries have serious issues! yes the Americans elected Bush but the English elected Blair who's just as much of a horses ass!! and both countries have education issues i don't know what Americans call them but in England they're called chavs!!

  • @traybake1 Are you serious? LOL

  • @hempartist420 No he's right, most of you americans are incredibly dim.

  • @blackvapour I"m an American, I'm well aware that most Americans are dim, you must be pretty daft yourself to think I need to hear it one more time...

  • @hempartist420 Nicely phrased. High five from America here too.

  • @MegaLolburger Haha, because Americans aren't human beings. Granted, he's a moron who doesn't understand things, but that's not because he's American. I'm American and I understood this video just fine.

  • @uiruu It's more because we have very different cultures and a very different sense of humour, so it's rare to find Americans who actually understand British humour - which tends to be pretty dry.

  • @hempartist420

    -

    listen to the words

  • @Edbrad what you talking about willis?

  • @hempartist420 and @Edbrad and @traybake1 and @blackvapour and @MegaLolburger, CHILL. hempartist, i think, was being very cool and asking for help understanding this clip, rather than being an arrogant, willfully ignorant american. being american myself, i applaud you, hon. well done.

    the rest of y'all, jumping on poor hempartist and insulting our culture and us, were being very MEAN. hempartist had a question. ou could have answered, like normal people, but decided not to. there.

  • @20centuryfox100 thank you, I appreciate your help, I probably could have formulated my question better, but I'm used to being attacked by the British on these threads anyway(they typically don't like Americans too much, but who can blame them). I love British culture and love watching British tv which is far superior to anything we get in the states in my opinion, I could do without the self-important wankery though.

  • bellringing

    

  • "He's making jokes about Whales." XD

  • @AlbaSunriseFilm so can most english, its just that cockneys can't

  • I shag sheep for a living.

  • @SwedishChink does it pay well?

  • @h0stI13 £20 a sheep

  • english and proud so fuckoff

  • @MyPeaky And we wonder why our neighbours don't like us --'...

  • @strident212

    stiw cig eidion.

  • @strident212 That's got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. English is the world's language solely because it's the language of the world's first and only superpower. If China was the world's superpower, then Chinese would be the world's language, difficult as it may be. Latin was the lingua franca in Europe for centuries, yet as a former Latin student I know for a fact that it's a very hard language to learn, even when your mother tongue is a Romance language.

  • @Saruman38

    English is the worlds language because the British empire was the largest empire the world has ever known (in terms of land mass) and rulled over 25% of the wolds population at its peak which was only a couple of generations ago. It also helps that the next super power to take up the whip and dominate the worlds was a break away part of that Empire and hence also spoke English. It will be interesting to see what happens when the whip passes to the Chineese in 30 years or so.

  • @Saruman38 You also forgot one factor. English is a global language because it's used everywhere, from tourism, commerce to computer technology. It would be very hard for mandarin to become a worldwide language if no one would be interested in making a computer system or stock market based on mandarin written in pinyin. It would also be very confusing cause it's a tonal language. "ma" has 5 different meanings, depending on how you say it.

  • @IceRushDragon

    then that is sad and very wrong - and should be reported the Board of Education (or whatever it's called these days)

    I love taking the mick outta my english friends... and my scottish.... and my irish (northern and southern) but's that's all it is.

    At the end of the day, two wrongs do not make a right

    Hope things improve for your daughter :)

  • Whale racism is a serious problem these days...

  • @DCdabest they dont like us anyway

  • @DCdabest Especially if you're Japanese

  • @DCdabest Pfft, Whales are just as bad, with their anti-dolphin chants at sports matches.....

  • "He's making jokes about whales!" Hahaha

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  • the english think theyre funny but they're hated by the rest of britain! the greatest insult in the world is when the yanks call's the welsh - english! because that translates to calling gold - shit!

  • @xxSpike1989xx Lol, yes. Exactly how every welsh person feels :)

  • @xxSpike1989xx all the best commedians are english so yes they are funnier

  • @94samboy thats because they're laughing at them not with them..(joke)..

  • @xxSpike1989xx heh heh heh ;)

  • welsh has no died out, im taught welsh in my school i north wales and its a compulsory GCSE here

  • @AlbaSunriseFilm im english and i live in scotland and scots just keep up a constant stream of insults towards the english.

  • i'm welsh and people take the piss out of the way we talk its fucking sad it it.

    and they keep onning about us shagging sheep and all thats crap.

  • @AlbaSunriseFilm Something the english seem to lack in ability

  • @mcinerney93 That's not true at all, the term 'Taking the piss' was created in England.. We take the piss out of each other all the time, there's a difference between taking the piss and just pure hatred inspired insults.

  • "He's making jokes about whales ;) ".... that was very well spotted. Sharp minds :)

  • @unvise Ach, that's the english to you

  • @lunarwolf97, Many apologies, I appear to have forgotten to put on my glasses. However, my arguments are still strong, no matter how unwarrented. :)

  • I think we can safely come to the conclusion that the entire world's in the shitter, and that it's everyone's fault. Focus on the sheep shaggers and the beer swiggers and the bad teeth and the funny things, it'll make like easier.

  • @lunarwolf97 But thats just not true, No welsh person i have spoken to has mentioned the us, also.. how old are you? 13? Ive found welsh people become much more personal and so forth. You shall also find that americans are the ones who are withdrawing so that their president can get more votes, thus leaving soldiers from the uk (england, scotland, northern ireland AND wales) with less of a force and using your words... "in the shit" :)

  • @LivingNightmare95 mate u do realize he said us not u.s (united states) and was refering to the shitty english government

  • @LivingNightmare95 dude. i didn't say U.S., i said us. =P

  • To all of the people below me, I am english and I live in wales, and i can honestly say the people that live here are the most racist people i have ever seen, The reason english people slag welsh people off? because welsh people (from the people i have met... not all of them are the same) think they are better than everywhere else in the world. English people love the welsh and all the people in the uk... because we mostly think of them as being in our country... but thats another argument. :)

  • @LivingNightmare95 We slag you off due to your poor government that has left US in the shit.

  • @lunarwolf97 If that were the case you would have voted in Plaid Cymru. Like we voted SNP...

  • I do think the Welsh are slagged off far more than any other race I know of. If some of the comments addressed to the Welsh were said about any other BRITISH minority, they commenters would be hauled up before the Race Relations Board.

    A Scot. Oh I know some out there will claim it's humour, but then you could call jokes about gas chambers etc humour, IF you are weird..... and sick.

  • @Humanzeez4reals Oncoming sheep.

  • I love the welsh...even though im american ....

    **puts up a shield to block the oncoming stones**

  • @humanzeez4realz nothing wrong with being welsh or loving the welsh. it's just that english people use us as an excuse to bolster their self esteem and do anything they can to give us a bad name

  • @gratzy2 I find the Welsh tend to be more hateful of the English have a stab at us at any given opportunity than the other way around. We love the Welsh, just like we love the Scots and the Irish, it's the Welsh, Scots and Irish who don't like the English lol.

  • @TalesOfWar wow what the fuck. england's shit governing has left wales poor, and even if you have one of your "Budget cuts" Wales also has to have a budget cut. a country already economic bad had to cut mean. i mean WHAT??/

  • @gratzy2 The GLOBAL recession left Wales (and England, and pretty much every industrialised economy on earth) poor. Don't blame the English for something that isn't our fault. See, this is my point. We make a joke about the Welsh, and everyone else, even ourselves, and everyone else just outright blames us for their woes, even if we're also going through the same hardships and have no control over it. Also I don't agree with the current government, I sure as hell didn't vote for it.

  • i think the welsh dislike for the english is similar to the blacks dislike of the whites. its because england tried to wipe out the welsh, tried to abolish the native tounge and take the land. plus whenever an english person impersonates a welsh person they make the welsh sound stupid. many valid reasons as to why the welsh always will hate the english.

  • @Vinrex7 The anglo-saxon-jute conquest of england was over a 1000 years ago, i think the welsh got over it.

  • @ChrisHekman they havent entirly

  • @Vinrex7 England never tried to wipe out the Welsh or tried to abolish the language, that's all a myth. The Romans pushed many you'd consider to be "English" into what we now know as Wales during their occupation. Because it's full of mountains it wasn't really occupied as heavily as England and the celtic languages/customs and so on carried on. Welsh isn't used much due to English just being more common for business and so on and their wish to take part. There was no drive to ever abolish it.

  • @TalesOfWar

    Yes and no... lol.

    The banning of the language did happen in schools. Children were caned if discovered speaking the language in schooltime in school grounds. Mostly in Victorian Britain.

    Romans pushed 'ancient britons' west/north not english since the term comes from Angles - and they arrived along with the Saxons & the Jutes post- Romano Britain and prior to the Norman invasion.

    I am welsh/british & am fortunate to live in Wales/GB. The whole island is beautiful.

    All the best :0)

  • @TrefyJot Wasn't that myth about being caned if caught speaking Welsh "busted" so to speak? Rob Brydon himself had a programme on not too long ago where he went to discover if all this kind of stuff was true, and all the evidence he found said it was pretty much a load of bollocks lol. Welsh died out because English was simply used more. It was (and still is) the language of business and science, so if you want to take part in these worlds you need to know the language.

  • @TalesOfWar

    Hi ToW

    Sadly, i don't have hard n fast evidence but word of mouth that's come down generations and tales that have come from other families

    Agree that English is the international language of the world - mind you, that has also come about due to wars, invasion -

    Realistically, the jibes between the british nations should be done with humour and not as agggressively as does happen. Am lucky to work with a small group of people n all home nations are represented. All good n healthy :)

  • @TalesOfWar welsh never died out CYMRU AM BYTH

  • @TalesOfWar 'Welsh died out'  Unnhhh? Welsh hasn't died out, it is still taught in many Welsh schools...

  • My Rob yn hoffi rhew gyda ...

  • @bfg2199 what? you do realize you just said ' My rob likes ice with..'. if you're going to trash the welsh in their own language maybe you should brush up on it first.

  • did any one else think it sounded like they were talking about erm penis? big musical instrument, reverse canterbury plesiure?

  • leisure centre hehe brydon is a genius and best of all hes a genius who makes everyone laugh but doesnt actually offend anyone. hes old school genius like ronnie barker and morecambe and wise laurel and hardy style

  • He's making jokes about whales- lol.

  • "he's making whale jokes." lolollol XD

  • @jonwhyte92 Stephen Fry is amazing. Damn right he's a national treasure.

  • @Ozzywichi Your entitled to your opinion, good on you for thinking that..

  • @jonwhyte92 Why thank you. I feel complete now i've recieved your praise.

  • this is bbc there shouldnt be pre roll ads

  • @adambou12 werent any when I watched it... Im in Norway, so maybe you need to route yourself through a Norwegian IP address to not see the ads ;)

  • not even close tooo funny

  • Ok...if this is accepted as 'Just a Joke'.

    I'm going to make some jokes up about black person then! :3

    *Sigh*...

  • Thats OK,  as I said to an English friend "we stuff 'em you eat' em "

  • Rob brydon -another amazing feature of wales!

  • Bagus

  • thumbs up if your from llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwy­rndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and i swear its a real welsh town :D

  • oh, i womder if the BBC are making a humourous point about racism... will make a change from their serious sickening racial onslaughts that we're all subjected to on a daily basis!!

  • haha making jokes about w(h)ales

  • Sounds like the Welsh jokes are the same jokes most Aussie's use for New Zealand. I never really found them funny though.

  • I love hoe Rob Brydon just says no to the audience and everyone else :P

  • OK, some facts for the people confused earlier in this conversation:

    1. The UK is not the same as Great Britain or the British Isles, all three are different:

    2. The British Isles is the name of the archipelago and every island in it, it includes Ireland, Man, Orkney and Great Britain.

    3. Great Britain is Prydein, the largest island, the original inhabitants of it, the cymru, before the concept of "Wales" existed, inhabited it up to about Strathclyde and shared the east with incomers

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  • 4. We are in fact a race, distributed around Great Britain but now most concentrated in Wales, we have been present since before the Romans and the modern population of Prydein has up to 50% of our original DNA in places.

    5. The only word that makes sense is "Cymru", Welsh is an Anglo Saxon word for the indigenous population that was functionally equivalent to the N word for black people now. The country is later invention, it's a bolthole for a population that was all over Britain

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  • Stop with the ads! That's why we stopped watching TV in the first place.

  • WOW! Alan Davies looks scarily alike that kid Ben from the program Outnumbered!!

  • yep

  • The Welsh sound like they're calling Cthulhu...

  • @SkrateBeastin agree

  • @SkrateBeastin We are, keep a lid on it.

  • @Lovefist233 Oh, sorry.

    Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

  • Like if you can understand, 'Flobby dobby blipy blop bleep'.

  • lol@ the advert at the begnning.

    God those Medival soldiers were cool. x

  • @leaguesmanoframsgate say whaaaaaaat??????? Gaelic?

  • Dwin hoffi coffi!!! :D

  • Why do they have Adverts on a BBC youtube channel ? Surely we pay out TV licence for this to.

  • @coldworld5 And for schooling, it's 'too'.

  • epicbluespikes ydy i, dw i ddim yn hoffy justin beiber. welsh born and bred sadly.

  • yeah... @shoottherunner8008 you should really pick a sex you think i am, most of it says i am a man, but then you put "gay boyfriend", and if you picked man then i would be gay as well, so having a gay boyfriend would be good... btw i am a straight woman so f**k you :P

  • I have to send this to my lovely Welsh friend Sarah.

  • Q f***king I !!!!!!

  • @StewieGriffinruleify you got something wrong with your head/agressive tumour/unbearably miniscule penis/gay boyfriend/ attraction to sheep?

  • @shoottherunner8008 Is that the only thing that you can think of...? That we're attracted to sheep??

  • i am welsh if u make fun of us we make fun of u what i think of english i think your stuck up stupid idiotic twats :P with a funny accsents :)

  • For Hugh's sake I'm trying to watch Stephen Fry here who gives a fuck about King Arthur?

  • SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE!?

  • @shoottherunner8008 isn't it funny that the English can be racist / xenophobic because of a comedy video... and they can't even spell or use their insults properly

  • @StewieGriffinruleify sorry i dont speak gay, translate?

  • @shoottherunner8008 But it seems that you recognise 'gay', I think there's something that you've been hiding - along with grammatical accuracy.

  • blwdi tosspot!

  • hes making jokes about whales! lmao

  • i feddwl fod pobl yn mor ddoniol â ni cymraeg

  • advert 4 a 2 min clip come on youtube

  • skip advert 0:01

  • @TeacupsFromSpace Google Translate DOES NOT WORK :P

  • 0:01

    

  • We shag them. You eat them.

  • The Welsh aren't really a race though are they, surely its more a specific xenophobia.

  • @daddyschlong14 Black people, asian or whatever other group, that people are racist against, aren't races either. All humans belong to one race. The human race.

    His use of "racism" isn't wrong.

    The word itself is misleading though.

  • @daddyschlong14 Yep, actually the word Welsh means foreigner, even though the Welsh have been in Britain longer than the Anglo Saxon peoples in England.

  • @G1NZOU Indeed. Hence the rather insulting 'Welsh Rabbit' for toasted cheese. 'Rarebit' is a later corruption of the term. True welsh types would call themselves cymry I suppose. Cymru is the country, cymry the people. I might be wrong.

  • @cosmicshambles Nope, you're absolutely right.

  • How does a Welshman find a sheep in tall grass?

    Very satisfying.