QI XL - How Ironic is That?

[theycallmefibb]

Where the FUCK is John Bishop from? His accent is amongst the most annoying I've heard from England.

[GiveMeThatGundam]

@theycallmefibb liverpool 

[ChartreuseDan]

@theycallmefibb He's scouse... we don't like them either

[AshtonPhoto]

@ChartreuseDan

That's ironic, someone from Blackpool disparaging a Liverpudlian.

[ChartreuseDan]

@AshtonPhoto Potentially yes. Depends on your opinion

[jonohutton89]

@theycallmefibb Liverpool, and yes it is the most annoying accent in england the butt of many jokes, its hard to find anyone who likes it.

[VamLoveAndKisses]

@jonohutton89 Everyone on my dad's side of the family is from Liverpool, and has a scouce accent. My dad has lost it after living elsewhere for years, but when his family visits he picks it back up again and I can't understand a word anyone in the house says.

[OlirockCP]

@theycallmefibb There's four type of people in Britain.

1. No Accent

2. Accent from 'Darn Sarf'

3. Accent from 'Oop North'

4. The Liverpool Accent.

Bishop falls into the latter.

[AshtonPhoto]

@OlirockCP There are many more than that: Scousers. Mancunians. Geordies. Brummies. Welsh coal miners. Scottish pup crawlers. Indians who are proud to be British. Public school chaps. (Steven Fry) James Herriot farmers Chavs. Lancashire hot pot, " Eee, missus, I'll have a pie and a pint, eh what?" Lucinda Prior Palmer John Peel Jeremy Clarkson Amy Pond Bill Odie Spike Milligan Pearly Kings and Queens Old Liverpudlian (Sir Paul) New Liverpudlian (John Bishop) Anybody named Quentin.

[laiosto]

@AshtonPhoto Who is John Bishop?

[AshtonPhoto]

@laiosto

Let's see: He's named in the description, he's in the video, he's mentioned in the comments above and a 5 second Google search will yield numerous helpful results...

Come on old chap, let's get with it.!.!

;-)

[laiosto]

@AshtonPhoto No I'd rather let a smartarse pom waste minutes of his life doing it for me,so smarty pants who is he,apart from being a scouser?

[AshtonPhoto]

@laiosto

You're a grown man. I'm sure you can do it all by yourself.

[ChartreuseDan]

For fuck's sake, under these lacklustre guidelines, regarded in the right way anything is ironic. There is no way that the lawyer thing was irony. That was what was supposed to happen apparently. The lawyer just didn't think about what might happen after he took the fatal wound. It's either suicidal or profoundly thick but not even slightly ironic.

[MCkillU]

@ChartreuseDan it would have been ironic if he was trying to DISprove the theory...

[DaneEVA]

I don't understand how the lawyer shooting himself is ironic. Surely the gun going off is exactly what you would expect to happen, not the opposite?

[infraball]

@DaneEVA the person he was defending had previously been acquitted.

[Billiciously]

@DaneEVA The lawyer was trying to convince a jury that the gun would have gone off by accident. While re-acting the bar struggle his client was in, he accidentally shot himself.

[IHACKER316]

How ironic is this comment?

[Timthegreat2]

@IHACKER316 It isn't.

[IHACKER316]

@Timthegreat2 but doesn't that make it ironic?

[ChartreuseDan]

@IHACKER316 no. saying "this comment is ironic" maybe but not asking whether it was

[toolworks]

(8) Mr. Play-it-Safe was afraid to fly. He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye. He waited his whole damn life to take that flight. And as the plane crashed down, he thought, Well isn’t this nice… now I’ll never make it to the National Association of Aviophobics conference in Reno, NV. (8)

[proprodigySD]

@MrKingofhats ...no

[bce02]

isn't it ironic that the alanis morissette song doesn't really have any good cases of irony?

[N3m3cis]

@bce02 Exactly, everytime the song plays in the radio, i go "nope, nope, nope, that's not ironic Alanis dear".

[loravine]

@N3m3cis

But it is Ironic that the song is not Ironic, so doesn't it make it Ironic anyway?

[bce02]

@loravine precisely, she orchestrated one of the best cases of irony I've ever seen.

[Rahrhino]

@loravine OMG! I'm really excited because you may have just found an irony paradox! The song is not ironic which makes it ironic but the content is not ironic, ironically... etc, etc! It's a perpetual incongruency, making it a paradox! What do you think?

[Frequency404]

So if someone were to say something like "Ironically, he wasn't there..", which isn't ironic, then that means the fact they were trying to be ironic and were completely unironic would make it ironic? *Scratches head* :o

[TheSpareohs]

Oh gosh, he loves Columbo? That is so fabulous.

[TOOHUMAN112]

I can't believe Stephen said comlubo was his favourite series ever because its a detective series just like Jonathon creek, a detective shoe! hahaaaa HOW IRONIC!

[Choo69]

@TOOHUMAN112 a detective what?

[matthewmch]

last one. last one then i go to the shops. mind i said that about 2 hours ago :/

[blondemario]

Thanks for uploading!

[shikamaruisfit]

Loved it when he mentioned Oedipus :L I'm doing it for A level and the extent of my analysis of the play was "it's all so ironic!" :') I couldn't think of anything else lol

[kawaphat]

As Richard Jennings once said " My mother never understood the irony of calling me, a son of a bitch".

[Ionlyfearphobophobia]

@kawaphat Well that's not ironic, that's just being an idiot by calling yourself a "bitch".

[TheGroucho66]

@kawaphat

I am going to acknowledge this brilliant comment (and quote which I will remember forever) by moving your 99 likes into the majesty of the big 100 via a simple click of the 'like' button. Well done Sir.

[JimmySteller]

Frank Skinner should have been on QI years ago. He's a great panellist :)

[owaffs]

@JimmySteller

I disagree with you I'm afraid. I find the man devoid of talent and the fewer appearances he makes on TV the better for everyone.

[bjossus]

Ironically, or not.

[IoEstasCedonta]

Mike Godwin?

But wasn't he just in the news a few months back talking about how he wished he weren't in such an awkward position when Abu Ghraib reminded him of a concentration camp?

[eddiebear100]

Hail the Fry,and that's the truth.

[eddiebear100]

How ironic was that?

[GeneralZhadow]

@eddiebear100 If Fry is to be believed; not very.