I remember that darts sketch. It was exactly how we all thought darts players behaved. There's a great bit where you see Griff, in the background, throwing darts to relax between drinks.
Golf analyst David Feherty has some great ones. He described one tour winner's swing as "looking like an octopus falling out of a tree" and looking like "A man trying to kill a snake with an axe in a phone box"
I have a few Swedish gaming mates and I've played them the "Ball or Aresole" (Aerosol but with a Swedish twang better known as the Swedish Chemist sketch) and they fell about laughing..
That clip from Not The Nine O’Clock News features a much younger Jim Carter as the man with the microphone, aka Carson from Downton Abbey!! I never knew that until I saw this QI clip.
Thank you Mr Fry for pronouncing the D as a soft T at the end of Barneveld. I have a surname almost identical but being Afrikaan the V is pronounced as an F so it'd be Barnefelt but Velt is also ok as is veld.
The word "double" comes to mind, as when a player double-in or doubles-out of a game. Ironic that the word was used so many times in the clip but it never scored.
American pool did a similar thing in the '90s to clean up its image and replace the smokey pool hall filled with hustlers. Professional associations enacted dress codes and codes of conduct to make the sport more appealing to spectators and participants after The Color of Money inspired a surge in popularity of the sport. Women especially found the new approach to the sport more inviting and helped to make upscale pool halls very popular in that decade.
relax, it was the 20th century, it's gone, it can't hurt you, we don't microwave exotic birds anymore, makes 'em too tough to eat like all meat in the microwave
Actually, as I'm quite fond of darts, drinking (water) is a perfectly valid and correct answer. Also, they did not give what they considered the right one.
There's a Brazilian commentator that once said during a Formula 1 race "He almost hit the other driver. They were less than a centimetre apart. If there's even less than a centimetre" And thus I developed the power to block his voice
My first thought was 'double-in'... I mean, when I played I drank (while I was on a team and we had tournaments, none of it was sanctioned by any kind of official body), but we (being soldiers) all drank _anyways_, so I never associated that specifically with darts.
I didn't know darts was a competitive televised thing until I went to Amsterdam last year. I ate some truffles and went back to my hotel room. I flip on the tv and there's some guy with a green mohawk and green lizard print pants throwing darts. @.@
2:04 THIS is the reason why they should be getting educated people to do commentary on sports, rather than the thick bricks from modern television who are convinced that starring in reality tv is the equivalent of having a personality.
As I recall, there was no ‘correct’ answer given, it was the common QI trap of giving the player the nudge to go (in this case) “drinking!” so they could sound the awooga.
It also doesn't make sense that public perception wasn't that darts was basically a drinking competition until the clip, because otherwise it wouldn't have been funny and they probably wouldn't have made the clip.
They're dueling, it's just like the 17th century when the working class lads had to climb to the top of the hill and start fighting just for the entertainment of the upper classes!
It was just a bait question to lead us into the subject, it’s always good to remember that this isn’t actually a quiz show, it’s a dinner party parlour game without the food, the point of which is only to make Quite Interesting TV.
Poor old Fry with that busted clubbed foot in the middle of his face!😂He keeps gasping for air between sentences and it's hysterical! That great big mouth sucking wind😂
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I remember that darts sketch. It was exactly how we all thought darts players behaved. There's a great bit where you see Griff, in the background, throwing darts to relax between drinks.
I liked Mitchell and Webb's spin on it where they played 'snooker' with straws and shots.
Haha, superb. 😂
Let's not lose sight of the fact that we're on a website/application that is pretty much nothing but video content, it's very easy to find here.
@@Leebo13 Indeed one could even include a link ruclips.net/video/vqxXNZcIdwM/видео.html
I'm DEFINITELY stealing "He's as happy as a penguin in a microwave." That's freaking hilarious.
I'm blown away how well Oxford RP English speaker Stephen Fry can do a north east accent. Not quite area specific but a very credible generic one.
Golf analyst David Feherty has some great ones. He described one tour winner's swing as "looking like an octopus falling out of a tree" and looking like "A man trying to kill a snake with an axe in a phone box"
@@almostfm Thank you! Those crack me up.
Hilarious, yes. Why, is the question. Surely a penguin would not be pleased to find themselves in a microwave.
@@grf15 🤦♀️ Exactly.
RIP John Sessions - gone too soon 😔 xx
RIP John Sessions. So clever and funny.
Finest Whose Line contestant there ever was.
Just reminded me he had passed. Sad face :'( RIP John, comedy genius
He was a great voice impressionist on Spitting Image.
Also a comic genius on "Whose line?"
Had not heard this news, we lost a great actor there. RIP
WTF? I had NFI. RIP.
A 2 for 1 special deal!
The amusement of classic QI with a nice sprinkling of Smith & Jones!
Great clip of a good episode.
A hat trick in fact, cos we got a bunch of Sid Waddell quotes too👍👌😁
"Oooh Jimmy, it's 2006!"
Surely, SURELY the answer is darts. Not even QI can convince me darts players don't *play darts*.
"Dart" isn't a verb in this context.
@@r0bw00d they "do darts"
@@samsowden That's why my answer would have been "dart throwing."
@@samsowden still not a verb
@@gifgoldblum7940 "to do" most certainly is a verb
Rowan Atkinson did great commentary on that sketch, Not The Nine O'Clock News was an amazing programme.
RIP John Sessions
I didn't knmow he died. RIP indeed :(
That darts sketch is one of my all time favourites. So funny 😂😀
I have a few Swedish gaming mates and I've played them the "Ball or Aresole" (Aerosol but with a Swedish twang better known as the Swedish Chemist sketch) and they fell about laughing..
That clip from Not The Nine O’Clock News features a much younger Jim Carter as the man with the microphone, aka Carson from Downton Abbey!! I never knew that until I saw this QI clip.
Not the nine o'clock news what a gem ❤️ also when Steven said 2006 I was like... My god I was 8 years old...
The fascinating thing is most of the panel hardly look any older when you see other videos
from 2006
it’s “diddle” as in, “diddle for the middle” to see who throws first. cheers from Indiana!
Thank you. It irked me that they said in detail what it isn't, but never said what it is.
In the US - at least in the midwest - dart leagues are held at bars and drinking is definitely involved. Not to that degree, but they drink.
Great sketch. And yes, British comedy is No.1
At 0:27, watch Jimmy Carr's magical dart.
I put a penguin in a microwave.
The chocolate melted. The wrapper was a mess.
Same quality joke 😂
Dear John Sessions. RIP sir.
I miss 2006.
ahh the late Sid Waddell , sorely missed.
''Jocky Wilson... What an athlete.''
I have an autographed picture of Jockey. I think I got it at RAF Croughton when he made an appearance there.
@@jameskirschling7887 It's Jocky. Don't know where you're getting Jockey from. It's not horse racing we're talking about here.
@@grahamlive excuse me for making a mistake. 🤣 I was an Eric Bristow fan anyway.
"Oooh, and that's a baaaad miss."
That was snooker, not darts.
@@sierraromeoromeo2444 Damn. You're right. Although I imagine the commentaries aren't all that different.
RIP John Sessions 😊
0:27 but great throw by jimmy carr
Thank you Mr Fry for pronouncing the D as a soft T at the end of Barneveld. I have a surname almost identical but being Afrikaan the V is pronounced as an F so it'd be Barnefelt but Velt is also ok as is veld.
They're hitting the double from angles Pythagoras could never have imagined!
The word "double" comes to mind, as when a player double-in or doubles-out of a game. Ironic that the word was used so many times in the clip but it never scored.
What are the odds that I watch this, never heard of Marshall before, look him up, and find he just died. Damn.
R.I.P. John. You were the best.
American pool did a similar thing in the '90s to clean up its image and replace the smokey pool hall filled with hustlers. Professional associations enacted dress codes and codes of conduct to make the sport more appealing to spectators and participants after The Color of Money inspired a surge in popularity of the sport. Women especially found the new approach to the sport more inviting and helped to make upscale pool halls very popular in that decade.
I was wondering why was this being recommended to me out of nowhere.
Then I found out about John Sessions.
RIP :(
I'm concerned about the penguin in the microwave bit
So is the penguin
Isn't the penguin supposed to be atop the telly...then explode?
relax, it was the 20th century, it's gone, it can't hurt you, we don't microwave exotic birds anymore, makes 'em too tough to eat like all meat in the microwave
Yeah, they tend to melt.
Actually, as I'm quite fond of darts, drinking (water) is a perfectly valid and correct answer.
Also, they did not give what they considered the right one.
alan did say "some word that they use that means throwing the darts"
My immediate answer was, "Damage! duh! They Damage the boards with every throw!"
This is the most British thing I've seen all week.
I'm stealing that penguin line
There's a Brazilian commentator that once said during a Formula 1 race "He almost hit the other driver. They were less than a centimetre apart. If there's even less than a centimetre"
And thus I developed the power to block his voice
Galvão?
@@BrunoBarcelosAlves Ele mesmo
Dear QI RUclips, please consider adding closed captions
Ah, Sid Waddell. Always good for a quip.
"Well, it's a good start: double vodka.. Single pint.."
Lol first time I see this show.
I miss Sid.
That is a great sketch
My first thought was 'double-in'... I mean, when I played I drank (while I was on a team and we had tournaments, none of it was sanctioned by any kind of official body), but we (being soldiers) all drank _anyways_, so I never associated that specifically with darts.
They drink a lot, actually. Just water, but surprising amounts considering the activity.
That’s him from Downton Abbey
Only one word can describe that, magic darts.
Drinking? Ok i would've got the klaxon. BTW Stephen fry is a darts fan
I didn't know darts was a competitive televised thing until I went to Amsterdam last year. I ate some truffles and went back to my hotel room. I flip on the tv and there's some guy with a green mohawk and green lizard print pants throwing darts. @.@
Never knew they played dart in school in The Netherlands!
And I’m Dutch…
2:04 THIS is the reason why they should be getting educated people to do commentary on sports, rather than the thick bricks from modern television who are convinced that starring in reality tv is the equivalent of having a personality.
Wait what was the answer?
The answer was anything except "drinking", he was setting up drinking, but they didn't say it
Not drinking
@@brettefantomet but usually there's a real answer as well
@@Jupiterninja95 I was thinking it had to be doubling.
The answer is "Don't drink," it seems?
14 years!
Everytime I see this thumbnail i think "dart throwing"
Stephen: It's 2006, we can't be doing hello darling, can we?
Jimmy's gesture: Well I just fuckin did, darling.
i'm 33 now, crying for a different reason
Well, DANG! They never did give the correct answer. I assume it's "doubling in" ... but it would have been nice to get the OFFICIAL QI answer. ;-) .
As I recall, there was no ‘correct’ answer given, it was the common QI trap of giving the player the nudge to go (in this case) “drinking!” so they could sound the awooga.
its “diddle”
It's Jocky and Locke getting a bit cocky on the oche!
He's right about the microwaved penguin. He wasn't happy about it. Tasty though lol.
Fairly Merry
Inebriated
Absolutely Plastered
Completely Newscasted
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I blindly guessed drinking! Wow!
Well please come on, don't put your Penguins in the microwave.
they melt and you can't get them out of the package
So the "it's the current year" didn't begin in 2015 apparently
In the category of questions unanswered, what do darts players do that begins with D?
Defeat their opponent.
So what was the answer?
diddle
I can assure you all that, rather unfortunately, in Dutch schools playing darts is not encouraged, not allowed, and not on the curriculum.
I finished high school in 2004 and can confirm that darts was a relatively common thing to do in class when the work was done.
@@ZumbaMarx What school?
@@Loukbots Middelbare
What was the answer?!
The D word is surely Diddle. Both players throw a single dart and closest to the bull goes first.
You must've never seen Dutch darting, drinking is half the sport.
Still is at the amateur level. It's only Infront of the TV cameras that they can't drink. When they go of for a break they down a pint or two!
Doesn't add up to me. The clip was from 1980. Darts was massive beyond that year
It also doesn't make sense that public perception wasn't that darts was basically a drinking competition until the clip, because otherwise it wouldn't have been funny and they probably wouldn't have made the clip.
Rip john sessions
They're dueling, it's just like the 17th century when the working class lads had to climb to the top of the hill and start fighting just for the entertainment of the upper classes!
I was expecting Darts to be the klackson
It’s time to get good at darts
Did the chancellor of darts make his decree?!
Doubles
RIP Jimmy Carr my favourite comedian
I would have answered "deduction"
Ooh…and that’s a bad miss!
Dart throwing. Next!
So...in the very early days of tv darts they were drinking pints of cold tea...
Darting?
I thought the answer was just Darts 😂
Stephen made you love it, Sandi means you'll always love it. Knowledge.
Soooo....
What's the answer?
Full sketch can be seen here - ruclips.net/video/9SJnSmQCxkg/видео.html
I guessed 'Darts'
Doubles.....
Drinking
Did anyone else think the trap was gonna be Darts? Not drinking haha
To be fair, I’d starting watching darts if it was a bunch of drunken competitors...
We're still waiting for the 'correct' answer, it seems :(
Thought I was the only one who picked up on that. Annoying. :P
@@tenrecc It's not the fourth time they've done it too !
It was just a bait question to lead us into the subject, it’s always good to remember that this isn’t actually a quiz show, it’s a dinner party parlour game without the food, the point of which is only to make Quite Interesting TV.
@@Lumibear. Yes, but we usually get answers - and it is those that are supposedly 'QI' - hence the point of going down that route in the first place.
They only drink water on stage, the vast majority drink off stage before they play.
*before seeing video* DRINK!!
damn :(
a-WOOOO-ga!
Darts players do drink water during a game.
Deduction
Dart playing?
But...
What is the answer?
Darting?
1:21 - It’s Deja Vu!
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miss subtlety
Poor old Fry with that busted clubbed foot in the middle of his face!😂He keeps gasping for air between sentences and it's hysterical! That great big mouth sucking wind😂
I pity you.
Love how comedy got blamed for the game having a bad image, but not the actual image of the game if you watched it 🤣