Always feel that QI is where the BBC mission to 'educate, inform and entertain' (or whatever shape those Reithian ideals took) goes seriously off the rails although I suppose that was always wacky - ideally there shouldn't be any joins you can see.
When you watch a programme you shouldn't be aware you are necessarily being educated or entertained.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link
really? Not Entertained?
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:19 (nine years ago) link
Yes - we'll always look to something similar in future. It closes out any other possibilities of what entertainment could mean.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
I barely know who Fry is, but this Benji Madden person is just fiction, right?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 January 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
Don't think he's is much good as Jeeves actually. The interpretation of the Jeeves and Wooster characters and relationship is totally off in their version. Fry's Jeeves is supercilious and smug and Jeeves is not like that.
― everything, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
jeeves is described as smug and supercilious all the time
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
by bertie tho - so he prob isnt actually like that tbh. i dont really see fry's interp as supercilious tho. i feel like hes subtle when he acts above bertie, but thats how the character is written too - those caustic "indeed sir"s
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
i think he's good as jeeves but when i read the books i usually imagine a slightly older, graver, less twinkly jeeves. laurie's wooster is definitive imo, almost to an annoying extent (hard for me not to hear his voice when i read wodehouse).
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Jeeves is not described as smug or supercilious - by Bertie or anyone else.
― everything, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Alarmed that somebody early in the thread thinks Rich Hall ruins QI whenever he appears. But he's usually the funniest person in whatever show he's in.
I do get a bit tired of some aspects of QI but I think it has less annoyances than a lot of the other panel shows. It's pretty good for whenever I'm feeling too shit or lazy to do anything else, I never go out of my way to watch it but I usually enjoy it.
I liked Fry's programmes on language, homophobia and bi-polar condition. The homophobia one (2 episodes) had some really uncomfortable moments and I thought he was very gutsy and admirable in it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
to each his own age gap, but his spouse should at least get an adult haircut.
http://www.towleroad.com/2015/01/stephen-frys-marriage-to-partner-draws-conservative-backlash-1.html
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
truth
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:59 (nine years ago) link