Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Ok, here's the short version of our outing to be in the QI audience yesterday: we stood in line for ages, but it was totally worth, because it was fricking amazingly funny! Stephen Fry wore a lovely green suit with a pink shirt (I think) shirt and tie. The panel was: Allan Davies (duh), Sean Lock (*swoon*), Ben Miller and Rob Brydon. This is for the F series so the topic was the future.

Here's the longer version:
As if standing in line for ages wasn't enough, at some point they separated the queue into two and the second queue was mostly people who got there later than us, they were let in before us. It seemed pretty arbitrary and was pretty annoying as well! But in we got, after having our bags searched for sharp objects etc. The security guy was trying to be Mr Funny. He wasn't so much...

I found it quite interesting (snort) that there were people of all ages and all walks of life in the audience. There was some rather posh looking people right in front of us in the queue, expensive handbags, shades and jeans - you know the type. Strangely, most people were white. I think I saw one Asian looking woman, but that's it. I wonder why that is. Is QI "white" humour?

While waiting for the 'show' to go on, we were looking at the crew (or whatever they are called on a tv set) preparing. There were also some telly screens which showed quite interesting facts about a 16 foot long carrot and how the hippo's sweat works as a sunblock. Then the warm-up guy came on and made people laugh. He asked if there was anyone from overseas in the audience and he then spoke to a few of those and most of his 'material' was stereotypes about their particular countries. Which I found not so cool. But maybe that's just me. And if you happen to watch this particular episode of QI and you see shots of the audience laughing, that is filmed during this warm up, not during the actual taping. I know this, because there were no cameras pointed at the audience while the chaps were on stage.

So Stephen Fry comes out, sits down and chats a bit to the audience and then he introduces the others one at a time: Sean Lock *swoon*, Rob Brydon, Ben Miller and Alan Davies. It was Ben Miller's first time on QI, but he seemed to fit straight in. And he's REALLY smart, he was explaining all these things about physics and whether 'nothing' can actually be.

Oh, I almost forgot! Just before Stephen Fry came on stage, they showed an extra that will be on the DVD for series 4. It has got something to do with the song about Peter Cushing that Alan Davies talked about in one of those episodes. REALLY funny stuff!

They were talking about how Rob gets mistaken for Ben and that sort of became the running joke though out the thing. There was a hilarious moment when they put their heads together like they were Siamese twins and then they looked at each other straight in the eye and kissed. To much whooping from the audience as you can imagine!

Oh jeez, I knew I should have written this all down last night, I feel like I'm already forgetting a lot of funny moments. Maybe I'll come back to it and add stuff!

Anyway, more that I still remember: Fry compared a 'sports' bottle to 'your mummy's teat', it transpired that Fry's cousin (a woman) used to date David Furnish (!), Sean Lock stopped the whole thing because he needed the loo! Fry showed Alan Davies some of the answers and he also spoke in Klingon and esperanto. Although those two incidents were not related. One thing he said in Esperanto was 'my hover craft is full of eels' to which Sean Lock *swoon* said, 'hey, I can say that in Danish'. Which he did! But it sounded like he said 'my hover craft is full of beer'*.

Ok, my brain is dying, must be the heat... But this was really great, if you get the chance you should definitely go. We just requested tickets for another episode!!


*Danish for eel = ål, beer = øl.

Labels: days out, geeky, telly