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Jouw sig is toch ook van Jimmy?
Mijn favo's (o.a.): Sean Lock, Jimmy Carr, Rob Brydon, Phill Jupitus, Bill Bailey, Dara Ó Briain, Clive Anderson
Nog een aantal mooie quotes:
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[Randomly, during a question as to whether banana plants are trees]
Sean Lock: They walk.
Stephen Fry: I'm sorry?
Sean Lock: Banana plants, whatever they're called, walk.
Stephen Fry: Nurse, nurse, he's out of bed again.
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Stephen Fry: It's in the Bible …
Alan Davies: I haven't read it!
Stephen Fry: You should—it's hilarious.
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Stephen Fry: I'll give you an extra two points if you can tell me the longest fence in the world.
Phill Jupitus: The Great Fence of China!
Alan Davies: It's to keep people off the Great Wall.
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Stephen Fry: Beetle-fanciers, as you probably know, are called—
Bill Bailey: Coleopterists.
Stephen Fry: Very good! Coleopterists. I'll give you five points for that.
Alan Davies: Press him on how the hell he knows that.
Bill Bailey: Well, when I was a child, I—
Stephen Fry: In Alan's world, knowing something is a kind of freakish, weird thing.
Bill Bailey: Welcome to my world of knowing! The wonderful world of looking up things in books!
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Stephen Fry: [discussing rainbows] In Estonia they believe that if you point at a rainbow, your finger will fall off.
Alan Davies: Oh, for God's sake.
Stephen Fry: I know.
Alan Davies: Estonians aren't stupid people, are they?
Stephen Fry: They're not.
Sean Lock: [holding up his fists] They're very stumpy, though.
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["What goes 'woof woof boom'?"]
Rich Hall: A terrierist!
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Alan Davies: Eight hundred Americans die in a McDonald's every year.
Rich Hall: Which one?
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Stephen Fry: If I've got a mothball in this hand and a mothball in that hand, what have I got?
Alan Davies: Two mothballs?
Stephen Fry: No, a rather excited moth.
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Sean Lock: The huntsman spider is the only spider with lungs.
Alan Davies: So you can get it a birthday cake with a candle on.
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[About Mr. Chicken, the last private resident of 10 Downing Street]
Stephen Fry: Sadly, nothing else is known of Mr. Chicken.
Jimmy Carr: He was a philatelist, and he worked in a bank. And he used to sail. So there's three facts, so I should get some points for those. Little-known facts, but true.
Rory McGrath: I think he also played the tenor banjo.
Sean Lock: He had eleven knuckles!
Alan Davies: And, in fact, was actually a chicken.
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Stephen Fry: Why shouldn't I strip Alan naked and cover him in gold paint?
Phill Jupitus: You win your Oscar properly like everybody else!
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[After Alan has related a tale of him being a member of the pub quiz team]
Phill Jupitus: Wouldn't it be great if you walked into a pub with him, though … [points at Stephen] … with Fry on your team? "Yeah, this is Barry from down the road. Yeah, he does look like him." And Fry would be there having to fake it in the pub—"Oh, blimey!"
Bill Bailey: Giving it away by swearing in Latin!
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Stephen Fry: My great-uncle had his tongue shot off in the war. He never talked about it.
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Stephen Fry: Oh, there you are. Great Wall of China.
Jimmy Carr: I've got quite an interesting fact about that.
Stephen Fry: Yep.
Jimmy Carr: Longest wall in the world, not one cashpoint.
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Stephen Fry: Where is the best place to be when a nuclear bomb goes off?
Jimmy Carr: I would've gone with downtown Nagasaki. Because what are the chances of that happening again? You've got to play the odds.
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Stephen Fry: I love the way your mind works, Alan Davies … and I use the word "works" quite wrongly.
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Stephen Fry: What happened to the fireman's pole?
Rob Brydon: He tiled the fireman's bathroom.
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Stephen Fry: By the way, does anyone know, incidentally, what is the best opening move of Paper, Scissors, Stone?
Dara Ó Briain: If you say, "You go first."
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Jo Brand: Why are there no aspirins in the jungle?
[pause]
Jo Brand: The parrots-eat-em-all!