Stephen Fry quotes from QI

Stephen Fry

[To James Acaster] What's NuMetal?

It was rap and metal together. It went very badly.

Stephen Fry

How many paintings did Vincent van Gogh sell which he was alive.

Jo Brand

[To Alan.] Don’t say none.

Bill Bailey

None. I’m gonna say none.

Stephen Fry

Really, I’m afraid...

Bill Bailey

One.

Alan Davies

A few, maybe.

Stephen Fry

It was lots, he sold hundreds of paintings.

Alan Davies

Hundreds?!

Stephen Fry

Yeah. When he was 15, he used to work in an art gallery.

Alan Davies

Oh, shut up.

Stephen Fry

It’s true. I just asked you how many paintings...

Alan Davies

This is the closest I’ve come to walking out of this show.

Stephen Fry

Alan’s buzzer?

Stephen Fry

That wasn’t a buzzer, that was a buzzard.

Alan Davies

That’s harsh, though.

Stephen Fry

It is harsh.

Alan Davies

Am I on minus then already? That is a new record.

Stephen Fry

I have no... My hands are tied.

Stephen Fry

If we were on a direct flight from Madrid to Montana, which American states beginning with M would we fly over on the way?

Chris Addison

‘Merica? Is that one?

Stephen Fry

Are you wrestling with the world, here?

Chris Addison

Aren’t we all, Stephen?

Stephen Fry

How did the first American Air Mail arrive at its destination?

Chris Addison

Human cannonball. They put a post man in a cannon and fired him.

Stephen Fry

What is the best way to do a massive data dump?

Chris Addison

Give your laptop to a British civil servant.

Stephen Fry

The church excommunicated all mimes in the 5th century

Alan Davies

Not a moment too soon.