Ronni Ancona quotes from QI

Ronni Ancona

A lot of people say that they're smarter than people, but if they were, wouldn't they be saying that?

Ronni Ancona

It's so weird that these national heroes are not from the place they are supposed to be. William Wallace was from Kenya. His mother was Masai... Not really!

Ronni Ancona

[On Royal Navy slang] The term for premature ejaculation is “getting off at Fratton”, because Fratton is the train station two before Portsmouth. Which is your final destination, really.

Stephen Fry

Name, if you can, the subject of the three volume book whose first volume is entitled "The Long Years of Obscurity."

Phill Jupitus

The career of Phil Collins.

Ronni Ancona

Is this book about the word obscurity before it got famous? How it was beaten by its adjective father. And left on the doorstep abandoned by its mother, and it was the only noun growing up in a house of verbs. And the verbs were always going out doing lovely things, because they were doing words, and poor old obscurity was stuck inside suffering from asthma. And then after school it was surrounded by quotation marks and got beaten up terribly. And then one day entered into reality TV show and it became very famous and it was much in demand and used to describe all the people who leave Big Brother House?

Stephen Fry

What's the most famous line from a Tarzan film?

Ronni Ancona

Oh, "Me Tarzan, you Jane."

Stephen Fry

Yes, except of course it never happened.

Ronni Ancona

What?!

David Mitchell

Why do these films always forget to put their most famous lines in?

Sandi Toksvig

Is it because women are just not funny?

Stephen Fry

[gasps]

Ronni Ancona

[imitating deep Southern woman] Now, that's right, but we're good at other things, we're good at raisin' kittens and knittin' cakes!

Sandi Toksvig

It feels extraordinary to sit next to a women...

Stephen Fry

Oh, hello.

Jack Dee

Is it because once they start they never shut up?

Ronni Ancona

You truly are a renaissance man!

Stephen Fry

I wear tights, put it that way.