Jack Dee quotes from QI

Sandi Toksvig

I, I like pink. 'Pink makes the boys wink'. And I think that's right. I've known boys who've been complete winkers. Marvellous thing, pink.

Jack Dee

I, uh, sorry. [rings in] Bit sexist, wasn't that.

Sandi Toksvig

[leans forward] Now, Jack, I've only just started. This is the beginning, my dear.

Jack Dee

I'm gonna come down you like a…

Stephen Fry

Hello!

Jack Dee

…ton of bricks.

Sandi Toksvig

[nonchalantly] Would be the first boy in my life to have done so.

Stephen Fry

They can get a man on the moon, but they can't get one on Sandi.

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?

Jack Dee

I was a goth for a while.

Stephen Fry

Were you?

Jack Dee

I was asked to leave, 'cos I was just too miserable.

Sue Perkins

You were bringing them down.

Alan Davies

I was an emu for a while.

Sue Perkins

When did the hand come out?

Jack Dee

What’s the difference between an emo and a goth? I missed that.

Alan Davies

One’s a flightless bird. The other one’s a horny headed vandal.

Stephen Fry

Where does the saying 'saved by the bell' come from?

Jack Dee

[hits his buzzer, then grimaces] Oh no, I know what's gonna happen now. It's gonna be, I'm gonna get the klaxon for this. Is it boxing? Is it a boxing reference?

Stephen Fry

Yes!

Jack Dee

Oh.

Alan Davies

Is it - is this where the bells gonna go off…

Sue Perkins

[whispering] Don't do it!

Alan Davies

...Is it going back to being buried alive?

Jimmy Carr

How can you get it wrong after he's got it right?

Stephen Fry

You can tell from the strides that they ran really fast.

Jack Dee

What were they running from?

Alan Davies

The white man.

Stephen Fry

Tell me something quite interesting about the original geishas.

Jack Dee

They were all men.

Stephen Fry

Yes!

Jack Dee

Oh, God.