Danny Baker quotes from QI

Danny Baker

Do you know what tinsel is? Mirrors for snakes.

Danny Baker

The fourth largest navy in the world, if one goes by boats alone? Disney. Disney has the fourth largest flotilla in the world.

Stephen Fry

Good God. They'll be making films next!

Stephen Fry

Now, seeing as this is the "Lucky Losers" show, whoever gets the lowest score wins.

Danny Baker

Well done Alan! You've won already, congratulations!

Stephen Fry

Perhaps even more depressing, is that American therapists have a name for the syndrome, which "sudden wealth syndrome" [starts sniggering]. Which is presumably something they suffer from whenever they name a syndrome. They make money by deciding you have a syndrome.

Sandi Toksvig

That's a really boring name for it though.

Stephen Fry

You'd think so, yeah. But these are the same people who say, if you lose someone you love: they die, and you are still...

Danny Baker

Whoa! Wow! Wow, that was so huge.

Sandi Toksvig

That was so impressive.

Danny Baker

That was enormous!

Stephen Fry

The day had to happen.

Jeremy Clarkson

I mean, that was an explosion!

Danny Baker

That's extraordinary!

Stephen Fry

Are you alright?

Jeremy Clarkson

There are people now in California, looking at their seismographs, going "Jesus Christ! What was THAT?!?!"

Danny Baker

What a thing!

Stephen Fry

Is it because I said the word 'die'? Da! Don't do it again...

Alan Davies

So sorry for interrupting.

Danny Baker

Where you plagued at school by people who: "Turkish Delight"?

Stephen Fry

Oh yeah. "Turkish delight, don't like it, keeps you up at night." No it doesn't!

Danny Baker

Have you tried "Dan Dan, the lavatory man, washed his hair with a frying pan, combed his hair with a leg of a chair, Dan Dan?" Or Danny Boy. There are certain songs that curse you through your life, if you have certain names.

Stephen Fry

Yeah.

Jeremy Clarkson

All I got was, "What sort of a fucking name is Jeremy "?