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x_losLast night Stephen Fry asked if anyone in the audience could define the difference between three specific yiddish insults --and I looked at Katy, thought she would be too embarrassed if I raised my hand, and /bit my tongue off in my mouth/.
NO ONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE KNEW. HE HAD TO DO IT HIMSELF BASED OFF ADDMITEDLY INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE. HE SAID NEBBISH WHERE HE MEANT SCHLIMAZEL. THE THINGS I SUFFER FOR LOVE. THE THIIIIINGS.
STEPHEN FRY AND I WERE ALMOST JEWFRIENDS!! ALMOST...*
She later said she wouldn't have been that embarrassed. Bah. I will always regret the ONE time I kept my mouth shut.
Also David Mitchel, Bill Bailey and Alan Davies were lovely, and someone else was there, but he was a bit of a git about Americans and not funny or correct enough to justify it. Blah blah, Americans not polite, whiiiinge, mooooooan, lazily Colonial and not terribly apt observaaaaation. Sure earned your panelist fee tonight, pal.
Also there was some factually dodge stuff about FDR, in the way that some QI questions state the point at such an angle (technically true perhaps but over-looking some MAJOR component of the situation that gives it very necessary context) as to almost constitute misinformation. :/ I really *like* QI, and I feel awkward when I catch some largeish faux paux of fact or judgement, because it makes me distrust the rest of the program, especially the bits I don't know a damn thing about.
Still, now over my crippling fear of/intimidation by Stephen Fry/Panel Shows . Feel I can face the former after his somewhat incorrect definition of nebbish (Who doesn't know that? tsk tsk, Stephen, call yourself Jew-ish...) and could perform competently on the later. Katy thinks I could not be Germaine Greer**? Well, maybe not, but if I were held at gunpoint and forced to accept 4,000 pounds for a day's work on a panel-show, it wouldn't be *Jedward* embarrassing.
* I TWEETED HIM THE ANSWER RIGHT AFTER. I HOPE HE KNOOOOOOWS...
** I could be the HELL out of a Less Aussie More American Germaine Greer, fyi. Brb, photoshopping us hanging out together like that Lenin/Stalin BFFs pic...
NO ONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE KNEW. HE HAD TO DO IT HIMSELF BASED OFF ADDMITEDLY INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE. HE SAID NEBBISH WHERE HE MEANT SCHLIMAZEL. THE THINGS I SUFFER FOR LOVE. THE THIIIIINGS.
STEPHEN FRY AND I WERE ALMOST JEWFRIENDS!! ALMOST...*
She later said she wouldn't have been that embarrassed. Bah. I will always regret the ONE time I kept my mouth shut.
Also David Mitchel, Bill Bailey and Alan Davies were lovely, and someone else was there, but he was a bit of a git about Americans and not funny or correct enough to justify it. Blah blah, Americans not polite, whiiiinge, mooooooan, lazily Colonial and not terribly apt observaaaaation. Sure earned your panelist fee tonight, pal.
Also there was some factually dodge stuff about FDR, in the way that some QI questions state the point at such an angle (technically true perhaps but over-looking some MAJOR component of the situation that gives it very necessary context) as to almost constitute misinformation. :/ I really *like* QI, and I feel awkward when I catch some largeish faux paux of fact or judgement, because it makes me distrust the rest of the program, especially the bits I don't know a damn thing about.
Still, now over my crippling fear of/intimidation by Stephen Fry/Panel Shows . Feel I can face the former after his somewhat incorrect definition of nebbish (Who doesn't know that? tsk tsk, Stephen, call yourself Jew-ish...) and could perform competently on the later. Katy thinks I could not be Germaine Greer**? Well, maybe not, but if I were held at gunpoint and forced to accept 4,000 pounds for a day's work on a panel-show, it wouldn't be *Jedward* embarrassing.
* I TWEETED HIM THE ANSWER RIGHT AFTER. I HOPE HE KNOOOOOOWS...
** I could be the HELL out of a Less Aussie More American Germaine Greer, fyi. Brb, photoshopping us hanging out together like that Lenin/Stalin BFFs pic...
