No Such Thing As A Brie Sculpture is the 236th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 28th episode of the fifth year, and the 40th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest presenter Alex Edelman. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Anna, James, Andy and special guest Alex Edelman discuss illegal canoe practices, the funniest poo joke in history and Henry VIII's favourite pudding.
Facts[]
- In 1903 it was made illegal in Boston to lie down in a canoe. (Ptaszynski)
- Henry VIII once enjoyed a pudding so much that he awarded the woman who made it one of the monasteries he'd just seized from the Catholic church. (Harkin)
- Dolphins in the wild have been teaching each-other how to moonwalk. (Murray)
- In Medieval Germany, the funniest joke had ever heard involved replacing a flower with a poo. (Edelman)
Trivia[]
- Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
- In his absence Anna Ptaszynski hosts.
- Alex Edelman guests, making his third appearance on the podcast.
- Boston's unusual laws are discussed again in Episode 295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette, which was recorded live in Boston.
- Edelman mentions the Sourtoe Cocktail, which was previously mentioned in TBA.
- Making sculptures from marzipan was previously discussed in Episode 131: No Such Thing As Walking the Life Jacket.