Jonathan Ross says "polyamorous" on QI

[ciphergoth]

I've only just seen this - perhaps everyone else has already been talking about it and I missed it?

QI, BBC4, 10 Nov 2006, about half-way in:

Jonathan Ross: Can I tell you about Wonder Woman? Wonder Woman's creator was William Moulton Marston ...

Stephen Fry: Absolutely.

Ross: ... who wrote under the pen-name of Charles Moulton, and who was in a polygamous and indeed polyamorous relationship with the woman who co-created Wonder Woman, and another lezzer on the side.

Fry: Absolutely right! *applause* Yep!

Fry: You're right, he married his wife Elizabeth, 22 years of age, and then carried on this affair with Olive.

Ross: And I think they moved in together, didn't they?

Fry: They all moved in together, he had two children by each, and then when he died, Olive and Elizabeth stayed together right up until the death of Olive in the eighties.

Ross: I think it's rather a beautiful story.

Fry: It is a lovely story.

I think that's some of the most positive media coverage I think we've ever had!

It's repeated tomorrow (Friday 17) at 10pm on BBC1.

Comments

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

Jonathon Ross is my TV idol.

I have his hairstyle right now, I'm not sure if that's a good thing. Plus a thirst for suits.

[jhg.livejournal.com]

How did I miss that one? I love QI!


J

[adjectivegail]

adjectivemarcus, dr_d and I watched that last week, Jonathon Ross is a complete comics geek. Or possibly even nerd. But yeah, that was a pretty nifty snippet.

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

Did we? I think I'd remember that damnable bear....

(c;

[adjectivegail]

Oh! Of course, you were out with booklectic and xxxlibris. It was just me and dr_d. But I thought I told you about the Damnable Bear, I certainly told someone...

[reddragdiva]

Oh ghod. In five years we'll be trendy. I'll have people regarding me as some sort of expert. Wait, they do that already. Fuck.

[meltroid.livejournal.com]

Ross definitely went up a few points in my opinion after that show. Unfortunately that still left him rating as "intensely annoying".

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I rate him as "intermittently annoying, but with a very attractive wife" ...

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

I saw that and didn't twig how unusual it was. Possibly because I was distracted by hating the Pudsies. Of course with being shown on BBC4 first it meant the Pudsies were a week early.

Oh ghod, that means they'll be out in force today. (My office is just downstairs from Children in Need, wish me luck!)

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I saw it last week and posted on uk-poly about it, and no-one commented on it at all, probably because they hadn't seen it.

The programme almost stopped me hating Children in Need. But not quite.

[ajva.livejournal.com]

I saw it last Friday and thought it was great! (It has redeemed Mr. Ross in my eyes after his "council estates" blunder a couple of weeks back.)

[adjectivegail]

The only thing about it that makes me grumpy is the "lezzer" bit. Not only is the word 'bisexual' once again avoided (even though it'd make more sense than him describing a woman who had a long-term relationship with a man as a lesbian), but to my ears 'lezzer' just a littel bit derogatory.

I'm trying not to rain on the parade though because overall the matter-of-factness with which the story came out, and the lack of snide comments is a Good Thing.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

but to my ears 'lezzer' just a littel bit derogatory.
I think that's all part of Ross' reinvention of himself a few years back with less of a comics geek aspect and more of the "tabloid man" ... possibly around the time of Question of Sport with Rory McG. It often seems as if his use of that kind of language is more intentional affectation than intrinsic. Not that that's a good thing, but ...

[adjectivegail]

Not that that's a good thing, but ...
Gods, that just makes it worse! Narrow-minded, ill-educated bigot, not idea but, y'know. Fine. Deliberately choosing to use language like that...!

Gah.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Aye. Especially becuase the word "bisexual" seems so much more appropriate. And I doubt whether "tabloid man" is the perceived target audience of QI ...

[dk-leathers.livejournal.com]

Whoo hoo! ~grins~ thanks for pointing this out :-)

[shullie.livejournal.com]

Ross is also a 'perve'(sub I do belive) .. in the best sense if the word

[narnee.livejournal.com]

Where did you hear/see that?

[shullie.livejournal.com]

now that would be telling.... ;)

[narnee.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes, it would. Please? I'm dying to know...

[lizw.livejournal.com]

That's great! (And Jonathan Ross went to orangebird's school, too, and returns from time to time to give speeches etc. Which is completely irrelevant, but feels as though it matters, somehow.)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Rar!

[judiff]

cool!

[allthecolors.livejournal.com]

we don't get that show here in the states that I know of, but that sounds wonderful! How nice when polyamory can be mentioned in such a positive light.

[robot-mel.livejournal.com]

Hi, nice to meet you at webcowgirl's party! I have added you to my friends list!

[narnee.livejournal.com]

I saw it and was going to post about it, but never quite got around to it.

I just wish Mr. Ross would finally come out (as bi or poly, but preferably both, since it's obvious), as he's been getting so close to it lately... and that's not just because I want to sleep with his wife. ;)