‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Bill Bailey’s ode to the wonderfulness of the Doctor

"Exterminez vous!"

French Daleks: Surprisingly polite.

not polite, just formal.

Ah, the Belgian Jazz version of Who... classic Bailey.

Dagnabbit,

I was thinking about sending you this link as well, but I thought I had already seen it before on the website.

At least I can direct your attention to the Orchestral version!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6avUO9dy94

Dr Who starts at about 5:30 (sorry can't figure out how to link to that point directly)

The imperative doesn't require a subject pronoun; the form of the verb indicates the number and the person of the subject already. When a pronoun follows the verb it's usually as a direct/indirect object, not a subject, so "exterminez vous" would translate as "exterminate yourselves". (If it had been addressed to "tu", it would be written "extermine" without the Z.) If you want to say "exterminate them", it ought to be "exterminez-les". But "exterminate" translates as "exterminez"/"exterminer" quite well without pronouns.

Je t'aime, Bill Bailey.

I do love Bill Bailey - he's also brilliant when he's on QI (Stephen Fry combined with Bill Bailey combined with Alan Davies - I laugh until I have stomach ache!).

For anyone familiar with the BBC news intro music, Bill Bailey also did a very funny techno rave style (I don't know the proper names for all the different types of house music - sorry!) reworking of that. I'll see if I can't track it down on YouTube when I get home (they won't let us on YouTube at work - we get a high bandwith non-work naughty naughty warning. Irritatingly, it's started blocking The Onion now too, due to 'profanity'. Frakking thing - speaking of which and completely on a tangent (too much coffee, methinks) - why why why are they making us wait until January for the second half of Caprica season one?).

This will keep me smiling all day.

@Isobel: Here's the whole skit from Part Troll Live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEPcUWk8xEo

And here are the European Ambulances from Bewildebeast (fan video, I recommend listening to it w/out watching first):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAct2fi59MI

Hee!

Can't believe I missed him when I was in Aberdeen.

A friend and I saw him a couple of years ago in LA. I swear we were the only people laughing half the time. Sometimes I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe though so maybe we compensated for the rest of the audience. If this were a just world, he and Eddie Izzard would play alternate weekends on TV.

@ Orodemniades - thanks for that, makes me laugh every time!

@ Ide Cyan - Maybe they're saying "Exterminate yourself" in the same sort of way that one might say "F*** Youself"? Only more formal, of course! ;)

And, to add to the links, here's an earlier version from the 1998 TV series Is It Bill Bailey?, with extra stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ruurkdNg0

Bill also turns up in series two of Skins with an outstanding performance, showing he can hack it as a straight actor as well.

And I meant to say, Is It Bill Bailey? was directed by Edgar Wright.

It's three years old so you have probably already read it but if not may I recommend the entry "Doctor Who: The Time Lords", currently on the front page of H2G2.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A26151455