James Harkin
- Researcher and comedian
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Review: No Such Thing as a Fish
The podcast is good, but these Elves are even better seen live. Their offer of inoffensive, light entertainment is quirky and informative and while it could've benefited from a few cuts here and there, it's a reliably enjoyable, very funny and quite unique night out.
Tamarin Fountain, TV Bomb, 27th March 2016Review: The QI Elves at the Leicester Comedy Festival
The QI Elves' live recording of hit podcast, No Such Thing as a Fish, hurled a shedload of facts in our direction in an entertaining hybrid of impish humour, conversational charm and enough snippets of trivia to wow even the most experienced pub quizzer, writes Jasmine Henderson-Pennington.
Jasmine Henderson-Pennington, Leicester Mercury, 22nd February 2016The QI Elves: ask me anything
We are Dan Schreiber (yeti expert), James Harkin (pun expert), Andrew Hunter Murray (parachuting dogs expert) and Anna Ptaszynski (not on Twitter expert). Together we make the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, a weekly show full of facts, more facts, some dubious facts from Dan, and stupid jokes. Ask Us Anything.
Reddit, 11th February 2016Dan Schreiber and James Harkin: how we met
'Dan made me feel welcome; he came over and told me how he'd been stealing all my material for his stand-up'
Adam Jacques, The Independent, 20th December 2015Where do QI get their facts and figures from?
Going in search of weird and wonderful facts can take you to Hawaii or the Himalayas - but you're just as likely to find geek gold in Wigan, writes QI elf James Harkin.
James Harkin, The Telegraph, 22nd October 2014How we craft Quite Interesting facts
James "Turbo" Harkin - QI's head elf - let's us in on the mysterious art of fact crafting...
James Harkin, Waterstones, 24th October 2013Ancestor tester
Not every QI question has to have a definitive answer - in fact it is a fundamental QI tenet that we know so little about *everything* that it is almost impossible to say *anything* with any certainty. Should a subject come to light without an accepted viewpoint then we won't shy away from it - rather we'll attempt to start a discussion.
James Harkin, QI.com, 13th January 2012A guide to QI. Series I, episode 13 'Intelligence'
How do you get a goose interested in a volleyball? Well...
James Harkin, QI.com, 5th December 2011Video: What did ninjas wear?
You might think that we elves would be annoyed when we're proved wrong about something, but it's really not true - it's one of the great privilages of working on QI that we often have real experts in a subject watching the show and ready to pull us up if they feel we have made a mistake.
James Harkin, QI.com, 2nd December 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 12 'Illumination'
The International Cloud Symbols look very odd to the uninitiated, rather like various body-parts, as our panelists so subtly pointed out.
James Harkin, QI.com, 28th November 2011