I Literally Just Told You
- TV comedy
- Channel 4
- 2021 - 2024
- 24 episodes (3 series)
A comedy game show format hosted by Jimmy Carr, in which all of the questions' answers are given in advance.
- This series will continue at a later date
Press clippings
Jimmy Carr game show I Literally Just Told You returns to Channel 4
Jimmy Carr's Channel 4 game show I Literally Just Told You, in which contestants answer questions written live as the episode is being filmed, is returning for an expanded third series.
British Comedy Guide, 25th May 2023I Talk Telly Awards nominations revealed
Nominations have been announced for the 2022 awards of television news and blog site I Talk Telly.
British Comedy Guide, 13th November 2022Bloods and Toast Of Tinseltown up for Rose d'Or Award
Bloods, Toast Of Tinseltown, The Outlaws and This Is Going To Hurt are amongst the British comedies nominated in the 61st annual international Rose d'Or Awards.
British Comedy Guide, 5th November 2022Bloods, Ellie & Natasia, Question Team, Toast up for Rose d'Or awards
Bloods, Ellie & Natasia, Question Team and Toast Of Tinseltown have been nominated in the Comedy category of the international Rose d'Or awards. Meanwhile Buffering, Chivalry, Everything I Know About Love, Frayed and The Outlaws feature in the Comedy Drama and Sitcom category.
British Comedy Guide, 12th October 2022Jimmy Carr show I Literally Just Told You to return for Series 2
I Literally Just Told You, the comic game show hosted by Jimmy Carr, is to return to Channel 4 for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 9th March 2022I Literally Just Told You is most interesting as a revival of the sort of comedy game show that was once common - Blankety Blank, It's A Knockout! - when regulatory rules kept prizes so cheap that people really were playing for fun in a way that did out to an increase in either reward (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) or rivalry (The Weakest Link, Eggheads).
I Literally Just Told You is a hybrid in which the cash (£25,000 available) is quite flash and has a vicious twist: in the final head-to-head, winners get the loser's earnings too. But the rounds turn on verbal jokes or physical comedy (the best of these a spoof commercial break) on which the four players are then quizzed.
The show has already had to hand over an £18,000 cheque off air because it was realised after recording that one impromptu question demanded a fact not featured on the show. This compounds a general air of sloppiness. In a single edition, Jimmy Carr misquoted the title of a Damien Hirst art-work and attributed to George W. Bush a "quote" that was in fact an imagined comment from a joke about him. Even in a comedy quiz, factual accuracy should matter.
Remote Controller, Private Eye, 19th January 2022Jimmy Carr gives contestant £18,000 after I Literally Just Told You mistake
Jimmy Carr's telly quiz I Literally Just Told You does what it says on the tin, with all the answers given throughout the show. Well, that's apart from the occasion they forgot to do just that - leaving one contestant empty handed.
Rod McPhee, The Sun, 5th January 2022Nick Knowles slams Jimmy Carr's new quiz show
Nick Knowles has slammed Jimmy Carr's new quiz show and The Weakest Link for 'pitting charities against one another'.
Dan Cain, The Sun, 31st December 2021Reviews: One Night In..., I Literally Just Told You
Reviews of new Channel 4 comedies One Night In... (1 star) and I Literally Just Told You (4 stars).
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 17th December 2021Jimmy Carr to host frenetic Channel 4 quiz I Literally Just Told You
Jimmy Carr is to host I Literally Just Told You, a Channel 4 comedy quiz that tests participants' short-term memory.
British Comedy Guide, 12th July 2021