QI. Image shows from L to R: Alan Davies, Sandi Toksvig. Copyright: TalkbackThames
QI

QI

  • TV panel show
  • BBC Two / BBC One / BBC Four
  • 2003 - 2024
  • 312 episodes (21 series)

Panel game that contains lots of difficult questions and a large amount of quite interesting facts. Stars Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.

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Series K - QI VG: Compilation Show 10

More of the best bits from Series K, with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies and guests.

Theme

A mixture of new material and the best bits of Series K.

Topics

- Best Bit: Knowledge Tangent - Unusual entries in the original Encyclopaedia Britannica.

- New Material: Knowledge Tangent - Contributors to the Encyclopaedia Britannica are experts in their chosen field. Past contributors include Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Leon Trotsky and Harry Houdini. When Jo Brand asks if any women wrote for it, Alan claims that someone must have written about baking.

- Best Bit: Killers Tangent - Trevor Noah sings Xhosa.

- Best Bit: Knits & Knots - Panellists trying to untie themselves from each other.

- Best Bit: Knowledge - How you know that you have had enough.

- Best Bit: Kitchen Sink - The upward-flowing polyethylene oxide knick-knack.

- Best Bit: Keeps - How hard is it to be a nude model?

- Best Bit: Kitsch - Measuring cute aggression.

- Best Bit: Kinetic - The feather building demolition knick-knack.

- Best Bit: Kinky Tangent - Good looking men earn more than average looking men, and female looking golfers do better.

- New Material: Kinky Tangent - Sandi Toksvig jokes that she does not know what she looks like in a mirror because her partner puts them to high up. Johnny Vegas jokes that he uses TVs displayed in shops as mirrors.

- Best Bit: K-Folk - The exploding custard powder knick-knack.

- Best Bit: Kings Tangent - The colour of petrol and diesel.

- Best Bit: Keys - The last man you knew everything and his invention of the cat piano.

- Best Bit: Kris Kringle - The smokey bubble and silver bauble knick-knack.

- Best Bit: Killers Tangent - The unknown micromort of skydiving while someone else carries your parachute.

- Best Bit: Kaleidoscope - The rattleback knick-knack.

- Best Bit: Knees & Knockers Tangent - Murder with your reflex.

- Best Bit: Kit & Kaboodle - The brick-breaking karate knick-knack.

- Best Bit: Kings Tangent - Bill Bailey having trouble wearing a crown.

- Best Bit: Killers - The chain reaction knick-knack.

Broadcast details

Date
Friday 31st January 2014
Time
10pm
Channel
BBC Two
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Tuesday 1st July 2014 10:00pm BBC2
Thursday 7th August 2014 10:00pm BBC2

Cast & crew

Cast
Stephen Fry Host / Presenter
Alan Davies Regular Panellist
Guest cast
Bill Bailey Guest
Danny Baker Guest
Jo Brand Guest
Jimmy Carr Guest
Phill Jupitus Guest
Jeremy Clarkson Guest
David Mitchell Guest
Liza Tarbuck Guest
Marcus Brigstocke Guest
Reginald D Hunter Guest
Sandi Toksvig Guest
Sue Perkins Guest
Ross Noble Guest
Sarah Millican Guest
Susan Calman Guest
Jack Whitehall Guest
Jason Manford Guest
Sara Pascoe Guest
Noel Fielding Guest
Colin Lane Guest
Katherine Ryan Guest
Josh Widdicombe Guest
Trevor Noah Guest
Graham Linehan Guest
Isy Suttie Guest
Tim Minchin Guest
Janet Street-Porter Guest
Richard Osman Guest
Victoria Wood Guest
Brendan O'Carroll Guest
Writing team
James Harkin Script Editor
John Mitchinson Question Writer
Mat Coward Researcher
Molly Oldfield Question Writer
Andrew Hunter Murray Question Writer
Anne Miller Researcher
Anna Ptaszynski Researcher
Alex Bell Researcher
Stevyn Colgan Researcher
Production team
Ian Lorimer Director
John Lloyd (as John Lloyd CBE) Series Producer
Piers Fletcher Producer
Ruby Kuraishe Executive Producer
Justin Pollard Associate Producer
Nick King Editor
Jonathan Paul Green Production Designer
Howard Goodall Composer

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