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.
- Continues on Tuesday on BBC2 at 9pm with Series U, Episode 15
- Catch-up on Series U, Episode 14
- Streaming rank this week: 619
Episode menu
Series R - Highlights Special
Topics
- Rest & Recreation Best Bit: The least sportsmanlike thing you can do on a rugby pitch.
- Road And Rail Best Bit: What's That Sign?
- R Animals Best Bit: Baby hyraxes eating their mother's poo.
- Rock 'n' Roll Best Bit Tangent: Eshaan Akbar teaches the panel Bollywood dancing.
- Revolutions New Material: A dubious revolving invention is an apparatus or facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force. A woman would be strapped into the machine, the woman would be spun around at high speed, and the baby would be propelled out and caught in a net.
- Restaurants Best Bit Tangent: The Heart Attack Grill.
- Ruff And Reddy Best Bit: How to eat soup while wearing a ruff.
- Rogue Best Bit Tangent: The world's strongest beer.
- Reflections Best Bit: What happens when you get Foreign Language Syndrome?
- R Animals Best Tangent: Alan Davies gets envious of planets with more than one moon.
- Rock 'n' Roll New Material Tangent: Bill Bailey was once in China and came across a sign, in English, on a remote island off Hong Kong. The sign was supposed to be a map with an arrow to show where you were, but the sign had been weathered so much that all the information was gone. Thus all the sign said was: "You are here."
- Radioactive Best Bit: The radio transmitter disguised to look like a pair of testicles.
- Ruff And Reddy Best Bit Tangent: Susan Calman eating a locust bhaji.
- Rejoice! Best Bit: Justin Moorhouse and Alan attempt to break the world record for the most Christmas crackers pulled in 30 seconds.
- Random New Material Tangent: Daliso Chaponda is trying to take the notoriously complicated British Citizenship Test. Bill Bailey secretly wrote out all the questions from the test, made it into 100 questions, and presented it as a family quiz at Christmas. No-one got close to passing the test. Sally Phillips asks what should be on the test, to which Sandi suggests whether cream or jam should go on the scone first.
- Rude Best Bit: Whose feet are seven feet long than they used to be?
- R Animals Best Bit Tangent: Animals with prehensile body parts.
- Rejoice! Best Bit: Alan breaks the record for Christmas cracker pulling.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 4th February 2021
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Sandi Toksvig | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Bill Bailey | Guest |
Gyles Brandreth | Guest |
Phill Jupitus | Guest |
Liza Tarbuck | Guest |
Katy Brand | Guest |
Susan Calman | Guest |
Sara Pascoe | Guest |
Josh Widdicombe | Guest |
Aisling Bea | Guest |
Holly Walsh | Guest |
Joe Lycett | Guest |
Sally Phillips | Guest |
Stephen K Amos | Guest |
Cally Beaton | Guest |
Tom Allen | Guest |
Lou Sanders | Guest |
Daliso Chaponda | Guest |
Zoe Lyons | Guest |
Mark Watson | Guest |
John Barrowman | Guest |
Jessica Fostekew | Guest |
Shazia Mirza | Guest |
Benjamin Zephaniah | Guest |
Chris McCausland | Guest |
Justin Moorhouse | Guest |
Ed Gamble | Guest |
Maggie Aderin-Pocock | Guest |
Jack Carroll | Guest |
Olga Koch | Guest |
Eshaan Akbar | Guest |
Craig Glenday | Self |
James Harkin | Script Editor |
Anna Ptaszynski | Script Editor |
Sandi Toksvig | Script Editor |
Mat Coward | Researcher |
Will Bowen | Researcher |
Ed Brooke-Hitching | Researcher |
Mandy Fenton | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |
Jack Chambers | Researcher |
Emily Jupitus | Researcher |
James Rawson | Researcher |
Ethan Ruparelia | Researcher |
Diccon Ramsay | Director |
John Lloyd (as John Lloyd CBE) | Series Producer |
Piers Fletcher | Producer |
Justin Pollard | Associate Producer |
Nick King | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Nick Collier | Lighting Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |
Sarah Clay | Commissioning Editor |