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It's the beginning of the end, the first episode of Stephen Fry's final season as host of QI - and after 13 years and 180 or so shows, the letter M is as good a place as any to pull the plug. It's M for medicine this week, and it doesn't take long for the teams - Alan Davies and Lucy Porter to Fry's right, Matt Lucas and Ross Noble to his left - to start sniggering at all those bodily references. You might argue it's vaguely educational - I mean, who knew there was such a treasure trove of smut to be found in a teddy bear? - but the real joy of QI lies in the way its panellists can find a double entendre (sometimes a single one) lurking around the most earnest corner.

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.

The nation's favourite national treasure, Stephen Fry, has finally called time on QI (BBC Two).

Where would we have been without Fry's QI? The quirky quiz has been correcting our misconceptions for 13 years and over 180 episodes. How else would we have known that Darwin ate owls, the moon smells of gunpowder, Cinderella's slippers were made of squirrel fur and that Henry VIII had two wives (or four if you're Catholic)?

QI has been a pedant's paradise and has probably been the cause of more pub fights on 'quiz night' than any of the beer served. It will continue with Sandi Toksvig in the chair, but only time will tell whether the chemistry of Fry and Alan Davies will be replicated. My guess is Davies will give it a go to the end of the series and then bow out himself. Only time - and ratings - will tell.

Review: 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.

Review - QI: Series M, Episode 16 - Misconceptions

Bye-Bye Stephen...

Stephen Fry's Farewell - seven things we learned

After 13 years, 184 episodes and enough clever clogs asides to fill a decent-sized library wing, television's favourite erudite uncle has surrendered the lectern. It was Stephen Fry's farewell show as QI quizmaster.

After rattling through half an alphabet's worth of "quite interesting" trivia, and finding endlessly inventive ways of calling Alan Davies an idiot, Stephen Fry finally steps down from his role of QI's avuncular headmaster tonight. But first there's a final light-hearted lecture to get through, on the subject of misconceptions. The panel of Chris Addison, Sue Perkins and Sara Cox isn't quite a classic by QI standards - where's Bill Bailey?! - but one final opportunity for some Fry-and-Davies back-and-forth should make up for that.

Stephen Fry's quite interesting moments

Stephen Fry has adopted many personas in his 13 years as ringmaster of Britain's most learned panel show QI. There's the stern schoolmaster. The raffish don. The avuncular uncle. The refined eccentric. And now, the departing national treasure. As these highlights from his years on the show indicate, new host Sandi Toksvig has big shoes to fill.