QI

Host

Co-hosts

Alan Davies (regular panellist)

Broadcast

Talkback for BBC2 and BBC4, 2003 to present

Synopsis

Intellectual comedy panel show where four celebrity panellists (with comic and actor Alan Davies as a regular) try to answer difficult and arcane questions. Points are awarded for interesting answers and facts which are tenuously related to the question at hand. QI, you see, stands for Quite Interesting

If a player gives the really obvious (and usually wrong) answer, an alarm goes off and that player is docked points.

It's Stephen Fry mucking around with his comedy chums for half an hour really.

Stephen Fry, mucking around with comedy chums Alan Davies, Rob Brydon, Rich Hall and Gyles Brandreth

We've been to a recording of this, it took about two to two-and-a-half hours. We think it would be quite interesting if rather than showing the next episode immediately after on digital channel BBC4, they could do a special 90 minute edit from the recording gone out on BBC2.

Catchphrases

"Ooooh, Alan!" *ALARM*

Inventor

John Lloyd, the former producer of the Blackadder comedy series

Trivia

The show was invented with spin-offs in mind. Fry and Lloyd bought an old building in Oxford which has been done up to become the QI Building featuring a bar and a bookshop.

The questions in each series (excluding those from the closing General Ignorance round) come from categories all beginning with the same letter. So series 1 featured questions about astronomy, animals, Alans and other such 'A' subjects; series 2 covered the Bs, and so on.