QI
Stephen Fry is the quiz master, Alan Davies is the fool, and a variety of other celebrities subject themselves to the harsh glare of the Truth as they answer such questions as "Are kilts Scottish?" and "Was Lenin Russian?"
Kilts aren't Scottish, Mount Everest isn't the tallest mountain on Earth, and QI isn't a quiz show. It's an anti-quiz show, asking impossible questions and awarding points for the most interesting answers. The cardinal sin is to be boring, even if you're funny and boring like Alan Davies.
The host is Stephen Fry, but did you know that Michael Palin was the original choice? He said no, the ungrateful scum. A word of warning to newcomers - this isn't another sarc-fest like Buzzcocks or HIGNFY. It's actually a rather cosy show brimming with facts that are as interesting as they are useless.
Think of it as a visit to an eccentric uncle who invites you to sit comfortably and non-perversely on his lap so he can say things like: "Did you know the first person killed in a rail accident was a chap called William Huskisson, who previously avoided death when a horse fell on his head during his honeymoon?"
When is it on?
QI is next on at 8:20 pm
on Tuesday, 24th November on Dave.
Go to TV Listings
QI (2): Ep 7
Alan Davies, Arthur Smith, Dara O'Briain and Rich Hall wrack their brains as Stephen Fry sets the questions. Biscuits, ballet and baboons are subjects on the agenda.
- On at 8:20 pm on Tuesday, 24th November on Dave
- On at 9:20 pm on Tuesday, 24th November on Dave Ja Vu
- On at 12:10 am on Wednesday, 25th November on Dave
- On at 1:10 am on Wednesday, 25th November on Dave Ja Vu
QI (2): Ep 8
Stephen Fry hopes he'll hear something 'quite interesting'. Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Fred Macaulay and Rich Hall are the guests with bees, barnacles and basketball the subjects.
- On at 8:20 pm on Saturday, 28th November on Dave
- On at 9:20 pm on Saturday, 28th November on Dave Ja Vu
Differences
Stephen Fry hosts the entertaining and enlightening quiz show. Alan Davies, Julian Clary, Jo Brand and Dara O'Briain tackle subjects including differences.
- On at 9:00 pm on Friday, 27th November on Dave
- On at 10:00 pm on Friday, 27th November on Dave Ja Vu
- On at 11:10 pm on Friday, 27th November on Dave
- On at 12:10 am on Saturday, 28th November on Dave Ja Vu
QI
The giant brain that is Stephen Fry hosts the quiz show that's an intellectual battle of wits. Here, Vic Reeves, Roger McGough, Alan Davies and Mark Steel discuss deprivation.
- On at 11:50 pm on Friday, 27th November on Dave
- On at 12:50 am on Saturday, 28th November on Dave Ja Vu
QI
Stephen Fry hosts the enlightening comedy quiz. Graeme Garden, Johnny Vaughan, Phill Jupitus and Alan Davies get to grips with divination.
- On at 10:20 pm on Thursday, 26th November on Dave
- On at 11:20 pm on Thursday, 26th November on Dave Ja Vu
- On at 1:25 am on Friday, 27th November on Dave
- On at 2:25 am on Friday, 27th November on Dave Ja Vu
Comments
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CharlesP87558 | 19 Nov 09
I know it is meant to be a comedy show, and I enjoy it as such, but when they claim that if you can see a ship when windsurfing it is 3 miles away, that is wrong, unless the "ship" is of no height!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The horizon may be 3 miles away, but a ship 30m tall and just visible, is 15 miles away. The show is pedantic, so am I.
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MICHELLEY92 | 16 Nov 09
Whilst I love this show and find it very entertaining, I am disturbed by the use of the word midget on one I watched recently. It is an unacceptable term referring to little people.
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jackM10000 | 11 Nov 09
its great show
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georgeH71108 | 3 Nov 09
Why is the new Q.I. 60 minute format titled Q.I.XL instead of Q.I.LX? georgeH71108
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DarrellM54267 | 13 Oct 09
QI - with the wonderful Stephen Fry at the helm - is undoubtedly the funniest and most entertaining programme of its type on telly. I've been a fan from the very first show and love enjoying the shows again on Dave. We need to have a national campaign to have Mr Fry at least Knighted of not elevated to a Lord. He is one of this country's most prized assets, a true National Treasure!
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JonG86453 | 8 Oct 09
RE QI that is on now (22.31) - found this about the other MI numbers.... At which time we the british empire have been called upon to defend itself, its allies and dependancies it became nessacery to form a number of departments and agencies. Over the years these dapartments have served a number of different roles and purposes. in answer to the above question: MI1 Code breaking, MI2 Russia and Scandinavia, MI3 Easton Europe, MI4 Aerial Reconnaissance, MI5 Domestic Intelligence, now The Security Service, MI6 Foreign Intelligence, now the Secret Intelligence service, MI7 Propoganda and censorship, MI8 Signals Intelligence, MI9 Undercover operations supporting POW, MI10 Weapons and technical Analysis, MI11 Field Intelligence, MI12 Military Censorship, MI13 Remains Classified, MI14 German Intelligence, MI15 Aerial Photography, MI16 Scientific Intelligence, MI17 Secretarial section, MI18 Remains Classifed, MI19 Extraction of information from foreign POWs MI20 - MI25 remain Classified. It is important to also remember that most of these where small departments and at the end of world war 2 they were mostly all merged into MI5, MI6, GCHQ and other agencies. most british intelligence agencies still remain classified to the general public x the only reason this information has been released is that these agencies have all now terminated activity and new agencies have replaced them. Captain S.S DG of MI section 25 Captain S, England
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DickDan | 7 Sep 09
I was glad to see the first ep of the first series in widescreen 16:9. I would like to see the rest of the eps in 16:9 and not a bit cut out from both sides to suit 4:3 tvs
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ILAGolden | 15 Aug 09
QI is great, no matter how many times i see the same eppies i never get bored with them, and somehow i end up finding them funnier, and funnier each time. <3
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Roger taylor fan | 12 Aug 09
I love QI!!~ alan davies is really sweet! <3
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eccles789 | 10 Aug 09
Dave has disapeared from my Freeview box, have re-tuned but to no avail I dont know what I will do, jump from a flat mountain or something
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Darryl1991 | 8 Aug 09
Stephen Fry is too intelligent for me! I love the program and never get bored! The program has the right balance of comedy and info that you would never believe!
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c411um616 | 1 Aug 09
1st best person:Stephen Fry 2nd:Alan Davies
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Reptilia | 31 Jul 09
QI makes my day brighter every evening! I switch on the old TV and sit down and watch every single episode of QI that is on the TV :D And why are the comments on this turning into those of the comment you would find on youtube?! Its pathetic and we don't need mean people on this too -_-'
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Bazzy-Boy | 24 Jul 09
His word is LAW! (Stephen Fry)
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dandylion247 | 23 Jul 09
I LOVE YOU ALAN DAVIS!!!!!!! & I WORSHIP YOU STEPHEN FRY!!!!!!! the are da coolest people on earth :) I love the show, the facts, the people, evrything :):):)!!!
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Danni21 | 15 Jul 09
QI is great as its packed full off facts and laughs . I have often told my partner and mates , facts which i have heard on QI .
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i love stephen fry | 8 Jul 09
this is my favourite show ever and when watching it i almost wet myself with laughter and i often find myself screaming with joy. OH YEAH its that brill. aslo stephen fry is my idol.
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Hmmm? | 1 Jul 09
QI is like comedy mecca (the heaven-ish place not the bingo hall) it has made me do the silent laugh on many occasion. You know the one I mean? Where you laugh so hard you spit out your voice box. Yeah, it's that good.
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pixie2097 | 26 Jun 09
love alan davies
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RJCDR | 20 Jun 09
Hey my iq is between 207 - 210 what the hell am i doing on this site
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Leonae | 9 Jun 09
Ps. I have just read Bumflufs comment and realized you were referring to him about the whole I.Q thing, which adds two more points, one being; On your next comment, watch your grammar and two; my point still stands about your intellect being insulted, whether it was by me or some one else. Pps. Not all I.Q tests are taken online, you can take official ones set by your government, true they're not accurate, but they're the closest thing to it, figure out a new way to test I.Q if you want, you could get rich from such a discovery, or... you could always calm your fingers and leave this game for the big boys to handle... Now who's being undermining. (Thought I'd add that in for Bumfluf)
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Leonae | 9 Jun 09
You really should read what people type before you decide to "bash" but I'll humor you. Firstly; I didn't write that I used Wikipedia, in my opinion Wikipedia is flawed, because it gets its information from the public and not from trusted sources. Secondly; I gave facts and proof into my claim, thus why I gave a link in my comment, you on the other hand would rather show how childish you are by trying to undermine someone over the internet for merely giving some insight into a topic and not having any proof to back up your claims that I may be wrong. Thirdly; I never mentioned anything about I.Q tests, I just think you saw my post as an insult to your own intellect, because in some small childish way, you're somehow jealous of a random person on a random website that just happens to know more than you. And to be honest, that's pretty sad... Grow up.
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nirvana452 | 8 Jun 09
im sorry but leonae just because you do a ton of research on wikipedia doesnt make you an expert QI has more then one person researching so do you really think that you can aquire more knowledge then a huge group bumfluf doing an online IQ test doesnt prove anything those things are often off by alot and ive not seen the one about the navy so i cant comment on that but about nelson simple where you there? how do you know what was really said you ever played chinese whispers because with nelsons last words thats whats happend people have told others n theyve misheard and its ended up being something a million miles away from what he really said
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norfy1935 | 22 Apr 09
I have to agree with Leonae regarding the idea of firing whoever supplies Stephen Fry with his duff information. His 'last words of Nelson' were miles off the mark, and as for 'the only boats in the Royal Navy are submarines' totally ignores such items as longboats (which are nothing to do with either canals or Vikings), motor torpedo boats, whalers .... even an admirals barge cannot be regarded as a ship. Incorrect facts should be avoided like the plague in a programme of this type.
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Dwarfer 3million | 17 Apr 09
QI is FANTASTIC, it is one of the best tv programs in the UK. It also is very funny and yet it is very intresting and I hope that it carries on to influence, like me, generations to come.
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bumfluf | 26 Mar 09
Qi is the bong! the humour is very high brow (unless Johnny Vegas is on - then its manic!) This is Fry at his best. I myself have an encylopiedic knowlege, and an IQ of 148, but I still learn things while peeing myself laughing, It is brilliant TV.
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davelover | 25 Mar 09
I love this show! I learn and laugh!! They should show it in schools! Stephen Fry is amazing and so witty, brilliant!
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BigWig | 20 Mar 09
Stephen Fry, Alan Davis combined together will make a comedy genious
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Caz1989 | 16 Mar 09
i love this show, i find it extremely interesting especially when Alan Davies says the wrong things, him and Stephen Fry are comedy geniuses.
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Leonae | 20 Feb 09
So my last comment didn't seem "bleak" to some, I'll end on a Proverb by - Zhuge Liang. "Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win."
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Leonae | 20 Feb 09
I have no idea who Stephen Fry has working for him to get his information, but he should fire who ever said Cruithne was a moon, I also do a lot of research into facts. I think the object that you're referring to which is a 3 mile (5 km) object in a horseshoe orbit around Earth that has a period of 770 years. You can read a press release about it at Space.com. It was discovered in 1986, but it took a lot of observations in order to figure out its complicated orbit, which was determined in 1997. In the press release, one of the scientists involved with the study called the object a "moon", because it shares Earth's orbit, however, it's definitely not a moon like our Moon. First, a horseshoe orbit is much different from the elliptical orbit that the Moon makes around Earth. The Moon actually orbits the planet Earth, while Cruithne just shares the Earth's orbit around the Sun. The orbit of Cruithne is also very inclined with respect to Earth's orbit around the Sun, so it moves in and out of the plane that the most of the planets orbit in. This large inclination is part of the reason that Cruithne won't collide with Earth. Second, objects trapped in orbits like Cruithne's are only expected to remain in the orbit for a few thousand to tens of thousands of years, which may sound like a long time, but it's actually fairly short in the timescale of Solar System history. After Cruithne escapes from its present orbit, it may become a Near Earth Asteroid on a different close-to-Earth orbit, or move onto an orbit more similar to our Moon's orbit, in which case it would be more like a "real" moon. No one seems quite sure which scenario will happen. So I guess I would think of Cruithne as more of a Near Earth Asteroid that's trapped by Earth's gravity, not as a moon. And in fact, it's classified by astronomers as an Aten asteroid, which is a group of Near-Earth Asteroids on similar orbits. But Cruithne is a good example of the fact that Earth's gravity can interact with nearby asteroids, bringing them closer to Earth or forcing them onto different, strange, orbits.
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dlloyd | 17 Feb 09
We love this programme, it suits 60+ pensioners, but we go early to bed. Living in Bulgaria, we are 2 hours ahead of Britain and have to get up again at around 2.30am our time. Please, please put this programme on during the day - a lot of other programmes hold no atraction for us at all, and keep getting repeated. This is intelligent, informative and amusing! Thank you in anticipation.
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JordanB | 11 Feb 09
Please get this show in the US. If not on television then at the very least on Region 1 DVD. I love the show to death.
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JasonUK | 9 Feb 09
Thank you Dave for showing this show. This is one of the best shows on TV and is the only current show that I watch regularly. I didn't realise Fry was so funny before watching Qi. Him and Alan Davis are a great match. Funny and interesting, a great combination.
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Petrovich | 28 Jan 09
QI is undoubtedly one of the best and funniest shows on TV. It is the perfect vehicle for Stephen Fry's impressive intellect and the interaction between him, the guests and the audience is often hilarious. An indicator of the show's quality for me is that it is just as funny when repeated. Hope they keep it going Petrovich.
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weesastewart | 27 Jan 09
love this show, i wish they could get hugh laurie on with stephen that would be interesting....alan davies is great too
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willow138 | 22 Jan 09
alan davies is so sweet i actually want to marry him. lol. and fry is the stuff of legends!
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Pen6a | 9 Jan 09
It's a commonly held belief that Birmingham and the Black Country are one and the same and it was rather sad to see this myth perpetuated on on the January 8th 2009 show, score -10 for general ignorance.
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Sigy Ridz | 6 Jan 09
Alan Davies deliberately looses all the time lol
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Sigy Ridz | 6 Jan 09
So funny clever too
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Jonnydb | 6 Jan 09
qi is one of the most interesting and funny shows i have ever encountered. I always tell my friends the information that i find out on qi and it proves how ignorant some people are because even though its true they don't believe me. Qi rocks
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becky3337 | 4 Jan 09
awhh, i love this show :-) jimmy carr's amazing. 'put smarties tubes on cats legs make them walk like a robot' the anagram was amazing :-D it's a very clever show.
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fredthefish | 3 Jan 09
Definitely agree with the comments about Bill Bailey being great on here. Since Bill has retired from Buzzcocks and panel shows generally "to concentrate on his tour", AFTER the tour I reckon Dave should approach Bill about producing a new show with him featuring heavily on it. There have been various attempts in the past to get a regular Bailey show on telly to varying success but I reckon he's now learnt enough to crack it.
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big.paul | 30 Dec 08
This is the best show i'v seen
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Dr V | 27 Dec 08
Was the show at 11.40 tonight a re-run from pre 2000? There are now seven states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, plasma, fermionic matter, Bose-Einsten condensate and (since 2000 at CERN) quark-gluon plasma. Why not put the updates at the bottom of the screen about new discoveries like this? You'd get fewer physics pendants emailing in like this! You could get a physics advisory board or physics-geek elves? Physics Geeks love to be pedantic for free as well :-) especially about accelerator physics in my experience .... oh, I can't think why I am single....
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bobN97001 | 20 Dec 08
Stay Clue'd, Stay True, Forever is the word, or a spit in the eye, The colour of Amber, like Qi. Let the wind blow your mind. Sgt Bob. Glasgow.
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Space Alien | 20 Dec 08
The funniest episode was when Jimmy Carr was on it...he's so dirty minded that him on that show was like...something equally odd...
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jillh10 | 13 Dec 08
I love this show but sometimes they come out with subject matter that no one else has ever come across like the show where the number 666 was said to have been altered many years ago. I have been trying to find out where this information came from to show people that I am not as Bonkers as they try to make out.
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QI_loz | 13 Dec 08
I love this show
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Chadders9 | 4 Dec 08
A fantastic blend of Comedy and Intellect, QI is one of the best Quizcoms out there!!!!! Dave is the best channel around, keep on going, I say!!!
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Haligonian | 29 Nov 08
QI is funny and a very clever concept. Stephen Fry is the wittiest and most talented people on tv at the moment
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mentalist queen | 23 Nov 08
crazy horse how can u say it is rubbish I am 14 and my family watch it every time it's on! It is funny, clever and it has the genious that is Stephen Fry who is loved by all apart from people with IQs below 7.
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Holly-Beth | 20 Nov 08
QI is amazing. Its like a funny, educating version of school. lol, Love it!
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crazy horse | 9 Nov 08
one of the worst shows ever please axe it
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Ocelot_Kitten | 28 Oct 08
QI ROCKS!! Stephen Fry would make a better host any way! I remember watching WLiiA UK on Dave and seeing Stephen Fry and i couldnt belive my eyes! Hes brilliant!!!!
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Brains29 | 27 Oct 08
QI IS THE BEST BAR NONE IN THE WORLD THATS THE END OF IT GOOD DAY!!!!!!!!
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CharlesP87558 | 19 Nov 09
View all commentsI know it is meant to be a comedy show, and I enjoy it as such, but when they claim that if you can see a ship when windsurfing it is 3 miles away, that is wrong, unless the "ship" is of no height!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The horizon may be 3 miles away, but a ship 30m tall and just visible, is 15 miles away. The show is pedantic, so am I.