Andrew Hunter Murray
- Researcher, comedian, author, improviser and writer
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Interview: The QI Elves talk their new book
Behind the scenes, the show's researchers - known as "QI elves" - scour newspapers, museums and dark corners of the internet for trivia. But in the early years they had a problem: there were simply too many facts.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 2nd November 2017Interview: Andrew Hunter Murray loves a strange fact
The QI quiz show researchers had such fun discovering and chatting together about the curious and often bizarre things they where finding out in researching the show that they created a podcast all about it and it's called No Such Thing As A Fish.
One of the co hosts of the acclaimed podcast in Andrew Hunter Murray joined Lindy for a chat ahead of their upcoming tour of Australia, and shared some of his favourite facts and how the podcast got it's name.
ABC News (Australia), 1st November 2017Quirky trivia from 2017 by the team behind TV quiz show
Researchers for BBC2 show QI constantly search for facts for their annual compilation of weird trivia. Findings, such as that bees can recognise human faces, are also broadcast on the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish (named after a scientist's contention that not all the creatures we call fish descend from the same common ancestor). Here's an A to Z selection from their 2017 collection . . .
Daily Mail, 28th October 2017No Such Thing as a Fish to tour Australia
The team will be headed to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth next May.
Pedestrian, 27th October 2017Andrew Hunter Murray interview
'I have an extremely amusing floral shirt'. The comic writer, actor and QI elf spills the proverbial beans about the things that make him laugh the most.
The Guardian, 27th October 2017Austentatious Q&A
Hang on to your bonnets - Jane Austen themed improv show Austentatious is currently on tour across the UK, and to celebrate, TVO caught up with the team and decided to ask each of them just one question.
The Velvet Onion, 15th October 2017No Such Thing As A Fish extends tour into 2018
Multi-award winning number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish is set to embark on a UK theatre tour this autumn and has already added extra shows in March 2018.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th September 2017The Mash Report review
This sharp new show did it rather well and was the most promising satirical arrival on our screens in a long time.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 21st July 2017TV Review: The Mash Report, BBC2
Pretty ambitious and, so far, flawed but pretty good.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st July 2017Preview - The Mash Report
There are many films and radio shows that have been spun-off into TV shows, but this series is a rare example of a website being turned into a TV show.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 20th July 2017