British Comedy Guide

James Harkin

  • Researcher and comedian

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Review: No Such Thing as a Fish

We initially hummed and haahed about this one. A podcast? Live? Would that actually work? But of course, in the end, we were always going to go along to it, because NSTAAF is pretty much our favourite podcast. We have now listened to every available episode and what's more, we sleep with these people almost every night.

Philip Caveney, Bouquets & Brickbats, 26th March 2019

Stephen Fry reunites with the QI team

For an episode of the researchers' No Such Thing As A Fish podcast.

Chortle, 15th November 2018

Faber signs up seventh QI book

Faber & Faber editorial director Laura Hassan acquired world all languages rights to 2,024 QI Facts to Stop You In Your Tracks.

Natasha Onwuemezi, The Bookseller, 5th July 2018

No Such Thing As A Fish team return with 2018 book

The team behind podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and TV news satire No Such Thing As The News are to publish a second compendium of bizarre facts about the twelve months just gone, The Book Of The Year 2018.

British Comedy Guide, 5th April 2018

Interview with No Such Thing As A Fish folks

Here 'QI elves' Dan Schreiber, Anna Ptaszynski, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray talk about the live tour of their top-rated podcast, which arrives in Ireland next week.

The Irish News, 22nd March 2018

No Such Thing as a Fish review

The QI-spawned quartet have an easy chemistry on the live stage.

Jay Richardson, The List, 22nd March 2018

No Such Thing as a Fish film behind-the-scenes doc

No Such Thing As A Fish: Behind the Gills is an access-all-areas look at life on tour with the multi-award-winning hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. It will be released on January 29.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th January 2018

9 fascinating facts about the QI Elves

The weird and wonderful things you need to know about the QI researchers and hosts of No Such Thing as a Fish.

Thomas Ling, Radio Times, 3rd November 2017

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 2017

Quirky 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 2017

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