QI
- TV panel show
- BBC Two / BBC One / BBC Four
- 2003 - 2025
- 324 episodes (22 series)
Panel game that contains lots of difficult questions and a large amount of quite interesting facts. Stars Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.
- Continues on Tuesday on BBC2 at 9pm with Series V, Episode 6
- Catch-up on Series V, Episode 5
- Streaming rank this week: 150
Episode menu
Series H - QI VG: Compilation Show 3
Theme
A mixture of new material and the best bits from Series H.
Topics
- Best Bit: Hanimals - Hanging onto a hagfish.
- Best Bit: Horrible - The sour toe cocktail.
- New Material: Hodge Podge - A sidetone is when your voice is played back through your telephone earpiece.
- New Material: Hodge Podge Tangent - Jack complains about people miming mobile phones. The rest of the panel start miming flip phones, iPhones and call centre headsets. They talk about miming Marcel Marceau.
- Best Bit: Hypothetical Questions - Does a lorry weigh less if the chicken inside jump up?
- Best Bit: House and Home - The origin of the phrases "no room to swing a cat" and "cat-o-nine-tails".
- Best Bit: Health and Safety - Inflating rectums with tobacco to save people from drowning.
- New Material: Hanatomy Tangent - Bill once went hunting with the Matis people of the Upper Amazon who use poisoned darts. Bill was told to aim for a howler monkey, but instead he blew the dart straight upwards and everyone had to run away to avoid being hit. The darts can reach the top of the jungle canopy.
- Best Bit: Hanimals - How to hypnotise a tiger shark, a chicken and an alligator.
- Best Bit: Horses and Hunting - Using a twitch to calm down a horse.
- Best Bit: Hodge Podge - The roundest thing in the universe.
- Best Bit: History - The impression of the average World War Two fighter pilot.
- New Material: House and Home Tangent - When Bill first went scuba diving, he wrongly took of his buoyancy jacket of before his lead weights, and thus nearly drowned.
- Best Bit: Hocus Pocus - I before E except after...
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 25th April 2011
- Time
- 10:15pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Stephen Fry | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Bill Bailey | Guest |
Eddie Izzard | Guest |
Danny Baker | Guest |
Gyles Brandreth | Guest |
Rob Brydon | Guest |
Jimmy Carr | Guest |
Sean Lock | Guest |
Phill Jupitus | Guest |
Jeremy Clarkson | Guest |
Dara O Briain | Guest |
David Mitchell | Guest |
Ronni Ancona | Guest |
Johnny Vegas | Guest |
Sandi Toksvig | Guest |
Lee Mack | Guest |
Graham Norton | Guest |
Jack Dee | Guest |
Sue Perkins | Guest |
Ross Noble | Guest |
Ruby Wax | Guest |
Chris Addison | Guest |
John Lloyd | Guest |
Clare Balding | Guest |
Daniel Radcliffe | Guest |
Robert Webb | Guest |
John Mitchinson | Question Writer |
Dan Schreiber | Researcher |
Mat Coward | Researcher |
Justin Pollard | Question Writer |
James Harkin | Question Writer |
Molly Oldfield | Question Writer |
Will Bowen | Researcher |
Andrew Hunter Murray (as Andy Murray) | Researcher |
Arron Ferster | Question Writer |
Ian Lorimer | Director |
Piers Fletcher | Producer |
David Morley (as Dave Morley) | Executive Producer |
Ruby Kuraishe | Executive Producer |
Nick King | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |
Video
Posh Pilots
Stephen Fry and guests talk about pilots.
Featuring: Alan Davies, Stephen Fry, Rob Brydon, David Mitchell & Sandi Toksvig.