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20 odd comedy facts courtesy of QI

The latest QI book - 1,441 Facts To Knock You Sideways - is packed full of off-the-wall information. Here were present 20 of the snippets related (even if loosely) to the world of comedy contained therein...

QI: meet the people who know it all - before Fry does

It's Christmas 2014. Stephen Fry, the host of QI, wears three tasteful poinsettia flowers on his lapel. On set, glittery snowmen flank the panel. Behind the scenes Carrie Fisher, a guest panelist, feeds her dog Gary a stuffing ball from the turkey buffet. Well, it's not actually Christmas -- it's summer 2014 and ice-cream weather outside.

QI could open a school to encourage playful learning

The creator of QI, the hit BBC trivia show, has said that the show could one day open a school to spread its playful learning philosophy into education.

Host Stephen Fry has just published the third volume of his autobiography, called More Fool Me.

It's obviously a tongue-in-cheek title as the cerebral host of the popular comic quiz - which stands for Quite Interesting - has to be the most intelligent presenter on TV!

Since 2003, Stephen has been challenging audiences with fascinating and remarkable nuggets of knowledge.

Now QI is back for its 12th series, popular permanent panellist Alan Davies returns again, and the pair will be joined by the great and good of British comedy.

Stephen Fry posts signed QI ties & books for auction

Stephen Fry has given his backing to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) by putting the five signed lots on auction site Sellebrity.

Radio Times review

The QI Elves, the folk who come up with those fiendish questions for Stephen Fry, emerge from their cave to field a team against the Bibliophiles tonight on Only Connect.

"Do you know everything about everything?" wonders host Victoria Coren Mitchell of the Elves. The answer is an emphatic no. She also brings a blush to the cheek of a Bibliophile by remarking upon his supposed resemblance to Benedict Cumberbatc, not that I could see it.

There are some killer rounds, though the music question might leave you feeling a bit smug as it's easy. But as always the connecting walls will probably wipe the smile from your face, when you think you've worked it out, but you haven't.

Victoria Coren Mitchell meets the QI Elves

Who are the QI Elves? They're in the great pantheon of TV characters you hear about, but never see - like the wives of Arthur Daley, Norm Peterson and Niles Crane. As a long-time QI fan, whenever these enigmatic "Elves" were referred to on the programme, I would ask (like Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, watching the cloaked horse-riders on the horizon): "Who are those guys?" That's why I'm so excited that the Elves have broken cover, bringing a team to compete in Only Connect's first series for BBC Two.

Who are the QI Elves?

Smarter than Stephen Fry, but we know almost nothing about them - well not any more.

QI's quite indecently tricky quiz

To celebrate the new season of QI, the team behind the hit TV show has come up with 20 questions. It's one 'L' of a challenge... are you up for it?

How do you score a job on QI? QI Elf reveals all...

An audio interview with QI elf Molly Oldfield.