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QI. Image shows from L to R: Alan Davies, Sandi Toksvig. Copyright: TalkbackThames
QI

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.

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QI: Quite interesting facts about cooking

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI in the kitchen.

Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 17th February 2011

We shouldn't apologise if our jokes bomb...

Some famous last words:

'Anyone seen those Indians?' - ­General Custer.

'Where's all this water ­coming from?' - Captain of the Titanic.

'What the f****** hell was that?' - Mayor of Hiroshima.

Oh, come on, you've all heard them. And you've all laughed. The first time, anyway.

Martin Samuel, Daily Mail, 10th February 2011

QI: Quite interesting facts about light

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI sees the light.

Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 10th February 2011

Japan is right to be angry at QI atom bomb joke

Joking about nuclear survivors reflects Britain's tendency to revel in a false memory of a 'good war', ignoring the messy reality.

Clinton Godart, The Guardian, 8th February 2011

Fry shelves filming in Japan after atomic bomb outcry

Presenter pulls out of shooting BBC series Planet Word in Japan amid 'threats' over Hiroshima jokes made on quiz show QI.

Justin McCurry, The Guardian, 3rd February 2011

QI: Quite interesting facts about wind

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI catches the wind.

Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 3rd February 2011

Cultural insensitivity no laughing matter

The tempest in a teapot whipped up by a segment on the British quiz-cum-comedy show "QI" has prompted debate on cross-cultural sensitivity.

Philip Brasor, The Japan Times, 30th January 2011

BBC apologises for Japanese atomic bomb jokes on QI

Panellists accused of belittling Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived nuclear attacks on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Justin McCurry, The Guardian, 23rd January 2011

QI's jokes about survivor of both A-bombs outrage Japan

The BBC is at the centre of a diplomatic row after the Japanese Embassy protested about an episode of comedy quiz show QI.

Paul Revoir, Daily Mail, 22nd January 2011

BBC sorry for jokes about atom bomb survivor

The BBC has apologised to Japan for an episode of the comedy quiz QI in which Stephen Fry joked about an old man who survived both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Richard Lloyd Parry, The Australian, 22nd January 2011

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