I probably should have brought this up earlier because it's one of my favorite sources of random and interesting information. I'm doing it now because I'm listening to most of the series again, so I'm making notes of a lot of things that I want to tell you about at some point.
QI is a British show that has been running for about 22 years, and stands for Quite Interesting. The plot of the show is that the host asks questions about obscure and, hopefully, interesting things and the four panelists try to answer. The points don't exactly matter, and they are given for being interesting, while they lose points for being boring or wrong. They have a klaxon that goes off if the answer is something wrong that the QI 'Elves' thought was obvious, or expected. Sometimes people are a bit unhappy to have a klaxon called on them, others can be proud of it for being their first or, in a few cases, they seemed to be trying to see how many they can get. There have also been a few times the Elves in charge of the klaxon have used it to respond to the panelists for things like nitpicking that the panelist didn't say exactly that, or that they meant something else. They have a sense of humor too.
The show has a host, either Stephen Fry at the beginning or Sandi Toksvig in later seasons, a permanent panelist in Alan Davies, and three spots for various guests that trade out each episode. Most of the guests are comedians in various forms, but sometimes they are scientists, actors, or other celebrities. The panelists can be a bit dramatic about things, but it's all in good fun. They've had several new ones come in later seasons and some that have been on an episode or three every season, so there is a lot of variety there. Those that have been around a lot can have running jokes from them that go on from previous episodes or seasons, which can be fun to see.
I feel I should warn you that, in one of the episodes, Sandi (as a panelist) asked if it was possible to come on this show without talking about genitalia, and Stephen said 'not while he has breath left in his body', so that sort of thing does come up rather often. They cover several different things in that realm, including the shape/size of animal genitalia, the penis cemetery, the penis museum, the porn museum, and a thousand other things that come up somehow. It's a part of life that has a lot of interesting and hilarious things attached to it, and something they joke about a lot.
Part of the setup is that the first season was based around A subjects, then season 2 was B, 3 was C, and so on. They're currently on season V. Stephen Fry did the first half of the alphabet, and now Sandi Toksvig is in charge of it. Season V includes things like Victory, Variety, Vocal, Viral, and Visual, while other seasons have included things like France, Fingers, Jam, Numbers, and about 200 other interesting things.
There is a lot I could say about this show, but I'm going to stop here. I love the show, and I would suggest it for anyone that likes random information. I actually like it more than Jeopardy because they talk about the facts and explain things to teach me instead of testing me, but that might just be me. I hope, if you decide to try it, that you like it. If not,
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