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{{quote|''"Welcome to ''QI'', the showoff show that sits at the front of the class shouting 'Me sir, me, me, me, sir, me', while other quiz shows are snogging behind the bikesheds."''|'''[[Stephen Fry]]'''}}
'''''QI''''' is a [[BBC 2]] comedy [[Panel Show]]. Debuted in 2003, and its fourteenth series ("season," to Americans) will premiere on [http://epguides.com/QI/ 15 October 2016]. Each series [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|is named for a letter]] of the alphabet and the topics for each episode [[Alphabetical Theme Naming|begin with that letter]] ("N" being the theme for the upcoming series/season).
Standing for "Quite Interesting", the show was hosted, for Series A through M by [[Stephen Fry]] and always includes [[Jonathan Creek|Alan Davies]] on the panel. Apart from Davies, the panel varies from week to week, but there are a number of recurring guests on (including Jo Brand, Rich Hall, [[Bill Bailey]], [[Jimmy Carr]], [[Top Gear|Jeremy Clarkson]], [[Mock the Week|Dara Ó Briain]], [[Never Mind the Buzzcocks|Phill Jupitus]], Sean Lock, [[David Mitchell]], [[Would I Lie to You?|Rob Brydon]], [[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Clive Anderson]], Jack Dee, Sandi Toksvig and [[Ross Noble]]). For Series N & onwards, the host is Sandi Toksvig.
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** And Clare Balding who was an accomplished horsewoman on an episode all about horses.
* [[Smart People Know Latin]]: Alan makes a joke about Stephen knowing the Lord's Prayer in Latin, to which Stephen responds by quoting the first line of such at high speed.
* [[Smite Me,
{{quote|'''David''': Why don't you just write "Mitchell is a cock".
'''Stephen''': [[Tempting Fate|I wouldn't put it past them]]. }}
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{{quote|'''Rob Brydon''': The only thing I have knowledge of is [[But You Screw One Goatthe|the sheep tied to a lamp]]- no, sorry, I have knowledge of '''Cardiff'''.}}
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: This is apparently the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110518160613/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/08/08/hodgman-activates-rage-gland-against-bbc-america-for-not-picking
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** Used for the buzzer sounds in a first-series episode—Dave Gorman's buzzer chimed ''mi'', Jeremy Hardy's chimed ''do'', Jo Brand's chimed ''re'', and Alan's [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|made a noise like a pneumatic drill]].
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