FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
Entertainment
QI
10:00pm - 10:30pm
BBC2 London & South East
VIDEO Plus+: 33374
Subtitled, Widescreen
1/12
The initials in the title stand for Quite Interesting (the whole thrust of this comedic quiz show is that it's better to be amusing than academic), but it could also stand for Quirkily Idiosyncratic. Or Quick-witted Incomparability. Without doubt it's the funniest panel show on TV. The urbane and lovable Stephen Fry is the QI-meister, whose endearing tendency to call his guests "dear" is offset by his astonishing wit and clever wordplay, while the panellists this week are Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Rich Hall and Rob Brydon, all of whom will have you in paroxysms of laughter. The questions are astoundingly obscure, but then their purpose is really to set up a joke rather than to be seriously answered.
RT reviewer: Jane Rackham