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A weekly podcast coming from the QI offices in Covent Garden in London, join Dan Schreiber, Anna Ptaszynski, James Harkin, and Andrew Hunter Murray as they gather around the microphones and share their four favorite facts from the last week and discuss and explore related facts and ideas.The first episode was released on March 8, 2014. Since then, the show has grown into one of the most popular British podcasts. Many episodes are recorded in front of live audiences, attracting large crowds around the UK as well as other countries.The podcast has also spawned a spin-off TV series called No Such Thing as the News, which ran for 2 short seasons in 2016. The series focused specifically on ongoing or recent events, as opposed to more general topics discussed on the podcast. |
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Arbitrary Skepticism |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Episode 83: |
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The Hyena |
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The Hyena: All four hosts are prone to laughter, often starting to laugh before the fact is fully read out. Somewhat justified, as most of the facts do end up being quite amusing. |
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Take Our Word for It |
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Take Our Word for It: Whenever something visual happens (e.g. James makes a funny face and Anna comments on it), the listeners at home only have the audio to go off of. Averted for members of the live audience (if it's a live show), as well as No Such Thing as the News, where everything is shown on camera. |
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Named Like My Name |
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Named Like My Name: James mentions in one of the episodes that he occasionally gets confused with the journalist James Harkin. However, since the podcast has taken off in popularity, the latter is on the receiving end of this more often. |
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Hopeless with Tech |
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Hopeless with Tech: Played for laughs. Anna has a reputation for being way behind the times and not knowing how to operate modern devices like phones or computers. She also largely avoids social media, being the only one on the show who doesn't have a Twitter account. It has been mentioned, though, that she doesn't actually have any trouble with technology, and is one of the main people behind QI's official @qikipedia Twitter account. |
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Hidden Depths |
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Hidden Depths: Dan has mentioned that he has a second-dan black belt in taekwondo. Andy is a stage actor who performs as part of the Jane Austen-themed troupe Austentatious. He is also a science fiction author, with his thriller novel The Last Day being advertised in several episodes of the podcast. James is a certified football referee. |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: The podcast's guest hosts have often worked on QI, such as John Lloyd, Alan Davies, Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig, and fellow QI elves. |
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Embarrassing Nickname |
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Embarrassing Nickname: Do not call Andy "Drew". |
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Noodle Incident |
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Noodle Incident: Episode 188: |
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Lampshaded the Obscure Reference |
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Lampshaded the Obscure Reference: The end of episode 225: James in episode 371, in response to Dan's fact about stereotactic frames: |
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Captain Obvious |
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Captain Obvious: Andrew in episode 222: |
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Malaproper |
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Malaproper: Episode 461, while discussing an imaginary scenario where goats used to be birds: |
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Left It In |
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Left It In: Especially common in live episodes, which are harder to edit down without creating abrupt cuts due to worse audio quality, natural reverb, and crowd noise. |
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Butt-Monkey |
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Butt-Monkey: Dan verges on this. Anna describes him as "fourth among equals", and he catches way more mockery than the other hosts. Fortunately, he doesn't seem to mind. Alex Bell, one of the editors of the podcast and an occasional guest host, is frequently "bullied" by the main four as a running joke whenever he appears on the show (and sometimes when he doesn't). |
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Bigger Than Jesus |
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Bigger Than Jesus: From the "Behind the Gills" documentary: |
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Planimal |
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Planimal: Collectively conjured up in episode 447 as the the hosts play a guessing game about what two things go into a hybrid species. |
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Early-Installment Weirdness |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The early episodes were recorded with cheap microphones, had very spotty editing full of awkward transitions and poor audio quality, and featured a long intro sequence that has since been cut down to just the theme tune. Additionally, the podcast experimented a lot with various formats and guest hosts throughout its first year, something that barely ever happens nowadays. |
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Seinfeldian Conversation |
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Seinfeldian Conversation: Fact discussions devolve into this at least once every episode. |
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One of the Boys |
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One of the Boys: Anna is often more laddish than the male hosts. |
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Prophetic Names |
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Prophetic Names: One of the most common types of facts presented on the show are ones related to nominative determinism. Dan's last name fits. "Schreiber" is German for "scribe" or "writer", befitting Dan's current job as a writer for QI. |
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Christmas Episode |
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Christmas Episode: There's one at the end of each year, usually focusing on Christmas-themed facts. |
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The Cuckoolander Was Right |
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The Cuckoolander Was Right: In very rare instances, an outlandish fact presented by Dan gets checked after the show and is found to be correct, something that he will definitely point out on his Twitter. |
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Curse Cut Short |
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Curse Cut Short: A self-interruption from James in episode 430 while discussing rumors of Emily Dickinson having a spicy time with a man at her house: |
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The Alcoholic |
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The Alcoholic: Anna is known for her love of alcoholic drinks, particularly beer. |
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Snub by Omission |
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Snub by Omission: Episode 444: |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? |
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: Dan is of Australian parentage, grew up in Hong Kong, and has spent more than a decade in Britain, but his accent is rhotic, vaguely North American, and very peculiar. |
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Little Known Facts |
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Little Known Facts: Anna in episode 2: |
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Vetinari Job Security |
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Vetinari Job Security: Whenever Dan is absent, one of the other hosts has to step into his shoes as the main host, with varying degrees of success. Anna is the most competent at it, though she's noticeably less energetic than Dan. Alex Bell also gives it a try in one of the episodes and fails miserably. |
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Social Media Is Bad |
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Social Media Is Bad: In the "Behind the Gills" documentary, Anna states that the reason why she refuses to come near social media is that she's afraid it would completely consume her. |
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Throw the Dog a Bone |
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Throw the Dog a Bone: In episode 105, James shares a fact that in 19th century America people treated agalactia (women's inability to produce breast milk) by putting pancakes on the affected breasts, which prompts the following exchange: |
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Studio Audience |
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Studio Audience: Many episodes are recorded in front of a live audience. |
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…And That Little Girl Was Me |
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…And That Little Girl Was Me: Episode 61: |
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Celebrity Endorsement |
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Celebrity Endorsement: In episode 109, Dan attempts to promote Etihad hoping to get a free trip to Abu Dhabi, before being promptly shot down by Andy. |
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Inferiority Superiority Complex |
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Inferiority Superiority Complex: Episode 330, while discussing the small penises of golden moles: |
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Weirdness Censor |
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Weirdness Censor: In episode 82 Dan argues... passionately that stick insects are clearly plants that have gained animacy, but we all choose to believe they're just some bizarre kind of insect because we can't comprehend the truth. |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode is titled 'No Such Thing As X', with X being a reference to a joke or fact from that episode. |
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Cheap Heat |
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Cheap Heat: When the group plays a live show, they invariably find some occasion to poke fun at the host city or reference some local stereotype. Particularly pronounced during visits to Scotland and Australia. |
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Deadpan Snarker |
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Deadpan Snarker: Each host has their moments, but by far the biggest offender is Anna. |
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Brief Accent Imitation |
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Brief Accent Imitation: Andy loves doing voices when talking about celebrities, historical figures, or even just certain occupations. James particularly likes to imitate the Queen and her trademark accent whenever she is brought up. In one of the episodes where Dan is absent and Anna takes over as the main host, she takes a jab at his accent by pronouncing the location of the QI offices as the hyper-rhotic "Covernt Gardern"; Dan is known to pronounce R's where there is no R in writing, e.g. he tends to pronounce "Chicago" as "She cargo". |
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Speak in Unison |
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Speak in Unison: Episode 198: |
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True Companions |
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True Companions: The crew has said that working on the podcast has brought them very close together, and that the relationship between them is like siblings. |
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Self-Deprecation |
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Self-Deprecation: A staple of all four hosts. |
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Cloudcuckoolander |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Dan usually plays this role, often delivering facts of dubious plausibility, taking pseudoscience at face value, failing to read the body of articles and simply getting his facts from the titles, and falling for the other hosts' obvious lies. His penchant for fortean phenomena is so strong that the mere mention of yetis counts as a laugh line during live shows. |
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That Came Out Wrong |
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That Came Out Wrong: Episode 82: Episode 188: |
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British Stuffiness |
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British Stuffiness: Andy often plays on this trope, presenting himself as socially inept, fusty, and ludicrously middle-class. |
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World Tour |
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World Tour: While most of the live shows are done within the UK and Ireland, the podcast has visited a few other countries such as the USA, Australia, and Germany. |
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Awful Wedded Life |
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Awful Wedded Life: James can't help but make "take my wife"-style jokes, which the others credit to his being a northern comedian. |
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Hilarious Outtakes |
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Hilarious Outtakes: Subverted. The compilation episodes only partly consist of bloopers; most of their content is just bits that didn't fit into the regular episodes for various reasons, usually to cut down the episode length. |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor: The hosts sometimes poke fun at the QI creator and co-producer John Lloyd whenever he appears on the show as a guest. |
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Disco Dan |
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Disco Dan: Anna allegedly uses the fax machine to send her facts to the other guys, though this is likely a joke, as she does run the podcast's official email account. Dan, fittingly, has an obsession that qualifies him for this trope. He is a massive fan of WWF-era Professional Wrestling, as demonstrated in episode 375. |
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Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics |
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Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics: The podcast uses the instrumental version of the song "Wasps" by Emperor Yes as its theme music. Occasionally, the vocal version will be used for special episodes. |
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Female Misogynist |
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Female Misogynist: Anna assumes this role every now and then, jokingly bashing women and the suffrage movement. |
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Pungeon Master |
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Pungeon Master: Andy and especially James are known for their love of making puns, drawing mixed reactions from the other hosts and the audience. |
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Running Gag |
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Running Gag: The podcast has had a lot of these over the years, though they usually don't last for more than a few episodes. Calling a person or a thing that has previously been mentioned on the show "friend of the podcast". Even if they've been dead for centuries, like Everard Digby. If an animal species is brought up, expect a fact about their penises. If an official QI book is mentioned (especially if it was co-written by some or all of the podcasters), expect one of the hosts to start enthusiastically advertising it on the spot. James not having seen many popular movies, despite knowing a great deal about them otherwise. Spoiling the stories of various works, most notably the ending of Anna Karenina. Andy's pet topic is moss, and Dan's is yetis. |
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Comically Missing the Point |
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Comically Missing the Point: In episode 266, Andy talks about how Microsoft made typesetting widely available to everyone, causing a "massive shift in power" from professional graphic designers to the general public, which may have been the main contributor to the popularity of Comic Sans. James then responds with this: |
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