QI XL: University XL


10:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Sunday, December 28 on U&Dave ja vu (74)

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University XL
Season 21, Episode 12

Host Sandi Toksvig goes to University, joined by panellists Guz Khan, Joe Lycett, Morgana Robinson and Alan Davies


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Comedy Game Show/Quiz/Contest Movie/Drama Show/Game Show

Cast & Crew

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Guz Khan (Panellist)
Joe Lycett (Panellist)
Morgana Robinson (Panellist)
Alan Davies (Panellist)
John Lloyd (Executive producer)
Piers Fletcher (Producer)
Diccon Ramsay (Director)

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Sandi Toksvig (Host)
Born: May 03, 1959 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Best Known For: Whose Line is it Anyway? and The News Quiz.
Early-life: Sandra Birgitte Toksvig was born in Copenhagen on May 3, 1958. Due to her father's job as a foreign correspondent for a Danish TV station, she grew up in Europe, Africa and the US. She studied anthropology, archaeology and law at Cambridge, and hoped to become a human rights lawyer. She won several prizes for academic achievements, and also appeared with the famous Footlights entertainment group. Sandi took a year off her studies to work as a lighting technician at a London theatre - and never looked back.
Career: Toksvig went on to work at Nottingham Playhouse and for the New Shakespeare Company before landing a job as a writer and performer on children's show No 73 in 1982. She then moved onto the comedy circuit and began to gain a wider following thanks to regular appearances on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, hosting the station's News Quiz, and Channel 4's Whose Line is it Anyway? She became a Call My Bluff team captain in 1997, and began presenting a revival of Fifteen-to-One in 2014. In 2015, she left her job as the presenter of The News Quiz to help set up the Women's Equality Party.
Quote: On the intellectuals she met while a Cambridge student: "They could split the atom, but not wire a plug."
Trivia: Toksvig was awarded an OBE in 2014. She has written several novels.
Guz Khan (Panellist)
Joe Lycett (Panellist)
Morgana Robinson (Panellist)
Born: May 07, 1982 in Australia
Best Known For: The Morgana Show.
Early-life: Morgana was born in Australia on May 7, 1982 but she was brought up in England. Her parents split up when she was young and she ended up attending a boarding school in Kent. As she grew up, she discovered she had four half siblings from her father's previous relationships.
Career: Robinson's TV debut came in 2007 when she guest starred in an episode of The Green Green Grass. Her big break came in 2010 when Channel 4 commissioned her to make sketch show The Morgana Show. She went on to star in the sketch show Very Important People and BBC sitcom House of Fools.
Quote: "I would like to bring a bit of darkness back into comedy."
Trivia: She won a British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist in 2012.
Alan Davies (Panellist)
Born: March 06, 1966 in Loughton, Essex
Best Known For: Jonathan Creek and being the permanent panellist on QI.
Early-life: Alan Roger Davies was born in Loughton, Essex, on March 6, 1966. Together with his older brother and younger sister, Alan was raised by his accountant father, following the death of his mother from leukaemia when he was six. Despite disliking school, he was a bright child and passed 12 O-Levels and two A-Levels before studying drama at the University of Kent. On graduating, he signed on for an Enterprise Allowance Scheme to help fund his assault on the London comedy circuit.
Career: Davies performed his first stand-up gig in 1988, and by the early 1990s was a rising star, picking up rave reviews at Edinburgh. He later gave up playing clubs to concentrate on radio. His Radio 1 series, Alan's Big One FM, led to TV appearances on shows such as One Foot in the Grave, before he was cast as the lead in Jonathan Creek, the light-hearted mystery drama that made him a household name. Other acting work includes Bob and Rose, A Many Splintered Thing, The Brief, Marple, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008), Lewis and Whites. He presented the three-part documentary Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution for Channel 4 in 2010 and was a judge in 2011 on ITV talent show Show Me the Funny. He's also appeared in West End hit Auntie and Me. He has been a permanent panellist on irreverent quiz QI since the show began in 2003.
Quote: "I'm like a fine wine. I'm maturing."
Trivia: In early 2012, he announced his first UK stand-up tour in 12 years.
John Lloyd (Executive producer)
Piers Fletcher (Producer)
Diccon Ramsay (Director)