QI: Weird and Wonderful


10:00 pm - 10:30 pm, Friday, December 19 on BBC Two HD (102)

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Weird and Wonderful
Season 23, Episode 8

Sandi Toksvig hosts a weird and wonderful episode featuring Melanie Bracewell, Patrick Kielty, Roisin Conaty and Alan Davies. As ever, contestants will be keen to steer clear of those inevitable traps


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Comedy Movie/Drama Quiz Show Show/Game Show

Cast & Crew

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Alan Davies (Panellist)
Roisin Conaty (Panellist)
Patrick Kielty (Panellist)
John Lloyd (Executive producer)
Ben Hardy (Director)
Piers Fletcher (Producer)

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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.
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.
Roisin Conaty (Panellist)
Born: March 26, 1979 in London
Best Known For: Being a comedian and starring in Man Down.
Early-life: Roisin was born in London on March 26, 1979. In 2010, she won the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival. In the same year, she appeared on Russell Howard's Good News on BBC Three and performed alongside other female comedians for charity on Victoria Wood's Angina Monologues on Sky One.
Career: Conaty stars in the BBC's hidden camera series Impractical Jokers and she has appeared as a guest on a number of panel shows, including Have I Got News for You, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In 2013, she began playing Jo in Channel 4 sitcom Man Down.
Quote: "I'm a terrible dresser. I wouldn't know what's in or what season I'm in. It's a real effort for me not to look mad."
Trivia: Conaty also performs as one half of female double act The Cakes with Caroline Ginty.
Melanie Bracewell (Panellist)
Patrick Kielty (Panellist)
Born: January 31, 1971 in Dundrum, Co Down
Best Known For: Chat show Patrick Kielty Almost Live
Early-life: Born January 31, 1971, in Dundrum, Co Down, Northern Ireland. His father was killed by paramilitaries when Patrick was 17. As a teenager, he was more interested in football than performing, and only discovered his talent for comedy after a teacher encouraged him to do a stand-up routine in a Christmas concert. After leaving school, he went on to study psychology at Queen's University, and claims his greatest ambition is to play in goal for Manchester United in the European Cup Final.
Career: Kielty's stand-up career began in 1992. He was a finalist on the Late Late Show New Comedy Act of the Year, and co-founded one of Northern Ireland's first comedy clubs at the Belfast Empire. In 1994 he hosted BBC Two special The Empire Laughs Back. Big break came in 1995 when he stole the show on St Patrick's Night Comic Relief in Belfast. Following his live series PK Tonight, he went on to appear on The Stand-Up Show and The Big Breakfast. His other credits include After The Break, The National Lottery Big Ticket, Fame Academy, Celebrity Love Island and his own chat show, Patrick Kielty Almost Live.
Quote: "What happened to my father is something I will always carry with me."
Trivia: Wed TV presenter Cat Deeley in 2012.
John Lloyd (Executive producer)
Ben Hardy (Director)
Born: January 02, 1991 in Bournemouth
Best Known For: Playing Peter Beale in EastEnders.
Early-life: Ben was born in Bournemouth on January 2, 1991. He studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career: Hardy's big break came in 2013 when he landed the role of Peter Beale in long-running BBC soap EastEnders.
Quote: On being in EastEnders: "It crosses my mind they might bump me off. You're always aware it could happen. You know you could lose your job at any moment."
Trivia: In 2013, Hardy was nominated for two Inside Soap Awards.
Piers Fletcher (Producer)