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Season 22, Episode 5
Maisie Adam, Jack Dee and Kiri Pritchard-McLean join regular panellist Alan Davies on the comedy quiz, with host Sandi Toksvig asking questions on the theme of visual
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Sandi Toksvig
(Host)
Alan Davies
(Panellist)
Maisie Adam
(Panellist)
Jack Dee
(Panellist)
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
(Panellist)
Ben Hardy
(Director)
Piers Fletcher
(Producer)
John Lloyd
(Executive producer)
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Did You Know..
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.
Maisie Adam
(Panellist)
Jack Dee
(Panellist)
Born:
September 24, 1962
in
Petts Wood, Kent
Best Known For:
His hugely popular stand-up act.
Early-life:
Born James Andrew Innes Dee on September 24, 1962, in Petts Wood, Kent, but his family moved to Winchester when he was young. His father was a printer and his mother the daughter of two actors. He went to a public prep school, then to a comprehensive. After his A-levels he planned to attend drama college, but his mum persuaded him to get a job, so he became a waiter. He also dabbled with the idea of becoming a priest, but later managed a pizza restaurant before trying stand-up comedy.
Career:
Dee's first public act was an open-mic gig in 1986 at the Comedy Store. He was then encouraged to write additional material and go on tour. Since the 1990s he has performed sell-out acts at many high-profile venues. After scooping the British Comedy Award for Best Stage Newcomer in 1991, Dee was offered his own TV show, which brought him to a wider audience. He's continued to do stand-up, fronting such successes as Live at the Apollo and Happy Hour and has branched out into acting, first in comedy drama The Grimleys and latterly to critical acclaim in BBC comedy Lead Balloon, which he also wrote. Other projects include Shooting Stars and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Quote:
'Unlike European mustards that bring out the subtle flavours of food, English mustard makes your nose bleed.'
Trivia:
He was part of a team of celebrities who, in 2013, helped raise £1million for Comic Relief by canoeing down dangerous rapids on the Zambezi River.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
(Panellist)
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)
John Lloyd
(Executive producer)
