QI XL: Winter Wonderland


9:00 pm - 9:45 pm, Tuesday, December 23 on BBC Two England (2)

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Winter Wonderland
Season 23, Episode 9

A visit to Sandi Toksvig's Winter Wonderland for the QI Christmas special, with Julian Clary, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jimmy Carr and Alan Davies


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Cast & Crew

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Alan Davies (Panellist)
Julian Clary (Panellist)
Fatiha El-Ghorri (Panellist)
Jimmy Carr (Panellist)
Diccon Ramsay (Director)
Piers Fletcher (Producer)
John Lloyd (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.
Julian Clary (Panellist)
Born: May 25, 1959 in Surbiton, Surrey
Best Known For: His saucy comments.
Early-life: Julian Peter McDonald Clary was born in Surbiton, Surrey on May 25, 1959, and brought up, along with sisters Frances and Beverley, in Teddington, South London. After attending a strict Catholic school, he studied drama at Goldsmiths College. He had a brief stint as a singing telegram, but his sister's dance career inspired him to try cabaret, along with his long-time sidekick, Fanny the Wonder Dog. He wasn't an immediate hit, but when he changed the act to The Joan Collins Fan Club, he was spotted by TV producers, who gave him his big break on Friday Night Live.
Career: Julian quickly became a household name, thanks to shows such as Terry and Julian, Sticky Moments and All Rise for Julian Clary. He's toured the world with his stand-up show, and has a wealth of TV quizzes under his belt - most notably It's Only TV But I Like It. He's also turned his hand to acting, featuring in dramas such as Virtual Murder and Brazen Hussies, as well as a big-screen appearance in the ill-fated Carry On Columbus (1992). Julian also has four ITV pantomimes to his credit, and is a regular panellist on Radio 4's Just a Minute. He took part in the second series of Strictly Come Dancing, and won Celebrity Big Brother in 2012.
Quote: "I've never really wanted to upset people. I'm only interested in making people laugh."
Trivia: In 2006, he released his autobiography, A Young Man's Passage.
Fatiha El-Ghorri (Panellist)
Jimmy Carr (Panellist)
Born: September 15, 1972 in Slough
Best Known For: His stand-up comedy
Early-life: James Anthony Patrick Carr was born in Slough on September 15, 1972, one of three sons of Irish immigrants. His parents split in 1994, though the marriage didn't end until the death of his mother in 2001. Jimmy did well at school and studied political science at Cambridge before moving into advertising. He landed a job in the marketing department of Shell Oil, but felt unfulfilled. When the company offered him voluntary redundancy, he took it, and decided to pursue a career in comedy.
Career: Carr began performing on the stand-up circuit, doing up to 300 shows a year for three years, before taking his act to the Edinburgh festival in 2002. This brought him to the attention of TV bosses, and before long he was presenting series such as Your Face or Mine and Distraction. Since then, he's rarely been off TVscreens, hosting the first run of the Friday Night Project, 8 Out of 10 Cats and numerous Channel 4 list shows. He's also made a move into acting, appearing in Alien Autopsy, Confetti, Stormbreaker and Telstar. He is one of Britain's busiest comics and his DVDs are big sellers.
Quote: "I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand."
Trivia: In February 2007, Carr was the first major comedian to perform in the virtual reality world Second Life.
Diccon Ramsay (Director)
Piers Fletcher (Producer)
John Lloyd (Producer)