QI XL: Lying


02:00 am - 03:00 am, Monday, August 3 on U&Dave (19)

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Lying
Season 12, Episode 10

Extended edition. Question master Stephen Fry continues the comedy quiz's exploration of subjects beginning with the letter L as he asks a range of fiendish questions on the topic of liars and lying. Joining regular panellist Alan Davies are comedienne Sara Pascoe, Bad Education and Fresh Meat star Jack Whitehall, and stand-up and The Last Leg host Adam Hills


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Cast & Crew

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Alan Davies (Panellist)
Sara Pascoe (Panellist)
Jack Whitehall (Panellist)
Adam Hills (Panellist)
John Lloyd (Producer)
Piers Fletcher (Producer)
Ian Lorimer (Director)

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Stephen Fry (Host)
Born: August 24, 1957 in Hampstead, London
Best Known For: His sharp wit.
Early-life: Stephen John Fry was born on August 24, 1957, in Hampstead, London. He grew up in Norfolk alongside an older brother and younger sister. His father, Alan, is a physicist. Fry attended public schools Stout's Hill and Uppingham (from which he was expelled), and spent time in a Young Offender's Institution after going on a spending spree with a stolen credit card. His writing and performing skills were honed at Cambridge University, where his contemporaries included Emma Thompson, Tony Slattery and Hugh Laurie.
Career: After graduating, Fry and Laurie enjoyed a successful comedy partnership. Fry was a millionaire by 30, thanks to a successful rewrite of the Noel Gay musical Me and My Girl. He has appeared in numerous films and TV projects, including Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, Wilde, Thunderpants, Kingdom and The Hobbit. He's also written several books, and is well-known as a charming raconteur. He made his movie debut as writer and director with Bright Young Things, based on Evelyn Waugh's book, Vile Bodies. Fry is the presenter of comedy quiz QI, he has also made several acclaimed documentaries, including ones about manic depression and Aids, and he is the reader for the British versions of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series of audio books.
Quote: 'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'
Trivia: His distinctive voice has also been featured in a number of video games, including Fable II and Fable III, and as the narrator in the LittleBigPlanet games.
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.
Sara Pascoe (Panellist)
Born: May 22, 1981 in Dagenham
Best Known For: Being a comedian.
Early-life: Sara was born in Dagenham on May 22, 1981, the daughter of Derek Pascoe, vocalist and saxophonist in 1970s pop group Flintlock. Sara went on to study English at the University of Sussex. She began performing stand-up in 2007.
Career: Pascoe first appeared in her own show at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010. Since then, she has toured around the UK and appeared on a number of TV panel shows, including Mock the Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and QI. She has also acted in The Thick of It, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Campus, Twenty Twelve and W1A. In 2016, she published Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body.
Quote: 'I don't think there are any subjects you can't joke about because human beings are forgiving of subject matter when we find things funny.'
Trivia: Pascoe is a vegan. In 2014, she was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Comedy Show.
Jack Whitehall (Panellist)
Born: July 07, 1988 in Westminster, London
Best Known For: His acting and stand-up routines.
Early-life: Born Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall in Westminster, London, on July 7, 1988, to former actress Hilary Gish and former actors' agent Michael, who counted Judi Dench, Colin Firth and Richard Griffiths among his clients. Michael also wrote the memoir Shark-Infested Waters and formed two production companies, one of them with Nigel Havers, who is Jack's godfather. Jack attended the Harrodian School in London alongside Twilight saga star Robert Pattinson. He also went to The Dragon School in Oxford and then Marlborough College, an independent school in Wiltshire.
Career: During his gap year, Whitehall decided to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. He juggled studying the history of art at Manchester University with gigs. In June 2008, he presented the first week of Big Brother's Big Mouth on E4. He followed this up with appearances on Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats and from then on, became a TV fixture. Whitehall dabbled with acting as a child (he appeared, age nine, in the series Noah's Ark and claims to have auditioned for Harry Potter), and returned to it as an adult with the sitcoms Fresh Meat and Bad Education. He's a regular competitor on Sky1's sports quiz A League of Their Own, appears on various panel game shows, and continues to do stand-up. He also co-hosts a chat show with his dad on BBC Three.
Quote: 'I think I may have done too many panel shows. After a while people get bored of you. I might be a bit more selective in future.'
Trivia: In 2012 and 2013, he was declared the King of Comedy at the British Comedy Awards.
Adam Hills (Panellist)
Born: July 10, 1970 in Sydney
Best Known For: Hosting The Last Leg.
Early-life: Adam was born in Sydney on July 10, 1970. He was born without a right foot and wears a prosthesis. He went on to study a degree in communications at Macquarie University in Sydney. His first taste of stand-up comedy came in 1989 at the Sydney Comedy Store.
Career: In Australia, Hills is best known for hosting the music-themed quiz show Spicks and Specks. In Britain, he has hosted The Last Leg on Channel 4 since 2012. Since 1997, he has toured internationally with his stand-up shows. He earned consecutive Perrier Award nominations for his Edinburgh shows in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He regularly uses his artificial right foot as a source of humour in his act. He has also hosted the comedy panel show Monumental and quiz show Celebrity Fifteen to One. Hills voiced Buddy Pendergast in an epsiode of the TV series Thunderbirds Are Go.
Quote: 'Even when people talk about my disability, for a number of reasons I feel weird. There's nothing I can't do, so technically I don't think I am disabled.'
Trivia: In 2002, Hills released a single in Australia called Working Class Anthem.
John Lloyd (Producer)
Piers Fletcher (Producer)
Ian Lorimer (Director)

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