QI: Restaurants


10:00 pm - 10:40 pm, Sunday, March 15 on U&Dave (19)

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Restaurants
Season 18, Episode 4

Sandi Toksvig hosts the quiz, serving up a selection of questions on the subject of restaurants. Trying to come up with the answers are Alan Davies, Phill Jupitus, Sara Pascoe and Mark Watson


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Comedy Movie/Drama Quiz Show Show/Game Show

Cast & Crew

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Sandi Toksvig (Presenter)
Alan Davies (Panellist)
Phill Jupitus (Panellist)
Sara Pascoe (Panellist)
Mark Watson (Panellist)
Diccon Ramsay (Director)
Piers Fletcher (Series producer)
John Lloyd (Executive producer)

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Sandi Toksvig (Presenter)
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.
Phill Jupitus (Panellist)
Born: June 25, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight
Best Known For: Being a team captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Early-life: Born Phillip Christopher Swan in Newport, Isle of Wight, on June 25, 1962. He took his stepfather's surname of Jupitus when he was 16. He's the eldest of three children. He moved with his family to Essex when he was four. He went to school in Barking, before attending Woolverstone Hall near Ipswich as a private boarder. He took eight O levels and was to study for his A levels but dropped out. He then became a civil servant, and while working in an employment office, began writing poetry.
Career: Jupitus left the civil service, and under the moniker Porky the Poet, started touring with different bands as their support act. While working the student circuit, he met Billy Bragg and Paul Weller, and became involved in the Labour Party-supporting Red Wedge movement. He had a short-lived job at record label Go! Discs. Jupitus directed music videos before landing a radio show on the BBC station GLR in 1995. He became a team captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 1996, frequently appears on QI, has toured as a stand-up comedian, and hosted the breakfast show on BBC 6Music between 2002 and 2007. In 2009, he joined the West End cast of Hairspray, playing the role of Edna Turnblad. He also played King Arthur in a touring version of Spamalot in 2011.
Quote: 'Hi, hi I'm Phill Jupitus. 20 stone - I know you were wondering.'
Trivia: On Radio 4, Jupitus appears regularly on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
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.
Mark Watson (Panellist)
Diccon Ramsay (Director)
Piers Fletcher (Series producer)
John Lloyd (Executive producer)