After Doctor Who I hit a sort of dry spell. I ran out of episodes and I just wanted to watch something new. Luckily, my mom sent me a link to the site for Mike the Headless Chicken. But what does Mike have to do with British TV, you may ask. Well, when I was looking at the website I noticed that they had links to youtube videos relating to Mike. One of them happened to be this video:
Intrigued by this, I determined to find out what this show was. I soon found out that it is the quiz show QI or Quite Interesting. The show features Stephen Fry as the host and Alan Davies as the only regular guest. Unlike other quiz shows, no one gets any prizes or money, and the point system doesn’t make any sense anyway. The guests are notable comedians such as Phil Jupitus, Jo Brand, and Jimmy Carr. Guests get points not necessarily for right answers, but for answers that are interesting. Points are taken away (usually in large quantities) for answers that are not only wrong, but horribly obvious. My favorite part of this show, though, is that the guests can just go off on their own weird tangents and that when they are making jokes about each other, it’s all in good fun and no one really takes offense.
This is one of my favorite clips, the question was “What Rhymes with Purple?”
This clip shows what happens when someone gives an obvious and wrong answer.
This one is just plain hilarious, and I think encapsulates the show quite well.
