Quite Intereresting

RonJB

RonJB

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I was at a recording of QI this afternoon. The winner of the pre-taping audience quiz happened to be a man named Ian who is a writer and manga critic. Hmm. Congratulations to the smartest person in the room!

I had deliberately got the previous question wrong (about Lord of the Rings) as I hate being the centre of attention (when not playing a musical instrument).

Good show. We're up to W, and it covered walruses, wombats and wallabies (and chickens).
 
I haven't watched QI for years, but glad to hear it's still going strong (although will it end when it reaches 'Z'?)

I presume like many TV shows, the actual recording was longer than what will be shown on the telly, even in 'extended' form, even taking out any retakes.
 
D1tchd1gger said:
If it's the same person, he writes for this very site.
@Ian Wolf
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That was my assumption. But then I thought, there could be hundreds of people named Ian who write about manga and like comedy. Oh, and the QI recording's usually last between 90 and 120 minutes. They record two shows per day at the the last operating studio at the old BBC Centre in White City, three days a week, completing the whole series in February.
 
I can confirm that it was indeed me. In the pre-taping quiz (the quiz to find the smartest person in the room), I won a goodie bad containing a few things: a signed card from Sandi and Alan, a book (paperback version of a hardback I already have), a shirt (size Sandi, I mean small), and a badge reading: "I'm a hateful little smartarse".

I know there were some anime fans there, as they was a woman reading some shojo in front of me when I was queuing outside.

I should say regarding QI, I've been a long fan of the show. My main job is working for a comedy website, comedy.co.uk, where one of my jobs is writing up the guides for QI, listing every fact they've ever done. As a result of this, I've become friends with the show researchers (the QI Elves), some of whom donated to the Kickstarter for my book about CLAMP. I've even been named on the show (under my real name Ian Dunn) for perhaps the most pedantic thing to have ever appeared on the programme. See the Series N Christmas Special, at the start of General Ignorance, about 20 minutes in.
 
Kite said:
I haven't watched QI for years, but glad to hear it's still going strong (although will it end when it reaches 'Z'?)

I presume like many TV shows, the actual recording was longer than what will be shown on the telly, even in 'extended' form, even taking out any retakes.
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@Kite I believe they have said that once they've finished the letters, they will then do the numbers.
 
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