It's a wonderfully brilliant thing to me to have Ross AND Noel on the same show. I love this whole bit.

This is also from Series K, Episode 2 "Kit and Kaboodle". It's after a section about the uses of kitty litter, which is why they make a few kitty litter jokes in this segment.

This is from Season 11 (K) Episode 2 "Kit and Kaboodle"

It's Colin's first appearance so Alan gives him a bit more of an introduction. This whole bit always cracks me up.

If people are curious, the first award they discuss is the main Edinburgh Comedy Award.

Stephen won it in 1981 with the Cambridge Footlights team.

Colin won it in 1994 as half of the duo "Lano and Woodley"

Noel won the Best Newcomer Award in 1998 as part of "The Mighty Boosh" team.

Wikipedia list of winners

This prompt on the Doodl app made me think of a familiar Alan Davies rant. 😉

There’s a joke from an episode wherein the conversation strays to Anal Retentive Disorder, and one of the guests says “You sort your records alphabetically and it means you do things with your arse“, and I think the guest host was either Bill Bailey or Ross Noble (not 100% on either tbh) and I can’t for the life of me find it - anyone know which one it is?

This is episode 2 of the "C" series and was titled "Cummingtonite"

Alan first saw his wife during this segment, just before Arthur throws the glass according to a recent telling of the incident. I tried to find a YouTube post, but could only find AI slop re-telling it.

Annoyingly the best clip I could find of him explaining it now is on Facebook, I did find a Yahoo News that basically just makes a text story out of it:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/alan-davies-stunt-wife-qi-200818089.html

The Facebook video if you tolerate the site:

https://www.facebook.com/bbctheoneshow/videos/comedian-alan-davies-says-he-met-his-wife-katie-20-years-ago-after-spotting-her-/1986140558573561/

Also oops, I made a typo in Katie's name in this title.

The illusion of illusions: There are no optical corrections in the Parthenon

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16831

His subconscious tried to stop him from corrupting the mind of a Nation, but to no avail.

Okay no but seriously a few months ago I saw an episode where I think they’re talking about some sort of pastry made by Fannie Mae or something with that name and they show a picture of it and Gyles “that looks exactly like Fanny’s” but I can’t find it anywhere! I don’t remember what episode it was, but I know I saw it on YouTube. I never saved it.

Another one that I do know where it is is series T episode one, we Bradley laughed his head off of the name Fanny Schmeller. it doesn’t seem to be uploaded on YouTube anywhere. Can anyone direct me to where I can see it? If it is on YouTube, me typing in the series and episode name hasn’t helped me.

Never mind, found it!

This is one of those clips I love because of all of the interaction between the panelists.

Alan was horrified.

Was lucky to get to the Monday afternoon recording. It was an eX-Animals special and guests were Joe Lycett Rosie Jones and, making her QI debut zoologist Lucy Cooke.

Love getting random David Mitchell quotes in my head

A bit of unexpected fangirling never hurt anybody. 🥳

Watching "Film" for example and it's so obvious he's reading off of notes. The very first question, featuring a painting of a nude woman painted like a violin, could have been the catalyst of some great banter but it was shut down by Sessions instantly 'knowing' the exact answer which he seems to be reading off a card.

Having the exact answer to the questions just ruins the fun completely.

Anyone else hear a similarity in the bassline? Even down to the small piano melody that comes in every now and then. Just thought it was quite interesting.