STUDYING QI

In class, we watched this programme from QI (open link) with a print out from the home page on the audience pleasures of QI and lined paper to make notes.

QI N Series 

Published on 25 Mar 2017

Sandi Toksvig hosts the 'Next' episode of QI with Lucy Porter, Frankie Boyle, Ross Noble and Alan Davies

Here are some of the notes that we made:

 

The panellists, although often ‘just’ comedians, are erudite but wear their learning lightly: such as the literary references to P.G. Wodehouse’s novels by Ross Noble. Like the other comedians, the pleasure of watching him is that he is quick off the mark and seizes opportunities to make jokes, such as posing like the people in photos behind him.

Each panelist has a different buzzer but AD's always makes the most embarrassing noise.

The programme offers both academic and popular learning in the course of one show, for instance, a question on who made the best neighbours covered intergalactic implosions and a little-known species of octopus, the Australian moody octopus, whilst the next question of the Croatian originator of ties (‘cravates’) involved physical slapstick whilst trying to tie them and photographs of stars from popular culture like Charlie Chaplin.

Alan Davies is willing to be made the joker of the pack who always gets things wrong. For example, in the challenge to loop a metal ring on a chain, AD failed repeatedly.

PREP Continue watching any episode of QI in order to add points which could support your analysis of the audience pleasures offered by QI. Aim to cover a range, illustrating the printed notes.