History Characters / QI

%%!Colin Lane
* FunnyForeigner: Colin is Australian.

%%* FunnyForeigner: Colin is Australian.

* WTHCastingAgency: Yes, that Corey Taylor. From Music/{{Slipknot}}. Yes, that Slipknot. (He fit in [[HiddenDepths surprisingly well]].)

%%* CloudCuckooLander

%%* SustainedMisunderstanding: How much sunlight does Denmark get, again?

%%!Rhod Gilbert

%%!Matt Lucas

%%!Romesh Ranganathan

-->Area of expertise: ''The Lord of the Rings''

* InsufferableGenius: He had extensive knowledge of several subjects.[[note]]Both Stephen and Creator/DaraOBriain would later say that ''someone'' - and neither would say who it was - would ask for the questions before each show. Stephen said that it was someone who didn't need them, and Dara said in 2022 that it was someone who had died but it wasn't Sean Lock; Sessions died in 2020, so there's a ''very'' good chance it was him; that said, because of both Stephen and Dara's reticence on the subject, this is unconfirmed.[[/note]]

* UnfortunateName: Alan suggest his first name sounds like Diarrhoea. Dara naturally [[WhatAnIdiot has the response you'd expect.]]

* InsufferableGenius: He has extensive knowledge of several subjects.
* ManOfAThousandVoices: Sessions is quite good at imitating voices, and did a very funny Creator/AlanRickman impersonation by "talking without his lips touching his teeth."
* TooCleverByHalf: Despite this, he tends to fall into forfeit traps, and has managed only one win in his appearances to date (two if you count his appearance in series J: he was the highest-scoring ''panelist'' that episode, but Stephen Fry "won" that show).

%%* GrumpyBear

%%* GrumpyBear

* RantInducingSlight: Called Bridget Christie a racist for saying that toffee fingers and caramel cups were the same.
-->''Toffee one's a lot firmer, the caramel one's nice and soft. Give that to an old man with dentures, ask him if they're the same!''

* OnceASeason: Consistently only appears on one episode very series (except for Series O, where he was PutOnABus).

* FlameBait: To the extent that two episodes have been postponed from broadcast because he was on them. Not because of anything on the show itself, but rather his involvement with some controversy in the press at the time.

%%* BusCrash

* ObfuscatingStupidity[=/=]ContractualGenreBlindness: From a special on the making of the show, it seems that he's sometimes obligated to give the "stupid answers" that would make the klaxon go off.
* YankTheDogsChain: Has never managed to get a blue whale question right, but finally got one in the L Series, earning bonus points. Unfortunately, the objective of that episode was to get the lowest possible score, so he ended up in last place by a hefty margin.

* HenpeckedHusband: Has one, if she's to be believed. PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler: Of course, her real-life husband is [[http://www.kent-life.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/being_jo_brand_1_1907880?id=1&storyId=1.1642369.1361392914 much more attractive]] than she lets on, and by all accounts, they have a wonderful relationship.]]

* BusCrash

* {{AManIsAlwaysEager}}:

* CallBack: When the topic of discussion in “Random” turned to coconuts, she anecdotally mentioned that they can’t be sent to Fiji via mail. Sandi was utterly confounded why Sally would try in the first place, until she mentioned she did it in [[Series/{{Taskmaster}} Taskmaster]] (during the Series 5 finale).

The regulars and frequent (at least two appearances to their name) guests of the [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] [[Main/ChannelHop 2/4/1]] PanelShow ''Series/{{QI}}'':

* GentlemanSnarker
* SophisticatedAsHell
* StraightGay

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}

* AscendedExtra: Replaced Stephen as presenter as of Series N.
* DeadpanSnarker: With emphasis on the 'deadpan'.

* StraightGay: And, like Fry, completely unafraid of making cracks about it.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}

* DoesNotLikeMen: PlayedForLaughs, of course.

* InsufferableGenius / KnowNothingKnowItAll: He ping-pongs between these two tropes so often, it's difficult to tell whether he's got his facts straight on something or not. (Probably the safest policy on anything he says is to not trust it unless Stephen specifically confirms that it is correct.)
* UpperClassTwit

* NoRespectGuy: Has the eyes of prostitution.
* SelfDeprecation: Anything to do with the Welsh.

* DeadpanSnarker
* TheHyena: He has a very distinctive laugh.
* RefugeInAudacity

* DeadpanSnarker

* GrumpyBear

* TheStoic

* LargeHam

* RefugeInAudacity

!Linda Smith
* ActorExistenceFailure: She died of cancer in 2006.

* PutOnABus: Hasn't been on the show since Series J.
* SelfDeprecation: Occasionally about Ireland.

* VerbalTic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEQ7Pytnpj0 Eh...]]

!Arthur Smith

* CharacterFilibuster: Prone to it
* DeadpanSnarker
* HairTriggerTemper: Has whatever the trivia-quiz version of this is.

!Rory [=McGrath=]
-->Area of expertise: Latin
* InsufferableGenius

!Ronni Ancona
-->Area of expertise: Obscurity
* RavenHairIvorySkin
* WomanOfAThousandVoices

!Vic Reeves
-->Area of expertise: Pirates
* TalkativeLoon
* WaistcoatOfStyle

!Charlie Higson

* TalkativeLoon

[[folder:Panellists first appearing in series F]]

!Hugh Dennis
* PungeonMaster

[[/folder]]

* GrumpyBear

* OopNorth

* OopNorth

!Colin Lane
* FunnyForeigner: Colin is Australian.

!Richard Osman

!Sara Pascoe

* [[{{AManIsAlwaysEager}} A Man Is Always Eager]]/[[{{SelfDeprecation}} Self-Deprecation]]:

!Lucy Porter

* CloudCuckooLander

!Rhod Gilbert
* SustainedMisunderstanding: How much sunlight does Denmark get, again?

!Matt Lucas

!Romesh Ranganathan

!Nish Kumar

!Holly Walsh

* AscendedFanboy

!Alice Levine

!Joe Lycett

* AscendedFanboy: Well, fangirl.