The QI Annual: E

by John Lloyd (Editor)

Imagine an edition of "The Guinness Book of Records" selected by a panel of stand-up comedians. This work is packed with original contributions from Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Bill Bailey and other regular guests on the show, with games to play at home, puzzles, cartoon strips, mini-encyclopaedias, how-to diagrams and masses of QI facts. If you want to read Julian Clary's poetry about the Queen, Roger Law's musings on flatulent kangaroos, or have often wondered how you might make a waterproof apron out of a whale's foreskin, your Christmas gift dilemma has just been solved. Warning: very silly indeed. Will offend dullards, whales and parents in no particular order.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Comedy

98 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is an English television and radio comedy producer and writer. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Spitting Image, Blackadder and QI. He is currently the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity.

Reviews

[Richard Vince · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although ostensibly 'just' an annual, there is a lot in here. interesting and funny, it only loses out because nothing can quite replicate the best aspect of the show which is the dialogue between clever, funny people. this is more monologues.

[Leo · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Courtney Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the first QI annual I received for Christmas. It's stuffed with information about all things beginning with E and can be dipped in and out of at will. The show does lose something in translation to the page (the spontaneity and banter between guests), but the annuals are still good fun. Shame they don't do them any more. My favourite sections in this edition are "Erics Through The Ages", "Experiments... you can do at home", "The Engineer Simulator", "Escoffier v. Mitchell" and the recurring "European Languages" and "Europroverbs" bits. As you can probably tell, this is my favourite of the three QI Annuals I've read.

[Alexa]

The QI Annual 2008 by John Lloyd (2007)

[Steve Mitchell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Has its moments with some real belly laughs but not a patch on the show

[Adrian Allen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent

[Hisham El-far · Rating 4 out of 5]

The QI "E" Annual.

A fun and typical Annual with a QI twist.