Stephen Fry

Fry hosted QI's first thirteen alphabetical series, A to M, giving the early programme the atmosphere of an eccentric, welcoming seminar. The research and comic traps belong to a team; his contribution is the amused explanation that turns a confident wrong answer into something worth learning. There is pleasure in the detours as well as the facts. Choose his episodes when you want knowledgeable company and verbal play, rather than a tightly competitive scoring system.