Sunday 11 December 2011

Quite Interesting

Time: sometime last night, post-party

We decided to chill out in front of some of this season's QI and I was immediately reminded of why I'd stopped watching in the first place. Stephen Fry introduced the evening's guests one by one and, one by one, they all turned out to be men. Which is par for the course for it and other panel shows.

It's a damn shame because Quite Interesting is definitely more interesting when there's women panellists. Though I should perhaps say woman panellist, since I've only seen one at a time. Unless we're counting ventriloquist Nina Conti and her female dummy as two...

4 comments:

Tom said...

There have been episodes with more than one female panellist. In the minority, yes, and no, I don't know why.

But I do disagree with the "they're more interesting with female panellists", but that's a matter of opinion.

Tom said...

(If I may add—I mean that I don't think gender is in any way correlated to interestingness.)

Kimberley said...

I'm sure there have been QIs with more than one woman, but didn't think the number would be any way significant. Are you seriously telling me that sexism has nothing to do with the lack of women on QI?

Tom said...

No, I'm saying that I don't see a correlation between gender of panellists and how good a particular QI episode is. :-) I don't know why exactly there aren't more women guests on there; I don't know how they organise who to invite...

Of course they have a handicap in that they chose Alan Davies as a permanent panel member, thus skewing the ratio straight away.