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Carpool is a talk show on wheels: in each episode, comedian and TV personality Robert Llewellyn chats with a guest in his car while giving them a lift somewhere. The guest list to date includes a lot of other British comedians and TV personalities - including, of course, everybody else from Red Dwarf, beginning with director Ed Bye in the first episode - not to mention what seems like half of everybody who's ever been on QI (including Stephen Fry but not Alan Davies - yet) - but also names from farther afield, including science popularizers Brian Cox and Ben Goldacre, novelist Cory Doctorow, film director Duncan Jones, producer Stephen Garrett ("Spooks" and "Life on Mars", among others), and respectable Serious Actor (and Red Dwarf fan) Patrick Stewart.
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Oct. 22nd, 2009 10:59 pmABC1 has started showing Series F of QI, the panel game of unexpected answers to apparently-obvious questions. It's running on Tuesday evenings, with episodes remaining available on iView for a fortnight thereafter.
This week's episode included a round on the meanings of nautical signal flags, with the panellists, it being that kind of game, going for laughs by extracting double entendres and suggesting non-nautical situations where each signal might be useful. Which took an unexpected turn on the last flag of the round: the Foxtrot flag, which signifies, and I quote, "I am disabled; communicate with me."
This week's episode included a round on the meanings of nautical signal flags, with the panellists, it being that kind of game, going for laughs by extracting double entendres and suggesting non-nautical situations where each signal might be useful. Which took an unexpected turn on the last flag of the round: the Foxtrot flag, which signifies, and I quote, "I am disabled; communicate with me."
