The QI Elves are the researchers who make QI and No Such Thing As A Fish. The four regular presenters of Fish—James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber—are all QI Elves.
The nickname "elves" was invented by Stephen Fry, after Santa's elves, who do most of the work but are hardly seen. Similarly, the QI Elves do all the research and question writing for QI, but never make on-screen appearances (with the exception of Anna who made a cameo appearance onscreen in the episode "Procrastination" of the P series).
While there are many current and former elves, only members of QI staff who have appeared on NSTAAF and/or International Factball are listed below. This list does not include non-Elf guests, who have their own page.
Elves by First Appearance[]
- Molly Oldfield: 4 appearances, first appeared in Episode 6: No Such Thing As One Direction in North Korea
- Alex Bell: 41 appearances, first appeared in Episode 8: No Such Thing As A Swear Word on the Moon
- Anne Miller: 23 appearances, first appeared in Episode 10: No Such Thing As A Soggy Monk
- Freddy Soames: 2 appearances, first appeared in Episode 14: No Such Thing As A Dirty Pair of Jeans
- Jack Burke: 1 appearance, International Factball: Cameroon v Chile
- John Mitchinson: 1 appearance, International Factball: Greece v Japan
- John Lloyd: 7 appearances, first appeared in Episode 17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon in a Football Stadium
- Stevyn Colgan: 1 appearance, Episode 119: No Such Thing As 4D Surgery
- Piers Fletcher: 1 appearance, Episode 136: No Such Thing As A Wolf Diving for Clams
- Justin Pollard 1 appearance, Episode 136: No Such Thing As A Wolf Diving For Clams
- Ed Brooke-Hitching: 2 appearances, first appeared in Episode 138: No Such Thing As Fluff Island
- Alice Campbell Davis: 1 appearance, Episode 186: No Such Thing As Russian Hacking in the Cockroach Election
- James Rawson: 1 appearance, Episode 220: No Such Thing As A Million Dots
- Tara Dorrell
- Leying Lee: 1 appearance, Episode 515: No Such Thing As A Reindeer Stockbroker
- Ethan Ruparelia: 1 appearance, Episode 516: No Such Thing As Zeno’s Harbour
- Manu Henriot
- Lydia Mizon, 1 appearance, Episode 524: No Such Thing As The Grand Old Dug Of Cardiff
- Jack Chambers
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