We live in a world in which there are two centres of power. One is the Enlightenment State: the world of government, the judiciary, science and academia, in which people are innocent until proven guilty; experts are respected; ideas take precedence over feelings; and trust exists between the principals. But, in the last forty years, a second source of power has arisen that is brash and noisy and .

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.

Discusses about the beginning of the universe, the entire Battle of Waterloo, the real Father Christmas and a quite interesting, relatively new way of knotting a scarf.