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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Nature, Science, Comedy, History

4.718.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Melanie Bracewell joins Dan, James and Andy to discuss springtime, snot and Selena Gomez. 

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Fish. Dan here. Hope you're doing well. Just want to let you know

0:11.1

before we get into the show about our guest joining us today. It's one of our favorites.

0:15.3

Someone who's joined us number of times over the last few years. It is New Zealand comedian

0:19.7

Melanie Bracewell.

0:21.4

So Mel, if you haven't heard her on the show before, is someone whose work you may have seen

0:25.6

in other places. Her stand-up clips are always popping up online for any doom scrollers out there.

0:30.9

If you're an Aussie, you'll know her from the TV show she co-hosts called The Cheap Seats.

0:35.3

If you're a fan of Taskmaster and have consumed all the

0:38.2

international formats, you will have seen Mel on series four of the New Zealand Taskmaster.

0:43.6

And if you're a general connoisseur of comedy, it's good to know that she has had a hand in the

0:47.7

writing of such shows as the rebooted Time Bandits and also the absolutely brilliant

0:53.1

Wellington Paranormal, of which she starred in two episodes as well.

0:57.0

But this is all stuff that's on the screen over on the other side of the planet.

1:01.0

What about us in the UK? Well, good news, Mel is in the country right now on a stand-up tour, literally happening as I speak.

1:09.0

So the good news is you can see her in person doing the thing she does best, which is stand-up with her new show called A Little Treat. And if you want to find all the details for that, go to her Instagram. It's at Melanie Bracewell or just Google her name and A Little Treat UK tour. It'll all come up. But basically, as of March 1st, she's going to be in Norwich,

1:28.3

then she's going to be going to Brighton, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds and Cardiff. So it's a limited run, but the tickets are selling fast, so quickly get in now before she heads back over to Oz, where just a heads up for the Aussies and New Zealanders, She's going to be on tour with this show from May.

1:45.8

All the details are online, but for now, where just a heads up for the Aussies and New Zealanders, she's going to be on tour with this show from May.

1:45.4

All the details are online, but for now, enjoy her here, dorking out with me, Andy and James on no such thing as a fish.

1:53.6

On with the show! Hello, and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hobern.

2:20.4

My name is Dan Schreiber.

2:21.8

I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Mel Braswell.

2:25.8

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.

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