Play: September’s Giggle Beats Comedy Quiz
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On Sunday our comedy quiz night returned to The Stand Comedy Club in Newcastle. Here are the questions, minus our audio round. How would you have fared?
ROUND ONE: IN THE NEWS
- Comedian Bill Kerr died last week aged 92, but which comic was he most famous for starring alongside?
- American comic Mike Epps has been cast as which legendary comedian in a biopic of his life?
- Jim Parsons bagged the Best Actor in a Comedy Series award at this year’s Emmys for his performance in which sitcom?
- Which comedian has been fined after getting caught reading a copy of The Sun while driving?
- After scooping Best Newcomer last year, who was named Foster’s Comedy Award winner at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards last month?
- Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are to revive which of their characters for an animated Disney Channel show later this year?
- Which Beyonce-loving comedian was named Most Likely To Make a Million Quid at this year’s Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards?
- Robin Williams tragically died last month; for which film did he win his only Oscar?
- Which comedian has recently launched an iPhone game, in which players must dodge obstacles get him to his gig on time?
- Who won Dave’s Joke of the Fringe award this year with this gag: ‘I’ve decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust’?
ROUND TWO: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
- Sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie was first broadcast in which decade?
- Ed Helms, of The Hangover and The American Office fame, made his first television appearance as a correspondent on which satirical US news show?
- Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps ran for how many series?
- A one-off episode of which classic sitcom was broadcast in July 2012 as a tie-in with the London Olympics?
- Which female comic had a TV show in the nineties entitled Through the Cakehole?
- British sitcom Plebs is set within which historical civilisation?
- The eponymous characters in animated series Bob’s Burgers and Archer share which comedian as their voiceover artist?
- In the 1974 film Lenny, Dustin Hoffman plays which controversial stand-up?
- The Divine Comedy track Songs of Love was the theme tune to which Ireland/island-set sitcom?
- Which British comedian became the first ever comic to sell 10 million DVDs?
ROUND THREE: SHOWING ME, SHOWING YOU
Stand-up show titles from this year’s Edinburgh Festival – we want you to name the comedian…
- Lord of the Dance Settee
- Rom Wasn’t Built in a Day
- Here Comes Trouble
- Reasons to Kill Yourself
- No Further Action
- The Most Dangerous Man on Saturday Morning Television
- Laughter is the Worst Medicine
- A Controversial Title In Order To Sell Tickets
- Me Neither
- Adam of the Riches
ROUND FOUR: PICTURE ROUND
Ten faces from the world of comedy – we want you to name them…
Think you know your comedy? The Giggle Beats Comedy Quiz takes place every first Sunday at The Stand Comedy Club in Newcastle. The next show is 5 October at 7pm. Entry is £3, and prizes include a three-course meal for two at The Stand bistro, comedy tickets, DVDs and more. Reserve your team by calling The Stand box office on 0844 693 3336.
