British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
The British Comedy Quiz

Quiz 113

You'll need to recall various sitcom actors, characters and locations to be able to get full marks on this week's quiz.

1. Name the character pictured here.

Who is this?

2. Which show is set in a fictional place called Portwenn?

3. What year did Cold Feet start on TV?

Cold Feet. Image shows from L to R: Jenny Gifford (Fay Ripley), Pete Gifford (John Thomson), Karen Marsden (Hermione Norris), David Marsden (Robert Bathurst), Adam Williams (James Nesbitt)

4. Which comedian is associated with the word 'cabadged'?

5. Which show would you associate this cafe with?

Cafe

6. You, Me And Him. Takin' Over The Asylum. There She Goes. Twenty Twelve. Duck Patrol. What links these five comedies?

7. Chesney & Wolfe wrote sitcoms including The Rag Trade, On The Buses and Romany Jones. What first name did they both have?

On The Buses. Image shows from L to R: Stan Butler (Reg Varney), Inspector Blake (Stephen Lewis), Jack Harper (Bob Grant). Copyright: London Weekend Television

8. Spitting Image famously claimed that the brain of which US President was "missing"?

9. What's the name of the company at the centre of sitcom Nearest And Dearest?

Nearest And Dearest. Image shows from L to R: Eli Pledge (Jimmy Jewel), Nellie Pledge (Hylda Baker). Copyright: Granada Television

10. For how many series did Whose Line Is It Anyway? run on Radio 4 before becoming a Channel 4 television hit?

Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Image shows from L to R: Clive Anderson, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Neil Mullarkey, Greg Proops. Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

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