British Comedy Guide
The British Comedy Quiz

Quiz 296

Hercules Grytpype Thynne has written up this set of questions featuring several well-known sitcoms and sketch shows.

1. Where was The Brittas Empire set?

2. In Only Fools And Horses, what was the name of the vicious sibling thugs who held people in terror around Peckham?

Name these thugs

3. Who was the star of Home To Roost?

4. What comedy series would you associate with this photograph of a bell?

Liberty Bell

5. Now gone down in the annals of comedy history, which episode of The Goodies did a man die laughing at in 1975?

The Goodies. Image shows from L to R: Bill (Bill Oddie), Tim (Tim Brooke-Taylor), Graeme (Graeme Garden). Copyright: BBC

6. What was the pop song that played over the sitcom titles of Brush Strokes about lovelorn Jacko, played by Karl Howman?

Brush Strokes. Image shows from L to R: Eric (Mike Walling), Jacko (Karl Howman). Copyright: BBC

7. What was the Jennifer Saunders sitcom pilot called, that starred all the Ab Fab cast in totally different parts, as aspiring out-of-work actors?

Name the show

8. Who played Miss Jones in the mid 1970s short lived (2 series) sitcom Miss Jones And Son?

9. In Vic Reeves Big Night Out, what was the name of the Bob Mortimer character who was the nemesis of Vic, and was reciprocally hated by him. He used to come on wearing a black curly wig, raincoat and his trousers rolled up.

Vic Reeves Big Night Out. Image shows from L to R: Bob Mortimer, Les (Fred Aylward), Vic Reeves. Copyright: Channel X

10. In The Green Green Grass, what county did Boycie and Marlene move to from Peckham?

The Green Green Grass. Image shows from L to R: Boycie (John Challis), Marlene Boyce (Sue Holderness). Copyright: Shazam Productions

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