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The British Comedy Quiz

Quiz 361

Alfred J Kipper has written us some very smart questions here, so let's see how smart you are...

1. In the last Porridge episode, Final Stretch, which inmate had Godber sworn to fight, before Fletch intervened with a ploy to stop it happening?

Porridge. Image shows from L to R: Fletcher (Ronnie Barker), Godber (Richard Beckinsale). Copyright: BBC

2. Which of these sitcoms is NOT set in Essex?

3. Who was the hapless chat show host who sat with his head in his hands as guest Stan Boardman told the infamous joke (based on the repetition of what sounded like a naughty word) that got him banned from live TV?

Stan Boardman

4. Which one of these 2010 - 2019 sitcoms made it to a second series?

5. Only Fools And Horses had the last episode of a series specially written to end the sitcom, after David Jason told John Sullivan he was leaving (only for him to change his mind, so the ending of the episode was rewritten and the show carried on). Which series was it?

Only Fools And Horses. Image shows from L to R: Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield), Del (David Jason), Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst). Copyright: BBC

6. 1984 comedy film Comfort And Joy was about the business rivalry between two local...

7. In a Radio 4 interview with Melvyn Bragg, June Whitfield recounted a story of bumping into a well-known comedy star who was hoping not to be recognised, in a side street in London. When she said hello and engaged him in conversation, she realised he'd been trying to disguise himself with a set of comedy vicar's teeth. Who was it?

Terry & June. June Medford (June Whitfield). Copyright: BBC

8. Which of these sitcom characters was NOT a next door neighbour to the lead characters?

9. In a classic sketch from Cook & Moore's Not Only... But Also..., what was the name of the restaurant in the Yorkshire Moors owned by Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling ("not to be confused with Sir Arthur Greeb-Streebling")?

Not Only... But Also.... Image shows from L to R: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore. Copyright: BBC

10. The fictional village of Stackton Tressel is the setting for which of these sitcoms?

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