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What comedy icon gifted his joke files to the Library of Congress?

• Frankie Howerd
• Ronnie Barker
• Tommy Cooper
• Bob Hope

Bob Hope's fifty-year commitment to public service has made him one of the most honored and esteemed performers in history. His charitable work and tours on behalf of the armed forces have brought him the admiration and gratitude of millions and the friendship of every President of the United States since Franklin D. Roosevelt. In a recent act of generosity, Hope donated his personal papers, radio and television programs, scripts, and his treasured Joke File to the Library of Congress and the people of the United States. Preserved at the Library is the full record of Bob Hope's extraordinary creativity, his unselfish contributions to his country, and the testimonials and thanks he has received from those whose lives he has enriched.

Source: Library of Congress

Which late-night American sketch comedy TV show debuted in 1975 on NBC?

• Late Show with David Letterman
• Saturday Night Live
• Conan
• The Daily Show

Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The show's premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary American culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members.

Source: Wikipedia

Michael J. Fox was part of which of these 80s sitcoms?

• Diff'rent Strokes
• Full House
• Family Ties
• Alf

Michael J. Fox will always be remembered for his role of Marty McFly in the 1985 classic film "Back to the Future". However, even before his time-traveling adventure, Fox had already established himself as a household name in the U.S. thanks to his role in the NBC sitcom "Family Ties", which he had been starring in since 1982, three years before his journey to 1955. Michael J. Fox’s outstanding portrayal in the show earned him three consecutive Emmy Awards from 1986 to 1988 and a Golden Globe in 1989. Additionally, the show received an Emmy for writing in 1987. With a total of seven seasons, "Family Ties" remains one of the most memorable sitcoms of the 80s and has even been referenced in Marvel’s "WandaVision".

Source: El Pais

Which country singer stars in the 1980 comedy film "9 To 5"?

• Tanya Tucker
• Dolly Parton
• Reba McEntire
• Loretta Lynn

On Dec. 19, 1980, Dolly Parton made her big-screen debut, appearing in the movie "9 to 5". A comedy based on three working women, the film also starred Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dabney Coleman. "9 to 5" was a major box office hit. Parton played one of the leading characters, Doralee Rhodes, a secretary falsely rumored to be sleeping with her boss, Franklin Hart (played by Coleman). The country star also wrote the movie's title track, which became one of the biggest hits of her career.

Source: The Boot

What type of comedy involves exaggerated physical humor?

• Tragicomedy
• Satire
• Slapstick
• Burlesque

Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from the inept use of props such as saws and ladders. The term arises from a device developed for use in the broad, physical comedy style known as commedia dell'arte in 16th-century Italy. The "slap stick" consists of two thin slats of wood, which make a "slap" when striking another actor, with little force needed to make a loud—and comical—sound.

Source: Wikipedia

Ted Danson ran a Boston bar in which classic comedy?

• 30 Rock
• Arrested Development
• Flight of the Conchords
• Cheers

"Cheers" is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. During its run, "Cheers" became one of the most popular series in history and received critical acclaim from its start to its end. Ted Danson plays Sam Malone, a bartender and proprietor of Cheers.

Source: Wikipedia

Which of the following sitcoms is not American?

• Mr. Bean
• Friends
• How I Met Your Mother
• Sex and the City

Mr. Bean is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, and starring Atkinson as the eponymous title character. The sitcom consists of 15 episodes. Based on a character developed by Atkinson while he was studying for his master's degree at the University of Oxford, the series centers on Mr. Bean, described by Atkinson as "a child in a grown man's body", as he solves various problems presented by everyday tasks and often causes disruption in the process.

Source: Wikipedia

What type of comedy is a humorous imitation of something?

• Wordplay
• Parody
• Slapstick
• Situational

A parody is a humorous or mocking imitation of something using the same form. For example, shows like "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show" parody newscasts by doing fake newscasts that look like the real thing. Comedians and comedy writers love parody. Anything in the public eye could be the object of a parody.

Source: Vocabulary.com

Which iconic 50s comedian was known as "The King of Comedy"?

• Lenny Bruce
• George Burns
• Jerry Lewis
• Dean Martin

Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker, and humanitarian. He was one-half of Martin and Lewis, with singer Dean Martin, one of the most popular acts of the 1940s and 1950s, before becoming the highest-paid movie star of the 1950s and 1960s and an early and prominent user of video assist. While nicknamed "The King of Comedy" in the United States, Lewis was also known as "Le Roi du Crazy" in France.

Source: Wikipedia

Which of these comedians created and starred in "Seinfeld"?

• Chris Rock
• Jerry Seinfeld
• Bill Murray
• Steve Carell

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, over nine seasons and 180 episodes. It stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself and focuses on his personal life with three of his friends: best friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander), former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and his neighbor from across the hall, Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). It is set mostly in an apartment building in Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City. It has been described as "a show about nothing", often focusing on the minutiae of daily life. Interspersed in earlier episodes are moments of stand-up comedy from the fictional Jerry Seinfeld, frequently using the episode's events for the material.

Source: Wikipedia

Which iconic comedian famously wore a pork pie hat in many of his films?

• Buster Keaton
• Groucho Marx
• Jerry Lewis
• Charlie Chaplin

The pork pie began to gain further popularity in Britain as a man's hat not long after the turn of the 20th century in the fashion style of the man-about-town, with famous entertainers sporting this style regularly. Silent film actor Buster Keaton converted fedoras into straw boater-like felt pork pies by stiffening their brims with a dried sugar-water solution. This kind of pork pie had a very flat top and similar short flat brim.

Source: Wikipedia

What type of comedy makes fun of serious topics, such as politics?

• Farce
• Satire
• Tragicomedy
• Vaudeville

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm, but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing.

Source: Wikipedia

The 1991 movie "Father of the Bride" starred which comedian?

• Will Ferrell
• Bill Burr
• Steve Martin
• Jerry Seinfeld

Father of the Bride is a 1991 American romantic comedy film starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams (in her film debut), George Newbern, Martin Short, BD Wong, and Kieran Culkin. It is a remake of the 1950 film of the same name. Martin portrays George Banks, a businessman and owner of an athletic shoe company (called Side Kicks), who, when he finds out his daughter is getting married, panics. The film opened to positive reviews and became a box office success. With its success, a sequel, Father of the Bride Part II, was released in 1995. This was Nancy Meyers and Keaton's second of four films together, the first being Baby Boom (1987); the others were Father of the Bride Part II and Something's Gotta Give

Source: Wikipedia

The sitcom "Frasier" was a spin-off of which 1980s show?

• The Facts of Life
• Family Ties
• Cheers
• Full House

Frasier, an American television situation comedy that aired for 11 seasons (1993–2004) on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network. Frasier was a spin-off series centering on Dr. Frasier Crane (played by Kelsey Grammer), a character from the popular NBC sitcom Cheers (1982–93). When the show first aired, Crane was a psychiatrist who, after the failure of his marriage, moved from Boston to his hometown of Seattle, where he hosted an AM radio call-in advice show.

Source: Britannica

Which film is about a doctor that used humor to help his patients?

• Patch Adams
• The Normal Heart
• Concussion
• Awakenings

The movie Patch Adams, released by Universal Pictures in December 1998, is based on a real-life doctor, Hunter “Patch” Adams, M.D., who has been providing humor along with free holistic health care for thousands of patients. Understanding the healing power of laughter, Patch often arrives for appointments in a clown outfit.

Source: Good News Network

"Rhoda" is a spin-off of which TV show?

• Cheers
• Designing Women
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• The Golden Girls

Rhoda is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns starring Valerie Harper that originally aired on CBS for five seasons from September 9, 1974, to December 9, 1978. It was the first spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which Harper reprised her role as Rhoda Morgenstern, a spunky and flamboyantly fashioned young woman seen as unconventional by the standards of her Jewish family from New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

Who stars opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy "Notting Hill"?

• Nicolas Cage
• Hugh Grant
• Jimmy Fallon
• Bill Pullman

"Notting Hill" is a 1999 romantic comedy film directed by Roger Michell. It stars Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, with Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville in supporting roles. The story is of a romance between a British bookseller (Grant) and a famous American actress (Roberts) who happens to walk into his shop in London's Notting Hill district. The decision to cast Hugh Grant as William Thacker was unanimous, as he and Richard Curtis had a "writer/actor marriage made in heaven". Michell said that "Hugh does Richard better than anyone else, and Richard writes Hugh better than anyone else", and that Grant is "one of the only actors who can speak Richard's lines perfectly".

Source: Wikipedia

What comedy routine made Abbott and Costello famous?

• Susquehanna Hat Company
• Jonah and the Whale
• Two Tens for a Five
• Who's on First?

Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work in radio, film, and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and 1950s, and the highest-paid entertainers in the world during the Second World War. Their patter routine "Who's on First?" is considered one of the greatest comedy routines of all time, a version of which appears in their 1945 film The Naughty Nineties.

Source: Wikipedia