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Exploring the Comedian: A Comedy Quiz

This quiz explores various aspects of comedy, including notable comedians, comedy styles, and significant comedy events. Test your knowledge on the evolution of stand-up and alternative comedy.

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1 Who played Comedian in the movie Comedian?

2 Who played Comedian in the movie Comedian?

3 Contemporary comedians include Conan O'Brien and ________.

4 Who played Comedian in the movie Comedian?

5 Who played Comedian in the movie Comedian?

6 Who played Comedian in the movie Comedian?

7 Since the late 1980s, a new wave of comedy, called ________, grew in popularity with its more offbeat and experimental style.

8 Andy Kaufman, ________ and Malcolm Hardee.

9 Many comics achieve a cult following while touring famous comedy hubs such as the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, the Edinburgh Fringe, and Melbourne Comedy Festival in ________.

10 This might be through ________ or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • British comedian Tim FitzHigham was the first man to cross the English Channel in a bathtub.
  • Richard Honaker, Bush nominee for U.S. District Judge in Wyoming, washed dishes in a work-study program while studying at Harvard University with future comedian Al Franken.
  • in the 1880s Billy Kersands was the most popular African American comedian in the United States.
  • the low alcohol beer Buckler was taken out of the market in the Netherlands after sales dropped as a result of the negative image created by comedian Youp van 't Hek in 1989.
  • the book Bacon: A Love Story includes jokes about bacon by comedian Jim Gaffigan.
  • Joseph Haines was a well-known London song-and-dance man, comedian, and eccentric in the 17th century.
  • Charlie Williams, one of the first black football players in Britain after the Second World War and later Britain's first well-known black comedian, responded to heckling by saying: "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you".
  • comedian Bill Saluga is the man behind the character Ray Jay Johnson, who is known for the catch phrase "You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay".
  • comedian Nipsey Russell got his start as a car hop at the Atlanta drive-in restaurant The Varsity.
  • comedian Russ Meneve co-founded the "New York Comedians Coalition" in order to negotiate better payment for New York's comedians.
  • Edwin "Big Ed" Wilkes, a Lubbock, Texas, radio talk show host, and a colleague, Bud Andrews, produced the first albums of the country comedian Jerry Clower.
  • comedian Al Madrigal’s first television series, The Ortegas, was dropped from the Fox Network schedule in 2003 before any episodes were broadcast.
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