Funny / Big Fat Quiz of the Year

TV series (sort of)

2004 Edition

• You'll be wondering why Jonathan Ross was never on Mock the Week after this one.
  (re. the "superbug" epidemic)
  Jimmy: Is the superbug referred to as (reads Simon Pegg's Long List) MI5, MFI, MSI, MDRI...
  Simon: It's one of them.
  Jonathan: Does the MFI stand for "Motherf*cker's Incurable"?

2006 Edition

• While asking for the proper name for the full face veil, Jimmy warned the contestants to "keep the casual racism to a minimum". Russell and Noel wrote "peep scarf".
  Jimmy: Now, Jonathan and Cat have gone for the only slightly less racist...
  Jonathan: ...The post box.
• One question involves guessing who the mystery guest is, and Jonathan nails it in one - because the guy, Guy Goma, already appeared on Jon's show, for being mistakenly put on a live news show as an Apple executive when he'd originally walked in for a job interview. Ironically this was far more research than that new team put in...
• Then it goes even further after the commercial break when Jimmy has somehow been replaced by Guy as host. Then Jimmy chases him off, after which all the panelists agree that Guy was a far better host, and even rally the audience behind them!

2007 Edition

• Russell and Noel answered a question with Hitler Diaries. To avoid people thinking that they were endorsing Hitler, they also drew a picture of Hitler condemning him. They condemned him by writing 'Bad, Bad Hitler'.
• Thom Yorke's brief appearance. All of it.
• David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade dismantling Frank Skinner's joke about the Queen.

2008 Edition

• While everyone else praises the children of Mitchell Brook Primary School, Sean Lock goes off on a rant berating their acting abilities. He then recounts a story of being hit in the face with a broom by a nun after being in a play himself as a child.
• Sean Lock and James Corden answer a question (what was unusual about a pregnancy) with 'It was an abomination'. The correct answer is that it was male pregnancy. They manage to convince Jimmy to give them the point.
• Setting the tone for seasons to come, Claudia Winkleman on newsreader Jon Snow:
  Claudia: That is porn for me. That's the dream. In a second, like that, out by the bins (pushing motions) *honk*honk*! (audience breaks down hard, Stunned Silence from Jimmy)
  Jimmy: I'm sorry, do the 'by the bins' thing again because my wank bank wasn't on... [...] Davina, Claudia, would you double team Jon Snow?
  Davina: Oh, yeah.
  Claudia: Of course.
• Speaking of Davina McCall, the unfortunate gesture of hers that Dara O'Brien started milking (we're not sorry) into a Running Gag:
  "Hey you! Get that cock out of your mouth for one second..."

2009 Edition

• Rob Brydon's "small man in a box" voice, especially when he's ranting about being treated like a trained monkey who is prodded to do the voice, and mid-rant, Claudia Winkleman (his partner) pokes him in the arm and he immediately starts speaking in the voice.
• After Jimmy makes a joke, Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand feign outrage and walk off the set. Jimmy's response?
  "Get back here, I've got photos of both of you!"
• Rob Brydon mocking Jimmy's laugh - with Claudia Winkleman busting out a horse noise out of nowhere.
  Russell Brand: I'm disappointed that when Claudia said - "I'm gonna do an horse" - I perked up!
  • And capped off by David Mitchell's rant.
    David: We cannot get into a position where none of us being able to laugh! It's victimizing the audience and taking the piss out of them as we all sit here in stony silence. (Cue Carr's staccato laughter) It's an expression of joy!
• Jonathan Ross pressuring David Mitchell and Charlie Brooker to dance to "Poker Face".
  • And failing utterly.
  • David's reaction to the pressure:
    David: I'm hired to sit here and be sarcastic, not dance around like some cunt.
    Jimmy: That some cunt's name is Jonathan, leave him alone.
• The second Mitchell Brook Primary School play was about the VMAs and Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech. Russell happened to have actually been there, and he said that when Kanye did that, he thought, "Yes! YOU take the fucking death threats this year!"
  • And then there was his laughter of delight at seeing the child playing him.
  • And Rob bitching that they shouldn't ask questions if one of the panelists was actually there.

2010 Edition

• "Oh, fuck sake! I'm having a stroke! That's so embarrassing!"
• Richard Ayoade, when asked by Jimmy Carr how he was doing, provided a short story about how, while he was fine, he was having issues with the hot water unit at home, which was bothering him a little. Jimmy begins to make light of the non sequitur, causing Richard to deadpan:
  Richard: I'm sorry, I just made the mistake of genuinely responding to your question.
  • And he manages to stay completely deadpan while saying that the problem might be that he replaced his water tank with a bean bag.
• When Jimmy asks Jonathan Ross what he's doing, Ross jokes about taking over Carr's shows on Channel Four and Carr gets the funniest faux-Oh, Crap! look on his face.
• When Noel mentions that he hasn't read any Harry Potter books, Jonathan replies that Noel appears in the books as Severus Snape.
  Noel: Was I good?
  Jonathan: You are very good in them.
• "Why do you think it's weirder throwing a live wasp than a nightmare?"
• The Say-What-You-See resulting in Jimmy and Michael McIntyre arguing over the pronunciation of the word "Apple".

2011 Edition

• David Walliams and Miranda Hart's grand celebration of their first point. About 53 minutes into the episode. They ended up with a final score of four.
  • Made even more delicious by how close they came one time.
  David: The assassination of Noel Edmonds. [...] They knew it was him, 'cos he had a little beard, and then Obama said 'shoot him'.^note It was about the death of Osama bin Laden.

80s Edition - 2012

• When the "Say What You See" puzzle inexplicably ends with a man's butt^note The answer was "you cannot be serious" (Ewe Can Knot Bee Siri Arse), the guys start discussing what happens to men's bits as they age, leading to this golden line as Jason Manford consults his smartphone:
  Siri: Searching the web for what color are Jonathan Ross' bollocks.

90s Edition - 2012

• When Jimmy asked why Domino's saw record sales on 17 July 1994^Answerthe FIFA World Cup Finals, where Brazil beat Italy 3-2 on penalties, Jack answered with, "The invention of stuffed crust".
  • Phill Jupitus' initial response to the same question was "what year did the Martians land?". He then clarified that he "did a lot of drugs in the 90s".
  • Also, Phil Jupitus and Alan Davies never learned how the tablet and stylus worked, leading to all their answers showing up as a massive squiggle done in one unbroken line. Phill says he couldn't get the hang of the pen, which he speculates was left behind by our Martian overlords.
  Jimmy: (to his earpiece) Can we have someone from the British Museum to look at Phil Jupitus' handwriting?
• The entire Mr. Blobby segment must be seen to be believed.
  Jimmy: Right, it's the final question of The Big Fat Quiz of the '90s, and to ask it, we're honored to have one of the decade's most iconic stars. Please welcome — apologies, Jack — Mr. Blobby!
  Jack: Oh fu—
  • The sheer terror on Jack Whitehall's face the entire time is both amazing and hilarious, considering he had stated his fear of Mr. Blobby earlier in the show, prompting Blobby to dive for Jack when he first came onstage.
    Jack Whitehall: How the fuck were you allowed near kids?
    (Later)
    Jimmy: Jack, Denise, tell me what you answered?
    Jack: (Stammering in fright) Titanic, Bridget Jones's Diary, and Oasis, and please can he leave.
  • And it gets worse when Mr. Blobby goes offstage to fetch the trophy, as Jack then becomes paranoid about where he might be.
    • When Blobby comes back out to award the trophy, he pulls a massive Face Fault, losing an eye covering in the process.
• Dara Ó Briain acting out a girl from Babe Station receiving odd requests as if someone has called and demanded she do exercises from a basic acting class.
  • They pick the worst possible time to Call-Back to this... the Mr Blobby segment. Phill Jupitus quips about Jimmy looking like he's on "Blobstation", which leads to Mr Blobby touching himself VERY inappropriately, to much laughs (and some regret, we're sure).
• Claudia Winkleman's impression of Damien Hirst.
• Jack and Denise's river dancing. "I can't tell whether that's wee or sweat".
• One for the Mock the Week fans as Dara pretty much ports his shtick of breaking into an impression to illustrate the topical persons' point of view into this show. Until they get to his Nelson Mandela voice...
  • "No, prison was fine."
• Dara's impression of John Selwyn Gummer's daughter going insane because of eating beef infected with BSE. "DO YOU LOVE ME NOW, DADDY? DO YOU LOVE ME NOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW?!"
• Alan, Phill, and Dara doing impressions of Madonna's breasts. "Mummy, don't put the pointy one on, we don't like it!"
• Claudia saying that she fancied Jason and Howard from Take That because she figured that "they'd be grateful".

00s Edition - 2012

• The team name of "Big Gay Al & His Big Scottish Pal".
• Jimmy's laugh is mocked again, this time by Noel Fielding.
• This joke at the start of the Music section of the quiz:
  Jimmy: There was a lot of violence in and around the UK Garage scene. I was actually in So Solid Crew for a while until MC Harvey thought I was getting too close to Lisa Maffia, and I was like, "What's poppin', rude boy?". He just flipped into flip mode, blazed me, called me a perpetrator. I explained that, while she's some nangash, I was just flossin' my clique, spittin' my flows, but he wanted to jack me. So, I gave him a couple of tumps, still thugging, can't even touch me, for real.
• At one point, the camera switches over to Noel, who is suddenly wearing an eyepatch.
  Jimmy: Have you got an eyepatch on?
  Noel: No.
  • Later on Noel switches his eyepatch from one eye to the other whilst aggressively interrogating Jimmy about whether an answer was in fact correct.
• Kevin Bridges and Alan Carr's answer to "How did this man cause bad breath, nausea and constipation?".
• Alan Carr's reasoning for answering "Nangashing" to a question about Nasty Nick's Catchphrase in Big Brother
  Alan: I couldn't even think. It's about 10 years ago, love.
  [Richard and Noel start cracking up]
  Jimmy: It is about 10 years ago. That's pretty much the nature [Richard and Noel laugh harder] of the Big Fat Quiz of the Noughties, I really should have pointed this out.
  • On top of this, Richard and Noel's answer of "Help me kill again".
  Noel: What, he's called 'Nasty Nick' because he cheated on Big Brother?
  Richard: Even Goebbels isn't called 'Nasty Goebbels'!
• Sarah Millican scores a rare knee-slapper, and Kevin Bridges may secretly be Captain Obvious:
  Jimmy: In 2005 what did Lord Alan Sugar say would be "dead, finished, kaput, gone within a year"?
  Sarah: Was it the thesaurus?
  (later)
  Kevin: The year 2005 calendar.
• Richard and Noel's answer to "Who managed to set a new world record after spending 71 days crying in the B&Q?" ^note The correct answer was Ellen MacArthur; the B&Q was a sailing ship, with which she made the fastest solo round-the-world trip.
  Richard: [completely deadpan] Was it your mum? No, seriously, was it your mum?
  • For the other two teams' responses, David and Sarah put Henry VII as a guess, leading to David asking whether the question itself was wrong, while Kevin and Alan put "Who gives a shit?" (The funny part is Kevin did know the answer, but Alan wouldn't let him put it.)

2012 Edition

• Jack Whitehall and James Corden randomly order pizza during the middle of the show and they come prepared with a bottle of wine and wine glasses.
• #susanalbumparty. The guests spend ages riffing off that. Jack and James put down instead #subolovesitinthearse and Richard Ayoade put down #bemoreracist.
  • Richard's comment about the real answer: "What bums aren't anal? There's a redundancy within the hashtag."
• Jack and James' answer for 'What does Obama do on a Saturday morning?' They're so embarrassed by it when it's about to be revealed, Jack crouches down in front of the screen to block it. Then when Russell sees what they put he helps Jack hide it. The answer, by the way: put on a condom and have a posh wank.

90s Edition - 2013

• The photos of the guests from the 90s, especially Lee Mack and Jimmy's photos.
• Jonathan Ross saying "Ferrero Rocher".
• The look on Richard Ayoade's face when Jimmy revealed the losers will be Covered in Gunge (with the very same gunge machine used in Noel's House Party).
  Richard: I will kill you in your sleep.

2013 Edition

• As a Call-Back to the pizza from the previous year, Jonathan Ross brought a turkey to the studio and made sandwiches. He also re-gifts his unwanted Christmas gifts, which happen to be Jimmy Carr DVDs. Noel opens a DVD case, fills it with turkey, and gives it to a member of the audience, calling it a perfect gift.
• Kristen Schaal has to explain "cake farts" to all the other contestants.
• Jack and Dara describing Deal or No Deal to Kristen Schaal:
  Jack: Basically, this guy opens all these boxes, and in one of them is a severed head...
  Dara: And then you just gotta deal with it or not deal with it.
• Dara putting on Noel's massive black fur coat. Someone points out that they end up looking like two people who've just had a really awkward one-night stand at Glastonbury.
• A question about Kanye West somehow leads to Jonathan Ross and Kristen Schaal trying to re-enact Bound 2. With Dara as the bike.
  Jonathan: She wasn't that into it...
• The panel discusses the invoked Unfortunate Implications of the 2013 hit single, "Blurred Lines".
  Noel: What's this song called, "No means yes"?
  Jimmy: Might as well be, Noel. Basically the conte- the idea is "Wha- what was that, 'no'? Eh, whatever.
  Richard: It's really ambiguous when someone says "I don't want you to have sex with me." What do they mean?
  [Then, after watching a segment of the clip]
  Jack: What a prick.
• The entire panel takes it in turns to roast hard-man character actor Danny Dyer on his rather tight pair of jeans, all while he attempts to read out a really "poxy fucking question".
  Danny Dyer: [for the third or fourth time] I'm the new landlord of the Queen Vic!
  Richard: We know! Bonnie Langford wants her top back!
  Danny Dyer: Alright, listen, [reading from the card] Wetherspoons are opening up a new pub in a questionable location, can you remember where? I couldn't give one fuck at this point!

2014 Edition

• Jimmy asks for the title of the tune Dolly Parton played on the saxophone at Glastonbury earlier in the year, and suggested it was probably "a saxophone song".^note  "Yakety Sax", to be precise. The ever pedantic-and-proud-of-it David Mitchell takes issue with his use of the term "song" to describe something played by a saxophone.
  David: Saxophones can't sing.
  Jimmy: Oh yes they can!
  David: No no no, they can't. "Singing" is- is the verb for the- the human musical noises that have words in them.
  Jimmy: (spends a few seconds taking this in) Well, okay, I'd like to formally apologise.
  David: If you can find a saxophone song, then you must have found a talking saxophone. In which case, fucking hell, let's give up on this, there's a talking saxophone in the world!
• The cast of The Inbetweeners ask the teams to identify a singer whose first name is "Cuban slang for 'clunge'".^note The answer being Conchita Wurst. Melanie Brown (AKA Mel B. of The Spice Girls) is confused by the term "clunge", leading to a digression on Unusual Euphemisms for the female and male reproductive organs, ending with Mel asking Kevin Bridges if he has a clunge, and Kevin replying that he has a "clunge plunger".
  Sarah Millican: Get out me clunge!
  • And then Sarah follows it up with sound effects - starting with the simple finger-mouth 'pop', then someone brings up 'honk' for a different part of the anatomy, and then Sarah upgrades it to 'novelty horn'.
• Jon Snow dancing to "All About That Bass".
• Mel B briefly interrupts by asking "Can I ask an audience member?" Cue Jimmy going into a silent but hilarious Freak Out while her back's turned.
• Just about the entire cast making fun of Mel B. in Spice Girls lyrics.

Anniversary Quiz - 2015

• Russell and Noel throughout the entire evening. How many questions did it take them before the quiz went Off the Rails? One.
  • During the first answers, Russell asks the audience for help, while Noel brings a random audience member on stage to replace him. Hilarity Ensues.
• "I do not look like a ventriloquist doll!"
• After Chico of The X Factor fame asks the group a question, Jack Whitehall mentions that he texted Chico several years ago, but got no response. He tries again during the quiz, and Chico texts back. Cue Jack exploding with happiness. Doubles as a CMOA.
• A Dalek (a friggin' Dalek!) asked the final question. And then it exterminated Jimmy.
  Jack Whitehall: Is this a male Dalek or a female Dalek?
  Jimmy Carr: It's... it's hard to tell, I don't know where to look.
  Jack: 'Scuse me, are you a male Dalek or a female Dalek?
  Dalek: There is no such thing as gender in the Dalek world.
  Jack: Right. Good. Okay.
  Russell Brand: Don't matter that much in the human world!
  Jack: You should work more outside of Doctor Who. Have you had any offers?
  Dalek: Many.
  Jimmy: Yeah, he's on 8 Out of 10 Cats next week, it's gonna be huge.
  Dalek: I will exterminate ALL THE CATS!
• When Russell said he shook Ed Balls' hand "all clicky wrist", Jimmy says he sounds like something out of A Clockwork Orange. So Russell breaks out into a bit of the old Nadsat. Funny enough. Then there's Jack's response.
  Jack: It sounds wonderful, but I'm gonna have to have that Google translated into posh.
• Noel's button man mask. Whether it's him or Russell wearing it.
• "So drunk, I tried to fuck voicemail."
• Something between this and Nightmare Fuel when Jimmy introduces a segment by recounting that "the fox hunting ban went into force in 2004", which triggers a horrific and heart-stopping Skyward Scream from Jack. Right after that though...
  Jimmy: I find it hard to sympathise, they're just small-minded inbred creatures that don't know what they're doing, and worst of all, they love hunting foxes.
  (Jack throws something at Jimmy)

2015 Edition

• All the other panelists (particularly Rob) arguing with Jimmy over why Richard and Greg should have gotten a point for answering 'peer pressure' (question being 'why did David Cameron stick his junk inside a dead pig's mouth').
  • And then the other two teams deliberately answered a question wrong in the next round so they could get the point.
• And Jon Snow dances again, this time to Hotline Bling by Drake.
• Rob trying to take over hosting duties.
• "Yeah, it was, but you don't get any points, cause fuck you, dude!"
  • "I haven't been able to concentrate since you did the 'fuck you, dude' thing. It genuinely turned me on, Jimmy."
• The Running Gag of bad dong.
• Charles Dance's reading of the sex scene from List of the Lost.
• Nadiya, the series 6 The Great British Bakeoff winner, telling the contestants that she didn't actually make the snacks she brought with her, so if they don't like it, she doesn't care.
• There's a new category for online news (read: Memetic Mutation), and the final question with a mystery guest has said guest bringing that dress into the studio. Yes, THAT dress. Cue the black-blue-white-gold argument infecting all the players.
• David pointing out that technically all humans are edible since we're made of meat led to a tangent that ends with the panelists concluding that they would eat Greg first. Greg's only objection is he wouldn't be very good meat because he's not in good shape.

Quiz of Everything 2016

• Tit up.
• The freakin' dinosaur coming on and just mucking shit up.
• The Foodfight! which really took the show Off the Rails.
  • Richard's response to it is just as good.
  Richard: You're animals!
• Richard mocking Jonathan's clothes. Note that Richard's sitting next to Noel.
• The Running Gag of Richard and Noel being husband and wife, as well as Mel being Jack's mother, and Richard and Noel babysitting Jack:
  Richard: We're giving Mel a night off.
  Mel: I love it when the Ayoades come round...
  Noel: I'm gonna make Jack lick me in the ass.
• Jon Snow's best dance yet, this time to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• A question about the iconic "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba led to Mel briefly giving her rendition of the bridge, and sounding uncannily like Julie Andrews.

2016 Edition

• Things almost get confusing when Mel Giedroyc's in the show and one question is about that other Mel, Mel B (who's also been on the show), and the photo just shows Mel appearing on Bear Grylls' show, except both of them are standing really close and hunched over and retching for some reason. Jimmy's only clue is "it's not sexual, but y'know, for some people out there". Mel Giedroyc's reaction to this is something to behold.^note It's about Mel B having to pee on Bear's arm due to jellyfish stings.
• Roughly an hour in, Mel reveals that she has brought a small picnic to share with her teammate Romesh, including some brandy in a water bottle, and two blankets. She cheerfully shares with David Mitchell when he asks, as well.
• Jimmy having a go at Romesh's Dad, only to discover he is dead.
  Jimmy: How did your Dad feel about you...?"
  Romesh: He said, Romesh, I've been dead for three years.

Quiz of Everything 2017

• The photoshop question does album covers this time, and a pic of Adele's 23 with Jimmy's face on it is mistaken by Noel as "an advert for impotence". And one of Simon & Garfunkel, with Art shown very close and directly behind Paul, has Katherine Ryan and Aisling Bea calling it "Bummed 2 Death".
  Jimmy: The only thing better than that answer is how pleased you are with it.
• Despite the fact that Noel Fielding, he of the outlandish outfits is on the show, they make fun of Jonathan's outfit. In their defense, his outfit looks eerily similar to Finn's from The Force Awakens.

Quiz of Everything Episode 1

• Jonathan and Bob's team name: One and a Half Condoms
• The question where they have to fill in the blanked nouns of a famous quote from Queen Elizabeth I is chock full of these instead of the correct words.
  Kristen: I may have the body of a weak ginger woman, but I have the heart and inbreeding of a king.
  Bob: ...but I have the feet and penis of a king.
• Joey Essex's...interesting description of Sigmund Freud.
• After Mel nearly gave away her answer one too many times:
  Jimmy: Where did you learn to whisper, in a helicopter?
  Kristen: (extended cackle) That's really good... (Beat) I've been in a helicopter so I got it right away.
• Mel constantly gushing over Jon Snow.
  • Who, by the way, danced hilariously to The Village People's Y.M.C.A.
• The contestants convincing Fred Siriex to give out a Nebuchadnezzar^note  equivalent of 20 bottles of champagne to audience members.
  • On that note, just how difficult and innuendo-laden Jonathan and Fred tried to take the cork off.
  • And Bob stole the Methuselah^note eight bottles worth bottle.
  • During answer time, most of the players stumble over the pronunciation of Nebuchadnezzar. Even more amusingly, Mel and Kristen come up with Bethesda, and Jon thinks the biggest one is Kardashian. ^note The real names are (from the biggest) Nebuchadnezzar, Balthazar, Methuselah, Jeroboam, Magnum.
• The answer to life, the universe, and everything is champagne and doughnuts.
• "And then I was twerking in David Mitchell's face."
• The fact that Claudia, who hosts a series centered around dancing, got the dancing question wrong.

Quiz of Everything Episode 2

• Richard Ayoade's rant. He proceeds to insult everything and everyone.
  • "Ancient Fucks"
• "You know I don't like fun."
• Noel's angry because Jimmy inadvertently stole his joke.
  Jimmy: So the question is, what are Richard Ayoade's classmates doing there?
  Noel: I've just written that as a joke! Fuck you, Jimmy!
• "Jimmy, you were at that [Halloween] party. You went as a cyborg. No costume needed...year before, you went as a puppet. No costume needed. Year before, [Roger] Federer. No costume needed."
• Jon Show. Love Shack. 'Nuff said.
  Noel: Jon Snow's got enough in the bank that he can do that and he's still cooler than the ancient fucks.
• Noel's always got some hilariously random answer up his sleeve, but this one is one for the ages:
  Jimmy: I asked what can you do aged five that you can not do in the House of Commons unless you're the Chancellor delivering a budget. Noel, Richard, what've you got?
  Noel: We put 'burp in a pencil case'.
  Jimmy: You think the Chancellor, when delivering a budget, is allowed to burp in a pencil case?
  Noel: Yeah, and then zip it up and leave it for later on.

Quiz of Everything Episode 3

• Romesh banged Dara's mom.
• The dig at the Brexit vote.
• "How is Noel the serious one?"
• Dara is offended that the camera cut to him after Jimmy made a crack about the Catholic church pedophilia coverup.
• When showing a picture of a puppet head:
  Noel: Jimmy! That's a passport photo!
  Jimmy: That is not my passport photo.
  • The really funny thing is the puppet head actually did kinda look like Jimmy.
• "Shit-ney Speared."
• The constant jokes about Eddie's horrible handwriting.
• Upon finding out Jimmy would take Dara and Chelsea's answer "I Like Big Butts" as a substitute for "Baby Got Back"
  Romesh: ARE YOU SHITTING ME! ARE YOU GENUINELY SHITTING ON MY FACE?
• Parental Anal Handy
• Joey Essex said Winston Churchill reminded him of Oddjob

Quiz of the Year 2017

• Big Narstie mixing up whether David Mitchell was on Peep Show or The IT Crowd. And, later, mistaking Noel Fielding for Nigel Planer.
  Noel: He's about 90!
• When Jimmy asks for a photo of Kim Jong-Un, the production crew puts up a photo of Michael McIntyre.
• Noel's dressed up as the podium.
• Jimmy arguing with Big Narstie over what the 'Mobot' (aka the Mo Farah sign) looked like. Twice. The second time ended with Jimmy giving the two-finger salute. Also twice.
  Big Narstie: That's the Jimmy Carr sign!
• "Someone in Bristol farting is not a massive story!"
• One of the questions was about Greggs' Advent calendar replacing Jesus in the Nativity scene with a sausage roll.
  Roisin: He's a Jewish baby being played by a pork sausage.
  Jimmy: Being played by?!
  Roisin: I mean, open up the auditions, you can't just give it to a sausage roll.
  Jimmy: Open up the auditions? What do you think, a steak bake should have got it?
• Jon Snow is back with a news report on what one of the players thinks is called "I killed a man". The correct answer? "Look What You Made Me Do".
• An animatronic polar bear asked the final question. Big Narstie thought it was a real one for a hot second.
  • Also, the reason they used the Collins English dictionary to determine the word of the year, and not the Oxford English dictionary? Because the polar bear went to Cambridge.

Quiz of Everything 2018

• In the glaring absence of Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding, all the teams take it upon themselves to provide the bullshit answers in equal amounts. Even Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, who are practically the Straight Man team by default.
• For some reason Jonathan brings two real pugs onto the stage, one of which ends up dragging Miranda off stage.
• Jimmy misremembers a fact from QI about freak shows shaving bears to make 'Pig-Faced Ladies', and claims that they shaved bears to act as bearded ladies. The teams proceed to mock him mercilessly.
• "Alexander Graham Bell rang his assistant, Thomas Watson, and said 'Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.' So I think it was a booty call."
• "That's not Christian Slater! That's Jimmy in a fucking pair of glasses!"
• They ended up asking a question that Jonathan knew because he was the one that filmed it. ^note It was a question about a 4-year-old Bruno Mars doing an Elvis Presley impersonation, which Jonathan had filmed as part of a documentary about Elvis impersonators.
  Jimmy: We didn't think you'd remember.
• A question about Dracula leads to Vic attempting a Dracula impression and repeating "I am the Count" - but due to his attempted accent it sounds like something else...
• Quentin Tarantino's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Quiz of the Year 2018

• David noting the irony of naming his team 'The Internet Is A Mistake' when a significant portion of viewers are going to be watching it on the internet.
  "And I'd like to just say to those people on the internet: fuck off."
• David Mitchell's lovingly elaborate explanation of how the KFC chicken shortage came about.
• Claudia Winkleman seems a bit more... vocal than usual this year.
  Jimmy: Why did an advert for Mother's Day afternoon Queen Tea cause controversy in March?
  Claudia: Ngaah!
  Jimmy: Also who let the seagull into the room?
• Noel Fielding on the answer to the most requested song on Alexa (none other than Baby Shark):
  Noel: That is the death of music.
  Claudia: They just put down Shark Song! We put down Baby Shark!
  Richard: The child clearly went through the whole Shark family! It was baby Shark, then Mummy... The whole song's a ripoff of Five Finger Family anyway!
  Noel: All right, that's IT! (smashes his mug on the floor)
• Jimmy earns his Pungeon Master medal with this line:
  A Sporty and Scary Posh Ginger Baby is what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be expecting.
• Claudia's habit of goading Jimmy for the right answer proves to be the first thing to really tick off Noel.
  Noel: This is the only one we know, don't just give it to them!
  • In the end, Noel gets his revenge by baiting Claudia with the wrong answer.
• The Jon Snow question leads up to Jon dancing to George Ezra's 'Shotgun' with a hat and fan. They might well be his own.
• The final answer involves a bunch of cosplayers as Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, and one of them gets to present the trophy to the winners - unfortunately it's The Incredible Hulk, who starts Hulking Out and destroys the trophy! the podium! and the set!
• David Mitchell's rant about Dr. Donald Blake being an acceptable answer to Thor's real name.
• "We put baby shark, but I said incest! That's the weirdest sentence I've ever said."
• Speaking of rare sentences: Jimmy Carr rubs the Baby Trump Blimp's nipple.

Quiz of Everything 2019

• Katherine Ryan is back, and cosplaying as "Quiz Jenner" (basically Kris Jenner but less bronze).
  I love the Kardashians; they're a matriarchy of shape-shifting sisters who destroy men or turn them into women.
• Big Narstie consulting Siri during the quiz leads to Jimmy confiscating his phone, but then...
  Jimmy: Why do you have two phones?... I guess... one for business and one for bitches, am I right?
  Sandi Toksvig: One more thing Big Narstie and I have in common...
• Jon Snow ups his game again, this time dancing with a glass of chocolate milkshake in hand. No prizes for guessing what song it is.
• Jimmy talking about his wife not liking him reenacting a scene from Psycho. Sandi gets up and shakes his hand, while Big Narstie is in Stunned Silence.
  While she's in the shower, I secretly, without her knowledge, fuck my dead mum.
• One of the guest questioners is Dr Ranj from Strictly Come Dancing, who may have earned a guest appearance on Mock the Week after this:
  That is an especially fetching bomber (jacket) you have... (to the audience) I know, brown person said 'bomber', don't panic...
• One question about a wedding tradition started by none other than Queen Victoria leads to someone answering "throwing rice", which turned out to be wrong (it's the bride wearing white, actually), whereupon Jimmy points out its actual origin - a pagan symbol of fertility, specifically meant to be reminiscent of the male human body expelling something white in the same manner. Of all the things, this one becomes a Running Gag.
  Katherine: Rice tastes a lot better than what actually comes out. I move to change that.
  Big Narstie: Stay away from Sugar Puffs and asparagus.
  Katherine: Oui.

Quiz of the Year 2019

• Noel Fielding taping a banana to his protest sign using gaffa tape from the floor, and a banana he had on him, then later throwing the banana at Jimmy for not giving him points.
• Roisin Connaty's distinctive pronunciation of "memory", which forms a Running Gag throughout the show. Even she gets in on it!
  Jimmy: Roisin, do you remember what the big song from Cats is?^note The song is, of course, "Memory".
  Roisin: Yes, I do. Because I have a great memoway.
• Everyone discussing ordering pizza becomes everyone placing a drinks order, the next round they all have pineapple tequilas and Dara gets a pizza. Then at the next round, Maya brings out bread and meat to make sandwiches.
• Noel and Richard arguing with Jimmy on whether you could actually break the internet or not.

Quiz Of The Decade 2020

• Alan Carr and Joe Lycett answering that what the Rock & Roll hall of fame turned into jerky was Cliff Richard's dick.
• Jimmy Carr trying to dance to 'Watch Me'
  Jimmy: Am I going to be on Strictly Claudia, am I doing alright.
  Claudia: Yeah you are, for a week or two.
• Claudia asking for a blanket result in Alan and Joe revealing they were going to 'age' themselves throughout the show but didn't so as to not mock Jonathon. They then hand out their props.
• Jon Snow dancing to 'Get Lucky'. Complete with Daft Punk helmet and sparkly blazer.
• When Jimmy cracks a joke about Alan, Joe retorts "You leave my wife alone!".

Quiz of the Year 2020

• First-time player James Acaster briefly gets into an altercation with Jimmy over one question about someone doing something embarrassing on Zoom - he immediately thought it was the guy who was seen masturbating since that one was obviously more scandalous, but it was actually the guy critiquing someone else's apartment. Then again this IS an English show...
• Thanks to the popularity of Tiger King, they're able to get their hands on Carole Baskin to ask one of the questions, which is simply what she is best known for saying. One team only gets the point for including the words "cats and kittens". The others?
  Maya: "I didn't do a murder."

Quiz of Everything 2021

• The music question this time is "Creep" by Radiohead, leading to something new as Jon Snow is doing Air Guitar instead of merely dancing.
  Jimmy: Incidentally, Jon Snow has never seen anyone play the guitar.
• Katherine is distracted by Ralph Macchio's curtains.
• When asked where the tagline "He may be dead, but he's the life of the party" comes from:
  Rob Beckett: Jimmy Carr: The Movie?
  Jimmy: How dare you. How ever dare you.
• "I have a textbook vagina and it's stunning."
• When a clip of guest questioner Clare Balding is shown, the panelists become distracted by a bowl of stone pebbles which are part of her housing decor. The riffing that follows culminates with Nish wishing that a British version of Marie Kondo's show hosted by Roisin.
  Roisin: Where else are you going to keep your pebbles, Jimmy? Loose?
• The final question was four number one songs performed by an oom-pah band. After performing "Two Tribes", Jimmy said the trombonist was more musical than the other two. The sousaphone player's reaction was basically a laugh and a 'fair enough' gesture.
• For one question the pannelists recreate Ginger Spice's iconic Union Jack minidress. Nish Kumar^note host of The Mash Report and generally known for left-of-centre political views takes enormous satisfaction in this:
  Nish: See that, Daily Mail! Who doesn't love this country now?!

Quiz of the Year 2021

• The fact that Jimmy was one of the answers is funny enough itself, the fact that the question was "Who provided backing vocals for Ed Sheeran's song 'Visiting Hours'" makes it hilarious.
  James: ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING?
  Sara: You weed in Ed Sheeran's mouth?
• James's reaction to the Doll from Squid Game appearing on the show.
  James: Yeah, goodbye. [tries to leave]

Everything 2022

• Richard's idea of a team name is 'You Get What You Paid For'.
• What's the perfect name for a team consisting of a lesbian with a disability and a gay Muslim Pakistani immigrant?
  Rosie: PC Gone Mad!
• Mawaan got his nails done before the show. He has a portrait of Jimmy on his flipping finger.
• Roisin's dream about being part of the Spice Girls. She was Shocko Spice.
• Everyone's shock that Adolf Hitler had been a Time Person of the Year.
  Rob: In his defense, what year?
• Jimmy's friend that watches gay porn once a year just to check that he isn't into men. Rosie and Mawaan are convinced Jimmy's talking about himself instead.
• Rob's answer about what was special about a photo.
  Rob: First color photo.
  Jimmy: It's in black and white!
• Roisin thinks Captain America got his powers from being bitten by America.
• The fact that there are a lot of people that live on Bell End.
• Rob accidentally giving two of the answers for 'Name three varieties of Lynx ^note known in some countries as Axe deodorant' because he asked if the commercial they showed was for the Africa or Java variant...before Jimmy could ask the question.
• Rosie calls the potluck round the 'any old shit' round. Jimmy jokes that they were gonna call it the Any Old Shit round. Richard thinks they should change the show's name to that.
• All the panelists are given five peppers to sample to see which is the hottest. Hilarity Ensues.
  • "Richard's just munching chilies like they're carrots!"
  • "What happened?" "Scotch bonnet happened."
  • "She's crying!" "I'm crying!"
  • "I think I shat myself."
  Mawaan: Why did you do this to us?
  Jimmy: We thought it'd be funny and I think we were right.
• Rosie and Mawaan end up winning. Jimmy makes a Call-Back in response.
  "The winners, and may I just say, this is 'PC Gone Mad'..."
• The credits run while an Elton John impersonator sings 'I'm Still Standing'. Badly.

Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2022

• The final question commemorates Top Gun: Maverick by bringing in surprise guest Johannes Radebe of Strictly Come Dancing fame, in a flight suit and suspended from the ceiling in parachute gear. Naturally Jimmy can't resist making him swing on the wires a bit.
  Jimmy: No I'll be fine, the worst that can happen is you fall down...
  • Jimmy declared that his callsign is "Bravo Foxtrot" - interestingly, the correct NATO alphabet for his name is Juliet Romeo.

Big Fat Quiz of Sport

• Everyone got real excited when they realized who the mystery guest was. She was Fiona Butler, the girl in the Athena poster of the tennis player scratching her butt.
  • Jimmy brought a copy of the poster for her to sign.
  • Roisin still wants to ask one more question.
    "Are you called Billie?"
• The fact that a billiards player got so into a VR session that he forgot that he wasn't leaning on a table.
• Jimmy considers a question about Professional Wrestling the moment BFQ was always leading up to.
  Kerry: Has it got a bum in it?
  Jimmy: Oh yeah.
  Kerry: Is it scatalogical?
  Jimmy: Ohhhhhhh yeah.
  • The question, which was about Rikishi's Stink Face, was accompanied by the infamous moment in which Rikishi, with The Rock's help, makes Vince McMahon take the Stink Face. Kerry asks what the question was again, to which Jimmy responds "do we need a question for that?". Meanwhile, there's this exchange.
  Dane: The Rock has come a long way since he was...
  Judi: Shoving people's faces into arse?
• "You're the Best" is either from The Karate Kid or Roisin's sex tape.
• "I'M SURE DRIVING IN PLANES IN Top Gun IS LIKE A SPORT."

Quiz of the Year 2023

• Mel forgot to take her coat off.
  Mo: You look like a mum at parents' evening.
• Richard and Mel's team name: The Unpronouncables.
• Rosie's reason for liking the team name 'Daddy and Me': because she's Daddy. Rosie being 'Daddy' became a Running Gag.
• "You like your own hot mom."
• "What I like is that I still look tired."
• "Hang on, [Jimmy] was at a party? How did you get in?!"
  • During the music round, a question related to Taylor Swift comes up. Katherine FaceTimes her daughter for help — sorry — her daughter FaceTimed her because she is a big fan of Rosie.
• The mystery guests this time were four workers at a Hobby Craft store, who went viral for their TikTok remix of Kylie Minogue's "Padam Padam". As they went to commercial, they started to dance around Jimmy like in the video.
  Jimmy:...sure.
• This exchange:

  Mel: Is it time to pull out the Polish handmade cherry brandy?
  Jimmy: That's not a euphemism.

  • "Are you gonna wake up in a dumpster?"
  • "Jimmy only drinks WD-40."
• Mo claims he couldn't remember the name of the film Oppenheimer because he's dyslexic and justifies that logic by pointing out he misspelled 'strike' in the previous question.
• The fact that there was a Mockumentary about cannibalism and people took it at face value. And that Katherine was fine with cannibalism as long as the 'victims' consented to be eaten.
  • "Anus Meat."
• Mo cracking up at Richard's 'Expendables' voice.
• They replaced M3GAN's face with Jimmy's. 'Nuff said. Also their Insistent Terminology that it's 'Megan with a backward E'.
  Mel: Jimmy, you look like Amanda Holden, there.
• "Are you calling me a blue tick turd? Fair enough."
• Mel and Richard's belief that a newscaster was describing one of Jason Statham's testicles.
  Richard: [in his Expendables voice] The other one goes in the sidecar.
• "Don't say [the Say What You See Question] out loud; Mel, I'm talking to you."
• This:
  Rosie: Why would [Harry Styles] go to a U2 concert?
  Jimmy: Because he likes U2.
  Rosie: But why would you like U2?
• "I think [Elon Musk] was challenging Mark Zuckerberg to a nerd fight." Which was both correct and a better answer than Kevin's answer.
  Jimmy: A bear bum boxing match with Jimmy Carr?!
  • What sells it is Kevin forced Jimmy to come closer to read it himself.
• One question was about the big red boots meme, whereupon Jimmy revealed that he was already wearing a pair. Mo Gilligan immediately mentioned that he wanted those but couldn't get them, and Jimmy said that he could just give Mo the ones on him right there.
  Richard Ayoade: It's called a tax writeoff!
• Everyone when asked to write on a sign what Kourtney Kardashian wrote on a sign to Travis Barker. Kevin wrote "Travis, I'm pregnant (and fucking mental)" (which he crossed out when he finds out it was a reference to a blink-182 music video), Rosie was the one to say the answer, which leads Jimmy to quip that he wasn't surprised, given the dress Rosie was wearing, and Richard put "car is waiting at arrivals".

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