Funny / The Chase (Game Show)

And this is just Bradley crumbling at the first answer!

• More often than not, a question and/or the answer choices will cause Bradley to crack up, which in and of itself has become a huge part of the appeal for the show. Highlights include...
  • "Dump, floater, and wipe" are terms used in which team sport — Badminton, Volleyball, Water Polo. The contestant chose "Water Polo", basing her decision on "floater". The correct answer was "Volleyball", answered correctly by Chaser Shaun Wallace, who then quipped "I was the best dumper in town when I used to play volleyball."
  • The Celebrity Edition with newsreader Nicholas Owen, Holby City actress Laila Rouass, TV presenter Vanessa Feltz, and standup comedian Tim Vine featured two classic Bradley Walsh crackups.
    • Nicholas' first question in the chase against Mark Labbett asked for the name of a Van Morrison song: "Brown-Eyed Girl", "Blue-Eyed Girl", or "Boss-Eyed Girl". Walsh dissolved into laughter on the last one ("boss-eyed" being slang for when a person's eyes look in two different directions at once), prompting Mark to chastise him for giving away that it was a wrong answer.^note Nicholas knew it anyway.
    • Tim Vine's first question: What is the cartoon character Andy Capp known as in Germany — Dick Tingeler, Helmut Schmacker, or Willi Wakker?^note For the record, Tim chose "Dick Tingeler", while Mark chose "Helmut Schmacker". Neither chose the correct answer, which was "Willi Wakker".
      Bradley: Tim, good luck, here comes your first question. [the question appears across the bottom of the screen as Bradley reads it] What is the cartoon character Andy Capp known as in Germany? [the answers appear onscreen] A: Dick Tingeler... [the studio audience fall about laughing; the innuendo-laden nature of the answers registers with Bradley, who manages to hold in his laughter for about half a second before doubling over in hysterics, while Nicholas and Laila are falling over the desk laughing] Is it A: Dick Tingeler! [Tim is doing his best to keep a straight face] Or is it B... [laughs] Helmut Schmack- [try as he might, he can't get through the name without dissolving into laughter]
      Mark: There's a hundred grand at stake here, pull yourself together!
      Bradley: Okay... or is it C: Willi- [doubles over laughing again; the studio audience are likewise in hysterics, and after Tim and Mark lock in their answers, even Mark can no longer hold in his laughter]
  • "What songbird is known poetically as 'mavis'?" — Swallow, Starling, or Thrush. The contestant selected "Thrush", and said she thought she'd picked it up. This didn't go unnoticed by Mark ("Is there a doctor in the house?") or the other contestants, and Bradley tried to keep a straight face:
    Bradley: The futile and immature people in the studio. Sincere apologies, that will not happen again; it's childish. (beat) Have you got some cream?
  • "In what sport does Fanny Chmelar compete for Germany?" — Swimming, Show Jumping, or Skiing.^note (If you don't get the joke, to English-speaking audiences "Fanny" is a slang term for vagina (or for Americans, buttocks) while "Chmelar" sounds similar to "Smeller". In other words, she's "Vagina Smeller" to the Brits or "Butt Smeller" to Americans watching the above video.) Bradley ended up laughing so hard he could barely speak, while Anne was wiping tears from her eyes as she tried to keep her composure. The bemused contestant only added to the hilarity.
  • In the 1990s, the character Chef from "South Park" had a number one hit with which song? — "Hot Spicy Sausage", "Fresh Juicy Melons", "Chocolate Salty Balls".^note Both the contestant and Chaser Shaun Wallace gave the correct answer — "Chocolate Salty Balls". Shaun even cracked up a little during the question.
  • What 1993 film is concerned with activities around Gobbler's Knob? — Grumpy Old Men, Jurassic Park, Groundhog Day. Bradley's reaction is priceless. What makes it even funnier, though, is how the contestant picks it up and starts trolling the heck out of Bradley. Then when Anne encourages it, it gets even worse!
  • In 2015, the third party US Presidential candidate had what name - Doz Balls, Deez Nuts, or Dem Plums?
    Bradley: Oh, goodness me... It's got to be Doz Balls, it can't be Deez Nuts or Dem Plums... You've put (Deez Nuts is highlighted as contestant's answer) Deez - WHY'D YOU PUT THAT?!
    Bradley: (later) Correct answer is - it's gonna be Doz Balls, it can't be Dem Plums...
    (Deez Nuts is revealed as correct answer, Brad pretends to faint)
  • Bradley can't resist giggling a bit at a question about the moons of Uranus, causing Paul to retort, "Oh, grow up, Brad!"
  • Bradley lost it at this peculiar answer.
  Bradley: Cheetara, Panthro, and Lion-O were characters from what TV series?
  Matt: Chuckle Vision!
  Bradley: (chortling) ThunderCats!
  • This question about Moby-Dick on Beat the Chasers.
• Anne has never seen the film Titanic. Bradley is appropriately horrified.
• One episode had a contestant who was eighty-two. When Bradley asked the first question of the chase, she accidentally blurted out an answer before remembering that she was supposed to enter it on the keypad. It turned out the answer she put in was wrong... but Chaser Mark Labbett went for the answer she'd blurted out and therefore was wrong as well. Both Bradley and Mark were astounded that she'd managed to wrongfoot the latter completely by accident.
• Then again, Bradley doesn't always need the help. Made all the funnier when the contestant pretty much has to announce the cut to a commercial break himself. And to top it off, after getting it right, he doesn't wait around in heading back to join the other players, causing Paul to burst into hysterical laughter.
• In one Final Chase, Bradley accidentally asks "What sort of creature is a 'biting minge'?" instead of "biting midge" (an insect) and immediately cringes.^note "Minge" is another British slang for vagina.
• Anne "reveals" her own middle name.
• The 30 September 2013 episode has a few. Like the guy who somehow got zero in the cashbuilder... then took his zero pounds to the table, stayed at zero pounds, then beat Mark and got to the Final Chase! Add the fact two players somehow took the high offer and WON and how the zero pounds guy got through with a full team... and well, Mark's reaction was just priceless.
• Jonathan Ross during the 2014 celebrity run; forget Chewing the Scenery, he starts climbing the scenery. Funnier considering he'd been trash talking Shaun all game, took the high offer when his turn came, and won big.
• The November 19, 2013 episode of the American version has a question about the country that produces bulgogi. Mark doesn't know the answer (Korea), but the contestant does... and so does Brooke.
  Brooke: I never thought I'd say this... I'm going to school you on some food.
• This contestant perfectly counters an insult from Anne.
• Whenever the Chaser gets an answer wrong that they should clearly know. Even better when the contestant gets it wrong too. Or when both happen, and Bradley knows the answer.
  Anne [after answering "Sheffield" instead of "Bolton"]: How embarrassing, I play in the Bolton league!
• Australian version: In one of the Cashbuilder rounds, Andrew asked, "The statue Venus de Milo is missing which part of the body?" Contestant Lachlan blurted out "Penis" just before the time runs out, causing everyone else to laugh. Andrew later tells him that his answer is technically not wrong... the Venus is indeed missing a penis, but only because it's a woman.
• The Season 2 Episode 13 of the Australian version has the question, "A boarding school in an Enid Blyton series is called what Towers?" asked to the chaser. Goliath got the answer wrong, and it was passed to the contestants. Since no-one in the team had a clue on what it is, one of them anyhow went with "Cheeseburger". Goliath's happily fist-pumping at his silly answer, as well as his teammates' Face Palm made the whole thing even funnier.
• Mark once gave the low offer of "a tenner"^note £10, announcing it while pulling out a bank note of that value.
• Anne, confronted with the attractive David Haye, is unable to keep her admiration for him quiet:
  Anne: Hello, David.
  David: Hello.
  Anne: Ooooh, I just want to lick you all over.
  • In the Final Chase, when the remaining pair are only able to muster a 7-step lead, David offers to be licked as a distraction tactic.
• One episode had a question with one of the wrong answers being 'Pantydraco', which led Paul to joke it was a term used in Harry Potter Slash Fic.
• An outtake from one of Darragh Ennis' episodes included a head-to-head question in which answer C was Tu Youyou (an actual Chinese scientist). After the question was played, he said, "Odds are, option C is the hardest person to sing 'Happy Birthday' to in the world." Everybody in the studio slowly broke up laughing, even Darragh himself, and Bradley was laughing so hard he could barely stay on his feet.
• In the episode where Judith utterly dominated the Vixen (a twenty-step Chase, accompanied by no fewer than eight pushbacks), Bradley notes, right before the end, "Ten required, a second remaining. (Beat) This’ll be close."
• Sometimes there are questions during the head-to-heads that aren't funny on the surface, but become as such when a contestant puts an answer that is utterly absurd and couldn't possibly be right. One example is when a contestant thinks that Dastardly and Muttley were named after a French theologian and an English philosopher (Correct answer: Calvin and Hobbes).
• The time Jenny answered a question about the mahi-mahi fish correctly after playing Animal Crossing.
• Fintan's Cash Builder contained this question:
  Bradley: In computer security, what word can go before "code", "phrase", and "word"?
  Fintan: (after taking a second to think) ...Pass.
  Bradley: (Beat) Correct!
  • The camera then cuts back to Fintan's Delayed Reaction. After time runs out and everyone in the studio is laughing...
  Bradley: It's happened! It's actually happened—the word "pass" is an answer! (to Fintan) You jammy so-and-so...Five grand. What can go before 'code', 'phrase', and 'word', you went "pass", and it's absolutely correct!
• A compilation of notable moments from Series 1 of Beat the Chasers.
• In the ABC version, Sara Haines regularly asks the contestants if there is a particular Chaser they dread facing. In one episode, the team unanimously said they most feared going against James Holzhauer. When the Chaser for that episode ended up being Ken Jennings, Ken responded with a classic put-down.
  Ken: I'm sorry I couldn't deliver you James. I guess you'll just have to settle for the guy who cleaned James's clock on national television!^note Referring to the Jeopardy!: Greatest of All Time tournament, in which Ken decisively beat both James and fellow Chaser Brad Rutter.