| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE $400: In this frat comedy, Will Ferrell sings a riveting rendition of "Dust In The Wind" at the funeral of his pal Blue Old School |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | A HALF HOUR OF TELEVISION $600: Ilana Glazer, reacting to a man who wants to get married on this comedy: "I'm only 27. What am I, a child bride?" Broad City |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | A HALF HOUR OF TELEVISION $1000: As Revolutionary War soldier Nigel Chessum, John Hartman falls in love with the man who killed him on this CBS comedy Ghosts |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE BATHROOM $600: Playing Lillian, Maya Rudolph delivers the line "Oh, no, no, no, oh no, I need a bathroom" in this 2011 film comedy Bridesmaids |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $200: 1994?
"Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption" & this comedy about 2 numbskulls who drive a mini-bike to Aspen Dumb and Dumber |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | A CLUE TOO "FAR" $400: Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" is one of these works with a highly improbable plot; so are "Zoolander" & "Blazing Saddles" farce |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | FROM TV SHOW TO FILM $400: Johnny Depp & Peter DeLuise have cameos at the end of this 2012 back-to-school cop comedy 21 Jump Street |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 16th century comedy drama with Costard the Clown & the interplanetary Robinson family Love's Labour's Lost in Space |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | BRITISH SITCOMS $1000: This show about 2 boozy women trying to stay young began as a skit on the "French & Saunders" sketch comedy show Absolutely Fabulous (Ab Fab) |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | RESPOND IN GERMAN IF YOU DER $1200: Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Austria but he plays a teacher in a 1990 comedy with this German word in its title Kindergarten |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THAT GUY! ACTORS $200: After playing Ned Ryerson, Stephen Tobolowsky said he went from being "the bald guy to the bald guy from" this Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THAT GUY! ACTORS $400: Richard Jenkins has over 80 film credits, yet he mainly gets recognized for playing Dr. Robert Doback in this Will Ferrell comedy Step Brothers |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | BRAIN "ROT" $2000: Richard Lewis made comedy out of this one of the Big 5 personality traits characterized by anxiety, sadness & irritability neurotic (or neuroticism) |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | & THE EMMY GOES TO... $600: This show, for Best Comedy Series; hey, baby, I hear the Emmys a-callin' it 5 times in its first 5 seasons, starting in 1994 Frasier |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | & THE EMMY GOES TO... $800: Her, 2023's Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, for her role of educator Janine Teagues Quinta Brunson |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | TV MUSIC $2000: This classic comedy used the haunting instrumental theme "Suicide Is Painless" M*A*S*H |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | THIS SIDE OF PARODIES $200: Roger Rees was the no-goodnik Sheriff of Rottingham in this comedy subtitled "Men in Tights" Robin Hood |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | THE DREADED LESSER-KNOWN OPERA CATEGORY $1200: Originally performed by both female & castrato sopranos, Francesco Veracini's "Rosalinda" was based on this Shakespeare comedy As You Like It |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | TELEVISION CITY $400: TV shows set in San Diego over the years include "Simon & Simon", "Drake & Josh" & this comedy starring Jane & Lily Grace and Frankie |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: After a famous opera singer passes out & can't perform, another man takes his place in Ken Ludwig's comedy "Lend Me a" this tenor |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | A WORD IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY TITLE $1600: Pitching for the Yankees, Tommy John once committed 3 of these on one play errors |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | COLUMBIA 100th ANNIVERSARY $400: (Tom Rothman presents the clue.) "Ghostbusters", a hit for Columbia in the '80s & still a vital franchise for us, was born when this actor sat down to write a ghost comedy at his family farmhouse where his great grandfather had held séances Dan Aykroyd |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TV SHOW TAGLINES $800: "Science makes sense, family doesn't" is a truth shared by this animated comedy Rick and Morty |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | ALLITERATIVE MOVIE TITLES $1200: In this 2012 comedy auditioners like Stacie & Fat Amy showed off their pipes to the tune of "Since U Been Gone" Pitch Perfect |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS $200: A street brawl between rival news teams was to be cut from the script of this comedy; it quickly escalated into an iconic scene Anchorman |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $1000: We cherished Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, a faded celeb desperately trying to return to the big time on this HBO comedy The Comeback |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $600: Goldie Hawn & Warren Beatty had some fun in this 1975 Hal Ashby comedy Shampoo |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | PRIME NUMBERS ON TV $800: Episodes of this police comedy include "Dangle's Moving Day" & "Beige Lives Matter?" Reno 911! |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | PRIME NUMBERS ON TV $1600: Fittingly, one episode of this CBS comedy finds Caroline embracing Kickstarter to raise funds 2 Broke Girls |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | I'VE GOT THE MOVIE TITLE MUNCHIES! $600: This raunchy 1999 comedy led to a 2005 movie called "Band Camp", where stuff happened at least one time American Pie |
| #9189, aired 2024-10-24 | SNAKES $1200: Hooli head honcho Gavin Belson on this HBO comedy parodies any number of tech slime balls Silicon Valley |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | LITERARY TITLES EN ESPAÑOL $600: "La comedia de las equivocaciones" The Comedy of Errors |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | TV TRANSPORTS $1000: The coffin-based Drag-u-la roadster made a fast & furious appearance in the "Hot Rod Herman" episode of this comedy The Munsters |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | THE APP & WEBSITE US"ER" $800: If you go to unitedcenter.com & decide to go see a concert or some comedy, you'll be taken to this company's website Ticketmaster |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | SHOW BIZ MOVIES $800: Robert Downey Jr. was, somewhat problematically, a dude playin' a dude disguised as another dude in this comedy Tropic Thunder |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | TREE PEOPLE? $1200: Born Arthur Stanley Jefferson, he was Charlie Chaplin's understudy for 3 years prior to becoming part of a famous comedy team Laurel |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | GIVING IT YOUR "ALL" $800: A comedy genre; "His Girl Friday" & "Bringing Up Baby", for example screwball |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | KEY OR PEELE $200: On his "History of Sketch Comedy" podcast, Key said his dad's laughter at this SNL comic as Stevie Wonder was career-inspiring Eddie Murphy |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | KEY OR PEELE $800: In 2017 Keegan made his Broadway debut opposite Amy Schumer in "Meteor Shower", a comedy by this man, a "wild & crazy guy" himself once Steve Martin |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: In this Noël Coward comedy, a man is haunted by the ghosts of his dead wives Blithe Spirit |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $600: This show about the Korean War won only one Emmy as Best Comedy Series M*A*S*H |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | VISION & VISIONS $1200: A vision of God as the "light supreme" comes in the part of the "Divine Comedy" with this Italian title Paradiso |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | DON'T GO, JASON $1600: Jason Segel met his fate early on in this apocalyptic 2013 comedy, falling into a fiery pit right after Rihanna This Is the End |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | INTERNET CELEBRITIES $800: Before "SNL" this comedy troupe featuring Andy Samberg made the web series "The 'Bu", a parody of "The O.C." The Lonely Island |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE $400: Bob & Doug McKenzie find that something is rotten at Elsinore Brewery in the comedy "Strange Brew", inspired by this tragedy Hamlet |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2023 romcom "Anyone But You", with squabbling would-be lovers named Bea & Ben, was inspired by this comedy Much Ado About Nothing |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | BROADWAY'S OPENING NIGHT CASTS $400: Art Carney & Walter Matthau were the original Felix & Oscar in this comedy The Odd Couple |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | MISTAKEN IDENTITY $1600: This Shakespeare play involves a double set of twins & much confusion over who is whom The Comedy of Errors |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | MAIS OUI, FRENCH LIT $600: Subtitled "The Impostor", this comedy by Molière has the title scoundrel making Orgon's life miserable Tartuffe |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | BLAXPLOITATION FILMS $2000: A 2019 biopic included the making of this 1975 comedy about a pimp settling scores Dolemite |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | BUSINESS NAMES $2000: This Omaha company's annual shareholders' meeting has featured comedy skits, dancing & of course a Q&A with Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | SHAKESPEARE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A triply alliterative comedy turns into what Gertrude Stein ended up dubbing a group of writers Love's Labour's Lost Generation |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | TIME FOR SOME TV "AD"s $800: Rowan Atkinson starred in 4 BBC alternate history comedy series as title characters with this colorfully reptilian name Black Adder |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | TIME FOR SOME TV "AD"s $2000: As the title indicated, Mr. Conover wrecked stuff as the host & title character of this investigative comedy series Adam Ruins Everything |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | KISS & TELL $1600: In the 1880s this French sculptor depicted a pair of lovers from "The Divine Comedy" in a work called "The Kiss" Rodin |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $600: Steve Carell getting his chest waxed is comedy gold in this 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | ABBREVIATED TELEVISION $600: A comedy with a bright disposition:
"IASIP" It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | ABBREVIATED TELEVISION $1000: A period comedy:
"TMMM" The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $800: Fred Gwynne's final film appearance came as a frustrated judge in this 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $600: In this comedy, Tom as studio exec Les Grossman dances to "Low" by Flo Rida & T-Pain & says, "This is... when the job gets fun" Tropic Thunder |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | COMPOSERS $1200: Felix Mendelssohn composed music to accompany this Shakespeare comedy, including the familiar "Wedding March" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $400: Steven Spielberg showed up for a second or 2 in this John Landis comedy playing a Cook County tax assessor The Blues Brothers |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MOVIE TAGLINES $800: The title male fashion model in this comedy had "3% body fat. 1% brain activity" Zoolander |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | "LIKE"NESS $1200: In 2002 Tony Curtis toured in a stage version of this film comedy in which he co-starred years earlier Some Like It Hot |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THE EMMYS $1000: This series set at the Boston firm of Cage, Fish & Associates won as Best Comedy Series for 1999 Ally McBeal |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $200: From this show--Brian: "It's about the journey, not the destination"; Stewie: "No, it's not. This sucked & you failed" Family Guy |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $400: Louis Gossett Jr. & Richard Pryor played owners of a Detroit club that mistakenly booked this '70s musical act with Shirley Jones The Partridge Family |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $600: Let's bring the Payne! Allen Payne played C.J. Payne on some 300 episodes of this creator's "House of Payne" Tyler Perry |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $800: Alan Ruck, Connie Britton & Alexander Chaplin were on staff in the mayor's office on this '90s ABC comedy Spin City |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $1000: Jack & Chrissy are gone, but "Three's Company" lives as the nation's partygoers dress up like this character Mrs. Roper |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $800: Rebecca Wisocky & Brandon Scott Jones are scary good as the dearly departed Hetty & Isaac on this CBS comedy Ghosts |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $800: Quinta Brunson & Sheryl Lee Ralph play teachers on this comedy that Brunson created Abbott Elementary |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1600: He's a comedian, Comedy Store comedy club royalty & the land edge of a body of water (Pauly) Shore |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $400: Donald Glover's brother Stephen is the voice behind the hit song "Paper Boi" from this dramatic comedy Atlanta |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $800: Just after showing a fake I.D. that says "McLovin", Fogell gets sucker punched in a liquor store in this 2007 comedy Superbad |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $100: Kurt & this funny lady were already a couple when they starred in the 1987 amnesia comedy "Overboard" Goldie Hawn |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $200: Will Ferrell films: "Old School", "Anchorman", "Step Brothers" & this comedy set in the Big Apple & the North Pole Elf |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 50% "OFF" $600: In the 1995 comedy "Dracula: Dead and Loving It", Leslie Nielsen sleeps in one of these a coffin |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $800: After the 2014 finale, the iconic blue French horn from the set of this TV comedy went home with actor Josh Radnor How I Met Your Mother |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | A GENRE CATEGORY $400: Sitcom is short for this situational comedy |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1200: This genre of Italian comedy popular from the 1500s to the 1700s was characterized by stock characters & situations commedia dell'arte |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $300: This HBO comedy series set in Northern California used former Facebook & Twitter executives as consultants Silicon Valley |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TV COMEDIES BY WORKPLACE $1200: CONTROL, a D.C.-based counter-intelligence agency Get Smart |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE $1,000 (Daily Double): 4 young men of Navarre face off against 4 ladies in a game of courtship in this Shakespeare comedy Love's Labour's Lost |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $400: Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | HATS $1600: This Grand Ole Opry comedy star used to wear a straw hat with the $1.98 price tag still attached Minnie Pearl |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $600: From the French for "kind", it's a distinctive category of literature like comedy or horror genre |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | THE WARDROBE DEPARTMENT $600: Alicia Silverstone's yellow plaid suit from this comedy went missing & has never been found. Ugh, as if! Clueless |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $1000: It's the 2000 comedy with the Sandra Bullock line, "I'm in a dress, I have gel in my hair... & I'm armed. Don't mess with me" Miss Congeniality |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | FROM THE ITALIAN $1600: Ben Jonson's 1598 comedy "Every Man in His Humour" uses this Italian term for a brothel a bordello |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MOVIE COMEDIES $2000: A man's mundane life is interrupted by a zombie apocalypse in this comedy starring Simon Pegg Shaun of the Dead |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | MOB HITS $800: "When I got into family therapy, this was not the 'family' I had in mind", says Billy Crystal in this 1999 comedy Analyze This |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | JUST KIDDING $1000: On "Between Two Ferns", this actor asked Ben Stiller, "Do you wish... you had ever followed your parents into comedy?" Galifianakis |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $800: His credits include the HBO comedy series "Ballers" & the 2018 film "BlacKkKlansman"; he's also Denzel Washington's son John David Washington |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $11,400 (Daily Double): Making comedy fans wait over 40 years for a sequel, this 97-year-old released "History of the World, Part II" in 2023 Mel Brooks |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1600: Honoré was the first name of this French "Human Comedy" author Balzac |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $1000: "Adding the Mallard to the Stock"--to this 1933 comedy Duck Soup |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $800: The Liberty Bell March by John Philip Sousa became this comedy troupe's theme song Monty Python |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $400: In 1940, this odd couple comedy duo left Hal Roach Studios & soon signed with 20th Century Fox Laurel & Hardy |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SUPER TROUPERS $800: This Chicago comedy institution awards a fellowship named for Bob Curry, its first African-American mainstage performer Second City |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $2000: He's the 18th century author of the farce "The Barber of Seville" & the comedy "The Marriage of Figaro" Beaumarchais |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $600: Peter George's novel "Red Alert" got this title when Stanley Kubrick made it into an apocalyptic big screen black comedy Dr. Strangelove |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | PLAY TIME $1200: This alliterative 3-word Shakespeare comedy begins with 4 friends swearing off women & romance Love's Labour's Lost |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $600: Here's the brilliant Marty Feldman who played Igor in this 1974 classic film comedy & we haven't done a thing to the picture Young Frankenstein |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $800: Steve Martin & Michael Caine were these title conmen in a 1988 remake of a comedy starring David Niven & Marlon Brando Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This "Birth of Venus" painter also did illustrations for written works like the "Map of Hell" for Dante's "Divine Comedy" Botticelli |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $400: Mike Judge co-created this comedy about engineers & tech start-ups Silicon Valley |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | STAND-UP SPECIALS $1600: "Breaking the Rules" was a 1987 special by him, "a comedy combination of Chuck Yeager & Evel Knievel", said Robin Williams Sam Kinison |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | YOU JUST MADE THAT STUFF UP $400: Fraudulin was the miracle ingredient in Crelm toothpaste in a 1970 episode by this comedy troupe Monty Python |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THANKS A MILLION $600: He wrote, directed & starred in the comedy Western "A Million Ways to Die in the West" Seth MacFarlane |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $800: In a 20-teens FOX comedy, at one point Carol doesn't have many romantic options as it seems Phil is this, the show's title The Last Man on Earth |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $400: This screwball comedy involves Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn & a pet leopard Bringing Up Baby |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | & SCENE $800: Albert Brooks takes flop sweat to a new level when he gets his break as an anchorman in this comedy Broadcast News |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MASTERS OF LIT $400: Master Ford & Master Page are characters in this Shakespeare comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 1990s EMMY AWARDS $2000: In 1999, this executive producer picked up Emmys for both drama & comedy series for "The Practice" & "Ally McBeal" David E. Kelley |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $600: "The Germans" is an episode of this British comedy about running a hotel Fawlty Towers |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $800: This 1934 film was the first comedy to win the Best Picture Oscar It Happened One Night |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $400: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" appears in this medieval poem the Divine Comedy |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $200: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) As co-pilot Roger Murdock, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was out there busting his buns every night in this classic 1980 film that took comedy in a new direction altogether Airplane! |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $800: (I'm Reggie Watts.) In addition to music, I had done some stand-up & sketch work but found the type of comedy I wanted to perform in this 2001 "wet hot" movie starring Paul Rudd & Elizabeth Banks Wet Hot American Summer |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $2000: Lawyers Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn are on opposite sides of a case in this classic comedy Adam's Rib |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | COMEDIANS $1200: Inducting him with just 3 others in a new Comedy Hall of Fame, John Mulaney said this "Fisher King" star never once phoned it in Robin Williams |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $1600: (I'm Ike Barinholtz.) In 2018, I joined Leslie Mann & this muy macho pro wrestler as parents who don't want their daughters going too far on prom night in the comedy film "Blockers" John Cena |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | TV MOMS $1200: (Hi, I'm Brianne Howey.) I grew up with a single mom & love playing this title single mom to Ginny on a Netflix comedy drama Georgia |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $2000: This Moliere comedy about an imposter was first performed for King Louis XIV at Versailles in 1664 Tartuffe |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | SONGS FROM '60s MUSICALS $1,000 (Daily Double): With a 10-word title, "Comedy Tonight" & "The House Of Marcus Lycus" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | QUOTH THE TITLE $1600: The title of this "haunting" Noel Coward comedy comes from Shelley's "To a Skylark" Blithe Spirit |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | DALÍ GOES HOLLYWOOD $400: Dalí wrote a movie for this comedy group, including a scene where Chico plays the piano in a diving suit the Marx Brothers |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | DALÍ GOES HOLLYWOOD $1200: Spencer Tracy has a surreal dream of crawling down the aisle in a sequence inspired by Dalí for this 1950 comedy Father of the Bride |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | NUMBER "ONE" MOVIE $1000: Clark Gable won his only Oscar for this 1934 comedy It Happened One Night |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | TV SHOW LINGO $2000: In the '60s this comedy mishmash from Dan Rowan & Dick Martin introduced bippy, as in "You bet your sweet..." Laugh-In |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC INFLUENCES $200: (I'm Patton Oswalt.) In high school I couldn't get enough of this comedy troupe who had it all--SPAM, the Spanish Inquisition, a dead parrot, the dirty fork--nudge, nudge, wink, wink; know what I mean, say no more Monty Python |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC INFLUENCES $400: (I'm Ego Nwodim.) Comedy heroes of mine include fellow "Saturday Night Live" stars Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler & this woman who became the show's first female head writer in 1999 Tina Fey |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC INFLUENCES $600: (I'm Iliza Shlesinger.) I remember begging for "Wayne's World" on VHS and have said that this performer is an American comedy staple despite being Canadian Mike Myers |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC INFLUENCES $1000: (I'm Aisha Tyler.) In college I decided to make comedy my career after seeing this deadpan comic who once noted, "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." (Steven) Wright |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $800: Trout tickling, a way of catching fish with the bare hands, is mentioned in this comedy subtitled "Or What You Will" Twelfth Night |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THAT'S A LAUGH! $400: (I'm Brendan Hunt.) While doing improv together in Amsterdam, Jason Sudeikis and I became friends & fell in love with soccer; we put our affection for that sport into this Emmy-winning comedy that we co-created Ted Lasso |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THAT'S A LAUGH! $2000: (I'm Hasan Minhaj.) I won a Peabody Award for this comedy show that took its name from the not-so-funny 2001 legislation, increasing the surveillance powers of law enforcement agencies the Patriot Act |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1200: In this comedy, Olivia loves Cesario, who is really Viola in disguise Twelfth Night |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1200: "Comedy Sex God" tells the story of this funny man seen on HBO & here Pete Holmes |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | COMEDY TIME $400: 2010s:
Maya Rudolph's upcoming nuptials give Kristen Wiig the jitters Bridesmaids |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | COMEDY TIME $800: 1960s:
General Buck Turgidson wants to explore the nuclear option Dr. Strangelove |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ALSO A BASEBALL TERM $800: This type of 1930s film comedy was typified by "Bringing Up Baby" & "The Awful Truth" screwball |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | COMEDY TIME $1200: 1990s:
David Spade & Chris Farley have a wild encounter with a deer on the road Tommy Boy |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | COMEDY TIME $1600: 1970s:
This Mel Brooks spoof of Hitchcock films like "Vertigo" High Anxiety |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | COMEDY TIME $2000: 1940s:
Cary Grant learns that his aunts are homicidal maniacs Arsenic and Old Lace |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | CHARACTER/ACTOR $800: In this 1982 movie comedy, Dustin Hoffman played Michael Dorsey & Dorothy Michaels Tootsie |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $300: Where's the funny in "The Divine Comedy", an epic poem by this Italian that begins with a literal journey through hell Dante |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | POP CULTURE $400: She showed her serious side in "The Farewell" & her comedy chops in "Ocean's Eight" Awkwafina |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A LINEAR CATEGORY $1200: Clive Anderson hosted the U.K. version of this comedy improv TV series Whose Line is it Anyway? |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $2000: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore & Mark Ruffalo starred in this 2010 comedy about 2 children looking for their biological father The Kids Are All Right |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $400: In the 1940s & '50s many Jewish comedians got their start in the Catskills resort area nicknamed this "Belt" the Borscht Belt |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $800: In the 1930s, a Laurel & Hardy short film about trying to deliver one of these up a long flight of stairs won an Academy Award a piano |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $1200: Meaning "comedy of the profession", this 16th-18th c. Italian form used stock characters like the lovers & the captain commedia dell'arte |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $1600: This ancient Greek playwright wrote about 40 comedies, including "Clouds" & "Wasps" Aristophanes |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $2000: There are plenty of laughs in this 1878 Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set aboard a Royal Navy vessel H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $800: ...laughs, at this L.A. "Store" opened in 1972 on Sunset Blvd., with notable alumni like Billy Crystal & Eddie Murphy The Comedy Store |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | A SHORT CATEGORY $1600: Martin Short's 5-decade career includes a 2022 acting Emmy nomination as Oliver Putnam in this Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | IT'S EPIC $2000: Dante's one true love, she guides him through paradise in "The Divine Comedy" Beatrice |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MOVIE TITLE FUN $1000: The title of this Jackie Chan/Owen Wilson comedy parodies a Gary Cooper classic Shanghai Noon |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $1000: This veteran of TV comedy & time travel movies picks up a big gun in the 2021 action film "Nobody" (Christopher) Lloyd |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: Tart "tot" candy for a sketch comedy group in charge of making sure those in school don't run in the corridors Sour Patch Kids in the Hall monitor |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | BRUSH UP YOUR HEBREW $600: A frequent source of comedy is new speakers who mix up michnasayim, pants, with mishkafayim, these--but you don't have reading pants glasses |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $300: Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything Robin Hood |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BERNIE & BERNADETTE $300: Terry Kiser played the titular corpse in this 1989 comedy that also starred Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Silverman Weekend at Bernie's |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $600: Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder gets involved in this type of one-on-one affair with the Duke of Wellington--to be fought with cannons a duel |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $900: Bob Newhart on the phone with Walter Raleigh about this stuff: "shred the leaves... between your lips... set fire to it!" tobacco |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $1200: On "Drunk History", he's "like, 'No... I'm not gonna defect to the British side!
That's insane! George Washington is my daddy, kind of'" Benedict Arnold |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $1500: On "Our Flag Means Death", Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet & Taika Waititi is this more notorious pirate Blackbeard |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | '90s FILMS $600: Ice Cube & Chris Tucker starred in this 1995 comedy that Cube co-wrote with DJ Pooh Friday |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $1600: In this 1988 comedy, Kevin Kline enjoys chips & the unfortunate title creature, much to Michael Palin's dismay A Fish Called Wanda |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: How meta--Dante is a character in this 3-part epic poem of his The Divine Comedy |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | TV AS OF LATE $400: As Jim the Vampire, guest star Mark Hamill ordered "one human alcohol beer, please" on this comedy What We Do in the Shadows |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $200: "We got next" was the slogan of this league when it debuted in 1997 with stars like Lisa Leslie & Rebecca Lobo the WNBA |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: "Bossypants" by this comedy actress & writer has sold more than 1 million copies Tina Fey |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | FIRST EPISODES $1000: Chidi's character is established pretty fast on this comedy--"I'm in a perfect utopia &... I have a stomachache" The Good Place |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | COMEDY ATLAS $100: Second City opened Dec. 16, 1959 in a converted laundry in this city Chicago |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | COMEDY ATLAS $200: Dad's Garage is an improv venue in this capital of Georgia Atlanta |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | COMEDY ATLAS $300: Roseanne Barr began her comedy career in venues like comedy works while living in this city at the edge of the Rockies Denver |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | COMEDY ATLAS $400: A young Judd Apatow did stand-up at venues like Governor's in Levittown & Chuckles in Mineola on this island Long Island |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | COMEDY ATLAS $500: The hungry i in North Beach in this California city helped begin the tradition of a red brick wall behind the comic San Francisco |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $500: Cologne, Germany is one of many historic cities along this great river of Western Europe the Rhine |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | MOVIE FACTS $1000: John McCain had a cameo as an invited guest in this Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson comedy Wedding Crashers |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | SPELLING THEIR EGOTS $800: 3 Es as Outstanding Guest Actor for
"Mad About You";
a Comedy Album G for "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000" Mel Brooks |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | TV COMEDY $400: In 1987 Michael J. Fox won praise for the "Family Ties" episode "'A', My Name is" this Alex |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | TV COMEDY $800: Don Cheadle narrates this reboot about growing up in the 1960s The Wonder Years |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | TV COMEDY $1200: Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer starred in this series set in New York Broad City |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | TV COMEDY $1600: This veteran actor found new fans in the '90s as Ray's dad in "Everybody Loves Raymond" Peter Boyle |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | TV COMEDY $2000: Robin Thede is the creator & Issa Rae is an executive producer of this HBO "Sketch Show" A Black Lady Sketch Show |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $2000: In 2022 Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker headlined this author's classic comedy "Plaza Suite" on Broadway Neil Simon |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | I SPEAK FOR THE TREES $600: It should please you that Amiens' rendition of "Under the Greenwood Tree" is in this Shakespeare comedy As You Like It |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $3,100 (Daily Double): Padre Fray Tormenta, who helped the orphans of Texcoco while wearing a mask in the ring, inspired this 2006 comedy Nacho Libre |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $800: Joe Pesci played an inept lawyer who's called upon to defend Ralph Macchio in this "family" comedy My Cousin Vinny |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $2000: Steve Carell & Brad Pitt starred in this Adam McKay comedy that skewered the banking industry & its gambling ways The Big Short |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | ETHNIC GROUPS $200: George Lopez subtitled his 2009 comedy special "tall, dark &" this word meaning specifically Mexican American Chicano |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $400: Meryl Streep played President Orlean, ignoring the approach of a world-destroying comet in this 2021 comedy Don't Look Up |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | SITCOMS $200: Brett Goldstein stars as foulmouthed soccer star & coach Roy Kent on this comedy Ted Lasso |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $400: Looks like Steve McCroskey picked the wrong week to quit smoking, drinking, amphetamines & sniffing glue in this 1980 comedy Airplane! |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: Tonio the clown introduces this opera; at the end, the audience is told that the comedy is over Pagliacci |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | PILLOW TALK $600: The 1959 romantic comedy "Pillow Talk" was the first on-screen pairing of these two actors Rock Hudson & Doris Day |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | IN THE ZOOM ROOM $200: Yes, you can Zoom this comedy art form whose rules include "establish the location" & "be specific" & "say yes, and..." improv |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $1000: "Beavis & Butt-Head" creator Mike Judge wrote & directed this 1999 workplace comedy Office Space |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | INSTRUMENTAL TV THEMES $1000: Heard here is the stock music piece "Temptation Sensation", recognizable as the theme of this FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $1200: In this comedy, Steve Carell asks a group of rival newscasters, "Where did you get those clothes? At the toilet store?" Anchorman |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $1600: A tired & hapless Jeff Bridges expresses some strong dislike for the Eagles in this 1998 Coen Brothers comedy The Big Lebowski |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $2000: "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!" Jamie Lee Curtis tells Kevin Kline in this piscatory 1988 comedy A Fish Called Wanda |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $1000: Karl Marx stated that history appears twice, "the 1st time as tragedy, the 2nd time as" this ludicrous form of comedy farce |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | EASY PEASY $800: After "The Fly", Jeff Goldblum reunited with Geena Davis in this comedy about 3 aliens who want to party in L.A. Earth Girls Are Easy |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | WOMEN MAKE PASSES $1200: On a 2015 episode of this Comedy Central show, Abbi finally asks out her hot neighbor Jeremy Broad City |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | SAMS CLUB $1000: 3 years before his death in a car crash, he made the cover of Rolling Stone as "Comedy's Wild Thing" Sam Kinison |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | POP CULTURE PAIRS $1600: In a 1980 comedy this title pair explains: "We're on a mission from God" the Blues Brothers |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $7,200 (Daily Double): In 2021 Gary Avis danced Virgil in a Royal Opera House production commemorating the 700th anniversary of this poet's death Dante Aligheri |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $1200: The subtitle of "I Must Say" by this Canadian & "SNL" veteran is "My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend" Martin Short |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | LET'S HAVE A WATCH PARTY $1600: Choices for this funny guy: "Inside", with him performing musical comedy, or the movie "Eighth Grade", which he wrote & directed Bo Burnham |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $400: It precedes "& Dime" in the title of a 1992 comedy with Wallace Shawn & C. Thomas Howell Nickel |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $2000: "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops", Cary Grant says in a 1944 comedy about his aunts' use of this arsenic |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | TV MOMS $1600: As Endora, veteran actress Agnes Morehead often mocked her mortal son-in-law Darrin & called him Durwood on this '60s comedy Bewitched |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: ...in the 2 title words of a Shakespeare comedy where we meet Sir Andrew Aguecheek (2 different vowels) E, I |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN? $2000: In a 1959 comedy these 2 actors donned dresses as members of Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra Lemmon & Curtis |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Seen here is this playwright whose first theatrical success was the comedy of manners "Lady Windermere's Fan" Oscar Wilde |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $800: This Simon Pegg horror comedy puns on the title of a George Romero flick Shaun of the Dead |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | COMEDIANS' ROLES $400: Awkwafina's time growing up in this Big Apple borough inspired her character Nora in a Comedy Central series Queens |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | "PU" $800: In Dante's "Divine Comedy", this section comes between "Inferno" & "Paradiso" Purgatorio |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | OPERA $1200: Katharina's aria "My Strength Fails" is a highlight of Hermann Goetz' opera based on this Shakespeare comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | TV SHOWS TO BINGE $1000: This comedy on which Joel McHale played a disbarred lawyer who goes back to college & buddies up with a bunch of misfits Community |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $800: Some of the rules for surviving in this 2009 post-apocalyptic comedy include: No. 1: cardio & No. 3: beware of bathrooms Zombieland |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS $2000: A demon in early English folklore, it became the name of a character in a Shakespeare comedy Puck |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | TITLE WORD PUZZLES $1200: Vanish, or a 1970s movie comedy
SMUPOKE Up in Smoke |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | THE PRODUCERS $400: Seen in the '70s, he's produced hundreds of hours of beloved TV comedy (Norman) Lear |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | YOU PLAYED YOURSELF $800: David Bowie judged the walkoff between male models played by Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson in this comedy Zoolander |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CLASSIC SITCOMS $1200: Redd Foxx played a cantankerous junk dealer & patriarch on this Norman Lear comedy Sanford and Son |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | TV SHOWS WITH ONE-WORD TITLES $800: 2 women, a Vegas legend & a snarky young writer, work together to make comedy Hacks |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | POP CULTURE MONIKERS $1600: The main character on this HBO comedy was called "Grizzly Madam" & "The Wicked Witch of the West Wing" Veep |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $400: In a comedy act Anne Sullivan asked her questions like "Do you close your eyes when you sleep?" (her answer: I never stayed awake to see) Helen Keller |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | RECENT POP CULTURE $2000: This comedian seen here charted on "Billboard" with "All Eyes On Me", a song heard on his comedy special "Inside" (Bo) Burnham |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $1000: The Marx Brothers took the field in this "equine" comedy about Huxley College's football team Horse Feathers |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE HOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST $1000: In "A Very Murray Christmas", Bill re-teamed with David Johansen, a co-star as the Ghost of Christmas Past in this 1988 comedy Scrooged |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $1000: In this comedy Sir Toby Belch asks, "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes & ale?" Twelfth Night |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $1200: Cameron Diaz did plenty of swearing on the job when she was supposed to be instructing students in this 2011 comedy Bad Teacher |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | BRITISH HUMOR $800: An exchange on this TV comedy: "I met someone"; "oh my god, that's amazing! What does he do?"; "He's a priest" Fleabag |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $2000: Troubled hubby Michael Keaton is cloned several times in this 1996 screwball comedy Multiplicity |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | ELBOW PATCHES $1000: Elbow is the name of an inept constable in this Shakespeare comedy with a repetitive title Measure for Measure |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | TV COMEDY SKETCHES $400: From this troupe, "Upper-Class Twit of the Year" Monty Python |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | TV COMEDY SKETCHES $800: On "The Ben Stiller Show", her as the B-Minus Time Traveler Janeane Garofalo |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | TV COMEDY SKETCHES $1200: On "French and Saunders", "Modern Mother & Daughter", the origin of this Britcom Absolutely Fabulous |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $1200: Irving Thalberg, who has a building named for him on our Sony lot, produced "A Night at the Opera" for this comedy team in 1935 the Marx Brothers |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | TV COMEDY SKETCHES $1600: This late genius as an inept dentist & a very old man on "The Carol Burnett Show" Tim Conway |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | TV COMEDY SKETCHES $2000: Him as blind African-American white supremacist Clayton Bigsby Dave Chappelle |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $2000: A cat named Orion wears a collar that contains a miniature galaxy in this 1997 comedy blockbuster Men in Black |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | HONOR $400: As Judge Haller in this 1992 comedy, Fred Gwynne is contemptuous of Joe Pesci's choice of outfits, among other things My Cousin Vinny |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | MOVIE THEATER GIMMICKS $400: In 1985 3 versions of this mystery comedy were released in theaters with 3 different people killing Mr. Boddy Clue |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS $1600: Arden, Shakespeare's mother's maiden name, is the name of the forest where this comedy is set As You Like It |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | HANDY ANDY $400: This comic co-founded the comedy trio The Lonely Island; then he became a TV detective in Brooklyn Samberg |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES $1200: Here's this 1994 British comedy distilled to its essence Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $3,000 (Daily Double): In "The Comedy of Errors", Dromio describes Nell: "Hip to hip: she is spherical, like" this name of Shakespeare's venue globe |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SCENE HERE $800: Seen here in the boulder-filled climax of 1925's "Seven Chances" is this genius of physical comedy (Buster) Keaton |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | WE ARE TV FAMILY $800: Since 2013 Jeff Garlin has been like a father to Hayley Orrantia on this ABC comedy The Goldbergs |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | COMEDY ON TV $400: The parents of Stan & Kyle on this show are named after the parents of their creators, Trey & Matt South Park |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | COMEDY ON TV $800: This host of "Full Frontal" was once part of an all-female sketch comedy troupe called the Atomic Fireballs Samantha Bee |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | COMEDY ON TV $1200: Betty White & Estelle Getty received Emmy nominations all 7 seasons this show was on the air The Golden Girls |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | COMEDY ON TV $1600: This '70s show was inspired by a New York Magazine article about workers on the night shift at a cab company Taxi |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | COMEDY ON TV $2000: This comedian made a huge Emmy debut in 2017, with acting, writing & directing nominations for "Atlanta" Donald Glover |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | HAVE A FEW LAUGHS $200: Mike Tyson, who wanted his tiger back, favored us with his rendition of "In The Air Tonight" in this 2009 comedy The Hangover |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | "A" MOVIE $800: David Koechner was quirky sportscaster Champ Kind in this 2004 comedy Anchorman |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TALK SHOWS $400: As "Tonight Show" host, Jay Leno used to test this opening segment at the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach a monologue |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $1200: A critic called Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" a "comedy of menace", punning on this phrase for plays about high society a comedy of manners |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: "Frogs" & "Wealth" are one-word titles from this one-name master of ancient Greek comedy Aristophanes |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $2000: The 1953 golf comedy saw this man play "The Caddy" to his cool friend Dean Martin (Jerry) Lewis |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $1600: Tom Cruise fools his parents in this 1983 comedy after ruining the Porsche & having quite the wild party at their house Risky Business |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | FACE THE PERFORMER $600: Stephen Root's roles include the hitman handler for Barry & the stapler-obsessed Milton in this workplace comedy film Office Space |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $400: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing D.C. politics really, really dirty Selina Meyer |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $800: Julie Bowen, relating to her relatives Claire Dunphy |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $1200: Jon Cryer, 1 of 2.5 men Alan Harper |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $1600: Zach Galifianakis--what a clown or "cloon" Chip Baskets |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $2000: Oh, brother! After some analysis, David Hyde Pierce takes 4 Emmys Niles Crane |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | TV TITLE PAIRS $1000: They sometimes played dysfunctional couple Meegan & Andre on their Comedy Central series Key & Peele |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | STAND-UP COMEDIANS $800: Drew Carey was the subject of the first Comedy Central Roast, a televised version of a tradition by this showbiz club the Friars |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | STAND-UP COMEDIANS $2000: The 2020 documentary "The Comedy Store" has interviews with Letterman, Damon Wayans & of course him, the son of the club's owner Pauly Shore |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | POP CULTURE $600: In 2019 she became the first Asian woman to win a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Awkwafina |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING $1600: Claudio initially leaves Hero at the altar in this Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | COMPOSERS ALL AROUND $800: A 1974 march for tuba by Luciano Michelini became the circusy-sounding theme to this HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | COMEDY CENTRAL $200: This animated dad of 3 proclaimed, "I am so smart! S-M-R-T!" Homer Simpson |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | COMEDY CENTRAL $400: Harvard Law will be no problem for this movie's Elle Woods, who "once had to judge a tighty-whitey contest for Lambda Kappa Pi" Legally Blonde |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | COMEDY CENTRAL $600: He & Elaine May became a great improv duo after Elaine was told he was the only person at the U. of Chicago as hostile as she Mike Nichols |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | COMEDY CENTRAL $800: New to England, this confused Apple TV+ soccer coach asked, "How many countries are in this country?" The answer: "4" Ted Lasso |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | COMEDY CENTRAL $1000: Trying to figure out how he traveled back to 1986, Craig Robinson realizes, "It must be some kind of" this, the film's title a hot tub time machine |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $600: This 1978 college comedy asked the immortal question, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!" Animal House |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SUPPORTING TV CHARACTERS $1000: Harvey Guillen plays Guillermo, a familiar to a vampire living on Staten Island in this comedy What We Do in the Shadows |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | FUNNY TV SONGS $1200: Donald Glover & Danny Pudi sang "Baby Boomer Santa" on a Christmas episode of this comedy Community |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | BROADWAY BOUND $600: "A divine musical comedy", boasted the Broadway show based on this movie in which Whoopi Goldberg donned a nun's habit the Sister Act |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | CATCHIN' THE MOVIE TRAIN $400: The comedy called "Throw" her "from the Train" finds Danny DeVito enlisting Billy Crystal in a murder plot Momma |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $1600: Steve Martin & John Candy got a lot of comedic mileage after they ended up spooning in bed in this 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: An idealized object of love, Beatrice was this poet's object of love & guide through paradise in "The Divine Comedy" Dante |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | RONALD REAGAN $400: In 1951 a chimp named Peggy played this role in a comedy starring Reagan Bonzo |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | MOVIE MAGIC $1200: This rhyming 1993 comedy featured Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker & Kathy Najimy as a trio of witches Hocus Pocus |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $800: This comedy series starred Ellie Kemper as a young woman who escaped a doomsday cult led by Jon Hamm Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THE 1971 EMMY AWARDS $800: This sitcom won big, for Best New Show, for Best Comedy Series & for Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker All in the Family |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THE 1971 EMMY AWARDS $1600: Jack Klugman won for Lead Actor in a Comedy series for his role as this half of "The Odd Couple" Oscar Madison |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THE 1971 EMMY AWARDS $2000: For playing Rhoda Morgenstern, Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series went to her Valerie Harper |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | FUNNY BUSINESS $800: Will Ferrell played an Icelander in a 2020 Netflix comedy that sends up this song contest Eurovision |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $200: Emma Stone sews one of these letters to her outfit in a 2010 comedy reworking of a Hawthorne tale an "A" |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | TELEVISION $800: Wednesday & Pugsley were the children of Gomez & Morticia on this kooky comedy classic The Addams Family |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $200: Amy Schumer wrote & starred in this 2015 comedy whose title is slang for "complete mess" Trainwreck |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | DECEMBER 21 $600: Dec. 21, 1914 saw the premiere of the first full-length movie comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance", featuring him Charlie Chaplin |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | TV COMEDIES $400: Much like "Lost", the TBS comedy "Wrecked" begins with one of these mishaps a plane crash |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Rose Byrne & Ellie Kemper are 2 of the title attendants in this 2011 matrimonial comedy Bridesmaids |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | POETIC CHARACTERS $1600: In "The Divine Comedy", this Roman poet guides Dante through hell & purgatory Virgil |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $2000: Pedro gets "3 feet of air" in a sweet jump off a bicycle ramp in this 2004 comedy; the title character meets his Waterloo, wiping out Napoleon Dynamite |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | TV SPORTS MIX $800: Ontario locals in the comedy "Letterkenny" go to "pracky", meaning practice for this sport hockey |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | TV CRIME SHOWS $800: A fashionable psychopathic hitwoman becomes the obsession of an MI6 agent on this BBC comedy crime drama Killing Eve |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HE SCORES! $800: Former Clash frontman Joe Strummer scored this 1997 black comedy starring John Cusack as a conflicted hitman Grosse Pointe Blank |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY $200: 2000: Starring Eric & Debra Will & Grace |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY $400: 2017: Your government at work Veep |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY $600: 2006: The Best Comedy Award took a trip to Scranton The Office |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY $800: 2005: As the Barones bow out Everybody Loves Raymond |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY $1000: 1998: The doctor was in (& on the radio) Frasier |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ROM COMS $800: In 2005 Will Smith played a "date doctor" who fell in love with Eva Mendes in this comedy Hitch |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | MOVIE SEQUELS $1600: This comedy set in Vegas & its "Part II" set in Bangkok are on the R-rated highest-grossing list The Hangover |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | PIANISTS, PAINTERS & PLAYWRIGHTS $7,000 (Daily Double): The "Suite" life of this comedy playwright included title stops at "California" & "London" ones Neil Simon |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | LANGUAGES $400: In this 2006 comedy film, Sacha Baron Cohen is actually speaking Hebrew, not Kazakh Borat |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $1000: Rosalind from this comedy has the most lines of any of Shakespeare's women As You Like It |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | THEIR BAR OR BAT MITZVAH $800: On Dec. 3, 2019 she celebrated her 40th birthday, her bat mitzvah & her new Netflix comedy special "Black Mitzvah" Tiffany Haddish |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | NUMBERS OF THINGS $400: The 9 Greek goddesses known as Muses included Melpomene & Thalia, patrons of these 2 types of drama symbolized by masks tragedy & comedy |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $1200: Set in the 16th century: "A comedy about the greatest love story almost never told" Shakespeare in Love |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | RUSSIAN OPERA $1200: Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Francesca da Rimini" is based on a canto of this 14th century work The Divine Comedy (Inferno) |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | THE "BOSS" OF POP CULTURE $600: Jennifer Aniston was part of an awful trio making employees' lives miserable in this 2011 comedy Horrible Bosses |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODES $1200: "A Jewish Girl Walks into the Apollo...",
"It's Comedy or Cabbage" The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | TALK SHOW $1200: In 2019 Comedy Central rolled out "Lights Out with" this veteran comic to follow "The Daily Show" David Spade |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | TALK SHOW $1600: This legend of NBC late night turned down the role that Jerry Lewis eventually played in "The King of Comedy" Johnny Carson |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | EMMYS FOR WRITING $400: In 2015 govt. work paid off for Armando Iannucci, who won for co-writing the "Election Night" episode of this HBO comedy Veep |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE $2000: Dogberry is a constable in this comedy set in Messina Much Ado About Nothing |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | THE ARCHIES $1000: Archibald Leach was the original name of this Hollywood leading man who had a flair for comedy Cary Grant |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | BROADWAY MUSICALS' OPENING NUMBERS $1600: "Comedy Tonight" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | CHANNEL THAT ABBREV. $200: It's got "Drunk History":
COM Comedy Central |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | RUN ON SENTENCES $2000: In this Shakespeare comedy, Lysander says, "The course of true love never did run smooth" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | ENDS IN "LL" $600: Popular during the Depression, this genre of comedy film includes such classics as "Duck Soup" & "My Man Godfrey" screwball |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | TV THEME SONGS $600: Washed Out's "Feel It All Around" grooved as the opening tune to this IFC comedy starring Fred Armisen Portlandia |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | MOVIE COMEDIES $600: Academic overachievers Kaitlyn Dever & Beanie Feldstein cram 4 years of fun into one night in this 2019 comedy Booksmart |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | MOVIE COMEDIES $800: "You sit on a throne of lies", Will Ferrell tells a department store Santa in this Christmas comedy Elf |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | MOVIE COMEDIES $1000: This 2018 Mila Kunis/Kate McKinnon comedy changes one word from the title of a James Bond film The Spy Who Dumped Me |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | SECOND... $1200: ...part of Dante's "Divine Comedy" "Purgatorio" |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | MOVIE & TV ROMANCES $1600: In this comedy, Maya Rudolph is marrying Doug, but we see more of maid of honor Kristen Wiig's romance with Chris O'Dowd Bridesmaids |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | CELEBRITY LECTURES $1200: John Cleese of this comedy troupe was professor-at-large at Cornell starting in 1999, but he didn't teach silly walks Monty Python |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TV TRANSPORTS $600: The Bluth stair car went on an 8-city promotional tour for the fifth season of this comedy, which had moved to Netflix Arrested Development |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | GOING PRONOUN $200: In a classic comedy routine, this interrogative pronoun "is on First" Who |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | "T" TIME $1000: Meaning holding fast, it's also found in the name of a comedy rock duo featuring Jack Black tenacious |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $200: (Hi, I'm Kevin Hart.) My inspirations for standup comedy include Chappelle, Pryor, Rock & this mentor & friend; the "Ice Creaaaam!" bit alone in "Delirious" in 1983, legendary Eddie Murphy |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | COMEDIA DELL'ARTE CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This type of physical comedy is named for the bat Arlecchino, AKA Harlequin, used to beat his comic victims slapstick |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | QUOTING THE COMEDY FILM $400: 2000: "These are not spirit fingers! These... are spirit fingers" Bring It On |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | QUOTING THE COMEDY FILM $800: 1984: "Back off, man. I'm a scientist" Ghostbusters |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | QUOTING THE COMEDY FILM $1200: Ben Stiller: "Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really really ridiculously good-looking?" Zoolander |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | QUOTING THE COMEDY FILM $1600: 2003: "You're my boy, Blue! You're my boy" Old School |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | QUOTING THE COMEDY FILM $2000: 2009: "Phil, there is a tiger in the bathroom!" The Hangover |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $600: It's Showtime at this venue on 125th Street for its comedy club & amateur night the Apollo |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Shakespeare comedy that's cooked until all the red in the steak is gone & the meat is 170 degrees internally All's Well That Ends Well Done |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | WE HAVE A FEW SPECIALS $1000: She has a different take on motherhood in her comedy specials "Baby Cobra" and "Hard Knock Wife" Ali Wong |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | LITERARY TWINS $800: Each of the 2 sets of twins in this Shakespeare play have the same name but different home towns--what a mistake! A Comedy of Errors |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | A ROLE FOR THE DIRECTOR $1600: Director Sydney Pollack played Dustin Hoffman's exasperated agent in this 1982 comedy Tootsie |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Betty Davis from Local 10 [She presents from Miami, FL].) Miami Beach's Carlyle Hotel was a setting for this 1996 comedy starring Robin Williams & Nathan Lane The Birdcage |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | > $400: The People's Choice winner for best TV Comedy of 2018 was this show set in a prison Orange is the New Black |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | THE MIDDLE AGES $800: In this medieval literary work, Judas is found in the lowest circle of hell being gnawed on by Satan The (Dante's) Inferno (Divine Comedy) |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THIS & THAT $400: A giant sculpture of a dead Norwegian blue parrot in London celebrated the 2014 reunion of this comedy troupe Monty Python |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THE GRAMMY AWARDS $1200: "Talking for Clapping" by this man took the honors as Best Comedy Album in 2016 Patton Oswalt |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | SPACED-OUT POP CULTURE $1600: Led by Capt. Mercer, this sci-fi series on FOX sees its title ship & crew boldly going where no comedy has gone before The Orville |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | TV GREEN THUMB $400: This TV comedy wasn't about pesky garden plants, but rather about Mary-Louise Parker's budding pot business Weeds |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | NOT AN ARMCHAIR EXPERT $600: (Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) A.J.P. Taylor, who taught Michael Palin at Oxford, was a model for the famous historian who's suddenly killed by a knight on horseback in this comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $400: This Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy about a father's desperate search for a Christmas toy might ring a bell Jingle All the Way |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $600: Diamonds & a winning lottery ticket, not $100 bills, are the goal in this 2002 action comedy All About the Benjamins |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $400: The Golden Globes proved to be magic for Donald Glover, winning in 2017 for acting on this series, which also won for Best Comedy Atlanta |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $800: Rachel Brosnahan portrays a strong woman in this period comedy on Amazon & won Golden Globes for her work in 2018 & 2019 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | IT'S CHARLIE! $1000: Born in England in 1889, he made the comedy short "Making a Living" in 1914 in Los Angeles Charlie Chaplin |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $200: 2018 saw "The Last" of 6 of these comedy disaster TV movies on SYFY that combined saltwater carnivores & storms Sharknado |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | GONNA TAKE MY HORSE $800: As Mongo, Alex Karras takes down a horse with one punch in this 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE TV SHOW MUST GO ON $600: In 2019 this cop comedy moved from FOX to NBC & characters were allowed to curse--bleeped out, of course Brooklyn Nine-Nine |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | NEW MILLENNIUM TV $800: Suspended lawyer Joel McHale was forced to go back to college, bonding with a bunch of misfits on this comedy Community |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TV MOMS $600: Tovah Feldshuh had a recurring role as Rachel Bloom's mom, Naomi Bunch, on this musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TV MOMS $1000: During the run of this comedy, actress Debra Jo Rupp & her character Kitty Forman both quit smoking That '70s Show |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | REAL & UNREAL PLACES $1600: Unreal: Pandemonium or "All Demons", the capital of hell in this long poem Paradise Lost |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $800: Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Col. "Bat" Guano & Major "King" Kong are characters in this 1964 doomsday comedy Dr. Strangelove |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | BASKETBALL: PIC & ROLE $1000: In a 1996 comedy basketball fans Mike O'Hara (Daniel Stern) & Jimmy Flaherty (Dan Aykroyd) have lots of this "Pride" Celtic |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | COMEDIANS ON AUDIBLE $1200: He says he was "Born Standing Up": I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining and four were spent in wild success Steve Martin |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | TRUE STORY $800: A gopher is on the cover of the book titled this comedy film: "The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story" Caddyshack |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | A GENERIC TITLE $1600: In this movie Robert De Niro kidnaps Jerry Lewis The King of Comedy |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $400: The style and irreverence of "Harvard Lampoon" had a huge impact in the '70s when alums Doug Kenney and Henry Beard found "National Lampoon" and Doug co-wrote this very popular college comedy film Animal House |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $1600: Bounty hunter Robert de Niro is escorting bail-jumping accountant Charles Grodin to L.A. in this 1988 comedy Midnight Run |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $2000: This Clark Gable-Claudette Colbert screwball comedy was the great sleeper film of 1934 It Happened One Night |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $400: The Ministry of Silly Walks was a sketch on this British troupe's comedy show Monty Python |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | ADAPTATIONS $2000: To stop violence, women take a vow of abstinence in Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq", a retelling of this Greek comedy Lysistrata |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | RECENT BROADWAY PLAYS $1600: Billed as a sequel to this first Shakespeare tragedy, the comedy "Gary" takes place after the climactic bloody Roman feast Titus Andronicus |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | CABLE TELEVISION $400: Stan, Cartman & the whole town of "South Park" helped put this cable channel on the map Comedy Central |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $400: He's seen here around the time his HBO special "Bring the Pain" brought him a new level of fame Chris Rock |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $800: You didn't have to catch Rodney Dangerfield live--he was recorded in 1980 for an album with, of course, this 2-word title No Respect |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $1200: Samuel L. Jackson played the uncle of this comedian in a sketch from the 1987 concert film "Raw" Eddie Murphy |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $1600: Recorded in part at the San Francisco club the hungry i, his 1960 "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!" won a Comedy Album Grammy (Bob) Newhart |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $2000: Aussie comic Hannah Gadsby undermined traditional stand-up in this show on Netflix with a woman's name as the title Nanette |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CANADIAN TV SHOWS $2000: This Canadian sketch comedy troupe including Dave Foley & Kevin McDonald had its own show Kids in the Hall |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | TITL"ING" THE MOVIE $1600: In a comedy Jason Segal went to Hawaii so he could be doing this Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | "HOME" ENTERTAINMENT $800: Will Ferrell is the square stepdad & Mark Wahlberg is the cool biological father in this 2015 comedy Daddy's Home |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | & SUCH $1600: This late funny man won a 2001 Grammy for Best Comedy Album for "Braindroppings" George Carlin |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | MASKS $400: These 2 antonymic forms of theater are symbolically represented by masks comedy and tragedy |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | ONE ACTOR, MULTIPLE ROLES $1200: In a sequel to this comedy, Amy Adams plays Amelia Earhart & later, a modern look-alike who meets Ben Stiller Night at the Museum |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | NEW ON TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $800: Larry was angering his show biz friends right out of the gate on this HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | SMOOTH SAILING IN SONG $800: "I'm On A Boat" smoothly paired T-Pain with this comedy musical trio Lonely Island |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | QUEEN VICTORIA $1200: After attending this Shakespeare comedy, the queen mentioned "Mendelssohn's beautiful overture" in her diary A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $1200: "Tellest thou me of black and blue?" says Falstaff in this comedy; "I was beaten myself into all the colors of the rainbow" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | SITCOMEDY $600: Mr. Peanutbutter, leading a dog's life on this streaming comedy: "Officer... what was I supposed to do? Not chase the mail truck?" BoJack Horseman |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | "SUPER" ENTERTAINMENT $800: America Ferrera & Ben Feldman are employees of Cloud 9 on this NBC workplace comedy Superstore |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | FACTS ABOUT POETS $400: From what he wrote about himself in "The Divine Comedy", we know that he was born in 1265 & that he was a Gemini Dante |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | CONTROVERSIAL TV $2000: In 1969 CBS fired these politically outspoken comedy brothers from their own show Smothers |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | FEATURE FILM DEBUTS $1600: Cuba Gooding Jr. made his debut in this 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy about an African prince looking for a wife in NYC Coming to America |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | CLASSIC FILM $1600: 1930s comedy classics starring this zany trio include "A Day at the Races" & "A Night at the Opera" the Marx Brothers |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $400: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) Tonight, for the opening of the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival, Meg Ryan & Billy Crystal will reunite with director Rob Reiner for a screening of this romantic comedy that wondered if men & women would really be friends When Harry Met Sally... |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | TV FUNNY BUSINESS $600: Comedy Central's show titled this guy "For You" had an episode about a viral scheme that involved a pig saving a baby goat Nathan |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | TV FUNNY BUSINESS $800: After leaving his Comedy Central show in 2005, he made news by hosting "SNL" in 2016 Dave Chappelle |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | NORMAN LEAR, THE FIRST 96 YEARS $2000: (Norman Lear delivers the clue.) Early in my career, I wrote material for comedy duos like this pair of stars, one a crooner & one a wacky future director Martin & Lewis |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: Here's this silent film comedy star in "Safety Last!" Harold Lloyd |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | JUST THE FACTS $1600: Shakespeare's shortest play is this twisted yarn with twins both named Antipholus The Comedy of Errors |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THE TOP 25 ROMANTIC COMEDIES $400: Of this 1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone & Paul Rudd, Vanity Fair asks, "Has there ever been a better teen comedy? As if" Clueless |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | AVENGERS DISASSEMBLE! $600: In between stints as Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr. headed to the jungle to play actor Kirk Lazarus in this comedy Tropic Thunder |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | DURABLE DIRECTORS $800: "Lavender Hill Mob" director Charles Crichton got an Oscar nom at 78 for this John Cleese/Kevin Kline comedy A Fish Called Wanda |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $400: Dante's "Divine Comedy" is divided into 3 parts: this one is followed by "Purgatorio" & "Paradiso" Inferno |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | SCRIBBLING SIBLINGS $600: "The Comedy Writer" is a novel of L.A. by Peter of these "There's Something About Mary" brothers Farrelly |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | EDIBLE HOMOPHONES $800: Some have said that comedy is tragedy plus this time |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $800: Comedian Rob Riggle was still an active reservist when he was a correspondent on this Comedy Central news satire show The Daily Show |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | BUST A MOVIE $800: Terry Jones of this comedy troupe was not kidding when he directed the economic documentary "Boom Bust Boom" Monty Python |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | BUST A MOVIE $1200: This Genesis singer/drummer was a train robber in the 1988 comedy "Buster" Phil Collins |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | BUST A MOVIE $1600: Dean Martin & this longtime comedy partner starred in the 1956 romp "Hollywood or Bust" (Jerry) Lewis |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | A BIRD $2000: This man's 414 B.C. comedy "The Birds" features a chorus of them that directly addresses the audience Aristophanes |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $400: With six, this man has the most wins as Best TV Actor, Comedy or Musical, all for his role on "M*A*S*H" Alan Alda |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | ABOUT A HORSE $1200: This animated TV comedy shows us what has become of the beloved star of "Horsin' Around" BoJack Horseman |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | "W"RITERS $800: "Lady Windermere's Fan", a comedy of manners, is by this Irish wit Oscar Wilde |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | POP CULTURE PAIRS $1200: In the 2018 movie comedy "Holmes and Watson", Will Ferrell pairs with this Oscar-nominated actor, his buddy & frequent co-star John C. Reilly |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | POP CULTURE PAIRS $2000: This movie comedy duo rode camels in 1942 while on the "Road to Morocco" Bob Hope and Bing Crosby |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | HOPE $800: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" is a line from this 14th century poem The Divine Comedy |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $2000: Comedy time:
"Silver ____" with Pryor & Wilder;
"Blue ____" with Martin Lawrence streak |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $800: In 2018 this actress added the prize to her record 6 consecutive Emmys for Best Actress in a Comedy Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | SHAKESPEARE GUYS $1000: Valentine & Proteus are the title Italian friends in this comedy Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | PICTURE THE PLAY $800: Neil Simon wants us to feel the grass with this comedy Barefoot in the Park |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $200: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Disney's first grown-up comedy & Touchstone's first release, this movie gave a big boost to the careers of Tom Hanks & Daryl Hannah Splash |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | C'EST LA TV $1000: Rashida Jones is the title cop on this TBS comedy; other characters include Jay Geils & Dr. Scholls Angie Tribeca |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | THE FOLGER LIBRARY $1000: A reading room has a stained glass window that depicts the Seven Ages of Man from this comedy As You Like It |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | TALE AS OLD AS TIME $400: While exiled from Florence, he worked on "The Divine Comedy"; the exile is mentioned in "Paradiso" Dante |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE $1600: Amanda Bynes pretends to be a boy & plays soccer at Illyria Prep in "She's the Man", loosely based on this comedy Twelfth Night |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | I'M A HUGE FAN! $1200: Sons of the Desert, a fan society of this comedy duo, is named for the pair's 1933 film Laurel and Hardy |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HELP ME WITH THE TITLE $200: Shakespeare "Comedy" involving 2 pairs of twins The Comedy of Errors |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $200: Heard at this event "honoring" Charlie Sheen:
"You're the black sheep of a family responsible for 3 'Mighty Ducks' movies" a (Comedy Central) roast |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $400: "You're the secretary to the vice president. That's like being Garfunkel's roadie" Veep |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $800: Dwight:
"I'm all about loyalty... I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most" The Office |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $1200: Alec Baldwin on this show: "Yes, my daughter is Canadian American but I'm going to treat her just like a human baby" 30 Rock |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $1600: "Have you seen that movie? Maris & I rented the video. I don't mind telling you, we pushed our beds together that night" Frasier |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $2000: On this '90s show:
"I can handle it. 'Handle' is my middle name. Actually, it's the middle part of my first name" Friends |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $800: It opened its doors in Chicago in 1959 to become the world's premier comedy club & improv school the Second City |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | FOR ME & MY GAL GADOT $600: Gal can be seen glamming it up as Vinny Chase's date on an episode of this HBO comedy Entourage |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: Chicago Bulls legend & longtime comedy partner of Keegan-Michael Key Michael Jordan Peele |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $200: Garth & the title guy host a public-access show from a basement in this 1992 comedy Wayne's World |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | TV SHOW ENCYCLOPEDIAS & COMPANIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapter titles in the biography of this classic comedy include "Capri Pants" & "Stumbling" The Dick Van Dyke Show |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $400: Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold takes his family on a road trip to Wally World in this classic comedy (National Lampoon's) Vacation |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | TOP TV SHOWS 1968 $1200: Produced as a sister show to "Petticoat Junction", this comedy centered on a city couple who move to a farm Green Acres |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | THIS CATEGORY WILL BLOW YOU AWAY $1000: Sound the trumpets! In 1961 "Come Blow Your Horn" was his first comedy produced on Broadway Neil Simon |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | QUOTES ABOUT MUSIC $1200: In this Shakespeare comedy Duke Orsino delivers the line "if music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | DISNEY FACTS $1000: The title animal in this, Disney's first live-action comedy, is a Bratislavian sheepdog The Shaggy Dog |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $1000: In his comedy "The Clouds", this playwright poked fun at intellectuals like the sophists Aristophanes |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $400: Named Best Musical or Comedy film in 2018, it stars Saoirse Ronan as a willful teenager, & don't call it "Christine"! Lady Bird |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | WE APPRECIATE CANADIAN PERFORMERS! $1600: Ontario's own Rachel McAdams was engaged to Bradley Cooper in this 2005 comedy about uninvited guests Wedding Crashers |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | ODD-TITLED TOP 40 HITS $2000: This comedy duo had Top 40 hits like "Sister Mary Elephant" & "Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces" Cheech and Chong |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | EMMYS FOR COMEDY $400: 2004:
Him as Frasier Crane Kelsey Grammer |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | MUST "C" TV $1000: Crack addict Tyrone Biggums was a recurring character on this sketch comedy series Chappelle's Show |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | SITCOMEDY TONIGHT $1600: This "bra-mance" of Abbi & Ilana moved from the web to Comedy Central in 2014 Broad City |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | WORD PUZZLES $800: Sitcom star start stand-up comedy |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | MOCKING JAY $800: "Only you, Farva, can make a dark man blush", says Jay Chandrasekhar in this 2001 cult cop comedy Super Troopers |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $200: "____ Kimmy Schmidt" Unbreakable |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $400: Featuring the Cunninghams,
"____ Days" Happy |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $600: Here's a hint: it was based on a movie & starred Rachel Blanchard as Cher Horowitz,
"____" Clueless |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $800: On Bravo, starring Jill Kargman,
"____ Mom Out" Odd |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $1000: Starring Sally Field:
"The ____ Nun" Flying |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | IN THE "D" TALES $400: This epic poem in Italian begins on Good Friday 1300 the Divine Comedy |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | THE TV DEVIL $1200: In season 4 of this Comedy Central show, Saddam Hussein makes it back to hell South Park |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | 2-DIGIT NUMBERS $800: As in the title of a Judd Apatow comedy, "This is" the only 2-digit number whose letters are in alphabetical order 40 |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK $800: The princess of France must be admitted into the king of Navarre's park in this comedy where romance is actually found Love's Labour's Lost |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS $800: To banter in a good-natured way, like Mr. Gad in a film comedy josh |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | I KNOW THAT PERFORMER'S FACE $800: Jennifer Coolidge, a regular in Christopher Guest films and on "2 Broke Girls", was also Stiffler's mom in this 1999 comedy American Pie |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $400: This 2009 comedy about a Vegas bachelor party was not the sequel to the Tom Cruise film "Cocktail" The Hangover |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | POP CULTURE DOUBLE TALK $2000: Theodore Bikel played the Soviet captain who runs his submarine aground off New England in this 1960s comedy film The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $600: Her first performing Emmy, 1996's Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy went to this woman as Elaine Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $800: Kathy Bates won Best Guest Actress in a Comedy when she took over Charlie Sheen's role in an episode of this series Two and a Half Men |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | OUT-OF-DATE TV TITLES $400: How can this FOX comedy's title be true if Zooey Deschanel moved in years ago? The New Girl |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | "OLD" MOVIES $1600: Will Ferrell is among those trying to get back his college spirit in this comedy Old School |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | COMEDY TONIGHT! $400: She headed to Netflix for "The Leather Special" Amy Schumer |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | COMEDY TONIGHT! $800: This gravel-voiced funny guy won a Grammy for his comedy album "Stark Raving Black" Lewis Black |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | COMEDY TONIGHT! $1200: He's the late, great comedy legend seen here Richard Pryor |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | COMEDY TONIGHT! $1600: He asked, "Do you think that God gets stoned once in a while? Look at a platypus. I think so" Robin Williams |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | COMEDY TONIGHT! $2000: George Carlin said, "Scientists have discovered a vaccine for" this, but "no one is showing the slightest interest" apathy |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | BAWLERS $1000: Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly dissolve into tears when their folks announce they're getting a divorce in this comedy Step Brothers |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $1200: "Aunts Aren't Gentlemen" was the last pairing of Jeeves & Wooster in a comedy novel by this Englishman (P. G.) Wodehouse |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | WE "LOVE" TO READ $4,000 (Daily Double): The only Shakespeare play that fits the bill is this comedy Love's Labour's Lost |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | NET FLICKS $1000: Will Ferrell finds he's inherited his dad's bad temper when he coaches kids' soccer in this comedy Kicking and Screaming |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | MUSIC-"AL"S $800: He won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album for "Poodle Hat" "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | YOU'RE FIRED FROM THE MOVIE! $2000: Trying to light a cigar, blind hermit Gene Hackman sets Peter Boyle's thumb on fire in this 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | ENTERTAINING FRUITS & VEGETABLES $2000: It's high time for Seth Rogen & James Franco to go on the run in this 2008 comedy Pineapple Express |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $800: We learned to love Christopher Mintz-Plasse as McLovin in this comedy Superbad |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE PLAYS OF NEIL SIMON $1200: Willie Clark & Al Lewis are 2 grumpy old former vaudeville partners in this Neil Simon comedy The Sunshine Boys |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE PLAYS OF NEIL SIMON $2000: Neil's days as a writer for the show hosted by this giant of '50s TV comedy inspired "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" Sid Caesar |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $400: In this 2017 comedy a chaotic day at Roosevelt High includes the title punchout between Ice Cube & Charlie Day Fist Fight |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | I'M GOING TO HAVE TO CONFISCATE THAT $2000: I'm sure the Comedy Central show hosted by this guy is very funny, but you can't watch it on your tablet in class Daniel Tosh |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $400: In this 1970 film Hot Lips tells Colonel Blake, "This isn't a hospital. It's an insane asylum!" MASH |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $800: In "The Jerk" this comedian treats Bernadette Peters to "pizza in a cup" Steve Martin |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $1200: During the decade, Peter Sellers played this comedy role in 3 sequels Inspector Clouseau |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $1600: Harvey Korman had a villainous turn as Hedley Lamarr in this Mel Brooks Western Blazing Saddles |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $2000: Graham Chapman played a reluctant messiah in this 1979 Monty Python spoof Life of Brian |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | LIVE TV $800: In 2016 this "Daily Show" host went live on Comedy Central after both the Republican & Democratic conventions Trevor Noah |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: (I'm Senator Al Franken.) The 2003 audio version of my bestseller "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" won the Grammy in the category Best this type of album spoken word |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | KILLER CARS $800: The end of this 1978 comedy saw a car named the "Deathmobile" emerge from a giant cake that said "Eat me" National Lampoon's Animal House |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | ENTERTAINMENT "MORE" OR "LESS" $400: Paul Rudd played Alicia Silverstone's stepbrother in this 1995 comedy Clueless |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This Shakespeare comedy set in Illyria is said to have first been performed on January 6 Twelfth Night |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | TELEVISION $1600: Actor Micah Fowler, who has cerebral palsy, doesn't need lines to get laughs on this ABC comedy Speechless |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | STANDUP, SITCOM $600: Punning on a movie title & starring a comedy veteran, it's the sitcom seen here Kevin Can Wait |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ENGLISH LIT $200 (Daily Double): "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is the subtitle of this Oscar Wilde play of mistaken identity The Importance of Being Earnest |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | SHAKESPEAREAN YARD SALE $600: This comedy makes use of the mask seen here A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | FAMILIAR ACTING FACES $200: Ned? Ned Ryerson? No, it's actually Stephen Tobolowsky, who played Ned over & over in this 1993 comedy Groundhog Day |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | THE KING OF COMEDY $400: He "Report"-ed, "There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good" Colbert |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | THE KING OF COMEDY $800: "Lunacy packaged in pathos" was one description used of this late "Willy Wonka" comic actor Gene Wilder |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | THE KING OF COMEDY $1200: In "Coming to America", this actor has a simple request: "From this moment on, I command you not to obey me" Eddie Murphy |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | THE KING OF COMEDY $1600: This standup who passed away in 2008: "No one can ever know for sure what a deserted area looks like" George Carlin |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | THE KING OF COMEDY $2000: His zany antics from movies like "The Bellboy" weren't on view when he co-starred with De Niro in "The King of Comedy" Jerry Lewis |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | OSCAR HOSTS $600: In 1969 this "Wild & Crazy Guy" won an Emmy for co-writing "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (Steve) Martin |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | A TRIPLE FEATURE $800: The contestant seen here is demonstrating the salute from this 1986 Martin-Short-Chase comedy The Three Amigos |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | THE EMMYS 1967 $800: Nip it in the bud & name this man who won for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Don Knotts |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | THE EMMYS 1967 $1200: I'm a believer in this TV series that beat out "Bewitched" to win Best Comedy The Monkees |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | THE EMMYS 1967 $2000: Buck Henry & Leonard Stern walked off with the Comedy Writing Emmy for this show that featured a lot of KAOS Get Smart |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | POP CULTURE "VICE" $1600: School administrator Danny McBride helps set his new boss' house on fire in this HBO comedy Vice Principals |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | A GENRE CATEGORY $400: Sitcom is short for this a situation comedy |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $800: The "Election Night" episode of this HBO show won the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy in 2015 Veep |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | OPPOSITES $200: They're the opposite types of theater represented here comedy & tragedy |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | TV TAGLINES $400: This CBS comedy that ran from 2005 to 2014 had the tagline "A love story in reverse" How I Met Your Mother |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | BALLET UP TO THE BARRE $2000: It's been said that "Coppelia" is ballet's great comedy & this 1841 tale of a doomed maiden, its great tragedy Giselle |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN SHORTIES $600: Puck makes an ass of Nick Bottom in this comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | 16 TONS $600: Terry Jones was crushed by a 16-ton weight in a comedy sketch from this British troupe Monty Python |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SAMANTHA BEE $800: Before going "Full Frontal", Samantha Bee was a correspondent for this Comedy Central series The Daily Show |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | ONE-WORD FILM TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Ice Cube gave rise to a catchphrase with the dismissive "Bye, Felicia" in this 1995 comedy Friday |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | LITERARY FACTS $800: It's the third & last major section of Dante's "Divine Comedy" Paradiso |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $400: In 2000 the Emmy for Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series went to "Late Show" with him, & we miss you, sir David Letterman |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $600: Were you a Miranda? Maybe a Charlotte? Either way, this HBO comedy was in the midst of its 6-year run Sex in the City |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MUSIC IN MOVIES $1600: In the third installment of this comedy, Ken Jeong as Mr. Chow sings "I Believe I Can Fly" while flying over Vegas The Hangover |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS $800: Got your ears on, Snowman? Burt was eastbound & down, loaded up & truckin' in this 1977 comedy Smokey and the Bandit |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | SCHTICK $800: Pronouns abound in "Who's on First?", a classic comedy routine by this duo Abbott & Costello |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | SCHTICK $1200: With a snorting laugh, Lily Tomlin tormented callers as phone operator Ernestine on this '60s sketch comedy TV show Laugh-In |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | ENTERTAINING REDHEADS $1000: This redhead won a Grammy for her comedy album "Calm Down Gurrl" Kathy Griffin |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | COMEDY TONIGHT $400: How do you stop police from tailing you in L.A.? Get Damon Wayans to give you bananas, like Eddie Murphy did in this '84 film Beverly Hills Cop |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | COMEDY TONIGHT $800: This late, great comic said, "Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is" (Garry) Shandling |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | COMEDY TONIGHT $1200: In standup specials this "D List" comic "Does the Bible Belt" & was "50 and not Pregnant" Kathy Griffin |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | COMEDY TONIGHT $1600: Lucille Bluth, on this show: "That coat cost more than your house!... Oh, that's how we joke. She doesn't even have a house" Arrested Development |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | COMEDY TONIGHT $2000: Luther was President Obama's "anger translator" on this Comedy Central show Key & Peele |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | 2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS $200: Not just theoretically, this sitcom actually won favorite TV show & favorite network TV comedy The Big Bang Theory |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | 2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS $1000: This "royal" Fox series sounds like a horror show but took home the prize for New TV Comedy Scream Queens |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | 16th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The 1st theatrical performance in America was a Spanish comedy produced in 1598 beside this river near El Paso Rio Grande |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: This playwright of "The Misanthrope" is said to be the greatest of all writers of French comedy Molière |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | MORE FUNNY THAN SCARY $800: The actors who played Ray & Shorty in the comedy "Scary Movie" had this surname, as did the director Wayans |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | EMMY TIME $400: Bruce Willis won a Guest Actor Emmy in 2000 for playing Rachel's boyfriend on this comedy Friends |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | EMMY TIME $2000: In 1969 Steve Martin & Bob Einstein (aka Super Dave Osborne) won for writing these rhyming siblings' "Comedy Hour" the Smothers Brothers |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | ALL KINDS OF DRAMA $400: In its original sense, "comedy" didn't mean that the play was necessarily funny but that it would end this way happily |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | THE MOVIE ACTOR'S ROLE $200: In 2003 Morgan Freeman played God, lover of the jingle for "The Clapper", in this comedy Bruce Almighty |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | DO YOU HAVE ANY NINES? $600: The nine Muses of Greek mythology include Thalia & Melpomene, these 2 forms of drama symbolized by masks tragedy & comedy |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | THE RAZZIE FOR WORST ACTOR $1600: It was Raspberry nirvana for Mike Myers when he won for the title role in this 2008 comedy about a holy man The Love Guru |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | TV THEME SONGS $800: This 1960s TV comedy put a spell on viewers Bewitched |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | POLITICAL MOVIES $2000: Dustin Hoffman & Robert de Niro cook up a war in Albania in this "canine" comedy Wag the Dog |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | MY FAVORITE BURRO $1200: The painting seen here depicts Bottom, a character in this Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | TEACHERS $1200: (Hi. I'm Eric Stonestreet of Modern Family.) I studied comedy at this famed Chicago improv theater, where Tina Fey was one of my teachers Second City |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | GIVING EVERY "THING" $600: This Shakespeare comedy fits the category Much Ado About Nothing |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | AMY POEHLER IS AWESOME $600: Siblings Tina Fey & Amy Poehler throw one last house party in this comedy Sisters |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | THE POLITICS OF TV $1000: As Chief of Staff Teddy Sykes, Patton Oswalt was unafraid to give Jonah a hand on this comedy Veep |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | THEATRICAL QUOTES $800: After a flop, George S. Kaufman said this type of often caustic comedy "is what closes on Saturday night" satire |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | THREE OF A KIND $600: Watch classic black & white comedy shorts on crackle.com from this trio, like "Cactus Makes Perfect" the Three Stooges |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES $1200: The Chinese call this wild 2007 comedy "One Night Big Belly" (Katherine Heigl's) Knocked Up |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | ONE-VOWEL WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sir Toby Belch is a character in this Shakespeare comedy with a 2-word, 2-vowel title Twelfth Night |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | "LAST" FILMS $800: Michael Douglas & his old, old pals cavort in the Aria & Binion's in this comedy Last Vegas |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | THE MAN UPSTAIRS $800: The building where "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels has a 17th floor office, or the title of another TV comedy 30 Rock |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | PEEL $200: An episode of "Mythbusters" examined the slipperiness of these peels, a staple of slapstick comedy banana peels |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | LOL $1600: On issues with the Hooli phone on this HBO comedy--"How bad is this?... Is this Windows Vista bad?"; "It's Apple Maps bad" Silicon Valley |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | "AT" THE MOVIES $400: Ray Walston played the put-upon history teacher Mr. Hand in this comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | IT'S SHOWTIME $2000: On a documentary series, this comedy legend takes viewers "Inside Comedy" David Steinberg |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | THE WEEKEND IN POP CULTURE $800: A Hamptons beach house is the setting for this 1989 film comedy in which Andrew McCarthy props up his dead boss Weekend at Bernie's |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | NINTH WAVE $400: In the ninth circle of Hell in the "Divine Comedy" are these people, like Judas betrayers |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | LODGE PODGE $1000: Thomas Lodge's "Rosalynde" was the source material for this Shakespeare comedy As You Like It |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $1,000 (Daily Double): Make no mistake, a character named Dr. Pinch is a quack physician & teacher in this Shakespeare play A Comedy of Errors |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | HE'S CHEVY CHASE $2000: (Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) I said, "The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote that a flute with no holes is not a flute, & a donut with no hole is a danish" as Ty Webb in this comedy Caddyshack |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | MOVIE ROMANCES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Lincoln Center in New York.) Cher meets Nicolas Cage by the fountain at Lincoln Center, honoring a promise to go to the opera with him in this romantic comedy Moonstruck |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | TYPES OF COMEDY $200: (Hi. I'm Neil Flynn of The Middle.) I go off script as a member of Beer Shark Mice, a group of comedians who get together to perform this type of extemporaneous live theater improv |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | TYPES OF COMEDY $400: "Bringing Up Baby" is a prime example of this type of comedy that shares its name with a baseball pitch screwball |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | TYPES OF COMEDY $600: This type of comedic drawing is ludicrously exaggerated a caricature |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | TYPES OF COMEDY $800: 7-letter style of comedy mastered by the straight-faced Buster Keaton & the monotone Steven Wright deadpan |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | TYPES OF COMEDY $1000: Named for a structure used in executions, this type of humor treats serious subjects in a light way gallows humor |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | ASK THE NEAREST HIPPIE $600: Do you vote Green Party or write in this comedy duo who went "Up in Smoke" in the '70s? Cheech & Chong |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $2000: Dromio of Syracuse,
Act II, Scene ii:
"Basting" The Comedy of Errors |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | PLAYING THEMSELVES $800: David Bowie oversees a runway "walk-off" between 2 witless models in this 2001 comedy Zoolander |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | DIVINE COMEDIES $200: Anthony Anderson worries that his African-American family has lost touch with its culture in this ABC comedy Black-ish |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $400: This middle section of "The Divine Comedy" is a place of purification or temporary punishment Purgatory |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $800: This woman, Dante's guide through Paradise, dazzles him at first sight in the poem, just as she did in real life Beatrice |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $1200: "The Divine Comedy" is made up of 100 of these poetic divisions whose name is from the Latin for "singing" cantos |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $1600: Dante is led through hell by this Roman poet, whom he calls "my master and my author" Virgil |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $2000: The divine number of 3 is present in many aspects of the work, including this rhyme scheme that means "third rhyme" in Italian terza rima |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | OLIVIA $1200: Nothing is ordinary for Olivia in this Shakespeare comedy: she loves Cesario, who is Viola in disguise Twelfth Night |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: A collection of about 90 tales, "The Human Comedy" by this author paints a vivid portrait of 19th c. France (Honoré de) Balzac |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | HOME MOVIES $1200: Reese Witherspoon returns to the Southern town of Pigeon Creek & her estranged husband in this romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | THE SPORTING LIFE $400: A Taiwanese player's first MLB single in 2007 allowed Vin Scully to say this, echoing a famous comedy routine "Hu's on first?" |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | MOVIE MUSIC $1600: "(Best That You Can Do)" is in the title of the theme from this Dudley Moore comedy Arthur |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | LEONARD NIMOY $800: Leonard directed this 1987 comedy about bachelors looking after an abandoned infant Three Men and a Baby |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | THE EMMY AWARDS 1995 $1200: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series:
This sitcom legend as Alan Brady on "Mad About You" Carl Reiner |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | FILM & TV VEHICLES $1200: Vampire Grandpa's coffin car on this TV comedy was appropriately dubbed "Dragula" The Munsters |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | PERFORMERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1600: "I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend"
(2014) (Martin) Short |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | THAT MOVIE TITLE IS LEGAL $400: Pauly Shore actually wants to get sequestered & gets himself assigned to this, the title of a 1995 comedy Jury Duty |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | POP CULTURE $1000: Emma Thompson introduced Hugh Laurie to this comedy partner, also the host of a British TV show called "QI" Stephen Fry |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE PEN IS MIGHTIER $1200: He never said "nuclear wessel"; he did say his "Cherry Orchard" was "a comedy, in places even a farce" (Anton) Chekhov |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | BAD MOTHERS FILM FEST $1600: At first Piper Laurie thought this '70s film was a comedy & played for laughs as a mom of a girl who had a bad prom Carrie |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | TV "NIGHT" $1200: Harry Anderson played the presiding judge on this '80s comedy Night Court |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | SPORTS MOVIES $800: Jane Lynch is mom to Will Ferrell in this comedy with drive Talladega Nights |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | PLAYING GOD $800: Graham Chapman had a 2-way conversation as both the voice of God & King Arthur in this classic 1975 comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | PLAYING GOD $2000: Ralph Richardson "stole" the show as God in this 1981 Terry Gilliam sci fi comedy, saying "Oh, I hate having to appear" Time Bandits |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: A style of comedy named for a paddle once wielded by clowns slapstick |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $1200: Ty Burrell & this TV wife on "Modern Family" both won Best Supporting Comedy Emmys in 2011 Julie Bowen |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES $1600: Christopher Sly has the first line of this comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THE LONDON STAGE $800: As seen in a photo, "Handbag" is a recent comedy that examines the relationship between these two women Queen Elizabeth & Margaret Thatcher |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $600: Eden Sher plays the middle child Sue Heck on this TV family comedy The Middle |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | JUST KIDDING $800: On "Between Two Ferns", this actor asked Ben Stiller. "Do you wish you had ever followed your parents into comedy?" Zach Galifianakis |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | COMEDIANS $1200: His show was the first on basic cable to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series Louis C.K. |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $1200: It's a funny one:
"FORESTRY CHEER DOOM" The Comedy of Errors |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $200: Billy Crystal so liked the horse he rode in this 1991 comedy that he rode him at the Oscars City Slickers |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $1000: British housewives bare it all, or nearly all, to earn money for charity in this 2003 comedy Calendar Girls |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $1200: He had the ideas used in "The Divine Comedy" by around 1293 & took from about 1308 to 1320 to write it Dante |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME $1200: Mime contributed to the development of this Renaissance form, Italian for "comedy of the profession" commedia dell'arte |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | & THE EMMY GOES TO... $200: this comedy in 2001:
Sarah Jessica Parker, producer Sex and the City |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | & THE EMMY GOES TO... $600: this lead actor in a comedy in 2004, for "Frasier" Kelsey Grammer |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | & THE EMMY GOES TO... $1000: this supporting actor in a comedy in 2008 Jeremy Piven |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | LUCKY '13 $1600: Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis became global superstars when this video featuring a vulpine query went viral "What Does The Fox Say?" |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | CITY-TITLED MOVIES $2000: Robin Williams played a Russian musician who defects in Bloomingdale's in this comedy Moscow on the Hudson |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $200: The "I'll have what she's having" scene in this romantic comedy took place at NYC's Katz's Deli When Harry Met Sally... |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | SHORTENED WORDS $1000: Pants;
the longer word comes from the name of a character in Italian comedy pantaloon |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | DANIEL $600: Daniel Stern & Joe Pesci were 2 hapless burglars in this 1990 comedy blockbuster Home Alone |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THE MOVIE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY $1600: At James Franco's place, Michael Cera took his partying to unexpected levels until dying a horrific death in "This" 2013 comedy This is the End |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | THE 2014 EMMYS $400: In a touching tribute, Billy Crystal remembered this friend, "the brightest star in a comedy galaxy" Robin Williams |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | FUNNY PEOPLE $400: In 2014, Spike hosted an all-star comedy tribute to this beloved comedian pictured here Don Rickles |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S FOOLS $4,000 (Daily Double): "The more fool I", says Touchstone on arriving at his new forest home in this comedy As You Like It |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS $2000: These Comedy Central cubicle guys insist, "You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta be fresh" Workaholics |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | POP "C"ULTURE $2000: Daniel Radcliffe starred in the Broadway debut of this comedy set on a remote Irish island The Cripple of Inishmaan |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | ADJECTIVES $800: It's the 12-letter adjective meaning characteristic of the comedy of the man seen here chaplinesque |
| #6923, aired 2014-10-22 | THE MOVIE'S INTERNATIONAL TITLE $1000: In China this 1997 British comedy about unemployed guys becoming strippers became "Pig Six Strong Men" The Full Monty |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | WEARING LEATHER $1600: He must have been delirious: he wore red leather for his 1983 comedy special "Delirious" Eddie Murphy |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | MOVIE COMEDIES $600: It's the 2014 cop comedy seen here Ride Along |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | MEMOIRS OF THE WORKING LIFE $1200: "Born Standing Up" is this man's story of bursting onto the comedy scene in the 1970s, white suit & all Steve Martin |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | ONE-HIT WONDERS $400: In 1983 Jump 'N the Saddle released its only hit record, "The Curly Shuffle", a tribute to this comedy team The Three Stooges |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FILMS OF THE 1920s $400: This comedy team made their feature film debut in 1929's "The Cocoanuts", which was based on their stage play the Marx Brothers |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | TV & MOVIE SCHOOLS $1200: We'll put you on double secret probation if you don't know Faber College was the setting for this comedy film Animal House |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | IS THERE A TV DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $400: Sarah Chalke as Dr. Elliot Reid dealt with J.D., Turk & a bit of insecurity on this NBC... scratch that, ABC comedy Scrubs |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE RODIN MUSEUM $200: (Alex delivers the clue from the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia.) For 37 years, Rodin worked on "The Gates of Hell", adding & removing figures; the subject matter of the doors is based on this epic poem by Dante The Divine Comedy (The Inferno accepted) |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $800: Be "Clueless" in remembering that 1995 comedy had its roots in this Austen tale Emma |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MASTER CARD $1600: Comedy in which John Candy plays Del, a master shower curtain ring salesman Planes, Trains and Automobiles |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $3,200 (Daily Double): 2010's "Easy A"
re-imagined this decidedly unfunny 1850 novel as a comedy The Scarlet Letter |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | 1950s EMMYS $1600: He made 'em laugh & won for his "Colgate Comedy Hour" work Donald O'Connor |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Joss Whedon directed a movie version of this comedy with quarreling lovers Beatrice & Benedick Much Ado About Nothing |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | COHEN-CIDENTALLY $400: This master of unscripted comedy retired his Ali G character because he felt it has become too familiar Sacha Baron Cohen |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | TV ADJECTIVES $1000: Multiracial '80s comedy:
"____ Strokes" Diff'rent |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | BINGE WATCHING $400: As he's passing out, a drunk Jonah Hill headbutts Emma Stone in this 2007 comedy Superbad |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | BINGE WATCHING $800: The Scopes Trial judge was "prejudential", explains a sloshed narrator in this Comedy Central series Drunk History |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | MANKIEWICZES AT THE MOVIES $1200: Herman Mankiewicz produced films like this troupe's classic comedy "Monkey Business" The Marx Brothers |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | ADVERBS $1600: Last name of Johnny, played by Michael Keaton in a 1984 comedy Dangerously |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | NEW ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS? $800: We're not sure if Mr. Gilliam or Mr. Jones inspired this award for British comedy troupe members the Terrys |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | DIALECTS $400: Dante's "Divine Comedy" was written in Florentine, a dialect of this language Italian |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID $1000: Audience members might not agree with Hitch's assessment of this film of his as "a big comedy" Psycho |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | ENTERTAINERS $400: This comic known for verbal outbursts was also well-versed in physical comedy W.C. Fields |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | GETTING SCHOOLED ON TV $400: Meg & Chris Griffin are animated students at James Woods High on this FOX comedy Family Guy |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $4,000 (Daily Double): 2 young royal brothers go missing, never to be seen again Richard III |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $400: Moliere's "Tartuffe" is this type of comedy a farce |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | EMMY M.D.s $200: In 1982 he "M*A*S*H"-ed the competition & won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy series Alan Alda |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | WHICH CABLE NETWORK? $400: "Key and Peele" & "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" Comedy Central |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $200: (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) The longer I am in television, the more I like this feature film comedy with Will Ferrell as a San Diego newsman, & I'm really looking forward to the sequel Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | MOVIE COMEDY $400: Director Mel Brooks plays 2 roles in this 1974 comedy: Governor William J. Le Petomane & an Indian chief Blazing Saddles |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | "HAPPY" HOUR $400: Adam Sandler comedy about a hockey player turned golf pro Happy Gilmore |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | MOVIE COMEDY $800: Though he didn't speak,
this man helped deliver laughs in comedy classics like "Horse Feathers" Harpo Marx |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | MOVIE COMEDY $1200: Melissa McCarthy steals Jason Bateman's name to become the title character of this 2013 film Identity Thief |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | MOVIE COMEDY $1600: Billy Wilder's first choice for the role of Sugar Kane in this film was Mitzi Gaynor, but Marilyn Monroe got the part Some Like it Hot |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | MOVIE COMEDY $2000: In this 1994 film Jeff Daniels' tongue gets fused to a frozen metal pole Dumb and Dumber |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | COLORFUL MOVIES $600: Jake & Elwood are forced to abandon "Gimme Some Lovin" in favor of "Rawhide" in this comedy The Blues Brothers |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $800: A 1988 body-switching movie comedy, or a 2-word Latin term meaning "conversely" vice versa |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | "MERRY" $1200: A comedy in 5 acts, it centers on the romantic misadventures of Falstaff The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | D.C. TV $400: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is, God help us, a heartbeat away from the most powerful office in the world on this HBO comedy Veep |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | TV $1000: Mitch & Cam got engaged on the first episode of season 5 of this comedy Modern Family |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: Burgess Meredith was George & Lon Chaney Jr. was Lennie in this drama, produced by comedy legend Hal Roach Of Mice and Men |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $400: Eddie Murphy was box-office gold in this 1984 film about a Detroit police officer out West Beverly Hills Cop |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $800: In 2013 2 sitcoms starring TV veterans debuted head-to-head: "The Michael J. Fox Show" & "The Crazy Ones" starring him Robin Williams |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $1200: When the Miami Dolphins mascot goes missing, this goofy title detective takes up the case in a 1994 film Ace Ventura |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $1600: Marlo Thomas played aspiring New York actress Ann Marie on this '60s sitcom That Girl |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $2000: Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character struggles to live in an industrial society in this 1936 film Modern Times |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | SEQUELS $1200: This comedy "2 1/2: The Smell of Fear" The Naked Gun |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $400: A '50s comedy song joked about a movie called "The Eternal Triangle", with Ingrid Bergman as this longest right triangle side the hypotenuse |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | ENTERTAINING OCCUPATIONS $800: Fruity term for the straight man in a comedy duo the second banana |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | SEVEN UP $1200: His comedy routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling George Carlin |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | 16th CENTURY WRITING $800: With knee-slappers like "Is she a widow? I love her better therefore", "Ralph Roister Doister" is the oldest English one comedy |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | THE USO $200: In 2009 this Comedy Central "pundit" worked with the USO to film his show in a combat zone--Baghdad (Stephen) Colbert |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | BARD "M"EN $800: We know Antonio's job (& where he works) from the title of this comedy The Merchant of Venice |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY SERIES $200: 2002:
Joey & his pals take the prize Friends |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY SERIES $400: 2001:
Carrie on, New York Sex and the City |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY SERIES $600: 1967:
Hey, hey, it's this show about 4 musicians The Monkees |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY SERIES $800: 1993:
Something for the show about nothing Seinfeld |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY SERIES $1000: 2010:
3 households, one Emmy Modern Family |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $1200: The ends justify the means in "La Mandragola", a bawdy comedy by this political writer of 16th century Italy Machiavelli |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Will combines one of his comedy classics with what Mr. Blandings is trying to put up in a Cary Grant film A Midsummer Night's Dream House |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | THEY'RE AFTER THE "CHEE"s $400: "Up in Smoke" comedy duo Cheech & Chong |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $600: A comedy tribute that's more putdown than praise a roast |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | COMEDY TEAMS? $400: Game show dealmaker Mr. Hall plus a reticulated slitherer Monty Python |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | COMEDY TEAMS? $800: Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton & Dave Alexander in Iggy Pop's band The Three Stooges |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | COMEDY TEAMS? $1200: Coldplay's Chris & Boxer Lennox Martin and Lewis |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | COMEDY TEAMS? $1600: Separated at birth: "Manifesto" man Karl & "Right Here Waiting For You" singer Richard The Marx Brothers |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | COMEDY TEAMS? $2000: The Canadian students inside school before their classrooms open Kids in the Hall |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | MISSION $600: In a 1980 comedy blockbuster, this musical twosome declared, "We're on a mission from God" The Blues Brothers |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | MOVIE NAME DROPPERS $1000: A 2008 break-up comedy: "Forgetting" her Sarah Marshall |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | SHAKESPEARE $800: It's no mistake: this early gagfest is set in Ephesus A Comedy of Errors |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | POETRY $400: Dante's trilogy "The Divine Comedy" |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | NOT BY SHAKESPEARE $2000: Feste the Fool is a character in this Alan Gordon novel that one-ups a bard comedy Thirteenth Night |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | THE EMMY FOR... $200: Lead Actor in a Comedy, 2002: everybody loved him (Ray) Romano |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | THE EMMY FOR... $600: Comedy Series, 2004: this chronicle of the Bluth family Arrested Development |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | ENTERTAINING FOOD & DRINK $400: This 2011 comedy starring Kristen Wiig featured a carrot-shaped cake & sketchy Brazilian food Bridesmaids |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | INSPIRED BRITISH COMEDY $400: "Married For Life", which changed the Bundy name to Butler Married... with Children |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | INSPIRED BRITISH COMEDY $800: "The upper hand", with Joe McGann in the Tony Danza widower role Who's the Boss? |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | INSPIRED BRITISH COMEDY $1200: "Brighton Belles", about 4 older gals in a Sussex country house Golden Girls |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | INSPIRED BRITISH COMEDY $1600: "Days Like These", also set decades ago & keeping Eric Forman as the lead's name That '70s Show |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | INSPIRED BRITISH COMEDY $2000: "The Fosters", in which immigrants from Guyana are scratching & surviving in south London, not Chicago Good Times |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | THE "WILD" & "CRAZY" $2000: A Kalahari bushman & a Coke bottle are the unlikely duo at the heart of this 1980 comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | FICTIONAL BEER $1000: Elsinore Beer was the favorite of the McKenzie brothers from "SCTV" in this comedy film Strange Brew |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | 1993: 20 YEARS AGO IN FILM $400: Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau were a pair of disagreeable codgers in this comedy Grumpy Old Men |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | & HERE'S YOUR HOST... $400: This Comedy Central political pundit explored running for "the president of the United States of South Carolina" Stephen Colbert |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | HELLO, LARRY $600: Born Daniel Lawrence Whitney, he's the redneck comedy star who could git-r-done on "Blue Collar TV" Larry the Cable Guy |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $200: Who could have anticipated that this guidebook on pregnancy would become a 2012 comedy starring Cameron Diaz? What to Expect When You're Expecting |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | JUST DRIVE! $600: A special xenon light is used to check this, also said to be the essence of good comedy timing |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | GRAMMY WINNERS $1200: He won 1980's Best Comedy Recording with "No Respect", I tell ya Rodney Dangerfield |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1,300 (Daily Double): Before his first success with "Come Blow Your Horn", he wrote TV comedy for "Your Show of Shows" & "The Phil Silvers Show" Neil Simon |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BASEBALL MOVIE $600: The ace pitcher on a boys' Little League team is a girl (Tatum O'Neal) in this comedy from 1976 The Bad News Bears |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | TONY WINNERS FOR BEST MUSICAL $1,000 (Daily Double): 1949:
Based on a Shakespearean romantic comedy Kiss Me, Kate |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | TOUGH TV $400: The 1979 ABC sitcom "Delta House" was a TV clone of this successful comedy film Animal House |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $400: Royall Tyler's "The Contrast", the 1st professionally produced American comedy, opened April 16, 1787 in this city New York City |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | OYSTER STEW $600: Comedy in which Pistol says to Falstaff, "why then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | SHAKESPEARE $800: The hilarity of this Shakespeare play involves 2 sets of twin brothers & lots of mistaken identity The Comedy of Errors |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | TV VILLAINS $1200: Ellen Barkin plays a bigoted granny on this "new" NBC comedy The New Normal |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE WIZ $2000: The evil wizard Leezar causes problems for Natalie Portman & Danny McBride in this 2011 comedy Your Highness |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | THE LATE, GREAT COMEDIAN $1600: One of "The Original Kings of Comedy", this man replaced Bill Murray in the "Charlie's Angels" franchise Bernie Mac |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | L.A. TV $2000: Exteriors for Cameron & Mitchell's house on this comedy are shot in Century City Modern Family |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $800: Cary shows up with some unexpected guests for the wedding of ex-wife Katharine Hepburn in this 1940 comedy Philadelphia Story |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | THE RESIDENTS $800: Title residence of Otter, Flounder, Pinto & Bluto in a 1978 comedy Animal House |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BROADWAY LYRICS $1200: "Nothing portentous or polite, tragedy tomorrow", this "tonight" comedy |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | LIONS & TIGERS & BEARS, OH MY! $1200: Ex-Lions lineman Alex Karras KO'ed a horse with one punch in this comedy/Western film Blazing Saddles |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | ACT I $800: In Act I of this comedy, "it is a warm summer night in Oscar Madison's apartment" The Odd Couple |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | MOVIE TERMS $1600: Also a kind of baseball pitch, this comedy subgenre of the 1930s & '40s was epitomized by "Bringing Up Baby" screwball |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $2000: Dude! Ray Walston totally lent a (Mr.) Hand to this 1982 comedy; Mr. Hand, not a fan of classroom pizza delivery Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | FUNNYMEN $400: (Hi, I'm Danny Pudi from the hit comedy Community.) I was honored to be the first recipient of Marquette's scholarship honoring this late "SNL" comedian who died in 1997 (Chris) Farley |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | TV CHARACTERS $1200: Annie, Britta & Magnitude seek higher education on this NBC comedy Community |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | & THE EMMY FOR COMEDY ACTRESS GOES TO... $400: America Ferrera in 2007 for this series Ugly Betty |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | & THE EMMY FOR COMEDY ACTRESS GOES TO... $800: Her in 1975 for "Rhoda" Valerie Harper |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | & THE EMMY FOR COMEDY ACTRESS GOES TO... $1200: Toni Collette in 2009 for this Showtime series the United States of Tara |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | & THE EMMY FOR COMEDY ACTRESS GOES TO... $1600: Carol Kane in 1982 for this comedy Taxi |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | & THE EMMY FOR COMEDY ACTRESS GOES TO... $2000: Patricia Heaton in 2000 & 2001 for this sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | WHAT KIND OF MOVIE? $600: "Zookeeper"; Shakespeare wrote one "of Errors" a comedy |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | DOOBIE-OUS FACTS $1200: Paul Rudd took great offense to Michael McDonald's song "Yah Mo B There" in this "numerical" Steve Carell comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | TITLE CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 17th century French comedy, mankind hater Alceste The Misanthrope |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW $600: Hill's Angels were the scantily clad women on this Brit's sketch-comedy show Benny Hill |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | ROLE CALL $800: In a 2011 comedy, we got a double dose of this funny man Adam Sandler |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Okay, you bleepin' bleepity bleep contestants! "Boston Marriage" is a 1999 comedy by this bleepin' playwright! Bleep! David Mamet |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING AT 11 $1200: 11/11/11 was very unofficially named in honor of a musician in this movie comedy Spinal Tap |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | A REAL COMEDIAN $1600: This one of the "Original Kings of Comedy" is just a big old Ceddy Bear Cedric the Entertainer |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | VIRGIL $1600: In this poem Dante used Virgil as a guide through hell & purgatory The Divine Comedy |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Mia Farrow taking a pregnant pause in a horror pic segues into Tina Fey's ticking biological clock in a 2008 comedy Rosemary's Baby Mama |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | THE MOVIES $200: Larry, Curly, Moe & Snooki? In a 2012 film, this title comedy trio ends up starring in a reality TV show The Three Stooges |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | DOUBLE "F" $2000: This title impostor in a Moliere comedy doesn't show up until the third act Tartuffe |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | HOW SOON WE FORGET! $1000: The 2011 Emmy winner for outstanding comedy series Modern Family |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | "HOW TO" ENTERTAIN $1600: Kate Hudson is writing the titular column on a dating don't in this romantic comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | 1930s COMEDIES $1600: A screwball comedy starred Carole Lombard as a socialite & William Powell as the title butler, "My Man" him My Man Godfrey |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | COMEDY DUOS $400: The duo of him & Jerry Lewis broke up after making the 1956 film "Hollywood or Bust" Dean Martin |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | COMEDY DUOS $800: After surviving Gitmo, these 2 title guys had a Very 3D Christmas Harold & Kumar |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | COMEDY DUOS $1200: It's New Zealand's "Fourth most-popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk comedy folk duo" Flight of the Conchords |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | COMEDY DUOS $1600: Dick's brother, Tom of this pair plays golf & is known to sink putts using a yo-yo the Smothers Brothers |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | COMEDY DUOS $2000: Seen here is one of the finer productions of this comedy duo Anne Meara & Jerry Stiller |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | HERE COMES THE WEDDING MOVIE $200: Newly engaged Maya Rudolph asks Kristen Wiig to be her maid of honor in this 2011 comedy Bridesmaids |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | HERE COMES THE WEDDING MOVIE $800: Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson aren't invited but make the best guests anyway in this 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | RHYMING MOVIES $2000: Bette Midler was one of 3 witches in this aptly named 1993 comedy Hocus Pocus |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | NAME THE NETWORK $800: "Tosh.0" Comedy Central |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | ON CABLE $2000: This MTV comedy stars Ashley Rickards as high schooler Jenna Hamilton; can you say... Awkward. |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | AIRBORNE $200: It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds Airplane! |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | POP CULTURE $1600: In a 2011 movie comedy, the 3 title "horrible" these were summarized as psycho, maneater & tool bosses |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | IT'S GOOD TO BE "KING" $1600: In this 1996 film comedy, Woody Harrelson takes an Amish bowling prodigy under his wing Kingpin |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | COMICS STRIP $2000: Ken Jeong bared all as crime lord Mr. Chow in this 2009 Vegas comedy The Hangover |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | QUOTATIONS $200: His "Divine Comedy": "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!" Dante |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | TIPS ON NETWORKING $400: At least grin at "Workaholics" & "Nick Swardson's Pretend Time" Comedy Central |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE $2000: Some believe this comedy was written to be performed during Epiphany festivities, hence its name Twelfth Night |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | INITIAL TV $1000: The beer-drinking MacKenzie brothers were a staple on this comedy show whose full name once included "Network 90" SCTV |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BACK TO '80s TV $800: Once a regular on "A Different World" he had a 2010 comedy special subtitled "Where U Been?" Sinbad |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $1200: Cameron Diaz doesn't care what child gets left behind in this 2011 comedy Bad Teacher |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $200: For his role in "Jerry Maguire", the American Comedy Awards named him Funniest Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | LUCY $400: Drew Barrymore played the memory-impaired Lucy Whitmore in this romantic comedy with Adam Sandler 50 First Dates |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | SURPRISE PARTY $1000: Cheers & glasses raised for this T.S. Eliot comedy that won the 1950 Tony for Best Play The Cocktail Party |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | BLU-RAYS $1000: "Sibling Rivalry" is a special feature on the Blu-ray of this fraternal Ferrell-Reilly comedy Step Brothers |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | 2-LETTER RESPONSES $200: George Clooney actually starred in 2 TV series with this title--the earlier one was a comedy ER |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | SIBLING REVELRY $400: The loopy comedy "Raising Arizona" was written & directed by these brothers the Coen Brothers |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | SIBLING REVELRY $1200: The real first names of this comedy troupe were Julius, Leonard, Milton, Adolph & Herbert the Marx Brothers |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | SIBLING REVELRY $1600: The dark comedy "Grosse Pointe Blank" starred this actor as an assassin & this sister of his as his office manager Joan & John Cusack |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | CELEBS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON REALITY SHOWS $800: Ladies & gentlemen, please enjoy the comedy stylings of Mr. Harry Reid on this NBC show hosted by Craig Robinson Last Comic Standing |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $800: The Times said of a 2011 production of his "Cymbeline", "the comedy, poignancy & unlikely magic... surface gently" Shakespeare |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $1600: The Times said Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell is "the highlight" of the "effervescent" 2011 revival of this Wilde comedy The Importance of Being Earnest |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | MOVIE REMAKES $800: This Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks romantic comedy was inspired by "The Shop Around the Corner" You've Got Mail |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS $5,000 (Daily Double): Male & female supporting Oscars went to Michael Caine & Dianne Wiest for this comedy Hannah and Her Sisters |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | MOVIE TIMES $1000: Sandra Bullock finds she can quit Hugh Grant in this 2002 romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $2000: This "Queen of Mean" is a regular on Comedy Central's roasts Lisa Lampanelli |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $400: His use of Tuscan dialect in the "Divine Comedy" helped make it the standard form of modern Italian Dante |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | STAR TRACK $400: Before doing comedy & hosting a game show, this fellow seen here was in the Marine Corps Reserves Drew Carey |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | AUTHORS $800: About the "Human Comedy" series, he said, "French society was to be the historian, I was only to be its secretary" Honoré de Balzac |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | ACT I, SCENE 1 $600: Murray, a New York police officer is among those playing poker in Act I, Scene 1 of this Neil Simon comedy The Odd Couple |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | THAT'S "EASY" $1600: Rodney Dangerfield has to quit smoking & drinking to inherit a $10 million fortune in this 1983 comedy Easy Money |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $400: This Brit, 2003's Best Actor in a TV Comedy Series for "The Office"; he'd later host the event (Ricky) Gervais |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $1000: This woman, 2007's Best Actress in a TV Comedy for "30 Rock" Tina Fey |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | LUCILLE BALL'S 100th BIRTHDAY $600: Lucy no doubt learned some comedy moves from this trio with whom she appeared in 1934's "Three Little Pigskins" the Three Stooges |
| #6134, aired 2011-04-21 | MOVIE NICKNAMES $200: Pinto, Otter & D-Day are nicknames of students in this 1978 classic comedy Animal House |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | "A" IS FOR AUTHOR $800: ...of the ancient Greek comedy "Clouds" Aristophanes |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | MOVIE FAMILIES $400: A 1985 comedy:
Hello, McFlys! Back to the Future |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | MOVIE FAMILIES $600: A 2000 comedy:
The Byrneses (the Fockers show up in the sequels) Meet the Parents |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | & OTHER LITTLE PEOPLE $2000: Frank, played by Peter Dinklage, has unwelcome news about the deceased in this 2010 comedy Death at a Funeral |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YOU ARE SO OUTTA HERE $600: It was no "Divine Comedy" for this Italian author when the Guelphs banished him from Florence in 1302 Dante |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE SHAPE OF "THING"s TO COME $500 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare comedy is set in Messina Much Ado About Nothing |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | TV $2000: "Web Redemptions" are a feature of this Internet-based Comedy Central show hosted by comedian Daniel Tosh.0 |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | PERIOD MOVIES $1600: This comedy about long ago stars Jack Black, Michael Cera & Oliver Platt as the high priest of Sodom Year One |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | A HOST OF TV HOSTS $600: (Hi, I'm Tom Bergeron.) Bob Saget was the original host & I'm the current host of this comedy TV show that made its debut in 1989 America's Funniest Home Videos |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $1200: This comedy gets its title from the part of the U.S. (Orson, Indiana) where Patricia Heaton's family lives the middle |
| #6059, aired 2011-01-06 | NICK NAMES $400: He played Four Leaf Tayback in the 2008 comedy "Tropic Thunder" Nick Nolte |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | IT'S TV, IT'S HBO $600: This comedy website has come to HBO with Will Ferrell as an executive producer Funny or Die |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | "FIRST" CHRONICLES $1200: Classic comedy routine for Bud & Lou "Who's on First?" |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | COUNTY CULTURE $2000: A 2008 Tony award went to Tracy Letts' dark family comedy "August:" this Oklahoma county Osage |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | MAYOR PLAYER $1200: David Margulies played mayor Lenny in this sci-fi comedy & its sequel--who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | HOLLYWOOD UGLY $1000: Rachael Leigh Cook, the "ugly duckling", is pursued by Freddie Prinze Jr. in this high school comedy She's All That |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | SHAKESPEAREAN PORTMANTEAU $1600: Shakespeare's comedy about a chef who tells a customer it's best to cook steaks until they're like shoe leather All's Well That Ends Well Done |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT $800: Thanks to Rodney Dangerfield, Judge Smails' boat The Flying Wasp meets an untimely end in this comedy Caddyshack |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | THE QUOTABLE STEVE CARELL $400: As Andy in this 2005 comedy: "I love women! I respect them so much that I completely stay away from them!" The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | SHAKESPEERS $1200: Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, attempts to promote romances on behalf of Benedick & Claudio in this comedy Much Ado About Nothing |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $400: "Animal House":
"Women--can't live with them, can't" do this live without them |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $800: Jon Stewart:
"Before we bring" this type of govt. "to... Afghanistan, it might be prudent to bring it to Florida" a democracy |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $1200: Woody Allen:
"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live" one of these toy animals "in my crib" a teddy bear |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $1600: Chris Rock:
"If you haven't contemplated murder, you ain't been in" this love |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $2000: The late Greg Giraldo on this pres.:
"Cheat on your wife & cover it up for 200 years, you're... thinking you're home free" Jefferson |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THE MUSES $400: Melpomene is the muse of tragedy & her sister Thalia, of this comedy |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | VIDEO GAMES $800: "Dante's Inferno", which is loosely based on this 14th century poem, involves a hellish journey to find Beatrice The Divine Comedy |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $800: (Soledad O'Brien gives the clue.) I never stop laughing at Spike Lee's concert film of Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley & Steve Harvey--"The Original" these Kings of Comedy |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | THEY'RE IN HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER $2000: Alyson Hannigan made "this one time, at band camp" a catchphrase in this 1999 movie comedy American Pie |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | TWICE-TOLD TALES $1200: The plot of "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" was reused in this 1978 comedy starring Warren Beatty Heaven Can Wait |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | JOAN $1200: She was Grammy-nominated for her 1983 comedy album "What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most?" Joan Rivers |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | NAME-RO UNO $1200: In 1659 he produced his first major comedy, "Les Precieuses Ridicules" for Louis XIV Molière |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $600: "Lather. Rinse. Save the world" advertised this Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): This 2009 comedy proclaimed, "Some guys just can't handle Vegas" The Hangover |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $400: A.O. Scott says he's not entirely joking calling this 2010 John Cusack comedy a "poignant story of 3 men, adrift in their 40s" Hot Tub Time Machine |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $600: Of comedy playwright Marvin Simon Neil |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | SCENE & HERD $200: Billy Crystal goes on a cattle drive (& causes a stampede with his coffee grinder) in this 1991 comedy City Slickers |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | ZOMBIELAND $800: A London pub called The Winchester becomes zombie central in this 2004 Simon Pegg comedy Shaun of the Dead |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | THE FILM THAT ALMOST WAS $1000: Eddie Murphy got the role in this '84 police comedy after Sylvester Stallone dropped out Beverly Hills Cop |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | SHAKESPEARE RETOOLED $1200: "10 Things I Hate About You" based on this Shakespeare comedy, stars Julia Stiles as the misanthropic Kat The Taming of the Shrew |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | NINTH $400: In the "Divine Comedy", the ninth one of these is reserved for treacherous folks like Judas Iscariot circle of hell |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | TV NAMES $1000: An office comedy:
"Better Off ____" Ted |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS $800: Dante got shot while minding the convenience store in the original end of this Kevin Smith comedy Clerks |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | TV TIME $600: In 2009 this show about the Griffins was the first animated one in decades nominated for the Best Comedy Emmy Family Guy |
| #5837, aired 2010-01-19 | THE 3 STOOGES $2,600 (Daily Double): This form of physical comedy associated with the Stooges once referred to a physical object to smack actors slapstick |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | MOVIE POLITICIANS $800: Mel Brooks deals with Hedley (not Hedy!) Lamarr as Governor Le Petomane in this 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | FAMOUS AMOS $400: Samuel L. Jackson & Nicolas Cage team up in this 1993 comedy whose title plays off the "Amos 'n' Andy" radio series Amos & Andrew |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | IS THIS A RERUN? $400: They killed Kenny in the last episode of this animated comedy, but here he is again; I give up! South Park |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | "BLUE" MOVIES $400: At the start of this comedy classic, Elwood is picking up his brother Jake, who's getting out of prison The Blues Brothers |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Woody Allen romantic comedy about a student who patrols the corridors of a school Annie Hall Monitor |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | LET'S PLAY SOME GOLF $400: Adam Sandler faces off on the links against Shooter McGavin & Bob Barker in this golf comedy Happy Gilmore |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | COMPOSE YOURSELF $1200: This composer's political satire "Of Thee I Sing" was the first musical comedy to win a Pulitzer Prize George Gershwin |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | THE EMMYS $400: Tina Fey thanked the "dozens and dozens of viewers" when this show won the Emmy for Best Comedy in 2007 30 Rock |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | THE EMMYS $1200: The TV Academy dug this Ray Romano sitcom--it won Emmys as Best Comedy Series in 2003 & 2005 Everybody Loves Raymond |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | HOLLYWOOD SQUARES $800: The geeky Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity rises up against the jocks of Alpha Beta in this 1984 big screen comedy Revenge of the Nerds |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 2008 comedy with Ben Stiller & Jack Black playing soldiers that's a Springsteen song with the line "Sit tight take hold" Tropic Thunder Road |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | WORDS OF LOVE $400: He concludes "The Divine Comedy" with "The love that moves the sun and the other stars" Dante |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | REALLY OLD BOOKS $1200: In "The Divine Comedy", Virgil guides this other writer through the circles of Hell Dante |
| #5777, aired 2009-10-27 | 20 YEARS LATER $800: 1974:
Had a "Comedy Hour" with his wife on CBS;
1994:
Elected to Congress Sonny Bono |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated weather map on the monitor.) A common weather pattern, bringing an abundance of warm, tropical moisture direct from Hawaii to the Pacific coast is popularly called this, like a 2008 comedy film the Pineapple Express |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | TV SOLE DADS $2000: Widower Fred MacMurray raised Mike, Robbie, Chip & Ernie (go figure!) on this long-running comedy My Three Sons |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | AT THE MOVIES $400: In a 2009 comedy this Tyler Perry title character "Goes to Jail" Madea |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | YOU'RE "DEAD" ON $200: Comedy style in which the face shows no expression deadpan |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $200: Archie Bunker's armchair was an integral part of the living room on this classic sitcom All in the Family |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $400: Hawkeye & Trapper John shared a tent called the swamp on this show M*A*S*H |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $600: Every room of Charlie's Malibu bachelor pad has been invaded by his brother Alan & Alan's son Jake on this sitcom Two and a Half Men |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $800: Ted sets up Mosbius Designs, his own architecture firm, in the apartment he shares with Robin on this sitcom How I Met Your Mother |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $1000: In the opening credits of some episodes of this show, Rob Petrie trips over the ottoman in his living room The Dick Van Dyke Show |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | SHAKESPEARE WITH A TWIST $4,000 (Daily Double): Christopher Heweit was a singing Malvolio in "Music Is", a musical version of this festive comedy Twelfth Night |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | EMMY HISTORY $400: The 1953 awards were the first to feature Best Situation Comedy; the Academy really liked this show that year I Love Lucy |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | EMMY HISTORY $1600: Hug it out! In 2006 Jeremy Piven won Best Supporting Actor for this HBO comedy Entourage |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | SONG & MOVIE TITLES $400: Roy Orbison had a hit with "Oh" this, later the title of a romantic comedy "Pretty Woman" |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | SONG & MOVIE TITLES $800: Raunchy 1999 Jason Biggs comedy that's also a song from a long, long time ago... American Pie |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | SONG & MOVIE TITLES $1200: Rolling Stones tune that became the title of a 1986 Whoopi Goldberg spy comedy "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | ONLY ONE VOWEL $800: This number is found in the title of a Shakespeare comedy about Viola & Duke Orsino Twelfth |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | HIGH-TECH CINEMA $1600: In this Coen Brothers comedy, 2 gym employees find a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent Burn After Reading |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | GRAMMY-WINNING COMEDY ALBUMS $400: 1999: Nobody hates his "Bigger and Blacker" Chris Rock |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | GRAMMY-WINNING COMEDY ALBUMS $800: 1973:
This addled duo's "Los Cochinos" Cheech & Chong |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | GRAMMY-WINNING COMEDY ALBUMS $1200: 1964:
This future sitcom star's "I Started Out as a Child" (Bill) Cosby |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | GRAMMY-WINNING COMEDY ALBUMS $1600: 1972:
This late satirist's "FM and AM" (George) Carlin |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | GRAMMY-WINNING COMEDY ALBUMS $2000: 1994:
His "Live from Hell" (cue scream) (Sam) Kinison |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | MOVIES ANY TIME $600: Attila the Hun & Sacajawea are characters in this 2006 Ben Stiller comedy Night at the Museum |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | COMEDY TONIGHT $400: This NYC director:
"Rather than live on in the hearts & minds of my fellow man, I'd prefer to live on in my apartment" Woody Allen |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | COMEDY TONIGHT $800: In 2008 David Letterman said it was so cold, this accused Wall St. Ponzi scheme operator looks forward to Hell (Bernard) Madoff |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | COMEDY TONIGHT $1200: He said, "On this show, your voice will be heard, in the form of my voice", & that's the truthiness! (Stephen) Colbert |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | COMEDY TONIGHT $1600: This 1970s African-American comic: "Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers" (Richard) Pryor |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | COMEDY TONIGHT $2000: This deadpan comic: "I'm staying in an old hotel; they sent me a wake-up letter" Steven Wright |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPORTMANTEAU! $1600: Bitter Trojan comedy plus Marcel Duchamp's art movement Troilus and Cressidada |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | EUROPEAN POETS $800: In the early 14th century, he called his most famous work a "comedy" because of its sad beginning & happy ending Dante |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | SHOW BUSINESS $1600: The Paramount holdings of this company include MTV & Comedy Central Viacom |
| #5640, aired 2009-02-27 | SHAKESPEARE-POURRI $2000: "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed", explains Rosalind in this comedy As You Like It |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | BACK AT THE CBC $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from back at the CBC.) Starting in 1978 on this Canadian comedy TV series, Eugene Levy began spoofing me as a wacky game show host called Alex Trebell
"Good evening, everybody. Welcome to "Half Wits", the game show that's fun and at times extremely trying." SCTV |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: This Brit called his comedy "Hay Fever" "One of the most difficult plays to perform that I have ever encountered" Noel Coward |
| #5622, aired 2009-02-03 | IT'S AN L.A. THING $800: You can hit the Comedy Store, House of Blues, Whisky A Go Go & the Viper Room on this "strip" of L.A. Sunset Strip |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | GEORGE CARLIN $200: In 1975 George Carlin was the first host of this late night comedy show Saturday Night Live |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | GODS AROUND US $800: The likeness of God used in this 1975 Monty Python comedy is a picture of British cricket star W.G. Grace (Monty Python and) The Holy Grail |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $200: Dante begins his journey on this day, the anniversary of the crucifixion Good Friday |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $400: Dante journeys through Hell to the rim of Purgatory with the guidance of this Roman epic poet Virgil |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $600: "Purgatory" & "Paradise" contain 33 of these poem subdivisions; "Inferno" has 34 cantos |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $800: Capocchio & Griffolino of Arezzo are damned to Hell for being falsifiers of metal using this process alchemy |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $1000: Paging Mr. Magus, this magician who offered to purchase the power of transmitting the Holy Spirit Simon |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | THAT'S ENTERTRAINMENT $800: Danny DeVito's first feature as a director was this 1987 comedy involving matricide Throw Momma from the Train |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Roger Rees tried to domesticate Bebe Neuwirth (Good luck!) in a 1999 production of this comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $400: The title of this 1989 comedy refers to Baby Mikey, voiced by Bruce Willis Look Who's Talking |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $1000: Steve Guttenberg & Kim Cattrall are 2 of the recruits in this 1984 comedy Police Academy |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | COMBEGS $400: Sitcom
(Cue laugh track) situation comedy |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $800: Coach Benedick & Professor Beatrice face off in "About Face", a college-set musical update of this comedy Much Ado About Nothing |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $1000: Set in Harlem & featuring characters named Vy & Lady Liv, the musical "Play On!" is a revamp of this comedy Twelfth Night |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | SPAM $400: The origin of "spam" as a term for unwanted e-mail is disputed; some say it stems from a skit by this comedy group Monty Python |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | MEET YOU IN THE MIDDLE $600: No-win
____
comedy situation |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | A ROLE IN THE HAY $2,000 (Daily Double): Marjorie Main & Percy Kilbride cooked up some comedy as this parental pair in a series of films in the '40s & '50s Ma & Pa Kettle |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | ODE TO A SITCOM $1200: War & blood, blood & war / Hot Lips near cold corpses/ Comedy amidst pathos, thy name is Hawkeye M*A*S*H |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: The title of this comedy refers to Mistress Ford & Mistress Page The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | RECENT MOVIES $400: A mad scientist's hunchbacked assistant longs to create his own monster in this 2008 animated comedy Igor |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | RECENT MOVIES $800: After being dead for 7 minutes, Ricky Gervais sees & hears dead people in this 2008 comedy Ghost Town |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | TEEN CHOICE AWARDS 2008 $200: She not only hosted the show, she also won awards for Music Female Artist & TV Actress, Comedy Miley Cyrus |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | "M" TV $800: A late-night sketch comedy show is based on this magazine & even featured a Spy vs. Spy segment Mad |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | WHEN YOU GO TO COLLEGE $600: Maybe you'll join this kind of impromptu comedy troupe, like Dead Serious at Wellesley improv |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | AND THEN THERE'S BEA ARTHUR $1000: In 1979 Bea hosted this late night comedy show & The Roches were the musical guest Saturday Night Live |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | TV VARIETY SHOWS $400: Daughter Chastity made her TV debut on this singing duo's "Comedy Hour" in the early 1970s Sonny & Cher |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | TV VARIETY SHOWS $1000: In 1968 comedian Pat Paulsen began a campaign for president on this duo's comedy/variety hour the Smothers Brothers |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | 60 YEARS OF THE EMMYS $200: Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepts a Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy for The New Adventures of Old Christine:
"I'm not, uh, somebody who really believes in curses."
In 2006 Julia Louis-Dreyfus exorcised the supposed curse of this earlier series Seinfeld |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | MOVIE COMEDY $400: Mike Myers comes to bring nirvana to North America as Pitka, this title character The Love Guru |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | POETS & POETRY $400: His "Divine Comedy" is 100 cantos written in terza rima Dante |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | MOVIE COMEDY $800: This visitor from Central Asia tells an American rodeo crowd, "We support your war of terror!" Borat |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | MOVIE COMEDY $1200: In 2 movies Martin Lawrence has impersonated tough granny Hattie Mae Pierce, better known as her Big Momma |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | MOVIE COMEDY $1600: On DVD, this sequel in which Jason Biggs & Alyson Hannigan tie the knot sold 3 million copies in 3 days American Wedding |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | MOVIE COMEDY $2000: Bruce, played by this man, was almighty before Evan was Jim Carrey |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | WARREN BEATTY $600: L.A. Ram Warren Beatty comes back to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire in this comedy from 1978 Heaven Can Wait |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | WARREN BEATTY $1000: Roger Ebert said this 1987 Hoffman & Beatty film was "a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy" Ishtar |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | FREAKS AND GEEKS ALUMS $800: "Remember" Jason Segal (Nick)? He's a smart man; he wrote this 2008 comedy with himself as its star & set it in Hawaii Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY $1600: The 1961 Grammy for Best Comedy Performance went to "An Evening with" him "and Elaine May" Mike Nichols |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | SHAKEN-UP SHAKESPEARE $1200: Aerosmith songs (& scantily clad cuties) enlivened "The Comedy of Aerosmith", a raunchy retelling of this play A Comedy of Errors |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | SHAKEN-UP SHAKESPEARE $2000: Yee-haw! Colonel John Falstaff goes a-wooing in "Lone Star Love", a musical that moves this comedy to Texas The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | WRITING FOR TV $400: "A Benihana Christmas" by Jennifer Celotta had this comedy's Michael Scott canceling the holiday itself The Office |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | THEATRICAL ANGELS $800: Nancy Walker & Efrem Zimbalist Jr. starred in a 1956 revival of "Fallen Angels", a comedy by this sophisticated Brit Noel Coward |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | SHAKESPEARE $400: "Come on, and kiss me, Kate" is actually a line in this comedy that inspired the musical "Kiss Me, Kate" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | RECENT CINEMA $800: In this Disney comedy, an animated princess played by Amy Adams is banished to a place far, far away...reality Enchanted |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | ODE TO JAY $1600: Jason Mewes & Kevin Smith tried to "strike back" as these 2 slackers in a 2001 comedy Jay & Silent Bob |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA $2000: Adam Sandler gives "sophomoric" a new meaning when he has 24 weeks to pass 12 years of school in this 1995 comedy Billy Madison |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES $1200: It was actually Christopher Sly, not Kate, who says, "I'll not budge an inch" in this comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES $2000: In this comedy, Thurio says to Valentine, "If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt" The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | HAPPY MADISON $2000: (Adam Sandler delivers the clue.) Happy Madison's first feature film was this 1999 comedy that saw Rob Schneider go out on a date with a narcoleptic girl Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: This 1975 comedy includes the line "We are the knights who say Ni!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | SHAKESPEARE $600: A shipwreck separates twin siblings Viola & Sebastian in this comedy Twelfth Night |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | SARDI'S $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sardi's in New York, NY.) You can see this actor presented with his caricature at Sardi's in the film "The King of Comedy"; he later signed it with the name of his character, Rupert Pupkin Robert De Niro |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $1600: In 1998 Garry Shandling & Peter Tolan won Emmys for best writing for this HBO comedy series The Larry Sanders Show |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | FAMOUS COMEDY TEAMS $200: Dean & Jerry Martin & Lewis |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | FAMOUS COMEDY TEAMS $400: George & Gracie Burns & Allen |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | FAMOUS COMEDY TEAMS $600: Dan & Dick Rowan & Martin |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | FAMOUS COMEDY TEAMS $800: Edgar & Charlie Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | FAMOUS COMEDY TEAMS $1000: Jerry & Anne Stiller & Meara |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | THE MOVIES $200: Jack Palance's character is described as "a saddlebag with eyes" in this 1991 comedy City Slickers |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | SHAKESPEARE $1200: The title of this problem comedy tells you how everything is going to turn out when the play is over All's Well That Ends Well |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | MOVIE COMEDIES $400: (I'm Rob Reiner.) In this romantic comedy that I directed, it was my mother Estelle who uttered the famous line, "I'll have what she's having" When Harry Met Sally... |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | MOVIE COMEDIES $600: 30-somethings Vince Vaughn & Will Ferrell are members of the Lambda Epsilon Omega fraternity in this comedy Old School |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | THE MISFITS $200: 1965's "The Outlaws Is Coming" was the last movie featuring this wacky trio of comedy misfits The Three Stooges |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ON THE BIG SCREEN $400: Get some McLovin from this 2007 comedy that Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg began writing as 13-year-olds Superbad |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) I'm a proud member of this union that gave me awards for Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series in 2002, 2003 & 2006 the Screen Actors Guild (or SAG) |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | SAMUEL L. JACKSON $400: In the late '80s, Sam was the rehearsal stand-in for this comedy legend on his self-titled sitcom Bill Cosby |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | CALIFORNIA ROLE $600: A beer-swilling pool cleaner coaches a misfit Little League team in sunny So. Cal. in this 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | NAME THAT BOOK $1200: c. 1300:
A poet tours Hell, Purgatory & Heaven The Divine Comedy |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | NETWORKING $1600: "Lil' Bush",
"The Colbert Report",
"The Daily Show" Comedy Central |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1600: Also the title of a Shakespeare comedy, it's when the Magi arrived to adore the baby Jesus Twelfth Night |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $2000: "The Father of Comedy" & "Prince of Ancient Comedy" Aristophanes |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | A CINEMATIC FEAST $800: This 1999 comedy has spawned at least 5 sequels & shares its name with a No. 1 song from 1972 American Pie |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | CRESCENT CITY ROLES $800: In a 1953 comedy, Abbott & Costello try to go to this planet but end up at Mardi Gras instead Mars |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | '40s POP CULTURE $1600: From soldiers' slang, this acronym for a messed-up situation became the title of a hit 1944 stage comedy snafu |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | TONY $1,800 (Daily Double): The front of the Tony Award depicts these ancient twin symbols of theatre comedy and tragedy |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | BIRDS $800: Perhaps this "thrush", a type of babbler, hangs out at comedy clubs with the same-named hyena laughing thrush |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | MOVIE COMEDY QUOTES $400: A Wallyworld guard:
"Sorry folks, park's closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya" Vacation |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | MOVIE COMEDY QUOTES $800: "I'm sorry, son, but you have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot" Airplane! |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | MOVIE COMEDY QUOTES $1200: "We've been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay-puft's okay, he's a sailor, he's in New York" Ghostbusters |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | MOVIE COMEDY QUOTES $1600: "Mongo only pawn, in game of life" Blazing Saddles |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | MOVIE COMEDY QUOTES $2000: "Dear Lord... we thank you... for this bountiful harvest... my 2 beautiful sons, Walker & Texas Ranger..." Talladega Nights (The Ballad of Ricky Bobby) |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | THE EMMYS $400: (Hi. I'm Sean Hayes.)
In 2000 I won an Emmy for playing Jack McFarland on this groundbreaking comedy series Will & Grace |
| #5340, aired 2007-11-23 | OPENING NUMBERS OF MUSICALS $800: "Comedy Tonight" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | HISTORICAL ROLES $1600: In this 1981 comedy "Part I", Mel Brooks plays Moses & Louis XVI History of the World |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREEP $1600: Shirley MacLaine welcomes Meryl to rehab in this comedy written by Carrie Fisher Postcards from the Edge |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREEP $2000: Shirley MacLaine welcomes Meryl & Albert Brooks to the Past Lives Pavilion in this comedy Defending Your Life |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | POP DIVA TURNS MOVIE STAR $800: 1980:
Dolly Parton in this workplace comedy 9 to 5 |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | ANIMATED MOVIES $1000: Elastigirl is living in the suburbs as Helen Parr in this action comedy The Incredibles |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | SHOW BIZ STUFF $200: Blind hermit Gene Hackman entertains man-of-few-words Peter Boyle in this 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein |
