Comedy 101 Trivia Rules:
- Be smarter than those smartphones! (No Google-ing, Bing-ing, Yahoo-ing, etc.)
- Write your answers in your passport book please.
1: This sketch comedy show helped shape the modern Super Bowl. While 1992’s halftime show aired on CBS, featuring an old-fashioned musical number called “Winter Magic,” this show aired its own – far more exciting – halftime offering on the Fox network. 12% of viewers changed channels to get in on the fun and the next year, the NFL hired Michael Jackson.
a.Laugh-In
b.Saturday Night Live
c.In Living Color
2: This satirical newspaper took its fake headlines and tongue-in-cheek articles online in 1996, creating one of the internet’s first comedic hits.
a.Reductress
b.The Onion
c.The Hard Times
3: Midcentury sitcom The Honeymooners was reimagined in this animated cartoon.
a.The Flintstones
b.The Smurfs
c.The Jetsons
4: The roots of stand-up comedy can be traced back to when this American author traveled the world, retelling his stories for money and laughs.
a.Mark Twain
b.William Faulkner
c.John Steinbeck
5: Dr. Demento’s radio show was responsible for introducing audiences to this comedic musician. His accordion was previously on display at the National Comedy Center. Name the comedian.
6: He was the most popular stand-up comic of the 1980s, and is now remembered from Saturday Night Live, as well as films including Beverly Hills Cop, Coming To America, and The Nutty Professor. Name the comedian.
7: She was the first openly gay woman to host a late-night talk show, which debuted in 2009 on Fox. Name the comedian.
8: George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” was originally adapted from this comic’s list of nine words he had been arrested for saying during his stand-up shows.
9: This comedian was the first to sell out back-to-back shows at Dodger Stadium during the filming of their 2022 Netflix special.
10: She was a vaudeville headliner, coast-to-coast radio host, and successful recording artist by the age of five, continuing on to have a prolific nine-decade career which included a main role on The Dick Van Dyke Show. She would have turned one hundred this year in August. You probably remember her with a bow in her hair.