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British-born American comic actor known for his rapid-fire delivery of jokes and one-liners; he was also known for his decades of overseas USO tours?
A. Lenny Bruce
B. Bob Hope
C. Steve Martin
100
Radio and motion-picture actress and longtime comedy star of American television, best remembered for her classic television comedy series "I Love Lucy"?
A. Mae West
B. Lucille Ball
C. Rosalind Russell
100
American comedic duo who performed onstage, in films, and on radio and television. They specialized in rapid-fire patter and knockabout slapstick, and they are regarded as the archetypal team of burlesque comedy.
A. Lemmon and Martin
B. Laurel and Hardy
C. Abbott and Costello
Abbott and Costello
100
What comedian is said to have helped make comedy a staple American entertainment?
A. Steve Martin
B. Lucille Ball
C. Bob Hope
Bob Hope
200
American pantomimist and radio and television comedian, host, and star performer?
A. Rodney Dangerfield
B. Bob Newhart
C. Red Skelton
200
American entertainer who launched her career in show business in the 1960s as a raspy-voiced no-holds-barred nightclub and television comic and who was especially known for skewering both herself and celebrities.?
A. Carol Burnett
B. Betty White
C. Joan Rivers
200
Comedy team that is widely regarded as the greatest in film history. They made more than 100 comedies together between 1921 and 1950, with one playing the bumbling and innocent foil to the pompous other?
A. Laurel and Hardy
B. Lewis and Martin
C. Burns and Allen
Laurel and Hardy
200
What decade did comedy go through a renaissance?
A. 1890s
B. 1950s
C. 1930s
1950s
300
American stand-up comic and social satirist during the 1950s and early ’60s. Public authorities increasingly denounced his performances as dirty and sick and courts across the United States tried him for obscenity?
A. Lenny Bruce
B. Bob Newhart
C. Bob Hope
300
First Jewish woman stand-up comedian. Got her start in the last gasp of Vaudeville in the 1920s, she appeared at every major production house in New York City and many across the United States and London throughout the 1950s?
A. Jean Carroll
B. Lucille Ball
C. Phyllis Diller
300
Most popular comedy team of the 50s and appeared in 16 films in eight years, including The Stooge (1951) and Hollywood or Bust (1956)?
A. Laurel and Hardy
B. Abbott and Costello
C. Martin and Lewis
Martin and Lewis
300
Who was considered the most controversial comedian of his time?
A. Lenny Bruce
B. Bob Newhart
C. Rodney Dangerfield
Lenny Bruce
400
American comedian known for his wide-eyed, fidgety delivery style and his hapless, self-deprecating demeanor, expressed by his famous lamentation, “I don’t get no respect.”?
A. Steve Martin
B. Lenny Bruce
C. Rodney Dangerfield
400
American actress best known for her comedic work on numerous television sitcoms, most notably The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls?
A. Joan Rivers
B. Lucille Ball
C. Betty White
400
Comedy duo most known for their show "The Odd Couple" in 1968?
A. Burns and Allen
B. Lemmon and Matthau
C. Martin and Lewis
Lemmon and Matthau
400
Where does modern stand up comedy have its roots?
A. Television
B. Shakespeare
C. Vaudeville
Vaudeville
500
American comedian and actor who achieved fame as a stand-up performer and later starred in television sitcoms. He is known for his genial mild-mannered persona and for his skillfully delivered observational humor and understated satire?
A. Bob Newhart
B. Red Skelton
C. Lenny Bruce
500
American comedienne and actress who was one of the first female stand-up comics, noted for her zany and raucous personality and self-deprecating humour. Her routine often included barbs about her ineptitude as a mother?
A. Betty White
B. Phyllis Diller
C. Carroll Burnett
500
Comedy duo that portrayed the daily life of the married couple, and regularly broke through television’s “fourth wall” by stepping out of a scene to address the audience directly?
A. Lemon and Matthau
B. Laurel and Hardy
C. Burns and Allen
Burns and Allen
500
Where is stand up comedy said to have originated first?
A. Europe
B. United States
C. Asia
United States