Stand Up! I'm a Comedian Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dane Cook

Every album released by Dane Cook has enhanced his position as one of the brightest stars in stand up comedy in the USA. In 2006 "Retaliation" became the highest charting comedy album in almost three decades. Since 1997 Cook has appeared in a number of films including; "Mystery Men", "Employee of the Month" and "My Best Friend's Girl".

Answer: Ben Elton

Ben Elton was the lead protagonist in the anti-government satire of the 1980s. He did his stand-up work, including hosting two series of his own BBC tv show "The Man from Auntie", in order to gain exposure for his manifold writing talents. Beside his television work, Elton has written over a dozen best-selling novels and four highly acclaimed stage plays, as well as collaborating with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the musical "The Beautiful Game".

Answer: Cornwall

Cornwall is the county at the extreme southwest of England, that only has borders with one other; Devon. Jethro was born in, and is very proud of his Cornish heritage. Originating in the small west Cornwall village of St Buryan, only a few kilometres from Land's End, he began working on national television in 1990.

His act is centered around the hilarious and often bawdy escapades of his group of semi-fictional friends in local villages and pubs. To date Jethro has released around twenty successful DVDs.

Answer: Larry the Cable Guy

"Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy" is broadcast via the history channel and it sees Larry visiting various locations across the country and participating in local activities and events. The character, developed in Whitney's stand up routine, is a boorish redneck with a pronounced southern drawl. Larry's catchphrase "Git-R-Done!" is also the title of Daniel Whitney's autobiography.

Answer: Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres began her stand up career in New Orleans. She started touring nationally in 1981, but her major career break came when she appeared with Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show" in 1986. Since then she seems to have become a permanent fixture on television screens and in gossip columns across the length and breadth of the English speaking world.

Answer: Australian

Born in Australia's largest city Sydney, Adam Hills has performed his art in all the major festivals worldwide, earning many nominations, awards and accolades. He Started out at the tender age of just 19 years, performing regularly in Sydney's Comedy Store as well as holding down a spot on local breakfast radio. Hills has hosted "Spicks and Specks", since 2005, and has made numerous guest appearances on similar satirical programmes in Britain.

Answer: Everybody Hates Chris

Chris Rock was co-creator and narrator of the period sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris", which drew on his own experiences growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the late 70s and early 80s. In the show Tyler James Williams took the part of the teenage Rock. Today, Chris Rock who is a constant in movies and television is one of the biggest and most sought after names in the American entertainment industry.

Answer: The Big Yin

The reason Billy Connolly was called "The Big Yin" was supposedly to differentiate between himself and his father who was also named Billy. It was in the early 1970s that Connolly became established and began to earn recognition outside of his local Glasgow area.

In time, his irreverent observational comedy, as spontaneous as it is risque with borderless taboos, made him a household name throughout Britain. It was later on that he became internationally renown, moving to LA, making movies and performing his unique brand of comedy to massive audiences all over the globe.

Answer: Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood is a multi-talented performer who has released four stand-up videos, written numerous sketches, and won a string of awards for penning and performing in comedy, serious drama and even her own travel show "Victoria's Empire". Since 1997 she has been an "Officer of the Order of the British Empire". (OBE) Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, and Thelma Barlow are British actresses who regularly appear with Victoria Wood. All were in the cast of "Dinner Ladies".

Answer: Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks was more than a stand-up comic, he was a comedic revolutionary who was destined to expand and violate accepted boundaries. His act, if one can truly call it "an act", was imbued with a dark, almost black humour that was drawn from within. Hicks expressed his no-nonsense views on anything and everything; American politics and culture, consumerism, censorship, mediocrity and in particular conspiracy theories, with an angst that at best was brilliant, at worst unsettling. Bill - R.I.P