Comedy Stars
Bumbling detectives, near-silent clowns, crooked builders, rich kids and comic villains: who played the funniest characters on screen?
About this quiz
A comedy lives or dies by its stars. This quiz asks about the comic actors of Hollywood and Bollywood and the characters that made them famous, from the 1960s to today, including the fortune hunters, millionaires and money chasers they played.
Good to know: Johnny Lever started out doing mimicry and stand-up comedy on stage before becoming one of Bollywood’s best-known comic actors.
How to play
- 10 questions, each with four answers
- +100 points for every right answer
- After each question you see the right answer and why
- Every round picks its questions at random, so playing again brings new ones
- No time limit: take as long as you like
Sample questions
- Who plays the weatherman Phil Connors in Groundhog Day (1993)?
- Who plays Mr. Bean?
- Who plays Inspector Clouseau in the original Pink Panther films?
Each round picks 10 of this quiz’s 20 questions, so these may come up.
