Pointless Celebrities: Comedy 2


5:15 pm - 6:05 pm, Wednesday, December 31 on BBC One London (1)

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About this Broadcast

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Comedy 2
Season 15, Episode 17

Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a comedians' edition of the general knowledge quiz. Rosie Holt, Nabil Abdulrashid, Shaparak Khorsandi, Mark Steel, Lou Sanders, Luke McQueen, Amy Gledhill and Chris Cantrill try to come up with the least likely correct answers to a series of questions posed to members of the public to win money for the charity of their choice


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Quiz Show Show/Game Show

Cast & Crew

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Richard Osman (Co host)
Rosie Holt (Contestant)
Nabil Abdulrashid (Contestant)
Mark Steel (Contestant)
Lou Sanders (Contestant)
Luke McQueen (Contestant)
Amy Gledhill (Contestant)
Chris Cantrill (Contestant)
Tamara Gilder (Executive producer)
Laura Turner (Executive producer)
James Evans (Series producer)
Nick Pin (Director)

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Did You Know..

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Alexander Armstrong (Presenter)
Born: August 14, 1970 in Rothbury, Northumberland
Best Known For: The Armstrong and Miller Show.
Early-life: Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong was born in Northumberland on March 2, 1970. His father is a distant relative of Ralph Richardson, and an appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? showed him to be a direct descendent of William the Conqueror. Alexander was a gifted pianist as a child but was nervous about featuring in concerts. At Cambridge University, he performed with the Footlights entertainment troupe, where he was the comedy partner of Spooks creator David Wolstencroft.
Career: Armstrong made his film and TV debuts in 1994 in There's No Business and A Breed of Heroes. He was introduced to Ben Miller in 1996 and their subsequent success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe led to their first sketch series in 1997; they've worked together a number of times since on various projects. Armstrong played the lead in short-lived sitcom Beast. He has also appeared in Birthday Girl (2001), I Saw You, TLC, Saxondale, Life Begins, The Trial of Tony Blair, Mutual Friends, Woody Allen's Match Point (2005) and Scoop (2006). Armstrong was the voice of supercomputer Mr Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures, appeared in the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas Special and has presented the BBC game show Pointless since 2009. In recent years, he has also voiced Danger Mouse in the revival of the animated series and presented Rome's Invisible City, Land of the Midnight Sun and Don't Ask Me Ask Britain.
Quote: "Offers come up all the time, and I'm getting better at saying no to things, and just picking the things that amuse me."
Trivia: In 2010, he won a Bafta TV Award for The Armstrong and Miller Show.
Richard Osman (Co host)
Born: November 28, 1970 in Billericay
Best Known For: Pointless.
Early-life: Richard Thomas Osman was born in Billericay on November 28, 1970, but grew up in West Sussex. He was raised by his single mum after his father left home - they didn't see each other for 20 years. Richard studied politics and sociology at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his future Pointless colleague Alexander Armstrong was reading English literature. He claims that one of his proudest moments came when his mum and grandfather watched his graduation.
Career: Osman has worked behind the scenes as an executive producer on a number of TV programmes, including Deal or No Deal, 8 Out of 10 Cats, and 10 O'Clock Live. As the UK creative director of TV production company Endemol, he pitched the quiz Pointless to the BBC. As a way of explaining the rules, he played the co-host during a run-through. He was asked to do the role for real when the show was commissioned. Pointless started on BBC Two in 2009 and was an immediate hit. It quickly made the switch to BBC One. Since being in the spotlight on Pointless, he has made guest appearances on QI, Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie to You? He also guest presented an episode of The One Show alongside Alex Jones.
Quote: "Whenever I turn up to pub quizzes now, I see people going: ‘Urgh, that's the guy who knows everything.'"
Trivia: He is the younger brother of Mat Osman, bassist with Suede, and suffers from nystagmus, a condition that results in uncontrolled movement of the eyes.
Rosie Holt (Contestant)
Nabil Abdulrashid (Contestant)
Shaparak Khorsandi (Contestant)
Mark Steel (Contestant)
Lou Sanders (Contestant)
Luke McQueen (Contestant)
Amy Gledhill (Contestant)
Chris Cantrill (Contestant)
Tamara Gilder (Executive producer)
Laura Turner (Executive producer)
James Evans (Series producer)
Nick Pin (Director)

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