8 Out of 10 Cats


12:05 am - 12:55 am, Monday, January 12 on E4 Extra (31)

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About this Broadcast

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Season 19, Episode 7

Jimmy Carr hosts the 2016 festive edition. Rob Beckett and Aisling Bea head the teams, while actress Carrie Fisher, comedians Roisin Conaty and Joe Wilkinson, and Brad Simpson and James McVey from the Vamps form the panels


Comedy Game Show/Quiz/Contest Movie/Drama Show/Game Show

Cast & Crew

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Aisling Bea (Team captain)
Rob Beckett (Team captain)
Roisin Conaty (Contestant)
Joe Wilkinson (Contestant)
Brad Simpson (Contestant)
James McVey (Contestant)
Carrie Fisher (Contestant)
Richard Osman (Executive producer)
Ruth Phillips (Executive producer)
Andrew Westwell (Executive producer)
Lisa Kirk (Series producer)

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Jimmy Carr (Host)
Born: September 15, 1972 in Slough
Best Known For: His stand-up comedy
Early-life: James Anthony Patrick Carr was born in Slough on September 15, 1972, one of three sons of Irish immigrants. His parents split in 1994, though the marriage didn't end until the death of his mother in 2001. Jimmy did well at school and studied political science at Cambridge before moving into advertising. He landed a job in the marketing department of Shell Oil, but felt unfulfilled. When the company offered him voluntary redundancy, he took it, and decided to pursue a career in comedy.
Career: Carr began performing on the stand-up circuit, doing up to 300 shows a year for three years, before taking his act to the Edinburgh festival in 2002. This brought him to the attention of TV bosses, and before long he was presenting series such as Your Face or Mine and Distraction. Since then, he's rarely been off TVscreens, hosting the first run of the Friday Night Project, 8 Out of 10 Cats and numerous Channel 4 list shows. He's also made a move into acting, appearing in Alien Autopsy, Confetti, Stormbreaker and Telstar. He is one of Britain's busiest comics and his DVDs are big sellers.
Quote: "I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand."
Trivia: In February 2007, Carr was the first major comedian to perform in the virtual reality world Second Life.
Aisling Bea (Team captain)
Born: March 16, 1984 in Co Kildare
Best Known For: Being an actress, writer and comedian.
Early-life: Born Aisling O'Sullivan in Co Kildare on March 16, 1984 to Brian and Helen. Her sister, Sinead, is a costume designer. Aisling attended London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and studied French and Philosophy at Trinity College in Dublin. In 2012, she won the Gilded Balloon So You Think You're Funny award at the Edinburgh Festival.
Career: Alongside her stand-up work, Bea has carved out a successful career as an actress. She made her acting debut in the comedy series The Savage Eye. She has had recurring roles in Cardinal Burns, Dead Boss, Trivia, The Town, The Delivery Man and Trollied. More recently, she starred in The Fall.
Quote: "I love working. It combines my two favourite things: loving working and loving complaining about working."
Trivia: In 2013, Bea was nominated for Best Newcomer in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her show C'est la Bea.
Rob Beckett (Team captain)
Roisin Conaty (Contestant)
Born: March 26, 1979 in London
Best Known For: Being a comedian and starring in Man Down.
Early-life: Roisin was born in London on March 26, 1979. In 2010, she won the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival. In the same year, she appeared on Russell Howard's Good News on BBC Three and performed alongside other female comedians for charity on Victoria Wood's Angina Monologues on Sky One.
Career: Conaty stars in the BBC's hidden camera series Impractical Jokers and she has appeared as a guest on a number of panel shows, including Have I Got News for You, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In 2013, she began playing Jo in Channel 4 sitcom Man Down.
Quote: "I'm a terrible dresser. I wouldn't know what's in or what season I'm in. It's a real effort for me not to look mad."
Trivia: Conaty also performs as one half of female double act The Cakes with Caroline Ginty.
Joe Wilkinson (Contestant)
Brad Simpson (Contestant)
James McVey (Contestant)
Carrie Fisher (Contestant)
Born: October 21, 1956 in California
Best Known For: Playing Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Early-life: Carrie Frances Fisher was born in California on October 21, 1956. She was the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her parents divorced when she was two after Fisher had an affair with Elizabeth Taylor. Carrie had a younger brother and two half-sisters from her father's marriage to singer and actress Connie Stevens. In 1973, Carrie began an 18-month stint at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career: Fisher appeared alongside her mother in the 1973 Broadway revival of the musical Irene, and two years later made her film debut in Shampoo. Her big break came in 1977 when she played Princess Leia in Star Wars: A New Hope. She reprised her role as Leia in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. During the 1980s, she appeared in the Broadway production of Agnes of God, published her first novel, Postcards from the Edge, and starred on the big screen in When Harry Met Sally. She wrote the screenplay for the 1990 film version of Postcards from the Edge, and spent a number of years as a leading Hollywood script doctor. In 2007, she took to the stage to perform her one-woman play Wishful Drinking. In 2015, she returned to her most famous role as Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. She died on December 27, 2016, at the age of 60. A day later, her mother died at the age of 84.
Quote: "I've got a lot of photos of me when I was very young at parties with celebrities, but I don't really remember the people or when the photos were taken."
Trivia: Fisher had publicly discussed her problems with drugs and her struggle with bipolar disorder.
Richard Osman (Executive producer)
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.
Ruth Phillips (Executive producer)
Andrew Westwell (Executive producer)
Lisa Kirk (Series producer)