The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz (2007) (TV)

Directors:

Mick Thomas
Will Dixon

Writers:

Jimmy Carr (written by) &
Jim Pullin (written by) ...
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Release Date:

2 November 2007 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Game-Show

Cast

Jimmy Carr	...	Himself - Host
Richard Ayoade	...	Himself - Contestant
Alan Carr	...	Himself - Contestant
Jack Dee	...	Himself - Contestant
David Mitchell	...	Himself - Contestant
Frank Skinner	...	Himself - Contestant
Carol Vorderman	...	Herself - Contestant
Joanna Foster	...	Herself - Special Guest
Vic Reeves	...	Himself - Special Guest
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Clive Anderson	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lizzy Bardsley	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sacha Baron Cohen	...	Ali G (archive footage) (uncredited)
Derren Brown	...	Himself (uncredited)
Katy Carmichael	...	Twist Morgan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Steve Coogan	...	Paul Calf (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adrian Edmondson	...	Dick (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chris Evans	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leigh Francis	...	Craig David (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anna Friel	...	Herself (uncredited)
Jo Frost	...	Herself (uncredited)
Nick Frost	...	Mike Watt (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Galloway	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ricky Gervais	...	Himself (uncredited)
Mark Heap	...	Brian Topp (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ram John Holder	...	Himself (uncredited)
Jools Holland	...	Himself (uncredited)
Jessica Hynes	...	Daisy Steiner (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dom Joly	...	Man on Phone (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Kay	...	Brian Potter / Max Bygraves (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frank Kelly	...	Father Jack Hackett (archive footage) (uncredited)
Simon Le Bon	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rula Lenska	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Paddy McGuinness	...	Paddy O'Shea (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael McShane	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Paul Merton	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kate Millett	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dermot Morgan	...	Father Ted Crilly (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bob Mortimer	...	Donald Stott (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard O'Brien	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Simon Pegg	...	Tim Bisley (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sally Phillips	...	Office Worker (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gordon Ramsay	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Oliver Reed	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gaby Roslin	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jonathan Ross	...	Himself (uncredited)
Mike Smith	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jon Snow	...	Himself (uncredited)
Quentin Tarantino	...	Himself (uncredited)
David Threlfall	...	Frank Gallagher (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gunther von Hagens	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Whiteley	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barbara Windsor	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Mick Thomas
Will Dixon		(vt director)

Writing credits
Jimmy Carr		(written by) &
Jim Pullin		(written by) &
Shaun Pye		(written by) &
Fraser Steele		(written by)
Dominic English		(additional material) &
Pete Sinclair		(additional material) (as Peter Sinclair)

Produced by
Simon Crewdson	....	assistant producer
Emily Dean	....	producer
Jane Goldman	....	producer
Ben Knappett	....	assistant producer
Matt Nida	....	assistant producer
Jonathan Ross	....	executive producer
Barney Slater	....	assistant producer

Original Music by
Peter Baikie

Film Editing by
Steve Andrews

Art Direction by
Tayyaba Irtizaali

Costume Design by
Sarah Fry

Makeup Department
Jacy Cleal	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Karen Turner	....	production manager

Art Department
Richard Drew	....	set designer
Dave Jervis	....	additional graphics

Sound Department
Collins Harper	....	sound: vt
George Kidson	....	sound: vt
Peter Rose	....	sound supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department
Alan Bayley	....	camera supervisor
Neil Belcher	....	video tape operator
Neil Higginson	....	camera operator: video camera
Chris Kempton	....	lighting director
Jeff Williams	....	camera operator: video camera

Editorial Department
Susan Brincat	....	vision mixer (as Sue Brincat)
Dan Evans	....	insert editor (as Daniel Evans)
Matthew Jeffreys	....	insert editor (as Matt Jeffreys)

Other crew
Stephen Collins	....	junior researcher
Darren Dawson	....	electronic systems
Will Dixon	....	vt director
Peter Hackett	....	head of production
Anna Harrington	....	production accountant
Kim Li	....	studio resources manager
Denise Lonsdale	....	script supervisor
Caroline Moffat	....	junior production coordinator
Thomas O'Brien	....	researcher
Mandy Read	....	floor manager

Production Companies

• Hot Sauce

Distributors

• Channel 4 Television Corporation (2007) (UK) (TV)

Other Companies

• ITN Source  archive courtesy of (as ITN Source/Channel 4)
• Chatsworth Enterprises  archive courtesy of (as Chatsworth Enterprises Ltd)
• Ragdoll Productions  archive courtesy of (as Ragdoll Productions Ltd)
• Lime Pictures  archive courtesy of
• Moving Image Communications  archive courtesy of (as Moving Image Communications Ltd)
• Snowman Enterprises  archive courtesy of (as Snowman Enterprises Ltd)
• REX Features  archive courtesy of
• Jump  graphics

Runtime:

100 min (approx.)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Hot Sauce

Movie Connections:

References "How Clean Is Your House?" (2003)

The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This edition of the show that plays out like a pub quiz was part of the 25th anniversary of Channel 4, broadcast on the day the channel first started in 1982, so this was a great to relive the great television broadcast on the channel, and this was a great show to watch and have fun with. Hosted by Jimmy Carr, with celebrity panellists in three teams, the players were The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade, The Friday Night Project's Alan Carr, Jack Dee, Peep Show's David Mitchell, Frank Skinner and Countdown's Carol Vorderman (the first woman to appear on Channel 4), this quiz focused on subjects based on the programmes Channel 4 broadcast over the last 25 years, including water cooler moments and most talked about shows, American TV, chat shows, youth and children's TV, comedies, sport, controversy, factual entertainment shows and game shows. These questions are asked as they are, with video and sound clips, with pictures (including Say What You See), and by celebrity and mystery guests on screen or in the studio, so it really does feel like a proper quiz that you can take part in. Events in the 25 years of Channel 4 that were questioned and joked about included: Countdown, The Big Breakfast, Shameless, Queer as Folk, Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother, Brookside, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, After Dark with Oliver Reed, Wife Swap with Lizzie Bardsley, The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross, Friends, The Cosby Show, Sex and the City, ER, Cheers, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, South Park, Clive Anderson Talks Back where the Bee Gees walked off and So Graham Norton where the Bee Gees called the host "scum", Ring My Bell, Max Headroom, Hollyoaks, The Word, The Tube, Network 7 and Club X, Pob, The Snowman, Creature Comforts, Vic Reeves Big Night Out with the catchphrase "What's on the end of the stick, Vic?", Peep Show, The Friday Night Project, Trigger Happy TV, Desmond's, Comic Strip Presents… Five Go Mad in Dorset, Smack the Pony, Bo' Selecta!, Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, Father Ted, Spaced, Absolutely, The Adam and Joe Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Drop the Dead Donkey, The 11 O'Clock Show, Saturday Night Live and Friday Night Live with Ben Elton and Loadsamoney (Harry Enfield), Saturday Zoo with Paul Calf (Steve Coogan), Ali G, Skins, Kabaddi, GamesMaster with Sir Patrick Moore, the Subbuteo World Cup, TV Dinners with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall where he ate human placenta, The Autopsy with Gunther Von Hagens, Brass Eye, Shaun Rider swearing on TFI Friday, Derren Brown: The Heist, You Are What You Eat; Location, Location, Location; Property Ladder, Grand Designs, 10 Years Younger, All Stitched Up, Supernanny, Jamie's Kitchen, First AIDS (broadcast during the AIDS crisis), Easy Does It with Pat Rawlinson, Treasure Hunt with Anneka Rice, Banzai and The Crystal Maze. Other celebrity and special mystery guests in the show included the children of Mitchell Brook Primary School in Neasden who act out well known news stories, Derren Brown, Joanna Fisher from Minipops (she was 5 years old at the time), Brookside's Anna Friel, Jo Frost aka Supernanny, Ricky Gervais who started out on The 11 O'Clock Show, Desmond's star Ram John Holder, Jools Holland who hosted The Tube, Vic Reeves, Jonathan Ross, Jon Snow who reads news related to a Channel 4 children's programme (The Snowman) and Quentin Tarantino who directed an episode of ER. The jokes and the questions are what make this show so much fun, they chose the right celebrity panellists, and it also works as a funny way to reminisce on the years good and bad for a great channel, a great comedy quiz show. Very good!