Like an unfinished cigarette end in a half empty glass of mulled wine, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2011 spluttered an end to the festive season. The year of staggeringly more and more bizarre news stories was laid out in a series of questions presented by Jimmy Carr.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have watched this quiz show several times and thoroughly enjoyed it but this year seemed to dissolve into childish antics and eventually served to get on my nerves so many times that I almost switched it off. I think that Miranda Hart and David Walliams are amazing comedians and I enjoy their offerings frequently but their refusal to even try and get questions right started to grate almost straight away. Answering questions with the answers from previous questions and insisting they should be given points as they got it right from a previous round really does grow tiresome after the first time but this occurred several times. I don’t know if they were trying to make a point or some sort of thing but it quickly became very irritating.
I realize that it is not an all out serious quiz but in most panel shows the guests do tend to join in the fun rather than spoiling it for the other contestants.
Admittedly Eddie Izzard did start using his phone at the start and whilst having his phone confiscated comically tried to run away with Jimmy Carr’s questions but he soon settled down to being funny rather than juvenile.
Despite the silly behaviour, the show was actually quite enjoyable and there were a few news stories that genuinely appear to have passed me by this year. My husband, who has very little interest in music did manage to answer one of the music questions that I failed to answer leaving me rather red faced due to my declaration of ‘probably only going to get the music questions right’.
David Mitchell was at his usual scathing best and Jonathan Ross and Jamie Oliver were self deprecating and reverential of the special guest which actually increased my respect in both of them.
Teamed with Jimmy Carr’s comical delivery and truly incredible laugh, they managed to win me over and it wasn’t as much as a depressing and annoying end to the year as I had begun to fear. I will watch it again should it be shown next year but I shall stick to watching David Walliams and Miranda Hart in what they do best.
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