🎬
Comedy Quiz
Comedy · Timed
20 questions · 10 min timer · Instant feedback
Comedy is one of the oldest and most beloved genres in cinema, bringing laughter, joy, and unforgettable characters to audiences of all ages. Whether through clever dialogue, physi...
Playing as a guest
You can play free without an account. Create one to save scores and resume later.
Question of
Explanation:
Choose an answer to continue. Correct answers are revealed after you finish.
Time is up! Quiz Complete!
Your score
Correct
Wrong
Want this score saved?
Create a free account to store quiz history, track streaks, and pick up where you left off. Guests can keep playing without signup.
No questions available for this topic yet.
All 20 questions in this Comedy quiz
-
What is 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (2022) and how does it use comedy alongside its other genres?
- A. A pure science fiction film
- B. A horror film
- C. A laundromat owner discovers she can access parallel universe versions of herself - a film that uses absurdist comedy (hot dog fingers, raccoon chefs) alongside genuine emotional meditation on failure and regret
- D. A romantic comedy
-
What is 'Sister Act' (1992) about and what made Whoopi Goldberg's performance distinctive?
- A. A horror film
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A thriller
- D. A Reno lounge singer who witnesses a mob murder and hides in a convent - revitalising it with soul music despite the nuns' discomfort
-
What is 'Bridesmaids' (2011) directed by Paul Feig significan't for in comedy film history?
- A. Demonstrating that women-led R-rated comedies could be commercially viable on the same scale as male-driven equivalents - and launching Melissa McCarthy's film career
- B. Being a straightforward comedy
- C. Being a romantic drama
- D. Being a parody film
-
What is the comedy 'The Internship' (2013) and how does it differ from 'Wedding Crashers' (2005)?
- A. They are completely unrelated films
- B. They have different directors only
- C. They are identical films
- D. Both star Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson but Wedding Crashers (2005) is their finest work - The Internship reunites them in a Google recruitment comedy with less success
-
In 'The Hangover', where does the group wake up after a wild night?
- A. Miami
- B. New York
- C. Los Angeles
- D. Las Vegas
-
What is the premise of 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' (2014) and what makes Wes Anderson's visual style distinctive?
- A. A realistic drama
- B. A straightforward biopic
- C. A fantastical comedy set in a fictional European alpine republic - Anderson's precise symmetrical compositions, pastel palette, and deadpan delivery create a uniquely artificial cinematic world
- D. A documentary
-
What is 'Pineapple Express' (2008) about and what comedy hybrid does it represent?
- A. A stoner who witnesses a murder goes on the run with his drug dealer - a genre-blending comedy that mixes stoner comedy with genuine action thriller
- B. A drama
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A political satire
-
What is the premise of 'Idiocracy' (2006) directed by Mike Judge?
- A. A straightforward action film
- B. An average soldier is cryogenically frozen and wakes 500 years in the future to find America has become comprehensively stupid - the most intelligent person alive
- C. A science fiction film without comedy
- D. A romantic film
-
In 'Dumb and Dumber', who plays the two leads?
- A. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey
- B. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn
- C. Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider
- D. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels
-
What is 'Paddington' (2014) and how does it achieve both children's and adult appeal?
- A. A parody film
- B. A serious drama
- C. A dark horror film
- D. A CGI bear from Peru adjusts to London life in a story that is simultaneously charming for children and emotionally intelligent for adults - Paul King's direction created one of British cinema's finest family films
-
What is 'Rush Hour' (1998) and how did it establish Jackie Chan in American cinema?
- A. A serious action film
- B. A martial arts drama
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A Hong Kong detective paired with an American cop in Los Angeles - Jackie Chan's physical comedy and Chris Tucker's verbal comedy created a cross-cultural comedy dynamic
-
What is the comedy 'Knives Out' (2019) and what does director Rian Johnson do with the whodunit genre?
- A. A conventional mystery
- B. A horror film
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A comedy-mystery that reveals who committed the murder early then asks how the story ends - a formal inversion of genre expectations starring Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc
-
What is the comedy 'About a Boy' (2002) based on and who stars in it?
- A. Nick Hornby's novel - Hugh Grant plays a superficial bachelor who invents a fictitious son to attend a single parents' group, then befriends a real troubled 12-year-old
- B. A French comedy
- C. A serious drama
- D. An original screenplay
-
What is the British comedy 'The Full Monty' (1997) about and what cultural impact did it have?
- A. A heist comedy
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A political satire
- D. Six unemployed Sheffield steelworkers who decide to stage a full male striptease - a film that became one of Britain's biggest comedy exports and a touchstone of 1990s working-class culture
-
What is the premise of 'Mrs. Doubtfire' (1993) directed by Chris Columbus?
- A. A musical
- B. A divorced actor who disguises himself as a Scottish housekeeper to spend time with his children after losing custody - a comedy that also addresses divorce's impact on family
- C. A spy comedy
- D. A serious drama
-
What is 'Superbad' (2007) about and how did it influence the coming-of-age comedy genre?
- A. A horror comedy
- B. A fantasy adventure
- C. A romantic film
- D. Two high school best friends attempt to attend a party on their last night together before college - a raunchy comedy that brought unexpected emotional depth to adolescent male friendship
-
What is 'The Producers' (1967) by Mel Brooks about?
- A. A Western
- B. A serious drama
- C. A Broadway producer and his accountant realise they could make more money from a flop than a hit - and deliberately produce the worst play possible (Springtime for Hitler)
- D. A romantic comedy
-
What is the plot of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' (1994) that made Hugh Grant an international star?
- A. A war film
- B. A crime thriller
- C. A horror comedy
- D. A charming but commitment-phobic Englishman attends a series of friends' weddings while falling for an American woman who keeps appearing at the same events
-
What is 'Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!' (1988) about?
- A. A romantic film
- B. A Western
- C. A serious police procedural
- D. A parody police procedural where completely incompetent detective Frank Drebin accidentally prevents an assassination attempt - Leslie Nielsen at his finest
-
Who directed and starred in 'Annie Hall' (1977) - the film that transformed the romantic comedy genre?
- A. Mel Brooks
- B. Mike Nichols
- C. Albert Brooks
- D. Woody Allen