If you are a fan of pub quizzes, and have a good knowledge of the news events in the world, entertainment, TV, film, music, sport, technology and science, politics and much more in the year gone by, then this is a great show to watch and have fun with. Hosted by Jimmy Carr, with celebrity panellists in three teams: Richard Ayoade and Stephen Merchant (Something for the Mums), Jonathan Ross and Rose Matafeo (Velvet Surprise), and Maisie Adam and Katherine Ryan (Maple Gravy). This quiz focused on the year 2022, with all sorts of questions to answer about the past twelve months. 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 year 2022 that were questioned and joked about, and mentioned (or pictured) included: Kwasi Kwarteng sacked as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Liz Truss lasting 45 days as Prime Minister, Sam Ryder at Eurovision, the deaths of Angela Lansbury, June Brown, Robbie Coltrane and Olivia Newton-John, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez back together, Ncuti Gatwa becoming the new Doctor Who, the Liz Truss lettuce, Paddington Bear, Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby accused of queue jumping for Queen lying in state, Serena Williams retiring from tennis, Adele's Las Vegas residency cancelled, the Crying Lens on Snapchat, Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister, David Beckham joining the queue with hundreds of thousands to see the Queen, Vladimir Putin setting out to wreck the British economy, social media fans calling the Platinum Jubilee the "Platty Joobs", the Wagatha Christie Trial, during the trial Rebekah Vardy said "arguing with Coleen (Rooney) is like arguing with a pigeon. You can tell it that you are right and it is wrong but it's still going to s*** in your hair.", MP Neil Parrish caught looking at pornography claimed he was searching for "tractors", Channel 5 showing The Emoji Movie instead of the Queen's Funeral with the other broadcasters, Hugh Grant requesting pro-EU protestor Steve Bray to play The Benny Hill Show theme tune ("Yakety Sax") when Boris Johnson resigned, the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Finnish skier Remi Lindholm suffering a frozen penis in the men's 50km cross country, FIFA choosing to host the World Cup in Qatar, chess grandmaster Hans Niemann declaring he would play chess naked after the accusation that his opponent had vibrating anal beads to cheat, actor Tom Hardy walking in the place of champion fighter Edward Hardy at the Milton Keynes Brazilian Jiujitsu Open, Budweiser spent £63 million on sponsorship at the World Cup but when alcohol was banned by Qatar they tweeted "well, this is awkward", at the Wimbledon final Nick Kyrios having a female fan removed from court accusing her of being drunk, but she was not sued him for £20,000 which he paid to her favourite charity, Cristiano Ronaldo booted from Manchester United and his goal celebration miming his hobby of napping, BBC Radio 1 playing "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond on the hour every hour on the breakfast show the day after the Women's Euro 2022 Final to honour the win for England (the Lionesses), Charles and Camilla appearing in EastEnders, Piers Morgan launching Piers Morgan Uncensored on Talk TV and his first interview being with former President Donald Trump, "As It Was" by Harry Styles, Married at First Sight, House of the Dragon, Derry Girls, Syabira winning The Great British Bake Off, Big Boys, Ellie Simmonds on Strictly Come Dancing, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Bridgerton, Liam Payne giving his opinion on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, Love Island and the "tit-gate" scandal, the callsigns for Top Gun: Maverick, the highest-grossing film of the year ("Rooster", "Hangman", "Phoenix", "Payback", "Fanboy", "Iceman", "Coyote", "Bob"), Boris Johnson signing off Prime Minister's Questions with the movie quote "Hasta la vista, baby!", young men dressed in black suit to see Minions 2: The Rise of Gru, the public voting Matt Hancock third in jungle final (I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!), ABBA and their residency in the UK, Shakira accused of tax evasion in Spain, "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush at Number One because of its appearance in Stranger Things, former health secretary Therese Coffey and her Dr. Dre phone alarm sounding during a live interview, Lizzo playing US President James Madison's 200-year-old flute whilst twerking, Louis Theroux entering the charts with a rap, Norway's Subwoolfer and their euro pop song "Give That Wolf a Banana" with its quirky lyrics ("and before that wolf eats my grandma, give that wolf a banana"), Elon Musk buying Twitter for $44 billion, the British heatwave in July with a record of over 40 degrees, NFT thefts, NASA releasing a photo from the James Webb telescope which turned out to be a joke photo by French physicist Etienne Klein of a slice of chorizo, the Elon Musk statue with his head on a goat's body riding a rocket that cost $600,000, Bella Hadid taking Paris Fashion Week by storm by wearing a futuristic synthetic-polymer outfit which was sprayed onto her body, British engineer Josh Wardle creating Wordle for his girlfriend which was sold to The New York Times for a seven figure sum, the Binley Mega Chippy TikTok craze which created large queues outside the fish and chips shop in Coventry, The Batman, The Northman, Don't Worry Darling, Gwynth Paltrow posing naked for her 50th birthday, Peter Kay's live tour tickets selling out in minutes, the accused spitting of Harry Styles at Chris Pine at the Venice Film Festival, Mark Zuckerberg announcing to an audience at a Meta Connect event that avatars in the Metaverse will have legs, Kim Kardashian claiming she would eat poo everyday if it meant staying younger, Heidi Klum dressed as a giant worm on the red carpet for Halloween, "quiet quitting" (doing the bare minimum required of your job) becoming a craze, the Elizabeth Line opened and going over budget by £4 billion, Rod Stewart playing at the Platinum Jubilee retiring, and getting in trouble with the council in Harlow for repairing potholes in the road, Rishi Sunak mentioning he ordered the breakfast wrap from McDonald's although it was no longer on the menu, the Climate Change protestors throwing foods on works of art (tomato soup thrown a Van Gogh, mashed potato thrown on a Monet, and a French gateau cake thrown on the Mona Lisa protective glass), The Pope warning priests and nuns not to watch pornography as it would "allow the devil inside", a bored security guard getting in trouble for altering the Anna Leporskaya painting Three Figures by drawing small dots on the three faces, the most googled person of the year being Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Taylor Swift having the best-selling album of the year, and "Goblin mode" (a neologism for the rejection of societal expectations and the act of living in an unkempt, hedonistic manner without concern for one's self-image) being the word of the year according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 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, Charles Dance who reads passages from a celebrity autobiography of the year (Rylan Clark), Millie Bright (Lioness), Luke Evans, Ellie Goulding, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Kate Hudson, Jamie Oliver, Johannes Radebe (Strictly Come Dancing), singer Sigrid, Subwoolfer (represented Norway at Eurovision), the Sugababes (Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan, and Siobhán Donaghy), Layton Williams, and the mystery guest Jerry Dyer, aviation enthusiast from Big Jet TV, who became a viral star with videos of his commentary on aircrafts trying to land at Heathrow Airport during Storm Eunice. The jokes and the questions are what make this show so much fun, they always choose the right celebrity panellists, and it works as a funny way to reminisce on the recent events you remember, a great comedy quiz show. Good!
2 Reviews
Total balls. No banter, boring cast.
jameslear-0767331 December 2022
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, can a bit a bit hit and miss, but this year was just miss. There was absolutely zero banter.
We had comics like Richard Ayoade who are great, but they need setup to deliver and there was none. He struggled to deliver as a result. His routine revolves around other people making normal observations to contrast his nerdy character; but nobody actually really said anything, so he couldn't work with it.
If you have nothing but reactionary comics, then there is nothing to build a joke.
Jonathan Ross didn't really have anything to say, nor did anyone else. Just disappointing.
There was nothing to bounce off each other. It was pretty boring.
BFQY was crap this year.
We had comics like Richard Ayoade who are great, but they need setup to deliver and there was none. He struggled to deliver as a result. His routine revolves around other people making normal observations to contrast his nerdy character; but nobody actually really said anything, so he couldn't work with it.
If you have nothing but reactionary comics, then there is nothing to build a joke.
Jonathan Ross didn't really have anything to say, nor did anyone else. Just disappointing.
There was nothing to bounce off each other. It was pretty boring.
BFQY was crap this year.
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