8 out of 10 Cats is a television comedy panel game

Panel game

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 made by Zeppotron

Zeppotron

Zeppotron is a television and online comedy production company. It was formed in 2000 from several of the writers of Channel 4's The 11 O'Clock Show: Charlie Brooker, Ben Caudell, Peter Holmes, Neil Webster...

 (a subsidiary

Subsidiary

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 of Endemol

Endemol UK

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) for Channel 4

Channel 4

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. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by company Harris Poll

Harris Interactive

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. The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas

Whiskas

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 cat food which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas". The first advert ever screened during the show's commercial break was for Whiskas.

Overview

The show is hosted by comedian Jimmy Carr

Jimmy Carr

James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr is an English-Irish comedian and humourist. He is known for his deadpan delivery and dark humour. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television....

 and features two teams, consisting of a regular team captain and two celebrity guests each. Sean Lock

Sean Lock

Sean Lock is an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian. He won the British Comedy Award in 2000 in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. He is also well known for his appearances on television and radio...

 has appeared as the first team captain since the show's inception; the opposing captain was originally Dave Spikey

Dave Spikey

Dave Spikey is an English comedian, actor, writer and film producer, currently residing in Chorley, Lancashire....

, who left after series 4 to pursue other projects and was replaced by Jason Manford

Jason Manford

Jason John Manford is an English comedian, television presenter and actor.- Early life :Manford was born to an Irish family in Salford, Greater Manchester, a son of Sharon , who is a Catholic and Ian Manford. He grew up in poverty in a terraced house in Manchester...

. Manford departed following series 10, and has been replaced by Jon Richardson

Jon Richardson (entertainer)

Jon Joel Richardson is a British comedian.Jon co-hosted a Sunday morning radio show on BBC 6 Music with fellow comedian and friend Russell Howard, and continued to present the show himself after Howard left, until 7 March 2010...

 in the current series.

Every week, the captains are joined by two celebrities from the likes of David Walliams

David Walliams

David Edward Walliams is an English comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the TV sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile...

 and Alan Carr

Alan Carr

Alan Carr is an English comedian and television personality. Born in Weymouth, he was raised in Northampton before moving to Manchester during his early 20's....

. Often, topical celebrities appear on the show, for example Ruth Badger

Ruth Badger

Ruth Badger is a British businesswoman, best known as the 2006 runner-up in the second series of the UK version of reality TV show The Apprentice, in which contestants compete for a £100,000-a-year job working for British business magnate Sir Alan Sugar...

 following her appearance on The Apprentice

The Apprentice (UK)

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.

The show is recorded at BBC Television Centre

BBC Television Centre

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, typically the day before transmission. However, in the past few years, due to Jimmy Carr's stand-up schedule, certain episodes are pretaped and broadcast later as "special" episodes dealing with a particular subject.

Current rounds

These are the current rounds featured on 8 out of 10 Cats:

• "What Are You Talking About?" - The polling organisation asked the public what they were talking about during the week. The teams have to try to guess the top five.
• "Pick of the Polls" - The teams are given 4 pictures to pick from and are given a poll based around that picture.
• "Believe It or Not" - The teams are given a statistic and try to guess if it is true or false.
• "And the Winner Is..." The teams are given a question from a poll and then they try to guess what came on top of that poll.
• "The Poll With a Hole"- each team is given a statistic but it is missing one piece of salient information. The teams have to guess what that piece of information is.

The points often do not add up correctly, but this is because the show has to be edited to fit in its 26 minute slot.
From series 9 there is a longer version of the episode called "8 Out Of 10 Cats Uncut" broadcast a few days later.

Until season 8 there were four rounds during the game, but now it has been limited to three.

Retired rounds

These rounds only featured in Series 1 and the Big Brother

Big Brother (UK)

Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...

 special shows:

• "Face Off" - The teams have to guess who from a list of famous people came top with respect to a particular topic.
• "Word Association" - The teams view a clip illustrating a word and have to guess the top three things people thought of when they heard that word.
• "What's the Poll?" - The teams are given five famous people, picture by picture, and they have to guess which poll they appeared on.

DVD

8 out of 10 Cats: Claws Out is a ninety-minute collection of highlights from the past few series which features deleted scenes considered too offensive to be aired. It was released on 20 November 2006.

Other Specials

In January 2012 a special episode of Countdown

Countdown (game show)

Countdown is a British game show involving word and number puzzles. It is produced by ITV Studios and broadcast on Channel 4. It is presented by Jeff Stelling, assisted by Rachel Riley, with regular lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be aired on Channel 4, and over sixty-five...

 will air as part of a special "mash-up night" celebrating Channel 4's 30th birthday. Jimmy Carr will take over as host alongside Rachel Riley

Rachel Riley

Rachel Annabelle Riley is an English television presenter. Since 12 January 2009 she has been the co-host of Countdown. She replaced Carol Vorderman from the 60th series onwards...

. Sean Lock

Sean Lock

Sean Lock is an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian. He won the British Comedy Award in 2000 in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. He is also well known for his appearances on television and radio...

 and Jon Richardson

Jon Richardson (entertainer)

Jon Joel Richardson is a British comedian.Jon co-hosted a Sunday morning radio show on BBC 6 Music with fellow comedian and friend Russell Howard, and continued to present the show himself after Howard left, until 7 March 2010...

 will be the contestants and Joe Wilkinson will join Susie Dent

Susie Dent

Susie Dent is an English lexicographer, well known as the resident dictionary expert and adjudicator on Channel 4’s long-running game show Countdown. As of January 2009, she is the longest-serving member of the current on-screen team, having first appeared on the show in 1992.Dent was educated at...

 at the numbers board. During the course of the show, there will be 8 out of 10 Cats style banter.

Podcasts

A series of podcasts have also been released on iTunes

ITunes

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, with material directly from the show for several episodes. Each podcast is typically the "What Are You Talking About" round from that episode.

Guest appearances

The following have made more than one appearance on the show as a guest (up to 25 November 2011):
10 appearances

• David Walliams
  David Walliams
  David Edward Walliams is an English comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the TV sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile...
  
  

9 appearances

• Johnny Vegas
  Johnny Vegas
  Johnny Vegas is an English actor and comedian. He is known for his angry rants, portly figure, high husky voice and support of St Helens rugby league club. More recently he has moved into dramatic acting.-Early life:He was born in St Helens, Lancashire, the youngest of four children of Laurence...
  
  

8 appearances

• Vic Reeves
  Vic Reeves
  James Roderick Moir , better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer . He is known for his surreal and non sequitur sense of humour....
  
  

7 appearances

• Frankie Boyle
  Frankie Boyle
  Francis Martin Patrick "Frankie" Boyle is a British comedian and writer, well known for his pessimistic, often controversial sense of humour...
  
  
• Alan Carr
  Alan Carr
  Alan Carr is an English comedian and television personality. Born in Weymouth, he was raised in Northampton before moving to Manchester during his early 20's....
  
  
• Lee Mack
  Lee Mack
  Lee Gordon McKillop is an English stand-up comedian and actor, known by the stage name Lee Mack. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Not Going Out, for being a team captain on Would I Lie to You? and for hosting Lee Mack's All Star Cast.-Personal life:Mack...
  
  
• Sarah Millican
  Sarah Millican
  Sarah Millican is an English stand-up comedian. Millican won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.-Career:...
  
  
• Jack Whitehall
  Jack Whitehall
  Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter and actor, best known for hosting the E4 show Big Brother's Big Mouth in 2008, Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth in January 2009, and the Channel 4 topical entertainment show the TNT Show.-Early life:Whitehall was born in...
  
  

6 appearances

• Krishnan Guru-Murthy
  Krishnan Guru-Murthy
  Krishnan Guru-Murthy , is a British television presenter and journalist employed by Channel 4. He presents the Channel 4 Evening News and the foreign affairs programme Unreported World.-Education:...
  
  
• Claudia Winkleman
  Claudia Winkleman
  Claudia Anne I. Winkleman is an English television presenter, film critic, radio personality and journalist.- Early life and family :...
  
  

5 appearances

• Scott Capurro
  Scott Capurro
  -Television appearances:-Stage appearances:-Personal life:In October 2006 Capurro purchased a flat in Bethnal Green and considers himself a London resident.-External links:* * *...
  
  
• Reginald D. Hunter
• Jamelia
  Jamelia
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• Ulrika Jonsson
  Ulrika Jonsson
  Eva Ulrika Jonsson is a Swedish television presenter in the UK, who became famous as a TV-am weather presenter and moved on to present Gladiators and became a team captain of the show Shooting Stars.-Early life:...
  
  
• Kelly Osbourne
  Kelly Osbourne
  Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English media personality, television personality, host, judge, fashion designer, singer, and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne...
  
  
• Mark Watson
  Mark Watson (comedian)
  Mark Andrew Watson is an English stand-up comedian and novelist.-Early life:Watson was born in Bristol to Welsh parents and attended Henleaze Junior school and then Bristol Grammar School, where he won the prize of 'Gabbler of the year', before going to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied...
  
  
• Alex Zane
  Alex Zane
  Alex Zane is an English television presenter and DJ.-Background:Zane was born in Leeds and attended Boston Spa School before going on to study Medicine at University College London, a course which he left after a year, and then Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College.-Stand-up comedy and...
  
  

4 appearances

• Alun Cochrane
  Alun Cochrane
  Alun "The Cockerel" Cochrane is a Scottish stand-up comedian. He was born in Glasgow and raised in Mirfield, West Yorkshire.-Stand-up comedy:...
  
  
• James Corden
  James Corden
  James Kimberley Corden is an English actor, television writer, producer and presenter. He is co-creator and star of BBC comedy shows Gavin & Stacey and Horne & Corden, and acted in the 2009 film Lesbian Vampire Killers....
  
  
• Jack Dee
  Jack Dee
  James Andrew Innes "Jack" Dee is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer known for his sardonic, curmudgeonly, and deadpan style.-Early life:...
  
  
• Rhod Gilbert
  Rhod Gilbert
  Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy ....
  
  
• Trisha Goddard
  Trisha Goddard
  Patricia "Trisha" Goddard is a British television presenter and actress best known for her morning talk show, Trisha Goddard, which is broadcast on a mid morning slot on Channel 5 in the UK. In Australia she is known as a long time presenter of Play School.-Background:Goddard was born in London,...
  
  
• Russell Kane
  Russell Kane
  Russell Kane is an English writer, comedian, actor and media personality. In June 2006, he became the face of digital station Five US. He has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, winning the main prize in August 2010...
  
  
• Lauren Laverne
  Lauren Laverne
  Lauren Cecilia Fisher , known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, television presenter, author and singer...
  
  
• David O'Doherty
  David O'Doherty
  David Nicholas O'Doherty is a Perrier Award winning Irish stand-up comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright. His stand-up has won two awards at the Edinburgh Fringe, Best Newcomer first of all and the if.comedy award in 2008 for his show Let's Comedy. He has been nominated twice more for...
  
  
• Peter Serafinowicz
  Peter Serafinowicz
  Peter Szymon Serafinowicz is an English actor, comedian, writer, composer, voice artist and occasional director.-Early life:Serafinowicz was born in Liverpool, England. He attended Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Primary School and St Francis Xavier Secondary School...
  
  
• Holly Walsh
  Holly Walsh
  Holly Walsh is an English comedian and comedy writer from Guildford in Surrey, known mainly for her work on TV and radio in the UK.- Early life :...
  
  
• Joe Wilkinson

3 appearances

• Chris Addison
  Chris Addison
  Chris Addison is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4...
  
  
• John Bishop
  John Bishop (comedian)
  John Joseph Bishop is an award-winning comedian.His television debut came on The Panel. As an actor, he has appeared in the E4 teen drama Skins as Mr Fitch, father of twins, Katie and Emily and in the Ken Loach film Route Irish...
  
  
• Charlie Brooker
  Charlie Brooker
  Charlton "Charlie" Brooker is a British journalist, comic writer and broadcaster. His style of humour is savage and profane, with surreal elements and a consistent satirical pessimism...
  
  
• Vanessa Feltz
  Vanessa Feltz
  Vanessa Jane Feltz is an English television personality, broadcaster and journalist. She currently presents an early morning radio show on BBC Radio 2, a mid morning phone-in show on BBC London 94.9. In 2011, she started hosting The Vanessa Show on Channel 5. The first series ended on June 24th...
  
  
• Christian Jessen
  Christian Jessen
  Christian Spencer Jessen is an English doctor and television presenter.-Television career:He is best known for presenting Channel 4's Supersize vs Superskinny and Embarrassing Bodies alongside Pixie McKenna and Dawn Harper...
  
  
• Lorraine Kelly
  Lorraine Kelly
  Lorraine Kelly is a Scottish television presenter, journalist and actress, best known as a presenter for TV-am, and later GMTV and ITV Breakfast, on Lorraine.-Early life:...
  
  
• Shappi Khorsandi
• Jodie Kidd
  Jodie Kidd
  Jodie Kidd is an English television personality and fashion model.-Early life:Jodie was a showjumper as a child and attended St Michael's School, Petworth.-Family:Jodie is the granddaughter from Hon...
  
  
• Sally Lindsay
  Sally Lindsay
  Sally Lindsay is an English actress best known for playing the role of Shelley Unwin in the long-running ITV1 Soap opera Coronation Street...
  
  
• Gabby Logan
  Gabby Logan
  Gabby Logan is a television presenter and radio presenter, as well as a former Wales international gymnast. She currently hosts programmes for BBC Sport, mainly focusing on football.- Early life :...
  
  
• Josie Long
  Josie Long
  Josie Long is an English comedian.-Background:Long spent her early life in Orpington, South East London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Swift House. She also attended GIFT Ltd. summer schools. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at...
  
  
• Jason Manford
  Jason Manford
  Jason John Manford is an English comedian, television presenter and actor.- Early life :Manford was born to an Irish family in Salford, Greater Manchester, a son of Sharon , who is a Catholic and Ian Manford. He grew up in poverty in a terraced house in Manchester...
  
  
• Michael McIntyre
  Michael McIntyre
  Michael Hazen James McIntyre is an English stand-up comedian. He is well known for appearing at many British stand-up comedy events and for several roles on television stand-up programmes such as Live at the Apollo and his own show, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow...
  
  
• Patrick McGuinness
• Rachel Riley
  Rachel Riley
  Rachel Annabelle Riley is an English television presenter. Since 12 January 2009 she has been the co-host of Countdown. She replaced Carol Vorderman from the 60th series onwards...
  
  
• Joan Rivers
  Joan Rivers
  Joan Rivers is an American comedian, television personality and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries...
  
  
• Rob Rouse
  Rob Rouse
  Rob Rouse is an English comedian known for his hyperactive brand of humour.-Overview:Before becoming a comedian, Rouse was a geography teacher...
  
  
• Johnny Vaughan
  Johnny Vaughan
  Jonathan Randall Vaughan is an English broadcaster and journalist. Vaughan has become well known as a television and radio personality and has also built a reputation as a film critic. He co-presented Capital Breakfast alongside Lisa Snowdon on 95.8 Capital FM between 2004 and 2011...
  
  
• Carol Vorderman
  Carol Vorderman
  Carol Jean Vorderman MBE is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 to 2008. In September 2011 she became a co-anchor of the ITV1 panel show Loose Women....
  
  
• Louis Walsh
  Louis Walsh
  Louis Walsh is an Irish music manager and judge on the British television talent show The X Factor.-Band manager:...
  
  
• Josh Widdicombe
  Josh Widdicombe
  -Career:Widdicombe began performing live in 2008, and made it to the final of 'So You Think You're Funny' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival during the same year. Widdicombe has performed at the Fringe Festival every year since, co-writing and performing in the sketch show Superclump in 2009. He also...
  
  

2 appearances

• Fiona Allen
  Fiona Allen
  Fiona Allen is an English comedienne and actress.-Career:Allen has appeared in many sketch shows, including Smack the Pony, Goodness Gracious Me and The All Star Comedy Show...
  
  
• Simon Amstell
  Simon Amstell
  Simon Marc Amstell is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning English comedian, television presenter, screenwriter and actor, best known for his roles as former co-host of Popworld, former host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks and co-writer and star of the sitcom Grandma's House.-Early life:Amstell was born...
  
  
• David Baddiel
  David Baddiel
  David Lionel Baddiel is an English comedian, novelist and television presenter.-Early life:Baddiel was born in New York, and moved to England when he was four months old. His father, Colin Brian Baddiel, was a Welsh research chemist with Unilever before being made redundant in the 1980s, after...
  
  
• Christopher Biggins
  Christopher Biggins
  Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and media personality.-Career:Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England and brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where he took elocution lessons and participated in local drama groups...
  
  
• Matthew Crosby
  Matthew Crosby
  Matthew Crosby is a British comedian and writer. He is best known as one third of the sketch team Pappy's. He began his comedy career in 2004 and has since performed stand-up and sketch comedy all over the world. He was a semi-finalist for the BBC New Act 2005...
  
  
• Alan Cumming
  Alan Cumming
  Alan Cumming, OBE is a Scottish stage, television and film actor, singer, writer, director, producer and author. His roles have included the Emcee in Cabaret, Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, Mr. Elton in Emma, and Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids trilogy...
  
  
• Greg Davies
  Greg Davies
  Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
  
  
• Micky Flanagan
  Micky Flanagan
  Michael "Micky" Flanagan is an English comedian. Flanagan has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured Britain with stand-up shows...
  
  
• Mel Giedroyc
  Mel Giedroyc
  Mel Giedroyc is an English television presenter, actress, and writer.-Mel and Sue:Giedroyc is best known for presenting comedy items alongside Sue Perkins. The two women met whilst students at Cambridge and both were members of the famous Footlights comedy club.As Mel and Sue, the duo were...
  
  
• Jade Goody
  Jade Goody
  Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody was an English celebrity. She came into the public spotlight while appearing on the third series of the Channel 4 reality TV programme Big Brother in 2002, an appearance which led to her own television programmes and the launch of her own products after her eviction from...
  
  
• Nick Grimshaw
  Nick Grimshaw
  Nicholas Peter "Nick" Grimshaw is a British television and radio presenter. Commonly known as 'Grimmy', he has presented shows for Channel 4, E4, BBC One, BBC Two and Channel 4 youth strand T4...
  
  
• Rich Hall
  Rich Hall
  Richard "Rich" Hall is an American comedian, writer and musician.-Early life and career:Hall was born in Alexandria, Virginia and grew up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He is part Cherokee Indian...
  
  
• Eamonn Holmes
  Eamonn Holmes
  Eamonn Holmes is an Northern Irish journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work on UK and Irish television, notably presenting GMTV and This Morning. He is married to TV presenter Ruth Langsford.-Education:...
  
  
• Konnie Huq
  Konnie Huq
  Kanak Asha "Konnie" Huq is a British television presenter, who is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it from 1 December 1997 until 23 January 2008...
  
  
• Steve Jones
  Steve Jones (presenter)
  Stephen Ashton "Steve" Jones is a Welsh television presenter. Jones is primarily known in the UK as presenter of T4. Internationally, he is known as the host of The X Factor USA.-Early life:...
  
  
• Phill Jupitus
  Phill Jupitus
  Phillip Christopher Jupitus is an English stand-up and improvised comedian, actor, performance poet, musician and podcaster....
  
  
• Iain Lee
  Iain Lee
  Iain Lee is a British comedian, and a television and radio presenter. His career began when he performed stand-up comedy gigs across venues in London. He subsequently became co-presenter of the comedy current affairs show The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 and RI:SE...
  
  
• Richard Madeley
  Richard Madeley
  Richard Madeley is a British television presenter and columnist. With his wife Judy Finnigan, Madeley has presented This Morning and later the weekday chat show Richard & Judy...
  
  
• Jayne Middlemiss
  Jayne Middlemiss
  Jayne Middlemiss is a London-based British television and radio presenter, originally from Northumberland. She began presenting music television shows such as The O-Zone and Top of the Pops in the mid '90s, before presenting a variety of other television and radio shows, including on BBC 6 Music...
  
  
• Tim Minchin
  Tim Minchin
  Timothy David "Tim" Minchin is a British-Australian comedian, actor, and musician.Tim Minchin is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in six CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has performed internationally. He has also appeared on television in Australia,...
  
  
• Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
  Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
  Tara Palmer-Tomkinson also known as T P-T, is an English socialite, "it girl", television presenter, columnist and model...
  
  
• Griff Rhys Jones
  Griff Rhys Jones
  Griffith "Griff" Rhys Jones is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor, television presenter and personality. Jones came to national attention in the early 1980s for his work in the BBC television comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Mel Smith...
  
  
• June Sarpong
  June Sarpong
  June Sarpong MBE is an English television presenter of Ghanaian descent.-Education:Sarpong was born in London to Ghanaian parents. She was educated at Connaught Girls School in Leytonstone and Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow....
  
  
• Daniel Sloss
  Daniel Sloss
  Daniel Sloss is a British comedian, actor and writer, notable for having started standup comedy as a 19-year-old teenager and having become established as a professional live and television performer whilst still in his teens...
  
  
• Louie Spence
  Louie Spence
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• Debra Stephenson
  Debra Stephenson
  Debra Stephenson is an English actress, comedian, impressionist and singer.-Career:At the age of fourteen Stephenson appeared on BBC TV's Opportunity Knocks, winning her way through to the All-Winners' Final, broadcast live from the London Palladium...
  
  
• Liza Tarbuck
  Liza Tarbuck
  Liza Tarbuck is an English actress and television and radio presenter, and daughter of comedian Jimmy Tarbuck.She trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA graduating in 1986 alongside Clive Owen, Rebecca Pidgeon and Serena Harragin.-Acting:...
  
  
• Rhys Thomas
  Rhys Thomas
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• Danny Wallace
  Danny Wallace (humourist)
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• Gok Wan
  Gok Wan
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Original series

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	3 June 2005	5 August 2005	10
2	10 February 2006	24 March 2006	7
3	26 May 2006	14 July 2006	8
4	20 October 2006	8 December 2006	8
5	15 June 2007	20 July 2007	6
6	13 June 2008	18 July 2008	6
7	4 September 2008	27 November 2008	13
8	5 June 2009	17 July 2009	7
9	8 January 2010	19 February 2010	7
10	17 September 2010	15 October 2010	5
11	17 June 2011	19 August 2011	10
12	23 September 2011	25 November 2011	10

Specials

Date	Entitle
12 August 2005	Big Brother Special
18 August 2006	Big Brother Special
15 December 2006	The Best of Series 4
30 August 2007	Big Brother Special
5 September 2008	Big Brother Special
26 December 2008	The Best of Series 7
24 July 2009	The Best of Series 8
11 June 2010	World Cup Special
21 August 2010	The Best of Series 9
9 September 2010	Big Brother Special
23 December 2010	Christmas Special
5 March 2011	24 Hour Panel People Comic Relief Special
26 August 2011	The Best of Series 11
9 December 2011	The Best of Series 12
December 2011	Christmas Special

External links

• 8 out of 10 Cats at EpisodeWorld.com