Joker's Wild (TV series)
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Joker's Wild was a UK comedy panel game that was produced by Yorkshire Television and aired for eight series on ITV from 1969 to 1974. The show was hosted by comedy writer Barry Cryer.
[edit] Format and performers
Each week two teams of comedians played for points by telling jokes on a certain subject chosen by the host, who would pull the selection from a box on his desk. Typical examples were politics or the mother-in-law. When a member of a team was telling a joke, a member of the other team could interrupt the joke by pressing the buzzer and finishing the joke to score bonus points for his/her team.
Before the commercial break one of the comedians would be given one minute to get as many laughs as possible from the studio audience. The more laughs, the more points were scored. At the end of the show the team with the most points won a gag trophy of a jester carrying the Yorkshire Television chevron logo.
Some of the comedians who appeared on Joker's Wild were John Cleese, Rolf Harris, Les Dawson, Arthur Askey, Ted Rogers, Ray Cameron, Norman Collier, Alfred Marks and Ray Martine.
