Crazy Comparisons

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== Host ==
== Host ==
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== Co-hosts ==
== Co-hosts ==
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Team captains: Simon Williams and Paula Wilcox
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Team captains: Simon Williams and Paula Wilcox (1991)
== Broadcast ==
== Broadcast ==
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Celador in association with Thames for ITV, 18 June to 19 July 1991 (20 episodes in 1 series)
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Celador and Thames for ITV, 5 September 1989 to 19 July 1991 (44 episodes in 2 series, 1989 as ''PSI'')
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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
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A guessing game in which celebrity panellists compare famous people - including each other - to all sorts of other people, things and concepts.
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'If this show was a gameshow, what gameshow would it be?' 'Well, it would be Crazy Comparisons (PSI), wouldn't it?'
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And that, my friends, sums up Crazy Comparisons (PSI) nicely. Two teams of celebrities would try and guess who various mystery celebs would be if they were, say, a type of cheese, a Laurence Llewellyn Bowen style house furnishing, a type of light bulb whatever. And that was it really.
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<div class="image">[[File:Crazy comparisons team.jpg]]''The crazy team that make a lot of comparisons. Williams, Tarrant and Wilcox.''</div>
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It was based on a popular (at the time) board game, but if you were ask 'If this show was a gameshow, what gameshow would it be?', an equally acceptable answer would be 'Celebrity Intuition', because that's what the show changed its name to after about two series. No one knows why. Still, we're still waiting for Stephen Leahy to come up with 'Celebrity Table Football' or 'Celebrity Kerplunk'.
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Hosted by [[Chris Tarrant]], the latter could be fab as a celebrity can pick a straw and he can go 'is that your final decision?' or 'confident?' and when all the marbles came tumbling down he can go 'I'm sorry, you've just lost 14 marbles'.
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== Inventor ==
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Based on the board game PSI, which stood for Psychology Slander Intuition. The game was invented by Steve Knight and Mike Whitehall, who later became the team behind [[Who Wants to be a Millionaire]].
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== See also ==
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== Theme music ==
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[[PSI]] which is exactly the same show with exactly the same host. Presumably they lost the rights to the name, which was also a popular board game of the period.
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LBS Commercial
== Web links ==
== Web links ==

Revision as of 23:32, 8 January 2017

Image:Crazy comparisons title.jpg

Contents

Host

Chris Tarrant

Co-hosts

Team captains: Simon Williams and Paula Wilcox (1991)

Broadcast

Celador and Thames for ITV, 5 September 1989 to 19 July 1991 (44 episodes in 2 series, 1989 as PSI)

Synopsis

'If this show was a gameshow, what gameshow would it be?' 'Well, it would be Crazy Comparisons (PSI), wouldn't it?'

And that, my friends, sums up Crazy Comparisons (PSI) nicely. Two teams of celebrities would try and guess who various mystery celebs would be if they were, say, a type of cheese, a Laurence Llewellyn Bowen style house furnishing, a type of light bulb whatever. And that was it really.

File:Crazy comparisons team.jpgThe crazy team that make a lot of comparisons. Williams, Tarrant and Wilcox.

It was based on a popular (at the time) board game, but if you were ask 'If this show was a gameshow, what gameshow would it be?', an equally acceptable answer would be 'Celebrity Intuition', because that's what the show changed its name to after about two series. No one knows why. Still, we're still waiting for Stephen Leahy to come up with 'Celebrity Table Football' or 'Celebrity Kerplunk'.

Hosted by Chris Tarrant, the latter could be fab as a celebrity can pick a straw and he can go 'is that your final decision?' or 'confident?' and when all the marbles came tumbling down he can go 'I'm sorry, you've just lost 14 marbles'.

Inventor

Based on the board game PSI, which stood for Psychology Slander Intuition. The game was invented by Steve Knight and Mike Whitehall, who later became the team behind Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

Theme music

LBS Commercial

Web links

Celador's Crazy Comparisons page

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