Roger Black, Jo Brand, Sanjeev Kohli and Tiff Stevenson are Richard Osman's guests for this week's run of Richard Osman's Huse of Games.

Comedians have traditionally done very well on quiz shows. In the recent Celebrity Mastermind Champion of Champions show three of the finalists had a stand-up background – Lucy Porter ended up beating Zoe Lyons, Miles Jupp (and Neil Hannon from The Divine Comedy, so there was even a comedy connection there).

Other winners of House of Games have included Mae Martin, Marcus Brigstocke, Mark Watson and in the first show in the current series Olga Koch. Mae Martin won House of Games in a memorable tussle where Patsy Kensit joked that she was going to kill her agent for getting her on the show.

And a mole tells us the Taskmaster's Champion of Champions show has just been filmed featuring a cast of previous winners – all the contestants there will be comedians, but then that was inevitable – apart from a recent special C4 one-off featuring non-jokers, all the contestants over the years have been comedians.

And so back to Richard Osman's House of Games, where comedian Angela Barnes, who recently got married, is the record-breaking champion, becoming the only person to win all five episodes on the way to bagging the trophy last November. Let's see if Jo Brand, who loves to do qord games such as Scrabble, or Tffany Stevenson or Sanjeev Kohli can match it.

Richard Osman's House of Games, Monday, October 4 - Friday, October  8, 6pm, BBC Two. 

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