8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations. Amongst the programmes that were chosen to be merged for the evening of specials, production teams on "Countdown" and "8 Out of 10 Cats" agreed to merge the two formats of their respective programmes together - the crossover between the two formats meant that "Countdown"s arrangement of games would be interspersed with "8 Out of 10 Cats"-style banter. As part of the merger, both Rachel Riley and Susie Dent assumed their roles from the programme, while Jimmy Carr took on the mantle of host, with both Sean Lock and Jon Richardson competing as
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats by "A. Koford", his grandfather Aloysius Gamaliel Koford, for a short-lived syndicated newspaper comic strip that started in 1912. Koford has pointed to a number of influences on the series (or rather, "cultural touchstones [that] show evidence of being influenced by my great-grandfather's handiwork", as he puts it): the 1973 road movie "Paper Moon" and the 1941 comedy film "Sullivan's Travels", the character design from the 1910s comic strip "Old Doc Yak" by Sidney Smith, the cartooning style of Hank Ketcham and Al Wiseman from "Dennis the Menace", and the work of cartoonist B. Kliban. Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Laugh-Out-Loud Cats is