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Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two. The programme was devised by Bill Dare (who is also its producer) and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It stars Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Kevin Connelly and Mark Perry. The principal writers are Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain. The other writers have included, at various times, Simon Blackwell, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, John Finnemore, David Mitchell, Richard Ward, Johnny Morris, Colin Birch, Carl Carter and Tony Cooke. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Bill Dare graduated from the University of Manchester and went on to be an Actor, Director and Comedy Writer. ...
Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire) is a British impressionist and comedian. ...
Jan Ravens (born May 14, 1958 in Bebington, Wirral) is an English actress and impressionist, famous for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers. ...
Phil Cornwell (born 5 October 1957 in Southend-on-Sea) is a British comedian, actor, impressionist and writer. ...
Kevin Connelly was born in Middlesbrough, England. ...
Mark Perry is an British impressionist and his notable impressions include; David Dickinson, John Prescott and the late Robin Cook. ...
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The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ...
An impressionist is a performer whose act consists of giving the impression of being someone else by imitating the other persons voice and mannerisms. ...
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Bill Dare graduated from the University of Manchester and went on to be an Actor, Director and Comedy Writer. ...
Jon Holmes is a double gold Sony Award-winning British comedy writer and broadcaster. ...
Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire) is a British impressionist and comedian. ...
Jan Ravens (born May 14, 1958 in Bebington, Wirral) is an English actress and impressionist, famous for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers. ...
Phil Cornwell (born 5 October 1957 in Southend-on-Sea) is a British comedian, actor, impressionist and writer. ...
Kevin Connelly was born in Middlesbrough, England. ...
Mark Perry is an British impressionist and his notable impressions include; David Dickinson, John Prescott and the late Robin Cook. ...
Nev Fountain, born Steven John Fountain, is an English writer, best known for his comedy work with writing partner Tom Jamieson on the radio and television programme Dead Ringers. ...
Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire) is a British impressionist and comedian. ...
Jan Ravens (born May 14, 1958 in Bebington, Wirral) is an English actress and impressionist, famous for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers. ...
David Mitchell (born 14 July 1974 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England[1]) is an English comedian, actor and writer. ...
Johnny Morris OBE (20 June 1916 - 6 May 1999) was a childrens television presenter for the BBC. A farmer by trade, he was discovered telling stories in a pub. ...
History The programme was first aired in 2000. The cast of the first series was different from that of the other instalments. Of the now-established team, only Culshaw and Ravens appeared, as did Kate Robbins, Simon Lipson and, most notably, Alistair McGowan. Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
Kate Robbins is a Liverpudlian actress and impressionist. ...
Simon Lipson is an actor, writer, comedian and impressionist. ...
Alistair McGowan (born November 24, 1964) is a British impressionist and actor. ...
On radio there have been ten series plus a number of specials, including one devoted entirely to the BBC radio soap The Archers and one to Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee. For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ...
The Archers is a British radio soap opera broadcast on the BBCs main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. ...
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...
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The television incarnation of the show aired its fifth series in 2005, including a special devoted to the United Kingdom General Election on May 5 to start the six-part series, and a Christmas programme on December 23. The 6th series started on the 8 May 2006 and ended on the 12 June 2006 running 6 episodes. Series 7 ran from 22 February 2007 to 29 March 2007 on BBC Two at 9.30pm. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
As of March 2007, their parody of James Blunt's You're Beautiful is the 40th most viewed video on YouTube. March 2007 is the third month of that year and has just begun. ...
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, February 22, 1974) is an English singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases — especially the number one hit Youre Beautiful — brought him to fame in 2005. ...
Youre Beautiful is an adult contemporary song co-written by British singer James Blunt, Sasha Skarbek and Amanda Ghost[1] for Blunts debut album Back to Bedlam (2004). ...
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A special radio episode based on Tony Blair was broadcast on Radio 4, on 15 May, 2007. For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency...
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After the seventh season, it was announced that the Dead Ringers TV show had come to an end. [1]
Content The series is well known for its portrayal of fellow BBC employees, such as Radio 4 newsreader Brian Perkins as a Godfather-like figure ("Who's the daddy?"), controlling all of Radio 4. He often sends death threats to other members of the BBC, and threatens to kill anyone who tries to chat-up his love interest Charlotte Green. In one sketch, the Dead Ringers Brian telephoned the real Brian, and the impersonator accused the real Brian of not being "hard" enough. Later, the real Brian joined in on the joke, claiming that he put Peter Donaldson's feet in some concrete and threw him into a canal. Image File history File links Dead_Ringers. ...
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Crimewatch UK is a British television programme, produced by the BBC, that reconstructs unsolved crimes with a view to gaining information from the members of the public, in order to help solve major crimes. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...
Brian Perkins (born 1943 in Wanganui, New Zealand) is a senior newsreader on BBC Radio 4. ...
The Godfather is a novel written by American author Mario Puzo originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnams Sons. ...
Charlotte Green Charlotte Green is a British radio announcer and news reader for the BBCs Radio 4. ...
Peter Donaldson is a main newsreader on BBC Radio 4. ...
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Another character was the former Director General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, portrayed with a Michael Caine-like accent by Phil Cornwell, who had previously played Caine in Stella Street. Dyke was portrayed under varying circumstances, such as claiming to have recommissioned Fame Academy whilst he was drunk at the BBC Christmas Party. Dyke was responsible for the axing of Doctor Who in 1989, and is portrayed as harbouring personal hatred against the Daleks: "Bring back Doctor Who? OK - but there's going to be no Daleks in it. They've crossed me too many times!" Gregory Dyke (born 20 May 1947) is a journalist and broadcaster. ...
This article is about the English actor. ...
Phil Cornwell (born 5 October 1957 in Southend-on-Sea) is a British comedian, actor, impressionist and writer. ...
Stella Street S2 is out on uk DVD 13TH AUGUST Stella Street was a British television comedy programme originally screened on BBC2 (1998 - 2001). ...
Fame Academy is the name of televised competition to search for and educate musical talents. ...
For other uses, see Doctor Who (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Dalek (disambiguation). ...
Newsreader Kirsty Wark (of Newsnight) regularly opens bulletins on the programme with a line from a popular song read in a tone of voice more apt for a news segment, always closing with the phrase "More on that story later." Fiona Bruce and Charlotte Green (of Radio 4) are portrayed as seductive and saucy. Kirsty Wark is one of the presenters of Newsnight, as well as Newsnight Review. ...
Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22:30 and 23:20 on weekdays on BBC Two. ...
Fiona Bruce (born April 25, 1964 in Singapore) is a television presenter in the United Kingdom. ...
Charlotte Green Charlotte Green is a British radio announcer and news reader for the BBCs Radio 4. ...
Broadcasts reportedly from Downing Street parody previous BBC political editor Andrew Marr, showing his supposed eccentric manner, interminable sentences, and jerky movements — he is shown with giant artificial hands operated by puppet rods and speaks in mixed metaphor: "Well Fiona, might I say my goose has well and truly had its chips". Sir Patrick Moore is revealed not to be an astronomer but actually a peeping-tom and psychic around the London Eye. Famous movie quotes are often twisted and added to everyday things. For example, Russell Crowe in Gladiator: "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife... and that's when I called Claims Direct!” Jazz singer Jamie Cullum is portrayed with the voice and body movements of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. Downing Street Downing Street gates Downing Street is the street in London which contains the buildings that have been, for over two hundred years, the official residences of two of the most senior British cabinet ministers, the First Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Prime Minister of...
Andrew Marr (born 31 July 1959, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British journalist and political commentator. ...
In language, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. ...
Sir Patrick Moore presenting The Sky at Night, October 2005 Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, CBE, HonFRS, FRAS (born 4 March 1923), known as Patrick Moore, is an English amateur astronomer who has attained legendary status in British astronomy as a writer and television presenter of the subject and who...
The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is an observation wheel that completed construction in 1999 and opened to the public in March, 2000. ...
Gladiator is a 2000 movie directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. ...
Jamie Cullum (born August 20, 1979) is an English jazz/pop pianist and singer-songwriter. ...
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One recurring gag includes celebrities being introduced in news reports or interviews as the "offspring" of a famous person, character or even an object from everyday entertainment or culture.
Culshaw regularly performs prank telephone calls, impersonating (among many others) Tom Baker's incarnation of the Doctor, Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, art critic Brian Sewell and talk show presenter Michael Parkinson. In the TV version, he roams in public as such characters, vexing shop assistants and used-car salesmen alike with such pronouncements as, "I seek passage to Aldershot" which mirrors Alec Guinness's line in Star Wars "I seek passage to Alderaan." He also interviewed a bus stop full of people as Parkinson. As the Doctor, he ventured into a furniture store seeking a replacement for the TARDIS, eventually entering one wardrobe and reemerging from the other (much to the astonishment of the shop clerk). He also accompanied a group of tourists onto the London Eye while declaring that they were in fact trapped in a Sontaran "interstitial time helix." For other persons named Tom Baker, see Tom Baker (disambiguation). ...
The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...
Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ...
Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi or Ben Kenobi is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. ...
Brian Sewell (born 15 July 1931 in Kensington, London)[1] is an English art critic. ...
Michael Parkinson CBE (born 28 March 1935) is an English journalist and television presenter. ...
Aldershot is a town in the English county of Hampshire, located on heathland approximately 55 km (35 miles) southwest of London. ...
Star Wars is an epic space opera saga and a fictional universe initially developed by George Lucas during the 1970s and expanded since that time. ...
The current TARDIS prop as seen at the BBC Wales reception in 2005. ...
The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is an observation wheel that completed construction in 1999 and opened to the public in March, 2000. ...
Alan Bennett is also another person impersonated. His sketches were monologues, each one recounting an improbable tale about an incident with him and the late Thora Hird, normally getting Peter Sallis and the fictional Mr. Pettiforth from No. 42 included in the story. Past exploits have included Thora being a dominatrix, a football hooligan, a dictator (later having plastic surgery to look like Saddam Hussein), a Satanic priestess, a May Day protestor, and in one tale she was raised by Southerners. Published by Faber/Profile Books in 2005 Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English author and actor noted for his work, his boyish appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent. ...
Dame Thora Hird (May 28, 1911 - March 15, 2003) was a veteran British actress born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. ...
Sallis (right) along with Brian Wilde (centre) and Bill Owen in Last of the Summer Wine Peter Sallis (b. ...
A dominatrix (from the Latin dominatrix, meaning a female ruler or mistress; plural dominatrices or dominatrixes) or mistress is a woman who takes the dominant role in bondage and discipline, domination and submission or sado-masochistic sexual practices, which are commonly abbreviated as BDSM. The male equivalent is Master. ...
Ultras at FC Twente - SC Heerenveen in 2002 Hooliganism is unruly and destructive behaviour, usually by gangs of young people. ...
Dictator is originally the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the state in times of emergency. ...
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. ...
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Roman Catholic priest A priest or priestess is a holy man or woman who takes an officiating role in worship of any religion, with the distinguishing characteristic of offering sacrifices. ...
May Day is May 1, and refers to any of several holidays celebrated on this day. ...
The Jeremy Kyle show is also featured, with Mr Kyle calling the guests 'scum' and forcing them to make up. He also screams at audience members and guests. "HUG HIM!" then "THAT'S NOT HUGGING!". He also shouts "Roll the credits... FASTER!" "Hello I'm Jeremy Kyle, and you're scum."
In the radio series, several Radio 4 shows are mocked. They include the Today Programme, where John Humphrys never gets the time right, Sue MacGregor stressing the "Mac" in her name, and Rabbi Lionel Blue on Thought for the Day telling listeners "Don't worry, something will turn up, it usually does." Other shows mocked include Go 4 it!, Radio 4's children programme that seemed to offer very little that children would be interested, such as poetry and book readings. It was formerly hosted by Matt Smith, most noted for saying "Ace," at the end of every sentence. He is the only person that even Brian Perkins fears taking on. Today, sometimes referred to as the Today programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4s long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, which is now broadcast from 6am to 9am from Monday to Friday and from 7am to 9am on Saturdays. ...
Desmond John Humphrys (born 17 August 1943) is a Welsh broadcaster and journalist. ...
Sue MacGregor CBE (born Susan Katriona MacGregor in Oxford on August 30, 1941) is a British writer and Broadcaster. ...
Lionel Blue (born 6 February 1930) is a British Reform rabbi and broadcaster. ...
Thought for the Day is a short religious radio programme, broadcast as part of the Today programme on the BBCs Radio 4 at around 7:45 am every weekday morning (BBC 2005). ...
However, the show most famously mocked is Radio 4's soap opera, The Archers. Characters normally impersonated include Clarrie and Eddie Grundy, stumbling from one crisis to another, Joe Grundy and his incomprehensible yokel accent, Jack Woolly’s equally incomprehensible Brummie, posh Brian Aldridge, snooty Lynda Snell, and Ruth "Oh noooh" Archer. The Archers is a British radio soap opera broadcast on the BBCs main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. ...
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Brummie (sometimes Brummy) is a colloquial term for the inhabitants, accent and dialect of Birmingham, England, as well as being a general adjective used to denote a connection with the city, locally called Brum. ...
Other Radio 4 programmes mocked include Letter from America, Money Box, Brain of Britain, Counterpoint, Loose Ends, You and Yours and Front Row. Letter from America was a weekly 15 minute radio series on BBC Radio 4, previously called the Home Service, which ran for 2,869 shows from March 24, 1946 to February 20, 2004, making it the longest-running speech radio programme in history. ...
Brain of Britain is a BBC radio general knowledge quiz, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ...
Counterpoint is a BBC Radio 4 music quiz hosted by Ned Sherrin. ...
Loose Ends is a British radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ...
You and Yours is BBC Radio 4s consumer affairs programme. ...
Front Row is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ...
Politicians
 Jon Culshaw as Tony Blair creates his own BBC One ident. A former running gag, dating back to the earliest radio series of Dead Ringers, has Prime Minister, Tony Blair, referring to his physical characteristics and mannerisms while speaking. Recently, however, this is often replaced by Blair addressing the nation in an insulting, oppressive or vaguely aggressive way. Image File history File links Deadringersspoof. ...
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The running gag is a popular hallmark of comic and serious forms of entertainment. ...
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is, in practice, the political leader of the United Kingdom. ...
For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency...
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, speaks in nonsensical, incomprehensible and, above all, long sentences. On one occasion he catches fire when two of his incomprehensible sentences rub together, along with being the subject of the "Prescott-Widening Scheme" to go with a similar one for Britain's roads. When he announces that this scheme would reduce the amount of incomprehensible sentences uttered, Kirsty Wark comments that this could be the most popular thing he's ever done. Also, Dr John Reid is portrayed as a Victor Meldrew-like character, always complaining and throwing abuse at TV presenters, but is later portrayed as a tough hardman. When David Blunkett was Home Secretary, he was portrayed as a hard man who was 'Only in this Home Secretary Game for the Arse-kicking.' On a revamped episode of the Today Show, he expressed his desire to become a Hollywood reporter and sort out Ben Affleck. After he was sacked as Home Secretary, Blunkett was in line to become the next hard man on Eastenders, with "Dirty" Den having a premonition that he was about to die in a needlessly sensationalist way. It later emerged that Blunkett had had an affair with "Dirty" Den and then cruelly dumped him. The office of Deputy Prime Minister is one that has only existed occasionally in the history of the United Kingdom. ...
John Leslie Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British Labour Party politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Secretary of State and current Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hull East. ...
John Reid (born 8 May 1947) is a British politician who is Home Secretary and Member of Parliament for the Scottish constituency of Airdrie and Shotts. ...
Victor Meldrew was the main character in the BBC 1 sitcom One Foot In The Grave. ...
David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. ...
The late Robin Cook is even less coherent, and it has been suggested that the famous Doctor Who theme music was created by combining a recording of Cook explaining his views on the European Union with (for the higher-pitched sounds) his reaction to being told that all young, female BBC employees were turned on by ugly ginger men with beards. Clare Short is meanwhile portrayed as an angry woman hated by government, with an almost fixed grimace: "I was so flabbergasted when the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, announced that we were going to war that my jaw dropped by almost half a millimetre!", while Alistair Darling's contrasting black eyebrows and white hair make him more badger than human. Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, appears as a bit of a drunk, while Michael Howard, the former head of the Conservative Party, was shown as a vampire (a reference to the "something of the night about him" comment by Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe). In some episodes, he channelled all of his evil into his left hand, to create a "Hand of evil", which would often embarrass him when he tried to express his view on something. During a time when some Conservative MPs defected to the UK Independence Party, his hand of evil defected to UKIP, so he cut off his hand to remove it from the party and his body. But, as a result, his other hand became evil (which defected to BNP). Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party. ...
The Doctor Who theme music was created in 1963, composed by Ron Grainer and realised with electronics by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. ...
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Clare Short (born 15 February 1946) is a British politician and a member of the British Labour Party. ...
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The current opposition leaders are also parodied; David Cameron is a vote grabbing popularist, who avoids the tough issues in favour of policies about coat hangers and children's clothing, and has to write down the name of his party on the palm of his hand. Menzies Campbell meanwhile is portrayed as an old, out-of-touch grandfatherly figure ignored by his party; at one point, the Liberal Democrats brick-up all the windows and doors to his house. He frequently complains about the poor conditions in the old people's home in which he resides and always refers to himself in the third person as "Mighty Ming", a reference to the arch-enemy of Flash Gordon, Ming the Merciless. He ends every speech by saying "Night night" and turning off the lamp by which he is sitting. David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom, positions he has occupied since December 2005. ...
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The Queen is also ridiculed, portrayed as someone who constantly makes announcements. She is first seen making an apology for her involvement in the Paul Burrell affair — and is mocked by the media as being someone "who holds all the answers to all the unsolved cases without even realising it". The Queen also appears for fictional newspaper The Bung, as "an old lady who met Diana once or twice in a big house". She comments briefly on the princess and states, "Can one have one's money now?" The Queen has also fought Darth Vader, who turned out to be Prince Philip behind the mask. The Queen also hosts QVC Shopping Channel with Prince Philip, who is selling a diamond tiara for nothing to any member of the Royal household. He advises them that they can take it round the "society jewellers and flog it for more money than Harry spends on hashish". She also took over Helen Mirren's role in Prime Suspect in revenge for Mirren playing the Queen in the movie of the same title. She closed the episode with the line "One says you're nicked slag!" Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...
Darth Vader is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. ...
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In Series Seven, John Reid is portrayed as the nodding dog "Churchill", which says "oh, yes" when something is correct, and, when he was asked if he would fix the Home Office, he said "Oh, no no". There was a parody of the Apple Mac computer, where Blair was the "PC" and Cameron was the "MAC"; they both agreed that they are all the public have (for leadership), and then Campbell drives in his electric wheelchair, saying that he's a Sinclair ZX81. Gordon Brown, initially portrayed simply as an incredibly emotionless and unexpressive man, has now become a fully robotic character, often malfunctioning and occasionally issuing Dalek-esque calls to "EXTERMINATE!" John Reid (born 8 May 1947) is a British politician who is Home Secretary and Member of Parliament for the Scottish constituency of Airdrie and Shotts. ...
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George W. Bush Unlike Spitting Image, which satirised many international public figures, Dead Ringers tends to concentrate on British ones. One notable exception is U.S. President George W. Bush, whose own Bushisms are ridiculed even further with invented words such as "Ignorify"[2], "Astonisherate", "Climactification" and "Shockerating". At one point he refers to Condoleezza Rice as "Basmati Rice". His use of malapropisms is also lampooned ruthlessly. Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show that ran on the United Kingdoms ITV television network from 1984 to 1996. ...
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...
George W. Bush A Bushism is any of a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, semantic or linguistic errors that have occurred in the public speaking of United States President George W. Bush[1][2] and, before that, of his father George H. W. Bush. ...
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Sometimes, his actions are caricatured as childlike and lacking in understanding of the consequences (for example, taping over intelligence videos with episodes of Sesame Street.)[3]. One of the most famous sketches of the President involves him telling the captured Saddam Hussein that it's now his turn to start hiding in a new game of international hide-and-seek. In one sketch, the show lampoons the American public by using Bush as a 'translator' for a speech that Culshaw's Tony Blair is making. Bush reduces the speech to statements such as "America good" and "Bad man obliterified!". Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ...
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. ...
International Despite its emphasis on British personalities who may not be well known in other countries, Dead Ringers has been shown outside the UK on BBC Prime in Europe and Africa, BBC America in the United States, ABC in Australia, BBC Canada in Canada and UK.TV in New Zealand, but has had to be re-edited considerably — although much of the show can be watched without contextual knowledge. The old BBC Prime logo used until 1997 BBC Prime is the BBCs general entertainment TV channel in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ...
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Song Parodies In later TV series of the show, there have been parodies of songs, parodying the song, the singer and music videos. Some examples of these are: - Norah Jones - (2004 Christmas Special) She is portrayed with a very soft voice so that no one actually takes notice of her, and she fades easily into the background, no matter how hard she tries to attract people's attention.
- It's Bloody Cold - James Blunt (2005 Christmas Special): Mimics the song "You're Beautiful", and is about how other singers mock James Blunt. States that his name is rhyming slang. [4]
- Arctic Monkeys (Series Six, Episode One): Culshaw lampoons the vocal style, before revealing the Northern comedy singer George Formby as the real secret of their success. [5]
- Katie Melua (Series Six, Episode Two) [6]
- Gwen Stefani - her song parodies the randomness of her music videos, with unicorns and random Japanese girls running, and the idea that some of the grunts heard in her songs aren't sexual but constipation due to the fact that she doesn't eat. [7]
- Jamie Cullum (Series Six, Episode Five): Portraying him as the Gollum of the jazz world. [8]
- Jack Johnson (Series Six, Episode Six): This parodies the relaxed and mellow style of the singer's work, and the idea that they are similar to "nursery rhymes and the theme to Postman Pat". The parody song also says that if he were to be more mellow, he would be "clinically dead." [9]
- Dido - Her music is portrayed as hard to follow and depressing, and the video involves some highly comical suicides.
- Madonna - Shown as desperate for publicity, goes through all her various incarnations. In a bid to stay popular, she claims she will do anything, even learn to sing.
- Take That - An alternative version of their song Back for Good. (Series Seven; Episode One) [10]
- Amy Winehouse - A parody of her song "Rehab", with the first line changed from "They're trying to make me go to Rehab" to "I'm trying to get into the lav". (Series Seven; Episode Two) [11]
- Pete Doherty - A parody which he sings about his affair with Kate Moss and his drug abuse. (Series Seven; Episode Three)
- Lily Allen - An alternative version parodying her song Littlest Things, where she sings about how she is better than everyone and thinks everyone else is rubbish. (Series Seven; Episode Four) [12]
- Scissor Sisters - A parody of their song I Don't Feel Like Dancin' in which Barry Gibb from the Bee Gees fame is mentioned. (Series Seven; Episode six)
Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actress. ...
Arctic Monkeys are a Mercury Prize winning, English indie rock band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. ...
George Formby, OBE (26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961) was an English singer and comedian who became a major star of both cinema and music hall. ...
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Gwen Renée Stefani (born October 3, 1969) (IPA pronunciation: [1]) is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and occasional actress. ...
Jamie Cullum (born August 20, 1979) is an English jazz/pop pianist and singer-songwriter. ...
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Dido (born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong,[1] December 25, 1971) is a British BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter who performs under a nickname her mother gave her in childhood. ...
Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), better known as simply Madonna, is a six-time Grammy[1] and one-time Golden Globe award winning American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. ...
Take That are an English pop boy band formed by Nigel Martin Smith in Manchester in 1990. ...
Back for Good is a song by the British pop group Take That, written by their member Gary Barlow, who also sang the lead vocal on the track. ...
Amy-Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English soul, jazz, and R&B singer and songwriter. ...
Peter Doherty (born March 12, 1979) is an English musician, artist and poet. ...
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born May 2, 1985) is a British singer-songwriter best known for songs such as Smile and LDN. She is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. ...
Littlest Things is a pop/R&B song written by Lily Allen, Mark Ronson, Pierre Bachelet and Herve Roy, Mark Ronson also produced the song. ...
The Scissor Sisters are an American alternative band who formed in 2001. ...
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Animated Content Dead Ringers also includes animated content occasionally; this includes: - The Back to the Jungle Book - A cross parody of The Jungle Book and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!
- Mr. Men/Little Miss - This is a parody of the series of children's books, which includes many "chav" references, some of the characters include Little Miss Chav, Mr Crack Dealer, Mr Happy-Slapper, Little Miss ASBO and Mr Drive-By Shooting, including Mr Happy (who took physical and verbal abuse from most of the characters in this). Narrated by Mark Perry. [13]
- South Bank - A cross between The South Bank Show and South Park set on the South Bank in London, featuring Melvin Bragg/Stan Marsh, Alan Yentob/Kyle Broflovski, Mark Lawson/Eric Cartman and Kenneth Branagh/Kenny McCormick.
- The Stimpsons - A parody of The Simpsons. [14]
- A parody of Wacky Races with Jeremy Clarkson as Dick Dastardly and Ken Livingstone as Muttley, spoiling Penelope Pitstop's chances of winning the race by imposing the congestion charge. [15]
Embossed cover from the original MacMillan edition of The Jungle Book, 1894, based on art by John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyards father) For other uses, see The Jungle Book (disambiguation). ...
Im a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! is a reality television show in which minor celebrities live in jungle conditions with few creature comforts. ...
, 1971 Little Miss Chatterbox, 1984 Mr. ...
Look up chav, charva in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
In the United Kingdom an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) is a civil order made against a person, as a result of persistent anti-social behaviour. ...
The South Bank Show is a British television arts magazine show, presented by Melvyn Bragg and seen in over 60 countries — including Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA. Its stated aim is to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience. ...
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This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg (born 6 October 1939, in Wigton, Cumbria) is a British author, screenwriter television and radio presenter and journalist. ...
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Alan Yentob (born March 11, 1947) is a British television executive. ...
Kyle Broflovski, also spelled Kyle Broflofski, Kyle Broflowski, Kyle Brovlofski, Kyle Broflofki, or in the earlier episodes, Kyle Brosloski, is a character in the animated series South Park. ...
Mark Lawson (born April 11, 1962) is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. ...
For the band, see Cartman (band). ...
Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born actor and film director. ...
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Dick Dastardly and Muttley, the villains of Wacky Races, in their car, the Mean Machine. ...
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. ...
Dick Dastardly, as he appeared in Wacky Races. ...
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) is an English politician who became Mayor of London on the creation of the post in 2000. ...
Muttley, as seen on Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines Muttley is a Hanna-Barbera animated fictional character created by Iwao Takamoto and originally voiced by Don Messick (who also voiced Scooby-Doo); he is now voiced by Billy West. ...
Penelope Pitstop, as seen on The Perils of Penelope Pitstop Penelope Pitstop is born in August 26, 1987 she 10 sisters & no brothers their sisters names are Portia Pitstop, on The Perils of Penelope Pitstop Josie McCoy, Melody Valentine, Valerie Brown, on Josie & the Pussycats Brenda Chance, Taffy Dare, Dee...
The white-on-red C marks all entrances to the congestion charge zone although in some areas the charge zone is poorly signed, and accidental journeys into the zone can occur The London congestion charge is a fee for some motorists entering the Central London area. ...
Robin Hood A parody of the recent adaptation of Robin Hood, including: Robin Hood is a British television programme, produced by independent production company Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One, with co-funding from the BBC America cable television channel in the United States. ...
- A version with an iPod playing church choral music, 21st century language terms and break dancing between Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. [16]
- The titles that show the viewers where the characters are, are shown more here, and respond to the criticism of the cast, but when Robin Hood and others are over-critical, the titles tell them they are in Peckham High Road instead of Sherwood Forest. [17]
- When the Sheriff of Nottingham imposes 21st century tax which the peasant can't pay, he decides that Robin Hood needs to be got rid of, one of Guy of Gisbourne's soldiers suggests an arrow amnesty to disarm Robin Hood.
- When the Sheriff of Nottingham decides to send soldiers into Sherwood forest, Guy of Gisbourne alerts him to the recently imposed congestion charge around it of £8 6 pence by the Earl of Livingstone.
- Robin Hood and Little John are introduced to Friar Tuck (in the form of Russell Brand).
iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched in October 2001. ...
Robin Hood memorial statue in Nottingham. ...
The Sheriff of Nottingham was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order in Nottingham and bringing criminals to justice. ...
, Peckham is an area of London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, located 3. ...
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The Sheriff of Nottingham was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order in Nottingham and bringing criminals to justice. ...
The Sheriff of Nottingham was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order in Nottingham and bringing criminals to justice. ...
Sir Guy of Gisburne (also spelled Gisbourne, Gysborne or Gisborn) is a villain in the Robin Hood legends. ...
Little John is a presumably fictional character in the legend of Robin Hood. ...
Friar Tuck is a fictional character, a companion of Robin Hood, and one of his Merry Men. Although a common character in the modern Robin Hood legend, Tuck does not appear in the earliest surviving Robin Hood ballads, and only has one major appearance in the ballad tradition, a late...
Russell Edward Brand [1] (born June 4, 1975 in Grays, Essex)[2] is an English radio and television personality, comedian, actor, and newspaper columnist. ...
Torchwood The recent series' have included various sketches devoted to Torchwood where the Cardiff Rift is seen as a way of randomly changing scene locations, the sketch also makes fun of the fact that it is seen as an adult version of Doctor Who, the Welsh setting, along with the campness of Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman). [18], [19] For plants known as torchwood, see Burseraceae. ...
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For other persons and meanings, see Jack Harkness (disambiguation). ...
John Barrowman (born 11 March 1967 in Mount Vernon, Glasgow) is a Scottish-American actor, musical performer, dancer, singer, and TV presenter who has lived and worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States. ...
The Weakest Link Earlier episodes of the show featured a number of spoof episodes of the TV programme The Weakest Link, variously featuring Jesus' disciples, Robert Falcon Scott and his Antarctic explorers, and monks who had taken a vow of silence. In the former two, Anne Robinson (played by Jan Ravens) appeared from nowhere, riding her desk, and entered an apparently historical scene, which rapidly converted into the Weakest Link studio. Robinson herself was depicted as being unreasonably and sadistically cruel, throwing a snowball at doomed explorer Captain Lawrence Oates as he leaves, while responding to his famous last words with "You'll be gone forever matey! Now shove off!" Also, Robinson appeared from nowhere when Jesus and his disciples (only eight are shown) have their last supper, in which Judas is voted off from the round (as 'the Weakest Disciple'). The Weakest Link (known as Weakest Link in many countries) is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000. ...
A Disciple (from the Latin discipulus, a pupil) is one who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine. ...
For other persons named Robert Scott, see Robert Scott (disambiguation). ...
A Roman Catholic monk A monk is a person who practices monasticism, adopting a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle, usually in community with others following the same path. ...
This article is about the English television hostess. ...
Jan Ravens (born May 14, 1958 in Bebington, Wirral) is an English actress and impressionist, famous for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers. ...
Lawrence Edward Grace Oates (March 17, 1880 – March 17, 1912) was a British Antarctic explorer. ...
The Radio Show versions featured King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and a themed sketch that had a large number of Television gameshow hosts like Chris Tarrant, the late Richard Whiteley and Ruby Wax. It was called The Weakest Host and Anne berated them each, voting them all out. A Doctor Who-themed sketch featured Anne Robinson as a possible candidate to play the Ninth Doctor. Featuring the Daleks and the Cybermen, the Daleks were voted as The Weakest Evil Creature and had to perform the Walk of Shame, "The most embarrassing part was the walk of shame, I'm sure it never used to be three flights of stairs". But possibly the most famous of these radio sketches was the ultimate showdown between Anne and Brian Perkins, which results in Anne being declared the weakest link by the "Daddy of the BBC." [20] A bronze Arthur in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield wearing Kastenbrust armour (early 15th century) by Peter Vischer, typical of later anachronistic depictions of Arthur. ...
Christopher John Tarrant OBE (born 10 October 1946, Reading, Berkshire) is an English radio broadcaster, television presenter and war lord, now best known for hosting the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. // Tarrant was educated at the Kings School, Worcester (1960-4) where he excelled at...
John Richard Whiteley, OBE, DL (28 December 1943 – 26 June 2005) was an English television presenter and journalist. ...
Ruby Wax (born Ruby Wachs on April 19, 1953) is an American comedienne who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s. ...
For other uses, see Doctor Who (disambiguation). ...
The Ninth Doctor refers to the ninth official incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...
For other uses, see Dalek (disambiguation). ...
The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ...
Brian Perkins (born 1943 in Wanganui, New Zealand) is a senior newsreader on BBC Radio 4. ...
Deal or No Deal The programme also parodies the daytime Channel 4 game show Deal or No Deal, with Culshaw impersonating Noel Edmonds and frequently mocking both the repetitive nature of the programme and fact that the show's excitement is derived from the opening of boxes. Another sketch also showed Anne Robinson, host of daytime game and and porn acting show The Weakest Link, appearing in the Deal or No Deal studio and ruining Edmond's television comeback by summoning Noel's House Party regular Mr Blobby, who destroys the studio before wrestling Edmonds to the ground, causing Noel to sob whilst yelling "You've ruined everything!” Daytime television is the general term for television shows produced that are intended to air during the daytime hours. ...
This article is about the British television station. ...
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Deal or No Deal is a gameshow which has been broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 since October 31, 2005. ...
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The Weakest Link (known as Weakest Link in many countries) is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000. ...
A comeback may mean: A retort, often intended as an insult. ...
Noels House Party was a BBC television light entertainment show broadcast live on Saturday evenings throughout the 1990s hosted by Noel Edmonds. ...
Mr Blobby was created for Noels House Party in 1992. ...
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Alan Rickman, Ian McKellen and Brian Blessed Another running gag is a satire on the fact that Ian McKellen, Alan Rickman and Brian Blessed are often typecast as over-the-top, melodramatic or camp stock villains in films and TV shows (Rickman, it has been noted, often takes roles McKellen has previously turned down). Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CBE (born May 25, 1939) is an English stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. ...
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) is an acclaimed, award-winning English film, television and stage actor. ...
Brian Blessed (pronounced //, or in the tradition of English poetry, Blessèd, born near Doncaster,October 9, 1937) is an English actor, who came to fame as PC Fancy Smith in the BBC TV police drama series Z Cars. ...
A common sketch will start up with a set up of the scene (e.g. a Schwarzenegger-esque action hero battling armed men in an action film), then McKellen will burst onto the screen in an electric wheelchair and mock the protagonist of the sketch (often he opens with the line: "I'm Ian McKellen aka Doctor Death!"), then Rickman will appear on screen and proclaim something to the effect of "Not if I have anything to do with it, I'm Alan Rrrrrrrrickman!" (the impersonator often exaggerates Rickman's drawling voice). The two villains will forget the protagonist and proceed to insult each other, each claiming to be the better villain (often the impersonators pick out characteristics of Rickman and McKellen that make them suitable stock villains. One memorable sketch has McKellen proclaiming: "But everybody knows I'm far more moustache-twirling and cruel than you are!" to which Rickman replies: "But I'm more stiff-necked than you and I do a great set of arrrrrrrched eyebrows!"). Eventually the argument escalates to a point where they both unveil deadly weapons. McKellen sports a retractable "miniature cannon" (though it resembles a Gatling gun more than anything else) attached to his wheelchair, whilst Rickman pulls a huge silver bazooka as if from nowhere. These weapons even appear when the two men face off for the role of 'Mr Parcy', the cad in a period drama - with Rickman referring to his gun as a 'Regency Bazookoid Blaster'. They both proceed to shoot each other until they are dead, leaving the protagonist of the sketch shell-shocked. Eventually the protagonist will proclaim something to the effect of "Where am I going to find another melodramatic villain for my last action film?", at which point Brian Blessed bursts into the room, clad in a costume resembling the costume he wore in Blackadder. Blessed always looks extremely jolly and always says only one line at the top of his voice: "HELLO! I'M BRIAN BLESSED!", to which the protagonist will react in an annoyed or aggressive manner, (eg. 'oh sod off, fatty' in the period drama, and being shot by Schwarzenegger in the action film). [21] Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American actor, politician, bodybuilder, and businessman, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger-example of an action hero An action hero is any heroic character that lacks the superhuman powers that would normally be connoted in the term superhero. Instead of fighting crime using latent or expressed superpowers, they are normal people who use special devices (not limited to gadgetry and...
An 1865 Gatling gun. ...
In the performing arts, a period piece is a work set in a particular era. ...
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Countdown Extra Countdown Extra was a sketch that featured an Big Brother-esque "extra" programme to complement Countdown. The show was complete with excitable presenters such as Justin Lee Collins and a hyped up studio audience similar to Saturday morning shows and Big Brother spin-offs on E4. The audience were asked for their reactions on the day's questions and the camera was spun everywhere with the audience cheering in the background. At the end of the sketch, another Big Brother parody was shown when the audience was asked to evict one of two letters. For the current series, see Big Brother 2007 (UK). ...
Countdown is a British game show presented by Des OConnor and Carol Vorderman. ...
Justin Lee Collins (born 28 July 1974) is an English comedian, television presenter and radio presenter from Bristol, often known as JLC. His distinctive West Country accent and cave man image are amongst his trademarks. ...
E4 may refer to: E4, the postcode for Chingford. ...
Countdown is a slow and traditional show that was mercilessly compared with Channel 4's youth-orientated line-up. Des Lynam is portrayed as the disgruntled and defeatist presenter, who seems constantly in conflict with the show which he takes every opportunity to devalue ('OK, so Dave is the best at making a word out of Strobcats..'). He is seen as dismayed by the passing of time in his current status ('...that's another 30 seconds of my life I'll never see again') and as a result is frequently in reminiscence of his past ('Do you think when I was 25 I was playing word games with Martin bloody Jarvis?'), particularly his football commentator roots ('I used to be the most important man in football, you know.') In one episode, he appears on Match of the Day determined to become the presenter again. He says he doesn't mind just covering the boring matches, "the ones with America playing". Martin Jarvis (born August 4, 1941 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is an English actor. ...
The performers The actors behind some impressions include:
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