Later, and for many years, at the British science fiction convention Eastercon, he would deliver a humorous speech ( often part of his famous series known by the tongue-in-cheek label of " Serious Scientific Talks "); these were eventually collected in The Eastercon Speeches ( 1979 ) and A Load of Old Bosh ( 1995 ), which included a similar talk from the 1979 Worldcon in Brighton, 37th World Science Fiction Convention.

The main humorous base of the series was a merciless parody of the British class system.

As the British viewed American popular culture imagery from a somewhat removed perspective, their views were often instilled with romantic, sentimental and humorous overtones.

In his New Biographical Dictionary Of Film, American-based British Film critic David Thomson stated that " Coburn is a modern rarity: an actor who projects lazy, humorous sexuality.

* Writer and performer for a series of British Airways adverts in which, through the use of music, he took a humorous look at several locations around the world

* British humorous writer P. G. Wodehouse satirized the BUF in books and short stories.

Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer ( 7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960 ), whose novels and short stories, some humorous ( the Berry books ), some thrillers ( the Chandos books ), were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.

Creature Comforts was originally a 1989 British humorous animated short film about how animals feel about living in a zoo, featuring the voices of the British public " spoken " by the animals.

The British humorous magazine Punch, which was founded in 1841 riding on the earlier success of Cruikshank's Comic Almanac ( 1827 – 1840 ), employed an uninterrupted run of high-quality comic illustrators, including Sir John Tenniel, the Dalziel Brothers and Georges du Maurier, into the 20th century.

In advertisement, beefcake male models have become a popular ingredient for ' spicy ' commercial shots and ( often humorous ) spots, e. g. the British future minor pop star Nick Kamen remains most famous for his 1985 beefcake performance in Levi's " Launderette " TV commercial where he strips down in order to stone-wash his blue jeans in a 1950s style public laundromat while he waits clad only in his boxer shorts, which dramatically increased their popularity ; it was selected for " The 100 Greatest TV Ads " in 2000 and followed by many others, often bare-chested, sometimes even naked.

His cartoons deal at first mainly with social subjects, and are rough and imperfect in execution, but gradually their method gains in power and their subjects become more distinctly political, and by 1849 the artist is strong enough to produce the splendidly humorous national personification which appears in Disraeli Measuring the British Lion.

He wrote a humorous column for the British newspaper The Independent, which he joined in 1987 after six years at The Times.

The Blackgang Chine park is featured in the book Bollocks to Alton Towers, a humorous book concerned with " uncommonly British days out ".

They can include a wide range of various programs from humorous online games up to serious art-competitions like the Certamen Petronianum, a literary contest of historical novel writing, where the jury was composed of notables including world-famous novelist Dr. Colleen McCullough, author of many Roman-themed best-selling novels, and Prof. Dr. T. P. Wiseman, university professor of Roman history and former vice-president of the British Academy.

The term derives from a cartoon published in the humorous British magazine Punch on 9 November 1895.

The website was a humorous representation of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia under Glen Clark.

Oxbridge interviews have acquired something of a mythical status in the British media, becoming a source of various humorous anecdotes and urban legends due to the perception that the interviews themselves are bizarre, intimidating and / or frequently involve unusual questions and requests.

In everyday British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English the sense of profanity has largely disappeared ; the word there now has a ' catch-all ', almost humorous quality, not unlike a minced oath.

if .... currently holds a 97 % ' fresh ' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus " Incendiary, subversive, and darkly humorous, If .... is a landmark of British countercultural cinema.

Each advertisement mixed original footage from a different old film ( another example was The Great Escape ) with new humorous material starring British comedian Griff Rhys Jones and finishing with the slogan " A Holsten Pils Production ".

The phrase Uncle Tom Cobley and all is used in British English as a humorous or whimsical way of saying et al., often to express exasperation at the large number of people in a list.

The book is a historical and humorous study of the British peerage system.

In 1980, following appearances on the Stiff package tours, he had a solo hit with the humorous synthpop number, " You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties " co-written with fellow Brett Marvin member Keef Trouble, which made the British Top 20.

The BBC series Coupling made extensive use of split screen as one of several techniques that are unconventional for TV series, often to a humorous effect.

Blessed with boyish humor, he makes humorous and off-putting remarks and leaves a " calling card " at his " crimes ", a stick figure of a man with a halo, the logo of the books, the movies, and the 1960s TV series.

During the 2000s Mills hosted several shows on VH1. He also present ed a very late night / early morning ITV show called the haunted fish tank. A clip show featuring his humorous take on TV and music videos of the day.

Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's suspect sexuality.

The show's title is a humorous play on the title of the 1982 TV series Harry's Game.

Vice President Lynch later admitted that consumer awareness of the Wendy's brand did not recover for another five years, with the advent of a new, humorous line of TV commercials featuring the brand's founder, Dave Thomas.

I Love the ' 80s Strikes Back is a miniseries on VH1 in which various music and TV personalities reminisce about 1980s popular culture in a mostly humorous manner.

During his TV performances, he had an aggressive and humorous tone with the journalists and his opponents.

Cookie and Melvin Fish are Bob's friendly Canadian cousins from Toronto, they both have carefree attitudes and always have a positive and humorous view of life, the TV series depict them as being proud Canadians and always having compare Toronto as being a better city than New York ( season 3 episodes 1 " Stranded in Toronto " ), however as much as they love and adore Bob and Margaret, they certainly and unknowingly annoy them at numerous times.

Regulars included Lance Percival, a satirist from TV shows of the time who sang the Start the Week intro theme as a topical calypso, and Zenna Skinner, a TV presenter of fitness programmes who had a wide variety of outrageous opinions, some of them humorous.

series Talk Soup ), featuring clips of the previous week's TV shows with humorous commentary delivered by the host, actor / comedian Joel McHale.

* Mystery Science Theater 3000, a TV show built on humorous heckling.

As Moore and Glynn would later describe it, TV Nation " would be a humorous magazine show but with one distinct difference — it would have a point of view.

TV Nation also featured humorous ( but true ) public opinion polls, each conducted by the firm of Widgery and Associates from a random sample of Americans.

The tune and style of " Stop the Cavalry " was later parodied for a series of humorous TV adverts for John Smith's Beer.

Among his TV roles must be mentioned his elegant and humorous ex-burglar Larsen in the series Huset på Christianshavn (“ The House at Christianshavn ” – the first Danish sitcom ) and his role as the wise and courageous doctor Louis Hansen in the epic, historical drama-series Matador, both also shown outside Denmark.

The program initially screened on Friday nights, but suffered from an inconsistent timeslot, resulting in humorous TV spots, for example 9: 30 Friday ... probably.

TV presenter and newspaper contributor Charlie Brooker was also a regular during the 1990s, reviewing games, and contributing humorous pieces such as " Sick Notes " and the " Cybertwats ".

It is a chronicle of Moore's series TV Nation, a 1994-95 newsmagazine show with humorous social commentary segments.

Tsurumaki's first project at Gainax was as an animation director for the 1990 TV series Fushigi no Umi no Nadia ; Tsurumaki was also director of the humorous " omake " ( extra ) sequences that went along with the TV series, and producer of " Nadia Cinema Edition ".