The character of Papa Lazarou was an evil character who appeared in two episodes of the TV show " The League of Gentlemen ", who was regularly in blackface.

* Papa Lazarou, a fictional character from The League of Gentlemen

In this, two of the most popular characters, Tubbs and Papa Lazarou, kidnapped Miranda Richardson.

The most evil of all the visitors is Papa Lazarou, a circus ringmaster with a blackface, who calls everybody " Dave " and steals wives.

Exceptions include Papa Lazarou facing the Reverend Bernice in the Christmas Special ( both Reece Shearsmith ), Les McQueen buying a magazine from Pop's son ( both Mark Gatiss ), and Alvin Steele buying food from Iris at a supermarket checkout in Series 2 ( again, both Mark Gatiss ).

The show contains dark humour, with many of the scenes inspired by horror films ( the policeman who visits Tubbs and Edward in the first series is a reference to The Wicker Man ), documentaries ( Dr. Carlton came from a programme called Change of Sex which featured a " monstrously unsympathetic " doctor ) and personal experience-Legz Akimbo came from the writers ' experiences in amateur theatre ; Pauline Campbell-Jones came from Reece Shearsmith's own Restart officer and Papa Lazarou came from a former landlord Pemberton and Shearsmith had.

In 2004 The Radio Times listed Papa Lazarou as the 8th funniest comedy sketch of all time.

The award winning British TV comedy series The League of Gentlemen, known for its many popular horror references, features the Pandemonium Carnival of Papa Lazarou.

He pretends they do not exist, only to find out that they are real, when Papa Lazarou appears from behind and throws him off the cliff to his apparent death.

They meet Papa Lazarou, who takes them to where he, Tubbs and Edward are hiding out.

Geoff leaves the church, waving goodbye to Edward, Tubbs and Papa Lazarou.

Other characters such as Mr Chinnery, Pauline Campbell-Jones, Mickey Michaels, Barbara Dixon, Reverend Bernice Woodall, Tubbs & Edward Tattsyrup and Papa Lazarou also feature.

* Reece Shearsmith as Himself / Edward / Papa Lazarou / Geoff / Bernice / Father Halfhearte / Red Devil

Reece Shearsmith as Papa Lazarou.

Papa Lazarou is a fictional character in the BBC TV comedy programme The League of Gentlemen.

Papa Lazarou has been listed as both the 8th and 14th most popular sketch of all time with British audiences, according to The Radio Times and Channel 4 respectively.

Papa Lazarou runs a circus.

Gippog is the Gibberish language that Papa Lazarou speaks.

Despite being one of the more bizarre characters in the series, Papa Lazarou was actually based on a real person, Peter Papalazarou who was a landlord who owned a flat in which Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton lived.

The thing that I always think is really something is Papa Lazarou kidnapping Bernice ’ s mother in the Christmas Special.

" But that flashback with the screaming child and Papa Lazarou is absolutely ghastly.

Reece Shearsmith: " I've done a few Hello Dave's for people's answering machines ," said Reece Shearsmith, before putting on the Papa Lazarou voice, ' They're not in at the moment!

" I love doing Papa Lazarou because he is almost iconic now.

" I think that Johnny Depp was Papa Lazarou in ' Pirates of the Caribbean '".

Mark Gatiss: " There was a funny moment when we were filming by the sea and the doubles for Tubbs and Edward and Papa Lazarou were all having a fag.

* Eminem's character, Rabbit, in the 2002 film 8 Mile mentions the Cranbrook Kingswood School in a rap battle with Papa Doc ( portrayed by Anthony Mackie ) when he questions Papa Doc's " gangsta " act because he attended Cranbrook.

In the second season, she grows fond of main character Takumi Fujiwara and tells " Papa " that she does not want to join him anymore, which he accepts.

Finally Price attempted poilitical satire in " The Thargon Menace " when he lampooned notorious dictators such as Idi Amin Dada and Papa Doc with the character Papa Min, a deranged despot using 2 alien runaways to build advanced weaponry for him.

Wright's final PPV appearance as the Papa Shango character was at the 1993 Royal Rumble ( where he was eliminated in under 30 seconds ).

During the autumn of 1994, there were rumors that the Papa Shango character would be brought back to participate in a storyline involving Bob Backlund, wherein Shango's voodoo spells would explain the traditionally good-natured Backlund's erratic and villainous behavior.

Wright was asked to return in 1997, with the original plans being for him to revive the Papa Shango character, but that plan was never completed with the inception of Kane, another supernatural character.

Despite her television success, Coca appeared only sporadically in films such as The Incredible Incident at Independence Square filmed in her hometown of Philadelphia and other smaller comic character parts, including 1963's Under the Yum Yum Tree, Joan Rivers ' Rabbit Test ( 1978 ) and 1980s films Nothing Lasts Forever, Papa Was a Preacher and Buy & Cell.

In 1992, she had a guest appearance in the third season of The Simpsons as Lurleen Lumpkin, a beautiful Southern country singer and waitress, in " Colonel Homer ", and sixteen years later in 2008, she appeared in the nineteenth season — as the same character — in the episode " Papa Don't Leech ".

The character Papa Sallow Rose, Camarilla's conclave, Milwaukee 2006

During this time, he also played a supporting character for several series including Come to Papa and the short-lived 1997 Tim Curry situation comedy Over the Top.

* When told that Michel Simon would be unable to complete scenes scripted for his character as a result of prior contractual obligations, Frankenheimer devised the sequence wherein Papa Boule is executed by the Germans.

" Both this, and the landlord's other saying, " This is just a saga now ", were adapted into Papa Lazarou's character.

* Papa Lazarou, a fictional character from BBC TV's The League of Gentlemen.

In the BBC radio and television comedy series The League of Gentlemen, the character Papa Lazarou comes to the fictional town of Royston Vasey under the guise of a peg-seller.

Although the character makes several cameo appearances after this episode, Lurleen makes her second full-time appearance sixteen years later in " Papa Don't Leech ".