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.

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.

* 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.

* Overview of Papa Lazarou character

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 ".

His being and His will -- Stevie could not divide God from his Papa -- illumined every parish face, turned the choir into a band of angels, and the pulpit into the tollgate to Heaven.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

At the request of Michèle, Papa Doc's widow Simone was expelled from Haiti.

Neolithic farming brought permanent settlements, and the wonderfully well-preserved stone house at Knap of Howar on Papa Westray dating from 3500 BC predates by about 500 years the village of similar houses at Skara Brae on West Mainland, Orkney.

The Pope derives his pontificate from being Bishop of Rome but is not required to live there ; according to the Latin formula ubi Papa, ibi Curia, wherever the Pope resides is the central government of the Church, provided that the pope is Bishop of Rome.

Pope Julius II ( 5 December 1443 – 21 February 1513 ), nicknamed " The Fearsome Pope " ( Il Papa Terribile ) and " The Warrior Pope " ( Il Papa Guerriero ), born Giuliano della Rovere, was Pope from 1503 to 1513.

In another type of story, the world is created from the union of male and female deities, as in the Maori story of Rangi and Papa.

Tork was a proficient musician, and though the group generally did not play their own instruments on their first two albums, he was an exception, playing what he described as " third chair guitar " on Mike Nesmith's song " Papa Gene's Blues " from their first album.

* Images of samplers from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

For example, consider the references to the use of a Dobro guitar on songs like " The Ballad of Curtis Loew " by Lynyrd Skynyrd, " Valium Waltz " by the Old 97's, " When Papa Played the Dobro " by Johnny Cash on the Ride This Train album, or " Gold Dust Woman ", a song by Fleetwood Mac from the album Rumours which features a a Dobro.

When Papa Smurf and the Smurflings travel to the Land of Nod in order to obtain some sand in order to make Brainy Smurf's new glasses ( after he lost them to the Darkness Monster when gathering chocolate from its cave with Clumsy Smurf ), they end up meeting a grouchy Sandman after the previous one retired.

George Vital " Papa Jack " Laine ( September 21, 1873 – June 1, 1966 ) was a pioneering band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish-American War to World War I.

Papa Legba and Voodoo appear again in Spook Country, a book from one of Gibson's other trilogies.

* Papa Legba, protector of the home and guardian of gates and crossroads photo from

Not far from the Bulicame whose waters, apparently, were always taken in the open, is the Bagno del Papa ( Bath of the Pope ).

* Sandra and Samantha Lawrence The Wee Papa Girl Rappers were a British female rap duo, who came from Acton & lived in one of the tower blocks next to Acton Police Station, the picture on the back cover of their album was taken out side their block.

* Papa Bouba Diop ( born 1978 ), a football ( soccer ) player from Senegal

* Rav Papa (?- 375 ), a Babylonian Amora from the Talmud

* Papa ( song ), from the BBC drama Gideon's Daughter

* Pope, derived from the Italian Papa, meaning father.

* Wākea, husband of Papa, from Hawaii

A Ngāi Tahu legend from the South Island speaks of Rehua as the eldest son of Rangi and Papa, who first manifested as lightning, but assumed human shape when he travelled into the skies.

* Matariki Online Learning Resources from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa