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Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send-ups of the game-show host Hughie Green and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore ( astronomer and broadcaster ) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would do for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later.
Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.
Jonathan Yarwood who is one of the UK's leading golf coaches.
During the case, Hamilton said he saw himself as " the Mike Yarwood of the Federation of Young Conservatives ", and that he frequently did impressions of public figures such as Frankie Howerd, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Charles De Gaulle and Enoch Powell.
The impressionist Mike Yarwood coined the catchphrase " Silly Billy ", which Healey had never said until that point, but he adopted it and used it frequently.
The British nickname " Silly Billy " was also popularised in the 1970s by impressionist Mike Yarwood, putting it in the mouth of the chancellor, Denis Healey, who took the catchphrase up and used it as his own.
His catchphrase " I mean that most sincerely " was also mocked, to such an extent that it is sometimes mistakenly believed to have been invented by the impressionist Mike Yarwood, whose impersonation of Green was celebrated.
Mike Yarwood, OBE ( born 14 June 1941 in Bredbury, Stockport, England ) is an English impressionist and comedian.
Yarwood was one of the stars of British television in the 1960s and 1970s, with his own prominent shows, which changed between BBC and ITV ( ATV and Thames Television ) based on high profile financial deals.
Though he had made a short appearance with Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour in 1961, Yarwood owed his initial success to the Sunday Night at the London Palladium variety ' spectacular ', on which he first appeared in 1964.
At its height, Yarwood's BBC TV shows, which were based on a variety mix of comic sketches, guest musicians, and a closing song sung by Yarwood ( introduced by the line, " and this is me ", which became the title of his first autobiography ), regularly attracted 28 million viewers.
Using the then-new technology of chroma key, Yarwood frequently staged set-pieces in which he appeared as several characters at the same time using pre-recorded segments.
The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show, which immediately preceded Morecambe and Wise on Christmas Day 1977, actually received a slightly larger audience.
This means that Yarwood, not Morecambe and Wise, holds the unbroken record for a single light entertainment broadcast in the UK.
Yarwood was the subject of a This is Your Life special, presented by Eamonn Andrews on 31 May 1978.
Both Yarwood and Morecambe and Wise signed up with Thames TV, with mixed results ; Morecambe and Wise fared better than Yarwood and their ratings remained relatively high.
However, unlike Yarwood, Forsyth bounced back and enjoyed a huge success with Play Your Cards Right.
Yarwood later defected to Thames Television but saw his career go into decline in the early 1980s.
Also with the emergence of alternative comedy in the 80s which took a far more mordant and satirical attitude towards politicians ( Yarwood saw himself as an all round family entertainer rather than a satirist ), his career never recovered and the loss of some of his most loved characters and its fragility was directly linked to the politicians he impersonated.
In the mid-1990s, Yarwood had the chance to return to the stage as prime minister John Major, but failed to re-establish himself before Major's premiership ended.
In July 1990 Yarwood suffered a mild heart attack.
* Mike Yarwood in Persons.
* Yarwood.

Vaughan and History
In 2011, Vaughan has appeared in the TV show ' MudMen ' on History Channel.
Robert Vaughan ( 1795 – 1868 ) was a minister of the Congregationalist communion, Professor of History in the University of London, 1830 – 43, and President of the Independent College, Manchester, 1843-57.
Musical Theatre faculty include: Mr. Phil Briggs: Director of Choirs, Ms. Jennie Vaughan: Head of piano instruction and theory, Alex Peevy: Director of movement and stage combat and Technical Director for the Ray Karrer Theatre, and William Walker: Director of the History of Musical Theatre and director of the musicals.
* Transit History ... Vaughan

Vaughan and New
* 1967 – Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
* Vaughan Hart, Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings, London and New Haven, Yale University Press, 2011
Vaughan dropped out of Kimball High and moved with Blackbird to Austin, Texas on New Year's Eve in 1971.
On January 30, Vaughan made a guest appearance on MTV Unplugged in New York City, performing " Rude Mood ", " Pride and Joy ", and " Testify ".
On March 12, 1986, Double Trouble arrived in New Zealand for a performance at the Wellington Town Hall, where Vaughan was sitting outside his hotel room.
Jake Vaughan was deeply religious and the family was very active in the New Mount Zion Baptist Church on 186 Thomas Street.
Around this time, Vaughan and her friends also began venturing across the Hudson River into New York City to hear big bands at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
Vaughan was frequently accompanied by a friend, Doris Robinson, on her trips into New York City.
Vaughan began her solo career in 1945 by freelancing in clubs on New York's 52nd Street such as the Three Deuces, the Famous Door, the Downbeat and the Onyx Club.
In the intervening time, Vaughan made a handful of recordings for the Crown and Gotham labels and began performing regularly at Cafe Society Downtown, an integrated club in New York's Sheridan Square.
At the 1955 New York Jazz Festival on Randalls Island, Vaughan shared the bill with the Dave Brubeck quartet, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, and the Johnny Richards Orchestra
Vaughan and Atkins moved into a house in Englewood, New Jersey.
The concert was a success and Thomas and Vaughan repeated the performance with Thomas ' home orchestra in Buffalo, New York, followed by appearances in 1975 and 1976 with symphony orchestras around the country.
During a run at New York's Blue Note jazz club in 1989, Vaughan received a diagnosis of lung cancer and was too ill to finish the final day of what would turn out to be her final series of public performances.
** Sugar Blue, John P. Hammond, J. B. Hutto & the New Hawks, Luther ' Guitar Junior ' Johnson, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for Blues Explosion
* Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, New York, with Henry Vaughan, 1904
New developments continually consume space year after and are especially focused along the Yonge Street corridor from Vaughan / Richmond Hill in the south to Newmarket / Aurora in the north.
While enjoying success in the middle-of-the-road and pop fields, Eckstine occasionally returned to his jazz roots, recording with Vaughan, Count Basie and Quincy Jones for separate LPs, and he regularly topped the Metronome and Down Beat polls in the Top Male Vocalist category: He won Esquire magazine's New Star Award in 1946 ; the Down Beat magazine Readers Polls from 1948 to 1952 ; and the Metronome magazine award as " Top Male Vocalist " from 1949 to 1954.
On September 6th, 2012 two by-elections were held, one in Vaughan in which the Liberal Party was ushered back in, and another in Kitchener-Waterloo, where Elizabeth Whitmer's resignation gave the Liberals a chance for majority, however the Conservative riding elected Catherine Fife of the New Democratic Party ( NDP ), leaving McGuinty's Liberals with a minority government.
** Sugar Blue, John P. Hammond, J. B. Hutto & the New Hawks, Luther ' Guitar Junior ' Johnson, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for Blues Explosion
In early 1966, while the group were still touring Australia, their manager, Mike Vaughan, flew to New York to attempt to secure an American recording contract for the band.
* Alden Vaughan '; New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians 1620-1675 ; 1980, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393-00950-5.
King, Gilberto Gil, Ray Charles, James Booker, Hermeto Pascoal, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Elis Regina, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Pasadena Roof Orchestra, New Order, Jaco Pastorius, Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band, Toto, André Geraissati, Korni Grupa, Joe Satriani, Status Quo, and many more.
The two men remained close: in later years Lilburn would send Vaughan Williams gifts of New Zealand honey, knowing that the older man was fond of it.

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