Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

It was the most amazing thing .... And all the sudden that kick line, which I guess was a spoof on the machismo ...

He would also slip in spoof commercials and sponsor's announcements for " Dobbiroids ", the wonder horse rejuvenator, or " Dobbimist " horse deodorant ( a cure for UFO: under-fetlock odour ), or " Dobbitex " horse cummerbunds-he would claim that he'd been " got at ": paid money to plug the product, because he claimed to be only paid a pittance as a senior BBC announcer, " I want things, I need things, things the other radio announcers have got!

He introduces himself with the line, " My name is Michael Paine, and I am a nosy neighbour " and in a spoof of the stakeout at the beginning of The Ipcress File, recounts to the camera the ' suspiciously ' mundane behaviour of his neighbours, before saying, " Not a lot of people know that I know that ".

* Mornington Crescent is a spoof game, featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, which satirises complicated strategy games.

) ( 1962 ), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir Alec Guinness ; I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role ; Hot Enough for June, ( aka " Agent 8¾ ") ( 1964 ), a James Bond-type spy spoof co-starring Robert Morley ; Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey ; The Fixer ( 1968 ), based on Bernard Malamud's novel, co-starring Alan Bates ; Sebastian ( 1968 ), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with Susannah York, a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for British Intelligence, also co-starring Sir John Gielgud, and Lilli Palmer, co-produced by Michael Powell ; Oh!

Howell released her spoof song How Could I Live Without Filing Taxes in 2001 which she wrote and performed.

Finally, after another song from Nichols or Bentley, there was a situation comedy sketch worked up from the clichés of a literary or cinematic genre ; for example, later TIFH programmes included a sketch about restoration England, with Charles II, Nell Gwynne and the Puritan keeper of the Privy Purse (" anything TV can do, we can do later "); or a spoof spy story set on an international sleeper from London to Paris ("… as I moved through the train I gazed at a handsome film star, slumbering in his compartment, and a thought struck me — whether you're great or whether you're humble, when you sleep upright you dribble ").

Cap ' n Eddie's name was a spoof of decorated World War I flying ace, Eddie Rickenbacker.

Coogan has provided voices for the animated series I Am Not an Animal and Bob and Margaret, two Christmas specials starring Robbie the Reindeer, and an episode of the BBC Radio Four spoof sci-fi series Nebulous.

He also appeared in the disaster movie spoof The Big Bus ( 1976 ), where he was reunited with Larry Hagman, with whom he starred in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie ( see above ).

Her film appearances included the spy spoof Matchless ( 1966, co-starring Patrick O ' Neal ), I Killed Rasputin ( 1967 ), Dead Run ( 1967, co-starring Peter Lawford ), The Vatican Affair ( 1968 ), Five Dolls for an August Moon ( 1970 ) and The Fifth Cord ( 1971 ).

Strong is known for playing Jonathan Levinson on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Paris Geller's boyfriend Doyle McMasters on Gilmore Girls, but he has also appeared in films such as Pleasantville, Dangerous Minds, the spoof Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The Thirteenth, and was in the film Sydney White as the Grumpy dork, Gurkin.

* Singer Suzanne Vega recorded a spoof version of her hit Tom's Diner that incorporates lyrics about I Dream of Jeannie.

" Conversely, in response to a claim the film was a spoof of sexual behavior, a New York University professor said, " I do not see how you can spoof fellatio by showing continuous performance of fellatio.

The paper has regular columns, including ' A Tutor's Diary ' - a spoof diary of a housemaster of the fictional ' I Social '; ' Social Stereotypes ' - similar to The Daily Telegraph's regular series, but written about " Radley types that may be seen in a Social near you ..."; ' The Rumbler ' - a regular opinion piece modelled on The Times ' ' Thunderer ; and ' Desert Island Dons ' - a series of interviews with ' dons ' ( teachers ) at the College in a similar style to Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

Another Walter Lantz cartoon " The Ostrich Egg And I " ( from the Maggie & Sam series ) in 1956 was a spoof of The Egg and I with Maggie voiced by Grace Stafford and Sam voiced by Daws Butler.

CHCH also debuted additional original local programs Sportsline with Mark Hebscher & Clint " Bubba " O ' Neil, and will launch a second series with Ed the Sock, the entertainment newsmagazine spoof I Hate Hollywood.

" The author stated " ince I really liked Rowling's books I felt obligated to try to write a spoof worthy of the originals ".

* Love of Chair: A spoof of the soap opera Love of Life.

Several films spoof it, including Woody Allen's Bananas and Love and Death, Australia, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker's Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult ( though actually a parody of The Untouchables ), Soviet-Polish comedy Deja Vu, Jacob Tierney's The Trotsky and the Italian comedy Il secondo tragico Fantozzi.

After leaving Laverne and Shirley in 1982, McKean played David St. Hubbins in the cult spoof documentary movie This is Spinal Tap with both Guest and Shearer, and appeared in the soap opera spoof Young Doctors in Love.

In a dream sequence of Fresh Prince of Bel Air Kopell made a parody cameo of himself as an actor who played a ship's doctor so many times he offers to perform an operation for real, while in a 1994 episode of Saturday Night Live he appeared as " Doc " during a Love Boat-themed spoof of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In 2011 T-Mobile used the East 17 song " House of Love " in a Royal Wedding " spoof " commercial, bringing the group a new generation of fans.

Also in 2012 he starred as the bachelor, Mark Orlando, in the web series Burning Love, a spoof of the TV series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.

The song " We're Sending Our Love Down the Well " is a spoof of " We Are the World ", and the idea of celebrities singing it is based on USA for Africa, the name under which forty-five famous artists recorded " We Are the World ".

* Love At First Bite ( 1979 ) – romantic comedy spoof starring George Hamilton.

" Also in 2012 she played the sex obsessed Haley in the web series Burning Love, a spoof of the TV series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.

Rock has been the target of many spoofs and several spoof bands have gone on to have hit records, for example The Hee Bee Gee Bees and Spinal Tap in the U. S., and Bad News in the U. K. " Weird Al " Yankovic, now in his fourth decade of creating song parodies, has sold more than 12 million albums ( more than any comedy act in history ).

Rutherford also appeared briefly as Miss Marple in the spoof Hercule Poirot adventure The Alphabet Murders ( 1965 ).

They appeared as " Dove " in the 1980 televangelism spoof Pray TV.

Whitehouse and Charlie Higson produced and appeared in a spoof phone-in show Down the Line on BBC Radio 4.

In the same series, the Gruntfuttocks appeared as King Louis XIII and his queen in a spoof of The Three Musketeers.

She also appeared on South African television, depicting the role of South African journalist Jani Allan in a comedy spoof.

In 1967, he appeared as one of seven incarnations of 007 in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale.

In the final years of his life, Nielsen appeared in numerous spoof and parody films, many of which were met poorly by critics, but performed well in box office and home media releases.

She also appeared with Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French and Sienna Miller in the French and Saunders pastiche of Mamma Mia for Comic Relief 2009 in which she played the role of Tanya ( named Patsy in the spoof ).

In particular there is a running gag suggesting that French and Saunders are unable to accurately affect accents ; this first appeared in their spoof of Gone with the Wind when they break their character in the middle of an elaborate and expensive parody to argue about the authenticity of their Southern accent.

He appeared in The News Quiz, occasionally introduced The Goon Show, and read the spoof " news bulletin " which always featured in the middle of the comedy The Men From the Ministry.

Short briefly revived the Ed Grimley role in his 1995 series The Show Formerly Known As the Martin Short Show, for a spoof of the comedy film Dave, and appeared again in a 1996 episode of Muppets Tonight, in which Grimley marries Miss Piggy to obtain an $ 85 inheritance from his deceased great-uncle.

In 1964 he again appeared on stage in Philadelphia in Cool Off !, a short-lived Faustian spoof.

His brother Ruggero Mastroianni ( 1929 – 1996 ) was a highly regarded film editor who not only edited a number of his brother's films, but appeared alongside Marcello in Scipione detto anche l ' Africano, a spoof of the once popular peplum / sword and sandal film genre released in 1971.

* Seán Cullen-Cullen has appeared several times on the show, initially as the leader of Corky and the Juice Pigs for a musical number comparing the 1993 Federal election to Gilligan's Island ; he also appeared as " Quint " in a spoof of the movie Jaws.

She also appeared alongside friend Jennifer Saunders in 1987 for a spoof ' mockumentary ' on Bananarama.

In 1996, she appeared as the main guest on Muppets Tonight, performing in a muppet-style spoof of Melrose entitled " Muppet Heights ".

She also appeared in Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a woman accused of being a witch ; in How to Irritate People, a pre-Monty Python film starring Cleese and other future Monty Python members ; and in The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It ( Cleese's Sherlock Holmes spoof, as Mrs. Hudson ).

In 1987, Clarkson appeared in the John Landis spoof Amazon Women on the Moon.

He appeared in a number of British films and television series, as aristocrats, including starring roles in the television comedy series The World of Wooster ( as " Bingo Little "), and in the comedy movie One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing ( as " Lord Southmere "), as well as appearing in the James Bond spoof film Casino Royale.

He also appeared as a guest on the Cartoon Network talk show spoof Space Ghost Coast to Coast in the episode ' Hungry '.

Haim also appeared in spoof horror movie The Back Lot Murders, alongside Priscilla Barnes.

He also appeared in the CD-ROMs, " Let's Make a Word " ( a spoof of Let's Make a Deal ) and " Get Set to Learn ", where his voice was credited to Don Reardon.