There were Carry On films in which James played characters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry ( a parody of Henry VIII ) and Carry On Dick ( a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin ), in both of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played Mark Antony.

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

In 1988 a humorous book called The Book of Revelations ( Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine ) printed a parody of both Beatrix Potter and Sven Hassel entitled Peter Rabbit-Tank Killer, lampooning the fashion of the period for unscrupulous publishers and literary estates to draft in famous authors to pen " continuations " of their most successful characters and series.

" Illustrated by Mark Fredrickson, the cover was a double parody, also referencing the January 1973 issue of National Lampoon which depicted a gun being held to a real dog's head and the line " If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog.

One song he composed has been published in Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery ( CACM ) (" The Telnet Song ," April 1984, a parody of the behavior of a series of PDP-10 TELNET implementations written by Mark Crispin ).

Radcliffe experienced brief commercial success with Shirehorses, a parody band ( its name based on the short-lived band The Seahorses ) spawned from his Mark And Lard antics.

* A parody of Mark Russell was used in an episode of The Simpsons called " Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington " where the character ( voiced by Harry Shearer ) sang three songs (" The Deficit Rag ", " The Trading Gap Shuffle " and " Lisa S .") in the style of Russell's political satire songs.

Riley and Mark Radcliffe formed the parody group The Shirehorses who played at Glastonbury in 1997 in what they called the headline slot, going on as they did at 10 am.

Mark Steyn and Jessica Martin have released annual Christmas albums containing a mixture of parody and well-known Christmas classics.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated ( otherwise known as The Battle Hymn of the Republic ( Brought Down to Date )) was written in 1901 by Mark Twain, as a parody of American imperialism, in the wake of the Philippine – American War.

David Wasson, the series creator, admits that Larry is a parody on Star Wars's C-3PO ( and is in fact voiced by the actor who played Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill ).

A parody of the show When Animals Attack !, with a voice-over supposedly by actor Greg Evigan ( actually Mark Gatiss ).

* Mark Hamill's 2004 parody Comic Book: The Movie, about a comic book fan and a film adaptation of his favorite character, was released direct-to-video and achieved mild success, garnering a cult following among comic book readers.

A parody, called Protectors of the Earth, is made up of comic strip characters Rex Morgan, Mary Worth, Garfield, and Mark Trail.

* In 1869, while living in Buffalo, New York, Mark Twain published a parody of L ' Homme qui Rit in the Buffalo Express newspaper.

Mark is perhaps the most tormented character on the team, having been plagued by a computer with evil sentience ( inspired from the cartoonist's real-life computer woes ), arrested under suspicion of being a terrorist for being a Linux user, arrested under suspicion of being a terrorist for having a CD burner, forced to be the company mascot — the grey moth ( a parody of the MSN butterfly ), and brainwashed by Binky the Paperclip.

Tom Commode is a parody of film critic Mark Cousins.

Mark Jonathan Davis, later of Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, made a parody song of Barry Manilow's " Copacabana ", called " Star Wars Cantina ," released in 1996.

Spider-Ham ( Peter Porker ) is a fictional Marvel character, an anthropomorphic funny animal parody of Marvel Comics ' Spider-Man, created by Tom DeFalco and Mark Armstrong.

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue developed from the long-running radio sketch show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, the writers of which were John Cleese, Jo Kendall, David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and especially Graeme Garden who suggested the idea of an unscripted show which, it was decided, would take the form of a parody panel game.

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

A parody of the Tim Burton film " Edward Scissorhands ", which featured a similar character but with colanders for hands instead of scissors.

* The comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have produced several infomercial parody segments that are showcased on their oddball comedy show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job !, notably one for a CD-ROM-based version of the internet called the " Innernette ".

** MAL ( voiced by David Rappaport in 1990, Tim Curry in 1991 – 1995 ) – Dr. Blight's evil highly-intellectual supercomputer and a parody of HAL, the supercomputer from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

* Christian comedian Tim Hawkins performed a parody of the song, called " Wal * Mart in California ", changing the lyrics to what they would have been if the Eagles were older when they wrote Hotel California.

The commune's spiritual leader, " Tiny Doctor Tim ", who speaks as if he is very drunk, appears to be a parody of counter culture figure Timothy Leary.

The show is a parody of Ask The Family, though the name is a reference to Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor's own Channel 4 game show, Beat the Nation.

* Tiny: A diminutive, long-haired mummy with a high-pitched voice ( a parody of the then-popular entertainer Tiny Tim ).

* In a 1978 episode of The Carol Burnett Show, cast member Tim Conway appears in a surreal costume while portraying an alien lifeform in the show's soap opera parody As The Stomach Turns.

Joe parody PSAs and is a writer for Adult Swim's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job !.

In 2011, Jimmie Fallon appeared on the " Piers Morgan Tonight " television program, playing a guitar and singing a broad parody of " Space Oddity " along the lines of: " This is Tim Tebow to Jesus Christ ", using a Bowie-esque vocal style.

In the TV show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy sings a parody of this song with a Tim Tebow and Jesus Christ thematic twist.

On Animaniacs, Mr. Skullhead was a minor character, featured in the " Good Idea / Bad Idea " segments and starred in one full-length cartoon, " Skullhead Boneyhands ", a parody of the Tim Burton film Edward Scissorhands.

Tracks 2 and 11 are not performed, but electronically sequenced by Tim Smolens and parody the music from popular video games such as Super Mario Bros.

Tim has referred to Nannerpus as a real breakfast item, seemingly unaware that it is in fact a parody food intended to make fun if things like IHOP's Rooty Tooty Fresh N Fruity breakfast.

Included is an audio-only interview with Burgess Meredith as well as the clip of The Drew Carey Shows parody of the episode.

*" The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne " — text of Burgess ' parody, with accompanying quatrains from the original Rubaiyat.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

The vulture-like attendance of the Pocket family upon Miss Havisham is summed up in the hypocritical gestures of Miss Camilla Pocket, who puts her hand to her throat in a feigned spasm of grief-stricken choking, then lays it `` upon her heaving bosom '' with `` an unnatural fortitude of manner '', and finally kisses it to Miss Havisham in a parody of the lady's own mannerism toward Estella.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

Such an anagram may be a synonym or antonym of its subject, a parody, a criticism, or praise ; e. g. George Bush = He bugs Gore ; Madonna Louise Ciccone = Occasional nude income or One cool dance musician ; William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller, Roger Meddows Taylor = Great words or melody.

In a genre such as farce or parody, anagrams as names may be used for pointed and satiric effect.

In New York, for example, The Knickerbocker published a parody titled " Gastric Sayings " in November 1840.

Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus ' style and under his name, attacking Athens, Sparta, and Thebes.

A parody of Metastasian opera-seria it featured dazzling parodies of the high flown and emotive aria's found in that genre, as well as bold and innovative orchestrations, including the first known use of three tympani.

Nimzowitsch's vanity and faith in his ideas of overprotection provoked Hans Kmoch to write a parody about him in February 1928 in the Wiener Schachzeitung.

Kmoch was in fact a great admirer of Nimzowitsch, and the subject of the parody himself was amused at the effort.

Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

Capp was just as likely to parody himself ; his self-caricature made frequent, tongue-in-cheek appearances in Li ' l Abner.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

The title of Nicholas Blake's 1949 detective novel Head of a Traveller is a quotation from Housman's parody Fragment of a Greek Tragedy.

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

* Though its usage here is not a parody, in an episode of Cheers, Cliff aborts his plans to emigrate to Canada with his love interest when Sam, Woody, and Frasier appeal to his patriotic side by singing this song.

* In an SCTV parody commercial for fictional Poochare dog food, a borzoi dog is seen being taken for a walk by Eugene Levy.

In a dual performance he also plays the dictator " Adenoid Hynkle ", a parody of Hitler which Maland sees as revealing the " megalomania, narcissism, compulsion to dominate, and disregard for human life " of the German dictator.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.