* The 2009 CBBC series Horrible Histories, with Mathew Baynton playing Cesare Borgia in one of the sketches.

A series of composite sketches was developed.

The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.

Chapman also contributed sketches to the BBC radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and television programmes such as The Illustrated Weekly Hudd ( starring Roy Hudd ), Cilla Black, This is Petula Clark, and This Is Tom Jones.

": A comedic duet featured on the premiere episode and holds firm as one of the series ' most famous and endearing sketches.

The area and the people inspired him and provided the backdrop for his best-known short stories, the Oom Schalk Lourens series ( featuring an older character named " Oom Schalk Lourens "), and the Voorkamer sketches.

" The Spanish Inquisition " is a series of sketches in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 2 Episode 2, first broadcast 22 September 1970, parodying the real-life Spanish Inquisition.

For A series of Bird's the Palin / Jones team had their first experience of writing narrative instead of the short sketches they were accustomed to conceiving.

In 1962, the BBC commissioned a pilot for a television series of satirical sketches based on the Establishment club, but it was not picked up straight away and Cook went to New York for a year to perform in Beyond The Fringe on Broadway.

Although the episodes were scripted, most of the music used over the two series was written in translation by Postgate in the form of " musical sketches " or graphs that he drew for Elliott, who would then convert the drawings into a musical score.

His writing career really began with a series of satirical sketches now usually known as The Yellowplush Papers, which appeared in Fraser's Magazine beginning in 1837.

Crawford made three more TV appearances, as Stephanie White in an episode of The Virginian ( 1970 ), entitled " The Nightmare "; as a special guest who performed in multiple sketches on The Tim Conway Comedy Hour ( also in 1970 ) ; and as Joan Fairchild ( her final performance ) on an episode of the television series, The Sixth Sense, entitled, " Dear Joan: We're Going To Scare You To Death " ( 1972 ).

Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working-class men, Pete and Dud, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts, but they fashioned a series of one-off characters, usually with Moore in the role of interviewer to one of Cook's upper-class eccentrics.

As with the established comedy revue, it was a series of satirical sketches and musical pieces using a minimal set, looking at events of the day.

Drawing of the archetypical ninja, from a series of sketches ( Hokusai manga ) by Hokusai.

Another of Marsden's personas was Bea Clissold, Lady Counterblast, who starred in a series of sketches in the first series under the title The Clissold Saga, and who invariably managed to introduce her " many, many times " sexual innuendo.

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called " sketches ", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

" Some came from their sketch series on a local radio station in Chicago and had to be lengthened from the " two-minute bits " that they were originally, while several others were stage sketches performed in a comedy club in Santa Monica.

The British comedy sketch show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, included a series of sketches in which Paul Whitehouse played a character called Michael Paine ; an amalgam of previous Michael Caine impressions, who in a reference to the The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench coat.

Unlike the 1970s series, in which the Electric Company refers to a troupe of actors in comedy sketches, the new series refers to a group of super heroes who battle villains in the name of literacy.

*" The Worm That Turned " serial series of sketches from Series 8 of The Two Ronnies ( 1980 )

The series attracted criticism for its use of comedic blackout sketches between the longer story segments in some episodes, and for its splintered, multiple-story format, which contributed to its uneven tone.

The use of untranslated Klingon words interspersed with conversation translated into English was commonplace in later seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, when Klingons became a more important part of the series ' overall story-arcs.

It typically involves Punch behaving outrageously, struggling with his wife Judy and the Baby, and then triumphing in a series of encounters with the forces of law and order ( and often the supernatural ), interspersed with jokes and songs.

According to their accounts, the huge rent in the Andes, the Pongo, is about five or six miles ( 10 km ) long, and in places not more than 80 feet ( 25 m ) wide, and is a frightful series of torrents and whirlpools interspersed with rocks.

Although nominally a constitutional monarchy, Thailand was ruled by a series of military governments, most prominently led by Plaek Phibunsongkhram and Sarit Dhanarajata, interspersed with brief periods of democracy.

Television news is often presented as a series of video clips of newsworthy events, with voice-over by the reporters describing the significance of the scenes being presented ; these are interspersed with straight video of the news anchors describing stories for which video is not shown.

Sullivan began his composing career with a series of ambitious works, interspersed with hymns, parlour ballads and other light pieces.

Sullivan embarked on his composing career with a series of ambitious works, interspersed with hymns, parlour songs and other light pieces in a more commercial vein.

Given as a series of linked short stories, the book is also interspersed with brief commentaries on contemporary British politics.

The main mountain chain is the Zagros Mountains, a series of parallel ridges interspersed with plains that bisect the country from northwest to southeast.

The changes to the long seashore which resulted from the silting up of the series of graus or openings which were interspersed between the islands which made up the shoreline ( St. Martin ; St. Lucie ) had a more serious impact than the change in course of the river.

Anita is described in the series as a petite woman of mixed German and Mexican heritage with curly long hair and pale skin that has scars interspersed throughout her body.

The upper section of the Saline is a clear, cold-water stream with a series of fast running shoals interspersed with quiet pools.

The special featured memories of the program interspersed with clips from the series.

A typical opera would start with an instrumental overture of three movements ( fast-slow-fast ) and then a series of recitatives containing dialogue interspersed with arias expressing the emotions of the character, this pattern only broken by the occasional duet for the leading amatory couple.

The book is written informally, as a series of vignettes of Menzies ' travels around the globe examining what he claims is evidence for his " 1421 hypothesis ", interspersed with speculation and description of the achievements of Admiral Zheng He's fleet.

* What if stamps of a single series appear one at a time, interspersed with commemorative stamps?

is a party video game series featuring Mario franchise characters in which four human-or computer-controlled characters compete in a board game interspersed with minigames.

The song consists of a loud series of strophes each made up a high harsh notes that accelerate into a jangling mix with some clear slurred notes interspersed before stopping abruptly.

This means that in order to travel between star systems, it is frequently necessary to carry out a series of Alderson jumps interspersed with periods of travel between Alderson points in normal space.

It is bordered on the north by Port Phillip, and on the south by Bass Strait and a series of surf beaches interspersed with spectacular cliffs and rocky ledges.

It is not so much a biography of Sayat Nova but a series of tableaux vivants of Armenian costume, embroidery and religious rituals interspersed with scenes and verses from the poet's life.

The song is a rambling series of whistling notes interspersed with clicks and squeaks.

The song of this drongo is a series of staccato notes interspersed with clear notes and may include mimicry of other bird calls.

Land's research, detailed in his seminal book Grow or Die ), illustrates change as a series of interlocking S-curves, each interspersed with two breakpoints.

ANN said the action was entertainingly violent, well-paced, and interspersed well with comedic moments, but with the disclaimer that the action was " the entire sum and substance " of the series.