Created around the same time as similar cartoons like Felix the Cat, Bonzo quickly became a popular icon not only in the United Kingdom, but was one of the first cartoon characters to be loved around the globe.

A parody of a track on the album was that by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 1968 song " We Are Normal ", which featured a line from " The Red Telephone ", viz ' We are normal and we want our freedom / We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon '.

Inspired by the film Bedtime for Bonzo, in which Ronald Reagan appeared with a chimp, Bell greeted Bush's election with a cartoon entitled " Bigtime for Bonzo ", depicting Bush as Reagan's chimp.

During the 1990s the term Cool Britannia ( drawn from a humorous version by the Bonzo Dog Band of the song " Rule Britannia ", with words by James Thomson, which is often used as an unofficial national anthem ), was used to describe the contemporary United Kingdom.

* " Beautiful Zelda ", a song on Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 1968 album The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

In " The Perils of Penelope ", he appeared as Bonzo for the first time, as dating Penelope and after he chase Garfield to a truck he was last seen in the back of a truck to Mexico.

* " Labio Dental Fricative ", a song by Vivian Stanshall & The Sean Head Showband, included on the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band album The History of the Bonzos

In 1967, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's album parodied the expression in the sleeve notes for the song " Cool Britannia ", which said " Someone letta Freak-Out?

* " Bad Blood ", a song by the Bonzo Dog Band from their 1972 album Let's Make Up and Be Friendly

* " Mornington Crescent ", a track on the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band album Pour l ' Amour des Chiens

Innes ' Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band appeared in The Beatles ' Magical Mystery Tour film, and Paul McCartney produced the Bonzos ' 1968 single " I'm the Urban Spaceman ", while Harrison founded HandMade Films for the purpose of financing Python's Life of Brian ; HandMade later also produced Python alum Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits.

He is cited as a member of the eclectic ( and fictional ) " orchestra " in The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's recording, " The Intro and the Outro ", credited " as himself ".

*" Big Shot ", a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band from their 1967 album Gorilla

During one first series episode of DNAYS, Eric Idle followed the Captain Fantastic segment with the song " Captain Fantastic, We Love You ", backed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

The show also featured musical numbers by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, including future Monty Python musical collaborator Neil Innes.

* A song by Mickey Simmonds entitled " Mornington Crescent " appears on the Bonzo Dog Band ’ s 2007 album, Pour l ' Amour des Chiens.

Bedtime for Bonzo is a 1951 comedy film directed by Fred de Cordova, starring future U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Diana Lynn.

Recordings by Liberty UK act The Bonzo Dog Band and Kim Fowley were issued in the USA on the Imperial label.

His voice was so widely known that his name was included with many of the world's politicians and entertainers on the record track The Intro and the Outro by the Bonzo Dog Band of the 1960s.

" Equestrian Statue " is the title of a 1967 song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, in which a town square is enlivened by the presence of an equestrian statue of a former dignitary.

* In the list of people " playing " in the song " The Intro and the Outro " by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Brainiac is on banjo.

" Hello Mabel " is a song by the Bonzo Dog Band released in England on their album The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse ( released as Urban Spaceman in the US.

Gibbard took the band name from the title of the song written by Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall and performed by their group, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, in The Beatles ' 1967 film, Magical Mystery Tour.

The format of the show was phone-in / quiz style with the occasional record thrown in – ' Two Little Boys ' by Rolf Harris and ' Narcissus ' by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band being two that featured regularly.

* Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, a musical group playing songs inspired by the music of the 1920s and comic rock songs

* " My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down ( Bonzo Goes to Bitburg )" by Ramones *

Manager for The Nice, the Bonzo Dog Band and Van der Graaf Generator at the time, Stratton-Smith was unable to find a record company willing to release an album by one of his favourite groups so he founded his own company and released the Van der Graaf Generator album The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other himself.

Recordings from as far back as the 1960s were also released by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

More light-hearted versions were offered by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Temperance Seven and The New Vaudeville Band.

Hosts included B. Mitchel Reed, Steven Segal ( aka " The Obscene Steven Clean ;" not related to the similarly named actor ), Susan Carter ( aka " Outrageous Nevada "), Barbara Birdfeather, Jeff Gonzer ( aka " Bonzo " Gonzer ), Tom Donahue, Program Director and deejay Les Carter, novelty music historian Dr. Demento, Charles Laquidara, Ted Alvy ( aka " Cosmos Topper "), Elliot Mintz ( whose late-night Sunday show played everything from Baba Ram Dass lectures to listener-created recordings ), blues archivist Johnny Otis and comedy troupes The Credibility Gap ( featuring Harry Shearer, Richard Beebe, David L. Lander, and Michael McKean ), and The Firesign Theatre.

Vivian Stanshall ( born Victor Anthony Stanshall ; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995 ) was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

* Bob Kerr ( musician ) ( born 1943 ), comic musician ; member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The New Vaudeville Band and Bob Kerr's Whoopie Band

* Feb 10: Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ; Ginger Johnson ; Bank Dick WC Fields

* Jul 21: Tomorrow ; Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

Ender enters into a deep depression on learning of this, as well as of the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo.

Stanshall went on to form various short-lived groups including The Sean Head Showband, Bonzo Dog Freaks ( featuring the guitar talents of the rotund Bubs White ) and BiG GrunT.

A major tribute for John Bonham entitled " Bonzo: The Groove Remains the Same — A Night In Honor of John Henry Bonham " was performed on 25 September 2010 — the 30th anniversary of his death.

The film was later referenced in connection with Reagan in the 1986 Ramones song " My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down ( Bonzo Goes to Bitburg )", and in a track on a 1984 Jerry Harrison record, sampling Reagan and credited to " Bonzo goes to Washington ".

A song unflattering to Reagan entitled " Bad Time for Bonzo " is featured on The Damned's fourth studio album, Strawberries.

Neil Innes, from The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Monty Python and The Rutles, provides backing vocals on " It's Not Safe ".

In the 1930-40s, first with the Riga Bonzo Theatre and later individually, he went on tours of Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, where he became very popular among different audiences, including many Russian émigrés.

The Bonzo Dog Band mentioned Weedon in their song " We are Normal " on their album, The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse ( 1969 ).

He guest-starred on a 1984 episode of Miami Vice as Bonzo Barry and portrayed hapless office worker Phil West on a 1985 episode of Moonlighting entitled " Atlas Belched ".

The Bonzo Dog Band can be seen playing the song in a 1967 episode of the children's TV series Do Not Adjust Your Set, which is now available on DVD.

The Bonzo Dog Band was called the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band at the time and appeared regularly on Do Not Adjust Your Set-a so-called children's programme that also featured Michael Palin, and other later famous comics.

A paper mâché Crosley Bonzo is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.