The end catchphrase and newsreader characters were devised because Barker found it difficult to appear as himself: Corbett explained that Barker " was a very private man, a quiet man ...

Corbett explained in court that she was practicing neither optometry nor ophthalmology and represented herself not as a doctor but only as an “ instructor of eye training ”.

They were also in the team of writers working for The Frost Report, whose other members included Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Monty Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle.

He co-wrote the much-repeated Class sketch with John Law, in which Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett faced the audience, with their descending order of height suggesting their relative social status as upper class ( Cleese ), middle class ( Barker ) and working class ( Corbett ).

Barker got his television break with the satirical sketch series The Frost Report in 1966 where he met future collaborator Ronnie Corbett.

After rejoining the BBC Barker found fame with the sketch show The Two Ronnies ( 1971 – 1987 ) with Ronnie Corbett.

Each episode of the show, which was performed and broadcast live, was focused on a single topic and principally revolved around a continuous monologue from Frost, with sketches from Barker, Corbett and Cleese as the show went on.

Barker starred alongside Cleese and Corbett in The Frost Report < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s best known sketch, which satirised the British class system, with Barker representing the middle class.

With a second series of the show announced, Frost, recognising their potential, signed both Barker and Corbett up to his production company David Paradine Productions.

There, Frost hosted Frost on Sunday, with Barker and Corbett following and again performing sketches on the programme.

Barker and Corbett had a greater role on the show than on The Frost Report and Corbett felt " more aware of what were doing.

In order to maintain the deception, Barker had criticised material he himself had submitted under the pseudonym ; when a Wiley-credited sketch about a ventriloquist had been poorly received by the audience Barker told Corbett " Well, Gerald Wiley let us down there ", and on another occasion, when looking at a script, " I don't understand this line.

Barker encouraged Corbett to buy the rights to the sketch and, further maintaining the myth, told him to reject Wiley's ' request ' for £ 3, 000 as too expensive, before giving Corbett the sketch for free.

Barker, who had told Corbett earlier in the day, stood up and announced he was Wiley, although initially nobody believed him.

Despite Barker's success on ITV, LWT's programme controller Stella Richman opted to fire Frost's company Paradine and as Barker was contracted to the company rather than the network, he lost his job, as did Corbett.

Soon after, Barker, Corbett and Josephine Tewson performed a sketch about Henry VIII at the 1971 BAFTAs, with Barker playing Henry.

" Barker and Corbett wished to avoid being remembered primarily as a duo, and felt they could not work in the same way as a conventional double act like Morecambe and Wise, and so each maintained their solo careers as well.

The first world heavyweight champion under the Queensberry Rules was " Gentleman Jim " Corbett, who defeated John L. Sullivan in 1892 at the Pelican Athletic Club in New Orleans.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Corbett was born in London, England.

Captured by Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby's men at Culpeper, Virginia on June 24, 1864, Corbett was held prisoner at Andersonville prison for five months, when he was exchanged.

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.

Corbett was positioned near a large crack in the barn wall.

Corbett was immediately arrested for violation of his orders, but Stanton later had the charges dropped.

In his official statement, Corbett claimed he shot Booth because he thought Lincoln's assassin was preparing to use his weapons.

In 1887, because of his fame as Booth's killer, Corbett was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka.

No one was hurt, but Corbett was arrested and sent to the Topeka Asylum for the Insane.

A small sign also was placed to mark the dug hole where Corbett for a time had lived.

In 1934, then enrolled as a graduate student at King's College London, he wrote his Ph. D. thesis on Trade and War in the Eastern Seas, 1803-1810, which was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History for 1935.

The show was eventually cancelled due to a copyright infringement lawsuit based on the shows conceptual similarity to Tom Corbett.

Narrated by Anton Lesser, with Geoffrey Whitehead as Death, Carl Prekopp as Mort, Clare Corbett as Ysabell and Alice Hart as Princess Keli, the programme was first broadcast in four parts in mid-2004 and has been repeated frequently, most recently on BBC7.

Coors was later found murdered, and Joseph Corbett, Jr., is indicted for the crime.

Mayor Daley was married to Margaret Corbett until her death after a ten-year battle with metastatic breast cancer ( which had spread to her bones and liver ) on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2011.

Following a Summer 2011 height survey by The Munro Society, Beinn a ' Chlaidheimh was confirmed by the SMC in September 2012 as having been demoted from Munro to Corbett status.

It was published on October 7, 2009 ( ISBN 978-0-393-06567-1 ) in German with " separate English translation along with Shamdasani's introduction and footnotes " at the back of the book, according to Sara Corbett for The New York Times.

On June 5, 1889, the legendary prize fight between James J. Corbett and Joe Choynski was held on a barge off the coast of Benicia.

* Boston Corbett was inspired by this same verse to castrate himself ( Corbett was the 19th-century American soldier who is generally believed to have fired the shot that killed John Wilkes Booth ).

" One of the first sketches he wrote was called " Doctor's Waiting Room ", with the main part written for Corbett.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

Schachner's first eleven stories were all written with Zagat, and after their collaboration dissolved he wrote under his own name and the pseudonyms Chan Corbett and Walter Glamis.

Corbett wrote in the hotel's visitors ' register:

The legendary hunter Jim Corbett, a resident of Treetops at the time, wrote the now famous lines in the visitors ' log book:

Corbett wrote several books, including Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, The Elements of Reasoning, Style and Statement, and The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions.