On Saturday Night Live, Kazurinsky played various characters and was known for his celebrity impersonations.

In addition, she did celebrity impersonations of Brooke Shields, Jane Fonda and Queen Elizabeth II.

The show avoided overused staples of sketch shows, and rarely used pop culture parodies or celebrity impersonations ( with some notable exceptions: the Unabomber, Albert Einstein, Harry Truman, and Jesus ).

Malone performed a number of celebrity impersonations, including Margaret Thatcher and Canadian television journalist Barbara Frum, while Sexton did recurring impersonations of Barbara Walters and Tammy Faye Bakker.

") and two celebrity impersonations: David A. Stockman and controversial film director Roman Polanski.

Ironically, one of Danitra Vance's celebrity impersonations was of Cicely Tyson ( in The Pee Wee Herman Thanksgiving Special sketch ), who was known for not playing any role that stereotyped African-American women and, during her hosting stint on the fourth season ( 1978-1979 ), was shocked and disgusted that Garrett Morris was put in lesser roles on the show.

Taped in England, these comedy-variety shows consisted entirely of celebrity impersonations, with the actors in full costume and makeup for every sketch.

They frequently broke into songs and dances during their feature comedies, and often did celebrity impersonations ( among them Ted Lewis, Peter Lorre, Tony Martin, even Alice Faye and Katharine Hepburn ).

During his time on SNL, McKinney had six recurring characters ( some of note include Ian Daglers from " Scottish Soccer Hooligan Weekly ", Melanie, a Catholic schoolgirl, and Lucien Callow, a fop often paired with David Koechner's fop character Fagan ) and twenty-seven celebrity impersonations ( some of note include Mel Gibson, Barney Frank, Al Gore, Paul Shaffer, Jim Carrey, Lance Ito, Tim Robbins, Steve Forbes, Wolf Blitzer, Bill Gates, and Ellen DeGeneres.

Sasso also does many celebrity impersonations, including impersonations of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris Farley, Steven Seagal, Bill Clinton, Drew Carey, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Fred Durst, George W. Bush, James Gandolfini ( as himself and Tony Soprano ), James Lipton, Jesse Ventura, Kenny Rogers, Lance Bass, Louie Anderson, Paul Shaffer, Randy Newman, Richard Simmons, Robert De Niro, The Rock, Steve Austin, Wayne Newton, William Frawley ( as Fred Mertz from I Love Lucy ), and William Shatner ( as himself and as James T. Kirk ).

Among his celebrity impersonations were Elizabeth Taylor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, and Margaret Thatcher.

Banks was hired as a contract player for the last four episodes of the season, leaving behind no memorable characters or celebrity impersonations.

He had been doing celebrity impersonations and cartoon character voices between records, but the program director told him to stop.

During his season on SNL, he became known for his celebrity impersonations, particularly female impersonations of stars like Diana Ross, Patti LaBelle, Joan Collins, Brooke Shields's mother Teri Shields, and Joan Rivers, as well as Ted Kennedy ( the only male celebrity he impersonated ).

The show, which originated at Y100 in Philadelphia, features daily telephone interviews, in-studio guests, celebrity impersonations, unusual news stories, and numerous sound clips and running gags.

Meyers was also known for his celebrity impersonations, including Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel, various members of ' N Sync, rapper Eminem, and actor / writer Owen Wilson.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Various examples of celebrity turned entrepreneurs included in the table below are:

His television program, Championship Bridge with Charles Goren, was broadcast from 1959 to 1964 on the ABC network, and, in addition to numerous appearances by top players, included segments with celebrity guests such as Chico Marx, Alfred Drake and Forest Evashevski, among others.

In later seasons, Tapp would be increasingly replaced by that episode's guest singer, or another surprise celebrity ( normally if it were a guest, his or her name would be included in the lyrics of the song before they would sing the refrain ).

According to Anthony King, "" The props in Blair's theatre of celebrity included ... his guitar, his casual clothes ... footballs bounced skilfully off the top of his head ... and carefully choreographed speeches-cum-performances at Labour Party conferences.

One notable practitioner was Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire whose efforts on behalf of Charles James Fox in the 18th century included press relations, lobbying and, with her friends, celebrity campaigning.

This version of the series included musical questions ( wherein Davidson, a former recording artist, sang songs for the celebrity to finish ), questions involving props in a panelist's square or presented as skits involving outside actors, " surprise " special guests, and even an episode done while the set was being struck down in preparation for the show going on the road.

" In particular this included the Ryan White case, red ribbon campaigns, celebrity dinners, the 1993 film version of And the Band Played On, sex education programs in schools, and television advertisements.

The magazine's editorial content included celebrity interviews and tackled issues of sexual politics.

In 1937 / 38, he brought his celebrity and talent to bear in producing a season of plays at the Queen's Theatre, presenting the aforementioned Richard II, The School for Scandal, Three Sisters, and The Merchant of Venice with a permanent company that included himself, Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Redgrave and Alec Guinness.

In the 1980s, Wizardry also entertained fans that included celebrity figures such as Robin Williams, Harry Anderson, and the Crown Prince of Bahrain.

The teams included one made up of students from Keble College, Oxford, which had fielded the winning team in the final 1987 season ; and a graduates team made up of celebrity alumni who had previously starred on the programme as students, including journalist John Simpson and actor Stephen Fry.

Aware that TV coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in the USA had been interrupted by advertisements one of which featured a celebrity chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs, a clause was included in the Act banning advertising breaks during broadcasts featuring the Royal Family.

Recurring features of the Fallon / Fey era included the " Update Door ", a door on the left of the set where celebrities, as impersonated by SNL cast members ( and at one time the Landshark ), would walk through to do a commentary ; a segment called " Terrible ReEnactments ", in which Chris Kattan would do an intentionally bad re-enactment of a news story that had occurred during the week ( usually the story involved a celebrity being injured ); and regular appearances from Jeff Richards ' Drunk Girl character.

PRER, copying Hong Kong radio's approach, began to emphasize daily life, entertainment, " celebrity " deejays, and caller phone-in segments, while eliminating ideological, preachy formats that included little information beyond what was provided by government sources.

Techniques used by Apple Daily to gain readership included price warring, extensive use of written Cantonese, at a time when most Hong Kong newspapers used written vernacular Chinese, and a focus on reporting crime, celebrity news, eroticism, gambling, and drug use.

On December 31, 2011, MTV confirmed that the series would be revived in 2012, and that a different celebrity guest host would be featured each episode, so far the guests have included ; Justin Bieber, Bam Margera, Hayden Panettiere, Tyler, the Creator, Lucy Hale, Nick Cannon, Dax Shepard, Miley Cyrus, Heather Morris, Kellan Lutz, and Mac Miller.

The show, hosted by Chorley FM's Nathan Hill and Steven Normyle with celebrity judges that included Bobby Ball, Casey-Lee Jolleys, X-Factor's Rowetta and Garry Bushell.

" Her circle of celebrity friends also included T. S. Eliot ; Gertrude Stein, who mentions Mirrlees in " Everybody's Autobiography "; Bertrand Russell ; and Lady Ottoline Morrell.

Like The Dame Edna Experience, these included an array of top celebrity guests such as Burt Reynolds, Cher, Bea Arthur, Kim Basinger and Barry Manilow.

The piece won Kienholz instant celebrity in 1966 when the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors tried to ban the sculpture as pornographic and threatened to withhold financing from LACMA if it included the work in a Kienholz retrospective.

Regular members of the celebrity panel on this version included Kenny Everett, Lorraine Chase, Gareth Hunt, Gary Davies, and Cheryl Baker.

Other celebrity guests in the hotel's early decades included the future King Edward VII, Sarah Bernhardt, Enrico Caruso, Lillie Langtry, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Nellie Melba, Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Truman, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, Josephine Baker, Cary Grant, Babe Ruth, Ivor Novello and Noël Coward.

Other celebrity residents have included Bob Monkhouse, The Pet Shop Boys, Chas & Dave and Bob Carolgees.

* To mark 50 years in broadcasting, Larry King Live had a week long celebration that included a two hour CNN presents special and an hour of celebrity toast.