Their music and stage show mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly satirical social commentary.

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

His writings can be divided into three periods, during which he produced mainly history, 1711 — 1718 ; mainly satirical poetry and stage comedies, 1719 — 1731 ; and mainly philosophy, 1731 — 1750.

It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes ' satirical stage play which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman ( played by Peter O ' Toole ) who inherits a peerage.

** Late-War of the Theatres, a satirical controversy, breaks out on the London stage.

In the late ' 60s Humphries contributed to BBC-TV's popular The Late Show ( which featured Oz magazine editor Richard Neville ) but Humphries found his true calling with his one-man satirical stage revues, in which he performed as Edna Everage and other character creations including Les Patterson and Sandy Stone.

Humphries ' forte has always been his one-man satirical stage revues, in which he appears as Edna Everage and a host of other character creations, including Les Patterson and Sandy Stone.

Dame Edna is notable as one of the few satirical characters to make a successful transition from stage to TV without losing popularity in either genre.

However, some critics thought that the creators of the musical had not effectively translated the original comic strip to the stage, and there was some critical disagreement about whether the satirical elements were effective.

In the 1902 stage adaptation, which is full of topical references that do not appear either in the novel or in any of the film adaptations ( unless they are satirical ), the Tin Woodman wonders what he would do if he ran out of oil.

He has written five concertos for orchestra: the first, variously translated as Naughty Limericks or Mischievous Folk Ditties ( neither of which completely get the gist of the Russian which refers to a chastushka ( часту ́ шка ), an irreverent, satirical kind of folk song ) is by far the best known, and was the work which first established him on the international stage.

Homer and Jethro were the stage names of American country music duo Henry D. Haynes ( 1920 – 1971 ) and Kenneth C. Burns ( 1920 – 1989 ), popular from the 1940s through the 1960s on radio and television for their satirical versions of popular songs.

He contributed to Jewish cultural life with songs for satirical stage productions, as well as the Purim holiday costume balls that were a tradition in early Tel Aviv.

He began in stage revue and wrote many skits and gags for the satirical comedy series The Mavis Bramston Show, before joining the cast as a regular member in 1966, in various roles including the character Ocker and Frazer is credited with neologising the Australian slang term " ocker ".

Regular comedies ( i. e. comedies in five acts modeled on Plautus or Terence and the precepts of Aelius Donatus ) were less frequent on the stage than tragedies and tragicomedies at the turn of the century ; the comedic element of the early stage was dominated by farce, satirical monologues and by the commedia dell ' arte.

Because of an actual ban on satire in prose and verse publications in 1599 ( the so-called Bishops ' Ban of 1599 ), the satirical urge had no other remaining outlet than the stage.

Vanity Fair magazine invited Dame Edna to write a satirical advice column in 2003 although after an outcry following a remark about learning Spanish, the column was discontinued.

In 2003 Vanity Fair magazine invited Dame Edna to write a satirical advice column.

She was also one of the models for Henry Reed's satirical depiction of Dame Hilda Tablet in a series of 1950s radio plays.

Since the 1950s, the satirical character creations of Barry Humphries have included housewife " gigastar " Edna Everage and " Australian cultural attaché " Les Patterson, whose interests include boozing, chasing women and flatulence.

First appearing as " Edna Purlmutter " for the satirical The Troma System, she went on to appear in Tromeo and Juliet, Terror Firmer, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV and multiple episodes of Troma's Edge TV.

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.

" ( It was later discovered that the incorrect report came from a spoof in the satirical website The Onion.

This material was later used as an element of his satirical US presidential campaign in 1968, and was included on his 1968 comedy album Pat Paulsen for President.

Lloyd later got the opportunity to develop the idea that became the satirical BBC television series Not the Nine O ' clock News.

" The New Left later re-appropriated the term political correctness as satirical self-criticism ; per Debra Shultz: " Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the New Left, feminists, and progressives.

At this early age, he began writing his own show tunes, which eventually helped him in his future adventures as a satirical composer and writer in his years of lecturing at Harvard University, and later at other universities.

; Standards bloat: Bertrand Meyer, in a satirical essay framed as a student's request for a grade change, apparently criticized UML as of 1997 for being unrelated to object-oriented software development ; a disclaimer was added later pointing out that his company nevertheless supports UML.

Later productions like the humanistic, biting, satirical Passavantius and his Complainte de Messire Pierre Lizet ... prove that in later years he occasionally went back to his first love.

In 1659, the royalist Anglican theologian ( later Bishop of Rochester ) Thomas Sprat made his witty and literary reputation with his satirical poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, clearly mocking Cromwell's legal status.

The name Crystal Palace ( the satirical magazine Punch usually gets the credit for coining the phrase ) was later used to denote this area of south London and the park that surrounds the site, home of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.

Heine's later verse and prose is distinguished by its satirical wit and irony.

Sherman's later albums grew more pointedly satirical and less light-hearted, skewering protesting students (" The Rebel "), consumer debt (" A Waste of Money ", based on " A Taste of Honey "), and the generation gap (" Crazy Downtown " and " Pop Hates the Beatles ").

In the 1970s, satirical talk-show host Norman Gunston ( played by Garry McDonald ), with his malapropisms, sweep-over hair and poorly shaven face, rose to great popularity by pioneering the satirical " ambush " interview technique ( later employed by Britain's Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G ) and giving unique interpretations of pop songs.

Among them are some satirical sonnets describing Roman manners, and the later ones written after his return to Paris are often appeals for patronage.

Pope's " The Dunciad " is a satirical slaying of two of his literary adversaries ( Lewis Theobald, and Colley Cibber in a later version ), expressing the view that British society was falling apart morally, culturally, and intellectually.

They sang a satirical tribute to Alan Colmes, as he would leave Fox News a month later.

At a later period of the empire another genre, was developed, the satirical.

Sherrill later wrote a satirical novel on Hollywood life which featured Allegra Coleman as a prominent character.

Originally an assistant to Peter Fluck and Roger Law on satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image, Bendelack went on to direct the show in later years.

A month later he contributed to Nahum Tate's continuation of Absalom and Achitophel satirical portraits of Elkanah Settle as Doeg and of Shadwell as Og.

His father's debts forced him to look for a means of supporting himself, and at the age of sixteen, he joined the army in Dalmatia ; three years later he returned to Venice, where he soon made a reputation for himself as the wittiest member of the Granelleschi Society, to which the publication of several satirical pieces had gained him admission.

Harris has appeared on the BBC satirical panel game Have I Got News for You in episode three of the first series in 1990, and in episode four of the second series a year later.

Poet Laureate John Dryden is responsible for some of the dominance among satirical genres of the mock-heroic in the later Restoration era.