The Nostalgia Critic, in his review of The Room, performed a more over-the-top parody of the sketch near the end of the video.

* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

" On an episode of In Living Color, one parody sketch lampoons the advanced age of the principal Star Trek actors.

Bron played an art critic again in 1990, appearing on the BBC sketch comedy show French and Saunders in a parody of an Andy Warhol documentary.

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue developed from the long-running radio sketch show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, the writers of which were John Cleese, Jo Kendall, David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and especially Graeme Garden who suggested the idea of an unscripted show which, it was decided, would take the form of a parody panel game.

Starting with Season Three, a show's number would be presented in the sketch-of-the-day teaser segment, a parody of soap-opera teasers, which would highlight a particular sketch that would be shown during that episode.

This sketch was a parody of The Fugitive, and eventually included a title sequence that parodied the original Quinn Martin TV series theme.

* When Australian federal politicians Peter Costello and Tony Abbott sued Bob Ellis for allegations made about their sex lives in his book Goodbye Jerusalem, the Australian radio comedy drama How Green was my Cactus made a parody of the sketch using the comedians ' voices, not the politicians.

Hale and Pace brought the characters of Rocky Pantaloon and the Irishman back in another sketch, entitled Somebody Up There Wears Big Trousers ( a partial parody of the film Somebody Up There Likes Me ).

Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials.

* Sheila Copps-During a New Year's Eve Special, the at-the-time Deputy Prime Minister interrupted the parody sketch " RoboCopps.

* David Suzuki-Suzuki's appearance on Air Farce is memorable, as he appeared nude in the sketch ( although the nudity was covered by a briefcase and later a desk ), a parody of an ad campaign Suzuki participated in for his show The Nature of Things.

In a 1973 episode of The Two Ronnies, a musical sketch, " The Short and Fat Minstrel Show ", was performed as a parody of The Black and White Minstrel Show, featuring spoofs of various songs.

The parody sketch, previously used in stage revues but brought to radio by Muir and Norden for Take It From Here, was very influential on comedy shows such as Round The Horne and many television programmes.

In 2007, the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live featured a parody of MacGyver called " MacGruber " with Will Forte as the title character.

In 1980, Perkins co-wrote and featured in the radio sketch show Radio Active, revised and adapted from the early Oxford Revue shows, and initially based around the comedy parody group The Hee Bee Gee Bees, consisting of Philip Pope, Angus Deayton and Michael Fenton Stevens.

This 1976 sketch has become one of the duo's most familiar and is a parody of a stripper routine where Eric and Ernie are seen listening to the radio at breakfast time.

In Denmark, a parody of the sketch was filmed with the subtitle " The 80th Birthday " in which Miss Sophie's friends are still at the table ( that the last of Miss Sophie's friends actually died 25 years ago is only known to those who have seen the NDR version, which mentions this in the introduction ).

In 2008, on the occasion of the 60th birthday of German comedian Otto Waalkes, RTL Television showed a parody of the sketch with Otto as " Miss Otti " and departed German comedians as her guests whom the butler ( Ralf Schmitz ) then impersonated.

On 14 February 1872, Grossmith gave a sketch parody of a penny reading at the Gaiety Theatre, London, since on Ash Wednesday, theatres refrained from presenting costumed performances out of respect for the holiday.

* In 1980, Saturday Night Live did a parody sketch of the series called " Debs Behind Bars ".

* In the early 1990s, a parody sketch of Prisoner was aired on Network Ten's comedy sketch program, " Fast Forward ".

At the end of the sketch, another Big Brother parody was shown when the audience was asked to evict one of two letters.

In New York, for example, The Knickerbocker published a parody titled " Gastric Sayings " in November 1840.

This soon became a regular feature in the Savage Dragon comic book, titled The Savage Dragonbert and Hitler's Brainbert (" Hitler's Brainbert " being both a loose parody of Dogbert as well as the Savage Dragon villain identified as Adolf Hitler's disembodied, superpowered brain ).

ELO had reached the peak of their stardom, selling millions of albums and singles, and even inspiring a parody / tribute song on the Randy Newman album Born Again, titled " The Story of a Rock and Roll Band ".

Weird Al Yankovic made a song parody of the virus titled " Virus Alert ".

A pictorial parody in which the the slaves are white and the protagonists are black appeared in a 1995 issue of Vanity Fair titled, " Scarlett ' n the Hood ".

Penguins have been the subject of many books and films such as Happy Feet, Surf's Up and The Penguins of Madagascar, all CGI films ; March of the Penguins, a documentary based on the migration process of the Emperor Penguin ; and a parody titled Farce of the Penguins.

In 1996, " Weird Al " Yankovic created a parody of the Presidents ' " Lump ", titled " Gump ".

Earlier versions of the game were titled GUCS: The Generic Universal Comedy System ( a parody of GURPS ) and were distributed privately beginning in 1989.

The same year Day of the Dead premiered, Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo released a film titled Return of the Living Dead that offers an alternate continuity to the original film than Dawn of the Dead, but acted more as a parody or satire and is not considered a sequel to the original 1968 film.

Musical satirist Stan Freberg and his frequent collaborator, arranger Billy May, recorded a scathing 1957 parody of the Welk TV show titled " Wun ' erful!

In the late 1980s, Willis enjoyed moderate success as a recording artist, recording an album of pop-blues titled The Return of Bruno, which included the hit single " Respect Yourself ", promoted by a Spinal Tap – like rockumentary parody featuring scenes of him performing at famous events including Woodstock.

In February 2009 on his website " InnesBookOfRecords. Com ", Neil Innes released what he refers to as " Ron Nasty's Final Song ", titled " Imitation Song "-a parody of " Imagine ".

The episodes rarely left the store, and to parody the stereotype of the British class system, characters rarely addressed each other by their first names, even after work, opting for their formal titled names (" Mr ", " Mrs ", " Miss ", or even " Captain ").

A parody titled " Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid " was published in MAD.

Created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short titled The Mouse of Tomorrow.

From 1995 to 2000, Kaufman directed three independent films distributed in limited theatrical releases: Tromeo and Juliet, a loose parody of Shakespeare's play ; Terror Firmer, a slasher film loosely based on Kaufman's book All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger, and an independent film sequel to The Toxic Avenger trilogy titled Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.

The Mad Magazine parody of the film was titled " Henna and Her Sickos ".

The final episode of the children's television series Count Duckula, titled " The Zombie Awakes ", is a parody of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

During the film's long-delayed production, Wong produced a parody of the same novel with the same cast titled The Eagle Shooting Heroes.

The December 1970 issue of Mad magazine included a parody of Ironside titled " Ironride ".

The University of British Columbia's student paper, The Ubyssey published a parody issue titled Glib and Male.

In 2010 Bea joined up with Gnipper and Harley, Gran's pet pig, in a new strip titled The Bea Team, the title being a parody of The A-Team film which was released around the time the strip was in The Beano.

* In 2003, Steven Lerner, creator of Albino Blacksheep, created a parody webpage titled " French Military Victories ".

Similar segments, titled Mysterious Theater and parodying fellow PBS anthology Mystery !, are hosted by " Vincent Twice Vincent Twice ," a parody of Vincent Price.