Most specifically, its lampooning of the British war effort in a sketch titled " The Aftermyth of the War " was scorned by some war veterans for its supposed insensitivity.

* Trish Stratus-Stratus appeared in one Air Farce show, although she was a part of several sketches, most notably one where she portrayed a stripper in a sketch lampooning the Judy Sgro " strippergate " scandal.

One of the most famous sketches of the President involves him telling the captured Saddam Hussein that it's now his turn to start hiding in a new game of international hide-and-seek ( lampooning the Monty Python sketch of the same name ).

In Not the Nine O ' Clock News, there is a sketch lampooning Ask The Family, in which the Brainie and Smaughtarse families ( played by exactly the same actors in different costumes ) are all Quantity Surveyors.

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

She was described as a " Labour lickspittle " in The Guardian newspaper's sketch column, for asking the Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, a leading question about Conservative Party policy during the last session of Prime Minister's Questions before the 2010 British general election.

The word " strategery " ( ) was coined for a Saturday Night Live sketch, written by James Downey, airing October 7, 2000, which satirized the performances of George W. Bush and Al Gore, two candidates for President of the United States, during the first presidential debate for election year 2000.

* Carrott Confidential ( BBC, 26 episodes, 2 series & 2 Specials, 3 January 1987 – 4 February 1989 ) ( this includes an election special broadcast on BBC2, and a special trailer for the 2nd series, broadcast on Friday 15 January 1988, which took the form of a mini sketch with Jasper dressed as Anne Robinson on ' Pointless Views ')

In 1980, he appeared in an episode of comedy sketch show The Goodies as " David Dimbumblum " in which he parodied himself, after being caught on camera during the 1979 election night coverage eating a sandwich, by carving and eating a roast turkey during a spoof election.

As the election approaches, Roberts is asked to appear on a network's sketch comedy show.

" Election Night Special " is a Monty Python sketch parodying the coverage of United Kingdom general elections, specifically the 1970 general election, on the BBC by including hectic ( and downright silly ) actions by the media and a range of ridiculous candidates.

The sketch focuses on election results from the following three constituencies:

Jesse Scot Falcon ( born January 17, 1971, in Flint, Michigan ) is an American improv and sketch comedy performer based in New York.

A man with a sketch pad in hand sat with a large pink woman in a small office at the end of a long, dim corridor and made pencil lines on paper and said, `` Is this more like it, Mrs. MacReady??

# " School Announcements "-1: 52 This sketch features Doug ( Thomas ) as a school vice-principal who encourages his charges to " have a beer and talk " at his office.

The sketch takes place in a casting office.

Cook begins the sketch by calling for his secretary to show the next auditioner into the office.

In a The Kids in the Hall sketch, Kevin McDonald and Dave Foley sing the song whilst paddling a canoe through an office trapping employees for their clothes.

Shortly after the movie left the theaters, Saturday Night Live featured a " Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley " sketch that parodied the poor box office returns.

Her younger sister Lisa actually played a younger version of McGlade herself in a detention sketch, and her younger brother, Michael, was written into a sketch in the doctor's office in which he was brought into there with a stomachache after eating all of her makeup.

In their native Norfolk, they are best known for their yearly sketch show, Normal for Norfolk, which over the last ten years has grown from a pub show to break box office records at the Norwich Playhouse, playing to over 4500 people over Christmas 2005.

The first series accented variety, with international guests ; the second and third series had greater emphasis on stand-up comedy ; the fourth featured domestic routines ( with Diane Hart as Ted Ray's wife and Kenneth Connor as " that interfering brother-in-law "); the fifth and six — with new writers — concentrated on sketch comedy and were branded ' New Edition ' and ' 1959 Edition ' to underline the difference.

" Hart, in 1960, made a sketch of a St. Francis's statue, arms outstretched, while working in Rome on the movie Francis of Assisi.

During this performance something occurs on stage that does not translate into audio, but causes the audience to break into hysterics upon Cleese's follow-up line " Now that's what I call a dead parrot "; since it occurs after the part of the sketch where Cleese bashes the dead bird on the counter, it's possible a part of the prop broke off.

His comic inability to get said jobs done — usually with slapstick results to himself, and with many an ad-lib — both frustrated and ' broke up ' his fellow sketch performers.

Andy Kaufman had an infamous appearance on Fridays where he broke character in the middle of a sketch, prompting fellow cast member Michael Richards to grab the cue cards and throw them on a table in front of Andy.

Michael Jordan broke character by laughing during a Stuart Smalley ( Al Franken ) sketch as he attempted to say the line, " I don't have to be a great basketball player.

Its successor Club Buggery, broke these limitations by creating an innovative blend of format elements including variety, talk and sketch comedy.

Unfortunately during the basketball sketch, Laga ' aia broke his knee cap in two places ending up in hospital for two days.

He did paint the old character mustache over his real one on a few rare performing occasions, including a TV sketch with Jackie Gleason on the latter's variety show in the 1960s ( in which they performed a variation on the song " Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ," co-written by Marx's uncle Al Shean ) and the 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo.

This is a recurring sketch always predicated on an unrelated sketch in which one character expresses irritation at being questioned by another, retorting exasperatedly, " I didn't expect this kind of Spanish Inquisition!

* In a comic The Catherine Tate Show sketch, Catherine Tate's teenage character Lauren Cooper accuses her English teacher ( played by David Tennant ) of being " the Doctor ".

Finally, the model, like the design, should have a summarized character, such as one would give to a rapid sketch.

The Matilda McDuck character was dropped in Barks ' 1991 Duck Family Tree sketch ( where Gladstone Gander is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge ), but Don Rosa picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

* Mr. Gladstone ( character sketch by W. T.

* Full & authentic report of the Tilak trial ( 1908 ) being the only authorised verbatim account of the whole proceedings with introduction and character sketch of Bal Gangadhar Tikak: Together with press opinion, 1908, Narsinha Chintaman Kelkar

In one sketch on 1 March 1967, Feldman's character harassed a patient shop assistant ( played by Cleese ) for a series of fictitious books, achieving success with Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying.

He would often appear as a character in a sketch ; in the second series, when Horne decides he wants to be a seaside end-of-the-pier-show impresario, one of the acts he auditions is Dentures as ' The Great Omipaloni, the world's fastest illusionist-and also the dampest '; in the third series he was Captain Ahab in the first part of The Admirable Loombucket ; also in the same series, in The Big Top, Luigi Omipaloni, the trapeze artist at Cuckpowder's Mammoth Circus, and Buffalo Sidney Goosecreature, the fearless desperado and adversary of The Palone Ranger ; in the fourth series in Apache Story, he is Rain In The Face-Kenneth Williams, as Billy Two Cheeks, exclaims " He speaks with forked tongue!

More serious sketch comedians differentiate their art from that of the skit, maintaining that skits tend to be a ( single ) dramatized joke, while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character, or situation.

The British comedy sketch show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, included a series of sketches in which Paul Whitehouse played a character called Michael Paine ; an amalgam of previous Michael Caine impressions, who in a reference to the The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench coat.

The pencils will be very loose ( i. e., the rough sketch ), the main goals being to lay out the flow of panels across a page, to ensure the story successfully builds suspense and to work out points of view, camera angles and character positions within panels.

" The usual format consisted of many sketches between the two, an ongoing filmed serial, a solo character sketch from Barker, Corbett's monologue, a musical number, a special guest, bookended by joke news items, delivered from a desk by the two in the style of newsreaders, before ending with the catchphrase " It's good night from me-and it's good night from him.

The sketch was an interview with Simon Jones in character as Arthur Dent, conducted by Sheila Steafel on her show Steafel Plus in 1982, written entirely by Adams.

In addition, the cast performed in character for a stage sketch on the BBC1 programme Variety on 19 June 1976.

The phrase " Ting Tong from Tooting " is associated with the character Ting Tong from the UK comedy sketch show Little Britain.

In The Characters ( c. 319 BC ), Theophrastus introduced the “ character sketch ,” which became the core of “ the Character as a genre .” It included 30 character types.

Writing the " character sketch " as a scholastic exercise also originated in Theophrastus's typology.

" the " Regulator Guy " appeared only once in a sketch on the show, but this appearance was a ( deliberately ) cheap and poorly-done affair, which ended with Letterman interviewing the new sidekick character, Ajax, while completely ignoring Elliott ( much to his faux-chagrin ).

In the version from the film And Now For Something Completely Different, it follows on from the " Dead Parrot " sketch with Palin's character leaving the pet shop as Eric Praline asks " I'm sorry, this is irrelevant, isn't it?

Carvey made an appearance at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, reprising his SNL character Garth Algar with host Mike Myers for a Wayne's World sketch.