A lighted candle would be sitting on the night stand beside her bed and after she was through delivering one of her bizarre stories, sometimes a re-written nursery rhyme, she'd giggle, wink to the camera, and blow out the candle ... end of skit.

The musical sitcom starred Kathie Lee Johnson ( Gifford ) along with Hee Haw regulars Misty Rowe, Gailard Sartain, Lulu Roman, and Kenny Price as a family who owned a truck stop restaurant ( undoubtedly inspired by the Lulu's Truck Stop skit on Hee Haw ).

Brown celebrated his status as an icon by appearing in a variety of entertainment and sports events, including an appearance on the WCW pay-per-view event, SuperBrawl X, where he danced alongside wrestler Ernest " The Cat " Miller, who based his character on Brown, during his in-ring skit with The Maestro.

This case was used as fodder for a mock debate skit on Saturday Night Live called " Point Counterpoint ".

They decided to write a skit based on that idea.

In the very first version of PGP, an encryption algorithm was given the humorous name BassOmatic ( after a skit on Saturday Night Live ) and Pretty Good Privacy itself is named after a Lake Wobegon fictional grocery store named " Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ".

The recurring " Acorn Antiques " skit on the UK's Victoria Wood As Seen On TV ( 1985 – 87 ) was modeled on Crossroads and other British soap operas of the 1970s.

* Peckinpah's penchant for filming action scenes in slow motion was satirized by Benny Hill in a Western skit called " The Deputy " that first aired on his March 29, 1973 special.

The series has also been parodied, including an episode of The Powerpuff Girls which features the Mayor of Townsville playing a spoof of Ocarina of Time, and a season 3 episode of Robot Chicken, in which a skit based on The Legend of Zelda references aspects of the series, including the existence of multiple Links, Triforce, Rupees and rescuing Princess Zelda.

Comedy skit with Carl Reiner on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, 1970.

An individual sketch or vignette is a brief scene or skit formerly used in vaudeville and used today on variety shows, comedy programs, adult entertainment, talk shows, or certain children's television series ( such as Sesame Street ).

A 1942 skit on the George BurnsComedy Hour features a card game called Kleebob based on nonsensical rules

* In a Mad episode, on a skit of Dear Reaper, it is occurred to the Grim Reaper that Joey, the boy who sent the Reaper a letter asking what to buy for Joey's parents ' anniversary, will die on November 14, 2071.

On the May 9, 2009 episode of Saturday Night Live, Nimoy appeared as a surprise guest on the skit " Weekend Update ".

The most famous of these is Saturday Night Live, a skit show that has aired on NBC nearly every week since 1975.

Ashoka, the South Asian student association, puts on a performance for Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, that includes a skit and dances ; Black Anthology is a student-run performance arts show celebrating black culture ; Lunar New Year Festival is a collaboration between the many East Asian organizations on campus culminating in a show to celebrate the holiday with a skit and dances from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures ; the Association of Latin American Students showcases various forms of Latin and Spanish dances during their performance, Carnaval.

In the UK she has appeared on the Ruby Wax, Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross shows and in October 2006 participated in a comedy skit on the Charlotte Church Show and was featured on the Michael Parkinson Show.

On May 24, 1986, on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, co-host Martin was " fired " by executive producer Lorne Michaels for being " drunk " in a skit, slurring his lines.

Between May and July 2009, Brian Wenzel had a weekly skit at the end of the show.

At the conclusion of the skit, he says, " May your tongues be silent, and your minds attentive, you are about to witness a Minisino ceremony!

On May 31 / June 1 of 2012, Mega64 supplied a skit to Konami's Pre-E3 Show that had Raiden seeking jobs at an unemployment office after being fired due to an implied terrible economy before eventually settling for Cybernetic Private Military Contractor, with Jehuty also trying to find a job as well in the last minutes of the skit.

" After the pilot aired, which did not feature Salisbury in a spoof of the infamous SNL skit Dick in a Box the show was retooled as a more serious Inside Sports Unleashed, which began taping on May 12, 2011.

* Dr. Dre responded with " Dre Day ", the skit " The $ 20 Sack Pyramid ", and the intro of the track " Puffin On Blunts And Dranken Tanqueray ", a B side to the " Dre Day " single.

In 2006, The Groundlings recorded a skit in the alleyway behind the theater called David Blaine Street Magic.

In the opening skit of the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards, Sutherland made an appearance as his 24 character, Jack Bauer.

For the Christmas Eve 2006 Bumper Edition, the Next Lines round was omitted in order that the teams, plus a guest band and members of that show's Identity Parade, performed a particular song ( chosen, in a short skit, by a dreidel ).

In October 2006, Gulati appeared at the Royal Albert Hall as part of a short skit featured in The Secret Policeman's Ball.

"; and in the Robot Chicken episode " Easter Basket " ( 2006 ), in the skit " Bad Dog " after the end credits, Seth Green says the line " Sit, Ubu, sit!

In 2006, April published a cookbook called " April Cooks: There's An Alligator In My Kitchen " which is a play on the fact that Bam put an alligator in her kitchen as part of a skit on Jackass: The Movie ( he was trying to make her swear because the movie would be uncensored ).

However, during 2006, The Alchemist was featured on a skit in the Revenge of the Spit mixtape.

A 2006 Guy Noir skit, in which some characters had a fictitious variation of Tourette syndrome called " Broadway Tourette's ", drew criticism from the Tourette Syndrome Association.

* Jonny the Monkey is " the most famous celebrity in Kazakhstan " according to Borat in many of his interviews and introduced as Kazakhstan's " most successful actor " by Borat in an opening skit of " Saturday Night Live " in November 2006.

* On the November 11, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live, one skit parodied a Donald Rumsfeld interview with him being moved out of his office.

* 1976: Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode, as host, musical guest and skit player )

* One skit during the Saturday Night Live Season 28 episode where the late Bernie Mac hosted involves a game show called " BrainBusters ", which is a parody of Jeopardy!

He appears in the " Laff-a-Munich " skit in the Robot Chicken episode " Ban on the Fun ".

In 1998, this episode (" Murder at Tea-Time ") was repeated to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Blue Peter, as part of a section entitled " Spoof Peter ", which also featured ( among others ) the Python skit " How to Do It ".

On his first appearance on Saturday Night Live, a skit called " How to Pay for Your Sins " on a 1978 episode hosted by Richard Dreyfuss, he was on crutches from an injury suffered during a dress rehearsal sketch about hockey players.

On one episode of Fridays, she was cold-cocked on live TV when guest host Mac Davis failed to pull his punch during a skit.

* This episode can be seen as a skit in the Responsibility segment of Kids for Character.

On an episode of The Red Skelton Show in the 1950s, a skit involving Red's " country bumpkin " character " Clem Kadiddlehopper ", had him leading a cow onto the stage.

* Tito was portrayed by Gerrick Winston in the 2004 film Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, the biopic of Michael Jackson which first aired on VH1 and was satirized by comedian Aries Spears in an episode of MadTV that featured La Toya Jackson as she played in a skit attacking TV host Jay Leno for his constant jokes on her family.

This arose from a gag in episode 203, Jungle Goddess, in which Joel referred to " Art Crow " in a skit centered on the sitcom The Honeymooners ; after Best Brains received a letter from a child who had evidently missed the cultural reference and labeled a drawing of Crow as " Art ", the show's writers turned the name into a recurring joke.

* In a skit on the third season episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Madeline Kahn, when John Belushi is confronted by black men after previously claiming to be a " brother ," he states he is an octoroon.

An example of this is at the end of each episode of Dance in the Vampire Bund is a 20-30 second chibi skit called " Dance with the Vampire Maids "

Season 1 episode 15 of " The Carol Burnett Show " featured a comedy skit that parodied " Born Free.

A recent episode of Saturday Night Live featured a skit which mentioned a fictional New Jack Swing Supergroup named Tone, Toni, Tony Shalhoub.

The July 16, 1982 episode of SCTV (" Battle of the PBS Stars ") featured a comedy skit of the movie called " I was a Teenage Communist ," mixing horror with the politics of red-baiting during the 1950s.

The original skit was also rebroadcast in MadTV's 300th episode.

On the January 30, 2010 episode of Saturday Night Live, Jon Hamm portrayed Reich in a Gametime with Randy and Greg skit.

In season 18, episode 17 of Saturday Night Live, an episode of the recurring Hub's Gyros skit ends in a rare meta-reference.