" It consisted of two segments that parodied A Christmas Carol directed by Tony Kluck and It's a Wonderful Life directed by former DreamWorks Animation director Mike deSeve, as well as Christmas-themed music videos ( taken from the first Christmas special ) and several segments in which Butt-Head answered fan mail dressed as Santa Claus while whipping a reindeer-costumed Beavis.

It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four ", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, " Fourscore ", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade.

" It's the first time we ever talked about these issues publicly.

It's one of the first Conservative parties in Bosnia after Yugoslavia collapse.

It's the first for both of us.

* 1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

It's a tool for mass production of expert systems and was the first operational declarative language, later becoming the best selling AI language in the world.

The first of these, It's Always Fair Weather ( 1956 ) co-directed with Donen, was a musical satire on television and advertising, and includes his famous roller skate dance routine to " I Like Myself ", and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey which allowed Kelly to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope.

His first wife, Betsy Blair, was suspected of being a Communist sympathizer and when MGM, who had offered Blair a part in Marty ( 1955 ), were considering withdrawing her under pressure from the American Legion, Kelly successfully threatened MGM with a pullout from It's Always Fair Weather unless his wife was restored to the part.

The first single from that album was " What It's Like ".

( a pun on " c ' est la lutte finale " ( It's the final struggle ), the first line of the chorus of The Internationale )

Lipscomb performed old songs like " Sugar Babe ," the first song he ever learned, to pop numbers like " Shine On, Harvest Moon " and " It's a Long Way to Tipperary ".

' It's the first time that I remember in our history that the people have chosen the first Minister for the Sovereign.

released their first single " It's Like That / Sucker MCs ", in late 1983.

In addition to Chicago blues numbers, the Rolling Stones also covered songs by Chuck Berry and Bobby and Shirley Womack, with the latter's " It's All Over Now ", giving them their first UK number one in 1964.

On 7 April 2010, 3AW reported that Skyhooks were to appear on the first episode of the new series of Hey Hey It's Saturday with Leo Sayer on vocals.

It's about time we did something to assert ourselves ", and visited the open Stonewall Inn for the first time.

Propelled by the success of their first single " It's Been Awhile ", the album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 Album charts, selling 716, 000 albums in its first week.

To those unfamiliar with this aspect of a TARDIS, stepping inside the ship for the first time usually results in a reaction of shocked disbelief as they see the interior dimensions (" It's bigger on the inside!

In the same year, Waits contributed a cover of Cole Porter's " It's All Right with Me " to Red Hot + Blue, the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization — one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business — which sold over a million copies worldwide.

At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

The tag line for Billi 99, as seen in comic ads in Fall 1991, reads, " It's 1999 ... Do You Know Where Your Civil Rights Are?

It's as if the very weakness, the retiring politeness, that has made McElwee such an interesting comic character has also made him a crummy editor of his own film — like the women who mostly reject him, you don't really want to spend your life with him.

Of her watershed 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show, as the first openly gay comic to appear on a late-night talk-show, DeLaria said " It's the 1990s ...

It's a very unusual performance in that he's very funny, he's physically comic, but he's also strangely graceful, a pleasure to watch ... It looked very expensive even though it wasn't and that's a feat ... The earlier script I saw was disappointing ( but ) they took it back and worked on it and it's hugely improved.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

It's Magic, Charlie Brown is the 21st prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz.

" It's somewhat based on the comic book ," Aronofsky later said.

According to the documentary on the DVD of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Silvers was not a traditional comedian: he was a comic actor.

It's Not a Runner Bean, a comic autobiography, was published in 1996, and this led to a column in The Guardian.

" It's akin to Americans who started using the term " graphic novel " as opposed to " comic book " for the same reason.

In the summer of 2005, FX debuted two new comedy series, Starved, about the daily lives of four friends with eating disorders who live in New York, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, about four people who own a bar in the titular city and somehow always wind up having comic misadventures, usually very politically incorrect.

" It's fair to say that producers were free to interpret the name any way they wanted, just as they routinely changed other elements of comic lore to suit their various series.

Other comic strips are often the butt of punchlines, and several cartoon characters from outside Pearls have appeared, most frequently the main cast of The Family Circus, and even in one circumstance, Stewie from Family Guy appeared in the strip on April 20th of 2008, holding a candy cane, for a reference to the saying, " It's like taking candy from a baby.

In early issues Buster often referred to his father, and Andy was seen in the comic ( attempting to find a gas leak in three frames of the 18 June 1960 issue ; shown in two drawn photographs in the 2 July issue that same year, the first of which was displayed by Buster's mum with the pronouncement, " It's a photo of Buster taken with Andy!

In one comic, Linus suddenly stops sucking his thumb and says " It's a good thumb, but not a great thumb.

The title character originated in an earlier comic called Krazy as a character in the strip The Krazy Gang and also the star of the ' Ello, It's Cheeky feature, and proved popular enough to get his own comic, which managed to outlive Krazy itself.

Following this was Golden Boy ( 1964, also with Adams ), starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman ( 1966, based on the popular comic strip ) which introduced the song " You've Got Possibilities " sung by Linda Lavin.

" He also appears ( sometimes with dialogue and sometimes without ) in Charlie Brown's All-Stars, It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown, Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown ?, It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown, and It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown, with the latter five being produced several years after he had already disappeared from the comic strip.

* Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, or It's Not Easy Being Green !, a comic book of The Mighty Thor, issue 365

It's Sweeny Toddler, was a fictional character and comic strip in, originally, the UK comic Shiver and Shake, first appearing in issue 1, dated 10 March 1973 in the " Shiver " section.