The genre featured in a parody hit song by Jasper Carrott called, " Funky Moped ".

In 1975, Jasper Carrott released The Magic Roundabout ( originally featured on his first live LP Jasper Carrot – In the Club ), a short, risqué comic monologue parodying the children's TV series, as the B-side of a 7 inch single, featuring his comic song " Funky Moped " on the A-side.

Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.

Some of the earliest successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as Billy Connolly, Mike Harding and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical acts whose between-song banter developed into complete comedy routines.

He is also known for his role as Mark Williams in BBC One medical drama, Holby City, and in the sitcom The Detectives alongside Jasper Carrott.

Powell then agreed to a request from his old friend and golf partner, comedian Jasper Carrott, taking the part of an incompetent detective in a succession of sketches that formed part of Carrott's television series.

Former pupils include comedian Jasper Carrott and musician Bev Bevan of the Electric Light Orchestra.

Since then comedian Jasper Carrott, glam rocker Noddy Holder, motor racing commentator Murray Walker, the cast and crew of BBC Radio 4's The Archers, long serving Archers cast member Norman Painting and founding member of Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi have all been honoured on the street with a star.

On the programme, Birmingham folk-singer and comedian Jasper Carrott was to introduce the nation to the Dying Fly Dance and also to many local hospital casualty wards as the dance at one point soared high in the RoSPA list of common causes of household injury.

The advertisement was affectionately parodied many times in the 1980s by comedians such as Jasper Carrott, Harry Enfield, Fry and Laurie, and Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.

* In a digitally edited version of the advert, shown on BBC1's Carrott's Commercial Breakdown, J. R. Hartley is shown asking a shopkeeper, played by Jasper Carrott for the book at a shop which has a special window display on Fly Fishing.

Barrie, who had originally auditioned for Lister, was familiar with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor having worked together on Son of Cliché and Spitting Image, and with the producers on Happy Families and various Jasper Carrott productions.

While an impressionist, Dennis did voices for Spitting Image and appeared with Punt as resident support comics on two TV series hosted on the BBC by Jasper Carrott.

Examples of celebrity speakers include singer TV presenter Adrian Chiles, comedian Jasper Carrott, historian and broadcaster Carl Chinn, the Goodies actor and TV presenter Bill Oddie, rock musicians Ozzy Osbourne ( and all other members of the original Black Sabbath ), Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne ( ELO founders ), Rob Halford ( Judas Priest ), Dave Pegg ( of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull ), broadcaster Les Ross, politician Clare Short, SAS soldier, author John " Brummie " Stokes and many actresses and actors ; Martha Howe-Douglas, Donnaleigh Bailey, Nicolas Woodman, Sarah Smart, John Oliver and Ryan Cartwright.

In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge / Monty Python / Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson's colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O ' Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones ; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott.

Rowan Atkinson, Eleanor Bron, Connie Booth, Jasper Carrott, Billy Connolly, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, Chris Langham, Hugh Laurie, Griff Rhys Jones, John Bird, John Fortune, Jimmy Mulville, Sir Peter Ustinov, Robbie Coltrane, Clive James, Jonathan Lynn, John Wells, Ben Elton, Adrian Edmondson, Alexei Sayle, Carol Cleveland, Jennifer Saunders, Victoria Wood, and Ruby Wax.

A later generation of performers used the folk club circuit for highly successful mainstream careers, including Billy Connolly, Jasper Carrott, Ian Dury and Barbara Dickson.

In the mid-1980s, Grant collaborated with co-writer Doug Naylor on radio programmes such as Cliché and its sequel Son Of Cliché, Wrinkles for Radio 4 and television programmes such as Spitting Image, The 10 Percenters, and various projects for Jasper Carrott.

The stand-up comedian Jasper Carrott once remarked of Hoddle:

The label also carried Jasper Carrott, RAH Band and John Inman.

* British Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award: Jasper Carrott

Occasional guests on the show were Mike Harding and Jasper Carrott.

Comedian Jasper Carrott's album Jasper Carrott Live at Drury Lane features a routine about James Stannage.

" When talking about the Preface, Jasper claimed that it " profoundly influenced the way in which the poem has been understood ".

This region has several clusters of national parks including Mount Revelstoke National Park, Glacier National Park ( Canada ), Yoho National Park, and Kootenay National Park on the British Columbia side, and Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, and Glacier National Park ( U. S .) on the Alberta and Montana sides.

Skate ’ s Art Market Research ( Skate Press, Ltd .), a New York based advisory firm servicing private and institutional investors in the art market, has ranked Jasper Johns as the 30th most valuable artist.

The cathedral has a ring of twelve bells ( with an additional " flat sixth ", to make thirteen in total ) hung for change-ringing, located in the Jasper tower.

Camp Carnes, located between Jasper and Dubois, has since changed ownership to the City of Jasper and is run as a park.

Jasper has several sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Jasper has often been called the " Wood Capital of the World ", boasting a large number of furniture companies, including Kimball International and Masterbrand Cabinets.

Jasper has been known as Coon Creek settlement, and as Midway ( a name that at times included the Dublin community just across the Barton County line ) for its position between county-seats Carthage and Lamar, but in the late 19th century it was renamed Jasper to reuse the postal equipment of a previous Jasper that existed southeast of Carthage.

It has been the county seat of Jasper County since its formation in 1912.

As Gray has said: " Jasper is in fact dead but is forced to endure, as if alive, a traditional English Sunday, helpless in his favourite armchair as his three sons and their wives fall to pieces in the usual English middle class style, sometimes blaming him, sometimes appealing to him for help and sobbing at his feet for forgiveness, but basically ignoring him.

It has been suggested that the title has a double meaning, referring also to Jasper Johns ' paintings of flags.

The School has also educated Supreme Court justices of foreign countries, including Ayala Procaccia ( Supreme Court of Israel Justice ), Ronald Wilson ( High Court of Australia Justice ), Yvonne Mokgoro ( Constitutional Court of South Africa ) and Jasper Yeates Brinton ( architect of the Egyptian court system, Justice of the Egyptian Supreme Court and former U. S. Legal Advisor to Egypt ).

Crystal Cave, near Joplin, Jasper county, has its entire surface lined with calcite crystals and scalenohedron formations, from 1 to.

Philpot, a wealthy skinflint, has bargained with Sir Jasper Wilding, a fox hunter, for his son Young Philpot, a buck and wastrel, to marry Maria Wilding, and for his daughter Sally to marry Wilding's son, for settlements and twenty thousand pounds paid to Sir Jasper.

His home in Jasper has been renovated to house the Walker Area Community Foundation's " Bankhead House and Heritage Center ", a history museum and arts venue.

* Cardenio has been featured as a plot element in literary mystery novels such as Lost in a Good Book ( the second book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde ) and Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell.

* Jasper Hopkins, Ph. D. has produced English translations with some commentary of much of Nicholas's work.

For example, Stephen King's The Dark Half has epigraphs taken from the fictitious novels written by the protagonist ; Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair has quotations from supposedly future works about the action of the story ; John Green's The Fault in Our Stars has a quotation from a fictitious novel, An Imperial Affliction, which features prominently as a part of the story.