The Times and the Sunday paper News of the World used small pieces from Punch as column fillers, giving the magazine free publicity and indirectly granting a degree of respectability, a privilege not enjoyed by any other comic publication.

Increasing in readership and popularity throughout the remainder of the 1840s and 1850s, Punch was the success story of a threepenny weekly paper that had become one of the most talked-about and enjoyed periodicals.

Like the members of Monty Python troupe, who were a big influence on him, Kaufman read Punch magazine and enjoyed the theatrical performances of Beyond the Fringe, Flanders & Swann, etc.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

A Punch and Judy show attracts a family audience

As expressed by Peter Fraser in Punch & Judy ( 1970 ), " the drama developed as a succession of incidents which the audience could join or leave at any time, and much of the show was impromptu.

This will lead to the production of a string of sausages, which Mr. Punch must look after, although the audience will know this really signals the arrival of a crocodile whom Mr. Punch might not see until the audience shouts out and lets him know.

Finally the show will often end with the Devil arriving for Mr. Punch ( and possibly to threaten his audience as well ).

A folk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre, where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience ; compare the " bottle " in Punch and Judy, where money was collected in a bottle.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

Early in his career he worked as an illustrator for magazines like the Boy's Own Paper and Judy, drew comic strips, including the Sherlock Holmes parody " Chubb-Lock Homes " for Comic Cuts, and wrote articles for Punch under the pseudonym " W. Bird ".

While censorious political correctness threatened Punch and Judy performances in the UK and other English speaking countries for a time, the show is having one of its cyclical recurrences and can now be seen not only in England, Wales, and Ireland, but also in Canada, the United States ( including Puerto Rico ), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Punch gave several phrases to the English language, including The Crystal Palace, and the " Curate's egg " ( first seen in an 1895 cartoon ).

* Punch cartoon library, including a history of the magazine

1867 edition of Punch ( magazine ) | Punch, a ground-breaking United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British magazine of popular humour, including a great deal of satire of the contemporary social and political scene.

Almost every Associates album has been re-issued so far, including a 25-Anniversary edition of The Affectionate Punch in 2005.

The satirical magazine Punch responded to it by publishing a parody of Byron's poem The Destruction of Sennacherib including a wry commentary on Grace's contribution:

There are numerous public houses in the centre of the town, including the Old Nags Head, the Queen's Head, the Punch House, the Griffin, the Gloucester, the Vinetree, the King's Head ( Wetherspoon ), the Three Horseshoes, the Green Dragon and the Gatehouse.

Broadcast at 5: 30 p. m. on Sunday evenings, it was a showcase for UPA's cartoons, including Dusty of the Circus, the Twirlinger Twins, and Punch and Judy.

He invested in a number of businesses, all of which eventually failed, including the Joe Louis Restaurant, the Joe Louis Insurance Company, a softball team called the Brown Bombers, Joe Louis Milk Company, Joe Louis pomade ( hair grease ), Joe Louis Punch ( a drink ), the Louis-Rower P. R.

Grossmith wrote numerous comic pieces for the magazine Punch, including a series of ten skits in 1884 inspired by his Bow Street experiences, which he called " Very Trying ".

The British humorous magazine Punch, which was founded in 1841 riding on the earlier success of Cruikshank's Comic Almanac ( 1827 – 1840 ), employed an uninterrupted run of high-quality comic illustrators, including Sir John Tenniel, the Dalziel Brothers and Georges du Maurier, into the 20th century.

Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch.

Early management were largely bush flying pioneers, including president Grant McConachie, superintendent Punch Dickins, and Wop May, who would become a repair depot manager in Calgary.

With a string of hit singles composed mainly by Smokey Robinson, including " Two Lovers " ( 1962 ), the Grammy-nominated " You Beat Me to the Punch " ( 1962 ) and her signature hit, " My Guy " ( 1964 ), she became recognized as " The Queen of Motown " until her departure from the company in 1964, at the height of her popularity.

Hoban also draws on the history of his adopted country, including Celtic mythology and Punch and Judy.

A large number of other Phish songs also relate in some way to the Gamehendge saga, and appear on later albums and in live performances, including " Llama ", " Punch You in the Eye " and " The Divided Sky ".

It rapidly led to the demise of his other strips ( including ' Stanley ' which he was still writing for Punch.

Also in Craghead there are many public houses including the Punch Bowl.

He wrote numerous dramatic critiques and humorous essays for magazines, including the rival of Fun, Punch.

Another characteristic is seen in the unusual use of Mazinger's formidable weaponry: Kouji would always announce with a shout the name of the super-power or attack he was about to use, including eye-fired energy beams, melting rays from the chestplates, gale-force winds, and the famous and oft-copied “ Rocket Punch ” attack.

After living in a variety of places, including Udimore in Sussex ; Croft in Leicestershire and Send, near Woking in Surrey, they eventually bought Pitlands Farm ( in Thursley, Surrey ) at auction in 1947 and renamed it Punch Bowl Farm.

* Roy F. Foster: " The Irishness of Elizabeth Bowen " in Paddy & Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History ( 1993 )

* 2005 The Wharf, Sydney: directed by Lindy Davies and starring Elizabeth Alexander as Kate, Angela Punch McGregor as Anna and William Zappa as Deeley

" The most recent academic work, Punch & Judy: History, Tradition and Meaning by Robert Leach ( 1985 ), makes it clear that " the story is a conceptual entity, not a set text: the means of telling it, therefore, are always variable.

* The Punch & Judy Show: History, Tradition and Meaning by Robert Leach ( 1985 ) Univ.

* Robert Smith ( lead singer of The Cure )-backing vocals on " The Affectionate Punch ".

" Waits finished the decade with appearances in three movies: as the voice of a radio DJ in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train ; as Kenny the Hitman in Robert Dornhelm's Cold Feet ; and the lead role of Punch & Judy man Silva in Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale.

Greene was able to procure investors from the east, one of which was Robert W. Tansill ( manufacturer of the " Punch 5 ¢ Cigar ").

Among Haydon's other pictures were: Eucles and Punch ( 1829 ); Napoleon at St Helena, for Sir Robert Peel ; Xenophon, on his Retreat with the ' Ten Thousand ,' first seeing the Sea ; and Waiting for the Times, purchased by the Marquis of Stafford ( all 1831 ); and Falstaff and Achilles playing the Lyre ( 1832 ).

* GB patent 868, 753 – Improvements in or relating to Calculating Machines – Norbert Kitz, Robert Milburn, Christopher Webb: Bell Punch Company Ltd., 1961 ( first application Sept. 6, 1956, filed Sept. 6, 1957 ),-Electronically controlled key operated office desk type calculating machine capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Devil's Punch Bowl falls, Grand Canyon of the Arkansas River in Colorado, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views

Robert Julian Yeatman ( 15 July 1897 – 13 July 1968 ) was a British humorist who wrote for Punch.

The first part of 1066 and All That appeared in Punch on 10 September 1930, taking its title from Robert Graves ' autobiography Good-Bye to All That.

He often undertook translations from English, notably versions of poems by Robert Service, and of Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures genre pieces by Douglas Jerrold, originally published in Punch in the 1840s which may have later influenced Edward Le Brocq's Ph ' lippe et Merrienne stories.

The magazine, edited by Ian Irvine, was quite similar in format to The Spectator and Punch magazine, consisting of around 50 pages of columns and features by Robert Hanks, Cole Moreton, Tania Glyde, Ben Thompson and others.

As a poet, he was noted for his ability to provide topical satirical poems for Punch in the style of well-known contemporary poets such as John Drinkwater, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Edmund Blunden, Robert Bridges and J. C. Squire-usually managing to evoke the poet's general style and manner without resorting to parodying any particular poem.

# The Violent State Article by Robert Young on the Critchley – Žižek Debate in Naked Punch