As a comedian of the 1940s and 1950s he demonstrated his ad-libbing skills in his weekly radio show Ray's A Laugh from 1949 until 1961.

He is best remembered for the Sunday lunchtime radio show Ray's a Laugh, a domestic comedy in which Kitty Bluett played his wife.

Jones ' replacement was Audrey Meadows, already known for her work in the 1951 musical Top Banana and on Bob and Ray's television show.

But, Ray stabs Bobby repeatedly and nearly kills him revealing Ray's motive was because his favorite show The Wayans Bros. ( This was made to be ironic since Shawn Wayans starred in this show along with Marlon Wayans also ) had been cancelled.

* Satirist Stan Freberg picked up on Bob and Ray's use of the catchphrase " That's right, Arthur ", and recorded a barbed spoof of Godfrey's show.

When The Higgins Boys and Gruber show began on The Comedy Channel in 1989, it occasionally included full episodes of Bob and Ray's 1951-53 shows ( along with episodes of Clutch Cargo and Supercar ).

The only one specifically named on the show is the " Small Ray ", which shrinks things, but various effects were created when SpongeBob tested various buttons on Squidward in an attempt to reverse the Small Ray's effects.

When Ray goes undercover into a hostage situation inside a sporting goods store, he discovers that the store manager is a former actor of Ray's favorite 1980s TV show.

Ray's dance number, complete with handstands and high kicks, all performed on a table at Maxim's held head high by four men, was a show stopper.

Criticism of Rachel Ray's show has been levied despite its successes.

Ray's son Lance Ellington is a singer who has recorded several jazz oriented albums, and is one of the backing singers in the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing.

He took over from Peter Sellers in Ted Ray's radio show Ray's a Laugh – launched by the BBC in 1949 as a successor to Tommy Handley's ITMA.

* Cosmic Ray's Starlight Café ( home to Sonny Eclipse a animatronic stage show hosted near the front of the restaurant between Mad Tea Party and Storybook Circus )

Their relationship becomes increasingly tense and tempers flare when Keith notices Candice Marie exhibiting an unseemly interest in Ray's well-being-" she crawls into his tent to show him stones she has collected on the beach ; Keith explodes with jealous rage after spying on them from behind the bushes with his binoculars, like a character in a farce.

3 Minute Meal is a cooking show with a format similar to that of Rachael Ray's " 30 Minute Meals ".

In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ) was Nicholas Ray's breakthrough ; his other noirs include his debut, They Live by Night ( 1948 ), and On Dangerous Ground ( 1952 ), noted for their unusually sympathetic treatment of characters alienated from the social mainstream.

* " High Anxiety ", a song from Sugar Ray's album Floored

This feat would be achieved by exhumation and extraction of DNA, constructing a clone of Fredric and retrieving memories and recollections — from Ray's mind — of his father.

Man Ray's mother enjoyed designing the family's clothes and inventing patchwork items from scraps of fabric.

* The dead bird: With no sound, this scene shows Graham going back home from Ray's, and after a short time, a dead bird near the road ( after supposedly hitting an invisible forcefield ) is shown.

Ray's a Laugh ran from 1949 until January 1961, eventually dropping the musical items.

The children's television programme Sounds Exciting, broadcast in 1968, was a musical education series culminating in a final " whodunit " called Dead in Tune with Robin Ray's original story set to the music of Herbert Chappell performed by a chamber group of players from the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra.

The author describes the pranks they play on the masters ( teachers ) from Ray's perspective.

The name comes from a poem that is inscribed on the grave of one of Edgar and Ray's friends, and is presumably also inscribed on Edgar Doe's, given that he asked Ray to do so.

Sugar Ray's 2003 effort In the Pursuit of Leisure, and the first single from that album, " Mr. Bartender ( It's So Easy )", received a lukewarm reception.

The children's book, Ray and Me by Dan Gutman, tells of Joe Stoshack and his journey to save Ray's life from Mays ' " killer " pitch.

He composed the music, and sang, for two dance sequences in the Satyajit Ray's Shatranj ke Khilari, and choreographed the song Kaahe Chhed Mohe from the 2002 film version of novella Devdas.

The following quotation from the TimeCube. com website illustrates a recurring theme from Gene Ray's ideas:

In other words, the songs were cut before both of Ray's brothers left the band and Robby Krieger joined from the Psychedelic Rangers in October 1965.

A little more unusual is his encyclopedic knowledge of trivia ( this is attributed to his grandparents having been librarians ); a range of uncanny abilities, most notably his ability to sniff and lick refuse from the streets to gain clues about crimes ; the way he can fall into a dumpster or other waste heap and emerge completely spotless and unwrinkled ; and the way every woman he encounters falls madly in love with him, including his boss Margaret ( Meg ) Thatcher and Ray's sister Francesca ; his total obliviousness to this and the fact that he rarely pursues any of the offers the ladies extend to him is part of his charm.

Ray is also appreciated by a smaller audience of cinephiles for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and In a Lonely Place, as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer.

Karen and Detective Norris, following leads from Charles Lee Ray's case file, find John as he lies dying and receive instructions on how to kill Chucky ; although Chucky is a doll, his heart is fully human and vulnerable to fatal injury.

Taking a commission from the federal government to negotiate the treaty was unconstitutional, and Ray's opponents in the legislature seized the opportunity to attack him again.

* NCCC 1977 commentary on Dixy Lee Ray's efforts to stop the Skagit River system from being designated a Wild and Scenic River

* " Shine On ", a song from Gamma Ray's album Somewhere Out in Space

Illustration from John Ray's Synopsis methodicam avium & piscium ( 1713 )

Ray's friend Ken Olden from Battery and Better Than A Thousand filled in on bass.

Additionally, Gamma Ray's song " Wings of Destiny " ( where it is being sang ".. on sad wings of destiny ..") could be linked to Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, the album from which " Victim of Changes " originates.

Ray's son, Thomas G. " Greg " Ray, and daughter, Donna Mouliot, followed him into the animation business.

Ray's reputation was high also as a tutor ; and he communicated his own passion for natural history to several pupils, of whom Francis Willughby is by far the most famous.

Robert Smith appeared in the final episode of the first series of The Mary Whitehouse Experience singing " The sun has got his hat on " before punching the character Ray ( played by Robert Newman ) whilst uttering Ray's catchphrase " Oh no what a personal disaster ".

Ray's parents were disappointed by their son's decision to pursue art, but they agreed to rearrange the family's modest living quarters so that Ray's room could be his studio.

Ray's wife was played by Kitty Bluett.

This LP also included a new commission, George and the Dragonfly, with John Kershaw ’ s words set to the music of Herbert Chappell and narrated by Robin Ray, John Kershaw and Susan Stranks ( Robin Ray's wife ).

His guitar of choice, and the instrument that he became most associated with, was the Fender Stratocaster, his favorite being a 1959 model acquired in 1974, this guitar was bought by Stevie Ray's wife who asked her friends to help her financially, it was a gift for his twentieth birthday.

Working closely with Admiral Charles-Hector Estaing, the Commander of the French Fleet, Le Ray's support for the American cause involved having his shipyards refit a merchant vessel into a warship that he then gifted to America under the name USS Bonhomme Richard for use by Captain John Paul Jones.

His sources are the Ornithologia of Ulisse Aldrovandi, Giovanni Pietro Olina's Uccelliera, John Ray's Synopsis methodica Avium & Piscium, and A natural history of the birds by Eleazar Albin.

The events surrounding Ray's murder were depicted in a popular 1780 novel Love and Madness by Herbert Croft.

The story was published in Sandesh, a children's periodical founded by Ray's grandfather, Upendrakishore Ray and edited by Ray himself.

Following recent Feluda films made by Sandip Ray, Satyajit Ray's son, there have been questions over Sidhu Jyatha's continued relevance in the stories considering technologies such as the internet offer a faster, wider and more effective knowledge base than a well-read person.

This sketch is presented as a medical case history told by Ray's psychiatrist ( played by David Baddiel ), who gives accounts of various situations in which Ray's affliction has got him into trouble.

Confused by Ray's behavior, Abby goes to the bar to find it ransacked.

After Ray's death, he was name-checked by Van Morrison in his duet with Tom Jones entitled " Sometimes We Cry ".

Ray's fate was decided by a jury composed entirely of older women, one of whom ran to Ray to console him when he fainted upon hearing the " not guilty " verdict.

His guitar work was heavily influenced by surf music, jazz and rockabilly, and, alongside Jello Biafra's astute lyrics and unique vibrato-based vocal style, East Bay Ray's playing was one of the defining factors of the music of the Dead Kennedys, and by extension, of the " second wave " of American punk.