Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send-ups of the game-show host Hughie Green and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore ( astronomer and broadcaster ) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would do for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later.

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.

During the case, Hamilton said he saw himself as " the Mike Yarwood of the Federation of Young Conservatives ", and that he frequently did impressions of public figures such as Frankie Howerd, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Charles De Gaulle and Enoch Powell.

The impressionist Mike Yarwood coined the catchphrase " Silly Billy ", which Healey had never said until that point, but he adopted it and used it frequently.

The British nickname " Silly Billy " was also popularised in the 1970s by impressionist Mike Yarwood, putting it in the mouth of the chancellor, Denis Healey, who took the catchphrase up and used it as his own.

His catchphrase " I mean that most sincerely " was also mocked, to such an extent that it is sometimes mistakenly believed to have been invented by the impressionist Mike Yarwood, whose impersonation of Green was celebrated.

Mike Yarwood, OBE ( born 14 June 1941 in Bredbury, Stockport, England ) is an English impressionist and comedian.

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* Look: Mike Yarwood ( BBC ) ( 1971 – 1976 )

* Mike Yarwood in Persons.

* The Mike Yarwood Show ( Thames ) ( 1982 – 1987 )

* Mike Yarwood Confession Album ( 1978 )

* Mike Yarwood on Show Us Your Titters

* Mike Yarwood in pantomime at the Coventry Theatre, Coventry, 1968 – 69

During the 1960s, his eccentric mode of speech ( rugby league was pronounced ), Hull Kingston Rovers as " Hulking Stan Rovers ", and northern accent, began to be widely impersonated, largely due to the influence of Mike Yarwood.

In 1986, Freud also appeared as Princess Diana in a Thames Television special, spoofing the Royal Variety Performance, alongside impressionist Mike Yarwood, who appeared as Prince Charles, among other roles.

From the mid 1960s to the early 1980s Mike Yarwood dominated the impressionist scene, with his own TV shows regularly attracting more than 10 million viewers.

On television, she appeared in Doctor Who ( Destiny of the Daleks ), Morecambe and Wise and Tales of the Unexpected and became a frequent contributor to the Mike Yarwood series on ITV during the early 1980s, portraying Diana, Princess of Wales, opposite Yarwood's impersonation of Prince Charles.

* Mike Yarwood Show: – Diana, Princess of Wales

* Mike Yarwood hosted Whitsun Disney Time on 24 May at 5: 40 pm.

" 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.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

The songs included originals and four covers: John Lennon's " Happy Xmas ( War Is Over )", Mike Batt's " A Winter's Tale ", " When A Child is Born " and Bing Crosby's " White Christmas ".

* A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit, by Mike Huckabee ( 2009 )

After the Lunar Module had landed, Mike Collins aboard the Command Module joked " How about sending me a fourth gimbal for Christmas?

In 1995 he released a new live version as the ' Roy Wood Big Band ', which charted at # 59, and in 2000 he joined forces with Mike Batt and The Wombles, for a re-working of " I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday " and of the Wombles ' hit " Wombling Merry Christmas ", together in one song which reached # 22.

* 1959 – The Christmas Story ( Michael Flanders & the Mike Sammes Singers )

* British folk singer Mike Harding related the story in his song " Christmas 1914 ".

*** " Christmas Day in Manhattan " ( with Mike Perkins, in ' 05, 2006 )

Menken's 1994 musical based on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Mike Ockrent, debuted at Madison Square Garden's Paramount Theater.

The idea, by staunch Transcendental Meditation follower Mike Love, was to record another new album — initially intended as a Christmas release — at the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, ( hence the ' M. I. U. ' title ).

" The Peters and Lee Story " was one Christmas special made for 27 December 1975 which starred Mike and Bernie Winters, Cleo Lane and Aiden J Harvey who won New Faces in 1974.

Mike Read promoted a Christmas Charity Single-released on 6 December 2009 called " My Christmas Card To You ".

#" Thank You for the Music " ( Mike Yarwood's Christmas Show, BBC )

In 1994, Stroman collaborated again with her husband, Mike Ockrent on the Holiday Spectacular A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden, which ran for 10 years, and the Broadway show Big, The Musical ( 1996 ).

IGN's Mike Drucker praised its subject matter as " one of the few holiday movies to directly deal with the commercialization of Christmas " although felt the last twenty minutes of the film let it down, as the first hour or so had " some family entertainment " value if taken with a " grain of salt ".

Surviving Christmas is a 2004 comedy film, directed by Mike Mitchell and starring Ben Affleck.

Roy also took part in the Halford reunion and has played guitar alongside " Metal " Mike Chlasciak on all subsequent studio and live releases since, starting with the 2009 Christmas album, Halford III: Winter Songs.

In 2006, Beach Boys member Mike Love recorded a critically panned Christmas remake of the song, titled " Santa's Going to Kokomo ".

* Christmas Spice So Very Nice ( 1991 ) ( with Mike Renzi )

Alexis Korner gave one of his last radio interviews to BBC Midlands on the Record Collectors Show with Mike Adams and the Late Chris Savory.

He also appeared as himself on The Ed Sullivan Show, Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, The Red Skelton Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and guested on Ralph Edwards ' This Is Your Life on February 12, 1961 with honoree Peter Palmer.

Other guest stars appeared in mock-ups of their own shows: Mike Moore appeared on fictitious episodes of Burke's Backyard with Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with Sam Newman.

( During an appearance on television's The Mike Douglas Show in the 1970s, Weissmuller explained how the famous yell was created.

After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would ship " In Q1 ," ( the last day of which is 31 March ) despite an estimated four to five months of work remaining to complete the device.

They appeared on The Mike Douglas Show and took over hosting duties for a week, during which Ono spoke at length about the evils of racism and sexism.

On January 22, 2007, Fox premiered The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet for its O & O ( owned and operated ) stations, hosted by Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy of the Fox News Channel's DaySide program.

* Buzz Burbank, real name Michael J. Elston ( b. 1953 ), Newsman for the Mike O ' Meara Show.

Show runner Mike Scully thought that Gil would be " a one-shot thing " but " Dan Castellaneta was so funny at the table read doing the character, we kept making up excuses in subsequent episodes to put him in.

McFarland continued to make personal appearances and cameo roles in films and television, including an appearance on The Mike Douglas Show with Darla Hood and William " Buckwheat " Thomas.

In September 2005, Ventura announced on The Mike Malloy Show that he was leaving the U. S. and planned to " have an adventure ".

When Richard Dreyfuss appeared on The Mike Douglas Show with Peter Falk, he described the film as " the most incredible, disturbing, scary, brilliant, dark, sad, depressing movie " and added, " I went crazy.

* Audio interview of Mike Farrell by Stephanie Miller about the Guantanamo Bay play on The Stephanie Miller Show

" Stiller's parents frequently took him on the sets of their appearances, including The Mike Douglas Show when he was six.

He was also a contestant on a 1954 episode of What's My Line and was a guest on a 1976 episode of The Mike Douglas Show.

Over the next several years, Merman was featured in two films, the successful It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ) and the flop The Art of Love ( 1965 ), and made dozens of television appearances, guesting on variety series hosted by Perry Como, Red Skelton, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Ed Sullivan, and Carol Burnett, on talk shows with Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, and Merv Griffin, and in episodes of That Girl, The Lucy Show, Batman, and Tarzan, among others.

* Mike Randleman-Actor — over 180 appearances on " The Tonight Show with Jay Leno "

Rodeo was the hometown of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Gomez for the New York Yankees, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt as well as Eric the Midget of the Howard Stern Show.

* Nevada City Film Festival — Started in 2001, the festival has grown from a showcase for local filmmakers to an international film festival hosting notable filmmakers from around the country including director Mike Mills ( Thumbsucker, The Beginners ), director Jonathan Krisel ( Portlandia ), actress and comedian Natasha Leggero ( Last Comic Standing ), and Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!

The couple made two surprise impromptu reunion performances: the first on The Mike Douglas Show in the spring of 1979, singing a medley of " United We Stand " and " Without You ", and the second on November 13, 1987 on Late Night with David Letterman where they performed their hit song " I Got You Babe ".