" In December 2006, TV Guide even ranked the duo's distinct laughing at # 66 on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catchphrases.

TV programming is another favourite target for duo's satire.

The duo's reputation enabled them to have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Elton John, The Beatles and even former Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

On June 7, 2006 Anita Pointer guest-starred on Celebrity Duets singing with Olympic gymnast Carly Patterson on " I'm So Excited ": on the following night's results show the duo's encore was " Jump ( For My Love )".

The duo's third album Come in from the Rain ( US No. 18, 1977 ) was released while their television show was still on the air, and the album's first single benefitted from that exposure.

In the 60's Ingmar Bergman saw a comedic duo's variety show on Gröna Lund and told his studio that " There are two funny guys down at Gröna Lund.

We used language that was inappropriate, and we sincerely apologize to our listeners and to the family of Ms. Houston .” Many in the Los Angeles radio market came to John and Ken's defense including KROQ's Kevin and Bean who used an entire segment of their February 17, 2012 show to discuss the duo's suspension and the current overall state of political correctness within talk radio.

Perhaps the duo's best known creation was their long running two-man show Kung Fu Grip which they often performed at UCBT and other comedy venues for many years.

Together, they hosted a popular lunchtime show on Channel 4 called Light Lunch where celebrity chefs cooked lunch for the duo's celebrity guests, and an early evening version, Late Lunch.

Reviewers acknowledged the duo's talent, but criticised the show as " poorly executed ".

Such was the duo's success, they became an integral part of the show, also presenting the 2003 series, and the 2003 celebrity edition for Comic Relief.

Shyster is generally depicted as the duo's brain, with Pete acting as the brawn.

The song " My Old School " is a well-known example, referring to Annandale ( Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is the location of Bard College, which both attended and where they met ), and the Two Against Nature album ( 2000 ) contains numerous references to the duo's original home region, the New York metro area, including the district of Gramercy Park, The Strand Bookstore and well-known upmarket food business Dean & DeLuca.

According to Moore and Prater, they also greatly influenced the duo's singing style, and had them shift their recording style from the style of their Roulette records to a more live, more energetic gospel, call-and-response feel and beat driven soul style the group is known for today.

" While much of the duo's reputation is due to its sustained pop-chart run in the 1980s, they continue to record and tour, and remain respected by various artists for their ability to cross stylistic boundaries.

One of the apartments they shared had " Hall & Oates " on the mailbox, which is what they ended up using as their duo's name.

Though the Hall & Oates original ( recorded in a Memphis-soul style ) was never released as a single, it remains a fan favorite on the duo's greatest hits albums and was featured on their Apollo Theater CD in 1985, and is frequently featured in their live set to this day.

This album is now considered among the duo's best albums, mixing soul, new wave and power pop.

Toward the Within is the duo's only official live album, which reached the Billboard 200.

This 1976 sketch has become one of the duo's most familiar and is a parody of a stripper routine where Eric and Ernie are seen listening to the radio at breakfast time.

Upon first hearing the duo's songs, Young was quoted as saying, " this Malkmus idiot is a complete songwriting genius.

It is a tongue-in-cheek step by step guide to achieving a No. 1 single with no money or musical skills, and a case study of the duo's UK novelty pop No. 1 " Doctorin ' the Tardis ".

* The Three Outlaws, starring Neville Brand as Butch Cassidy and Alan Hale Jr as the Sundance Kid, is a 1956 fictional film of the duo's exploits with Wild Bunch member William " News " Carver as the third outlaw in the title.

* The Police Commissioner is the duo's primary contact, and when trouble arises, he makes the call to their hangout.

Second only to his primary vocation of mad scientist is his obsession with outing the superheroes as gay, which tends to annoy his co-conspirators because they do not care about the duo's sexuality and only want to defeat them in order to rule the world.

* Kijoro is the duo's mentor whose spirit resides in the " Fortress of Privacy " ( a parody of Superman's Fortress of Solitude ) and offers advice from time to time when Ace and Gary seek counsel.

" Despite the fact that it doesn't boast singles as popular as the duo's previous albums (" Paid in Full " and " Follow the Leader ") it is considered by many to be the duo's most coherent album.

The film was one of the duo's biggest hits but is now lost.

The duo's son, Clay Tyson ( Clayton Dawson Tyson, born 1966 ), is also a musician and recording artist.

" The reference is to Sedaka's aptly-titled album Sedaka's Back, which also included his own original version of the duo's single, recorded several years earlier during his difficult years attempting a comeback while in the UK.

The duo's second long player, Every Man and Woman is a Star ( 1991 ) found critical acclaim, and Ultramarine was frequently seen at festivals such as Megadog and Glastonbury during the early to mid 1990s.

The latter is also the duo's longest-lasting number one, at six weeks.

All but two of the duo's studio albums are certified platinum or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America ; their highest-certified is their 1991 debut Brand New Man, which is certified sextuple-platinum for shipments of six million copies.

Although he found " occasional dull and mediocre spots ", Allmusic editor Stanton Swihart called the album " an extremely strong showing " and praised the duo's " inventive sense of rhyme flow " and " mixture of lyrical acuity, goofball humor, Southern drawl, funky timing, and legitimate offbeat personalities.

Another of the duo's high school teachers and the antithesis of Van Driessen.

The reporter then expresses the conclusion to her audience that the music videos are to blame for the duo's actions.

In addition to the duo's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures.

The duo's first live performance after Berry's accident occurred at the Palomino Nightclub in North Hollywood on June 5, 1976 ( ten years after the accident ) as guests of Disneyland regulars Papa Doo Run Run.

* Mahler ( Rick Ducommun ), Brueghel's accomplice, who serves primarily as the muscle of the duo's body-harvesting operation.

The royal couple enters and begins another short scene taken directly from Hamlet: they ask about the duo's encounter with the Prince, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern inform them about his interest in the Tragedians ' production.

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

In early 1967, Pickwick Records, which had a reputation as a low-quality label, decided that it would capitalize on the duo's newfound fame by releasing an album titled The Hit Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel.

By 1969, the duo's success began to take its toll.

Garfunkel's filming leave conflicted with and subsequently delayed the recording of the duo's next album.

The duo's deteriorating personal relationship continued into their late 1969 tour, which featured performances at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, on November 11 and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, on November 8.

Also in 1965, they met Paul Simon ( of Simon & Garfunkel ) who was pursuing a solo career in the UK following the initial poor chart success of the duo's debut LP, Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M ..

In 1988, they released their second album, Lincoln, named after the duo's hometown.

Pat and Mike became one of the duo's most popular and critically acclaimed films.

Bokonon established Bokononism with Earl McCabe, his partner in ruling the island, when all the duo's efforts to raise the standard of living on the island failed, as a means to help the poor islanders escape their miserable reality by practicing a simple, useful religion.

Two of the duo's songs were featured on the soundtrack of the 1976 film Mother, Jugs & Speed.

The duo's crime spree shifts into high gear once they hook up with a dim-witted gas station attendant, C. W.

In the Second City Television sketch comedy " The Great White North " featuring the fictional brothers Bob and Doug MacKenzie and in their film Strange Brew, doughnuts play a role in the duo's comedy.

Here, the warrior duo's ritual battle for possession of Creiddylad may be understood as a version of the " Holly King " myth, possibly personifying the dynamic power struggle between summer and winter.