The show featured eight a cappella groups from the United States and Puerto Rico vying for the prize of $ 100, 000 and a recording contract with Epic Records / Sony Music.

The Allegro movement is featured in stage show " Fame ".

* He was a featured panelist ( with Lars Ulrich ) on the May 12, 2000 episode of the Charlie Rose show.

Their CCTV live show was featured at major festivals including Glastonbury, Roskilde, Sónar, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and John Peel's Meltdown.

In 2006, the reality show Cheerleader Nation was featured on the Lifetime television channel.

Black and Asian characters had appeared, but it was not until 1999 that the show featured its first regular non-white family, the Desai family.

On one occasion, the show featured Martha Stewart as an in-studio guest, whom the Magliozzis twice during the segment referred to as " Margaret ".

In 2007, he featured as a regular panelist on the ITV comedy show News Knight.

The album's accompanying tour featured the band performing an intensely physical show with treadmills and a large Greek temple set.

Arden's quick wit made her a natural talent for radio ; she became a regular on Danny Kaye's short-lived but memorably zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandleader Harry James and gravel-voiced character actor-comedian Lionel Stander.

It was released in two versions, a 4 minute mix and a 6 minute mix and featured Holly Johnson & Brian ( Nasher ) Nash imitating ' The Count ' Vampire (" Ha ha ha / I am the count ") from the Children's TV show ' Sesame Street '.

The ABC's media review show Media Watch featured in the show.

Also, multiple episodes of Frontline featured Media Watch segments criticising the show.

The show featured tunes written by Gram Parsons and Gene Clark as well as influential songs and musical styles from other artists that were part of that era.

The star-studded show featured Sir Elton John, Pattie Labelle, Bryan Adams, and Rufus Wainwright.

* In December 1999 E !, the US entertainment channel, featured a mockumentary entitled Galaxy Quest: 20th Anniversary, The Journey Continues, concerning the making of the Galaxy Quest television show.

Also, several clogging groups frequently performed on the show, and occasionally the show featured child singers who would perform top country songs of the day.

* In 1996, Mattel's Hot Wheels brand released a two-car pack entitled Home Improvement based on the show which featured Tim's 1933 Ford Convertible and the Dixie Chopper racing mower ( with a mini-figure Tim as the rider ) as well as a mini-figure of Al and a Binford tool box.

Another B-movie influence from his childhood was Ghoulardi, an eccentric Cleveland television show which featured horror films.

The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.

On August 24, 1958, Jan & Arnie played in a live show hosted by Dick Clark that featured Bobby Darin, the Champs, Sheb Wooley, The Blossoms, The Six Teens, Jerry Wallace, Jack Jones, Rod McKuen, and the Ernie Freeman Orchestra in front of nearly 12, 000 fans at the first rock-n-roll show ever held at the Hollywood Bowl.

Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular puppet show featuring Mr. Punch and his wife, Judy.

The Punch and Judy show has roots in the 16th-century Italian commedia dell ' arte.

In the British Punch and Judy show, Punch wears a brightly colored jester's motley and sugarloaf hat with a tassel.

So important is Punch's signature sound that it is a matter of some controversy within Punch and Judy circles as to whether a " non-swazzled " show can be considered a true Punch and Judy Show.

A Punch and Judy show attracts a family audience

The mobile puppet booth of the late 18th-and early 19th-century Punch and Judy glove-puppet show was originally covered in checked bed ticking or whatever inexpensive cloth might come to hand.

The characters in a Punch and Judy show are not fixed as in a Shakespeare play, for instance.

The cast of a typical Punch and Judy show today will include:

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 was elaborated by George Speaight in his Punch & Judy: A History ( 1970 ), who explained that the plotline " is like a story compiled in a parlour game of Consequences ... the show should, indeed, not be regarded as a story at all but a succession of encounters.

As performed currently in the UK a typical show will start with the arrival of Mr. Punch followed by the introduction of Judy.

While the Victorian version of the show drew on the morality of its day, the Punch & Judy College of Professors considers that the 20th-and 21st-century versions of the tale have evolved into something more akin to a primitive version of The Simpsons, in which a bizarre family is used as vehicle for grotesque visual comedy and a sideways look at contemporary society.

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.

A transcript of a typical Punch and Judy show in London of the 1840s can be found in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor.

* In the Marx Brothers ' 1931 comedy Monkey Business, Harpo joins a live Punch & Judy show ( performed by an uncredited Al Flosso, a famous American Punchman ) while trying to avoid capture by the crew members of the ship he has stowed away on.

* The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, a 1994 graphic novel by writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, explores a boy's memories triggered by a Punch and Judy show.

* In the film Time Bandits, a Punch and Judy show is seen when the characters are transported back in time.

* In the 1980 children's novel The Magicians of Caprona, by Diana Wynne Jones, a Punch and Judy show is a part of an important series of events.

* In the Doctor Who serial Snakedance, A Punch and Judy show is briefly recreated despite the alien setting.

* in the Japanese anime Cowboy Bebop the presenters of the Big shot TV show are named Punch and Judy.

* The Punch and Judy show is popular in the town of Mejis in Steven King's The Dark Tower series.

The halftime show also featured the Longhorn Band, along with Judy Mallett, Miss Texas 1973, playing the fiddle, in a tribute to American music titled " A Musical America ".