* In episode 13 of the third season of Saturday Night Live, a sketch entitled " Miracle in Chicago " portrays Mayor Daley ( played by John Belushi ) appearing as a ghost to a pub owner and a customer ( played respectively by Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray ).

In spite of being designed as a sketch comedy television program, the series is set in a fictional universe in which it also is broadcast as a popular television comedy as evidenced through staged mishaps with members of the viewing audience and performers featured the program and comedic sub-plots involving Amanda's unhealthily obsessed, nerdy, feckless self-proclaimed " Number One Fan " Penelope Tate, who has prioritized devising schemes that will assist her in achieving her lifelong goal of meeting Amanda before all else and her multiple failed attempts at landing a meeting with the hostess of the series ( as a gag, Amanda Bynes actually portrays Penelope in reality and the pair are never shown onscreen together ).

Evans similarly served as the inspiration for a Mr. Show sketch, in which Bob Odenkirk portrays God recording his memoirs, dressed as and speaking like Evans.

BALPA was featured in the Monty Python's Flying Circus television episode " Déjà Vu " in which Eric Idle portrays the BALPA spokesman in the ' Flying Lessons ' sketch.

Bierstadt's sketch Mountain Lake accurately portrays the view of Mount Spalding over the Chicago Lakes.

From his later years must be mentioned an almost silent sketch in which he portrays a man ’ s vain attempt to stop smoking ( also shown in West German TV ).

Other impersonations include Barbra Streisand in the MADtv spoof video " Terms Of Imprisonment ," where she portrays Streisand as an egomaniac who abuses her co-star, Whitney Houston and Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully in the " XXX Files " sketch.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

* Ian Meadows, " The Arabs in Occitania ": A sketch giving the context of the conflict from the Arab point of view.

The second timely part of this sketch of literature and the search for identity has to do with the difference between good and enduring literary works and the ephemeral mass culture products of today.

The outcome of the trip to Mexico was Whorf's sketch of Milpa Alta Nahuatl, published only after his death, and an article on a series of Aztec pictograms found at the Tepozteco monument at Tepoztlán, Morelos in which he noted similarities in form and meaning between Aztec and Maya day signs.

That sketch was based on an actual incident between Palin and a car salesman .< ref > In Monty Python Live at Aspen, Palin said that this salesman " had an excuse for everything.

A geometry constraint engine may also be employed to manage the associative relationships between geometry, such as wireframe geometry in a sketch or components in an assembly.

Comparisons can be drawn between Round the Horne and the American sketch comedy television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 1968 – 1973 ).

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called " sketches ", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

The Oraison, as its name betokened, stood midway between the sermon proper and what would nowadays be called a biographical sketch.

Their show together was The Two Ronnies, a sketch show which aired for twelve series and eight specials between 1971 and 1987, to immediate success.

" The usual format consisted of many sketches between the two, an ongoing filmed serial, a solo character sketch from Barker, Corbett's monologue, a musical number, a special guest, bookended by joke news items, delivered from a desk by the two in the style of newsreaders, before ending with the catchphrase " It's good night from me-and it's good night from him.

Farley was best known for his loud energetic comedy style and physical comedy, and was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live between 1990 and 1995.

Brooks, the producer of the sketch comedy program The Tracey Ullman Show, wanted to use a series of animated shorts as bumpers between sketches.

Second City Television ( SCTV ) a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's The Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.

His principal work, Rapports du physique et du moral de l ' homme ( On the relations between the physical and moral aspects of man, 1802 ), consists in part of memoirs, read in 1796 and 1797 to the Institute, and is a sketch of physiological psychology.

Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of crescent Moon with earthshine as part of his Codex Leicester, written between 1506 and 1510.

Dave Kehr, in his review for the Chicago Reader, wrote, " The first-time director, Harold Ramis, can't hold it together: the picture lurches from style to style ( including some ill-placed whimsy with a gopher puppet ) and collapses somewhere between sitcom and sketch farce ".

According to his autobiographical sketch of his childhood, Hutchinson turned a modest gift of " five quintals of fish " from his father into between £ 400 and £ 500 by the time he was 21.

The DVD also includes several " Easter eggs " including: a version of a State of the Union Address by George W. Bush, edited to make United States policy seem insanely belligerent ; a new audio discussion between Morris and Alan Partridge discussing Partridge's bizarre theories of how Diana, Princess of Wales, and John F. Kennedy died ; a further discussion between Morris and Partridge about the environment ; a re-union of Morris, Partridge, Brant, Peter O ' Hanraha-hanrahan, Collaterlie Sisters and Valerie Sinatra ; and another audio sketch featuring Peter O ' Hanraha-hanrahan pretending to file a report from the World Trade Center covering up the fact that he had overslept, while blithely unaware that the September 11, 2001 attacks have just taken place.

The first results of his extensive studies in Oriental literature, Arabic language and history, manifested themselves in 1847, when he published a translation from Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi, born 1185, resident in South Spain between 1208 and 1217, leaving then for Egypt and visiting Mecca in 1221, dated 1224, Kitab al-mujib fi talkhis akhbar ahl al-Maghrib under the title The history of the Almohads, preceded by a sketch of the history of Spain from the time of the conquest till the reign of Yusuf ibn Tashfin, and of the history of the Almoravids, printed again in 1881 and reprinted in 1968.

On his radio show, an extended sketch paralleled the Cold War brinkmanship between the U. S. and the Soviet Union by portraying an ever-escalating public relations battle between the El Sodom and the Rancho Gomorrah, two casinos in the city of Los Voraces ( Spanish for " The Greedy Ones "— a thinly disguised Las Vegas ).

" The works offer retrospective arguments against Iorga's adversaries and sketch portraits of people who crossed Iorga's path — attributes which, Iova suggests, fully exploit Iorga's talents as a " polemicist " and " portraitist "; according to Alexandru Zub, they also fall into place within the Romanian ego-history vogue, between Xenopol's and Pârvan's.

Another notable sketch, in October 2000, featured The Church Lady interviewing Anne Heche ( played by Chris Kattan ), with the Church Lady teasing Anne about her bisexuality by offering her a snack and giving her the choice between a " wiener " and a " taco " ( implying a choice between two obvious body parts ) and referring to a bisexual as someone who " reaches down the front of somebody's pants and they're satisfied with whatever they find.

In the Dead Parrot sketch, written mostly by Cleese, the frustrated customer was initially trying to return a faulty toaster to a shop.

: One sketch featured an employee ( McCulloch ) at a counter who loans a customer ( McDonald ) his ballpoint.

The sketch ends with another customer asking for the pen, only for the audience to see that the employee now wears a large, weighty helmet with a chinstrap and a chain attached at the forehead, the other end of which secures the pen.

A number of his sketches involve extended monologues ( for example the customer in the " Travel Agency " sketch who won't stop talking about his unpleasant experiences with holidays ), and he would frequently spoof the unnatural language and speech patterns of television presenters.

After the customer leaves-still dissatisfied-( two customers per sketch ; three customers in one sketch ) the family dances to polka music while holding eggs, concluding the sketch.

* At the Bar-A UK sketch where the unseen Mr. Callahan who is a regular customer at a bar owned by Polly Lobster and Clueless Morgan.

The " Car Salesman " sketch, in which Palin refuses to accept customer Chapman's claim that a car he sold is faulty, later inspired Python's Dead Parrot sketch in which the malfunctioning car is replaced by an expired parrot.

" catchphrase, a customer played by David Spade asks for the sketch to end.

" Subsequently, after losing out on the role of the title character's mentor in The Beastmaster, Mr. T appeared in another boxing film, Penitentiary 2, and on an episode of the Canadian sketch comedy series Bizarre, where he fights and eats Super Dave Osborne, before accepting a television series role on The A-Team.

In the 1971 film And Now For Something Completely Different, the sketch ends with the shopkeeper explaining that he always wanted to be a lumberjack, and ignoring Mr Praline's protests of that being irrelevant, subsequently begins singing " The Lumberjack Song ".

Spike Milligan plays an inventor, Mr. Pym, and acts as a butcher in a sketch.

* Mr. Gladstone ( character sketch by W. T.

Smith would be cast as a car, an inflatable life raft, a shark, a lion, a river boat, a gun, a volcano, and in the fourth series, in the Bona Prince Charlie sketch, as England, and even more improbably, in the Round The World sketch, as the world ("... and it'll take Mr Williams more than 80 days to get around me !").

In this sketch, Mr. Milton, the owner of the Whizzo Chocolate Company ( Terry Jones ) is approached by two members of the " Hygiene Squad ", Inspector Praline ( John Cleese ) and Superintendent Parrot ( Graham Chapman ), who confront him about the odd flavors that are used in the Whizzo Quality Assortment, accusing him of violating the Trade Descriptions Act through inadequate descriptions of his products, like for instance, his Crunchy Frog.

The title is actually an homage to a Mr. Show with Bob and David sketch, featuring a boy who attempts suicide after listening to his favorite band.

Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto in a mystery sketch.

Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto in a mystery sketch.

Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto in a mystery sketch.

During this period, Lambert was referenced in Monty Python ’ s 1969 sketch " Buying a Bed ," which featured two shop assistants called Mr. Verity and Mr. Lambert, named after her.

In the Harry Enfield sketch " Mr Cholmondley-Warner's Guide to the Working-Class ", a stereotypical Cockney employs a septuple-negative: " Inside toilet?

The sketch presents the 90th birthday of elderly upper-class Englishwoman Miss Sophie, who hosts a celebration dinner every year for her friends Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby, and Admiral von Schneider.

In this sketch, " Mr Smiley " ( as Grover calls him ) is also voiced by Jim Henson, but with a different voice to his game show personality.

Aside from voice acting, Kenny starred in the short-lived Fox sketch show The Edge and was a cast member of the HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show, where he worked with his wife, Jill Talley.

He appeared in sketch comedies The Edge and Mr. Show.

The first half of the show was a Superman sketch in which Reeves and Neill performed with LeBell as a villain called " Mr. Kryptonite ", who captured Lois Lane.

One sketch features Mr. Strange as a contestant on Mastermind whose specialist subject is ' Milk and the way it smells ' while another features him presenting a Party political broadcast offering himself as an alternative to the main political leaders because " I don't wash my pants-it's not nature's way ".

Another sketch also showed Anne Robinson, host of daytime game show The Weakest Link, appearing in the Deal or No Deal studio and ruining Edmond's television comeback by summoning Noel's House Party regular Mr Blobby, who destroys the studio before wrestling Edmonds to the ground, causing Edmonds to sob whilst yelling " You've ruined everything !”

Mr. Kunczynski was known for dining with prospective clients ( après-ski ) instead of just simple negotiating, and would sketch plans out on paper napkins.