Just as the dialogue is getting " too silly ", Graham Chapman's no-nonsense colonel bursts in and orders the sketch to be stopped.

" When Cleese eventually stopped laughing, he couldn't remember where they were in the sketch.

The performance was stopped frequently to allow Collier and Cruikshank to write and sketch, and Collier, in the words of Speaight, is someone of whom " the full list of his forgeries has not yet been reckoned, and the myths he propagated are still being repeated.

One sketch featured male friends ( Morgan Freeman and Jim Boyd ) riding the tandem bike, until the original owners came and stopped them.

The sketch is stopped by the colonel ( Chapman ) for being too silly, who then orders Jones to report on stage for the next sketch.

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.

Alexander Graham Bell considered the invention of the hydroplane a very significant achievement, and after reading the article began to sketch concepts of what is now called a hydrofoil boat.

" 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.

During this performance something occurs on stage that does not translate into audio, but causes the audience to break into hysterics upon Cleese's follow-up line " Now that's what I call a dead parrot "; since it occurs after the part of the sketch where Cleese bashes the dead bird on the counter, it's possible a part of the prop broke off.

The idea for the sketch came after a day of shooting in Folkestone Harbour, where John Cleese became seasick and threw up repeatedly while trying to deliver a line.

This first version included a symmetric-key algorithm that Zimmermann had designed himself, named BassOmatic after a Saturday Night Live sketch.

A sketch showing the arrest of Jameson Raid | Jameson after the failed raid, in 1896

The recording was eventually broadcast on Pat Dixon's Mirror of the Month programme and after receiving a good response led to another sketch in which Unwin was interviewed as a man from Atlantis being asked about life in the sunken city.

For example, 60A originally contained the Spider-Man episode " Spidey Meets the Prankster " and used a scene from that sketch as the opening teaser, which was removed completely after the opening credits, leaving only the episode number, and at the start is an episode of " The Six-Dollar and Thirty-Nine Cent Man ," which supposedly aired only during Season 6.

Soon after, Barker, Corbett and Josephine Tewson performed a sketch about Henry VIII at the 1971 BAFTAs, with Barker playing Henry.

The two pages in question consisted of the short sketch " Roderick O ' Conor ", concerning the historic last king of Ireland cleaning up after guests by drinking the dregs of their dirty glasses.

Created as a short sketch in Idle's UK television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, the Rutles gained fame after being the focus of the 1978 mockumentary television film, All You Need Is Cash ( The Rutles ).

Anonymous sketch of Diane de Poitiers wearing a French hood, after a 1525 original.

Frederick William III commissioned the neoclassical architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel to design the Iron Cross after a royal sketch.

After the sketch was over, the Glutton attempted to swallow Ed Sullivan's hand after giving him a handshake.

In 1969, after a brief stint as a hostess on the ABC Television series Music Scene, Tomlin joined NBC's sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

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.

The original 1984 Feed The World logo was based on a pencil sketch by Bob Geldof after watching a BBC television news report by Michael Buerk from famine-stricken Ethiopia.

Antioch from the southwest ( engraving by William Miller ( engraver ) | William Miller after a drawing by H. Warren from a sketch by Captain Thomas Byam Martin | Byam Martin, R. N., 1866 )

In the sketch, two characters discussed the state of affairs after a separation from Canada, which left them with " no roads, no towns, not even radio.

However, especially after expanding to a ninety minute format, SCTV quickly pushed the envelope on television sketch comedy.

Also that same year, Nickelodeon removed You Can't Do That on Television from its schedule after a thirteen-year run and by the same year the network had launched a new sketch comedy show, All That.

* John Manley-Manley appeared in a " Man's World " sketch ( a rarity since he is a politician and not an athlete ) shortly after his remarks on how Canada should abandon the monarchy.

His team of artists in Athens, after some problems, was granted, by means of a firman, free access to the Acropolis, and specifically permission to sketch freely, take casts, carry out digs, and take away inscriptions and reliefs from the site, but, it seems, not the Parthenon itself.

In addition to the " Super Bowl Shuffle " rap song, the Bears ' success in the 1980s – and especially the personality of head coach Mike Ditka – inspired a recurring sketch on the American sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, called " Bill Swerski's Superfans ".

Both Ditka and Jordan would make appearances ( playing themselves ) in episodes of the sketch.

In 2006, George Wendt returned in Superfan garb alongside Ditka for a sketch prior to Super Bowl XL.

During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.

Furthermore, he was depicted upon the Italian 10, 000 Lire ( no longer in circulation ) along with a sketch of his famous Voltaic Pile.

Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the scriptores.

" Shatner participated in the sketch, outfitted in a USMC Class A uniform, which was a satire of Oliver North and his refusal at that point to speak up about his participation in the Iran-Contra Affair, and in which he had no lines.

Chaplin quickly began work in another role, touring with his brother — who was also pursuing an acting career — in a comedy sketch called Repairs.

In April 1910, he was given the lead role in a new sketch, Jimmy the Fearless, or The Boy ' Ero.

The sketch usually showed the panelists drinking lots of beer and eating lots of Polish sausage, and often featured Todd getting so agitated about what was happening with the Bears that he suffered a heart attack, but quickly recovered ( through self-administered CPR ).

At least one DNAYS sketch was re-used in Monty Python.

Requesting a sitting from the busy and impatient general, David was able to sketch Napoleon in 1797.

The building was based on an idea by Frits Philips, who originally made a sketch of the building on a paper napkin.

Groucho's final appearance was a brief sketch with George Burns in the Bob Hope television Special Joys in 1976.

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

By the time the entire cast joined in, the sketch was introduced by Cathy Baker.

Hutton's theory led him to conclude that reliance on Bruiel's initial sketch resulted in many later scholars erroneously claiming that " The Sorcerer " was evidence that the concept of a Horned God dated back to Paleolithic times

For many years, a staple of New Year's Eve television programming in Scotland was the comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry featuring the comedian Rikki Fulton, which invariably included a hilarious monologue from him as the preternaturally-gloomy Reverend I. M.

Derisively titling his article The Exhibition of the Impressionists, Leroy declared that Monet's painting was at most, a sketch, and could hardly be termed a finished work.

By 1866 he was " able to command ten to fifteen guineas for the reworking of a single Punch cartoon as a pencil sketch ", alongside his " comfortable " Punch salary " of about £ 800 a year ".

A sketch of the more essential reforms followed: the recognition rather than the toleration of the Christian religion ; the abolition of the system of farming the taxes ; and, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the religious was complicated by an agrarian question, the conversion of the Christian peasants into free proprietors, to rescue them from their double subjection to the Muslim Ottoman landowners.

He was able to paint and sketch while in the Coast Guard.

Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam, while promoting Holy Grail in Amsterdam, had come up with a sketch in which Jesus ' cross was falling apart because of the idiotic carpenters who built it and he angrily tells them how to do it correctly.

For Woodcock a more elaborate sketch of anarchism, although still without the name, was provided by William Godwin in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ).

Another often-reproduced drawing is a macabre sketch that was done by Leonardo in Florence in 1479 showing the body of Bernardo Baroncelli, hanged in connection with the murder of Giuliano, brother of Lorenzo de ' Medici, in the Pazzi Conspiracy.

The " Dead Parrot " sketch was inspired by a " Car Salesman " sketch that Palin and Chapman had done in How to Irritate People.