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.

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.

" 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 stopped after Ditka was fired in 1993.

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The building was based on an idea by Frits Philips, who originally made a sketch of the building on a paper napkin.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

The sketch featured Cheers co-star George Wendt, a Chicago native, as host of a radio talk-show ( similar in tone to WGN radio's " The Sportswriters "), with co-panelists Carl Wollarski ( Robert Smigel ), Pat Arnold ( Mike Myers ) and Todd O ' Connor ( Chris Farley ).

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

The television sketch comedy series At Last the 1948 Show featured Feldman's first screen performances.

It primarily featured pre-teen and teenaged actors in a sketch comedy format in which they acted out skits based on a theme for that episode.

In 1975, Williams later starred with Leslie Phillips, Lance Percival, Miriam Margolyes and others, in the short-lived radio sketch show Oh, Get On with It ( based on a pilot episode entitled Get On With It ), which also featured appearances by Rambling Syd.

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

* Pedro's Plant Place: A sketch that featured Luis Avalos as a garden-shop proprietor who incorporated words into his planting tips, accompanied by the unpredictable plant-language-speaking guard plant Maurice ( Jim Boyd ).

* Sign Sing-Along: Often shown at the last sketch on a Friday episode, these films featured footage of signs with various words and were married to a sing-along-type song.

* A Very Short Book: Sometimes the last sketch of an episode, it featured a well-known nursery rhyme or famous story read by a cast member who turned the pages of a book with moving pictures.

They each were given a one-off variety special ; Barker's, called The Ronnie Barker Yearbook, featured a sketch for each month of the year, although because of time constraints the first two had to be cut.

) A German translation of the angry letter featured at the conclusion of the BBC TV version ends the sketch.

Fozzie was often featured in a sketch where he did a comedy monologue, in which Statler and Waldorf would heckle him ( he was their favorite victim ).

* A 1993 episode of the British TV comedy Hale and Pace featured a seven-minute sketch parodying Angels with Dirty Faces.

Entitled Angels with Big Trousers, the black-and-white faux-movie sketch featured Norman Pace playing " James Cagney as Rocky Pantaloon " and Gareth Hale playing " Somebody O ' Brien as The Irishman " ( Hale actually plays two Irishmen, Rocky's priest friend and a policeman ).

The first series accented variety, with international guests ; the second and third series had greater emphasis on stand-up comedy ; the fourth featured domestic routines ( with Diane Hart as Ted Ray's wife and Kenneth Connor as " that interfering brother-in-law "); the fifth and six — with new writers — concentrated on sketch comedy and were branded ' New Edition ' and ' 1959 Edition ' to underline the difference.

A 1979 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Hour featured Van Dyke and Moore reprising their roles as the Petries in a short sketch presented as the brainstorming of Van Dyke ( guest-starring as himself ) and the writers of Mary McKinnon's ( Moore ) variety series, who noted McKinnon's resemblance to " the gal who played Laura Petrie ".

Ackbar was prominently featured in a sketch during Robot Chicken: Star Wars, a 2007 episode of the stop motion animated television series Robot Chicken dedicated entirely to Star Wars parodies.

The February 23, 2008 telecast of Saturday Night Live featured Will Forte impersonating Ramos in a Hillary Clinton / Barack Obama debate sketch, in which he is portrayed as an " Obama Stalker ".

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.

The sketch, which had originally been broadcast in 1948 as part of a comedy series called The Third Division and which featured actor Robert Beatty, was later famously performed by Peter Sellers on his 1959 LP – The Best of Sellers.

Stoppard's phrase may have been inspired by the 1980s BBC comedy series " Three of a Kind ", starring Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry and David Copperfield, which featured a recurring sketch entitled " Brideshead Regurgitated ", with Henry in the role of Charles Ryder.

In 2007, the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live featured a parody of MacGyver called " MacGruber " with Will Forte as the title character.

In 1980, Perkins co-wrote and featured in the radio sketch show Radio Active, revised and adapted from the early Oxford Revue shows, and initially based around the comedy parody group The Hee Bee Gee Bees, consisting of Philip Pope, Angus Deayton and Michael Fenton Stevens.