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The building was based on an idea by Frits Philips, who originally made a sketch of the building on a paper napkin.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

Saturday Night Live produced two famous sketches parodying the Original Series, " The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise " in 1976 and William Shatner's own " Get a life " sketch in 1986 ( which parodied the show's " trekkie " followers ).

The Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster parodied Julius Caesar in their 1958 sketch Rinse the Blood off My Toga.

Welk's variety show has been parodied in a recurring 2000s sketch on Saturday Night Live, in which he is portrayed by Fred Armisen.

They scrapped Martin's planned opening monologue and instead, Martin, in tears, introduced a video clip of a 1978 sketch in which he and Radner parodied an old Hollywood romantic couple's dance.

This sketch was a parody of The Fugitive, and eventually included a title sequence that parodied the original Quinn Martin TV series theme.

That year, SNL parodied the Troggs Tapes with a medieval musical sketch featuring Shaffer, Bill Murray, Harry Shearer, and a " special guest appearance " by John Belushi ( who had left the show the previous spring ).

The sketch has been reprised, updated, alluded to, and parodied innumerable times over the years in all forms of media.

* The sketch comedy show In Living Color parodied the popular skit.

The television programme Spitting Image parodied the Video Nasties with their sketch of a sickeningly nice, low-budget film, entitled a video " nicie ".

In 2006, the series was parodied in the sketch comedy show Snuff Box.

* Rick Mercer-Mercer appeared on Air Farce in a sketch where Ferguson, as Seamus O ' Toole, parodied his trademark " Screener " sketch from This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

This allowed for another kind of sketch: the staged ' historical drama ', which usually parodied genuine historical television plays or films ( such as Stalag 17, Antony and Cleopatra, or Napoleon and Josephine ).

In 2008 the sketch was parodied in two UK television commercials, for PG Tips and Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire Puddings.

The issue of Nabisco's choice to release Mallomars seasonally became a parodied topic on a sketch delivered by graphic artist Pierre Bernard on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

On The Benny Hill Show, Benny Hill played Ironside in a few sketches, most notably in a sketch called " Murder on the Oregon Express " which parodied several TV detective characters.

* An episode of the satirical comedy show Bremner, Bird and Fortune parodied the advertisement with a sketch set in the near future, in which Lord Hutton is searching for a copy of the Hutton Report.

In 2005, Knotts parodied his Ralph Furley character while playing a Paul Young variation in a Desperate Housewives sketch on The 3rd Annual TV Land Awards.

In the 1970s, the Glasgow-born comedian Stanley Baxter parodied the patter on his television sketch show.

This song was parodied by Monty Python's Flying Circus in their Dennis Moore sketch, which depicted a masked highwayman from the 18th century ( more like the Scarlet Pimpernel ) stealing lupins from the rich to give to the poor.

* In 2009, Adventure was parodied in the stop motion animated sketch comedy show, Robot Chicken in the episode, " Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry "

Whilst Mambazo toured the United States, the television program Saturday Night Live parodied the group in a TV Funhouse sketch, hosted by Dennis Haysbert, about failed Saturday morning cartoons starring black cartoon characters, one of which was a cartoon featuring the group called, Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Outer Space.

One This Hour Has 22 Minutes sketch parodied an Atom Egoyan-like director whose films had won numerous international awards, but had never actually been released or exhibited.

McLaughlin himself appeared as the Grim Reaper in an SNL sketch that parodied his show.

The street, and the difficulty of driving it, is parodied in the Bill Cosby sketch " Driving in San Francisco " on the album Why Is There Air?