* Lulu's Truck Stop: Lulu Roman owned this greasy spoon, where the food was usually pretty bad ; Gailard Sartain was also in this skit as the chef Orville.

A lighted candle would be sitting on the night stand beside her bed and after she was through delivering one of her bizarre stories, sometimes a re-written nursery rhyme, she'd giggle, wink to the camera, and blow out the candle ... end of skit.

* Goober's Garage: George Lindsay was the star of this regular skit where he'd play his Andy Griffith role, often talking about cars and jalopies with whichever cast member that appeared in the skit that week.

For a period of time in the early 1980s cast-member Chase Randolph was in the skit and played a mechanic often being flirted with by a gang of women.

The skit would start with a hand-held camera zooming up to the front door and the door being flung open to reveal the fast-talking salesman standing behind the counter surrounded by the junk he was trying to sell.

The character was a clown ... with red cheeks and wild clown hair ... and the running joke was his attempts of becoming a big singing star and in every skit just as he was preparing to pull out a guitar and start to sing, the camera would zoom out and the door swing shut.

* Grinder's Switch Gazzette: This skit featured Minnie Pearl as a newspaper worker who often insisted that her mute secretary, Miss Honeydew, take down an " important " news item which was always nonsense.

* About 200 Years Ago: This skit which ran during 1975-76 ( to coincide with the Bicentennial Year 1976 ) was a parody of CBS ' " Bicentennial Minutes "; in it, Grandpa Jones would deliver a fractured historical " fact " about the Revolutionary era.

This case was used as fodder for a mock debate skit on Saturday Night Live called " Point Counterpoint ".

In the very first version of PGP, an encryption algorithm was given the humorous name BassOmatic ( after a skit on Saturday Night Live ) and Pretty Good Privacy itself is named after a Lake Wobegon fictional grocery store named " Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ".

The recurring " Acorn Antiques " skit on the UK's Victoria Wood As Seen On TV ( 1985 – 87 ) was modeled on Crossroads and other British soap operas of the 1970s.

* Peckinpah's penchant for filming action scenes in slow motion was satirized by Benny Hill in a Western skit called " The Deputy " that first aired on his March 29, 1973 special.

In one SNL skit from 1986 ( when he was promoting Graceland ), Simon plays himself, waiting in line with a friend to get into a movie.

* Though not directly a parody, the song was an inspiration for the Sesame Street skit, " Honk Around the Clock ".

In the UK she has appeared on the Ruby Wax, Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross shows and in October 2006 participated in a comedy skit on the Charlotte Church Show and was featured on the Michael Parkinson Show.

Except for the worst months of the construction period, known as the " Speedo " ( mid-spring to mid-October 1943 ), one of the ways the Allied POWs kept their spirits going in the hellish conditions was to ask one of the musicians in their midst to play his guitar or accordion for them, or lead them in a group singalong, or request their camp comedians to tell some rough jokes, or put on a skit.

* Clayton: Introduced in Season Five and a recurring character in Season Six, Clayton was a Claymation character animated by Will Vinton who often commented on the previous skit or introduced a new concept.

In the original skit " Stig " is the Paul McCartney character and was portrayed by Battley, with Idle portraying the George Harrison character as " Dirk ".

In 1998, this episode (" Murder at Tea-Time ") was repeated to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Blue Peter, as part of a section entitled " Spoof Peter ", which also featured ( among others ) the Python skit " How to Do It ".

The show and the group later apologized to Connick, with the troupe leader of Indian descent stating that the skit was not intended to be offensive or racist.

On his first appearance on Saturday Night Live, a skit called " How to Pay for Your Sins " on a 1978 episode hosted by Richard Dreyfuss, he was on crutches from an injury suffered during a dress rehearsal sketch about hockey players.

The most famous of these is Saturday Night Live, a skit show that has aired on NBC nearly every week since 1975.

A famous citing of a litany of four-letter ( and some longer ) vulgar words was in the US FCC's censorship of comedian George Carlin's radioplay of his comedy routine " The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television ", better known as the " Seven dirty words " skit (" shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits ", in that order ).

While Japanese variety shows are famous abroad for their wild stunts, they vary from talk shows to music shows, from tabloid news shows to skit comedy.

The cowbell gained popular attention as the subject of a famous Saturday Night Live skit popularly known as " More Cowbell.

Although he would reprise his famous Rev I. M Jolly character one last time for a short skit on New Year's Eve 1999 as part of the " Millennium " celebrations.

This skit, in which Dashan appeared together with Ma Dong, son of the famous Xiangsheng master Ma Ji, received 2nd Prize in the audience choice awards announced at the end of the Chinese New Year holiday.

Here, the skit was part of a job: that of a " famous Tweetle Beetle statistician ".

His most famous comedy skit was called " Hello Mama " or " Phone Call from Mama ", which portrayed a one-sided telephone conversation.

* The Billy Goat Tavern, made famous in a Saturday Night Live skit, is located on Hubbard Street at the intersection with lower Michigan Avenue.

* Jonny the Monkey is " the most famous celebrity in Kazakhstan " according to Borat in many of his interviews and introduced as Kazakhstan's " most successful actor " by Borat in an opening skit of " Saturday Night Live " in November 2006.

Worldwide, the most famous of these skits, and among the most successful at " fake special effects " was a skit which is widely known as " Matrix ping pong ".

The skit is often based around a famous story or event, but with students playing the roles of teachers.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

In later years, the guys, in drag, would sometimes replace the girls in the skit, in retaliation for the girls singing " Gloom, Despair ...".

The skit is also remembered for cast-member Gunilla Hutton's role as the doctor's assistant, Nurse Good-Body.

* Justus O ' Peace: This recurring skit featured Archie Campbell as a judge who wore what looked to be a bowler hat, a red undershirt, and suspenders sentencing people to long jail time for some of the most silly misdemeanor " crimes ".

The Sontarans also appeared in a skit for the BBC children's programme Jim'll Fix It titled " A Fix with Sontarans ", along with Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka.

Saint recalls that Kazan selected her for the role after he had her do an improvisational skit with Brando playing the other character.

* In a Mad episode, on a skit of Dear Reaper, it is occurred to the Grim Reaper that Joey, the boy who sent the Reaper a letter asking what to buy for Joey's parents ' anniversary, will die on November 14, 2071.

Ashoka, the South Asian student association, puts on a performance for Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, that includes a skit and dances ; Black Anthology is a student-run performance arts show celebrating black culture ; Lunar New Year Festival is a collaboration between the many East Asian organizations on campus culminating in a show to celebrate the holiday with a skit and dances from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures ; the Association of Latin American Students showcases various forms of Latin and Spanish dances during their performance, Carnaval.

Other recurring bits on the show include fictional commercials, including those for The Catchup Advisory Board ( its name a compromise between the two common spellings for the condiment: " catsup " and " ketchup "), which proclaims the good news about the condiment's " natural mellowing agents " after a short skit of the sufferings of Jim and Barb, a middle-aged couple ; the American Duct Tape Council ; Marvin and Mavis Smiley seasonal bluegrass albums ; Fred Farrell Animal Calls ; the Professional Organization of English Majors ( P. O. E. M.

In Monty Python, a popular skit is " The Lumberjack Song " known for its refrain " I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay / I sleep all night and I work all day ".

Lauper performed a duet with Leona Lewis on VH1 Divas on September 19, 2009, singing " True Colors " and also appeared along side hip hop artist Eminem for a comedy skit at the MTV VMA's in September 2009.

“ Tynan had asked … to write a brief skit for an erotic review, and Beckett agreed when he heard that Edna O ' Brien., Jules Feiffer, Leonard Melfi, John Lennon and Tynan himself were planning to contribute.

In October 2009, a talent-search skit on Australian TV's Hey Hey It's Saturday reunion show featured an Australian tribute group for Michael Jackson, the " Jackson Jive " in blackface, with the Michael Jackson character in whiteface.

They had a parade, lunch, a skit about the history of town, and a street dance, among time for people to catch up with one another and blow up games for the kids in the park.

On November 17, 2004, clips of a skit for 22 Minutes were released, in which MP Carolyn Parrish stomped on a George W. Bush doll and performed voodoo on its head, where she said " it would do the least damage ".

* Megan Follows-Best known for her role as Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables ; introduced Air Farce Live on December 7, 2007, and played the role of Sue Johanson in The Canadian View skit.