* Misty's Bedtime Stories: This skit featured bedtime stories delivered by Misty Rowe, one of the more popular cast-members.

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 ".

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

The final act consisted of a slapstick musical plantation skit or a send-up of a popular play.

How an obscure British skit has become Germany's most popular New Year's tradition from Slate. com ( Dec. 30, 2005 )

The hosts are Amber ( played by Amanda Bynes ), an egotistical girl who always makes sure to remind the audience that she is popular ( although this just may be in her own mind, as in one skit, a girl was asked what made Amber so popular, the girl responded that she did not know who Amber was ; in another skit, Amber was not invited to the prom nor voted prom queen ), Sheila ( played by Raquel Lee in season 1, Reagan Gomez-Preston in Season 2 and 3 ), an aggressive girl who disposes of unwelcome guests by giving them swirlies ( usually executing them in the middle stall ) at Amber's command, Tammy ( played by Jamie Snow ), an " exchange student " from Tennessee with an extremely thick Southern accent, and Debbie ( played by Jenna Morrison ), an unintelligent girl who constantly states that she likes eggs in a dopey voice, and constantly annoys the others, especially Sheila.

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

" That skit parodied Blue Öyster Cult's "( Don't Fear ) The Reaper ", one of the more successful pieces of popular music to feature that instrument.

On November 15, 2004, Owens, wearing a Philadelphia Eagles uniform, appeared with popular TV actress Nicollette Sheridan ( of the ABC series Desperate Housewives, in character as Edie Britt ) in an introductory skit which opened that evening's Monday Night Football telecast, in which Owens and the Eagles played the Cowboys at Texas Stadium.

In the popular Canadian sketch comedy show, Second City Television ( which ran from 1976 to 1984 ), the news segment skit " SCTV News " regularly included news bulletins about natural catastrophes in " Togoland ," though no contemporary country had that name.

Events that have gained the most popularity among the student body would be Friday Night Live ( a rendition of the popular skit show Saturday Night Live ), Trojan Idol, and the Songwriter's Challenge.

Two of the ads were in reference of popular Saturday Night Live skits: one featuring a Gilda Radner lookalike in her role as Roseanne Roseanneadanna in a Weekend Update skit for Rainier Lite commercial.

Her portrayal of the " Mama " character was so popular that NBC created a sitcom, Mama's Family, based on characters from the skit.

In popular culture, an episode of Saturday Night Live contained a skit entitled " Sabra Price Is Right " featuring Tom Hanks as the guest host.

At each hall, each squad performs its act, which may be a send-up of a popular TV show or film, a skit on local events, or singing or dancing, usually in flamboyant costume.

The comedia, a highly picturesque presentation of the wars between Christians and Muslims, and the zarzuela, an equally picturesque depiction of what is at once melodrama, comic-opera, and the skit interminably preoccupied with the eternal theme of boy-meets-girl-who-always-live-happily-ever-after-seemingly-impossible-odds are still as popular today as they were when first staged in the Ilocos.

In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

his hopes that the tunes from his old music might be used for popular American commercial songs!!

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

In the supernatural atmosphere of cosmic government, only the ruling elite was ever concerned with a kingdom-wide ordering of nature: popular religion aimed at more personal benefits from magical powers.

There are 12 of these to choose from, all of them of popular music except for the star release, Pass In Review ( SP-44001 ).

Delegates from 11 slave states walked out of the Democratic convention, disagreeing with Douglas's position on popular sovereignty, and ultimately selected John C. Breckinridge as their candidate.

Several instances of popular etymology are attested from ancient authors.

In Tanzania, a popular writer, columnist, and satirist, M. M. Mwanakijiji, has attempted to emulate Swift in his own " A Modest Proposal – On how Chagga People should be removed from Power and Positions of Affluence.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

Although popular from her first appearance in 1930, Jane Marple had to wait thirty-two years for her first big-screen appearance.

When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

Morphological evidence indicates the Ancylopoda diverged from the tapirs, rhinoceroses and horses ( Euperissodactyla ) after the Brontotheria, however earlier authorities such as Osborn sometimes considered the Ancylopoda to be outside Perissodactyla or, as was popular more recently, to be related to Brontotheria.

More contemporary renditions include samples from such popular artists as Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers ( 1963 ), The Byrds ( 1970 ), Elvis Presley ( 1971 ), Skeeter Davis ( 1972 ), Mighty Clouds of Joy ( 1972 ), Amazing Rhythm Aces ( 1975 ), Willie Nelson ( 1976 ), and The Lemonheads ( 1992 ).

One popular cruise is from Caletilla Beach to Roqueta Island, which has places to snorkel, have lunch, a small zoo and a lighthouse.

A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.

Apart from the lost Handboc or Encheiridion, which seems to have been a commonplace book kept by the king, the earliest work to be translated was the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, a book greatly popular in the Middle Ages.

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

These juries formed a second mode for the expression of popular sovereignty ; as in the assembly, citizens acting as jurors acted as the people and were immune from review or punishment.

He was a born leader of mercenaries, and, although he did not shrink from cruelty to gain his ends, he afterwards showed himself a mild and popular " tyrant.

The popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false.

Schools will vary in their approach, but in North America the most popular method taught derives from the " system " of Constantin Stanislavski, which was developed and popularised in America by Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and others.

There were also many popular games officially converted to the Electron from arcade machines ( including Crystal Castles, Tempest, Commando, Paperboy and Yie Ar Kung-Fu ) or other home computer systems ( including Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, The Last Ninja, Barbarian and SimCity ).

In comedy, several players are emerging in the image of the very popular Rouiched which is illustrated in several films such as Hassan Terro or Hassan Taxi, or actor Hadj Abderrahmane better known under the pseudonym of the Inspector Tahar in 1973 comedy The Holiday of The Inspector Tahar directed by Musa Haddad.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

Chaplin worked hard and the act was popular with audiences, but dancing did not satisfy the child and he dreamt of forming a comedy act.

The comedy genre can be considered the oldest film genre ( and one of the most prolific and popular ).

Slapstick ( The Three Stooges is an excellent example of this kind of comedy ) was popular in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences.

This form of comedy film was particularly popular during the 1930s and 1940s.

A popular trend during the 1920s and afterward was comedy in the form of animated cartoons.

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.

Among the few popular new stars during this period were Judy Holliday and the comedy team phenom of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Charles has acted in episodes of popular dramas such as The Bill ( 1995 ), EastEnders ( 2002 ) and Holby City ( 2003 ) and in the comedy The 10 Percenters ( 1996 ).

The comedy group Buckner & Garcia released a novelty concept album, Pac-Man Fever, that went gold and produced a hit single of the same name ; all of the songs on the album pertained to popular video games of the time.

Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Music hall also proved influential in comedy films of this period, and a number of popular personalities emerged, including George Formby, Gracie Fields, Jessie Matthews and Will Hay.

The New York Timess Lawrence Van Gelder called it " an amiable comedy that simultaneously manages to spoof these popular futuristic space adventures and replicate the very elements that have made them so durable ".

In addition to the duo's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures.

Lewis has long remained popular in Europe: he was consistently praised by some French critics in the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma for his absurd comedy, in part because he had gained respect as an auteur who had total control over all aspects of his films, comparable to Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.

It has remained popular since then, receiving positive reviews and being named " greatest comedy film of all time " by several magazines and television networks.

The " Dead Parrot Sketch ", alternatively and originally known as the " Pet Shop Sketch " or " Parrot Sketch ", is a popular sketch or one act from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and one of the most famous in the history of British television comedy.

Using Bungie's 2001 game Halo: Combat Evolved, Rooster Teeth Productions created a popular comedy series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles.

The screwball comedy is a principally American genre of comedy film that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s.