• Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
  ...[[Richard Baker (broadcaster)|Richard Baker]] in a news desk reporting the news (which is filled with [[Running gag|running jokes]] from the preceding sket ...en|2008|p=424}} The slow-motion technique of the shooting Idle's character parodies [[Franco Arcalli]]'s editing of [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]'s film ''[[Zabri
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• Balham - Gateway to the South
  ...ay to the South'''" is a [[w:comedy sketch|comedy sketch]] that [[w:parody|parodies]] cinema [[w:travelogue (films)|travelogues]] by presenting the [[w:South ...ason |first1=Alexander |title=Ron Goodwin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jan/11/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |access-date=2018-09-04 |work
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• End of Part One
  ...nalities of the day. The second series was mainly a straight succession of parodies of TV shows of the time, including ''[[Larry Grayson]]'s [[The Generation G ...2408,1078927|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=News.google.com|access-date=28 May 2022}}</ref>
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  ...nal. (In her 1996 novel ''[[Anita and Me]]'', Syal had referred to British parodies of south Asian speech as "a goodness-gracious-me accent".) ...ness Gracious Me back for one-off special|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Beaumont-Thomas|first=Ben|title=Goodness Gracious Me cast to reunite f
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• The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis
  ...uraimi Dispute]], which the episode loosely parodies, with an actual [[BBC News]] broadcast clip opening. The real oasis is considerably larger.
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• The Krankies
  ...dy "The Phantom Millennium", and they both appeared in several other movie parodies throughout the series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frenchandsaunders.com/ ...and_west/6218482.stm |title=Payout after beanstalk accident |publisher=BBC News |date=7 December 2006 |access-date=22 April 2010}}</ref>
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• That Was the Week That Was
  ...y Martin to [[Ron Grainer]]'s [[theme tune]] and enumerating topics in the news. [[Frankie Howerd]] also guested with stand-up comedy. ...was, It's over, let it go ...") sung by [[Millicent Martin]], referring to news of the week just gone. [[Lance Percival]] sang a topical calypso each week.
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• Four Yorkshiremen sketch
  ...to-mark-50th-anniversary-1.3938624 |access-date=26 August 2019 |work=Irish News}}</ref>
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• Freddie Frinton
  ...ocessing plant]], where he is said to have entertained his colleagues with parodies and jokes, but was eventually sacked. He moved into music hall, where he en ...medy spices up German New Year|first=Joanna|last=Robertson|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=29 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk
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• George Martin (comedian)
  ...h pipe and newspaper in hand, would comment and make jokes about the day's news events. This was an original approach at the time, and he became one of the ...hroughout the 1960s and 70s). He scripted all sketches, interviews, songs, parodies and wrote the weekly story (e.g. Basil de Farmer and Des.P.Rado). He also w
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• Miss Robin Hood
  ...could be confused with theirs.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230707453 |title=Don't miss it |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun [[Category:Robin Hood parodies]]
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• Not the Nine O'Clock News
  | image = Not-the-Nine-Oclock-News.jpg ...ws]]'' on [[BBC One|BBC1]], it features satirical sketches on then-current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-e
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• The Queen of Spain's Beard
  ...ries. Set in late 15th-century [[Kingdom of England|England]], the episode parodies the practice of [[political marriage]]s between the royal houses of Europe ...III's rebuke to a messenger, "There, take thou that till thou bring better news." (Act 4, scene 4)<ref name=bbc-comedy>{{cite web|title=the InfantaThe Quee
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• ISIRTA plays, A-C
  * '''Skit:''' News in Welsh / Minority Programmes ― Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Jo Kenda * Skit: The News
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• Carry On Emmannuelle
  ...s, or indeed the actual ''[[Emmanuelle (film)|Emmanuelle]]'' films that it parodies. This film, as well as the original cut of ''[[Carry On England]]'' were th ...thetically offensive pictures to emerge from a British studio."<ref>{{cite news |first=Scott |last=Hughes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/apr
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• Little Britain (sketch show)
  The programme consists of a series of sketches involving exaggerated parodies of British people from various walks of life. Each sketch was introduced by ...ving 9.5 million viewers following its move to BBC One in 2005.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/18/overnights|title=Ratings
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• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  ...ons)|spin]] and opinion polls in British politics,<ref name="Guard">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/jun/30/television.comedy|title=Un Alongside the more overt satire and parodies of prominent public figures, the movie also includes numerous hidden jokes
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• On the Buses (series 1)
  ...t Books|isbn=978-1-84150-320-2|page=183}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/dec/19/ronald-wolfe | t ...spectively.{{sfn|Fisher|2011|p=14}} They both came from ''[[Prime Minister parodies (Private Eye)#Harold Wilson: Mrs. Wilson's Diary|Mrs Wilson's Diary]]'', a
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• The Best of Sellers
  ...ted Goons version of "[[w:Unchained Melody|Unchained Melody]]".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2016/03/14/how-george-marti ...ing in his [[w:bathtub|bathtub]].<ref name="booklet"/> "We Need the Money" parodies [[w:Aristocracy (class)|artistocracy]], with Sellers portraying a British [
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• Anna Russell
  ...7011813/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/10/21/db2101.xml Anna Russell] 21 October 2006</ref><ref>''The Globe a ...iner.<ref>''Bloomberg'' (Shirley Apthorp) [http://www.bloomberg.co.uk/apps/news?pid=20601088&refer=home&sid=aofoWteWTkhI "Anna Russell, Comic Who Made Fun
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