• Bernard Bresslaw
  ...was used in [[the Rutles]]' TV special, accompanying the [[Yoko Ono]] film parody "A Thousand Feet of Film". This was cut from the syndicated version and the [[Category:Musicians from London]]
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• Neil Innes
  | genre = {{hlist|[[Parody music|Parody]]|satire|[[comedy rock]]}} ...performer [[Carol Cleveland]]. He co-created [[the Rutles]], a [[Beatles]] parody/pastiche project, with Python [[Eric Idle]], and wrote the band's songs.
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• Charlie Drake
  ...istols]], but this may be due to confusion with his "Super Punk" (1976) ([[Parody|spoof]]). Dave Goodman's website refers to the two titles as separate entit [[Category:British comedy musicians]]
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• Anna Russell
  ...Wagner]]'s ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]'' – and (on the same album) her [[parody]] ''How to Write Your Own [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] Opera.''<ref>{{cite web| Perhaps the apotheosis of Russell's Wagner Ring parody came during the celebrations of the Cycle's 100th Anniversary in 1976 when
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• Clive Dunn
  ...regular appearances on ''[[It's a Square World]]'', including as the first parody of [[Doctor Who]] on New Year's Eve 1963. [[Category:English comedy musicians]]
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• That Was the Week That Was
  ...an South]], ''TW3''{{'s}} Millicent Martin dressed as [[Uncle Sam]] sang a parody of "I Wanna Go Back to Mississippi" ("... where the Mississippi mud/kinda m ...medians [[David McPhail]], [[Peter Rowley]] and Chris McVeigh and comedian/musicians [[Jon Gadsby]] and [[Annie Whittle]]. The series lampooned news and politic
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• The Fast Show
  ...ng artist as part of [[HeeBeeGeebees|The HeeBeeGeebees]], the [[Bee Gees]] parody group. ''The Fast Show'' was a [[working title]] disliked by both Whitehous ...l Dexter, Carl Hooper, Ed Winchester, the Patagonians, "Jazz Club" and the parody "Chanel 9."
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• Benny Hill
  ...medy and filmed segments, and its humour relied on slapstick, innuendo and parody. Recurring players on his show during the BBC years included [[Patricia Hay ...nly referred to as "The Benny Hill Theme". It has been used as a form of [[parody]] in many ways by television shows and films. In a 2015 UK-wide poll the sh
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• Spitting Image
  ...d 2 February 2015</ref> The popularity of the show saw collaborations with musicians, including [[Phil Collins]] and [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]. The series was ...Khomeini]], [[Saddam Hussein]] and [[Muammar Gaddafi]]. Khomeini appear to parody Iranian law and policy.<ref name=":0" />
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• The Last Goon Show of All
  * Musicians ...and on the vinyl release. Only in the [[w:BBC 7|BBC 7]] broadcast is his parody of "[[w:I Left My Heart In San Francisco|I Left My Heart In San Francisco]]
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• Hale and Pace
  * ''[[Prisoner Cell Block H]]'' parody ...ndy| title = Pink Floyd - The Visual Documentary |year= 1994}}</ref> Other musicians performing on the single, besides Brian May playing [[Keyboard instrument|k
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• Father Ted
  ...(band)|Pulp]] to compose the theme music for ''Father Ted'', requesting a parody of a typical sitcom theme. When Pulp declined involvement, they contacted [ ...fun of sitcoms. We were saying, you know, we don't like sitcoms. This is a parody of sitcoms. This is a kind of satire on sitcoms. And I remember Geoffrey [P
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• Round the Horne
  ...ticulate rock and roll singer Ricky Livid (Paddick) and Hankie Flowered, a parody of the comedian [[Frankie Howerd]] ([[Bill Pertwee]]).{{sfn|Took|1981|p=138 ...vue]] format,{{sfn|Baker|2004|p=86}}{{sfn|Dibbs|2019|p=264}} and contained parody and satire.{{sfn|Dibbs|2019|p=245}} The programme would include an introduc
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...ny Plain'' she performed her "Joyful Noise" (music by [[Donald Swann]]), a parody of an amateur choir ("And some of us cannot sing much, And some can't sing [[Category:English comedy musicians]]
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• Blackadder
  ...http://www.howardgoodall.co.uk/works/tv-and-film/blackadder |title=List of Musicians and Singers who Played or Sang on Blackadder and Red Dwarf Themes |publishe ...previously floated for the fifth series. ''Batadder'' was intended to be a parody of ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' with Baldrick as the counterpart of [[
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• Help! (film)
  An [[Eastern world|eastern]] [[cult]] (a parody of the [[Thuggee]] cult) is about to sacrifice a woman to their [[goddess]] ...on the US soundtrack album as "Another Hard Day's Night" (played by Indian musicians and as an instrumental medley comprising "A Hard Day's Night", "Can't Buy M
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• List of The Goon Show cast members and characters
  ...rname Hern or Hearn, often used for narration, outrageous announcements or parody sales pitches. The Goons referred to Americans as "herns", possibly because *[[George Chisholm (musician)|George Chisholm]] – one of the show's regular musicians, sometimes called upon to play Scottish characters (e.g. "[[The String Robb
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• The Goon Show series 5
  ...a Christmas special) and show [[Nineteen-Eighty-Five|20]] (which was was a parody of the novel, [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Nineteen Eighty-Four]]. ...an average budget of £136, Eton had to reduce the orchestra to just twelve musicians. Eton's memo to Pelletier also met with a response on Wednesday 8 September
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• The Goon Show music
  |colspan=2| ''Parody Number'' | The Goons sing the Jimmy Grafton’s parody
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• The Goon Show series 6
  ...Ray Ellington Quartet. The first show, [[The Man Who Won the War]], was a parody of the recent vogue for war-time best-sellers, such as 1954's ''Reach for t | '''Musicians' Strike'''
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