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  • [[Category:Songs about fictional male characters]] [[Category:Songs about insects]]
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  • ...riters [[Barry Took]] and [[Marty Feldman]], who wrote the majority of the songs' [[lyrics|lyrics]], based upon [[folk music|traditional folk song]]s.<ref n ...uly 1967, Williams, in the guise of Rambling Syd, recorded a series of the songs before a live audience at [[Abbey Road Studios|Abbey Road Studios]].<ref na
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  • ...issue=; Per [[MOS:MINORWORK]] - minor works include TV episodes, chapters, songs and game missions --> ...intimated that he was the half-brother of [[The Goon Show cast members and characters#"Mate"|Willium "Mate" Cobblers]], having the same mother, a certain "Vera C
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  • ...issue=; Per [[MOS:MINORWORK]] - minor works include TV episodes, chapters, songs and game missions --> ...st/ITVProgs/2001/05/05/Y22090001/ |title=100 Greatest ... (100 Greatest TV Characters (Part 1)) |publisher=[[ITN Source]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/we
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  • | gender = Male design '''Marvin the Paranoid Android''' is a [[Character (arts)|fictional character]] in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' series by [[Dou
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  • ...ew in 2007, Palin stated that the scene and the whole song were created in about 15 minutes, concluding a day's work, when the Python crew was stuck and una ...[British Columbia]]. Then he is unexpectedly backed up by a small choir of male singers, all dressed as [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] (several were reg
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  • === Main characters === === Secondary characters ===
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  • ...] parody/pastiche project, with Python [[Eric Idle]], and wrote the band's songs. ...Handkerchief]]'' (1973), and played a major role in performing and writing songs and sketches for their final TV series in 1974, after [[John Cleese]] tempo
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  • ...d the dramatic possibilities of actors miming to old recordings of popular songs. ''[[Blue Remembered Hills]]'', directed by [[Brian Gibson (director)|Brian ...g ''Pennies from Heaven'' on television one evening, Ross contacted Potter about the prospect of adapting that series for the cinema.<ref>On the DVD comment
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  • ...0 November 2021 |language=en-gb}}</ref> He was accused of writing graffiti about the tutors on the lavatory walls.<ref>Tim Cooper, "Heart attack kills dandy ...ief Petty Officer]] Pertwee in ''[[The Navy Lark]]'' on [[BBC Radio]]. The fictional ship in the series HMS ''Troutbridge'' almost shared its name with the real
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  • ...ed for his [[Songs and monologues of Stanley Holloway|comic monologues and songs]], which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career. ...s skills as an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ram
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  • ...b |url=http://keynessociety.wordpress.com/about-the-keynes-society/ |title=About us " Keynes Society |date=28 February 2009 |publisher=Keynessociety.wordpre ...1960s the [[satire boom]] was coming to an end and Cook said: "England was about to sink giggling into the sea."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.co
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  • Humphries' characters have brought him international renown, and he also appeared in numerous sta Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, w
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  • ...cert party]] based in [[Deolali]] in [[British Raj|British India]] and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the last months of the [[Second World W The main characters are performers in the base's concert party, which involved performing comic
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Blackadder'' characters}} [[File:Ba4.jpg|thumb|250px|Main characters from ''Blackadder Goes Forth'': Darling (left), Melchett (centre), George C
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  • ...w was released on [[Videocassette|VHS]], [[DVD]] and audio CD. Some of its characters, such as [[Ted and Ralph]] and [[Swiss Toni]], have had their own [[spin-of The first series introduced many signature characters and sketches including [[Ted & Ralph|Ted and Ralph]], Unlucky Alf, the Fat
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  • ...nce fiction setting, much of the humour comes from the interactions of the characters, particularly the laid-back Lister and the stuck-up Rimmer. ...dd Couple (film)|Odd Couple]]''-style relationship between the two central characters of the show, who have an intense dislike for each other, yet are trapped to
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  • ...[Hunchback of Notre-Dame]] and [[Erich von Stroheim]]. He invented various characters, including Colonel Featherstonehaugh-Bumleigh and Cora Chessington-Crabbe, ...urke's Law (1964) Crisco restoration.jpg|thumb|right|"Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the s
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  • ...dio comedy series ''[[The Goon Show]]'', featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among ...–1978). Sellers's versatility enabled him to portray a wide range of comic characters using different accents and guises, and he would often assume multiple role
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  • ...ompanied by information on details about appearances and references to the characters. == Main characters ==
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