Not the Nine O'Clock News - Not the Nine O'Clock News Not the Nine O'Clock News was a ground-breaking comedy sketch show shown on the BBC in the 1980s. The main stars are Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, and the first series also starred Chris Langham. Atkinson, Smith and Rhys Jones all went on to further illustrious careers in comedy, Stephenson married Billy Connolly (who also made a guest appearance on the show) and became a psychiatrist, while Langham has recently been involved with People Like Us and Kiss Me Kate. The producer was John Lloyd, a mainstay in much of British Comedy, while the writers included Nigel Planer and Richard Curtis. Howard Goodall, writer of the Red Dwarf, Blackadder and Vicar of Dibley theme tunes (amongst others).
John Lloyd (writer) - as radio producer at BBC 1974-1978 and created The News Quiz, Quote...Unquote, The News Huddlines and To The Manor Born. He co-wrote the fifth and sixth episodes of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio series with creator Douglas Adams (who wrote all the rest solo). He also wrote Hordes of the Things (as J. H. W. Lloyd) with Andrew ("A. P. R.") Marshall. He worked as a TV producer at BBC 1979-1989 and created Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image. He also produced the Blackadder series. He co-authored the books: Not! The Nine O'Clock News Not 1982 Not 1983 Not the Royal Wedding Not the General Election The Meaning of Liff (1983, with Douglas Adams) The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990, with Douglas Adams) The Appallingly Disrespectful Spitting Image.
Griff Rhys Jones - has just continued doing this for the rest of his life. Rhys Jones and Bean followed Adams to the University of Cambridge. Since then, he has appeared in numerous comedy programmes, usually with Mel Smith, including the second series of notable 1980s Britcom Not the Nine O'Clock News, alongside Smith, Rowan Atkinson and Pamela Stephenson..
USS Yorktown (CV-5) - 2.4 External Links Early Career The third USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier of World War II, sunk at the Battle of Midway. She was laid down on 21 May 1934 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; launched on 4 April 1936; sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt; and commissioned at the Naval Operating Base (NOB), Norfolk, Virginia, on 30 September 1937, Capt. Ernest D. McWhorter in command. After fitting out, the aircraft carrier trained in Hampton Roads, Virginia and in the southern drill grounds off the Virginia capes into January of 1938, conducting carrier qualifications for her newly embarked air group. Yorktown sailed for the Caribbean on 8 January 1938 and arrived at Culebra, Puerto Rico, on 13 January. Over the ensuing month, the carrier.
USS Wisconsin (BB-64) - Complement: 1,921 officers and men Armament: nine 16-inch guns, 20 six-inch guns, 80 40mm guns, 49 20mm guns USS Wisconsin (BB-64), an Iowa-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 30th state. Her keel was laid down on 25 January 1941 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. She was launched on 7 December 1943 sponsored by Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, and commissioned on 16 April 1944, with Captain Earl E. Stone in command. After her trials and initial training in the Chesapeake Bay, Wisconsin departed Norfolk, Virginia, on 7 July 1944, bound for the British West Indies. Following her shakedown, conducted out of Trinidad, the third Iowa-class battleship to join the Fleet returned to her builder's yard for post-shakedown repairs and alterations. On 24.
USS America (CV-66) - originally CVA-66, was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served from 1965 to 1996. She was laid down on 1 January 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., launched on 1 February 1964, sponsored by Mrs. David L. McDonald, wife of Admiral David L. McDonald, the Chief of Naval Operations, and commissioned at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 23 January 1965, Captain Lawrence Heyworth, Jr, in command. After fitting out there until 15 March 1965, America remained in Hampton Roads for operations off the Virginia capes until getting underway on 25 March. She conducted her first catapult launch on 5 April 1965, with Comdr. Kenneth B. Austin, the carrier's executive officer, piloting a Douglas A-4C Skyhawk. Proceeding thence to the Caribbean,.
USS Wasp (CV-18) - Iwo Jima to prevent Japanese air bases on those islands from being used to launch attacks against American forces on or near Saipan. Meanwhile, Japan - determined to defend Saipan, no matter how high the cost - was sending Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's powerful First Mobile Fleet from the Sulu Islands to the Marianas to sink the warships of Admiral Spruance's 5th Fleet and to annihilate the American troops who had fought their way ashore on Saipan. Soon after the Japanese task force sortied from Tawi Tawi on the morning of 13 June, American submarine Redfin (SS-272) spotted and reported it. Other submarines - which from time to time mad e contact with Ozawa's warships - kept Spruance posted on their progress as they wended their way through the Philippine Islands, transited.
Andy Hamilton - comedy script writer for television and radio. He has appeared in The News Quiz and If I Ruled the World. He was born in Fulham, South West London and educated at grammar school before reading English at Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Service (CULES). Scripts Hamilton has written scripts for: Who Dares Wins (1983) Alas Smith & Jones (1984) The Kit Curran Radio Show (1984; with Guy Jenkin) Scotch & Wry (1986) The Return of Shelley (1988) Drop the Dead Donkey (1990; with Guy Jenkin) Eleven Men Against Eleven (1995) Never Mind the Horrocks (1996) Bedtime (2001-2003) Trevor's World of Sport (2003) The Million Pound Radio Show The News Huddlines Not the Nine O'Clock News Old Harry's Game Revolting People The Two Ronnies Weekending.
Baseball - Asia. In the United States, it was for many years the "national sport," though American football is now more popular among spectators. In its usual form, the game is between two teams of nine players on a playing field consisting of 4 bases, arranged in a diagonal square ("the diamond") and a large outfield. The standard layout is shown in the diagram below: . Diagram of a baseball field. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Play of the Game 2 Pitching 2.1 Types of Pitches 3 Batting 4 The Style of Play 5 Equipment 6 Clothing 7 Related Topics 8 References and External Links Play of the Game As the game starts, the home team takes the field, while the visitors come to bat. After making three outs, the visitors take the.
The Goodies - Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Bill Oddie. The characters played up to certain stereotypes, but they were not necessarily based on the actor playing the character. This is not immediately obvious as there was no distinct character naming. The series' basic structure revolved the trio offering themselves for hire (with the tagline "We Do Anything, Anytime" (later changed to "Anywhere") ) to perform all sorts of ridiculous but benevolent tasks. This pretext allowed the show to explore all sorts of off-the-wall scenarios for comedic potential. Sometimes these were thinly-disguised comments on current events (for example, a show where the government of the day implemented "apart-height", where short people were separated from the rest of society), where others were more abstractly philosophical (where the trio spend Christmas Eve together waiting for the world to.
Chris Langham - Kiss Me Kate alongside Caroline Quentin, and also featured in the first series of Not the Nine O'clock News. More recently, he has been the voice of presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, and created several spoof adverts in the same vein. One of his funniest routines is Being an Owl. In 2003 he played George Orwell in a BBC docudrama entitled George Orwell - A Life In Pictures..
The Daily Show - currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) is a half-hour satirical "fake news" program produced by and run on the Comedy Central cable television network in the United States. The show usually has four new episodes a week, and an edited version of the show is run outside of the US on CNN International once a week (The Weekly Daily Show). The Daily Show was originally hosted by Craig Kilborn, but he left to take over the Late Late Show on CBS. Jon Stewart is the current host. The show's format generally consists of "Headlines", "Other News", correspondent pieces, and interviews. The "Headlines" and "Other News" segments are similar to monologues on other late-night television programs, poking fun at the day's news. Sometimes, the show puts their news correspondents "on location,".
Tomorrow's World - by its heyday in the 1970s, it was attracting 10 million viewers per week. Baxter was joined by Michael Rodd, Judith Hann and Howard Stableford. The show was usually broadcast live, and as a result became famous not only for its technology demonstrations but also for for the occasional failure of the technology to work as expected. For example, in demonstrating a new kind of car jack that required much less effort to operate, the jack disintegrated when trying to actually lift a car. Pressing on in the face of such adversity became a rite of passage for new presenters on the show. The show was also occasionally parodied, for example by Not The Nine O'Clock News, which featured TW-style demonstrations of such inventions as a telephone ring notification device for.
Sketch comedy - moved to radio with such shows as ITMA and then television with such shows as Monty Python, Saturday Night Live and Not the Nine O'clock News. Sketch comedy seems a bit out of vogue at the moment but some new sketch shows are still made. Sketch comedy programs consist of a series of short unrelated 'sketches' rather than anything more sustained, and relatively few sketch comedy programs are successful. However, the ones that become popular often remain on air for a long period of time, and survive the test of time. The sketches are generally performed by a relatively small cast, and reuse 'stock character's in subsequent programs or sketches. Here is a partial list of sketch comedy shows Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Australia 2 Canada 3 UK 4 USA.
Smith and Jones - of Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. They first worked together on Not the Nine O'Clock News. Since then they have appeared on various television programs together, notably Alas Smith and Jones, a BBC television series that ran from 1984 to 1988. The title was a parody of the American western television series Alias Smith and Jones which ran on the ABC network from 1971 to 1973..
Spinal Tap - Reiner coined it) that satirized bands like Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith. The band's name is officially spelled with an diaeresis (two dots) over the letter 'n' (a construction that does not exist in any actual language; it is possible in Unicode (Spin̈al Tap), but not all browsers will render this properly) to satirize the use of "heavy metal umlauts" in the names of other heavy metal bands such as Motörhead. A memorable segment of the film is where a miniature replica of Stonehenge is lowered onto the stage behind them and some dwarves come on stage and dance around it, the funny part is that the band were expecting a full size replica, but the band member that designed the replica had mistakenly used the symbol for inches (") instead of.
Spitting Image - USA 5.2 Spain 5.3 France 5.4 The Netherlands Introduction As the title (a colloquial phrase meaning a person closely resembling another) suggests, the show was not afraid to offend its viewers, or its targets. The puppets, caricaturing public figures, were designed by the cartoonists Peter Fluck and Roger Law (who sometimes spoonerized their names as 'Luck and Flaw'). They were assisted by various young caricaturists including David Stoten, Steve Bendelack, Tim Watts, Pablo Bach and Oscar da Costa and virtually every successful British impressionist of the time. Musical parodies were provided by Philip Pope (former member of Who Dares Wins and the Heegbeegeebees team) and later Steve Brown (Glen Ponder in Knowing Me, Knowing You). The stars of the show, though, were the latex puppets. Centre stage (as only to be.
Rowan Atkinson - his comedy career at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is married with two children. His major hobby is apparently fast carss, having written for the British magazine Car and owning and racing Aston Martin vehicles. He starred in several TV comedy series, among which: Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979 - 1982) Blackadder Mr. Bean Funny Business (1992), a documentary about the craft of comedy The Thin Blue Line (1995-1996) the Comic Relief Red Nose Day telecasts (notably starring in the Doctor Who skit in the 1999 telecast) He also played in several movies: Never Say Never Again (1983) The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (1989) The Tall Guy (1989) The Witches (1990) Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) The Lion King (1994, voice of Zazu) Bean.
Pamela Stephenson - now 'Dr Pamela Stephenson Connolly'. She has featured in many television series, most notably the classic 1980s UK comedy television sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News, alongside Rowan Atkinson. It was on this programme that she met Billy Connolly, after spoof-interviewing him in the guise of Janet Street-Porter. Her personal contribution as a comedienne added to the success of Not the Nine O'Clock News, led to a collaboration with comedic/satirist writers Mark Lepine and Mike Leigh which spawned a book, How to be Complete Bitch, and also a board game of the same name. (The companion book and game How to be a Complete Bastard was also by Leigh and Lepine, with Adrian Edmondson). She has also featured in such films as Superman III, Bloodbath at the House of Death.
Philip Pope - a series of Bee Gees disco hits. The Hee Bee Gee Bees went on to record two albums spoofing numerous acts including The Eagles, Michael Jackson, The Police, Status Quo and Supertramp. He also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image..
