"Heath The Prime Ministers were impersonated by various members of the Private Eye staff and friends, including Peter Cook, John Bird. Richard Ingrams and Willie Rushton. Prime Minister parodies (Private Eye) Prime Minister parodies are a long-running feature of the British satirical magazine ""Private Eye"", which have been included in the majority of issues since the magazine's inception. The parodies consist of one arch satirical personification of the Prime Minister of the day, and use that personification to send up continuously that Prime Minister's personality and style of leadership, and the personalities and general features of his cabinet. Such are"
"Private Eye Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent criticism and lampooning of public figures. It is also known for its in-depth investigative journalism into under-reported scandals and cover-ups. ""Private Eye"" is Britain's best-selling current affairs magazine, and such is its long-term popularity and impact that many of its recurring in-jokes have entered popular culture. The magazine bucks the trend of declining circulation for print media, having recorded its highest"
"Not Private Eye Not Private Eye was a one-off spoof of the British satirical magazine ""Private Eye"". The spoof of ""Private Eye"" was published in December 1986 by Robert Maxwell, to celebrate his £55,000 libel victory over ""Private Eye"" caused by an accusation of attempted cash for peerages. It was printed using the facilities of the ""Daily Mirror"", of which Maxwell was the owner. ""Private Eye"", meanwhile, was trying to sell a Christmas edition (at £1 rather than the then-usual 45p) in order to cover the costs of the libel case, estimated at £255,000. W H Smith was refusing to"
"his usual pose on the ""Private Eye"" cover) and was smiling. Not Private Eye Not Private Eye was a one-off spoof of the British satirical magazine ""Private Eye"". The spoof of ""Private Eye"" was published in December 1986 by Robert Maxwell, to celebrate his £55,000 libel victory over ""Private Eye"" caused by an accusation of attempted cash for peerages. It was printed using the facilities of the ""Daily Mirror"", of which Maxwell was the owner. ""Private Eye"", meanwhile, was trying to sell a Christmas edition (at £1 rather than the then-usual 45p) in order to cover the costs of the"
"Private Eye (game) Private Eye is a video game developed by Brooklyn Multimedia and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive for Windows in 1996 and Macintosh in 1997. ""Private Eye"" is an interactive murder mystery starring Philip Marlowe. ""Next Generation"" reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that ""Unfortunately, there just isn't much game to hang it on. A click or two every 10 minutes does not balance out the hole it'll leave in your checkbook. Even with its alternate endings and intriguing story, you'd probably be better off renting ""The"
"- Issued: 2001 <br> ""Notes: issued to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of ""Private Eye"". Performed by Eleanor Bron, Jon Culshaw, Harry Enfield, Ian Hislop, Barry Humphries, Lewis MacLeod, Kate Robbins, John Sessions, and written by regular contributors to the magazine."" In 1973, Private Eye pressed a limited edition 12"" vinyl album titled ""Private Eye's Golden Years of Sound"" - containing its first eight flexi-discs. The album was for private circulation only among friends and it was never commercially released. <br> In 1980, comedy producer Martin Lewis, a longtime associate and friend of Private Eye owner Peter Cook acquired exclusive"
"Craig Brown (satirist) Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown (born 23 May 1957) is an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in ""Private Eye"". Brown was educated at Eton and Bristol University and then became a freelance journalist in London, contributing to ""The Tatler"", ""The Spectator"", ""The Times Literary Supplement"", ""Literary Review"", the ""Evening Standard"" (as a regular columnist), ""The Times"" (notably as parliamentary sketchwriter; these columns were compiled into a book called ""A Life Inside"") and ""The Sunday Times"" (as TV and restaurant critic). He later continued his restaurant column in ""The Sunday Telegraph"" and has contributed a"
"the libel damages. Others have paid a far higher price."" Anglesea died in December 2016, six weeks into a 12-year prison sentence. A rare victory for the magazine came in late 2001, when a libel case brought against it by a Cornish chartered accountant, Stuart Condliffe, finally came to trial after ten years. The case was thrown out after only a few weeks as Condliffe had effectively accused his own legal team, Carter-Ruck, of lying. In 2009 ""Private Eye"" successfully challenged an injunction brought against it by Michael Napier, the former head of the Law Society, who had sought to"
"have had an affair with Thorpe, had seen his dog shot dead. Waugh stood against Thorpe for the Dog Lovers' Party in North Devon and Thorpe obtained an injunction against Waugh's election literature. Waugh polled only 79 votes, but Thorpe lost his seat. Waugh left ""Private Eye"" in 1986 when Ian Hislop succeeded Richard Ingrams as editor. Waugh tended to be identified with a defiantly anti-progressive, small-c conservatism, opposed to ""do-gooders"" and social progressives. Three days after his death at age 61 from heart disease, left-wing journalist Polly Toynbee in ""The Guardian"" attacked him for these views. He has been"
"The Private Eyes (1976 film) The Private Eyes is a 1976 Hong Kong comedy film written, directed by and starring Michael Hui and co-starring his brothers, Samuel Hui and Ricky Hui, and also starring Shih Kien and Richard Ng in his second film role. John Woo was the production designer and also co-director though he was uncredited. Sammo Hung served as the film's action director and Jackie Chan was also a stuntman. This is the third film of the Hui Brothers and it is the first film that established the Hui Brothers' comedies internationally. The film revolves around the exploits"
"Private Eye TV Private Eye TV was an unsuccessful attempt to turn the satirical magazine ""Private Eye"" into a television programme. In celebration of the magazine's tenth anniversary, the best of its output was compiled by Barry Took and read out by the magazine's staff and assorted comedy stars (like ""Private Eye"", themselves largely originating from the Satire Boom) such as John Bird, Eleanor Bron, Spike Milligan, William Rushton, John Wells, Christopher Booker, Barry Fantoni, Paul Foot and Richard Ingrams. It was broadcast only once on BBC2 at 10.30pm on Tuesday 28 December 1971. Some short extracts were re-shown on"
"Big Sleep"" (the Bogart version, not Mitchum)."" Private Eye (game) Private Eye is a video game developed by Brooklyn Multimedia and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive for Windows in 1996 and Macintosh in 1997. ""Private Eye"" is an interactive murder mystery starring Philip Marlowe. ""Next Generation"" reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that ""Unfortunately, there just isn't much game to hang it on. A click or two every 10 minutes does not balance out the hole it'll leave in your checkbook. Even with its alternate endings and intriguing story,"
"Richard Ingrams Richard Reid Ingrams (born 19 August 1937 in Chelsea, London) is an English journalist, a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine ""Private Eye"", and founding editor of ""The Oldie"" magazine. He left the latter job at the end of May 2014. Ingrams's parents, who had three other sons including the banker and opera impresario Leonard Ingrams, were Leonard St Clair Ingrams (1900-1953), O.B.E., an investment banker from a clergy family, who worked as a government official in propaganda, economic warfare and the secret services during World War II, and Victoria, the daughter of Sir James"
"The Private Eye The Private Eye is a science fiction mystery digital comic written by Brian K. Vaughan, drawn by Marcos Martín and colored by Muntsa Vicente. The first issue was published by Panel Syndicate in March 2013. In 2015, the series won an Eisner Award for Best Digital/Webcomic and the Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work. The series is set in 2076, a time after ""the cloud has burst"", revealing everyone's secrets. As a result, there is no more Internet, and people are excessively guarded about their identity, to the point of appearing only masked in public. The"
"With fellow Salopians Richard Ingrams and Willie Rushton he founded ""Private Eye"" in 1961, and was its first editor. He was ousted by Ingrams in 1963. Returning in 1965, he has remained a member of the magazine's collaborative joke-writing team ever since (with Ingrams, Barry Fantoni and current editor Ian Hislop). Of his collaborative joke-writing, Booker stated: ""Over the years...I have enjoyed some of the most hilariously pleasurable times I can remember in my life. Between us we have laughed our way through tens of thousands of joke items"". From 1959 to 1962, he was the first jazz critic for"
"1989 against the wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, Sonia Sutcliffe. Founder Peter Carter-Ruck was subsequently invited to attend a ""Private Eye"" lunch, and soon afterwards he asked whether the magazine could stop misprinting the first letter of 'Ruck' as an 'F'. ""Private Eye""'s response was to print the first letter of 'Carter' with an 'F' as well. The Libel Reform Campaign cite many instances where the application of the libel laws by law firms like Carter-Ruck is effectively gagging the freedom of expression and free speech in the England and Wales leaving only the wealthy anywhere in the world able"
"Ray Lowry Ray Lowry (28 August 1944 – 14 October 2008) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and satirist, possessing a highly distinctive style and wit. He contributed to ""The Guardian"", ""Private Eye"", ""Punch"", ""Tatler,"" and ""NME"" among many other publications. In his later years he lived in Rossendale, Lancashire. Lowry was born the son of a bricklayer in Cadishead, Salford, and attended Urmston Grammar School. He worked in Manchester and London, and, although he had no formal art education, he became known as a cartoonist during the 1970s. It was less well known that he was also a painter of"
"reinterpretations of Ray Lowry's sleeve for ""London Calling"" (see above) in aid of the Foundation. Ray Lowry Ray Lowry (28 August 1944 – 14 October 2008) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and satirist, possessing a highly distinctive style and wit. He contributed to ""The Guardian"", ""Private Eye"", ""Punch"", ""Tatler,"" and ""NME"" among many other publications. In his later years he lived in Rossendale, Lancashire. Lowry was born the son of a bricklayer in Cadishead, Salford, and attended Urmston Grammar School. He worked in Manchester and London, and, although he had no formal art education, he became known as a cartoonist"
"- dubbed ""Talbot"" by Private Eye."" • Record Damage - Issued: 11 December 1987 A Christmas-themed recording <br> • Skeye Flexi-Dish - Issued: 1 April 1989 <br> ""Notes: Parody of Rupert Murdoch's recently launched Sky TV service."" • Private Eye Sings Private Eye -7"" E.P. Issued: 1962. (Label & Catalogue number: Artists & Repertoire ARP 1212) <br> ""Notes: a multi-track E.P. included a trick recording of then Prime Minister Harold MacMillan appearing to sing a pop song"" <br> • Neasden - 7"" single. Issued: 1972. (Label & Catalogue number: Spark SRL 1059). <br> ""Notes: A comedy song written by Barry"
"Comics. The Private Eye The Private Eye is a science fiction mystery digital comic written by Brian K. Vaughan, drawn by Marcos Martín and colored by Muntsa Vicente. The first issue was published by Panel Syndicate in March 2013. In 2015, the series won an Eisner Award for Best Digital/Webcomic and the Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work. The series is set in 2076, a time after ""the cloud has burst"", revealing everyone's secrets. As a result, there is no more Internet, and people are excessively guarded about their identity, to the point of appearing only masked in public."
"Private Eyes (1953 film) Private Eyes is a 1953 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on December 6, 1953 by Allied Artists and is the thirty-second film in the series. Sach is punched in the nose by Herbie, a local kid who the boys know, and acquires the ability to read people's minds. Slip sees this as an opportunity to buy a detective agency and their first client is a beautiful blonde who is trying to escape from her connections with mobsters. She leaves behind a stolen mink coat and an envelope that would incriminate the"
"likes and dislikes, openly, in good taste, without threat from our own brand of standardized Police State."" John Willie John Alexander Scott Coutts (9 December 1902 – 5 August 1962), better known by the pseudonym John Willie, was an artist, fetish photographer, editor, and the publisher of the first twenty issues of the fetish magazine ""Bizarre."" Willie is best known for his fetish illustration and bondage fantasy comics, specifically ""Sweet Gwendoline,"" featuring the villain Sir Dystic d'Arcy. Coutts was able to avoid controversy in censorship through careful attention to guidelines and the use of humor. Though distributed underground, ""Bizarre"" magazine"
"in television shows ""Magnum, P.I."" and ""Murder, She Wrote"". On September 15, 1994, Stevens died of cancer in Majores, Spain, at the age of 77. For his contribution to the television industry, Mark Stevens has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, located at 6637 Hollywood Blvd. Mark Stevens (actor) Mark Stevens (born Richard William Stevens, December 13, 1916 – September 15, 1994) was an American actor, one of four who played the lead role in the television series, ""Martin Kane, Private Eye"", which aired on NBC from 1949 to 1954. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Stevens first studied to become"
"BBC2's ""Comedy Map of Britain"" documentary broadcast in February 2007. Private Eye TV Private Eye TV was an unsuccessful attempt to turn the satirical magazine ""Private Eye"" into a television programme. In celebration of the magazine's tenth anniversary, the best of its output was compiled by Barry Took and read out by the magazine's staff and assorted comedy stars (like ""Private Eye"", themselves largely originating from the Satire Boom) such as John Bird, Eleanor Bron, Spike Milligan, William Rushton, John Wells, Christopher Booker, Barry Fantoni, Paul Foot and Richard Ingrams. It was broadcast only once on BBC2 at 10.30pm on"
"the hazards of by-electioneering as the independent candidate for the constituency of Gumboot North. After the strip folded, Rushton still contributed a weekly political cartoon to the ""Liberal News"" until mid-1962. The Salopians finally found a financier and the first issue of ""Private Eye"" was published on 25 October 1961. Rushton put it together in his bedroom in Scarsdale Villas using Letraset and cow-gumming illustrations onto cards which were taken away to be photo-lithographed. He also contributed all the illustrations and the mast-head figure of Little Gnitty (who still appears on the cover, a blended caricature of John Wells and"
"Butler, later Cabinet Secretary and sometimes referred to as a ""pillar of the Establishment"". More importantly, he met Paul Foot, another former Shrewsbury pupil not yet the left-wing radical he became, who was to be a lifelong friend, and whose biography Ingrams wrote after Foot's death. Along with several other Old Salopians, including Willie Rushton, Ingrams founded ""Private Eye"" in 1962, taking over the editorship from Christopher Booker in 1963. It was a classic case, he claimed on ""Desert Island Discs"" in 2008, of the ""old boy network"". ""Private Eye"" was part of the satire boom of the early 1960s,"
"Mike Hammer, Private Eye Mike Hammer, Private Eye is an American syndicated television program based on the adventures of the fictitious private detective Mike Hammer, created by novelist Mickey Spillane. Like the previous series, it was produced by Jay Bernstein but in a less hands-on capacity. The show failed to gain a wide audience and, as a result, it was canceled after only one season. ""Mike Hammer, Private Eye"" premiered on September 27, 1997. The final episode of the series aired on June 14, 1998. The series starred Stacy Keach and was seen as an attempt to revive the character"
"John Willie John Alexander Scott Coutts (9 December 1902 – 5 August 1962), better known by the pseudonym John Willie, was an artist, fetish photographer, editor, and the publisher of the first twenty issues of the fetish magazine ""Bizarre."" Willie is best known for his fetish illustration and bondage fantasy comics, specifically ""Sweet Gwendoline,"" featuring the villain Sir Dystic d'Arcy. Coutts was able to avoid controversy in censorship through careful attention to guidelines and the use of humor. Though distributed underground, ""Bizarre"" magazine had a far-reaching impact on later fetish-themed publications and experienced a resurgence in popularity along with well-known"
"to either identify those people or ""kindly withdraw his remarks"". To their cost, ""Private Eye"" accused James Goldsmith of being at the Clermont meeting, when he was actually in Ireland. Dominic Elwes went to see Lady Lucan in hospital and was reportedly deeply shocked both by her appearance and her statement ""Who's the mad one now?"" Elwes was apparently unhappy at some of the negative press coverage of the countess, and was later ostracised by his friends for his part in an article critical of Lucan, which appeared in the ""Sunday Times Magazine"". He committed suicide in September 1975. Rivett's"
"The Private Eyes (1980 film) The Private Eyes is a 1980 American comedy mystery film starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts. The pair play bumbling American detectives who work for Scotland Yard, They had to leave the US because of Dr. Tart's inventions. Obvious parodies of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. It was filmed at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. It was directed by Lang Elliott and marks the final pairing of Conway and Knotts (not counting their cameos as two California Highway Patrol officers in the 1984 film ""Cannonball Run II""). The film opens early in the twentieth"
"Martin Kane, Private Eye Martin Kane, Private Eye is an American crime drama radio and television series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company. It aired via radio from 1949 to 1952 and was simultaneously a television series on NBC from 1949 to 1954. It was the ""earliest of successful cops-and-robbers series"" on television. Martin Kane, Private Eye began as a 1949–1952 radio series starring William Gargan in the title role as New York City private detective Martin Kane. It aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System, broadcast Sundays at 4:30 p.m. from August 7, 1949, to June 24, 1951. When the"
"Philip Marlowe, Private Eye Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is an American mystery series that aired on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986, and on ITV in the United Kingdom. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's title character, and was the first drama produced for HBO. It was an early example of the uncompromising commitment to authenticity HBO would become known for in period pieces, later showcased in ""Rome"" and ""Deadwood"", the latter of which also featured actor Powers Boothe. Unlike other modern incarnations of the Marlowe character, the HBO series kept"
"private eye Joe Walker in New York to come to Bangkok to find her daughter. Phyllis finds herself on an island with other kidnapped women who are being forced into prostitution. Soon after Joe Walker's arrival both he and Tom are subject to a multitude of assassination attempts by flame thrower, blowgun and poison gas. Their only clue is that each of the dead unsuccessful assassins have a tattoo of three golden serpents. ""Kommissar X – Drei goldene Schlangen"" was released on 18 April 1969. Kommissar X – Drei goldene Schlangen Kommissar X – Drei goldene Schlangen is a 1969"