"Sean Garnett, while Mahoney continues to draw. The appearance of the characters has not changed perceptibly since Smythe's death. In May 2012, Andy Capp (as well as Flo, Chalkie White, the Vicar, and Jackie the Barman) appeared as an animated series for the first time in promotional material for The Trinity Mirror-owned MirrorBingo.com website. The animation was created by Teesside-born Chris Hunneysett, who drew from his own background to place Andy Capp in Middlesbrough. Andy Capp had previously appeared in animated form in television adverts for the Post Office (1986) and Kit Kat (1991). Smythe received the National Cartoonists Society's"
"generated plenty of free publicity for both strips—and Capp and Saunders had a good laugh when all was revealed. Capp is often associated with two other giants of the medium: Milton Caniff (""Terry and the Pirates"", ""Steve Canyon"") and Walt Kelly (""Pogo""). The three cartoonists were close personal friends and professional associates throughout their adult lives, and occasionally referenced each other in their strips. According to one anecdote (from ""Al Capp Remembered"", 1994), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home—leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys"
"Andy Capp Andy Capp is an English comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe, seen in ""The Daily Mirror"" and ""The Sunday Mirror"" newspapers since 5 August 1957. Originally a single-panel cartoon, it was later expanded to four panels. The strip is syndicated internationally by Creators Syndicate. The character is also licensed as the mascot for a line of snack foods (Andy Capp's fries). Andy is a working-class figure who never actually works, living in Hartlepool, a harbour town in northeast England. The title of the strip is a pun on the local pronunciation of ""handicap""; and the surname ""Capp"""
"the pub and occasionally playing football (as opposed to rugby, which was Andy's sport in the comic strip). His wife, Flo, is constantly annoyed by her lazy husband and frequently uses a rolling pin as a weapon. The Complete Series of Andy Capp was released by Network DVD in the UK (Region 2) on 11 June 2012. Andy Capp (TV series) Andy Capp is a British sitcom based on the cartoon ""Andy Capp"". It starred James Bolam and ran for one series in 1988. It was written by Keith Waterhouse. Unusually, for a sitcom, there was no studio audience during"
"Andy Capp (TV series) Andy Capp is a British sitcom based on the cartoon ""Andy Capp"". It starred James Bolam and ran for one series in 1988. It was written by Keith Waterhouse. Unusually, for a sitcom, there was no studio audience during the filming of ""Andy Capp"". It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television. The sitcom ""Andy Capp"" was based on the cartoon strip of the same name that had run since 1957 in ""The Daily Mirror"". Andy Capp is a slothful man from Hartlepool, whose life consists of drinking, sleeping, watching TV, betting, going to"
"by Fucked Up, Black Lips, Mike Bones and Katie Stelmanis. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5287471/ Andy Capper Andrew Richard ""Andy"" Capper (born February 14, 1973) is a New York-based director / journalist and former editor and executive producer at Vice Media"". In 2018 he founded Happy Now Film. Capper's career in journalism started at age 19, reporting on crime on local newspapers in the North West of England. He moved to London at age 25 and started working with the New Musical Express. After a brief period editing Bizarre Magazine, Capper met Shane Smith of Vice Media and introduced him to Andrew Creighton. Capper"
"the comic attempting to find a gas leak in three frames of the 18 June 1960 strip. He was also shown in two drawn photographs in the 2 July 1960 issue, the first of which was displayed by Buster's mum with the pronouncement ""It's a photo of Buster taken with Andy! You can see he's got his dad's fine straight nose"". Buster's mum was often referred to by name and was consistently drawn to resemble Andy's wife Flo. Andy Capp Andy Capp is an English comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe, seen in ""The Daily Mirror"" and ""The Sunday"
"but soon grew to hate the feature. He left the Associated Press in September 1932. Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends. Capp moved to Boston and married Catherine Wingate Cameron, whom he had met earlier in art class. She died in 2006 at the age of 96. Leaving his new wife with her parents in Amesbury, Massachusetts, he subsequently returned to New York in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression. ""I was 23, I carried a mass of drawings, and I had nearly five dollars in my pocket. People were sleeping in"
"the three films, Woody makes two strong friendships with Buzz and Jessie. At first, when Buzz temporarily becomes Andy's favorite toy, Woody tries to push him off the dresser but accidentally knocks him out the window. When found and taken by neighborhood bully Sid, however, Woody and Buzz work together to escape. From this point on, he and Buzz are very close. As for fellow ""Roundup Gang"" member, cowgirl Jessie, though Woody and Jessie argue with each other sometimes, they are still very close friends. In the mock outtakes of ""Toy Story 2"", Woody is shown to have a more"
"aim is to make the greatest New Zealand film since Goodbye Pork Pie."" Chris Stapp Chris Stapp (born 28 November 1973) is a New Zealand actor/director/musician best known for his role of stuntman Randy Cambell in ""Back Of The Y Masterpiece Television"". He and ""Back of the Y"" co-star Matt Heath appear in season 6 of ""Eating Media Lunch"". In 2005 the pair also hosted a weekly radio show ""Thursday Drive"" on bFM. He appeared, again as Randy Cambell, in the first season of the British show ""Balls of Steel"", and later in the film ""The Devil Dared Me To"""
"Ann Perkins Ann Meredith Perkins, RN (born July 21, 1976 and portrayed by Rashida Jones) is a fictional character in the NBC comedy ""Parks and Recreation"". She is a nurse and Leslie Knope's best friend. At the start of the series, Ann Perkins was dating Andy Dwyer, her live-in boyfriend. Ann matured faster than Andy did and, while Ann entered into a career in nursing, Andy remained lazy, spoiled, and unemployed. After Andy falls into a large pit next to her house and breaks his legs, Ann is inspired to attend Parks and Recreation meetings to advocate for filling in"
"Andy Capp's fries Andy Capp's is an American brand of flavored corn and potato snack made to look like French fries. The product was created in 1971 by Goodmark Foods, Inc., which licensed the name and likeness of the comic strip character Andy Capp from Publishers-Hall Syndicate. Until recent years the strip was featured on the back of packages. In 1998 Goodmark Foods was acquired by ConAgra Foods, which manufactures and distributes the product to this day. Andy Capp's fries come in .85 ounce (24 grams) 1 ounce (28 grams), 1.75 ounce (50 grams), 3.0 ounce (85 grams), 3.5 ounce"
"Andy Capp's fries Andy Capp's is an American brand of flavored corn and potato snack made to look like French fries. The product was created in 1971 by Goodmark Foods, Inc., which licensed the name and likeness of the comic strip character Andy Capp from Publishers-Hall Syndicate. Until recent years the strip was featured on the back of packages. In 1998 Goodmark Foods was acquired by ConAgra Foods, which manufactures and distributes the product to this day. Andy Capp's fries come in .85 ounce (24 grams) 1 ounce (28 grams), 1.75 ounce (50 grams), 3.0 ounce (85 grams), 3.5 ounce"
"episode ""Harvest Festival"" and ""April and Andy's Fancy Party"". Ann Perkins Ann Meredith Perkins, RN (born July 21, 1976 and portrayed by Rashida Jones) is a fictional character in the NBC comedy ""Parks and Recreation"". She is a nurse and Leslie Knope's best friend. At the start of the series, Ann Perkins was dating Andy Dwyer, her live-in boyfriend. Ann matured faster than Andy did and, while Ann entered into a career in nursing, Andy remained lazy, spoiled, and unemployed. After Andy falls into a large pit next to her house and breaks his legs, Ann is inspired to attend"
"character Jonah Breck in the science fiction thriller ""The Signal"" (2014), Jackson in the drama ""You're Not You"" (2014), Kenan Boyle in the crime thriller ""Run All Night"" (2015), Jon Jon in the boxing drama ""Southpaw"" (2015). In 2016, Knapp played the best friend of Chris Pine's character in the disaster drama film ""The Finest Hours"". He then played the villain Blue Face in the mystery thriller ""The Nice Guys"", as well as violent Crack in the war film ""Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"". Knapp appeared in the Netflix war drama film ""Sand Castle"" (2017), and appeared in a co-starring"
"Chris Stapp Chris Stapp (born 28 November 1973) is a New Zealand actor/director/musician best known for his role of stuntman Randy Cambell in ""Back Of The Y Masterpiece Television"". He and ""Back of the Y"" co-star Matt Heath appear in season 6 of ""Eating Media Lunch"". In 2005 the pair also hosted a weekly radio show ""Thursday Drive"" on bFM. He appeared, again as Randy Cambell, in the first season of the British show ""Balls of Steel"", and later in the film ""The Devil Dared Me To"" where Cambell is the central character. Recently told the ""New Zealand Listener"" ""our"
"visited. In 1983 an original Lobby Lud – William Chinn – was discovered aged 91 in Cardiff, Wales. The ""Daily Mirror""s ""Chalkie White"" continues to visit resorts, and the idea has been taken up by local radio stations and other media, often offering lesser prizes. Chalkie is a typical nickname applied to people with the surname White. An example is Andy Capp's closest friend in a long-running ""Daily Mirror"" cartoon strip. Lobby Lud Lobby Lud is a fictional character created in August 1927 by the ""Westminster Gazette"", a British newspaper, now defunct. The character was used in readers' prize competitions"
"An attempt to transfer Andy Capp to television in 1988 met with little success. The well-known British character actor James Bolam played Andy on ITV. The Thames Television series consisted of six episodes that were shown once and have never been repeated. The series was poorly received and attracted some criticism for the way it played up to supposed stereotypes of Northern working class men. In 2012 the series was released on DVD (Region 2) in the UK, licensed by Fremantle Media Ltd to the Network Label (VFD64669 / Network 7953656). In 1987, a computer game based on ""Andy Capp"","
"steal. His first words were ""po'k chop,"" and that remained his favorite food. Though his uncle Tiny was perpetually frozen at 15½ ""y'ars"" old, Honest Abe gradually grew from infant to grade school age, and became a dead ringer for Washable Jones — the star of Capp's early ""topper"" strip. He would eventually acquire a couple of supporting character friends for his own semi-regularly featured adventures in the strip. In one storyline he lives up to his nickname when during a nationwide search for George Washington’s missing socks (the finder gets to shake the President of the United States’s hand)"
"Speedway World"", as well as cartoons for the London ""Evening Standard"", ""Reveille"", ""Punch"", and the ""Daily Mirror"", where he contributed to the paper's ""Laughter Column"". In 1954 the ""Daily Mirror""s art editor, Philip Zec, gave Smythe a regular daily cartoon, ""Laughter at Work"". Then, in 1957, he was asked by ""Mirror"" editor Hugh Cudlipp to create a cartoon character for the paper's Manchester edition. He thought up ""Andy Capp"", a stereotypically lazy, selfish working-class northerner in a flat cap, and his long-suffering wife Flo, during the seven-hour drive from his mother's house in Hartlepool to London. Capp is thought to"
"Good Cop Good Cop is a British police procedural television series, written and created by Stephen Butchard, that first broadcast on BBC One on 30 August 2012. The plot centres on an ordinary police constable, John Paul Rocksavage (Warren Brown), whose life changes forever when his best friend and colleague, Andy Stockwell (Tom Hopper), is attacked and killed in a savage ambush. A single series of four episodes broadcast weekly at 9:00pm on Thursdays from 30 August 2012. Following the shooting of two police officers in Tameside, Greater Manchester, on 18 September 2012, the BBC postponed the final episode, originally"
"by Shrewsbury sculptor Jane Robbins. Reg Smythe Reginald Smyth (10 July 1917 – 13 June 1998), known by his professional name Reg Smythe, was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running ""Andy Capp"" comic strip. He was born in Hartlepool, Teesside, England, the son of Richard Oliver Smyth, a shipyard worker, and his wife Florence, née Pearce. With his father long-term unemployed, he grew up in poverty. He attended Galley's Field School in West Hartlepool, but left at fourteen to take a job as a butcher's errand boy. In 1936, after a period of unemployment, he joined the Royal"
"girlfriend before he was kidnapped and asks Sydney to be his best man, to which she agrees with enthusiasm. This is the last we hear of him. Will Tippin William ""Will"" D. Tippin is a fictional character, portrayed by Bradley Cooper. He is one of Sydney Bristow's friends on the ABC television series ""Alias"". At the beginning of the series, Will was just Sydney Bristow's friend and a local reporter with a Los Angeles newspaper. Following the death of Sydney's fiancé, Danny Hecht, Will began pursuing leads surrounding Danny's bizarre death. Sydney, knowing the truth (Danny was killed because SD-6"
"Humor Comic Strip Award for the strip in 1974. A statue of Andy Capp was erected in Hartlepool on June 28, 2007. It was sculpted by Jane Robbins. In 1981 a stage musical based on the strip had a short run at London's Aldwych Theatre, with songs by Alan Price and Trevor Peacock, starring Tom Courtenay as Andy and Val McLane as Florrie. The stage show also produced an original West End cast recording, released on LP record by Key Records in 1982. The musical was reprised in 2016 at the Finborough Theatre in London, with Roger Alborough portraying Andy."
"found that a teacup pig is the best kind, which Ted then borrows after seeing the reaction Robin, Marshall and Lily gave. Later, Ted is at MacLaren's telling the gang about this woman, Tiffany (Carrie Underwood), he snared using the pig. She says she's really into him, but can't be with him ""right now"" because of her boyfriend. The gang sees through her ruse, telling Ted that he's been ""hooked,"" a euphemism for stringing someone along until they meet someone better. Everyone gives an example: Marshall did a high school classmate's homework and was her ""secret boyfriend"", Robin allows her"
"the upcoming weekend and features a guest who is a fan of soccer. They also highlight tweets from fans of ""GFOPs"" (Great Friend of the Pod). They try to predict game scores by eating pies. Episode 20 aired February 23, 2015 and featured Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs as a guest. They discuss his Liverpool fanhood as well as his new show. Episode 18 aired February 2, 2015 and featured NFL Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck as a guest. They spoke of books and beards. Episode 2 aired September 29, 2014 and featured Brandon McCarthy of the New York Yankees"
"businessman and an amateur cartoonist, introduced him to drawing as a form of therapy. He became quite proficient, learning mostly on his own. Among his earliest influences were ""Punch"" cartoonist–illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross. At about this same time, Capp became a voracious reader. According to Capp's brother Elliot, Alfred had finished all of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw by the time he turned 13. Among his childhood favorites were Dickens, Smollett, Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington, and later, Robert Benchley"
"Phillips, the toy-torturing boy who lives next door to Andy's house. While imprisoned in Sid's house, Buzz Lightyear sees his own television ad, and realizes that he is a toy and not a space ranger. But when he tries to fly out of the window, he falls, causing him to break his arm. Upon understanding this, Buzz Lightyear becomes depressed, but Woody eventually convinces him that it is a good thing. Buzz Lightyear regains hope, and working together, the two escape Sid, return to Andy, and become friends. In ""Toy Story 2"", After Woody is kidnapped by a greedy toy"
"although no reason for the cancellation was given. ""Good Cop"" is set in the city of Liverpool. It follows the work and private lives of John Paul Rocksavage (Warren Brown), a beat police constable working for the Liverpool Metropolitan police, who is partnered with long term friend Andy Stockwell (Tom Hopper). At home, Rocksavage lives with his disabled father, Robert (Michael Angelis), and reads to him regularly when he is off duty. With each episode, he is reading a different book, all of which have some parallels to Rocksavage's own story. In the first episode, he reads an excerpt from"
"of Bloomingdale, Illinois, a dentist and a brother of Sidney Smith, Wheat met the cartoonist, who saw in him an ideal comic character. Wheat subsequently had his surname legally changed to ""Gump"" to match the cartoon character. His wife's name is Min, and he has two children, Chester and Goliath, now living in San Francisco, and an Uncle Bim who lives in Georgia. Gump's home is in Tucson, Arizona, but he also has a farm near his birthplace in Mississippi."" The Gumps were utterly ordinary: chinless, bombastic blowhard Andy Gump (short for Andrew), who is henpecked by his wife, Min"
"in an event with hundreds of viewers which included a performance from Melissa Tkautz. Other notable individuals at the launch were Brian McFadden and the Smith chip company's advertising character ""Gobbledok"". In September 2006, Hamish and Andy purchased a greyhound and named it Fred Basset, after the comic strip character of the same name. This was purchased using proceeds from Blake betting $800, which was originally put aside for a holiday with his girlfriend, on Lee being named Cleo's Bachelor of the Year. 50% of Basset's winnings went to the Greyhound Adoption Program. In April 2008, the duo travelled to"
"(Bob's original choice for best man, who had the same name as a Newcastle United F.C. player of the time), and Nigel ""Little Hutch"" Hutchinson (a sex-mad pal, who frequently has a racing tip for Terry). A new friend of Bob's, affable Londoner Alan Boyle (Julian Holloway), appears in ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" and ""The Ant and the Grasshopper"" with his wife Brenda. The episodes ""I'll Never Forget Whatshername"" and ""Storm in a Tea Chest"" were based in part on elements in the 1960s episode ""Where Have All The Flowers Gone?"" The titles for the 1974 Christmas Special call"
"chaffing of his mates if they weren’t."" Andy Page (character) Andy Page is a fictional character appearing in several well-known short stories written by popular Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. Andy is rarely found without the company of good mates Jim Bently and Dave Regan, and is generally the 'straight man' of the trio. Andy's character first appeared in Lawson's short story, ""."" This story was published in Lawson's collection ""On The Track"" in 1900. "","" which includes the characters of Andy Page, Dave Regan, and Jack Bentley (most likely the character more commonly known as Jim Bently) was"