The Prime Minister's Department admitted the official campaign video is an imitation of a sketch from the British comedy show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme.
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However, these views were not shared by the News of the World, which described the show as "just not that funny" and the characters as "a collection of Little Britain cast-offs...or Harry Enfield tributes".
Harry Enfield and Chums (episode 1.3, 1994), as the Crimesearch Presenter on a sketch of The Scousers
Newman and Hislop's credits also include two series of My Dad's the Prime Minister for BBC 1, sketches for The Harry Enfield Show, creating the character Tim Nice-But-Dim, and the BBC Radio 4 series Gush, a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of Jeffrey Archer.
In 1996, she narrated the Dragons! interactive CD-ROM published by Oxford University Press and developed by Inner Workings, along with Harry Enfield.
After TV ads voiced by Harry Enfield were screened nationally on United States networks, and on a website whereismygnome.com, many readers considered it to be a prank of the Garden Gnome Liberation Front.