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2 unusual facts about Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe


Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe

The album was self-released on the comedian's website for $5.00 following previously successful $5.00 experiments done by comedians such as Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari.

Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe is the eighth album released by American stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan.


Bamboo Houses

In 1983 Sylvian and Sakamoto would team up again on "Forbidden Colours", the theme song to the Nagisa Oshima film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, along with several other projects in later years.

Challenging Impossibility

Chinmoy’s training culminated when he held a public demonstration of his feats of strength at age 73 in the presence of strength experts such as 5-time Mr. Universe Bill Pearl, 3-time Mr. Olympia Frank Zane, 2002 World’s Strongest Man Hugo Girard and 9-time Olympic Gold-Medalist Carl Lewis.

Ciara Bravo

Bravo's work as a voice actress includes Giselita in the Open Season universe, Patty in Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, and Sarah in Special Agent Oso.

Corby toxic waste case

The Corby toxic waste case was a court case decided by The Hon. Mr. Justice Akenhead at the High Court of Justice, London, on 29 July 2009 in the case of Corby Group Litigation v. Corby Borough Council 2009 EWHC 1944 (TCC).

Don't Make Waves

Dave Draper, who plays Malibu's boyfriend Harry, was the 1965 IFBB Mr. America and the 1966 IFBB Mr. Universe.

Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Pryde (Bernie Casey) is a noteworthy scientist who is working on an experimental remedy for liver damage.

Eliot Rosewater

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls Before Swine, the first of Vonnegut's novels to feature the character of Eliot Rosewater, is also the one in which he is the most prominent.

Eon Productions

In 2000, Eon productions served a cease and desist letter to Cheapass Games to stop them from using the name "Mr. Bond" in the title of their game Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond.

Goodyear Polyglas tire

Also in the 1973 country song "Lord, Mr. Ford" performed by Jerry Reed, he refers to a "metal monster with Polyglas wheels".

Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!

The calendar features twelve semi-nude female students of journalism faculty at the Moscow State University (MSU), each for every month, with a short message.

The alternative version features the following questions: "When will they free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?", "OK with fools, but what about roads?" (referring to Russian saying "There are two troubles in Russia: the fools and the roads"), "How inflation will affect the bribes?", "Freedom of assembly always and everywhere?", "Who killed Anna Politkovskaya?" and "When the next terrorist incident occurs"?

Harkonen

House Harkonnen (or one of its members), a fictional noble family from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

He blurts out that he loves Sister Angela and that he considers her devotion to her vows to be pointless, since they are stuck on the island "like Adam and Eve."

He is wounded, but manages to sabotage all the guns by removing their breeches, saving many American lives.

Hey, Mr. Allure

Sparks the Rescue's Hey, Mr. Allure EP is the band's second release, and first to feature lead vocalist Alex Roy.

Hey, Mr. Producer!

Staged by Bob Avian, it was presented at the Lyceum Theatre in London on June 7 and June 8, 1998, with the latter being a Royal Charity Gala in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

International Karate

Forbidden Colours, the main theme from the movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which partly inspired the game's soundtrack by Rob Hubbard

Ist das Ihr Fahrrad, Mr. O'Brien?

The radio play draws from a number of novels, articles, and letters by O’Brien using German translations by Harry Rowohlt and original English texts alike.

In the play, a number of writers, historic, literary or public figures, and scientists are mentioned to illustrate O’Nolan’s colorful and over-populated universe, such as Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Graham Greene, James Joyce, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Harry Rowohlt, Homer, Jonathan Swift, George Bernhard Shaw, the Marx Brothers, Brendan Behan, Éamon de Valera, Karl Kraus, Sherlock Holmes, and Erwin Schrödinger.

Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

The original idea for the film had involved documenting a tour of Canadians poets, including Irving Layton and Earle Birney; however, that idea was abandoned when the filmmakers decided the other poets would not serve as charismatic film subjects.

Landhi Dairy Colony

The importance and scale of the project is underscored by the inauguration of the project by H.E. Mr. Phil Goff, Minister for Trade, Government of New Zealand together with the Karachi City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal

Liberia; or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments

Liberia; or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments is an 1853 novel by Sarah Josepha Hale, the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb", who wrote the novel under the name of Sara J. Hale.

It is interesting to note that Liberia shares some parallels to the 1852 anti-Tom novel Frank Freeman's Barber Shop by Baynard Rush Hall, which also featured a slave being sent to Liberia by the American Colonization Society after leading a miserable life in the Northern United States.

Liberia was first published in novelised form by Harper & Brothers of New York City in 1853.

Maria Friedman

As well as other musical shows, Maria participated in Hey, Mr. Producer!, the concert celebrating the works of Sir Cameron Mackintosh, in which she sang "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," "Broadway Baby," and "How Many Tears?" Similarly, she participated in Sondheim Tonight live at London's Barbican Centre, singing "Losing My Mind" (from Follies) and "More" (from the film Dick Tracy).

Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean

Bean finds a Postman Pat kiddie ride and decides to let the baby ride in it to cheer it up, but then puts nine coins in it so it will play indefinitely and keep the baby safe while he can have his fun.

A clip of the scene where Mr. Bean puts the balloons on the pram was shown to illustrate the expected result of a myth in MythBusters; the myth that a large number of balloons could lift a small child into the sky.

Monte Sereno, California

Instead, they erected a huge, 10-foot-tall Grinch on their lawn, who swayed from side while singing "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch".

Montparnasse derailment

At least one photograph is out of copyright and is used as the cover page of a book by John Taylor and on the front cover of Mr. Big's album, Lean into It.

Nick Dandolos

Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman also met Nick the Greek, according to the autobiographical Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!.

No Deals, Mr. Bond

Amis wrote the first James Bond continuation novel in 1968, titled Colonel Sun under the pseudonym Robert Markham.

At one point Gardner makes a reference to Kingsley Amis as an author of novels that some officers in the book are interested in.

O'Toole family

Peter O'Toole is a notable Irish stage and screen actor who starred in such films as Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

Ohh Nooo! Mr. Bill Presents

The show features, in addition to sketches starring Mr. Bill, also other sketches, most notably ones starring British personality Mr. Bean portrayed by actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson.

Robert Costanzo

He also did the voice of Detective Harvey Bullock on Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures and Static Shock, as well as in the theatrical release Mask of the Phantasm, and the video releases Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, and Mystery of the Batwoman, He also played a vocal role in the 2010 video game Mafia II as Joe Barbaro and Frederico "Fat Derek" Pappalardo.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Others cover more serious material, including his work on the Manhattan Project (during which his first wife Arline Greenbaum died of tuberculosis) and his critique of the science education system in Brazil.

Take a Letter, Mr. Jones

Take A Letter, Mr. Jones was never a ratings success (only running one season), but in recent years it has been resurrected by many American PBS stations, where Are You Being Served? is also a hit.

Thanks for the Memory

Marilyn Monroe's performance of "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962 was followed by an additional verse sung to the tune of "Thanks for the Memory": "Thanks, Mr. President/For all the things you've done/The battles that you've won/The way you deal with U.S. Steel/And our problems by the ton/We thank you so much."

The Vic Theatre

Jim Gaffigan's Beyond the Pale CD, DVD and TV special were recorded at the Vic in 2006.

Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists

American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. prominently alludes to the sect in his early novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, when the title character claims that he is a member.

WAU! Mr. Modo Recordings

Their sublabel, Inter-Modo, also released records from Juno Reactor and The Orb's collaborative side-project FFWD.

Welcome to New York

The show starred Jim Gaffigan, who played a weatherman from Fort Wayne, Indiana, who then moved to New York and worked as a meteorologist for fictional morning news show called "AM New York".

Yuya Uchida

He has appeared in numerous Japanese films, such as the Nagisa Oshima film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, and won two best acting awards.


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