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Goodness Gracious Me (TV
Goodness gracious me is an interjection expressing surprise. It may also refer to: * "Goodness Gracious Me" (song), comic song recorded by Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren * ''Goodness Gracious Me'' (TV series), a British radio and then television sketch comedy series that was broadcast on BBC See also * Goodness Gracious (other) {{Disambig Interjections English phrases ...
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Goodness Gracious Me (song)
"Goodness Gracious Me" is a comedy song recorded by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren. Released by Parlophone, it was a top 5 UK single in 1960. It features Sellers acting the role of an Indian doctor (a brown voice portrayal), and Loren of his wealthy Italian patient – who fall in love. Conception and composition The song was conceived and instigated by George Martin, who was the producer at that time of Peter Sellers's comedy recordings. Martin commissioned Dave Lee and Herbert Kretzmer to write the song. Martin himself produced the recording. Martin envisaged the song as a recording to be incorporated in the soundtrack of the film ''The Millionairess'' which was being filmed at that time starring Sellers and Loren. However, the film's producers did not share his enthusiasm for including the song in the film's soundtrack and did not utilize it. The studio was however happy to see the song released as a stand-alone single to promote the film. In becoming a chart hit it ...
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Goodness Gracious Me (TV Series)
''Goodness Gracious Me'' is a BBC sketch comedy show originally aired on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998 and later on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. The ensemble cast were four British Indian actors, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. The show explored British Asian culture, and the conflict and integration between traditional Indian culture and modern British life. Some sketches reversed the roles to view the British from an Indian perspective, and others poked fun at Indian and Asian stereotypes. In the television series, most of the white characters were played by Dave Lamb and Fiona Allen; in the radio series those parts were played by the cast themselves. Some of the white characters were also played by Amanda Holden and Emma Kennedy. The show's title and theme tune is a bhangra rearrangement of the comedy song of the same name, originally performed by Peter Sellers (portraying an Indian doctor, Ahmed el Kabir) and Sophia Loren, reprising their char ...
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Goodness Gracious (other)
" Goodness Gracious" is a 2014 song by Ellie Goulding. Goodness Gracious may also refer to: *''Goodness, Gracious'', 2006 album by Blood Feathers *"Goodness Gracious", a 2001 song by The Lucksmiths, B-side of "Friendless Summer", re-released on '' Where Were We?'' *"Goodness Gracious", a song by Jim Bianco from '' Handsome Devil'' *"Goodness Gracious", a song by Kevin Gilbert from the album ''Thud'' *"Goodness Gracious", a song by bbno$ with Yung Gravy Matthew Raymond Hauri (born March 19, 1996), known professionally as Yung Gravy, is an American rapper. Early life, family and education Matthew Raymond Hauri was born on March 19, 1996 in Rochester, Minnesota. His father, Peter Johannes Hauri ... See also * Goodness Gracious Me (other) {{Disambiguation ...
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Interjections
An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling, situation or reaction. It is a diverse category, with many different types, such as exclamations ''(ouch!'', ''wow!''), curses (''damn!''), greetings (''hey'', ''bye''), response particles (''okay'', ''oh!'', ''m-hm'', '' huh?''), hesitation markers (''uh'', ''er'', ''um''), and other words (''stop'', ''cool''). Due to its diverse nature, the category of interjections partly overlaps with a few other categories like profanities, discourse markers, and fillers. The use and linguistic discussion of interjections can be traced historically through the Greek and Latin Modistae over many centuries. Historical classification Greek and Latin intellectuals as well as the Modistae have contributed to the different perspectives of interjections in language throughout history. The Greeks held that interjections fell into the grammatical category of adverbs. They thought int ...
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