The show was parodied in the BBC sketch comedy show "Not the Nine O'clock News", which Rowan Atkinson played Jeremy Beadle. Mel Smith played Matthew Kelly. Griff Rhys-Jones played David Kelly and Pamela Stevenson played Sarah Greene. In the sketch, "Game For A Laugh" is a sadistic prank show, which people got killed or hurt for a laugh and a prank is pulled on Jeffrey Lewis (Rowan Atkinson) by decapitating his wife and shooting his brother and Jeffrey getting his hand put in a meat mincer, as his reward.