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You have it on a crumpet with melted butter. Sparingly.

Instead, Thomas' "toaster crumpet" was designed to be ideal for toasting.

A crumpet is a type of griddle cake made with yeast.

First of all, a crumpet is NOT the same as an English muffin.

The Toasted Crumpet Session IPA, a tasty ale that does the world of good.

Its name is "The Toasted Crumpet" and it has an alcohol content of 4.2 percent.

Tiny fluffy clouds of flour and milk that sit halfway between a crumpet and a crepe.

Originally dubbed a "toaster crumpet," Thomas' English muffin hardly resembled actual English crumpets, which were more like porous pancakes.

I toast up a British-style crumpet from Trader Joe's and top it all with some Everything But The Bagel seasoning.

This was clearly the thought process British baking company Warburtons had recently when they decided to launch a Christmas crumpet competition.

We'd eat this lemon butter with pikelets (crumpet-like pancakes), or slather it in thick, greedy layers across microwaved bread rolls.

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You can buy the Warburtons x Toast Ale Crumpet Beer on the Toast Ale website for £28 for 12 300ml bottles available.

Not only is Orbach present but the thinking man's crumpet, Julianna Margulies' makes her movie debut as Rica, a prostitute whom Richie abuses.

If you think that's bullshit, let's catch up in ten years when you've had your fuzzy arse is dumped for some freshly baked crumpet.

He portrays the young crown prince and de facto ruler, Muhammad bin Salman, in nappies, and calls him "al-dub al-dasher", loosely translated as "fat crumpet".

So definitely it is a less concentrated window when young people might be "snuggle pupping" and "crumpet munching," [mid–20th century dating lingo] and all these other wild things.

" He cites the Jaguar XK-E as a classic example, noting that Henry Manney from Road & Track magazine even once called it "the greatest crumpet-catcher known to man.

Almost always, there is lahuh, a Yemenite pancake with an aerated texture similar to a flat crumpet, flavored ever so lightly with fenugreek to give it an unexpected funk.

Then NPR aired his reading of "SantaLand Diaries," the sardonic account of his stint as a Macy's Christmas elf named Crumpet that turned him into a seemingly instant literary star.

First she hallucinates a holey crumpet on her plate, oozing blood and surrounded by severed fingers; then, she looks over to see yet another clown furiously masturbating into a soup tureen.

The menu's highlights include a crepe stack with Nutella and crispy bacon, a crumpet with Nutella, banana and strawberries, or for those who like fruit dipped with chocolate — a mandarin dipped in Nutella with toasted hazelnuts.

Trump gave Rupert Murdoch's Sun an interview criticizing Prime Minister May on Brexit, threatening her on trade, praising her rival, Boris Johnson, and throwing in some white nationalist dog whistles as clotted cream on the crumpet.

In a press release, Warburtons explained that Toast Ale made the light IPA by replacing "some of the malted barley in the beer with crumpets, extracting starches and sugars and breaking them down into fermentable sugars — meaning the crumpet does more than just flavour the beer."

When I was in our house as a family we had a dog and two cats — we had a golden retriever called Muffin, named after her mother Crumpet, who was my best friend in the world, and she was around for 10 or 12 years, and we had two cats called Orlando and Grace.

In British English, the thinking man's crumpet or thinking woman's crumpet is a humorous term for a person who is popular with the opposite sex because of their intelligence and their physical attractiveness.The thinking woman's/man's crumpet - definition in the British English Dictionary & Thesaurus - Cambridge Dictionaries Online The expression is derived from the slang use of the term "crumpet" to refer to a woman who is regarded as an object of sexual desire.Crumpet, from World Wide Words.

Miss Townly went into a very large arm-chair and waveringly selected a crumpet.

A Scotch pancake (left) and folded Scottish fruit crumpet (right) A Scottish crumpet is broadly similar to the pikelet of parts of northern England. It is made from the same ingredients as a Scotch pancake, and is about diameter and thick. It is available plain, or as a fruit crumpet with raisins baked in, usually fried in a pan and served with a fried breakfast. It is also sometimes served with butter and jam.

A decade earlier still, following his commentaries for Channel 4 television on the 1993 The Times World Chess Championship Match between Gary Kasparov and Nigel Short, Grandmaster Daniel King (who commented alongside the future runner-up in the 2003 Radio Times poll for the title of "thinking man´s crumpet", Carol Vorderman) was dubbed "the thinking woman´s crumpet". After the release of the 1997 film Titanic, Kate Winslet was dubbed by one newspaper as "the sinking man's crumpet"; the moniker was repeated by only one other British newspaper. Stewart Lee uses the phrase "crumpet man's thinker" in his stand-up, referring to Andrew Graham-Dixon.

While in some areas of the country the word pikelet is synonymous with the crumpet, in others (such as Staffordshire and Yorkshire) it refers to a slightly differing recipe. If differentiated from the crumpet, a pikelet is defined as containing no yeast as a raising agent; as using a thinner batter than a crumpet; and as being cooked without a ring, giving a flatter result than a crumpet. In Stoke-on- Trent, pikelets were once sold in the town's many oatcake shops. A 1932 recipe for Staffordshire pikelets specifies that they were made with flour and buttermilk, with bicarbonate of soda as a raising agent, and suggests cooking them using bacon fat.

Thus, concludes the Crumpet, is Pongo's demeanour - on hearing he has to face another visit from his uncle - explained.

The 'Knackers Crumpet' is a localised, common name referring to Pluteus salicinus. Its use is most prominent in the North of England.

Ada, on the grass, kept trying to make an anadem of marguerites for the dog while Lucette looked on, munching a crumpet.

A crumpet () is a small griddle cake made from an unsweetened batter of water or milk, flour and yeast, eaten in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Canada, and Australia. Crumpets are regionally known as pikelets, a name also applied to a thinner, more pancake-like griddle bread: a type of the latter is referred to as a crumpet in Scotland.

Jennifer Saunders, Lucy Worsley and Gillian Anderson. Trumpeter Alison Balsom is sometimes referred to as the "trumpet crumpet".See, for example, Daily Mail, 10 September 2009 and 3 June 2011 In a poll in the Radio Times in 2003, Nigella Lawson received the most votes to be the readers' "thinking man's crumpet",Press Release, BBC Worldwide, 22 September 2003. with Carol Vorderman in second place.

As late as the 1950s Dorothy Hartley noted a wide degree of regional variation, identifying the small, thick, spongy type of crumpet specifically with the Midlands.

Most of the Drones short stories are also "Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets stories". These stories feature unnamed club members, each referred to as an "Egg", "Bean", or "Crumpet". This is allegedly based on the habit they have of addressing each other as "old egg", "old bean", or "my dear old crumpet", though characters in the stories almost never address other characters by these nicknames.There is at least one story with exceptions.

At the Drones Club, a Crumpet and his guest see Pongo Twistleton looking distraught. The Crumpet explains that Pongo has learned his mischievous Uncle Fred, Lord Ickenham, is coming to London, and tells the following story about what happened the last time Uncle Fred came. Uncle Fred suggests to his nephew that they visit a suburb, Mitching Hill, formerly an estate owned by an uncle when he was younger. They go there, but get caught in a shower of rain and take shelter in a doorway.

To help Santa Claus, she sends two elves, Crumpet (John Salley) and Sparky (Bill Fagerbakke). A weather man named Edwin Hadley (Peter Scolari) tries to figure out what's causing the strange weather and track it down to keep himself from getting fired by his boss Mr. Martino (Jason Schombing). Edwin's boss expects Edwin to get down to the bottom of the sudden snow appearances. When Sparky and Crumpet catch up to Santa Claus, they find a footprint of a type of girl shoes that are only made in California.

In "The Shadow Passes", Bingo calls his friend Valerie Twistleton "old crumpet", and he calls fellow Drones Club member Horace Pendlebury-Davenport "old egg". A few later stories introduce a fourth subset of Drones Club members known as "Piefaces". Many of the Drones Club stories begin with these nondescript members talking about the latest exploits of Freddie Widgeon, Pongo Twistleton, Bingo Little, or another of their number. The story then transitions into a particularly well-informed Crumpet narrating the story as he tells it to an uninformed Egg or Bean: : "Beau Widgeon?" said the Egg, impressed.

Almost half a century after Muir deployed the term, Bakewell (by then Baroness Bakewell and a Dame of the British Empire) remarked that "it has taken me a lifetime to live it down. It was meant as a compliment I suppose, but it was a little bit of a put-down".Quoted in The Oldie, June 2014 Actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth and Bill Nighy have been repeatedly called by the press "the thinking woman's crumpet". But even before them, Michael Kitchen was acclaimed as "the thinking woman's crumpet" in a review in The Mail in November 2003.

Writing > Some wise, and prettily mannered, people have told me I shouldn't say > anything about Rosie at all. But I am too old now to take advice, and I > won't have this following letter—the first she ever wrote me—moulder away, > when I can read it no more, lost to all loving hearts.Praeterita, The Works > of John Ruskin, 529 The letter Rose writes is addressed "Dearest St. Crumpet"—"St. Crumpet" being her pet name for him—and contains sweet, affection, attentive notes about how much she and her family thought about Ruskin during their travels: > I wish so very much that you were happy—God can make you so—We will try not > to forget all you taught us—It was so nice of you.

Douglas Smith, an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme, was used as the programme's announcer, but was given a larger role as the series progressed; he ended up advertising spoof products and giving human sound effects in addition to his normal role. One of the early episodes included a sketch by Horne, a monologue based on "the centenary of the birth of the crumpet", including a huge crumpet built for Queen Victoria. > As an added novelty he hollowed out the centre and a Gaiety Girl was > secreted inside. When the loyal toast was drunk, she leapt out, wearing pink > combs and waving a Union Jack – either that or the other way round, I don't > remember.

She made her film debut in St Trinian's (2007) as Head Girl Kelly. In 2008, she appeared in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. Chosen from around fifteen hundred candidates, Arterton plays Bond Girl Strawberry Fields, in what is described as a "nice-sized role". Arterton describes her character as "the thinking man's crumpet".

The Crumpet Hut crowd eventually included his best buddy Lard Smith, Bazoo Botts, Hilda, perky Daisy and the inventive intellectual Nutty Cook. Romance entered the strip after Freckles met June Wayman, a character introduced in 1937. An inspection of strips from different decades reveals that Blosser's artwork continually improved as the strips and characters evolved.

VII (1865), 170 The word spread initially to the West Midlands of England,Wilson, C. A. Food & drink in Britain, Barnes and Noble, 1974, p. 266 where it was anglicised to picklets and then to pikelets. The first recognisable crumpet-type recipe was for picklets, published in 1769 by Elizabeth Raffald in The Experienced English Housekeeper.

In 1881, he was shown in the Census as living with his parents at 2 Eastern Quadrant, Brighton. The family name is given as Shoesmith although CricketArchive in its profile of the player has rendered the name "Shoosmith". His father William was born at Lewes, Sussex and worked as a baker, muffin and crumpet maker. He was aged 46 in 1881.

Oatcakes are a savoury variety of pancake particularly associated with Staffordshire. A variation of pancake is the crumpet, made from a batter leavened with yeast (or with both yeast and baking powder) and fried in butter to produce a slightly raised flat cake. They are also eaten in the rest of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and certain areas of the Commonwealth.

Concerning the reasoning behind the name of the band, its members have given little explanation. The band claims it was chosen at random because they thought it was amusing. The word crumpet may be unusual to some, as it is a traditional english food described in the Cambridge Dictionary as "a small, round type of bread with holes in one side that is eaten hot with butter".

The other books in the series were The Stewardesses Down Under, The Jumbo Jet Girls, I'm Penny, Fly Me and Penny Sutton, Supersonic. Wood also wrote three pseudonymous books featuring the teenager Oliver Grape: Onwards Virgins (later reissued as Forward Virgins), Crumpet Voluntary and It's a Knock Up. As Frank Clegg, Wood also wrote Soccer ThugSphere, March 1973. featuring Harold "Striker" Rickards, football hooligan.

At Santa's shack, he then works to find the problem in the weather machine. With Sam and Allie's help, they manage to fix the weather machine (Santa forgot to put in the right batteries) and stop the weather. Santa then tells Edwin that there is another type of job that deals with weather. Crumpet and Sparky pick up Allie's dad just in time for Christmas morning.

Crempog has its origins in the Welsh language, but is similar to the Breton word , which is also a type of pancake. Comparisons are often drawn between the two Celtic languages which share ancestry in the Brittonic language, though the krampouezh is more dainty than the crempog and is today closer to a Crêpe than a pancake. The English word crumpet may be derived from crempog or Cornish .

Pitt reveals that he once suffered "alone in a cold schoolroom, a hot crumpet burning my cheeks with shame" under the Prince's sort, before seeking and succeeding to become what he is today; Blackadder comments that Pitt was not "too busy to remove the crumpet." Pitt declares that he shall have his own brother, William Pitt the Even Younger, as a candidate on his side. When he leaves, Blackadder tells the Prince how they shall win the election: firstly, fight the campaign on "issues, not personalities"; secondly, be "the only fresh thing on the menu"; and thirdly, "we'll cheat". After an obviously rigged election, in which the single voter cast 16,472 votes for Baldrick, it is revealed that Blackadder is both the constituency's returning officer (whose predecessor died when he "accidentally brutally stabbed himself in the stomach while shaving") and voter (whose predecessor "accidentally brutally cut his head off while combing his hair"), Baldrick is made an MP in a landslide victory.

The Crumpet Hut crowd eventually included his best buddy Lard Smith, Bazoo Botts, Hilda, perky Daisy and the inventive intellectual Nutty Cook. Romance entered the strip after Freckles met June Wayman, a character introduced in 1937. Walter Hoban and his strip Jerry on the Job were an influence on Blosser's simple cartoon style. An inspection of strips from different decades reveals that Blosser's artwork continually improved as the strips and characters evolved.

In Wales, an old tradition exists of plygain, a Christian worship service held between 3:00– 6:00 a.m. in which Christmas carols are sung (and sometimes, but not always, accompanied by holy communion).O'Malley, A Celtic Primer: A Complete Celtic Worship Resource and Collection, 2002, p. 124. After plygain was over, people would stay awake to decorate the house, play cards, eat cake or pikelets (a variation of the crumpet), or make bonfire toffee.

Knight was born in Watford, the daughter of Ethel (née Wilson) and Sidney Knight. Her father was the manager of a crumpet factory.Evelyn Knight birth record accessed March 21, 2015 Knight emigrated to the United States in 1967, when she was in her late twenties. At a party on Long Island sponsored by the British government, she met Mel Weinberg, a Jewish businessman 17 years her senior, and the two began a long love affair.

Some such combinations seem nonsensical, odd, or too long, however, such as baby pie or love dear, and are seldom used. Terms of endearment can lose their original meaning over the course of time: thus for example 'in the early twentieth century the word crumpet was used as a term of endearment by both sexes', before diminishing later into a 'term of objectification'Morton, p. 55 for women. When proper names escape one, terms of endearment can always substitute.

However, he has overcome those fears after several episodes. This constant state of fear is perfect for Boo Boo, the mansion's ghost, since Scaredy is the only one who is afraid of him. The only thing he's not afraid of is a crumpet. Even if his fear sometimes gets the better of him, Scaredy is the loyal and talented drummer of Frank and Len's band, R.I.P. When he is behind the kit, Scaredy is a beat machine and forgets his fear.

The sketch was performed one more time at a gathering of variety entertainers at midnight on 4 May 1945 (4 days before VE Day) before the Royal Family and many military notables. This was at a private function at the Life Guards barracks in Windsor. It was not publicised in the newspapers due to security concerns. Hay's character during his radio series was called Dr. Muffin, a name chosen so that the students could mock him with the name "Old Crumpet".

The Crumpets are a big family with 142 children whose parents are Ma and Pa, and their paternal grandmother Granny and dog T-Bone also live with them. The youngest child, L'il One, rivals all his siblings and his father in getting his mother's love. He has a friendship with Granny. The show's characters beyond the Crumpet household include the neighboring McBrisk family consisting of a mother and her daughter, and Pa's wealthy brother, his wife, and their adoptive son.

In: Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web- Based Systems. Springer. Berlin. 2006. It was used by Dr. Chris Daniels in 1975 to encapsulate the theme of his Millennium Project. This project later became known as The Elysian World Project. The terms “edutainment” (and “busitainment”) were used in 2001 to explain how the CRUMPET project, on context-aware and personalised Tourism, refers to people travelling for adventure yet who also travel for education and business and who do not perceive themselves as classical “tourists” .

Bruce and his brother, Rob, made the decision to eliminate Coal Chamber from the tour. After doing so, there were no tickets returned for the remainder of the tour dates. Bruce and Utsler claimed that Coal Chamber had been removed from the tour because of equipment problems, but later revealed the true reason for their actions on The Howard Stern Show, which aired August 19, 1999. Bruce continued by saying, "Nobody will tell you that, because everybody's afraid of your crumpet-ass bitch manager".

The first person to be called "the thinking man's crumpet" was Joan Bakewell, by humourist Frank Muir, following her appearances in highbrow television discussion programmes such as BBC2's Late Night Line-Up.An affair to remember, The Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2003. Bakewell is still synonymous with the phrase, but it has subsequently been applied to other high-profile women such as Anne Gregg,Obituary , The Independent, 9 September 2006. Joanna Lumley, Kate Bush and Felicity Kendal, and, more recently, Helen Mirren,Helen Mirren: A real drama queen , The Independent, 3 September 2006.

Cumberbatch did not achieve international recognition until the first series of Sherlock in 2010. He has since been called "The Thinking Woman's Crumpet" and has been a mainstay in numerous "Sexiest Man Alive" lists including those of Empire and People. Waxwork of Cumberbatch on display at Madame Tussauds London Tatler listed Cumberbatch in the "Most Eligible Bachelors in the United Kingdom" in 2012. In the same year, Cumberbatch described a cyberstalking incident in which he discovered that someone had been live-tweeting his movements in his London home.

Cachapa with "hand cheese" Cachapa or Arepa de Choclo (Spanish for "crumpet") is a traditional dish made from maize flour from the Venezuelan and Colombian cuisine. Like arepas, they are popular at roadside stands. They can be made like pancakes of fresh corn dough, or wrapped in dry corn leaves and boiled (cachapa de hoja). The most common varieties are made with fresh ground corn mixed into a thick batter and cooked on a budare, like pancakes; the cachapa is slightly thicker and lumpier because of the pieces from corn kernels.

Alternatively, crumpet may be related to the Welsh crempog or crempot, a type of pancake; Breton krampouzh and Cornish krampoth for 'pancakes' are etymologically cognate with the Welsh. An etymology from the French language term crompâte, meaning 'a paste of fine flour, slightly baked'Notes & Queries, 16 (1850), 253 has also been suggested. However, a correspondent to Manchester Notes and Queries, writing in 1883, claimed that the crampet, as it was locally then known, simply took its name from the metal ring or "cramp" used to retain the batter during cooking.City News Notes and Queries, vol.

Samantha shares sad stories with Allie about how her dad would spend Christmas, while Allie is sad about her dad missing Christmas. During the blizzard, Edwin manages to trace the weather phenomenon to Allie's house. Due to traffic, he manages to borrow a guy's snowmobile. When Allie and Sam head to the shed to get the flashlights, they encounter Santa, Crumpet, and Sparky who identify Allie as the next person on their naughty list while her best friend Sam is a positive overachiever and good role model in school.

Alex Scordelis of Paper found the song "inspirational". Laurence Day of The Line of Best Fit described it as a "Top 40-ravaging behemoth". Similarly, Kitty Empire of The Observer said it was "Azalea's most commercial single yet" and brought attention to Azalea's line "We spend our winters in the Summer of Australia / Eating crumpets with the sailors"; Empire named it as "perhaps the only hip-hop proto hit yet to contain a reference to crumpets". John Walker of MTV News also highlighted the crumpet reference, as well as Azalea's "lilting effortless swagger", and opined that the track was "indeed life-changing".

Pride Magazine called him "The thinking woman's crumpet" and voted him number 8 in their special edition of the sexiest black men in Britain, while also calling him "probably the most exciting young black writer of the Nineties." In 1999 he directed the award-winning short film The Bitterest Pill starring Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox. In 2001 he directed the documentary Glass Ceiling for Channel Four, featuring Treva Etienne, Clarke Peters, Ricco Ross, Rodney Charles and Kolton Lee River has also made various acting appearances that include Get up Stand Up to ITV Yorkshire's Emmerdale Farm.

Herbert Klynn (November 11, 1917 – February 3, 1999) was an American animator at UPA from 1944-1959 eventually rising to the role of Vice President and Production Chief. He worked on various Mr. Magoo cartoons and Gerald McBoing- Boing cartoons as well as cartoon shorts such as Madeline (1952) and Christopher Crumpet (1953). In 1959 he founded the television animation studio Format Films, best known for producing The Alvin Show and The Lone Ranger, as well as eleven Road Runner cartoons and three Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales cartoons for Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series.

The name derives from the German Krumhorn (or Krummhorn or Krumporn) meaning bent horn. This relates to the old English crump meaning curve, surviving in modern English in 'crumpled' and 'crumpet' (a curved cake). The similar-sounding French term cromorne, when used correctly, refers to a woodwind instrument of different design, though the term cromorne is often used in error synonymously with that of crumhorn. It is uncertain if the Spanish wind instrument orlo (attested in an inventory of 1559) designates the crumhorn, but it is known that crumhorns were used in Spain in the sixteenth century, and the identification seems likely.

On September 11, 2015, Naïve Classiques released "Passacaglia" Works for violin and orchestra by Arvo Pärt with MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (Kristjan Jarvi conducting), in celebration of Pärt's 80th birthday. The Engagements written by novelist J. Courtney Sullivan is loosely based on Meyers's career; it was one of People Magazine's Top 10 Books of the Year in 2014. Meyers also played the violinist character, Violetta, in Crumpet the Trumpet by children's book author and illustrator, Kristine Papillon. Meyers’ recording of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Fantasia was the only classical instrumental work included by NPR in their list of 100 best songs of 2017.

Rhodes appeared in a commercial tie-in with Tate & Lyle in the late 1990s, and his recipes endorsed sugar and treacle products accordingly; his name was printed on every Tate & Lyle sugar sachet across the country. Rhodes was associated with a Cooking in Schools campaign with Flora UK and appeared in television adverts for Flora margarine, some of which featured him "driving a van topped with a giant styrofoam crumpet" which were banned. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 17 June 2006. In the same year he competed, representing the South of England, in the BBC's Great British Menu, but lost to Atul Kochhar.

Crumpets have been variously described as originating in Wales or as part of the Anglo-Saxon diet,Ann Hagen, A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food Processing and Consumption, 1992, p. 20 based on proposed etymologies of the word. In either case breads were, historically, commonly cooked on a griddle whererever bread ovens were unavailable. The bara-planc, or griddle bread, baked on an iron plate over a fire, was part of the everyday diet in Wales until the 19th century.Notes & Queries, 3rd. ser. VII (1865), 170 Small, oval pancakes baked in this manner were called picklets, a name used for the first recognisable crumpet-type recipe, published in 1769 by Elizabeth Raffald in The Experienced English Housekeeper.

The film was directed by Martin Donovan and starred Hart Bochner and Colin Firth. Bryan plays the role of one of two eccentric characters (the other was played by Liz Smith) described by The Washington Post as two "tea-and-crumpet gargoyle-featured spinsters who snoop the corridors". It featured in the 1988 Sundance Film Festival.Apartment Zero' (R), Washington Post, 3 November 1989. Throughout her career, she continued to perform on the stage, often appearing in musicals such as Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1962) and Hello, Dolly! (1966–68). She also headlined a number of stage revues such as The Dora Bryan Show (1966), "My Name Is Dora" (1967) and An Evening with Dora Bryan and Friends (1968). She made her Broadway debut as Mrs.

He has written and co-written many plays and farces which have been seen at theatres such as Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Harlow Playhouse, Grand Metropole Hotel , Cheltenham Everyman, Derby Playhouse, and the Edinburgh Playhouse. He also wrote the acclaimed play about Mari Lloyd called The Good Old Daze, presented at The Wimbledon Theatre. Artists appearing in his plays such as Seaside Romp, Hands off My Crumpet, Adventures of Alice, and Happy Families, included Bob Grant, Mollie Sugden, and Jack Douglas. Bennett has also written and scripted for many well known comedians and performers, such as Frankie Howerd, Jim Bowen, and Anita Harris for whom he wrote and directed four talking books for the Pinewood Studios company, One Media iP Group Plc.

In any event the whole affair was a great success and, as many > people commented afterwards 'it was a smashing bit of crumpet'. The sketch angered the strongly-conservative Member of Parliament Sir Cyril Black, who wrote to the BBC to complain. Frank Gillard, the BBC's director of radio, wrote to Dennis Morris, the chief of the Light Programme, asking Round the Horne to "watch its step, particularly over the next few weeks and keep itself within reasonable bounds". Instead, Took and Feldman wrote a riposte that Horne read at the end of the following programme, addressed to the "minority of killjoys" who complained: > Let me say to them that our scripts are whiter than white, as is the face of > the producer when he reads them.

Joan Bakewell began her career as a studio manager for BBC Radio, before moving into television. She first became known as one of the presenters of an early BBC2 programme, Late Night Line-Up (1965–72 and 2008). Frank Muir dubbed her "the thinking man's crumpet"Manchester Celebrities , John Moss, Papillon (Manchester UK) Limited during this period and the moniker stuck, although Bakewell herself dislikes the epithet. In 1968 she took the role of narrator of the BBC TV production of Cold Comfort Farm, a three-part serial, and played a TV interviewer in the 1960s film The Touchables. Bakewell co-presented Reports Action, a Sunday teatime programme which encouraged the public to donate their services to various good causes, for Granada Television during 1976–78.

Her adaption of "O Mistress Mine" was praised by author and theater director Barry Edelstein as "a ravishing, guaranteed tearjerker". For her live performances, which she calls dinner theatre because of her practice of throwing tea and tea-time snacks offstage, Autumn makes use of burlesque—"a show that was mainly using humour and sexuality to make a mockery of things that were going on socially and politically"—to counterbalance the morbid topics such as abuse and self- mutilation. She incorporates handmade costumes, fire tricks, theatrics, and a female backing band, The Bloody Crumpets: Veronica Varlow, Jill Evyn (Moth), and formerly The Blessed Contessa, Lady Aprella, Little Lucina, Lady Joo Hee, Captain Vecona, Little Miss Sugarless, Mistress Jacinda, and the model Ulorin Vex. Another crumpet, Captain Maggot, has taken a leave.

The first 100 Sexiest Women list was published in 1995, and was compiled exclusively by a panel of 250 judges; German supermodel Claudia Schiffer topped the inaugural chart. The following year's poll was the first to be opened up to the general public – a total of 10,000 votes were cast, with the American actress Gillian Anderson being announced as the winner that September. A spokesman for FHM described her as the "thinking man's crumpet" and a "surprise winner". Anderson had posed half-naked on the front cover of the magazine earlier that year. The 1999 "100 Sexiest Women" poll was launched by projecting a naked image of alt=Colour photograph of a naked image of Gail Porter projected onto the Palace of Westminster in 1999 Over subsequent years, the list's popularity continued to grow.

Al-Dosari has been based in London since 2003 in self-imposed exile, where he has operated his YouTube-based talk show since 2015. In his talk show, al-Dosari criticizes the Saudi royal family, in particular King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad, whom he labels as "Salmanco" (referring to the methods exercised by the King in managing the country in a fashion similar to a company or as personal possession) and "al-Dub al-Dasher" (fat crumpet) respectively in a humorous manner, "exposes secrets" related to the royal family, and calls for protests against the Saudi government. Al- Dosari has been accused by Saud al-Qahtani, advisor to the Saudi Royal Court at minister rank, of being guilty of crimes related to "visa fraud" in his home country. Al-Dosari had spearheaded a protest movement known as "September 15 Movement" that took place throughout Saudi Arabia on September 15, 2017 which has been described as having a "huge following".