Originally a band consisting of Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron, they did sketches on their own, as well as appearing with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, as for instance the ABBA parody.
Its appearance created a feeling of unworldliness in various parodies-for instance "Star Wars", "House of Elliot", "Lord of the Rings" and others. This could have been created by the 1960s show "The Prisoner", whose symbol was the penny farthing?
