Tweedledum and Tweedledee (comics) of those characters in Lewis Carroll's sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" entitled "Through the Looking-Glass". The two Tweeds always conduct their criminal activity in partnership with one another. They prefer to mastermind criminal schemes and let their henchmen carry out any necessary physical activity. The Tweeds will often use their extraordinary resemblance to trick their opponents into thinking there is only one of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee first encountered Batman and Robin when they began a crime spree in Gotham City. Batman and Robin have fought against the Tweeds and have overcome them on subsequent occasions. The pair makes
Ian Hislop "Gush", a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of Jeffrey Archer. With Newman he also wrote the family-friendly satirical sitcom "My Dad's the Prime Minister" and in the early nineties for the Dawn French vehicle "Murder Most Horrid". Hislop and Newman wrote the Radio 4 series "The News at Bedtime", a satire on fairy tales which aired over the 2009 Christmas season. The series starred Jack Dee as 'John Tweedledum' and Peter Capaldi as 'Jim Tweedledee'; the two present the "news of the day" in the world of fairy tales, while arguing with each other as