Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (2001) is a comedy/whodunit novel by Ben Elton in which ratings for a reality TV show, very similar to "Big Brother", rocket when a housemate is murdered. Unlike a typical whodunnit, Elton does not reveal the identity of the victim until around halfway into the book. The novel is about a murder that occurs on a reality television programme called "House Arrest", which is very similar to the program Big Brother, and the efforts of three police officers to identify the killer by watching all the video recordings of the ten housemates while the remaining
Parody in Tights" (1993) is Brooks' take on the classic Robin Hood tale. The British comedy group Monty Python is also famous for its parodies, for example, the King Arthur spoof "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1974), and the Jesus satire "Life of Brian" (1979). In the 1980s the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker parodied well-established genres such as disaster, war and crime movies with the "Airplane!", "Hot Shots!" and "Naked Gun" series respectively. There is a 1989 film parody from Spain of the TV series "The A-Team" called "El equipo Aahhgg" directed by José Truchado.