Wildebeest "The Great Space Coaster" (newscaster Gary Gnu), and "The Lion King" (the wildebeest stampede that resulted in Mufasa's death). Michael Flanders wrote a humorous song called "The Gnu", which was very popular when he performed it, with Donald Swann, in a revue called "At the Drop of a Hat", which opened in London on 31 December 1956. The wildebeest is the mascot of the GNU Project and GNU operating system. In the "Llama Llama" picture-book series by Anna Dewdney, an anthropomorphized wildebeest named Nelly Gnu is the main character, Llama Llama's best friend, and is also featured in a title
Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years "Round the Horne", "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", and "The Navy Lark". Other shows since, such as "Dead Ringers" could also be said to have been influenced by it. Some recurring jokes were: "Forty Nights in the Wildebeest" was the name of a follow-up series of six programmes, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the year 2000. It followed a similar format to "The Wildebeest Years": a quick-fire mixture of pun-laden short sketches and musical numbers. The second show in the series was recorded at the Edinburgh Festival. Sketches included "Hong Feng Shui" and a musical number by