The programme has been the target for many television spoofs, including a "Two Ronnies" sketch written by David Renwick (a less polished version had previously appeared in the Radio 4 series "The Burkiss Way") in 1980, featuring Ronnie Barker as Magnus Magnusson and Ronnie Corbett as a contestant named Charlie Smithers, whose specialist subject was "answering the question before last". A similar sketch featured "Monty Python" alumni Michael Palin as Magnusson and Terry Gilliam as a contestant whose speciality was "questions to which the answer is "two"."