Greg Dyke - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

During his tenure at the BBC, he was regularly impersonated on the BBC television comedy series Dead Ringers. His role played by Phil Cornwell but his accent was a mimic of Michael Caine. The character would always introduce himself by saying "My name is Greg Dyke, and I am director general of the BBC". After Dyke's departure from the BBC, in the last sketch it was changed so that he was no longer director general.

Read more about this topic:  Greg Dyke

Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or culture:

    “Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.”
    —Charles James Fox (1749–1806)

    “We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
    —Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)