Popularity
Siegfried and Roy's popularity has prompted many television shows both to honor them as pop culture icons and to lampoon their aesthetic sensibilities and question the true nature of their relationship. Primetime animated shows in particular, such as The Simpsons, have poked fun at the duo.
Siegfried and Roy were characters themselves in the television animated series Father of the Pride. The characters were voiced by Julian Holloway and David Herman; the real Siegfried and Roy were involved with the show as executive co-producers. The duo are also mentioned in the theme song to Kenan and Kel.
Michael Jackson wrote and performed a song, called "Mind is the Magic", about Siegfried and Roy. The song is used as their theme tune in Father of the Pride.
Tanya Freemont in StarKid Productions's "Little White Lie" mentioned Siegfried and Roy in her song, Boy Toy, by Tanya and the Hot Girls.
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Famous quotes containing the word popularity:
“Here also was made the novelty ‘Chestnut Bell’ which enjoyed unusual popularity during the gay nineties when every dandy jauntily wore one of the tiny bells on the lapel of his coat, and rang it whenever a story-teller offered a ‘chestnut.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A more problematic example is the parallel between the increasingly abstract and insubstantial picture of the physical universe which modern physics has given us and the popularity of abstract and non-representational forms of art and poetry. In each case the representation of reality is increasingly removed from the picture which is immediately presented to us by our senses.”
—Harvey Brooks (b. 1915)
“The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.”
—Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)