Editing Brian Perkins (section)

== "The Godfather of Radio 4" ==
From 2000, radio and television comedy impressions show ''[[Dead Ringers (comedy)|Dead Ringers]]'' had a running joke depicting Brian Perkins as the "Godfather of Radio 4", played on the show by impressionist [[Jon Culshaw]]. His imitation often refers to himself as "Big Daddy Perkins" and frequently badmouths BBC colleagues, hinting that he's given out various punishment beatings to those who had earned his ire. In one sketch, the ''Dead Ringers'' Brian telephoned the real Brian, accusing him of not being hard enough. The real Brian riposted with a claim that he'd put [[Peter Donaldson (newsreader)|Peter Donaldson]]'s feet in concrete and thrown him into a canal. In the 2007 ''Ten Years of Blair'' special of Dead Ringers, Perkins was portrayed as the Godfather of not only the BBC but the entire nation, acting as the British head of state.<ref>As he says, "Even Liz has to answer to King Perkins the first. Defender of the faith, monarch of the Glen and crusher of the nadgers of anyone who's got a problem with it... And if I don't like you, you get an OBE. The Order of Brian's Elbow, in the face... Now get down Tony Blair, and give me Government."</ref> Brian and Jon later appeared together on the [[BBC Radio 4]] [[panel game]] ''Wireless Wise''. Taking it one step further, [[humourist]] [[Danny Wallace (humorist)|Danny Wallace]] refers to Perkins as a [[God]] in his 2006 [[Travel journal|travelogue]] ''[[Yes Man (book)|Yes Man]]''.<ref>{{Cite book | author=Wallace, Danny| author-link=Danny Wallace (humorist) | title=[[Yes Man (book)|Yes Man]] | year=2006 | publisher=Ebury Press (Rand) | isbn=0-09-189674-6}}</ref>