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->''"This is a song about Wayne Rooney or possibly [[Music/CherylCole Cheryl Tweedy]]\\
Sung to a familiar tune we nicked off an Music/EltonJohn CD\\
And the chorus [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong strongly resembles]] ''[[Music/BobDylan Mr Tambourine Man]]'' as performed by Music/TheByrds\\
The singer's voice usually trembles on the line which has got far too many garbled and convoluted wooords!"''
-->--'''Richie Webb''' mocking his own work on the show

''15 Minute Musical'' (also ''Fifteen Minute Musical/s'') is a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] comedy series which tells parody stories about celebrities and politicians, using a different musical style for each episode. It is written by Richie Webb, David Quantick and Dave Cohen. One six-episode series has been broadcast every year since 2004 - except for 2009 and 2011 - and in 2009 it won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy.

It's notable for refusing to take anything with even an ounce of seriousness, [[SelfDeprecation least of all itself,]] resulting in a [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness hugely silly]], over-the-top WorldOfHam, run entirely on RuleOfFunny, with NoFourthWall. A thirty-minute {{Mockumentary}}, starring Richie Webb and ridiculing the show itself, was broadcast in 2006.

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!!Characters with TV Tropes pages:
* UsefulNotes/TonyBlair
* UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily
** UsefulNotes/ElizabethII
* UsefulNotes/GordonBrown
* UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush
* UsefulNotes/DavidCameron
* UsefulNotes/NickClegg
* UsefulNotes/BillClinton
* UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton
* Creator/BruceForsyth
* UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson
* UsefulNotes/PeterMandelson
* UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch
* UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher
* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber

!!''15 Minute Musical'' contains examples of:
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Ed Miliband in ''Thoroughly Modern Miliband.''
* BadLiar: Jeffrey Archer in ''Jeffrey.''
* BeYourself: The SpoofAesop of ''My Foul Mouthed Lady.'' Comically unsubtle to the extreme - it's literally the refrain of the big, loud musical finale.
-->"Be yourself! Be yourself!\\
In the long run it's much better for your health!"
* BestServedCold: Ken Livingstone's approach to having lost the London mayoral election.
-->"[[VillainSong This is my victory]]\\
I've bided my time\\
And revenge is like gazpacho\\
[[IncrediblyLongNote It's a dish best served cooold!"]]
* BigBrotherBully: David Miliband in ''Thoroughly Modern Miliband.''
* BigManOnCampus: Barack Obama in ''Washington High School Musical.''
* BigNo: Ben Elton towards the end of his CoolAndUnusualPunishment in ''The Elton Story.''
* BitingTheHandHumor: Besides being rife with SelfDeprecation, the mockumentary episode took several shots at Radio 4.
* BodyHorror: Implied in ''Simon Smug And The Crap Factory,'' when Louis Walsh resolves to divide and reshape his body into ''five discrete smaller men.''
* CampGay: UsefulNotes/PeterMandelson in ''Brothers In Arms'' and ''Oh, Oh, Oh What A Lovely Blair.''
** Graham Norton in ''The Court Of King Michael Of Parkinson.''
* CatchPhrase: UsefulNotes/TonyBlair's "Tough on X, [[MemeticMutation tough on the causes of X!"]]
** [[BraggingThemeTune "Things can only get better!"]]
* CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: ''Simon Smug And The Crap Factory.'' In which Simon Cowell shows winners of his Golden (Meal) Ticket competition around his factory, populated by a chorus of Oozer Losers.
* ChewingTheScenery
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Ben Elton calls off his DealWithTheDevil and is forced to [[spoiler:[[Theater/WeWillRockYou write crap musicals]] about [[Music/RodStewart every band in history.]]]]
* DealWithTheDevil: Parodied at the expense of Creator/AndrewLloydWebber in ''The Elton Story.''
* DecadentCourt: The Houses of Parliament as portrayed in ''The Lying King.''
-->"It's crammed with money and milk and honey\\
And fuelled by sex and hate\\
So you really, really don't want to go there...\\
But it's ''great!''"
* TheDeepSouth: Subverted in ''Calamity Dave.''
* DoubleEntendre
-->'''Ann Widdecombe:''' We're building a leader who's on the far right!\\
'''Michael Howard:''' At least, that's how he's dressed - these trousers are tight...
* EvilLaugh: UsefulNotes/TonyBlair gives a very [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] one following his victory in ''Brothers In Arms,'' made all the more chilling because his FauxAffablyEvil façade has finally disintegrated.
** Simon Cowell's is also ''very'' evil. See YouLookFamiliar.
* FauxAffablyEvil: UsefulNotes/TonyBlair, in all of his many appearances.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: By Germany in ''Oh, Oh, Oh What A Lovely Blair:''
-->'''Peter Mandelson:''' The Boche are threatening to overrun Europe using their evil powers to create a vibrant economy and sell better quality washing machines than us!\\
'''Tony Blair:''' The blighters!
* FrankensteinsMonster: An unusually suave knock-off is assembled in ''Horror Tory.''
* GenreRoulette
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* HamToHamCombat: Any time two or more characters sing together - or even, in many cases, speak together.
** ''A Deal Is A Deal,'' a duet between Elton and Lloyd Webber in ''The Elton Story,'' is a prime example.
** Cameron and Clegg's duets from ''The Lying King'' (''The Elephant's Graveyard'' and ''I Will Be Your Enemy'') feature much competitive hammery. Cameron has the advantage, of course, because EvilIsHammy.
* IAmGreatSong: Robert Kilroy-Silk gets a few in ''Nice Hair,'' as do Ben Elton in ''The Elton Story'' and Barack Obama in ''Washington High School Musical.''
* ICallHimMisterHappy: Sven-Göran Eriksson's 'Little Sven' in ''Manager Mia.''
* IgnoredAesop: Celebrated at the end of ''Jeffrey.''
-->"I've learned [{{Beat}}] [[BaitAndSwitch NOTHING!]]"
* InTheBack: ''Brothers In Arms,'' metaphorically and literally.
* InsaneAdmiral: General Blair in ''Oh, Oh, Oh What A Lovely Blair.''
* KavorkaMan: Sven-Göran Eriksson sings about being one in ''Manager Mia.''
* LandDownUnder: Subverted in ''The Ozfather.''
* LargeHam: Notably, UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, though he's far from alone. See WorldOfHam.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: In ''Brothers In Arms,'' Cherie sings a whole number - ''Two Tonys In My Life'' - about marrying a guy with the same name as her father.
* LoveTriangle: Between UsefulNotes/TonyBlair, UsefulNotes/GordonBrown and UsefulNotes/PeterMandelson in ''Brothers In Arms.''
* {{Malaproper}}: John Prescott. No comedy depiction of him would be complete without this and/or StrangeSyntaxSpeaker.
* MidWordRhyme
* MusicalPastiche
* MyGirlBackHome: Cherie in ''Oh, Oh, Oh What A Lovely Blair.''
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Alex Salmond in ''License To Kilmarnock,'' as part of a comprehensive Bond parody.
-->"Special Agent Ond. Alex Salm-ond."
* NonHumanSidekick: Labradori in ''Blunketto.''
* OffToSeeTheWizard: ''When You Wish Upon A Car'' sees Jeremy Clarkson dumped ''under'' the rainbow by a tornado.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: '[[UsefulNotes/GordonBrown Jock]]' in ''Oh, Oh, Oh What A Lovely Blair.''
* PaperThinDisguise: Prince Charles adopts several in ''The Prince And The Papadum.''
* {{Parody}}
* PlanetOfSteves: The five Eds in ''Thoroughly Modern Miliband.''
-->'''Ed M:''' I'm Ed and I'm standing for leadership of the Party.\\
'''Ed B:''' Hello. I'm standing too, and I'm also Ed.\\
'''Andy:''' I'm Andy Burnham, but for the purposes of this song, I will also be Ed.\\
'''Ed M:''' Bruv, what about you?\\
'''David:''' Do I have to be called Ed as well?\\
'''Ed M:''' This song isn't going to work otherwise.\\
'''David:''' (sigh) I guess I'm Ed, then.
* PrisonRape: Implied in ''Jeffrey:''
-->"Prison is not that baaad!\\
But I'll never shower again!"
* RuleOfFunny: Ceaseless.
* {{Satire}}
* SiblingRivalry: The Milibands in ''Thoroughly Modern Miliband.''
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Usually averted. The show's so jam-packed with obvious [[FakeNationality fake accents]] that dropping them for the songs would undermine the parody.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Typically cynical for a show mocking politicians.
* SlidingScaleOfSeriousnessVersusSilliness: Planted firmly at the silly end.
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: John Prescott.
* ThreeWishes: For Nick Clegg in ''Cleggarella.''
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: Field Marshall Corporal Lieutenant General Blair in ''Oh, Oh, Oh What A Lovely Blair.''
* TakeThat
** SelfDeprecation: See the page quote.
* UpperClassTwit: Any given aristocrat and almost every Tory, especially UsefulNotes/DavidCameron.
* VerbalTic: UsefulNotes/TonyBlair's famous "Hey," "Y'know," "Come on," "Look guys," more often evolving into something like "I mean hey, come on, you know, guys, look..."
** In ''We're All Going On An Olympic Odyssey,'' UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson starts most 'b' words with a blustering stutter ("B-B-B-Boris always b-b-b-bounces b-b-b-back!"). But in ''Blue Brothers'' he throws extra 'b's at the start of any old word for emphasis. ("We're about to become b-b-b-Tory [=MPs=].")
* WarForFunAndProfit: ''Oh, Oh, Oh What A Lovely Blair''
* WeUsedToBeFriends: UsefulNotes/TonyBlair and UsefulNotes/GordonBrown towards the end of ''Brothers In Arms.''
* WorldOfHam
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: ''A Christmas Gordon.'' In which stingy Ebenezer Brown is visited by the ghosts of Prime Minister [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Past,]] [[UsefulNotes/TonyBlair Present]] and [[UsefulNotes/DavidCameron Future.]]