Editing Denis Healey (section)

== In popular culture ==

=== Film, television and theatre ===
[[File:Denis Healey appearing on "After Dark", 3 June 1989.jpg|260px|right|thumb|Appearing on television discussion programme ''[[After Dark (TV series)|After Dark]]'' in 1989]]
Healey is the only Chancellor of the Exchequer to have appeared on [[BBC One]]'s ''[[The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968–1977)|Morecambe and Wise Show]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/opinion/The-big-man-behind-the.3160680.jp|title=Denis Healey: The big man behind the big eyebrows|work=Yorkshire Post}}</ref> In 1986 he appeared in series one of ''[[Saturday Live (UK TV series)|Saturday Live]]''. He was portrayed by [[David Fleeshman]] in the 2002 BBC production of [[Ian Curteis]]'s ''[[The Falklands Play]]''. He appeared on ''[[The Dame Edna Experience]]'' in the song and dance number "Style" alongside actor [[Roger Moore]].

Healey was satirised in the ITV series ''[[Spitting Image]]'', his caricature mainly focusing on his famous eyebrows, with the real Healey appearing in the twelfth episode of the programme's first series in 1984 briefly noting the show was late covering [[1984 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|that year's European elections]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Spitting Image (1984) – Series 1, Episode 12 {{!}} Full Episode| date=2 April 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GClLAj_yF8M|language=en|access-date=2021-04-03}}</ref> The iconic eyebrows were similarly parodied in the 1977 serial ''[[The Sun Makers]]'' from the British [[science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', in which the antagonist known as the Collector is distinguished by having similarly bushy eyebrows to Healey.

In 1994, Healey appeared in a TV advertisement for [[Visa Debit]] cards. This was banned by the [[Independent Television Commission]] as it contained a reference to a scandal, subsequently revealed to be a fabrication, involving [[Norman Lamont]]'s personal life. Healey had appeared in an advert for [[Sainsbury's]] in the previous year.<ref name=IndyAdvert>{{cite news |last1=Macintyre |first1=Donald |last2=Williams |first2=Rhys |date=17 March 1994 |title=ITC bans Healey joke in advert |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/itc-bans-healey-joke-in-advert-1429553.html |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |access-date=2 October 2015}}</ref>

=== Music ===
During [[Led Zeppelin]]'s 1975 and 1977 concert tours, [[Robert Plant]] facetiously dedicated the song "[[In My Time of Dying]]" to Healey for the [[tax exile]] issues the band was facing. During [[Yes (band)|Yes]]'s recording of what was to become the album ''[[Tormato]]'' (1978), there was an outtake called "Money", on which the Yes keyboardist at the time, [[Rick Wakeman]], provides a satirical voice-over parodying Healey.<ref>Dave Lewis (2004), ''Led Zeppelin: The 'Tight But Loose' Files; Celebration 2'', [[Omnibus Press]], {{ISBN|1-84449-056-4}}, pp. 24–25.</ref>