Orville

Orville the Duck is the puppet of ventriloquist Keith Harris. Orville was a green duckling who wore nothing but a nappy.

Orville appeared on BBC television from 1982 to 1990 on The Keith Harris Show], which featured assorted puppets such as Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey. Orville's high point was Keith Harris' and Orville's hit single named "Orville's Song" — "I wish I could fly, right up to the sky, but I can't..." First charting in December 1982, this single reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart the following month, and sold over 400,000 copies.

Orville and Keith had a short appearance on the sketch comedy series Little Britain as themselves in of a group of entertainers waiting to meet the royal family. They were interrupted by a man with a pathetic sock puppet who claimed he was Keith Harris and his sock was Orville. The real Keith was naturally annoyed at this and the fake Keith, after a few attempts at claiming to be other people, was thrown out. The sketch was part of a series about a former BBC news presenter's desperate attempts to meet the royals, who he idolised. The sketches did not make the TV version of the show, but are included in the deleted scenes portion of the DVD.

In the television series Little Britain, Orville was portrayed as an out-of-work actor shopping at a supermarket, played by Matt Lucas, dressed as an oversized version of Orville, and had a regularly-pitched voice. Matt and David wrote the sketch not long before shooting, and required Keith Harris's permission.