In the Fan Club segment, Boris Badenov's newspaperman pen name is William Randolph Hearse, a spoof on the name of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, and he says he won a Bullitzer Prize (a spoof on the Pulitzer Prize).
The undertaker of Squaw's Ankle, Wyoming, is named Dudley Digg, a spoof on the name of 1930s Hollywood character actor Dudley Digges.