In popular culture
In Why Bother, Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling described his lost love Lina Rosa as “like Alma Cogan but without the bounce”.
In a Monty Python audio sketch, from The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail John Cleese as a professor of logic professor in track 8 “A Lesson in Logic” states that “Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan