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Originally this index was devoted to the novelizations and spin-offs of radio and TV comedy shows, but it's since broadened out into more general 'humour'.



SIMON BRETT
AFTER HENRY

'A well-crafted, satisfying novel'


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JEREMY LLOYD
ARE YOU BEING SERVED?

'A staggeringly successful series'


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SCREAMING LORD SUTCH
AS SUTCH: THE POLITICAL MANIFESTO OF
THE OFFICIAL MONSTER RAVING LOONY PARTY

'Warning: Voting can seriously damage your sanity'


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BARBARA WINDSOR'S BOOK OF BOOBS
'My boobs will give everyone hours of fun!'


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LES DAWSON
THE BLADE AND THE PASSION

'A rollicking, lusty saga of sex, love and death'


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HENRY N BEARD & DOUGLAS C KENNEY
BORED OF THE RINGS

'A parody of JRR Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings'


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THE BLUFFER'S GUIDES
'Know your jargon and hold your own in any company'


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PETER LESLIE & PATRICK GWYNN-JONES
THE BOOK OF BILK

'41 Characters in Search of an Acker'


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LES DAWSON
A CARD FOR THE CLUBS

'A bitter-sweet account of a comic career'


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CHRISTOPHER KENWORTHY
CITIZEN SMITH

'Freedom for Tooting'


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GARRY SHANDLING with David Rensin
CONFESSIONS OF A LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST:
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LARRY SANDERS

'Very, very funny. Compulsory reading.' - Time Out


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TRISHA MARSHALL
A FINE ROMANCE

'When it comes to love, you just never can tell'


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ALAN COREN
THE FURTHER BULLETINS OF IDI AMIN

'De noo bes' seller'


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JOHNNIE MORTIMER & BRIAN COOKE
GEORGE AND MILDRED

'Devotees of the hilarious comedy series will much enjoy these adventures of their favourite characters.'


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JEREMY PASCALL
GOD: THE ULTIMATE AUTOBIOGRAPHY


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THE GOODIES
'based on their hilariously funny television series'


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ALAN SIMPSON & RAY GALTON
ANTHONY ALOYSISUS ST JOHN HANCOCK


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WILLIAM JOHNSTON
HAPPY DAYS

'When the carnival comes to town, it's Happy Days'


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JEANNIE SAKOL
THE INEPT SEDUCER

'or Bad Inentions Are Not Enough'


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JEREMY HARDY
JEREMY HARDY SPEAKS TO THE NATION

'The lectures that galvanised Britain'


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ERIC IDLE
HELLO SAILOR

'Completely ****** Unexpurgated'


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ROBERT KLANE
THE HORSE IS DEAD

'Undoubtedly the funniest book I've ever read' - Jack Benny


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PETER TINNISWOOD
THE HOME FRONT

'Now a side-splitting TV series'


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TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR, BARRY CRYER, GRAEME GARDEN, WILLIE RUSHTON & HUMPHREY LYTTLETON
I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T A CLUE

'Unexpurgated highlights'


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GRAEME GARDEN & BILL ODDIE
I'M SORRY I'LL READ THAT AGAIN

'The Classic Scripts'


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RALPH HOOVER
JABBERWOCKY

'Warning: This book is not for sensitive persons, persons of a nervous disposition or any other wets who are taken in by silly warnings like these.'


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HUMPHREY BERKELEY
THE LIFE & DEATH OF ROCHESTER SNEATH

'One of the funniest books since The Diary of a Noby or, if you prefer, Decline and Fall - RHS Crossman'


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LES DAWSON
THE MALADY LINGERS ON
AND OTHER GREAT GROANERS

'I love puns...'


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JOHN FORTUNE & JOHN WELLS
A MELON FOR ECSTASY


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EDDIE BRABEN
THE BEST OF MORECAMBE AND WISE

'Hilarious' - Observer


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JOEL LIEBER
MOVE

'The civilian Catch-22'


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compiled by JOHN LANGDON, DANNY GREENSTONE & ALAN NIXON
THE NEWS QUIZ BOOK

'No news is good news'


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BERNARD McKENNA & COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
THE ODD JOB

'Now a hilariously funny film'


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OLIVER GRAPE
ONWARD VIRGINS/CRUMPET VOLUNTARY/IT'S A KNOCK-UP!

'If this is the permissive society, I'd be better off with the Co-Op!'


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ERIC MORECAMBE
OVER THE MOON ... SICK AS A PARROT

'A World Cup Special'


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MICHAEL AVALLONE & VANCE STANTON
THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY

'Read the wild, wild novel...
watch the smash-hit Screen Gems-TV series
starring Shirley Jones'


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DICK CLEMENT & IAN LA FRENAIS
PORRIDGE

'Porridge is funny, extremely funny' - Stanley Reynolds in The Guardian


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PRIVATE POP-EYE:
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SPIGGY TOPES

'Elvis * Beatles * Stones * and now...'


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ALAN HOLMES
THE REBEL

'The story, based on the hilarious film, wherein Tony Hancock becomes an artist in gay Montparnasse'


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TONY WARREN
RISING DAMP

'Rigsby's Hell-Shaped Rooms...'


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PETER TILBURY & COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
SHELLEY

'Love on the dole ... with a PhD'


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E.J. THRIBB (17)
SO. FAREWELL THEN... AND OTHER POEMS

'To his ever-widening readership, this collection of Thribb's genius will be a work of constant delight and inspiration.' - Melvyn Barg


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ALAN SIMPSON & RAY GALTON
THE SPY WITH THE COLD NOSE

'A crazy scheme involving British Intelligence, a bulldog and the Soviet Prime Minister'


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GALE PEDRICK
STEPTOE AND SON
and STEPTOE AND SON AT THE PALACE
'The World-famous BBC Comedy Hit'


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JOHN BURKE
TILL DEATH US DO PART

'The hilarious BBC-TV series that shocks and delights an audience of 16,000,000'


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PETER TINNISWOOD
A TOUCH OF DANIEL

'One of the best comic novels to come out of the Sixties' - Daily Express


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IAN DAVIDSON & PETER VINCENT
THE BUMPER BOOK OF THE TWO RONNIES

'The Very Best of the News'


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WILLIAM RAND
UP POMPEII!

'The original and unexpurgated reminiscences of Lurcio the Slave'


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RONALD SCOTT THORN
UPSTAIRS AND DOWNSTAIRS

'Racy and hilarious - a laugh on every page'


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IAN BROWN & JAMES HENDRIE
WEEK ENDING: THE CABINET LEAKS

'High-Fibre Sproutings from Radio 4's Week Ending Programme'


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ROBERT KLANE
WHERE'S POPPA?

'I laughed out loud all the way through' - Joseph Heller


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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON & LLOYD OSBOURNE
THE WRONG BOX

'Bryan Forbes directs a star-studded cast in the film version of this classic macabre comedy'


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