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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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