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Dara O Briain moved from Ireland to England many years ago and it’s clear that the English still remain a bit of a puzzle to him. But O Briain loves a challenge… with his gregarious personality and sure-fire wit, he’s bringing down the barriers of our famous English reserve and having a good old rummage through what’s hidden inside. The result is Tickling the English - an affectionate, funny and deeply personal view of our country’s mores and manners.

Find the best lines from your favourite jokesters and wordsmiths, add that extra something to a speech or presentation or just enjoy a good laugh… This dazzling collection selected by the late great Ned Sherrin brings together the wittiest oneliners, the funniest phrases and the most hilarious comments of inspired observation. Covering over 200 subjects, from Censorship to Sex, and featuring over 5,000 quotations, this collection will be an efficacious addition to any book shelf.

Packed with enough jokes to fill a whole new series, Mock the Week: This Year’s Book! is a brand new collection of near-the-knuckle humour and timely and topical witticisms from one of TV’s most popular shows. With a host of laugh-out-loud one liners throughout, categories include Bad Things to Hear on Waking Up, Unlikely Dictionary Definitions and Cards You Never See in a Newsagent’s Window. Ideal for dipping into or reading from cover to cover!

Alan Davies was always a hoarder. Not much that came out of his bedroom made it into the bin, never mind the uninvented bin liner. But this ‘rubbish’ sums up an era… Nostalgic and laugh-out-loud funny, My Favourite People and Me is an affectionate trip through a surburban childhood and an Eighties education. Blending genuine enthusiasm with touching personal revelations, this is an intimate portrait of one of Britain’s leading comedians.

Updated and revised, the new edition of this bestselling favourite enables readers to master the fundamentals of humour writing and better understand the demands of the market for comedy. Comedy Writing Secrets now includes examples from venerable comedy greats as well as cutting-edge contemporary comedians. A complete spectrum of techniques, from writing one-liners and stand-up routines, to finding a market for one’s work. Step-by-step writing exercises accompanied with sample answers, so readers can practise and hone their skills With this guide, aspiring comics can learn how to sharpen their comedic talent and turn it into a well-paying pursuit.

Hilariously funny and absolutely packed full of quotable lines and language-changing gems, PG Wodehouse is responsible for providing us with one of literature’s all-time great relationships and some of the best comic studies in print. Here you’ll not only meet the incomparable valet Jeeves and his hapless charge Bertie Wooster, but you’ll encounter Totleigh Towers, Sir Watkyn Bassett, Roderick Spode and Gussie Fink-Nottle to name just a few of the inimitable characters that pass in and out of Jeeves’ care. If you haven’t yet encountered Jeeves and Wooster, you’re in for a wonderfully self-indulgent treat.

From tried and tested knock knock jokes to your favourite author’s funniest jokes, this bumper collection is sure to raise a smile! Children love reading joke books from cover to cover, and they’ll also never tire of trying their one-liners out on an adult audience… so be prepared to start laughing!

This brilliant collection of spooky, silly, disgusting and festive jokes is sure to have children in stitches. Each rib-tickling, side-splitting book features a vast array of groan-worthy humour and all illustrated with black-and-white cartoons. Boys and girls will love the silly humour and they can arm themselves with a vast collection of one-liners ready to entertain the entire family! Give the collection to a joke-hungry child or share them out and spread a little laughter!

Here, at last, is the timely antidote to the plethora of ‘101 things’ books so beloved by vaunting adventurers. After all, why must we swim with dolphins? Or read Kafka in Prague? Or go paintballing? Wish-fulfillment lists take heed… Antidote to the dictum that to achieve fulfillment you must complete a list of ‘must do’ experiences. This is a hilarious pastiche of previously successful humour titles.

The world is an exciting and confusing place for Jeremy Clarkson… Here, he has free reign to expose absurdity, celebrate eccentricity and entertain richly in the process. And the net is cast wide: from the chronic unsuitability of men to look after children for long periods, David Beckham and 70s rock to the demise of Concorde and the shocking failure of Tom Clancy to make it on to the Booker short list. This snapshot of life will have you wincing with embarrassment and crying with laughter and it’s not all about the cars!