Comedy & stand-up
Monty Python Speaks! Revised and Updated Edition: The Complete Oral History
The complete oral history of Monty Python – one of comedy’s most legendary and influential troupes – publishing to coincide with the 50th anniversary of their BBC debut.
With a foreword by John Oliver from Last Week Tonight
Dead Now Of Course: Unabridged edition
‘My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There’s still something disturbing, I grant you, about the word “actress”. If an MP or some other outstanding person plays fast and loose with an actress the world is unsurprised. She is certainly no better than she should be, and probably French…’
Dead Now Of Course
‘My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There’s still something disturbing, I grant you, about the word “actress”. If an MP or some other outstanding person plays fast and loose with an actress the world is unsurprised. She is certainly no better than she should be, and probably French…’
Dad’s Army: The Story of a Very British Comedy (Text Only)
The story of the greatest British sit-com and its enduring appeal.
How to Be a Husband
The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer.*
*Anything resembling advice should be taken at reader’s own risk.
Making Divorce Work: In 9 Easy Steps
An hilarious spoof self-help book from the star of Marion & Geoff and host of the hit BBC comedy The Keith Barret Show.
Happy Accidents
Best-known for her role in Glee, this is the hilarious and inspiring story of how Jane Lynch changed from a real-life Sue Sylvester to the happy and fulfilled actress she is today.
Mark Steel’s In Town
On the way to a show in Skipton, in North Yorkshire, I noticed a road sign to a town called Keighley. So later, during the show, I mentioned this, asking the audience ‘Is that your rival town?’ And the room went chillingly quiet, until one woman called out with understated menace, ‘Keighley is a sink of evil.’
Memories of Milligan
An arresting collection of interviews, collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan’s close friend and longstanding agent, bringing to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises.
Happy Accidents
The hilarious and inspiring story of how Jane Lynch changed from a real-life Sue Sylvester to the happy and fulfilled actress she is today.
Happy Accidents: Unabridged edition
Best-known as Glee’s sharp-tongued Sue Sylvester, Jane Lynch’s on-screen persona is someone that many love to hate. But when she’s not prowling the corridors in Sue’s shiny tracksuit, who is the real Jane Lynch and how did this Golden Globe and Emmy winner learn to channel such delicious nastiness?
Making the Cat Laugh
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One woman’s journal of single life on the margins.
A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’ journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative ‘Bridget Jones’.
The Book of Dad
The Book that will forever define the essentially comic state of being, acting, looking, and sounding like a Dad.
Memories of Milligan
An arresting collection of interviews, collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan’s close friend and longstanding agent, bringing to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises.
Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind Of Andy Kaufman
First biography of the comedian Andy Kaufman, soon to be played by Jim Carrey in Milos Forman’s new film Man On The Moon.