Comedians on themselves
Dear Fatty: My Autobiography Of Me
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Century )
Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, wtih a career that has spanned nearly three decades, encompassing a vast and brilliant array of characters. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achie... More »
Silent Comedy
$37.95 (Trade paperback / Random House )
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Stop Me If You've Heard This
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar. 'What is
this' the barman says, 'some kind of joke?'
As he laughs his way though the history of jokes, Jim Holt
discovers that most of those we trade are actually hundre... More »
The Lucy Family Alphabet
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for years. But when a birth relative's casual comment implied that she despised them, Judith was shocked. Sure, she had been talking about Ann and Tony Lucy like they... More »
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Playing Poker With The SAS
$29.95 (Paperback book / )
Over Christmas and New Year 2006–07 I went to Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and some other countries I cannot name, to entertain the Australian troops. It was not because I wanted to aid the war effort. It was not because I ... More »
All That Happened At Number 26
$29.95 (Paperback book / Hardie Grant )
I’ll never forget the first time John and I saw number 26. We just knew it was going to be ours. It was so awful and ugly and repulsive in every way, not to mention the fact that it was located in a suburb I had sworn I’... More »
My Booky Wook
$27.99 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )
'My life is a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.'Russell Brand's scandalous reminiscences were always going to have a literary flavour. But nothing you'... More »
Lenny Bruce: Let The Buyer Beware
$89.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / )
Considering what an enormous impact Lenny Bruce had on modern social mores, satire, politics, and entertainment, it's surprising that a box set of his material didn't appear until nearly four decades after his 1966 death... More »
And It's Goodnight From Him: The Autobiography Of The Two Ronnies
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
On 1st April 1971, The Two Ronnies aired for the first time on the BBC. It quickly became one of the most successful and long running television comedy shows ever on British television and its stars – Ronnie Barker and R... More »