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Synopsis Subtitled : Letters, Lyrics, Routines. Bill Hicks was arguably the most influential stand-up comedian of the last 40 years. He was funny, ...

Synopsis The Transcripts. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are still commonly regarded as the greatest comic double act that Great Britain has ever pr...

Synopsis Subtitled : Owling With Laughter. A bumper collection of the decade's funniest stories, as published every day in The Herald's 'Diary' c...

Synopsis Whether told in the rugby clubs of Wales or the gentlemen's clubs of London, their sharpness and simplicity unites us all. Short, sweet ...

Synopsis Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war...

Synopsis Subtitled : 'or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge'. Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at sc...

Synopsis 'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't eve...

Synopsis When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a ...

Synopsis A busker is a wee guy (or woman) who plays on the streets for tips. In bands, to busk, means to bluff your way through a song that you hav...

Synopsis This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially com...

Synopsis Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. The Audacity of Hype brings togeth...