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Comedians Elis James and John Robins have captured the hearts and minds of a generation, and it's time those hearts and minds had a book. Elis and John met in 2005 performing stand-up comedy in a pub called The Yellow Kangaroo in Cardiff. They eyed each other suspiciously before Robins offered the limpest handshake in the history of the world. 'It was a power play,' says Robins. 'I may even have raised it for him to kiss.'

When a haunted chess set causes consternation at the British Chess Championships, and a horse magically materialises in Kettering Agricultural Museum, MI:13 are called to investigate. Harry Crow (David Warner) and Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) follow the trail of inexplicable happenings to an unremarkable terraced house in South Wales, home to the mysterious Mr Merriman (David Benson). He's very old, and very mad; but is there more to Merriman than first appears?

Nash and Maggie’s offspring are off to college along with Kaiden and Kain. As they navigate life away from home, they must deal with what happened after graduation too. Will the quints be able to help Lyric deal with the tragedy while they deal with college life? Sometimes you need a little help and guidance from The Gray Brothers themselves. Get ready because The Gray Sisters are taking college by storm.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Goodbye Soldier, written and read by Spike Milligan. "My name is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni." "I'm Spike, sometimes known as 'stop thief' or 'hey you.'" "Yeser, I know." The sixth volume of Spike Milligan's off-the-wall account of his part in World War Two sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946.....

Living with The Gray Brothers has always been a unique experience for Maggie. She had to survive countless battles with the brothers, school, and college, too. Wait until she must survive her final year in college and wedding planning. Join Maggie, Nash, and the brothers as they graduate college, get married and start families. With the Gray family involved, it won’t be anything but comedic errors for our favorite couple. These weddings are the ones you don’t want to miss. *Images belong solely to the original owner.

Sewists, you deserve a good laugh. Beth is a former president of her local sewing guild and loves to sew. Rich has a lot of time on his hands after retiring early. Follow the humorous antics of these two as they adjust to his new found freedom. He wants to micromanage her days, and she just wants to sew! You’ll relate to their back and forth and chuckle at the anecdotes within. The only problem being how to put it down to get something else done, or finish work on a sewing project.

Everleigh Winter’s first mistake was admitting she could see ghosts. She had always been different. Now that difference could help save the only friends she had. She just needed to help find a missing artifact for a reclusive billionaire a few days before Christmas. Survival was just a séance away. Constantine Kor would do anything to keep from shapeshifting. The magical ring that broke the curse when fitted to his finger had been stolen, and the thief had the audacity to hide it and promptly die. His luck had improved with the arrival of the medium he’d hired. She was magical. Though ...

Romeo Harper doesn’t have an issue with women since they flock to him. Romeo creates a dating service and offers his services to the campus girls for a reasonable price. When someone requests a date, Romeo meets the person he least expected for a date. While Romeo enjoys his newfound romance, someone is looking to expose his dating services as a fraud. When the girl discovers the site’s owner, chaos erupts. After enduring an epic humiliation, Romeo receives help from an unexpected source. It will take the love of his parents, brothers, and one special girl to prove to Romeo that ...

I was at my wit's end. I'd had enough of this job, this life, and my relationship had broken up. Should I eat chocolate, or go to India, or fall in love? Then I had a revelation: Why not do all three, in that order? And so it was that I embarked on a journey that was segmented into three parts and was then made into a major motion picture. Later, I woke up on an airplane with a hole in my face and a really bad hangover. I was ushered brusquely off the plane by my parents who took me to a rehab.

"Take my wife—please!" Henny Youngman, the king of one-liners, delivers a classic collection of jokes. For more than sixty years, Henny Youngman provoked giggles, roars, and belly laughs for audiences on stage, in nightclubs, and on radio television. In his famous style, Henny delivers rapid-fire jokes in succession. He adds even more zest to this recording with a variety of anecdotes featuring the greatest names in show business. From funny bone ticklers to groaners, these jokes and stories are delivered the way only Henny Youngman, the Master of Comedy, can.

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Now that Parker has found love and graduated from high school, he’s about to embark on another chapter along with big brother Payton when they attend college. The only thing is Payton’s searching for the happiness of his own. What happens when Payton unexpectedly meets the one girl impervious to his charms? Will he chase after love, or will he give up? As they say, let the games begin. Follow Payton on his own journey to finding love. It’s going to take some help from some extraordinary brothers.

Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse have been friends for 30 years, but when life intervened, what was once a joyous and spontaneous friendship dwindled to the odd phone call or occasional catch up. Then, Glory Be! They were both diagnosed with heart disease and realised that time is short. They'd better spend it fishing...So they dusted off their kits, chucked on their waders and ventured into the achingly beautiful British countryside to fish, rediscover the joys of their friendship and ruminate on some of life's most profound questions....

Robin by Dave Itzkoff shows how Robin Williams struggled mightily with addiction and depression - topics he discussed openly while performing and during interviews - and with a debilitating condition at the end of his life that affected him in ways his fans never knew. Drawing on more than a hundred original interviews with family, friends and colleagues, as well as extensive archival research, Robin is a fresh and original look at a man whose work touched so many lives.

Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel. Left by their frightened mother and ill-treated by a brutal father, Norman and his brother were forced to fend for themselves, sleeping rough in London and stealing food to survive. This is a rags to riches tale of the man Charlie Chaplin said would take his mantle and who went on to make millions laugh around the world for over five decades.

Downton Abbey has brought out the Anglophile in American fans of the hit TV series. But Anglophilia has a long history in America. Why are some native-born residents of our Shining City Upon a Hill, where All Men Are Created Equal, seduced by the fluting tones of manor-born privilege? At last, Anglophilia explained - in American, thank you.

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The queen of British comedy brings her fantastically funny mix of observations on life, jokes, and songs to audio, taken from the award-winning Victoria Wood - as Seen on TV.

This collection contains 12 of the greatest shows ever broadcast during the Golden Age of Radio - including episodes of The Jack Benny Program, Burns & Allen, Gunsmoke, The Amos ‘N’ Andy Show, Philip Marlowe, The Green Hornet, X Minus One, Sherlock Holmes and many others. Radio’s finest actors perform before the microphones, including: Jack Benny, Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Jim and Marian Jordan, Hal Peary, Eve Arden, George Burns, Gracie Allen and many more.

Patrick Harper has always struggled with his deafness. Having been born deaf, he had to navigate a world without sound. He couldn’t hear anything if it weren’t for his hearing aids. Sometimes, silence is golden. After enduring heartache and an accident, Patrick refuses to love or drive again. His brothers think he needs to let go of the past. Eh, what do they know? They’re insane as it is. When four Harper brothers arrive at Saintwood College, expect the unexpected when Patrick encounters Rowan. What happens when someone proves to Patrick that actions speak louder than words? With the...