Think Before You Laugh

Book References

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My Favourite People, 1978 to 1988

 My Favourite People and Me 1978-1988

Alan Davies

Michael Joseph, 2009

ISBN 978-0718154875                      

 

My Name is Daphne Fairfax A Memoir

 My Name is Daphne Fairfax: A Memoir

Arthur Smith

Hutchinson, 2009

ISBN 978-0-09-192103-3

 

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 Can’t Stand Up for Sitting Down

Jo Brand

Headline Review, 2010

ISBN 978-0755355266

 

A Young Man's Passage

 A Young Man’s Passage

Julian Clary

Random House, 2011

ISBN 978-1448116584

 

Mack the Life

 Mack the Life

Lee Mack

Bantam Press, 2012

ISBN 978-0593069424

 

Hopeful

 Hopeful

Omid Djalili

Headline, 2014

ISBN 9781472218612

 

How I Escaped My Certain Fate

 

How I Escaped My Certain Fate

Stewart Lee

Faber and Faber, 2010

ISBN 978 0571254804

 

I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes

 I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith

Warren Lakin and Ian Parsons (Ed.)

Hodder & Stoughton, 2006

ISBN 978-0340938478

 

Driving Miss Smith

 Driving Miss Smith: A Memoir of Linda Smith

Warren Lakin

Hodder & Stoughton, 2007

ISBN 978-0340932780

 

Arab Cultural Studies - History, Politics and the Popular

Arab Cultural Studies: History, Politics and the Popular

Anastasia Valassopoulos (Ed.)

Routledge, 2013

ISBN 978-1317981053

 

Dim Wit - The Funniest, Stupidest Things Ever Said

Dim Wit: The Funniest, Stupidest Things Ever Said

Rosemarie Jarski

Random House, 2008

ISBN 978-1407024684

 

Funny You Should Say That- A Compendium of Jokes, Quips and Quotations from Cicero to the Simpsons

Funny You Should Say That: A Compendium of Jokes, Quips and Quotations from Cicero to the Simpsons

Andrew Martin

Penguin UK, 2006

ISBN 978-0140515091

 

Getting the Joke - The Art of Stand-up Comedy

Getting the Joke: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

Oliver Double

A&C Black, 2005

ISBN 978-0413774767

 

How to Be Averagely Successful at Comedy

How to Be Averagely Successful at Comedy

Dave Cohen

Acorn Independent Press, 2013

ISBN 978-1909121614

 

Kick and Run - Memoir with Soccer Ball

Kick and Run: Memoir with Soccer Ball

Jonathan Wilson

A&C Black, 2013

ISBN 978-1448212538

 

Performing Live Comedy

Performing Live Comedy

Chris Ritchie

A&C Black, 2013

ISBN 978-1408146439

 

Sit Down Comedy

Sit Down Comedy

Malcolm Hardee and John Fleming (Ed.)

Ebury Press, 2003

ISBN 978-0091889241

 

Words from the Wise - Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said

Words from the Wise: Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said

Rosemarie Jarski

Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2013

ISBN 978-1628732733

 

 

Comedy Snapshot2

Comedy Snapshot

Steve Best

Articul8, 2014

ISBN 978-0992841096

 

Finally, the following book was kindly dedicated to me:

Because I Tell a Joke or Two - Comedy, Politics and Social Difference

Because I Tell a Joke or Two: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference

Stephen Wagg (Ed.)

Routledge, 2004

ISBN 978-1134794331