Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. The Trial of Qwerty The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language....
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Author:Fry, StephenSummary: - Author:Fry, StephenSummary:
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4.
- Author:Fry, StephenSummary:
A fifth series from BBC Radio 4 in which Stephen Fry examines, with the help of experts, the highways and byways of the English language.
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Stephen Fry investigates the phenomenon of gibberish - what it is, why we write and speak and sing it, and why we enjoy it so much. Words like awaopbopbaloobop awop bam bam and Bill and Ben's contemporary sounding catchphrase:...
- Author:Fry, StephenSummary:
British comedian and novelist Stephen Fry is fascinated with word games like crossword puzzles and Scrabble, so much that he believes them to be an integal part of our culture. With the help of linguists, puzzle makers and psychologists...
- Author:Lawson, JennySummary:
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible...
- Author:Wright, Jennifer AshleySummary:
Throughout history, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the plagues they've suffered. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome and morbid details of some of the worst plagues in human history as well as the stories of the heroic...
- Author:Thrice, MarkSummary:
This hilarious collection of the best and funniest columns published by syndicated humor columnist Mark Thrice takes an entertaining look at "normal" everyday life-from husbanding to parenting to holding down the job that is paying for...
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
David Sedaris captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals, and expresses the misanthropy and desire for connection that drives us all.
- Author:Knox, JackSummary:
In Hard Knox, seasoned columnist and consummate everyman Jack Knox offers up his uniquely hilarious views on Canadian life as seen from the western fringes of the country—in particular from the “Island of Misfit Toys” as he aptly calls...
- Author:Fry, StephenSummary:
Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domination, gender, power, and sex changes (as only he can).
- Author:Freed, JoshSummary:
Latest hilarious collection from Leacock prize-winner! There’s only one antidote to our speed-crazed, tech-obsessed, gluten-sensitive, password-plagued, financially-jittery, fitness-phobic, fatness-fearing world—and that’s laughter. He...
- Author:Klein, Daniel M., Cathcart, ThomasSummary:
This is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality, Death, the Big D. Humorists have kept pace with philosophers by creating gags about dying. Death's funny that way: it gets everybody's attention.
- Author:Wilsey, Sean, Shannon, MollySummary:
A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in...
- Author:Serrano, SheaSummary:
She Serrano celebrates what has become the most dominant form of music these past two and a half decades.
- Author:Einstein, James AllanSummary:
Hey, kids! These hockey jokes will tickle your funny bone and keep you laughing all through hockey season and beyond: Q: What does a hockey player and a magician have in common? A: Both do hat tricks!
- Author:Keillor, GarrisonSummary:
The latest in a line of bestselling collections that began with News from Lake Wobegon, this set selects monologues from four years (1999-2002) of live radio programs. Some were broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theatre, the show's St. Paul...
- Author:Yanofsky, JoelSummary:
About one million years ago, when Homo Erectus decided to walk on two legs, he must have sensed that things would never be the same for him again - -that he could kiss his old ape habits goodbye. No more swinging from tree branch to...
- Author:RandallSummary:
Never before has wildlife narration been this bold and this hilarious. More than 40 million people have viewed Randall’s honey badger video, “The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger.” “It has no regard for anyone or anything — it just takes...
- Author:Adams, Robert J.Summary:
A memoir from an RCMP officer in Saskatchewan.
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