Best of
Comedy

1972

The Goon Show Scripts


Spike Milligan - 1972
    1954-Jan. 1956 on BBC.The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-On-SeaThe Phantom Head Shaver of BrightonThe Affair of the Lone BananaThe CanalNapoleon's PianoFoiled by President FredThe Mighty WurlitzerThe Hastings FlyerThe House of Teeth

Monty Python's Big Red Book


Graham Chapman - 1972
    This humorous book contains zany writing and illustrations used by Monty Python.

The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays


David Ossman - 1972
    Bradshaw's Secret Indentity Roster

The Fourth Tower of Inverness


Thomas Lopez - 1972
    The mansion has three towers, but Jack Flanders has seen a fourth. When he finally enters the tower, he discovers there are various levels, and each level contains another world. Featuring Robert Lorick as Jack Flanders, Valerie Manches as Lady Jowls, Murray Head as Lord Jowls, and Meatball Fulton as Chief Wampum.

The Big Joke Game


Scott Corbett - 1972
    A young boy who loves practical jokes and games finds himself in the strange land of Limbo where the only way out is to play a complicated game.

A Night At The Opera


George S. Kaufman - 1972
    

The Thirteen Days of Christmas


Jenny Overton - 1972
    But as the house groans at the seams with partridges, calling birds, swans, maids-a-milking, and more, will Annaple really succumb to the romance of it all?

The Harpole Report


J.L. Carr - 1972
    L. Carr, published in 1972. The novel tells the story mostly in the form of a school log book kept by George Harpole, temporary Head Teacher of the Church of England primary school of "Tampling St. Nicholas". Like all of Carr's novels, it is grounded in personal experience. Carr was a Primary School teacher for almost 40 years, including 15 years spent as Head Teacher.

MADvertising or Up Madison Ave.


Dick DeBartolo - 1972
    

Look Who's Here! (Family Circus, #11)


Bil Keane - 1972
    A cartoon collection from the warm-hearted, hilarious Family Circus.

The Fosdyke Saga


Bill Tidy - 1972
    Book One of the Fosdyke Saga