In a series of sketches and animations, the Pythons recount scenes from the Grail legend in which the knights forsake their chorus line can-can dancing in Camelot for a higher aim. Typically, the Pythons set-up a 'historical' tale which is really a take on the modern world. Memorable scenes, like Graham Chapman's King Arthur battling with John Cleese's Black Knight until the latter is reduced limb by limb down to a speaking stump of a torso, capture both the hilarity and grotesque nature of brutality. In scene after scene King Arthur's men are led a merry chase through the countryside, encountering life on many different social levels. This screenplay edition contains just the script and is supplemented by stills from the film.

    Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths...and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer at a time.Callahan's Crosstime Saloon contains the following stories, virtually all of which were published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact: * "The Guy With the Eyes" * "The Time-Traveler" * "The Centipede's Dilemma" * "Two Heads Are Better Than One" * "The Law Of Conservation of Pain" * "Just Dessert" * "A Voice is Heard in Ramah..." * "Unnatural Causes" * "The Wonderful Conspiracy"

    Light, humerous, and entertaining.

    Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships any more, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable. DiGriz' hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself & the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who is planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds. DiGriz' dilemma is whether he will turn Angelina over to the Special Corps, or join with her, since he's fallen in love with her. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970): DiGriz & Angelina are happily married, expecting the birth of sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war. Against the odds, its Grey Men are invading & taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of the planet's leader, Kraj. He is aided by the Amazons, a force of liberated freedom fighters, & eventually by his wife who arrives to help him win the war & keep him out of the arms of the Amazons. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972): The villainous He has travelled back in time to humankind's distant past on the legendary planet Earth ('Dirt') of '84, where he's altering events so that people who opposed him in the Rat's present cease to exist, Angelina amongst them. Using the Helix, a time-travel device invented by the Special Corps' Prof. Coypu, diGriz travels to '84 America, then to Napoleonic France where tanks & aircraft are helping bring about Napoleon's victory.

    So the Headmaster, aka "The Fish" decides it would be best to separate them. Bruno must now room with ghoulish Elmer Dimsdale, plus his plants, goldfish, and ants. And Boots is stuck with nerdy, preppy, paranoid George Wexford-Smyth III.Of course, this means war. Because Bruno and Boots are determined to get their old room back, no matter what it takes. And the skunk is only the beginning....

    They fall in love and discover that their "life's work" is murdering children. Set in Victorian-type era, inspired by the Moors Murders that rocked 1960s England.

    and Doonesbury. Old favourites Katzenjammer Kids, Mutt and Jeff, Gasoline Alley, Bringing up Father, Mickey Mouse, Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, L'il Abner, Barnaby, Pogo and many more fill this collection of American comic classics.

    Drawings.

    Even his little sister can beat him at swimming. But Jack's uncle Parker has come up with a plan to make him and Zero shine: they'll pretend that Jack can tell the future! If only they could foresee what chaos the plan will cause.Helen Cresswell is the much-loved writer of over 40 children's books. She's the author of classics such as Lizzie Dripping as well as having adapted The Demon Headmaster for television. She has been runner-up for the Carnegie Medal four times.

    The strangest part? Practically everyone answered, leaving Toth with a hilarious collection of outlandish correspondence unmatched in the history of American letters. The Lazlo Letters contains nearly 100 notes to public figures, including then-President Nixon, Vice President Ford ("I've been Vice President of a lot of organizations myself, so I know how you feel."), Bebe Rebozo, Lester Maddox, Earl Butz, and America's top business leaders. The replies, says the author, "classic examples of American politeness."In an on-going correspondence with the White House, Toth suggests everything from ridiculously corny jokes for the President to use, to a campaign song sung to the tune of "Tea for Two." He asks the president of a bubble bath company just how to use the product, as the packaging instructions specifically state to "keep dry." "No matter how absurd my letter was, no matter how much I ranted and raved, they always answered," reports the author. "Many of these replies are beautiful examples of pure public relations nonsense." One is not: columnist James Kilpatrick has a lone sentiment for Toth-"Nuts to You!" 247,000 copies in print.

    Bach, the last and unquestionably the least of the great Johann Sebastian Bach's many children.

    . . with murder!  From present-day shockers to historical puzzlers, Paul Harvey's The Rest Of The Story reveals the untold story behind some of history's strangest little-known facts.

    Shah weaves contemporary jokes, humorous anecdotes, and stories with skillful commentary. The result is an entertaining journey that mixes laughter, introspection, and surprise.

    But Morris doesn't know what a bed is. As a matter of fact, Morris doesn't know anything. Boris wants to help his friend get well, but it is not easy.

    It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious animals for which it was totally unprepared, a cohort of rapacious beasts led by the worst predator in the world, Homo sapiens . . . In an incredibly short space of time, a number of unique species had vanished . . . ' Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean, was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, and by the 1970s it still had many unique but endangered species, hanging onto their existence by their fingernails.When Gerald Durrell went to rescue some of these creatures from extinction, he experienced danger and discomfort, but enjoyed the adventures greatly. He spent nights in the jungle looking for bats and pink pigeons, and climbed near-vertical rock faces to find Telfair's skinks and Gunther's geckos, spending his spare time exploring the enchanted worlds of the coral reefs with their many species of multicoloured fish. By the end of his trip, he had an extraordinary collection of animals to take to his Jersey sanctuary from where the progeny could, in time, be restored to Mauritius.

    Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, with 17,897 strips published in all. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.

    

    This edition contains all the material in the original volumes of George, Don't Do That and Stately as a Galleon, including the bloodthirsty 'Ethel' and the unforgettable nursery school monologues.

    Millions 'knew' that he owned an antique Maxwell, driven by Rochester; that he kept his wealth in an underground vault; that his neighbors, Ronald and Benita Coleman, abhorred him; that Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Phil Harris and Don Wilson were his 'gang.' But what was Benny like in real life?...Here is the delightful story of Mary and Jack's first meeting (set up by the Marx Brothers), his friendship with George Burns, the hilarious outcome of his crush on Greer Garson, his idiosyncracies, and, yes, the three men Jack didn't like. But, above all, this is the story of the Benny broadcasting phenomenon: his relationships with the people he worked with...the Fred Allen feud...the wonderful characters who studded his show - like Mel Blanc (the French violin teacher), Sheldon Leonard, Mr. Kitzle and Benny Rubin...Jack's reluctance to use 'blue' material...his most expensive radio gag...his willingness to try anything different...why he left NBC for CBS...the change from radio to television. Enriched with scores of warmly remembered jokes and skits, a complete filmography, and 137 rare photographs, this book is destined to take its place as one of the enduring showbiz biographies."

    No other sport, indeed no other facet of life, has proved a more delighful mainstay of Peanuts humor, or a firmer bedrock of Peanuts wisdom. (Does Charlie Brown and his pitcher's mound represent Job on his ash heap, as one critic pondered?) With never a win to their credit, Charlie Brown and his hapless teammates hang in there, surviving one hilarious disaster after another, their views of life undimmed by either continual blunder or occasional brilliance.Here, collected for the first time in one volume, is the cream of Peanuts and baseball - 640 daily and Sunday strips, with 80 pages in full color. No special knowledge of the game is required to enjoy what happens when Charlie Brown takes the field - full of strategy and optimism - with his singular teammates arrayed in questionable support: among them, a catcher who worships Beethoven, a four-legged shortstop, a second baseman attached to a security blanket, and a chronic fussbudget in the outfield. All the great episodes of Peanuts-on-the-diamond are here: Snoopy's pursuit of Babe Ruth's home-run record; Charlie Brown's encounter with his hero Joe Schlabotnik, the betting scandal that deprived Charlie Brown of his only win; and many more. Sandlot Peanuts is certainly the all-American combination, Peanuts and baseball - "the summer game" in a book for all seasons.

    

    s/t: The Most Humorous Selections from His Stories, Sketches, Novels, Travel Books and Lectures

    After 16 years and half a million copies, it is still one of America's most popular baby shower gift books, and now it is even better. 101 cartoons.

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    Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, with 17,897 strips published in all. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.

    

    Fawlty Towers (Complete scripts of The Builders; The Hotel Inspectors; Gourmet Night)

    An extension course in Family Circus humor!

    Of the 2750 printed here, none is otherwise. The limerick is the only fixed poetic form native to the English language. "Hickory Dickory Dock" was a limerick remember?), but that was the last time the limerick ever saw a nursery. Don Marquis is reported to have divided limericks into three kinds: "Limericks to be told when ladies are present, limericks to be told when ladies are absent and clergymen are present, and LIMERICKS." Ladies have changed, and so have clergymn, but the LIMERICK, as this collection will attest, is authentic erotic folklore at its most ribald. Arnold Bennett said, in the 1920s, that the best limericks were entirely unprintable. Until now, we might add. For here are printed, for the first time, 2750 NEW LIMERICKS (plus another 100 in the Notes) most of which have never before seen the light of day. From aardvarks to yaks and zebras, every error of mankind-and womankind-is celebrated here in verses of five hilarious yet pathetic lines. Wild, witty, sad and outrageous: Read 'em and weep! Nothing is repeated from THE LIMERICK (First Series) and for good measure an entirely new subject is now presented for the first time, the Science Fiction Limericks that so neatly sum up our Interplanetary Age, still with the same age-old aspirations and inspirations, by means of which the unpardonable now commit the unmentionable. The limerick is the bawdiest thing to happen to an ancient literary form since graffiti were found in Pompeii. Clean limericks were a fad in the mid-1800s, and lasted only five years. Few of them will be found here. But there's an index of Geographical and Personal names, so you can find your real favorites, and a list of subjects, from Buggery to Zoophily and beyond. If you have a favorite, it's here. If you don't have a favorite yet, you soon will.

    "...[Koch] has taken his thoughtful, giving, resourceful, and patient spirit to quite elderly and often infirm men and women, in obvious hopes of finding among them a similar responsiveness of mind and heart. If anything, the result is a more poignant and dramatic victory." -New York Times Book Review

    Gen. Half-Track is too busy eyeing his office staff, playing golf and in general delegating duty to others. Lt. Fuzz is the company apple polisher and Lt. Flap is as unflappable as his name suggests.The enlisted men are a delightful mix of very funny personalities. Killer Diller, with his romantic schemes, Rocky with his surly rebellion, Zero, the bunny-toothed rube and of course, Private Beetle Bailey leading the troops into laughter! You will learn the finer points in Sarge baiting, work dodging and AWOL without getting caught.

    

    

    

    

    

    Although their literary techniques reflect trends in more serious literature, the jestbooks have been little studied by practicing scholars and are generally unknown to the modern reader - in part because they are scattered all over the English-speaking world in the major research libraries. In the present volume spelling, punctuation, and typography have been modernized, and the editor have provided brief introductory botes and glosses of archaic terms.

    

    A very funny show about some unlikely subjects, including a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, an in-depth interview with an unimpressed shepherd who witnessed the Nativity, and a French singer who misunderstands an Anglo-Saxon vulgarity and composes a song around it.

    And answers it. Sort of. Well, not really.This farcical treatment of a traditional locked-house mystery has the characters questioning their own existence as they try to discover the identity of the true murderer.

    Through mishaps and adventures, Ziggy shares his thoughts, his frustrations and his life with you. The window-blind laying collapsed on the floor with Ziggy standing there holding the pull-cord; the top of the salt shaker rolling away as Ziggy looks up over a mound of salt covering his food; a good luck horseshoe falling on his head; Ziggy finally getting a phone call and passing the receiver to his plant saying, "It's for you" - we readers don't just laugh at Ziggy: we know him, empathize with him, love him, and most of all, enjoy him. His true gentleness also manages to shine through the humor. Ziggy watching his escaped balloon fly away; putting a wreath on the headstone of "The Unknown Nobody"; taking his pet bird out for dinner and a movie; sharing and ice-cream soda with his dog, Fuzz. Whatever the situation, there is a little bit of Ziggy in all of us, and in this volume he invites you into his world.

    Comedy writer continues his healthy sense of humor with this autobiography.

    At no time have parents had a greater arsenal of child-rearing manuals and educational tools at their disposal, and yet the generation gap still yawns and the huge questions continue to go unanswered. Has the permissive age helped us to live with our children? Do we, even now, know who they are?Here is Thelwell's answer - a book devoted solely to the children. Heedless of personal danger, he has studied them in their natural environment and fearlessly interpreted for us the mysteries and rituals of the widespread but exclusive sub-race - their suspicion of grown-ups, their strange love of animals, their internecine struggles; showing how, if we cannot always win their affection, we may at least survive the encounter.Whether you love children or hate them, whether you are parent or relative, friend or foe, here is your opportunity to learn - and laugh. You may never be a child again, but Thelwell's Brat Race offers a vivid reminder of what the joys of childhood and the agonies of parenthood are all about.

    Her pudgy, long-haired cartoon alter ego speaks to every woman who has ever dreaded mom's comments when arriving without a date (again) at Thanksgiving. In "Confessions to my Mother", Cathy reveals some of her deepest, but humorous feelings about her mom.