They include amendments and additions made during recordings, bits which were reluctantly cut for reasons of time, and notes on the writing and producing of the series by Douglas Adams and Geoffrey Perkins.For those who have always longed to know why, who, how, when, where, and what its all about, these scripts are essential reading.

    These newspaper comics were stand-alone funny in their time and, almost always, topical and thought provoking. The world of these lovable characters carried the flavor of the times in which they were penned and offered commentary on many of the political happenings - greed, political faux pas, scandals, sloth, feminism, racism and the pitfalls of love and having a tender heart were all fair game for this artist.

    The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.The restaurant at the end of the universe.Life, the universe and everything.

    In a collection of spoofs on outdoor life, the author explains how to construct a grasshopper trap, the many uses of a skunk ladder, and how to become a human fuel pump.

    In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand-up comedian. A contemporary Gulliver, he travels the globe in search of experience and finds the ridiculous.”—The New York TimesIn 2004, we mourned the loss of one of America’s true theatrical innovators. Spalding Gray took his own life by jumping from the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New York Harbor, finally succumbing to the impossible notion that he could in fact swim to Cambodia. At a memorial gathering for family, friends and fans at Lincoln Center in New York, his widow expressed the need to honor Gray’s legacy as an artist and writer for his children, as well as for future generations of fans and readers. Originally published in 1985, Swimming to Cambodia is reissued here 20 years later in a new edition as a tribute to Gray’s singular artistry.Writer, actor and performer, Spalding Gray is the author of Sex and Death to the Age 14; Monster in a Box; It’s a Slippery Slope; Gray’s Anatomy and Morning, Noon and Night, among other works. His appearance in The Killing Fields was the inspiration for his Swimming to Cambodia, which was also filmed by Jonathan Demme.

    Science Made Stupid is a book that teaches one how to discomprehend the world around us!

    Brian Henderson's introduction provides an overview of Sturges criticism and brief biographical material. Each script is preceded by a prefatory essay discussing its evolution. The insights provided by this volume will be useful to film students and aspiring screenwriters, and fascinating to anyone interested in screen comedy. Virtually all the illustrations, showing Sturges at work, are published here for the first time.The collection includes "The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, " and " Hail the Conquering Hero."

    No one remembers why anymore or over what. No one dreams it could ever end until a wizard creates a sword that makes its user unbeatable.

    Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable romantic entanglements of a curate and a pretty young girl, both of whom live in the same rooming house, and a starry-eyed university professor and his female student.

    Part sweet songs of unseen birds and part cautionary tales, this abecedarium fully lives up to the epithet "eclectic."

    Says author Daniel Pinkwater of this novel of sociological import: "I honestly don't remember writing this. Are you sure there hasn't been some mistake?"

    When others begin to speak freely around him, he not only becomes privy to secrets both dangerous and frivolous, he also discovers an adventurous extrovert within himself.

    Garfield's Halloween AdventureHalloween is Garfield's favorite holiday -- you dress up ina costume and next thing you know it's candy, candy, candy! So, disguised as an Old Pirate Cap'n and his First Mate, Garfield and Odie hit the sidewalks of suburbia -- and find themselves in a real-life, very scary ghost story!

    Florence may have been a disappointment to her Granny, whose dream of rearing a Perfect Southern Lady would never be quite fulfilled. But after all, as Florence reminds us, no matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street.

    A seemingly simple automobile trip to Philadelphia is fraught with adventures for the Hoople family.

    Lots of pictures from the older Late Night Show.

    A treasury of four bestsellers: THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER OVER THE SEPTIC TANK, IF LIFE IS A BOWL OF CHERRIES-WHAT AM I DOING IN THE PITS?, AUNT ERMA'S COPE BOOK and MOTHERHOOD: THE SECOND OLDEST PROFESSION.

    This book was adapted into a television drama by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s.

    Published by Fantagraphics Books. Softcover.

    A collection of cartoonist Rick Geary's early magazine strips and mini-comics.

    This commemorative collection celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip by bringing together the author's favorites, with reflections on the sources for the comic strip from his own childhood.

    

    His nemesis -- Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, a German NATO intelligence officer -- has tried for years to catch the man who claims each crime scene with a card signed "From Eroica with Love."

    . . illustrated epigrams that will inspire your personal quest for telling communication. Fresh, funny, wistful, bright; they may well reflect some of your own deep or whimsical thoughts. Ashleigh's Pot Shots are acclaimed, told and re-told, by young and old, secular and religious, mainstream and offbeat they speak to everyone. What they say: Clifton Fadiman: Most enjoyable; Isaac Asimov: Good one-liners; Richard Armour: Wise, and witty; People magazine: Artistic trailblazer, Ashleigh Brilliant coins epigrams that would drive Oscar wild. Ashleigh's Pot Shots are copyrighted and the names Pot Shots and Brilliant Thoughts are registered trademarks.

    Now out on the prowl with a new cover that's the cat's meow, it's ready to inspire a second wave of cats and their owners to relax into a catnap. Author and illustrator Alice M. Brock (of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" fame) counsels cat owners to approach the cat quietly with palms "up and open." Beginning at the rear, the masseur works all the way around the cat using a "vigorous kneading motion," then rubs, presses, twists, and tugs the cat into a state of complete relaxation. We are assured that a well-massaged cat may remain in a state of prolonged calm "for some time." Brock's instructions are accompanied by charming illustrations sure to inspire a mischievous chuckle in both friends and foes of felines everywhere.

    

    176 pages, 245 b&w line drawings/cartoons by a master. Beautifully printed on nice stock. Here is another winner from one of the best political cartoonists we've ever had. Paul Conrad won numerous Pulitzer Prizes, and had the distinction of being named on Nixon's infamous enemies list in 1973 and 5 years later occupied the Richard M. Nixon Chair at Whittier College. This title is arranged in 8 sections, dealing with everything from gun control to Watergate to Reagan's miscues. Each cartoon is accompanied by Conrad's own one-line caption. There is also a very informed, in-depth interview with the man himself at the end of the volume.

    That's why this is a Mad Lib®. From "Christmas Vacation" to "A Visit to Santa at the North Pole," Christmas Fun Mad Libs® can add laughs to your holiday. Make traditional songs and stories wacky by adding parts of speech. Just read the simple directions and play Mad Libs® with friends or by yourself. It's the world's greatest word game.

    "GR.3 up. Mr. Rosenbloom, will you ever run dry? My third graders sincerely hope not."--SLJ. "Students of all ages will love it!"--Book Report. 128 pages, 86 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

    This tongue-in-cheek examination of the life and music of this "superstar" covers from his birth to his rise to stardom. The Authorized Al is actually based on the mock rocumentary HBO special and video The Complete Al (CBS/Fox, 1984), and the two items work well as a complementary package. The video includes such items as his rock videos, concocted interviews with family and friends and concert footage. The book provides such gems as "Weird Al's" Six-Minute Work Out, bogus newspaper and magazine clippings and The Complete Al Songbook, with all of his song lyrics to date. The book's major shortcoming is the inability to translate some of the atmosphere and humor of Al's work to the printed page. However the popularity of the entertainer plus the rock-and-roll subject matter should attract a large YA audience. John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, Va.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

    Patrick finds many excuses to delay going to bed.

    Intended for those moms whose hearts have been broken by their children, this book helps readers to learn to trust God for victory over depression and despair.

    in full color. There's lickety-split action in this Wild West spoofas daffy Deputy Dan--who takes all commands literally--tracks down a trainrobber.

    This is a fun knock off of the hardboiled persuasion, and Mac Slade is a Hardboiled PI who is having a hard day. Great hardboiled parody, very hard to find.

    Political satire at its finest.

    

    

    

    

    If you've had trouble grasping the intent of Shakespeare's classic endeavor, this should clear it up once and for all. The text remains very true to good old Will's basic fundamentals.

    There is not one California; there are many.As Unknown California demonstrates, the conflict, divergence, and juxtaposition of California's cultures have given birth to writing of resonant richness--some of the best America has known. Unknown California offers Mark Twain "roughing it" in San Francisco, Norman Mailer exposing the corruption at the heart of the film industry, and John Steinbeck reporting on the miseries of the migrant camps.Thomas Pynchon measures the aftershocks of the Watts riots, Evelyn Waugh explores Hollywood's bizarre burial practices, and Henry Miller evokes the majesty of Big Sur. Equally revealing are voices of writers yet to be discovered. As they express the dreams and fury of the Latino community and describe life in Silicon Valley and Harvey Milk's San Francisco, they add the shadows and highlights that mark California's ever-changing landscape.In Unknown California, history and commentary, parody and polemic come together. In letters from a woman describing life in the mining camps in 1852, in a disturbingly familiar portrait of turn-of-the-century Chinatown, in an account of a summer spent in that quintessentially Californian phenomenon called the Magic Kingdom, witnesses from North, South, East, and West testify to a remarkable place. Unknown California is a feast of good writing and a voyage of discovery to a state and state of mind that are as all-encompassing and mysterious as America itself.

    J. Perelman and John Steinbeck. The one lady, is Dorothy Parker.

    

    

    In Taylor's case, it all starts with a strangely human-looking spider, and a slightly crazy Indian medicine woman, and turns into the most hilarious anti-nuclear war adventure ever. Teaming up with his friend Grace, a hard-headed but warm-hearted anthropology professor. Taylor careens from California to Massachusetts on the trail of a secret government project code-named "Donald Duck:. which seems to depend mainly on psychic power. While Taylor bones up on a few useful techniques in out-of-body travel and automatic writing, Grace helps out by seducing government agents and generally trying to keep Taylor's feet on the ground—and not a moment too soon either, as they discover that "Donald Duck" is child's play compared to the real danger....

    

    Gatorman's nine frisky little pranksters put Jerome, their baby sitter, through his paces.

    

    Adamson, author of several other books on film, including one on animator Tex Avery, here does a good job of informally recounting Lantz's life and career. The illustrative material is well chosen, and the book is generally well written. A few more dates in the text would have been helpful, however, and a filmography should have been appended. Despite Lantz's sterling personal qualities, his productions were usually of the second rank, and for most libraries the information in Leonard Maltin's Of Mice and Magic (LJ 9/1/80) will be sufficient. For special collections and large libraries, Adamson's book is a worthy addition. John Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Freehold, N.J.Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc

    Usually. But in The Night of the Paper Bag Monsters, they try to make costumes for a special fancy dress party, and get in a horrible fight. Will they ever finish their costumes? And will they make up in time for the party? In The Knight, the Princess and the Dragon, Susie's Uncle Jonas takes them both to an art gallery. Their favourite picture is of a knight saving a princess from a dreadful dragon - and it gives Susie an idea! These two favourite stories in the series about Susie and Alfred are being reissued with fresh new covers for a new generation of children to enjoy!

    In an exclusive performance of skits from their third book, these beloved humorists take you into their world of restrained craziness and of gentle and relentless satire. 2 cassettes.

    

    As The Andy Griffith Show turns forty, the authors of the complete fan guide to the show have updated the book with new information gained from access to the complete shooting scripts of the original episodes.The Andy Griffith Show remains one of America's most-watched programs, gaining new fans through its widespread syndication (including a major promotional campaign accompanying its joining TV Land's prime-time line-up in 2000), conventions, and upcoming "behind-the-scenes" television specials. America has embraced the characters of Mayberry---Aunt Bee, Barney Fife, Goober, Opie, and Andy himself---as family members. From Miracle Salves to Kerosene Cucumbers, The Andy Griffith Show has left a lasting impression on our culture, a sweet nostalgic taste for a time gone by.