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Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler (born 1975)

actor, comedian, television actor, biographer, film actor, autobiographer, television producer

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Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea
My horizontal life
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Chelsea Chelsea bang bang
Uganda be kidding me
Man Up Tales Of My Delusional Selfconfidence
Chelsea Chelsea bang bang
Lies that Chelsea Handler told me
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
MY HORIZONTAL LIFE
Uganda Be Kididng Me
David Sedaris
David Sedaris (born 1956)

essayist, comedian

  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kent State University

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Naked
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Theft by finding
Calypso
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Barrel Fever
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Holidays on Ice
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
The Santaland diaries and Season's greetings
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Best of Me
Calypso
Santaland Diaries
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
The David Sedaris Box Set
Children playing before a statue of Hercules
David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall
Holidays on Ice
Calypso
Barrel Fever
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk A Wicked Bestiary
Nackt
Un Vestido De Domingo
Flight Patterns
Calypso
Nacked. CD
Nackt. 2 CDs.I
Vestido De Domingo, Un
Cuando te envuelvan las llamas
David Sedaris diaries
The best American nonrequired reading, 2003
Oh, Blanca Navidad.../ Holidays on Ice (21)
Live at Carnegie Hall
Nackt. 2 Cassetten
Schafft die Ya Ya raus. 2 CDs
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Calypso - Carton of 10 Signed Copies (CONFIRMED)
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
David Sedaris
Pretty Ugly
Holidays on Ice. CD
Holidays on ice
Holidays on Ice
Fuselfieber. 2 CDs
Holidays on ice
Holidays on Ice. Cassette
Fuselfieber
Nackt. 2 CDs
Je suis très à cheval sur les principes
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

comedian, journalist, stage actor, film actor, poet, actor, musician, television actor, playwright

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Mussolini
Milligan's War
Depression and How to Survive It
Monty, His Part in My Victory
"Rommel?"-"Gunner who?"
Goodbye soldier
Where have all the bullets gone?
Milligans Meaning of Life
It Ends With Magic
Milligans Meaning of Life
Goodbye Soldier (War Biography)
More Spike Milligan letters
Peace Work
The family album
Gunner Milligan, 954024
Puckoon
Adolf Hitler
Goblins
The Bible
The Essential Spike Milligan
Silly Verse for Kids
Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall
The book of the Goons
The Lost Goon Shows
Frankenstein
The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Show scripts
Dr. Who
Box 18
Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan
The Q Annual
Milligan's ark
Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
The Spike Milligan letters
Badjelly the witch
Bible, the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan, a celebration
The Murphy
Unspun socks froma chicken's laundry
Black Beauty
William McGonagall, the truth at last
Startling Verse for All the Family
Spike Milligan
William McGonagall
Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan
More Goon cartoons
The Looney
A dustbin of Milligan
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
The Magical World of Milligan
Hidden Words
Scunthorpe revisited, added articles and instant relatives
D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane according to Spike Milligan
That's Amazing
Classic Adventures
Open Heart University
A potboiling dustbin full of bits
The Goon Show Classics
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan
Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan
Indefinite articles
William McGonagall meets George Gershwin
Condensed animals
Dip the puppy , a fairy story ; with, The terrible monster jelly
The bald twit lion
A mad medley of Milligan
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Small dreams of a scorpion
More Goon Show scripts
The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (Poetry)
Sir Nobonk and the terrible, awful, dreadful, naughty, nasty dragon
Rommel? Gunner Who? ; Monty
Two Tales of Wonder
The Goon Show Classics Volume 21 "The Missing Battleship"
A book of bits or a bit of a book
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Spike Milligan at the Beeb
The 101 best and only limericks of Spike Milligan
Monty
Badjelly the witch
Dip the puppy
The Lost "Goon" Shows
Spike Milligan'sfurther transports of delight
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Spike Milligan's transports of delight
The little pot boiler
The Goon Show and More Guests, Vol. 18
There's a lot of it about!
The Compulsive Spike Milligan
The Milligan book of records
The bedside Milligan
Fleas, Knees and Hidden Elephants
The mirror running
The Goon cartoons
A book of bits
Floored masterpieces with worse verse
Values
Spike's Poems
The mini Milligan collection
Lady Chatterley According to Spike Milligan
Silly verse for kids and animals
The great McGonagall scrap book
Spike Milligan's The melting pot
Black Beauty according to Spike Milligan
Poems
Spike Milligan Cut-Out
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Ifonly I were bald
The hound of the hound of Baskervilles according to Spike Milligan
Get in the Q annual
Puckoon. Eine irische Dorfgeschichte
Chill air
Milligan's ark
The bedsitting room
Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan (Penguin Modern Authors)
Wolf Tales: Wolves, Witches & Giants
World of Beachcomber (Comedy Club S.)
There's lot of it about!
M25
A book of bits, or
"Rommel
Milligan's War and Peace Memoirs
Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan
Lady Chatterley's lover according to Spike Milligan
Theb edsitting room
Milligan Preserved
D.H.Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane
A Book of Milliganimals
Rommel? Gunner Who? (Abridged - 2 Audio Cassettes)
For Lucy Gates
Esquimau
The Bible According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Again
He's Innocent of Watergate or Dick's Last Stand
Live at Cambridge University (Comedy Club S.)
Mussolini, his part in my downfall
In a jam
Twelve poems that made December colder
Monty His Part in My Victory and Rommel? Gunner Who?
The war memoirs
Monty (War Biography)
Sunday - midnight
The Goon Show Compendium
The bedside Milligan, or, Read yourself to insomnia
Tombstone Humour
A dustbin of Millgan
The Best of Milligan's Wake (Comedy Club S.)
The Bedside Milligan or Read Your Way to Insomnia
Teeth
My mother
Milligan's Meaning of Life
The dancer
Scunthorpe Revisited
Rommel? Gunner Who?
Help I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Tube
Open Heart University
Giant Tales
The Completely Essential Spike Milligan
Box 18:The Unpublished Spike Milligan
A book of bits or a bit of a book
A Collection of Spikes
Help, I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Spike Milligan's Peace
Vivat Milligna
Letters
Poems for Toni Savage
Witch Tales
The Goon Shows
Harry Hill
Harry Hill (born 1964)

actor, comedian, television presenter, television actor, physician

  • Island School, Cranbrook School

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Livin The Dreem A Year In My Life
He Was My Father
Harry Hills Whopping Great Joke Book
Last Flight from Deathrow
Harry Hill's Fun Book
A voice for the theatre
The Further Adventures Of The Queen Mother
Thomas & Friends
I Wonder Why Cars Go Fast Sticker Activity Book
Tim The Tiny Horse At Large
Make it unanimous
Harry Hills Tv Burp Book
A Complete History of Tim The Tiny Horse
The singing period
Flight from Deathrow
Teacher's manual
A study of the voice of the boy
Flip the Flaps
Knit Scarves and Shawls Now
In the Footsteps of Abraham: The Holy Land in Hand Painted Photographs
Harry Hill's Colossal Compendium
Harry Hills Bumper Book of Bloopers
Matt Millz on Tour!
Automotive service and repair tools
A Whole Life
Matt Millz
Harry Hill's Fight!
Tiny touch animal colours
Making Room for Jesus
Matt Millz Stands Up!
Sanitary science notes
Clean milk
food Food inspection notes
Pasteurisation
Jurassic World
Harry Hill's Whopping Great Joke Book
Food inspection notes
Tiny touch jungle animals
Paradise City
Concise Larousse Gastronomique
Sanitary science notes, a handbook for students
King Leopold
Proceedings of Planning Division seminar, University of Waterloo, February, 1971
EXILES
Macmillan Exams Skills for Russia Secondary Level Speaking
Santa is Coming to Edinburgh Colouring
Life Cycles
Minions
Sanitary science notes
France 2015 Mini Atlas (Michelin Tourist and Motoring Atlas)
Harry Hill's TV
I'm Glad My Mom Died By Jennette McCurdy, Fight!
Tim the Tiny Horse Shrinkwrapped
The Night Jesus was Born (Press Out Nativity)
Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Song Sounds)
Look and Learn Fun Counting
Ultimate Graphic Element Collection
Seven Days in the Art World
Lullaby Sounds
The Christmas Bear
Livin' the Dreem
Over 2001 Pretty Stickers for Girls
Laser B1 TB w Test CD
Tim the tiny horse
Santa is Coming to Scotland Colouring
Black and White My First Vehicles
Tim the Tiny Horse at large
Keto Diet : Breakfast Recipes : : Breakfast Recipes : : Breakfast Recipes
US Navy Divers Handbook
Mrs J.Rules
Scottish Ghost Stories
Leo Leopard's Play Day
EASY INDIAN SNACKS STARTERS
How to Be Silly Every Day of the Year
Go Wild be an Explorer
My Sleeping Beauty Sticker Scenes
François Cavanna
François Cavanna (1923-2014)

comedian, journalist, caricaturist, satirist, publisher, media proprietor

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Les ritals
Dieu, Mozart, Le Pen et les autres--
Les Russkoffs
Les Yeux plus grands que le ventre
L' œil du lapin
L'Oeil Du Lapin
--et le singe devint con
Une visite inopportune
Mignonne, allons voir si la rose..
Les anneés Charlie, 1969-2004
Le Dieu de Clotilde
Traits d'humour
Les écritures
La hache et la croix
La belle fille sur le tas d'ordures
Le con se surpasse
Le temps des égorgeurs
Le sang de Clovis
Le voyage
Le Hun blond
Les pensées
Gauche droite, piège à cons
Lettre ouverte aux culs-bénits
Les ruskoffs
Bête et méchant
Les aventures de Napoléon
Le saviez-vous?
De Coluche à Mitterrand
La déesse mère
Cœur d'artichaut
Les aventures du Petit Jesus
Je l'ai pas lu, je l'ai pas vu, mais j'en ai entendu causer
La couronne d'Irène
Les reines rouges
Les enfants de Germinal
Ceur d'artichaut
Les fosses carolines
Coups de sang
Le saviez-vous? le petit Cavanna illustre
Louise la pétroleuse, ou, L'hydre de l'anarchie
Les aventures du petit jésus
Les grands imposteurs
Le Savier Vous Le Petit Cavanna Illustre
Maria
La Couronne D'Irene
Les aventures du petit jésus
Stop-crève
4, rue Choron
Mignonne, allons voir si la rose.
Tonton, Messaline, Judas et les autres
Gauche, droite
Nos ancêtres le Gaulois
Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

caricaturist, poet, essayist, watercolorist, painter, literary critic, illustrator, journalist, comedian, drawer

  • University of Oxford, Charterhouse School

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Lytton Strachey
Caricatures of twenty-five gentlemen
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story
Rossetti and his circle
A Christmas garland
The happy hypocrite
The works of Max Beerbohm
Seven men and two others
Seven men
Yet again
Max in verse
Max Beerbohm 1872-1956
And Even Now
Around theatres
Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956
Last theatres, 1904-1910
The incomparable Max
Max and Will
Beerbohm's literary caricatures
Mainly on the air
Cyrano de Bergerac and related readings
Zulieka Dobson
A survey
Max's nineties
Around Theaters 1898 1903
The Early Works
Prince of Minor Writers
A peep into the past
A defence of cosmetics
More
The incomparable Max;
A peep into the past, and other prose pieces
Fifty caricatures
Laravel
Watercolors and drawings by "the incomparable Max"
More theatres
Catalogue of a memorial exhibition of drawings by Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
The Bodley Head Max Beerbohm
Arduino Programming
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, some memories of him and of his art
Heroes and heroines of Bitter sweet
More theatres, 1898-1903
Max Beerbohm
The poet's corner
Collected Works of Max Beerbohm
Happy Hypocrite and Other Pieces
Dressing Gowns and Glue
Works and More
A. V. Laider
Sept personnages
A book of caricatures
The Importance of Being Earnest, an Authoritative Text Edition of a Great Play (Avon Theater Library)
Short Works
React
Optitles Woolf Triad Titles
Cartoons
Things new and old
Enoch Soames
Letters to Reggie Turner
Catalogue of caricatures by Max Beerbohm
Max in retrospect
A Stranger in Venice
Feasibility Study and Business Plan
A variety of things
James Pethel
Mainly on the air
Arduino Programming
Around theatres
MAINLY ON THE AIR A NEW BOOK OF ESSAYS AND BROADCASTS BY THE AUTHOR OF SEVEN MEN, AROUND THEATRES, ZULEIKA DOBSON, AND CHRISTMAS GARLAND
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WordPress
Mainly on the air
Rossetti and his circle
Magento
Crimen y Otros Textos Seleccionados
Works of Max Beerbohm
More
Around Theatres, Vol. 1
A. V. Laider
Selected Prose
Ruby on Rails
T. Fenning Dodworth
MAINLY ON THE AIR/MAX BEERBOHM
Cartoons, "The second childhood of John Bull"
The fetish of speed
And even now
Go for Beginners
Flask Programming
Works of Max Beerbohm
Leaves from the garland
Catalogue of another exhibition of caricatures
Max's nineties
Fifty caricatures
And even now ; and, A Christmas garland
The mote in the middle distance
Tableau Public
Arduino Language Reference
Modern Essays
Bootstrap 4
Even Now (Essay Index Rep. Series)
More
Suleika Dobson
Fifty Caricatures
C# in Unity
Selected Essays
Works of Max Beerbohm
A luncheon
Collected Works of Max Beerbohm
Two glimpses of Andrew Lang
A selection from Around Theatres
Max's Nineties, Drawings 1892-1899
Defence of Cosmetics
Defence of Cosmetics
Refactoring
Asp. net
Max Beerbohm's letters to Reggie Turner
Fifty Caricatures
A variety of things [microform]
Max in verse
Python Programming
TypeScript
Fifty Caricatures
Selected prose
Enoch Soames
Catalogue of an exhibition entitled "Ghosts."
Hipocrita Feliz, El
A book of caricature
Around Theatres
Works and More
A Defence of Cosmetics
More Theatres 1898-1930
The Modern Theater (Volume 6)
Aubrey Beardsley
Mainly on the Air
The Incomparable Max
Express. js
Xamarin
Max Beerbohm and Arthur Conan Doyle
Works of Max Beerbohm
First meetings
A Morris for May-Day
Visual C#. NET
The works of Max Beerbohm,
Letters, 1892-1956 (Oxford Letters & Memoirs)
Django
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Roots of Brexit
A peep into the past
Collected verse
The guerdon
The incomparable Max
The guerdon
Mainly on the Air
Rossetti and his Circle
Mainly on the air
Around theatres
Bash Scripting
Catalogue of another exhibition of caricatures by Max Beerbohm
Letters, 1892-1956
And even now, and A Christmas garland (A Dutton Everyman paperback)
Catalogue of the Philip Guedalla collection of caricatures by Sir Max Beerbohm ... Leicester Galleries ... London, September-October, 1945
The Incomparable Max
Cordova 9 Programming
Dickens and Christmas, as George Moore might well have described them
Kipling's entire
Caricatures by Max
Understanding JQuery
Works and More by Max Beerbohm (1952-12-05)
More Theatres
Max Beerbohm's letters to Reggie Turner
Observations
Alan Parsons' book
Triumph of Feminism
Before Buying
And Even Now and a Christmas Garland
Kotlin for Android Developers
R for Data Science
The dreadful dragon of Hay Hill
Six stories
Not that I would boast
Works
A variety of things
"In homes unblest"
The happy byprocrite
Last theatres
An introduction
"Savonarola" Brown
Max Beerbohm and H. Crouch Batchelor
Selected essays
Fifty caricatures
Leaves from the garland
Giorgio Faletti
Giorgio Faletti (1950-2014)

composer, comedian, poet lawyer, singer, stage actor, film actor, television actor, recording artist

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Da quando a ora
Yo Mato
Io uccido
I kill
Io uccido
A pimp's notes
El tercer lado de los ojos
The Killer In My Eyes
Io sono Dio
Pimp
A Pimp's Notes
Io sono Dio
Yo soy Dios
I am god
Tre atti e due tempi
Pochi inutili nascondigli
Fuori da un evidente destino
Niente
El Tercer Lado De Los Ojos/ the Third Side of the Eyes
Appunti di un venditore di donne
Io uccido.
Niente Di Vero Tranne Gli Occhi
I Kill
JE TUE (French text version)
Ik ben God
La piuma
La-ḥapim mi-peshaʻ en alibi
Appunti di un venditore di donne
Fuori da un evidente destino
Ani Elohim
Je Tue (French Edition)
L'ultimo giorno di sole
Eu Mato - Io Uccido
Tres actos y dos partes
Droit dans les yeux
Ia ubivaiu
Niente di vero tranne gli occhi
Fuera de un evidente destino
Ani horeg
Tres actos y dos partes
Droit Dans Les Yeux (French Edition)
Yo Mato (Nov.Intrig)
Je tue
I Am God
Im Namen des Mörders
Şike
Killer in My Eyes
Bir Pezevengin Notlari
Droit Dans les Yeux
TRE ATTI E DUE TEMPI - FALETTI
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin (1882-1948)

comedian, playwright, film actor, stage actor, film producer, actor, film director, singer, deltiologist

  • Grundschule an der Herrnstraße

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Autobiographisches und Vermischtes
Gesammelte Werke
Szenen
Riesenblödsinn
Briefe
Die Friedenspfeife
Filme und Filmprojekte
Stücke
Der reparierte Schweinwerfer
Das alte München
Dokumente, Nachträge, Register
Kurzer Rede, langer Sinn
Couplets
Monologe und Soloszenen
Dialoge
Buchbinder Wanninger
I sag gar nix--dös wird man doch noch sagen dürfen!
Das Beste von Karl Valentin
Tingeltangel ; Das Oktoberfest
Die alten Rittersleut
Ja, so warns' di alten Rittersleut
Liesl Karlstadt: original-vorträge
Die Jugendstrieche des Knaben Karl
Alles von Karl Valentin
Valentiniaden
Anekdoten
Karl Valentin's gesammelte Werke
Sturzflüge im Zuschauerraum
Monologe
Die Raubritter von München
Brilliantfeuerwerk
Die Jugendstreiche des Knaben Karl
Gestern oder im 2. Stock
Gesammelte Werke in einem Band
Ich hätt geküsst die Spur von deinem Tritt
Der Feuerwehrtrompeter
Geschriebenes von und an Karl Valentin
Monologe, Dialoge, Couplets, Szenen
Das Bilderbuch vom Karl Valentin
Karl Valentins Panoptikum
Cabaret satirique
Buchbinder Wanniger
Mein komisches Wörterbuch
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentins Lach-Musäum
Riesenblödsinn