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Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor (born 1942)

radio personality, voice actor, comedian, television producer, humorist, singer

  • University of Minnesota
Homegrown Democrat
The Keillor Reader
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
Lake Wobegon summer 1956
Pontoon
Liberty
Wobegon boy
The old man who loved cheese
Good Poems
Daddy's Girl
A Prairie Home Companion
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Copper Level
Pilgrims
The Best American short stories, 1998
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Life among the Lutherans
A prairie home companion pretty good joke book
A Prairie Home Companion Commonplace Book
In search of Lake Wobegon
Good Poems for Hard Times
A Prairie home companion pretty good joke book.
APHC Anniversary 1st 5 Yrs
A Prairie Home Companion Commercial Radio
Local Man Moves to the City
Happy to be here
APHC Christmas
Horrors!
The Adventures of Guy Noir
APHC 10 Anniv Show
Good Poems American Places
Guy Noir and the straight skinny
Summer
It's Only a Show (Prairie Home Companion)
More News from Lake Wobegon Humor
Fall
Mother Father Uncle Aunt
The Minnesota homegrown cookbook
Prairie Home Commonplace Book
Life These Days
Prairie Home Comedy
More News from Lake Wobegon Love
A Prairie Home Companion 20th Anniversary
More News from Lake Wobegon Hope
APHC Comedy
Garrison Keillor
More News from Lake Wobegon: Faith
A Prairie Home Companion 10th Anniversary
Winter
Humor
More News from Lake Wobegon Love (More News from Lake Wobegon)
A Christmas blizzard
Me
Guy Noir, Radio Private Eye
The Family Radio
Songs Of The Cat
Love Me
Lake Wobegon USA (Lake Wobegon)
Spring Stories from the Collection News from Lake Wobegon
A Prairie Home Companion Duets
When I Get Home
Home on the Prairie
Dusty and Lefty, The Lives of Cowboys
Prairie Home Companion 20th Anniversary Collection
The Christmas Companion
O What A Luxury Verses Lyrical Vulgar Pathetic Profound
New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes (Prairie Home Companion)
Horrors (Prairie Home Companion)
Lake Wobeon USA (Lake Wobegon)
Never Better (Prairie Home Companion)
Definitely Above Average
Stories
A Prairie Home Companion 25th Anniversary Collection
Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes (Prairie Home Companion)
A Few More Pretty Good Jokes
Gospel Birds and Other Stories of Lake Wobegon
A Prairie Home Christmas (Lake Wobegon)
The Lake Wobegon Virus
Mother Father Uncle Aunt (Stories from Lake Wobegon)
More News from Lake Wobegon
A Prairie Home Companion Song Book
News from Lake Wobegon
The Family Radio (Prairie Home Companion)
The Best American short stories, 1998
Life & Love
APHC 4th Final Perform
Even More Pretty Good Jokes November 6 2004 February 6 2004 March 8 2008
The book of guys
APHC 2nd Final Perform
News from Lake Wobegon Fall
Rhubarb Stories From The Collection Lake Wobegon Usa
News from Lake Wobegon
APHC 3rd Final Performance
My Little Town
Three Dozen Poems
Stories
Motherhood A Radio Collection
Radio Romance
Sandy Bottom Orchestra
A prairie home companion folk song book
Patience Stories From The Collection Lake Wobegon Usa
Pretty Good Joke Book 4th edition
A Visit to Mark Twain's House
A Radio romance
Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater
News from Lake Wobegon Summer
The Best American Short Stories 1998
APHC Final Performance
Threebies
News from Lake Wobegon Winter
Church People The Lutherans Of Lake Wobegon
Lake Wobegon Loyalty
Summer Love
We Are Still Married
A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book 6th Edition
Great houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill District
Boom Town
Tourists with Garrison Keillor (Prairie Home Companion)
Es könnte schlimmer sein
Le Vieil Homme Qui Aimait Le Fromage = the Old Man Who Loved Cheese
Lake Wobegon USA Youth (Lake Wobegon)
Garrison Keillor Comedy Gift Pack
The Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra
Ten Years
That Time of Year
APHC Movie Tie-In
Pretty Good Joke Book
Ain't that Good News
Cheerfulness
Cat, you better come home
Mrs. Sundberg's Recipes
The Best American Short Stories 1998
Don the True Story of a Young Person
Life & love
Leaving Home
Sommerstücke.
Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company
Lake Wobegon USA Rhubarb (Lake Wobegon)
Katz, komm bitte nach Haus
Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes Lib/E
A Prairie home companion pretty good joke book
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Lib/E
Lake Wobegon Days (lake wobegon days)
Lake Wobegon USA Patience (Lake Wobegon)
The Old Man Who Loved Cheese
Das Buch der Kerle
Lake Wobegon USA
Down-home-news
Lake Wobegon USA Fertility (Lake Wobegon)
Truckstop and Other Lake Wobegon Stories
Tom Keith Lib/E
Hope
A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Jokes Live!
A Life in Comedy
A Life in Comedy
Never Better Lib/E
Aphc Show Collection
Keillor Christmas
A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album
Parables That Jesus Told
The Christmas Companion
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
The Christmas Companion
A Prairie Home Companion
News from Lake Wobegon
Prairie Home Comedy
The Road Home
A Prairie Home Companion Lib/E
When I Get Home
The Family Radio
77 love sonnets
The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952
Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary Collection
Climbing Up on the Rough Side
Minnesota days
Lake Wobegon Family Reunion
News from Lake Wobegon
Misunderestimated & overunderappreciated
The Book of Guys
Luxury of Limericks
A Prairie Home Companion
More News from Lake Wobegon
Serenity at 70, Gaiety At 80
We Are Still Married by Keillor Garrison (1989) Paperback
Pretty Good Joke Book
Guy Noir
A book will wait
The Gospel of Jesus Lib/E
The Garrison Keillor box
Afscheid van Lake Wobegon
Steve Martin
Steve Martin (born 1945)

television actor, film actor, comedian, street artist, film producer, musician, banjoist, playwright, voice actor, performing artist, art collector

  • University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Long Beach
Born standing up
Born Standing Up
Born Standing Up
Born Standing Up
Shopgirl
Pure drivel
The alphabet from A to Y with bonus letter, Z!
The pleasure of my company
The underpants
Pleasure of My Company, The
Shopgirl
An object of beauty
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
Cruel shoes
L.A. story
The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris
A Wealth of Pigeons
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Late for School
Pure Drivel
The Pleasure of My Company Low Price
Housesitter
The ten, make that nine, habits of very organized people. Make that ten
An Object of Beauty
Untitled Celadon Nonfiction Fall 2022
El Placer De Mi Compania
Wasp and other plays
Meteor Shower
An Object of Beauty
Eric Fischl 1970-2000
Shopgirl (Narrativa Circe)
Kindly lent their owner
The Jerk
Blanker Unsinn
Shopgirl
Shopgirl
The Crow New Songs For The Fivestring Banjo
The Jerk
Shopgirl
Lichtenstein Remembered
Bright Star Songbook
Annie Leibovitz SUMO
So Many Steves
Shopgirl
Number One Is Walking
Pleasure of My Company
Pure Drivel
Pure Drivel
Shopgirl Proof
Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten.
Su Annie Leibovitz - David Byrne
THE ATTORNEY
Pleasure of My Company
Born Standing Up
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
L.A. story
Wealth of Pigeons
Su Annie Leibovitz - Keith Haring
Underpants
Su Annie Leibovitz - Patti Smith
Pure Drivel
The Spanish Prisoner [DVD]
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
Bringing Down The House
Wasp, A Play in One Act
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Bright Star
Cruel Shoes
The pleasure of my company
Shopgirl
The Underpants
Su Annie Leibovitz - W. Goldberg
Effets indésirables
The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z!
The long-awaited album
Denis Leary
Denis Leary (born 1957)

comedian, composer, film actor, television actor, voice actor, film producer, showrunner, television producer, actor, film director

  • Emerson College
Why we suck
Suck on this year
Denis Learys Merry Fin Christmas
Rescue me uncensored
No cure for cancer
Why we suck
Open Net
Why we don't suck
Firehouse
Suck on this year
Suck on this year
Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas
Suck on this year : lyfao @ 140 characters or less
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder (1933-2016)

actor, film director, comedian, television actor, film producer, stage actor, diarist, director

  • University of Iowa, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Kiss Me Like a Stranger
My French Whore
The Woman Who Wouldn't
Something to remember you by
Young Frankenstein
What is this thing called love?
Kiss Me Like a Stranger
Young Frankenstein
The woman in red
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Mo︠i︡a fran︠t︡suzska︠i︡a shl︠i︡ushka
Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette (born 1955)

radio personality, actor, circus performer, jongleur, television actor, podcaster, comedian, musician, magician, illusionist, film actor, film director

  • Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
Presto!
Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic
God, No!
Sock
Penn & Teller's cruel tricks for dear friends
Penn and Teller's How to Play With Your Food
How to cheat your friends at poker
Every Day Is An Atheist Holiday More Magical Tales From The Author Of God No
How to Play with Your Food
In Darkness, Delight
Random
Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!
How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker
Spider-Man/Deadpool Vol. 2
Presto! How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
My Name is James Randi and Today I Die
Michael Moore
Michael Moore (born 1954)

film director, television presenter, journalist, comedian, autobiographer, film actor, peace activist, film producer

  • University of Michigan–Flint, University of Michigan–Dearborn
Here Comes Trouble
Will they ever trust us again?
Dude, where's my country?
Stupid white men
Downsize This!
Mike's Election Guide 2008
Adventures in a TV nation
The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader
The awful truth
The Best of TV Nation
Bowling for Columbine
Verraten und verkauft
Henry Winkler
Henry Winkler (born 1945)

actor, film producer, film director, television actor, film actor, voice actor, stage actor, television producer, comedian

  • Emerson College, Yale School of Drama
The other side of Henry Winkler
Ive Never Met An Idiot On The River Reflections On Family Photography And Flyfishing
Help! Somebody get me out of fourth grade!
Niagara Falls, or does it?
Summer school!
Day of the iguana
Holy enchilada!
My secret life as a ping-pong wizard
The life of me
The Zippity Zinger
Day of the iguana
Dump trucks and dogsleds
Barfing in the backseat
A tale of two tails
Hank Zipzer the Worlds Greatest Underachiever and the Crazy Classroom Cascade Henry Winkler Lin Oliver
My dog's a scaredy-cat
Mind If I Read Your Mind
Zero to hero
The night I flunked my field trip
The Worlds Greatest Underachiever And The Mutant Moth
I got a "D" in salami
Bookmarks are people too!
British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940
Stop that frog!
Always Dance With A Buffalo
How To Scare The Pants Off Your Pets
My Dog's a Scaredy Cat
The Cow Poo Treasure Hunt
There's a zombie in my bathtub
Always dance with a hairy buffalo
Niagara Falls, or Does It?: Hank Zipzer #1 (Hank Zipzer: The Mostly True Confessions of the World's Best Underachiever)
Mind if I read your mind?
The Curtain Went Up My Trousers Fell Down
Fake snakes and weird wizards
Zippity Zinger (Hank Zipzer; The World's Greatest Underachiever (Spotlight))
Ghost Buddy 3
            
                Ghost Buddy
The Life Of Me Enter At Your Own Risk
Hank Zipzer
Here's Hank #3
My Secret Life As A Pingpong Wizard
The world's greatest underachiever and the House of Halloween horrors
A brand-new me!
I Got a "D" in Salami (Hank Zipzer; The World's Greatest Underachiever (Spotlight))
Zero to hero
A short tale about a long dog
A BrandNew Me
            
                Hank Zipzer The Worlds Greatest Underachiever Prebound
Who ordered the baby? Definitely not me!
The Sitcom Handbook
Summer School! What Genius Thought That Up? (Hank Zipzer; The World's Greatest Underachiever (Spotlight))
Day of the Iguana: Hank Zipzer #3 (Hank Zipzer: The Mostly True Confessions of the World's Best Underachiever (Audio))
Hank Zipzer, the world's greatest underachiever takes on the universe
Barfing in the backseat
The night I flunked my field trip
La enchilada asesina
Hank Zipzer, the world's greatest underachiever and the crazy classroom cascade
I Got a "D" in Salami: Hank Zipzer #2 (Hank Zipzer: The Mostly True Confessions of the World's Best Underachiever (Audio))
Suspenso en salami
The Zippity Zinger: Hank Zipzer #4 (Hank Zipzer: The Mostly True Confessions of the World's Best Underachiever (Audio))
Niagara Falls, or Does It?: Hank Zipzer #1 (Hank Zipzer: The Mostly True Confessions of the World's Best Underachiever (Audio))
Los calcetines de la suerte
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)

actor, film director, television presenter, playwright, film producer, autobiographer, comedian, television actor

  • Westminster School
Photo finish
The Loser
Great humorous stories
The Old Man and Mr. Smith
Romanoff and Juliet
The love of four colonels
Life is an operetta and other short stories
The unknown soldier and his wife
Krumnagel
Ustinov in Russia
Monsieur René
Ustinov still at large
Halfway up the tree
The disinformer
Quotable Ustinov
Monsieur Rene
The frontiers of the sea
Five plays
Add a dash of pity and other short stories
My Russia
Beethoven's tenth
Add a Dash of Pity
Achtung! Vorurteile
We were only human
Die endlose Reise
Ustinov at Eighty
God & The State Railways
Die Reise geht weiter. Neue Geschichten von unterwegs
The Banbury nose
Monsieur Rene
Karneval der Tiere / Des Esels Schatten
Ustinov's diplomats
Der alte Mann und Mr. Smith
Achtung! Vorurteile
Halb auf dem Baum und andere Komödien
The Millennium Generation
Monsieur Rene
The frontiers of the sea: short stories
Ich und Ich. Jubiläumsausgabe
Dear Me CD
Rectorial address delivered at an academic ceremony in the Caird Hall, Dundee, on 17th October 1968
Beyond
Rectorial address delivered in the University [of Dundee] 3rd November 1972
The moment of truth
The Comedy Collection
House of regrets
The wit of Peter Ustinov
A mitad de camino
Ustinov
Photo finish, an adventure in biography in three acts
Die Heirat und andere Komödien
Le vieil homme et M. Smith
Love of Four Colonels
Peter Ustinovs geflügelte Worte
Der Intrigant. Zwei Novellen
Gott und die Staatlichen Eisenbahnen
Ich und Ich
Das UNICEF- Weihnachtsgeschichtenbuch
Was ich von der Liebe weiß. Großdruck. Beflügelte Weisheiten
The Loser
Neues aus der alten Welt
Romanoff and Juliet
The frontiers of the sea
Romanof ṿe-Yulyah
Viejo y Mister Smith, El
Ustinovs kleines Welttheater. Staatsmänner, Stars und andere Kollegen
Die endlose Reise
The Love of Four Colonels. A Play in Two Acts.
Sof ha-meruts
Photo Finish
Le Viel homme et monsieur Smith
The many voices of Peter Ustinov. Conversation with Cliff Michelmore
Orchestra
The unknown soldier and his wife
How to be terribly, terribly funny
Romanoff and Juliet
Der Verlierer
Le désinformateur
Photo finish
Still at Large
Plays about people. [The tragedy of good intentions : Blow your own trumpet
Quotable Ustinov
Krumnagel
Add a Dash of Pity
The love of four colonels, a play in two acts
The loser, a novel
Romanoff and Juliet..a Comedy in Three Acts
Über das Leben und andere Kleinigkeiten
THE BANBURY NOSE A Play in Four Acts.
We were only human
Loser
Happiness
Frontiers of the Sea by Peter Ustinov (1966-11-06)
James Thurber
Der Mann, der es leicht nahm. Erzählungen
The Methuen Book of Theatre Verse
Plays about people
Dear Me
C. S. S. Dear Me
Ustinov at Large
The Laughter Omnibus
Five Plays
Dear Me
Beyond, a play in one act
Halfway up the tree
Old Man and Mr. Smith
Für jedes Kind