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Ben Elton
Ben Elton (born 1959)

actor, comedian, playwright, lyricist, stand-up comedian, film actor, film director, stage actor, television actor, director, film producer

  • University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester

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Dead Famous
Past Mortem
The First Casualty
Popcorn
Gridlock
This other Eden
High society
Chart Throb
Inconceivable
Blast from the past
Gasping
Stark
Meltdown
Black-Adder
Silly cow
Time and Time Again
Blind faith
The Gospel According to Ben Elton
"Blackadder"
The Man from Auntie (Canned Laughter)
Very Live
Ben Elton
Ben Elton Omnibus
Blackadder Goes Forth
Ben Elton Very Live Tour De For
Ben Elton Collection
Ben Elton Live
Blackadder the Third
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
The Blackadder Collection
Two Brothers / Dva brata
Blackadder the Third
Blackadder II
We Will Rock You
The Man from Auntie
Motormouth and Motorvation
Plays
Seitensprünge
Identity Crisis
Ben Elton Live
Bachelor Boys
Hartstikke beroemd
Filth!
Devine qui vient mourir ce soir?
Ben Elton Plays
Devine qui vient mourir ce soir ?
Un Nuevo Eden
Boem!
Kalt erwischt
Ben for Ten a d/Bx24 2 For 10
Ben Elton Mixed X36 D/B
Blast from the Past
Very Live, Tour De Force 1993
Doris Darling
Upstart Crow
Maybe Baby
Blackadder Goes Forth
Elton Plays : 1
Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson (born 1958)

actor, comedian, singer, television actor

  • University of East Anglia, Sevenoaks School

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Hurricane gold (Young Bond #4)
Blood Fever (Young Bond #2)
Double Or Die (Young Bond #3)
Getting rid of Mister Kitchen
Full whack
Danger Society The Young Bond Dossier
Silverfin
SilverFin (Young Bond #1)
The Enemy (The Enemy #1)
King of the Ants
The Sacrifice
The Fear (The Enemy #3)
Happy now
Doctor Who
The fallen
Doctor Who
The end
The Young Bond Dossier Danger Society
The dead
The Fast Show book
The Hunted
Monstroso
The Fear Charlie Higson
By Royal Command (Young James Bond #5)
The hunted
"Fast Show"
A Morte é Contagiosa
Penguin Readers Level 1
Complete Short Stories, 1944 -1953
The Fear
Hunted
Fighting Fantasy
Monstroso
Fear
Fear, The: The Enemy, Book 3
Fear (the Enemy Book 3)
Worst. Holiday. Ever
Olum
It Gets Worse
Poker fatal
DOUBLE OR DIE
Fear
Worst. Holiday. Ever
Hunted (the Enemy Book 6)
Dusman
Kanli Humma - Genc Bond 2. Kitap
Enemy Series, Books 1-3
Enemy - 3-Book Paperback Boxed Set
Fear
James Bond - GoldenBoy (German Edition)
Enemy Dumpbin
Doctor Who : the Beast of Babylon
Korku
On His Majestys Secret Service
The Hunted
Enemy Book Series Charlie Higson Collection 7 Books Set
Young Bond Silver Fin A2 Poster
Ennemis
Gumusyuzgec - Genc Bond 1. Kitap
Enemy Series, Books 4-6
Fighting Fantasy
Penguin Readers Level 1
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Freddy and the Pig
James Bond
Oyna Ya Da Ol - Genc Bond 3. Kitap -
James Bond
Freddy and the pig
Alan Watt
Alan Watt (born 1965)

actor, painter, television actor, stand-up comedian

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Diamond Dogs
Diamond Dogs
Diamond Dogs
Frontier Hotel (Grands Formats) (French Edition)
My first novel
The 90-Day Rewrite
The 90-Day Novel
The 90-Day Screenplay
The 90-day novel
Marc-Uwe Kling
Marc-Uwe Kling (born 1982)

musician, comedian, Liedermacher, cabaret performer

  • Free University Berlin

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Views
QualityLand
Das NEINhorn
Der Tag, an dem Papa ein heikles Gespräch führen wollte
QualityLand 2.0
Das Känguru-Manifest
Der Spurenfinder
Der Tag, an dem die Oma das Internet kaputt gemacht hat
Die Känguru-Tetralogie
Die Känguru-Offenbarung
Die Känguru-Chroniken
Qualityland
Die Känguru-Apokryphen
Der Tag, an dem der Opa den Wasserkocher auf den Herd gestellt hat
Afterwork mit Sisyphos
Richard Osman
Richard Osman (born 1970)

creative director, television presenter, television producer, television director, comedian

  • University of Cambridge, Warden Park School

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The Thursday Murder Club
The Bullet That Missed
Last Devil to Die
The 100 Most Pointless Arguments In The World
3 Books Collection Set
El jueves siguiente
The 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World
Thursday Murder Club Book 3
The 100 most pointless arguments in the world ... solved
Pointless History of the World
The Thursday Murder Club 2
The Man Who Died Twice
100 MOST POINTLESS THINGS IN THE WORLD
Thursday Murder Club 4
The 100 Most Pointless Things in the World
Bumper Book of Pointless
Very Pointless Quiz Book
The Man Who Died Twice
Il Club dei delitti del giovedì
The Man Who Died Twice
Estuche El Club del Crimen de los Jueves + El jueves siguiente
Le Murder club du jeudi
El Club del Crimen de los Jueves
Club Del Crimen de Los Jueves
El misteri de la bala perduda
Estuche El Club del Crimen de los Jueves + El jueves siguiente
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Estuche El Club del Crimen de los Jueves + El jueves siguiente
El misterio de la bala perdida
El Club del Crimen de los Jueves
El jueves siguiente
El Club del Crimen de los Jueves
Vystrel mimo celi
Richard Osman's House of Games
Mordercow tropimy w czwartki
Bullet That Missed : (the Thursday Murder Club 3)
El dijous següent
El Club del Crim dels Dijous
Richard Osman 2 Books Collection Set
El Club del Crimen de los Jueves
O Homem Que Morreu Duas Vezes - O Novo Misterio do Clube do Crime das Quintas-Feiras
Le Murder Club du jeudi
PG Untitled 324265
World Cup of Everything
El Club del Crimen de los Jueves
CHelovek, kotoryj umer dvazhdy
De moordclub
Jueves Siguiente
Estuche El Club del Crimen de los Jueves + El jueves siguiente
Theworld cup of every thing
Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill (1864-1926)

playwright, comedian, journalist, activist

  • York University, JFS

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The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century
The Big Bow Mystery
Great Classic Mysteries
Three Victorian Detective Novels
Librivox Short Mystery Story Collection Vol. 003
Perfect Crime
Dreamers of the ghetto
Children of the Ghetto
The melting-pot
The mantle of Elijah
The Grey Wig
Without Prejudice
Ghetto comedies
Jinny the carrier
The principle of nationalities
The cockpit
The war for the world
The war and the women
Chosen peoples
"They that walk in darkness"
Italian fantasies
Ghetto tragedies
The war god
The voice of Jerusalem
The King of the Schnorrers
The Woman Beater
The grandchildren of the ghetto
The celibates' club
Blind children
Auserwählte Völker
The Bachelors' Club
Plaster saints
The next religion
The Master
The premier and the painter
Melting-Pot
From the ghetto to the melting pot
Selected works of Israel Zangwill
The forcing house; or, The cockpit, continued
The old maids' club
Works of Israel Zangwill
The commercial future of Palestine
Too much money
Selected Works
Speeches, articles and letters of Israel Zangwill
Merely Mary Ann (play)
The great demonstration
Librivox Short Story Collection 029
ʻIḳar-ha-leʼumim
Two poems
Merely Mary Ann (The Works of Israel Zangwill (14 Volumes))
Israel
A land of refuge
The Serio-Comic Governess (play)
Ghetto Tragedies V2
Ṭroymers fun'm geṭo
We moderns
Old fogeys and old bogeys
The East African question
The Silent Sisters - Pamphlet
The Eternal Feminine
The makers of lenses
The Jewish pogroms in Ukraine
The Works of Israel Zangwill (14 Volumes)
Selected Religious Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Six persons
The war and the jews
Motza Kleis (The Works of Israel Zangwill (14 Volumes))
"BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY"
The People's Saviour (The Works of Israel Zangwill (14 Volumes))
Joseph the Dreamer (The Works of Israel Zangwill (14 Volumes))
Yiddish Hamlet and Other Plays
Merely Mary Ann
La-mut bi-Yerushalayim
Talked out!
Die Jüdin
Children of the Ghetto
One and one are two
The lords and the ladies
Les rêveurs du Ghetto
Los hijos del ghetto
A land of refuge
Sterven in Jerusalem
"Be fruitful and multiply"
Kleinkinderen van het ghetto
The war for the world
The Sword and the spirit
Droomers van het ghetto
The melting-pot, drama in four acts
מר. זאנגוויל׳ס רעדע
Les enfants du ghetto
De Turksche messias
Zij, die in duisternis omgaan
Uriel Aḳosṭa
One and one are two
Yalde ha-geṭo
Maḥazot ha-geṭo
The master ; b a novel
The war god
The king of schnorrers
The king of schnorrers
The war god
Marianne
Ghetto-historier
The master
Nye ghetto-fortaellinger
Children of the ghetto
Talked out!
Kinderen van het ghetto
ha-Derekh le-ʻatsmaʾut
Uriʼel Aḳosṭa
The melting-pot
Ḥolme ha-geṭo
Melekh ha-ḳabtsanim
El rey de los schnorrers
Ṭroymer fun der gheṭo
Die im Dunkeln Wandern
The problem of the Jewish race
The forcing house
Sonãdores del ghetto (selección) y otros relatos
The mantle of Elijah
The hithertos
Les rêveurs du ghetto ...
L'avenir commercial de la Palestine
Loṭesh ha-zekhukhiyot
Tiggerkongen
Speeches, articles and letters of Israel Zangwill
Le roi des schnorrers
Ist der Zionismus tot?--Ja!
Träumer des Ghetto
Alphonse Allais
Alphonse Allais (1854-1905)

poet, journalist, dramaturge, painter, composer, comedian

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L'Affaire Blaireau
A se tordre
Le Parapluie de l'escouade
Deux et deux font cinq
Silvérie
Oeuvres anthumes, tome 1
Le chambardoscope et autres textes
Amours, délices et orgues
L' Affaire Blaireau
Par les bois du Djinn
LA LOGIQUE MENE A TOUT
A wolf in frog's clothing
Le pauvre bougre et le bon génie
A la une
Le Captain Cap
Le Boomerang, ou, Rien n'est mal qui finit bien
Oeuvres posthumes, tome 2
A la une ... choix de 43 contes
The world of Alphonse Allais
Oeuvres anthumes
Le Boomerang
Cher Monsieur vous-même!
Alphonse Allais
Allais...grement
Des vertes et des pas mûres
Autour du Chat noir
Les templiers
La Parapluie De Lescouade /illustrations De Sempe
OEuvres posthumes
Œuvres posthumes
La vengeance de Magnum
Alphonse Allais en verve
Littoralement
A dire et à lire
Pour cause de fin de bail
La logique mène à tout
A l'œil
Avec Le Sourire
Alphonse Allais, prince de l'humour
Anthologie
Alphonse Allais, ou, L'humour français
Le bouchon et autres contes
Lecture substantielle
Plaisir d'humour
Ne nous frappons pas
A l'oeil
Contes humoristiques Tome I
Allais sur scène
Le parapluie de l'escouade
On n'est pas des boeufs
À se tordre
Œuvres posthumes, 1877 à 1905
Aeuvres anthumes
Album primo-avrilesque
Kimine s ʹampanya dokunur
La Belle inconnue ..
Le vol du grand escalier de l'Opéra et autres contes
Allais ... grement
Amours, délices et orgues
Aeuvres posthumes
D'Alphonse à Allais
Dans la peau d'un autre?
Vive la vie!
Amours, de lices et orgues
L'affaire Blaireau (ni vu ni connu)
Loufoc house
Le Chien dans la littérature
La barbe et autres contes
Les zèbres
Story for Sara
Le Captain Cap
Une vraie poire
Le génie du pote Allais
A l'oeil! Préf. de Maurice Donnay
Contes
A l'oeil!
Le pauvre bougre et le bon génie
A l'oeil
Contes et chroniques
Les zèbres
A l'œil!
Giorgio Faletti
Giorgio Faletti (1950-2014)

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

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Yo Mato
I kill
El tercer lado de los ojos
The Killer In My Eyes
Yo soy Dios
I am god
Killer in My Eyes
Io uccido
Io uccido
A pimp's notes
Io sono Dio
Pimp
A Pimp's Notes
Io sono Dio
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
Da quando a ora
Şike
Bir Pezevengin Notlari
Droit Dans les Yeux
TRE ATTI E DUE TEMPI - FALETTI