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Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

playwright, comedian, musician

  • Brentwood School, University of Cambridge

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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
So long, and thanks for all the fish
The Salmon of Doubt
Works (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)
Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe, and Everything)
Works (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless)
Life, the Universe and Everything
Mostly Harmless
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
The Time Traveller's Almanac
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - A Trilogy in Five Parts
Last Chance to See
Novels (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency / Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)
The deeper meaning of liff
Great humorous stories
Literature
The meaning of Liff
Life, the Universe and Everything (adaptation)
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams Double
Doctor Who
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Humorous Stories
The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - omnibus 2
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Collection 5 Books Set
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis 2
The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Boxset
The Utterly utterly merry comic relief Christmas book
Autostopem przez Galaktyke
À Boleia pela Galáxia
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Iras celestiales
Trylogia Autostopem przez Galaktykę
Untitled
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis
Guía del autoestopista galáctico
Restauracja na końcu wszechświata / Życie, wszechświat i cała reszta
Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti. Il ciclo completo
Novels (Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless)
Iras celestiales
Not 1982. Not the 9 O'Clock News
Dirk Gently : The BBC Radio Collection
A Longa e Sombria Hora do Chá da Alma
Don't Panic : The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Complete Radio Series
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Secondary Phase
Illus. Hitch Hiker 12 Copy Pack
Shada
La vita, l'Universo e tutto quanto
The Salmon of Doubt / Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency / The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
I jeszcze jedno
היו שלום ותודה על הדגים
Heyu shalom ṿe-todah ʻal ha-dagim
Cześć i dzięki za ryby / W zasadzie niegroźna
Guida Galattica agli autostoppisti. Ciclo completo
ha-Misʻadah shebe-sof ha-yeḳum
La Città della Morte
ha-Ḥayim, ha-yeḳum ṿe-khol ha-sheʾar
Madrikh ha-ṭrempisṭ la-galaḳsyah
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie (born 1959)

television actor, film actor, actor, comedian, pianist, voice actor, musician, film director, singer, television director, rower, film producer

  • Dragon School, Eton College

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Die allerneueste klassische Sau
The Gun Seller
Novels (Esio Trot / Giraffe and the Pelly and Me)
A bit more Fry and Laurie
Dérapages incontrôlables
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (Canned Laughter)
The Paper Soldier
Una nit bestial
Gun Seller (Deluxe Edition)
Three bits of Fry and Laurie
3 Bits of Fry and Laurie
Eric Idle
Eric Idle (born 1943)

film actor, actor, comedian, playwright, guitarist, lyricist, film director, television actor

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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The road to Mars
The Pythons
The Greedy Bastard Diary
Always look on the bright side of life
Pass the Butler
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday
The greedy bastard diary
Monty Python's big red book
A pocketful of Python
The Brand new Monty Python papperbok [sic]
Die Reise zum Mars
Monty Python's big red book
The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat
Monty Python's big red book
Monty Python's big red book
Hello sailor
The quite remarkable adventures of the owl and the pussycat
The very best of Monty Python
More Than Compleat Rutles Forever
Classics of Childhood, Vol. 4 Lib/E
Eye Marty
The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book
The Writer's Cut
Road to Mars (a Format)
The Rutland dirty weekend book
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

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

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Mussolini
Puckoon
Milligan's War
Adolf Hitler
Goblins
The Bible
The Essential Spike Milligan
Depression and How to Survive It
Monty, His Part in My Victory
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
"Rommel?"-"Gunner who?"
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
Goodbye soldier
Badjelly the witch
Bible, the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan, a celebration
The Murphy
Where have all the bullets gone?
Unspun socks froma chicken's laundry
Black Beauty
William McGonagall, the truth at last
Milligans Meaning of Life
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
It Ends With Magic
Milligans Meaning of Life
Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Goodbye Soldier (War Biography)
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
More Spike Milligan letters
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
Peace Work
Condensed animals
Dip the puppy , a fairy story ; with, The terrible monster jelly
The family album
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
Gunner Milligan, 954024
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
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss (born 1966)

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

  • University of Leeds, Heighington CE Primary School

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Last of the Gaderene
Doctor Who
Doctor Who And The Ice Warriors
DOCTOR WHO: THE ROUNDHEADS (Doctor Who - The History Collection)
Doctor Who
The Vesuvius Club
The Devil in Amber (Lucifer Box 2)
The League of Gentlemen
The Roundheads (Dr. Who Series)
The Vesuvius Club
The Devil in Amber
Invaders from Mars
The devil in amber
Black Butterfly
Black butterfly
Vesuvius Club
James Whale, a biography, or, The would-be gentleman
Sherlock, Season 1
St Anthony's fire
Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Nightshade
St. Anthony's Fire (New Doctor Who Adventures)
Sherlock
Phantasmagoria
Christmas Carol - a Ghost Story (stage Version)
Level 2 : Doctor Who
We Are The Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale
Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV
St Anthony's fire
Foreground Music - a Life in Fifteen Gigs
Dracula (BBC Tie-In Edition)
They Came from Outer Space!
Niewidomy bankier
Doctor Who : Last of the Gaderene
The Devil in Amber
Klub "Vezuviĭ"
The devil in amber
Queers
Foreground Music
Contemporary Xmas
Le club Vesuvius
THE VESUVIUS CLUB PA
Vesuvius Club
Marc-Uwe Kling
Marc-Uwe Kling (born 1982)

musician, comedian, Liedermacher, cabaret performer

  • Free University Berlin

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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
Views
Hank Green
Hank Green (born 1980)

YouTuber, podcaster, businessperson, teacher, inventor, environmentalist, television producer, science communicator, blogger, entrepreneur, singer, comedian

  • Eckerd College, University of Montana

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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back - From a Certain Point of View
From a Certain Point of View
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Esto te va a sorprender
Esto te va a sorprender
Mario Levrero
Mario Levrero (1940-2004)

photographer, editor, comedian

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