The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
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The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations by Ned Sherrin
'I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions- the curtain was up.' Groucho Marx'It was partially my fault that we got divorced.. I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.'Woody Allan'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.'Victoria Wood Nearly 5,000 quotations displaying all shades of humour - dry, black, wry, sly, witty, wacky or even unintended - chosen and introduced by writer, humorist and broadcaster Ned Sherrin. Quotations are courtesy of comedians (from Bob Hope and Groucho Marx to Victoria Wood, Monty Python and Fry and Laurie), playwrights (from Shaw and Wilde to Alan Bennett and Tom Stoppard), novelists (be it P.G. Wodehouse, Joseph Heller, or Flann O'Brien), journalists and reviewers (the likes of P.J. O'Rourke, Julie Burchill, and Dorothy Parker), politicians (from Disraeli to JFK and John Major) and many others - actors, producers, cartoonists, lyricists, moguls, soldiers and laywers among them.Ned Sherrin is presenter of BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends. Producer and director of the ground-breaking 1960s satire TV show That Was the Week that Was, and producer of a number of films, including The Virgin Soldiers (1968) and Up Pompeii (1971), he has also written extensively for stage and screen. He
has directed many theatre productions such as Side by Side by Sondheim (London 1976 and New York 1977) and Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (1989). He has compiled a number of anthologies, including Cutting Edge (Dent, 1984), Theatrical Anecdotes (Virgin, 1991), Ned Sherrin in his Anecdotage (Virgin,
1993), and the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (OUP, 1995, 2/e 2001). He has also written a novel, Scratch an Actor (Sinclair Stevenson, 1995).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192800459 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192800450 |
| Title | The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations |
| Author | Ned Sherrin |
| Series | Oxford Quick Reference Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1999-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 568 |
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