From solo spots to collaborations with everyone including Peter Cook, Angus Deayton, Hugh Laurie and even Elton John, this is a selection of Rowan Atkinson's famous sketches and routines performed live including 'Wedding Speech', 'The Devil' and 'Four Yorkshiremen' with the Monty Python team.

The best of live comedy from one of the most successful comedians of his generation, including both his earlier stage work and some of his most famous audio performances with Angus Deayton and Monty Python amongst others, as well as some brilliant solo monologues.

This audiobook features Pam Ayres live in concert performing a mixture of her most famous poems, hilarious stories and anecdotes. Pam's personal favourites have been divided into twelve sections covering subjects such as love, motherhood, families, gardening, ecology, travel and animals as well as many more unusual topics like climbing Ayres Rock in Australia, the rigours of keeping sheep and the finer points of the Old Gloucester Sausage.

Pam Ayres reads over 50 of her best-known and loved poems, including 'I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth', 'I'm a Starling, Me Darling' and 'Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter'.

A selection of sketches, gags and monologues from 'The Two Ronnies', the television comedy series of the 1970s and 1980s which starred Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett as a wide range of characters.

Until the time of her death in 2003, actress Thora Hird worked regularly with the playwright Alan Bennett. In this audiobook, Bennett recalls his work and friendship with Thora, and introduces three examples of their collaboration.

Seasoned impressionist and political satirist Rory Bremner's first live album takes a wry look at Britain in the 1990s.

In 1979, whilst still a full-time chartered accountant, Arnold Brown performed at the opening night of the Comedy Store in London. The following year he co-founded the Comic Strip alongside other key figures in the 'alternative comedy' scene, such as Rik Mayall and Alexei Sayle. Arnold Brown's account of life in Glasgow and Hampstead, both through his own eyes and those of his Uncle Harry, is a patchwork of comic narrative, veering between canny observation and surreal fantasy.

A book to accompany the popular TV series 'Red Dwarf' which asks the question: 'What would you do if you were the last person on Earth?'.

The original soundtrack of one of Britains best loved comedy series, with Andrew 'Manuel' Sachs providing additional commentary. The episodes 'Communication Problems', 'The Hotel Inspectors', 'Basil the Rat' and 'The Builders', plus an interview with John Cleese are also included.

It's business as (un)usual at Fawlty Towers, which means madness and mayhem are guaranteed. The original soundtrack of 'The Kipper and the Corpse', 'The Germans', 'Waldorf Salad' and 'Gourmet Night', with additional commentary by Andrew Sachs and an interview with John Cleese.

Basil, Sybil and Spanish waiter Manuel continue their antics on the original soundtrack with added narration from Andrew Sachs. The following episodes are included: 'A Touch of Class', 'The Anniversary', 'The Psychiatrist', and 'The Wedding Party', plus an interview with writer and star John Cleese.

This audiobook brings together Billy Connolly's finest recordings from the 70s and 80s. Besides the wealth of stories and jokes, the tape also contains the classic hit songs 'D.I.V.O.R.C.E', 'In the Brownies' and 'The Welly Boot Song'. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES AND STRONG LANGUAGE.

Peter Cook's comic genius set the tone for the new British comedy of the sixties. His appearances on stage, television and film over three decades were legendary, as was his partnership with Dudley Moore. This audiobook offers a composite portrait, both of the public performer and the private man, written by many of the writers, performers and friends who worked with him and knew him best.

A selection of works recorded over a 25 year period, from 1961 up to the late eighties, highlighting Peter Cook's amazing career as a satirist, comedian and writer.

Taken from the BBC's 'Not Only... But Also' series featuring Pete and Dud at their chemical best, bouncing characters off each other, improvising lines, and pushing each other to the limit of comic invention. 'Art Gallery', 'Teaching Ravens to Fly', 'The Psychiatrist', and 'Lengths' are all here plus many more.

Wendy Cope's first poetry collection is a comical and irreverent mixture of poems which includes parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku and love poems.

Wendy Cope's second collection of poems tackles the funny side of serious matters like love, friendship, men, money and a whole range of topics that are close to our hearts.

Edited by Wendy Cope, this anthology of 101 humorous poems includes work by Lewis Carroll, W.S. Gilbert, Gavin Ewart, Kit Wright and Sophie Hannah.

A selection of the songs and sayings of Noel Coward, chosen and directed by actress Maria Aitken and performed by Polly Adams, Michael Cochrane, Clive Francis, Jane Horrocks, Belinda Lang and Paul Rhys.

Especially adapted for radio and featuring members of the original cast, this series of 'Dad's Army' episodes contains material unseen on television as well as old favourites. Contains the four episodes 'Ten Seconds From Now', 'A Jumbo-Sized Problem', 'When Did You Last See Your Money?' and 'Time On My Hands'.

More tales from the Walming-on-Sea Home Guard, especially adapted for radio from the original TV series. Captain Mainwaring does his best with his rag-tag platoon in the episodes 'The Man and the Hour', 'Museum Piece', 'Command Decision' and 'The Enemy Within the Gates'.

In these four episodes of the popular BBC television series starring Dawn French: 'Arrival', 'Songs Of Praise', 'Easter Special' and 'The Christmas Lunch Incident', the vicar of Dibley increases the church-going public, learns about suffering by giving up chocolate for Lent, and promises herself too many Christmas lunches.

In this second volume, four episodes trace a year in the idyllic village of Dibley with its perfectly peculiar residents. Is the Nativity play going to a have a real birth? And how will the water company solve Dibley's water shortage?

The memoirs of Bruce Forsyth begin in Edmonton, North London, and proceed though evacuation, the war years, and on to the theatre-land world of pier shows and music hall, his first big break and his transformation into 'Mr Entertainer', the face of such classic shows as 'The Generation Game', 'Play Your Cards Right' and 'Bruce's Price is Right'.

Michael Frayn's superbly crafted sketches are mostly timeless skits on middle class social mores of the 1960s, originally published as newspaper columns and brought marvellously to life by the versatile Martin Jarvis, who plays 100 characters in the course of a two hour programme!

Awakening from a drunken spree in a London pub to find himself on one of Saturn's moons, Lister joins the Space Corps and boards the Red Dwarf, determined to return to Earth. Things do not go according to plan though... Based on the BBC television sci fi series.

Dave Lister - the last human alive - is stuck on the mining ship Red Dwarf. His only companions are the ship's computer, a robot, a hologram of his dead bunk-mate and a creature that evolved from the ship's cat. Chris Barrie performs a radio version of 'Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers', the BBC 2 Sci fi comedy which makes up the 12 part radio series that was broadcast in 1997.

Red Dwarf Radio Show Volume 2 continues the 12 part series for BBC Radio. Based on 'Better Than Life', with sound effects, music and the brilliant wit and humour that characterises this Grant Naylor creation.

A retrospective of the genteel wit of the broadcaster, comedienne, pianist and poet, Joyce Grenfell. Monologues, sketches, songs and letters from the Grenfell archive are performed and read by Maureen Lipman, who portrayed her in the stage show, 'Re:Joyce!'

Actress, comedienne and raconteur Joyce Grenfell brings to life her experiences working in radio and in film, on the stage and war-time entertainment tours. Her glamorous and madcap American mother, aunt Nancy Astor and husband Reggie are just some of the larger-than-life characters in this reading.

Joyce Grenfell was one of Britain's best-loved entertainers, immortalised in roles such as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in 'The Happiest Days of Your Life', and Ruby Gates in the 'St Trinian's' films. She achieved success as a writer and performer of songs and monologues on stage and radio at a time when it was unusual for a woman of her background to work at all. Although her private life was guarded, this biography provides a very human portrait of Joyce, highlighting her humour, kindness and generosity.

It began as a drunken bet - for the sum of one hundred pounds - to hitch-hike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month. Joined by his trusty travelling companion-cum-domestic appliance, Tony Hawks found himself in the midst of a remarkable, inspirational and, at times, downright silly adventure.

A collection of poems ranging in mood from pathos to broad comedy. Some of them are read by the author in live performances throughout Britain and on radio and television. Subjects include Luton, string, dogs and logs, trains and Roman remains.

Peter Jones wrote and directed this series of humorous theatrical monologues, for which he adopted the persona of J. Kingston Platt, an grand old man given to reminiscing on his long and varied show-business career, a highlight of which includes an unforgettable TV commercial in which he appeared as a teabag.

The Danny Kaye Show was known as `one of the funniest comedy shows of all time', as this extraordinary comedian, singer, musician and mimic became known as `the man of a million characters'. With special guest star Judy Garland.

A delightful collection of stuff and nonsense chosen by Brian Alderson. Poetry to amuse young, old and those in between, this is a collection of lyrics and prose aiming to display a wide range of 'bosh'. As well as limericks and nonsense songs, there are `eggstrax' from Edward Lear's letters and a dictionary of his `wurbal inwentions'.

A collection of Edward Lear's hugely popular nonsense verse for everyone, old and young.

Strings of amusing anecdotes and obervations run through this witty autobiography as Lipman puts a comic twist on everyday life, including her struggles with the plumbing and the car and her attempts to make it to auditions and rehearsals.

Maureen Lipman, the woman who has had both a rose and a sewage system named after her, has a gift for making anything seem funny. Whether it is hot flushes ('wanna make love when I'm not too tired, wanna wear a bra that ain't underwired'), trying to make sense of the cricket commentary, ('they've dismissed the night-watchman bishop?') or giving the perfect dinner party ('place the frozen fish in the freezer and the wine in the microwave'), her individual slant on the subject is either refreshing, outrageous or downright priceless (or all of the above).

A humorous look at life as it really is, by the actress and comedienne, Maureen Lipman. This hilarious expose of life does not flinch from such diverse topics as sex, lunching with Royalty, and soaking her bra in cold tea, as well touching on life with her playwright husband Jack Rosenthal and two children.

This is the complete first series from BBC Radio 4, including the pilot episode, which won the Sony Award. The audiobook includes the creations Daffyd, the only gay in the village; Emily 'I'm a lady!'; incoherant young offender Vicky Pollard; and Marjorie Dawes from FatFighters. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

Political satire at its sharpest as amiable opportunist Jim Hacker clashes with his scheming Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby. This volume contains the following classic episodes: 'Open Government', 'Big Brother', 'The Economy', and 'The Writing on the Wall'.

Four episodes of the popular TV series which introduces you to Sharon, Tracy and man-eater Dorien. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES. .

Join the genial Groucho Marx in this quickfire collection of wise-cracks, laughter and comedy, as he stars alongside Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers and Bing Crosby among others.

Shipwrecked on an idyllic desert island with only an albatross for company, Richie and Eddie try to alleviate life's monotony with an incessant round of mindless destructiveness, petty squabbles and dreams of rescue.

This audiobook about the much-loved television show 'Dad's Army' explains how Jimmy Perry first came up with the idea of a sitcom about the Home Guard, and how he came to collaborate with director David Croft and the BBC to create one of the most enduring comedies of the past 30 years.

Not only the biography of Britain's best-loved comedy double-act but also of one of British television's best-loved shows. Morecambe and Wise worked together for more than 40 years, honing skills drawn from the music-hall, radio, films and television and combining them to produce an award-winning show that climaxed with the 1977 TV Christmas special which drew an audience of 28 million people.

The comic genius of Spike Milligan changed the face of radio comedy through 'The Goon Show', but there was more to Spike at the Beeb. Here, Milligan chooses and introduces classic clips from an astonishing BBC career which includes 'The Last Goon Show of All' and Spike performing his own verse in 'Spike's Poems'.

Together Morecambe and Wise delighted fans for 40 years in music hall revues, on television and radio. This production collects together three volumes of their classic sketches. It is a compilation of great gags and sketches from one of the best-loved and most successful comedy duos of all time.

For more than 25 years Frank Muir, in partnership with Denis Norden, produced comedy for radio and television. In his autobiography he recalls his childhood in Ramsgate, his time as an air photographer for the RAF during the Second World War, and his career as a scriptwriter and performer.

Reginald Perrin is sick to death of selling exotic ices at Sunshine Desserts. He's fed up with his boss who delights in making his life hell. And he's had enough of his eager young assistants who think everything is super. So when he decides to battle against the unacceptable face of consumerism, his quest for a new life leads him to take increasingly eccentric measures.

Eight hilarious episodes from this popular TV series with the original cast, including 'Babies', Infidelity', Pornography' and 'Three Girlfriends', in which Tony finds that juggling relationships can be tricky, while Gary suffers through a visit from his father. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

Techno trousers, a trip to the moon and a sheep rustling scam are all part of the everyday adventures of Wallace and Gromit. Relive their exploits as they travel to the moon in 'A Grand Day Out', battle to wrench Gromit from a pair of automated trousers in 'The Wrong Trousers' and rescue a flock of sheep from a robotic dog in 'A Close Shave'.

From one of the masters of wit, this collection of off-beat and unusual short stories all feature animals and includes 'The She-Wolf'; 'The Mouse'; 'The Broag'; 'The Boar Pig'; 'The Remoulding of Groby Lington'; 'The Wolves of Cernogratz'; 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger'; 'The Lull'; 'Laura'; 'The Stalled Ox'; 'Tobermory'; 'The Bull' and 'The Elk'.

In this first volume of Sir Harry Secombe's autobiography, he recalls his childhood in Swansea, his first job as a pay clerk, and his army days, where he met fellow Goon Spike Milligan.

The sequel to 'Arias and Raspberries' covers Harry Secombe's life from 1951, and includes wonderful behind-the-scenes stories of the legendary Goon Shows with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, as well as tales of family life in Cheam.

He's the man who needs no introduction - from a troubled and desperately poor childhood in the docklands of Glasgow, he is now one of the most well-known household names the world over. But who is Billy Connolly? His wife, comedienne-turned-pyschologist Pamela Stephenson, knows the truth about life on the comedy circuit, how Billy works and plays - and what it's like to live with him.

This anthology presents some of the funniest extracts in English literature. It begins by covering Anglo-Saxon riddles, medieval memories and Tudor comedy, and moves on to the rise of the novel in the 18th Century, including fine comic writers such as Swift and Dickens.

This is the Radio 4 series that inspired the bestselling book 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves'. Over five programmes Lynne Truss explores changing fashions in punctuation; for example, she accompanies the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society through Berwick Street Market on the hunt for the 'greengrocer's apostrophe'!

A pre-Bridget Jones collection of comic journalism in the form of a guide to the life of a cat-owning modern single woman in her 30s. Truss struggles with procrastination, single bananas, unclear cooking instructions and the ungrateful (and occasionally homicidal) nature of cats.

An anecdotal biography by the playwright, actor, author, designer, director and consummate entertainer, Peter Ustinov.

In the course of a career which spanned five decades, Peter Sellers rose to international fame and fortune. For more than a decade he was one of Britain's biggest stars, loved for his role as Inspector Clouseau in the 'Pink Panther' films and his appearances in 'The Goon Show'.

Seven chuckle-inducing tales including: 'Brugglesmith' by Rudyard Kipling, 'The Cricket Match' from 'England, their England' by A.G. Macdonell, 'Reginald on House Parties' by Saki, 'The Great Winglebury Duel' by Charles Dickens, 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' by Mark Twain, 'A Photographer's Day Out' by Lewis Carroll and 'Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet' by O. Henry.

Nothing escapes the satirical eye of Britain's successful first all-Asian sketch show in the compilation of the best of the first BBC Radio 4 series together with three shows from series two. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton star in highlights from the popular BBC television show. In addition to episodes with Deayton as chairman, there are also excerpts from the 2002 and 2003 series, in which the guest presenters include Bruce Forsyth, William Hague MP, Anne Robinson and John Sergeant.

Humphrey Littleton presides over panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Willie Rushton, Graeme Greene and Barry Cryer in this compilation of ad-libbing from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. Includes the games 'Cheddar Gorge', 'Gargle Gargle' and 'Good News Bad News'.

The first series of the Sony award winning radio show detailing the bizarre exploits of the inhabitants of a very peculiar Northern town. Meet Dr Chinnery, the lethally incompetent vet, Pauline, the monstrous Restart Officer at the Job Centre and Barbara, a taxi driver halfway through his sex change. Murderously funny and acutely observed, this is human nature at its most extreme. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.

The ninth volume of 'Round the Horne', featuring Kenneth Horne and a familiar range of bizarre and outrageous characters, including Rambling Syd Rumpo, Julian and Sandy, Charles and Fiona, and Seamus Android. This volume includes the first three programmes ever broadcast.

Eighteen classic episodes from three BBC series: 'Blackadder Goes Forth', 'Blackadder the Third' and 'Blackadder II'. No matter where he is, Edmund Blackadder always seems to be veering between calamity and disaster with very little in the way of constructive help from the mouse-brained Baldrick. These episodes feature escapades throughout history from the Regency Period to the First World War.

All your favourite Fast Show characters from Ted and Ralph and the 'Suit You Sir' pair to Jazz Club and Swiss Tony. Not to mention the 13th Duke of Wybourne - 'in the Royal Box with a magnum of fizzy, a box of havanas and a clutch of the finest fillies from the chorus line'. This is 'The Fast Show' as you've never heard it before. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. It's the time of goodwill and custard so join the festive fun with Scrooge and Nellie Scratchit in 'A Christmas Carol' and follow the lost chords of 'The Mighty Wurlitzer' hot foot across the Sahara. Also includes: 'Ye Bandit Of Sherwood Forest' and 'Operation Christmas Duff'.

Peter Ustinov had an astonishing range of accomplishments and credits to his name. He wrote 23 plays and 13 books, appeared in 50 films, and collected two Oscars, three Emmys and a Grammy. He was also a director, producer, graphic artist, photographer, raconteur and the recipient of many humanitarian awards. In this interview with John Bird, conducted on the approach to his 80th birthday, Ustinov recounts scenes from his childhood (including performing cabaret for Hailie Selassie at the age of three) and describes the changing relationship he had with his mother and father.

Contains two popular Radio 4 series - 'Ladies of Letters' and 'Ladies of More Letters'. Vera Small and her friend Irene Spencer exchange frequent correspondence. Often critical of each other (but always in a loving way of course), their hilarious put downs create a wonderful insight into the ups and downs of family life.

A follow up to 'Ladies of Letters & Ladies of More Letters'. Vera and Irene now communicate daily by e-mail about the the usual domestic mishaps: Irene's daughter Lesley is refusing to marry the worthy but boring Brian; Vera's exhausted daughter Karen has abandoned her third baby at the hospital and eloped with a male nurse; and Vera's gay son Howard and his partner Anthony are trying for a baby - with the help of a surrogate mother and a television crew. Irene and Vera's thinly-veiled put-downs and gossip give a wonderful insight into the trials of modern family life.

In a fifty-six year career, June Whitfield's presence in a show has always been the hallmark of quality. She writes about the great comics she has known in her long professional life and views the changing fashions in television, relishing being in the modern comedy loop.