Humor
90-talet.se : eller vem fan komponerade modemljudet?
(7 röster)90talet.se - boken för dig som växte upp under 90-talet Det har blivit dags att återuppleva det årtionde då Sverige var bra på fotboll, decenniet då internetmodemet installerades och fenomenet dokusåpa uppfanns. Genom oerhört slumpartade djupdykni...
Hasse & Tage : Svenska ord & co : saga & sanning
(1 röst)"Jag är här för att införa humorn. Förr fanns här inte humor för fem öre. Nu finns det. För fem öre." Martin Ljung i Hasses och Tages "Fingal Olsson" Med Hans Alfredson och Tage Danielsson och Aktiebolaget Svenska Ord inleddes ...
90-talet.se : eller vem fan komponerade modemljudet?
90talet.se - boken för dig som växte upp under 90-talet Det har blivit dags att återuppleva det årtionde då Sverige var bra på fotboll, decenniet då internetmodemet installerades och fenomenet dokusåpa uppfanns. Genom oerhört slumpartade djupdykni...
My Mad, Fat Teenage Diary
My Mad Fat Diary is now a major new comedy for E4! It's 1989 and Rae is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint off-green bath suite and a larder Rae ca...
The Best of Sexology - Kinky and Kooky Excerpts from America's First Sex Magazine
This book presents do's and don'ts for husbands and wives in the bedroom! What a difference 75 years can make! The pre-sexual revolution tone of Sexology (1930's-50's) will seem quaint and antiquated to our savvy modern sensibilities, and though t...
Catalogue Man - 70's Mail-order Fashion Hunks
A collection of cheesy fashion pin-ups from an era when hairy chests, handlebar moustaches and big hair were all the rage. Don't forget the crimes against fashion - hip-hugging mega-flares, Cossack belted cardigans, lace-up trunks, and karate pyja...
The Oxford Book of Parodies
An unparalleled introduction to the parodist's art, The Oxford Book of Parodies includes parodies from Chaucer to the present day, ranging from imitations and spoofs to lampoons and pastiches, comical, scornful, witty, and subtle. It also takes in...
Barbaric Intercourse - Caricature and the Culture of Conduct, 1841-1936
"Barbaric Intercourse" tells the story of a century of social upheaval and the satiric attacks it inspired in leading periodicals in both England and America. Martha Banta explores the politics of caricature and cartoon from 1841 to 1936...
Folklore Fights the Nazis - Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940-45
Armed with jokes, puns, and cartoons, Norwegians tried to keep their spirits high and foster the Resistance by poking fun at the occupying Germans during World War II. Despite a 1942 ordinance mandating death for the ridicule of Nazi soldiers, Nor...
The Far Corner - A Mazy Dribble Through North East Football
A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson,...
Achtung Schweinehund! - A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat
This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalion of British men who grew up playing with toy sol...
An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain - or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always
Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?' "An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain" inform...
An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain - or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always
Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?'. "An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain" infor...
Our Dumb Century - The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headdlines from America's Finest News Source
The staff of The Onion presents a satirical collection of mock headlines and news stories, including an account of the Pentagon's development of an A-bomb-resistant desk for schoolchildren.
Tijuana Bibles - Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s
As wry and raunchy as the subject it celebrates, this inspired volume introduces a new generation to the Tijuana Bibles, underground comic art from the 1930s, and 1950s, devoted to making sexual mockery of every sacred cow in the pasture. Editor B...
Things Ain't What They Used to be
Were the 70s and 80s all they were cracked up to be? Or have we never had it so good? Philip Glenister - one of our best-loved actors - takes a swig of Babycham, jumps on his space hopper, and heads off down memory lane to find out. Which Bond was...
VHS - Forgotten Relics from the Golden Age of Home Video
Comedy writers Joe Pickett and Nick Prueherhave spent the last 20 years collecting the best odd and unintentionally hilarious videotapes ever produced. Now, for the very first time, they've collected the greatest VHS box covers into one handsome c...
A Man Without a Country
En självbiografi där författaren med tänkespråk och diagram även berättar om sin syn på litteraturen, Bush, miljöförstöringen och sin tid som Saabförsäljare.
Prince Philip: Wise Words and Golden Gaffes
His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh: irascible, controversial, outspoken, forthright and funny; the Gaffer, the Prince of Political Incorrectness, the Duke of Hazard, Phil the Greek. Whatever you call him - and he doesn't give ...
Beating Around the Bush - Political Humour 2000-2006
New revised and expanded with columns from 2005, this examines the ridiculous people and events in American politics.
Dead Funny - Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany
Sex Tips for Husbands and Wives from 1894
In 1894, Ruth Smythers, 'Beloved wife of The Reverend L. D. Smythers', wrote: 'While sex is at best revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured...One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: give little, give seldom and...
Bushisms: The Farewell Tour
"This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all." Let the nostalgia begin: we may never see words from the White House quite like these, ever again. "I think-tide turning-see, as I remember-I was raised in...
Fubar F***Ed Up Beyond All Recognition - Soldier Slang of World War II
The soldier slang of World War II was as colourful as it was evocative. It could be insulting, pessimistic, witty, and even defeatist. From 'spam bashers' to 'passion wagons' and 'roof pigs' to 'Hell's Ladies', the World War II fighting man was ne...
An Edwardian Guide to Life
At a formal dinner you must never take a second helping or you will find yourself dining alone. The Edwardian age (1901-1910), the last period of the English country house, was defined by its etiquette for those both upstairs and down. This 'golde...
The Bachelor Girl's Guide to Everything - The Girl on Her Own
A gorgeous facsimile edition of Agnes M. Miall's classic 1916 volume, this is a charming resource for the modern-day 'girl on her own'. Truly a 'Guide to Everything', the straight-talking Mrs Miall offers timeless advice on a minefield of everyday...
Hellcat Amazons - Tough Girls and Warped Women from the Pulp Classics
As America slowly relaxed its moral codes in the post war era, the pulp novels of the paperback racks offered an initiation ot the previously hidden demi-mondes of sex and hedonistic excess. While the cover blurbs fained shock and disgust, the cov...
Remember the 80s - Now That's What I Call Nostalgia
Nostalgia for the music, fashion, fads and style of Generation X is booming. Richard Evans presents the best of the decade that brought us Madonna, My Little Pony, Sinclair ZX computers, Margaret Thatcher, Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran, Legwarmer...
Skratta eller gråta : humor i koncentrationsläger
Fanns det humor i koncentrationslägren? Kan någon som inte utsattes fö
Hasse & Tage : Svenska ord & co : saga & sanning
"Jag är här för att införa humorn. Förr fanns här inte humor för fem öre. Nu finns det. För fem öre." Martin Ljung i Hasses och Tages "Fingal Olsson" Med Hans Alfredson och Tage Danielsson och Aktiebolaget Svenska Ord inleddes ...
