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fails on both counts. The commentary especially on non-European cuisine is distinguished by appalling ignorance. the humour is flabby. middle class and A nglocentric. An awful book. (l.(i.) I A Fish Called Wanda John (‘leese and (‘harles ('richton (Methuen £2.5(l). Not the screenplay but a screenplay for the eponymous film. ' If you have seen the film you won't find the book as funny. though it might function as instant nostalgia. I Double Scotch and Wry ed (Bordon Menzies ( BB(‘ Books £4.95). A collection of the scripts from Rikki Fulton‘s TV series. Many good jokes A and quite a few big laughs. (1.0.) I Barmy Victoria Wood (Methuen OF £3.95). Scripts from her TV series. If vou liked it on the box you may still get a laugh from these. but the idea b of yet another book ofsketches is y achingly unimaginative. (S.B.)
Louise Armand I Go To Bed With Jonathan Ross Mayer. Reid and Ross (Virgin Illustrated throughout £4.99). Rather a good example of its in colour genre. Ross is nicely self-deprecating. and more to the £1495 HardbaCk point the jokes are funny. (l.(}.) Available from I Janet Lives With Mel and Grill (iriff all good bookshops R hys-Jones and ( ‘live Anderson
(Fontana£-1.5()). Another'l‘V spin-off. This one is extremely reminiscent of the Monty Python books. with the same kind of pastiche advertisements and graphics. (l.(i.)
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I Stanley Baxter's Bedside Book at Glasgow Humour Stanley Baxter with Alex Mitchell (Richard Drew £2.99). Scraping the barrel a bit after his own Parliamo Glasgow books of years past and the recent success of Michael Munro‘s "I‘he Patter'. this slim volume is still intermittently funny in a comforting. homely fashion.
I The Dogsbody Papers ed E.0. Parrott (Viking £10.95). Collection ofsub-Sellar and Yeatman historical parodies. An example of the worst excesses ofthc kind of English middle class humour which used to
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I Totally U.S. Simon Bond (Methuen £3.95). Some ofthe jokes went over my head. but this is on the whole a very funny collection of satirical cartoons on the state of the union from the man who brought you A Hundred and ()ne ( 'ses For a Dear/(21!. (1.0.)
I Biggsy's Bible Ronnie Biggs and (ieoff Deane (virgin £3.99). A rather tawdry attempt by the retired and exiled criminal to ease his cash flow problems. ‘Discover the wit and wisdom of Ronnie Biggs‘. shouts the cover. Alas. that is just what we do. (l.G.)
I Ronald Searle's Non-Sexist Dictionary (Souvenir £6.95). A very cheeky and funny lampoon of the crazy etymology of some loonier feminists. giving ‘non-sexist' equivalents of words such as ‘menstrual'. ‘buoy‘ and ‘mandolin'. And there are more of Searle's cartoons into the bargain. ([.(i.)
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