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Author: Robert Wringham

Robert Wringham is a humorist, recently shortlisted for the Leacock Medal for humour. He's also a performer, the editor of New Escapologist magazine, and the author of You Are Nothing, Escape Everything! and A Loose Egg.

Robert Crumb

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Cult genius or filthy weirdo? Duh. He’s both.

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Sebastian Horsley

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“My fate lies not in the stars, but in a star: myself.”

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Harold Lloyd

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Acrobatic satire of American go-getter culture.

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Robert Tressell

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He wrote a funny, angry portrait of working-class life.

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Jerry Lewis

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One of the greatest comedic actors and directors of all time.

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Michael Gorman

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He envisions a library system that is truly for all.

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Ronald Searle

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His boarding-school girls smoked, gambled and even murdered.

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Kurt Vonnegut

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“Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail.”

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Amy Winehouse

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She described her true self as an old woman chain-smoking on a front step.

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Russell Brand

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“Monkey government!”

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G. K. Chesterton

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“Humour can get in under the door while serious­ness is still fumbling at the handle.”

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Stewart Lee

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Grinding repetition and passive-aggressive monotony.

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George MacDonald Fraser

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“Let terror have his way, for he’s the best friend you’ve got.”

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Frances Glessner Lee

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The sexagenarian amateur who revolutionized crime scene investigation.

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Alasdair Gray

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Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

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