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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

By: Robert Wringham

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

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Sebastian Horsley

By: Robert Wringham

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

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Harold Lloyd

By: Robert Wringham

Acrobatic satire of American go-getter culture.

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Robert Tressell

By: Robert Wringham

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

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Jerry Lewis

By: Robert Wringham

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

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Michael Gorman

By: Robert Wringham

He envisions a library system that is truly for all.

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Ronald Searle

By: Robert Wringham

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

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Kurt Vonnegut

By: Robert Wringham

“Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail.”

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Amy Winehouse

By: Robert Wringham

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

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Russell Brand

By: Robert Wringham

“Monkey government!”

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G. K. Chesterton

By: Robert Wringham

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

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Stewart Lee

By: Robert Wringham

Grinding repetition and passive-aggressive monotony.

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George MacDonald Fraser

By: Robert Wringham

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

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Frances Glessner Lee

By: Robert Wringham

The sexagenarian amateur who revolutionized crime scene investigation.

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Alasdair Gray

By: Robert Wringham

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

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