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FOR YOUR DELECTATION:
A SYMPOSIUM OF JOCULAR MONOLOGUES,
HUMOROUS RECITATIONS & WHIMSICAL POETRY


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Over 1,130 titles compiled by Paul Wilkinson
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  Featuring...  
Marriott Edgar Index
'THE LION & ALBERT' and many, many more...
 
Stanley Holloway Index Tales of
'Young Albert'
&
'Old Sam'
The Ramsbottoms Pat O'Malley Index
'The Lancashire Lad'
The stories of
'Orrible 'Erbert
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BIlly Bennett Index
'The Man Who Made The King Laugh!'
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George Robey Index
'Prime Minister
Of Mirth'
Cyril Fletcher Index
Master of
The Odd Ode
Bransby Williams Index
The
Showman
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First Ladies Index
Gracie Fields - Joyce Grenfell - Elsie and Doris Waters and more...
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Jack Warner Index Walter Stanford Index Warren Hastings Index
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Gordon Kerr-Smith G.H. Goodwin Al Read Robb Wilton
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Norman Long Herbert Townsend Robert Service
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Bernard Miles Leonard Pounds John Tilley Leonard Pounds
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Star AND THE ENTIRE COMPANY Star
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THIS WEEK'S SPOTLIGHT...
 

THE WIFE-SWAPPING PARTY
as recited by
Eric Idle
from 'Rutland Weekend Television'

I went to a wife-swopping party
And nobody asked me to swop.
Deidre, my wife, had the time of her life,
With the man from the off-licence shop.
But his wife was minding the business,
And he'd only come with the wine
Still, he went round all night, swopping on sight
I do wish he hadn't swopped mine.

Now, Deidre, my wife, she's a shy girl,
And doesn't like to say no,
And though, in the past, she's never been fast
Last night she never went slow.
But I sat all night at the orgy,
And no-one asked me to indulge
The things that I saw going on, on the floor,
Would make your eyes goggle and bulge...

 
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LATEST TITLE ADDED ( 20 August 2008 )
 

THE OLD BARNSTORMER
by
Frank Wood & Cuthbert Clarke (1933)

Don't wake me up, for I'm dreaming to-night
Of the good old days long since taken flight.
We were either play-acting or running a booth
With animals, freaks, and our motto — 'The Truth!'
Walk up! Walk up! Walk up and see
The horse's head where his tail ought to be.
Yes that was the old Barnstormers' cry
In the good old days long since gone by.
The unselfish days when each of us shared
The good with the bad and nobody cared.
When luck was out and little to eat,
The ground for a bed, the sky for a sheet.
Walk up! Walk up! Walk up and see
The Horse's head where his tail ought to be.
How the people laughed when his 'rudder' they saw
In the manger while there was his head on the floor.
...

 
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