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Ben Elton Plays 1: Gasping, Silly Cow and Popcornby Ben EltonISBN 0413736709 (0-413-73670-9)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton , Rowan Atkinson, John LloydISBN 0140296085 (0-14-029608-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917'Book summary:Then look no further. Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty is the book for you. Here, at last, for the first time, are the full scripts of one of British television's funniest comedies. Follow the hilarious misadventures of the despicable Edmund Blackadder and his dimwitted sidekick Baldrick through four centuries of hopelessly mangled English history: from medieval nastiness through English history: from medieval nastiness through Elizabethan and Regency glory, to the mud and sauteed rats of the First World War. Aside from the ball-bouncingly funny scripts themselves, Blackadder also features special bonus sections: "Instruments of Torture in the Late Middle Ages"; "Medieval Medicine" ("1. Herbs; 2. Leeches; 3. Saw It Off"); and an indispensable "Index of Blackadder's Finest Insults". [via]
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Blast from the Pastby Ben EltonISBN 0385334524 (0-385-33452-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blast from the Past'Book summary:Ready to follow Nick Hornsby and Helen Fielding as the next big thing from Cool Britannia to hit America is Ben Elton. Already known to a wide public television audience as the funnyman behind Blackadder, The Young Ones, and The Thin Blue Line, Elton, author of Popcorn, lights up the literary sky with Blast from the Past.
Part noir thriller, part hilarious send-up of the politics of extremism, Blast from the Past is the new novel from English comedy phenomenon (stand-up, playwright, television writer, and author) Ben Elton--a name soon to be known in all circles once Joel Schumacher's film of his book Popcorn reaches the silver screen.
In the early 80s, when Polly was a seventeen-year-old ideological peace protestor and Jack was a U.S. Army captain stationed at England's Greenham Common, the two had a secret and very unlikely affair. No two people could have had more to argue about, save that they couldn't live without each other, yet one day Jack came to the conclusion that he loved soldiering more than Polly and sacrificed their love to be a career army man.
Now, sixteen years later, Polly is a lonely thirty-something social services employee and Jack is a four-star general who has returned to Britain to find her, his only true love. With only one night to resolve their differences, and a knife-wielding stalker lurking in the shadows, for everyone concerned this will be a night like no other. [via]-
Dead Famousby Ben EltonISBN 0552149020 (0-552-14902-0)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Famous'Book summary:Ben Elton's Dead Famous brings together his talents in comedy and crime writing to produce a hilarious and devastating novel on the gruesome world of reality TV. Peeping Tom productions invent the perfect TV programme: House Arrest. Its slogan is: "One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. One survivor." This is all a clever parody of the massive TV hit Big Brother, with its vain, ambitious contestants with their:
tattoos and their nipple rings, their mutual interest in star signs, their endless hugging and touching, and above all their complete lack of genuine intellectual curiosity about one single thing on this planet that was not directly connected with themselves.
However, Elton adds a clever twist to this very funny send-up. On Day 27 of the programme, one of the housemates is killed live on TV. Everyone in the country has a theory about the killer, "indeed the only person who seemed to have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the killer's identity was Inspector Stanley Spencer Coleridge, the police officer in charge of the investigation". Coleridge is an old fogey from the 1950s, who has to learn quickly about lesbians, piercings, blow jobs and the seductions of TV fame before he can crack the case. Elton's wicked parody of the housemates is brilliant, the murder fiendish in its ingenuity, and the ending wonderfully over the top. Dead Famous is great fun, and even has some social comment thrown in for good measure. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Dead Famous:
Filth! : The Book of the Comedy Event of the Yearby Crispin Leyser, Ben Elton , Terrence Higgins Trust StaffISBN 0099490617 (0-09-949061-7)
Softcover, Random House
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Gridlockby Ben EltonISBN 0356197026 (0-356-19702-6)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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High Societyby Ben EltonISBN 0552150533 (0-552-15053-3)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Inconceivableby Ben EltonISBN 0552146986 (0-552-14698-6)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inconceivable'Book summary:In english, A Black Swan book, edition. Lucy is making me write this diary. Except it's not a diary. It's a book of thoughts, letters to myself. [via]
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Popcornby Ben EltonISBN 0552151017 (0-552-15101-7)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Popcorn'Book summary:Controversial and past caring, equal parts cool and cruel, Bruce Delametri is Hollywood's hottest director. Tonight, he's at the apex of his career, with an Oscar cradled in one hand and Miss February in the other. But then he gets a visit from two special fans, and all hell (quite literally) breaks loose.
Popcorn, a novel from British sitcom writer Ben Elton (Blackadder, The Young Ones), is the satirical novel done 1990s style. It is a book about the movies that indicts the movies, and that has every chance of being made into a movie. It rings all the familiar changes on the theme of Hollywood vapidity, crassness, and decadence; however, Popcorn accomplishes this so deftly that you may not realize that you've heard it all before until you're finished with the book. Popcorn has little new to say about America and the culture for which it stands: talk-show hosts that are vacuous, movies that are violent, and audiences that are moronic. (The one benefit to shooting this particular fish in this particular barrel is that most readers will find it hard to disagree.) That said, the book generates an undeniable tension. Popcorn is a pleasing (if not always pleasant) page-turner, and the last 20 pages will definitely give you pause. [via]
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This Other Edenby Ben EltonISBN 0552151009 (0-552-15100-9)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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