Great British Wit

Description

There's nothing much left to feel good about these days if you're British, but one of the few things where we all agree that we're still a world leader is our defining sense of humour. Thematically covering every subject imaginable, from God to dogs, this collection is the seminal gathering of our national wit and a picture of who we are as a nation - a monument to our monumental silliness. 'An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.' George Mikes Jane Austen, Jo Brand, Craig Brown, Winston Churchill, Alan Clark, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Stephen Fry, A.A. Gill, Boris Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Maureen Lipman, Spike Milligan, Eric Morecambe, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Frank Skinner, Sue Townsend, Peter Ustinov, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Victoria Wood and many more. Review: Wit - Perfect choice for my mother's birthday - she's English and has been living in france for 60 years or so.... Review: Exhaustion - Sooo clever, some of these lines, that you can only digest about seven (half a pages' worth ) at a time. Hence this review's title. But it's worth it, because you can keep your favorites from this storehouse in your back pocket, and zip one of the best out at the right moment , thereby achieving the status of "a wit."