He died in obscurity5/4/2023 i think part of it is the way the people are grouped. this book just does it better than most of them. I have read plenty of books like this before - where there is a lotta information about people i never cared about enough to read an entire biography about, but a paragraph or two is fine. (dates are worse than directions to me - the brain doesn't even bother trying to absorb them) snippets!! brief biographical sketches!! information i can digest without getting all bogged down in facts and dates. stupid brain.īut that is why a book like this is just great for me. which is i think why my book reviews of late have been so dull - i am reading more quickly than i can review, and by the time i am getting around to writing a review, weeks have passed and many books have jostled in between myself and my memory of the book i am reviewing and there is just too much clutter. well, maybe it is regular-sized, but it doesn't hold a lot of information. THIS DBR IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY WINE AND GIRL SCOUT COOKIES: DO-SI-DOS ARE PAIRED WITH A DELIGHTFUL BORDEAUX BECAUSE I AM SUPER-CLASSY. THIS DBR IS DEDICATED TO EH!!! WHO IS THE BEST AT SO MANY THINGS, BUT MOSTLY AT STUFFING BOXES. Lloyd was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting. Lloyd currently presents the radio series, The Museum of Curiosity (2008), which he co-created with producers Richard Turner & Dan Schreiber and former co-host Bill Bailey. All the episodes of QI (including the pilot) have been directed by Ian Lorimer. In its eighth series, which started on BBC One in September 2010, Lloyd appeared as a panelist in one of the episodes. His first new TV series for 14 years, QI (short for Quite Interesting, and a deliberate reversal of IQ), starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, began on 11 September 2003 at 10pm on BBC2 for a run of 12 episodes. Lloyd was originally to have been the host of BBC topical news quiz Have I Got News For You, but was replaced by Angus Deayton. He also produced all 4 Blackadder series. Lloyd then worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979–1989 where he created Not the Nine O'Clock News (with Sean Hardie) and Spitting Image (with Peter Fluck and Roger Law). R.") Marshall, co-authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams and then went on to co-write the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with him. He wrote Hordes of the Things with Andrew ("A. He worked as a radio producer at the BBC 1974–1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born (with Peter Spence) and Quote. Lloyd was Trinity College, Cambridge, where he befriended and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams. John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd CBE is a British comedy writer and television producer. You may never pass a graveyard again without chuckling. The Book of the Dead-like life itself-is hilarious, tragic, bizarre, and amazing. Much like the country doctor who cured smallpox (he’s in here), Lloyd and Mitchinson have the perfect antidote for anyone out there dying of boredom. * How Catherine the Great really died (no horse was involved) * The one thing that really made Isaac Newton laugh * Why Freud had a lifelong fear of trains Organized by capricious categories—such as dead people who died virgins, who kept pet monkeys, who lost limbs, whose corpses refused to stay put—the dearly departed, from the inventor of the stove to a cross-dressing, bear-baiting female gangster finally receive the epitaphs they truly deserve. Spades in hand, Lloyd and Mitchinson have dug up everything embarrassing, fascinating, and downright weird about their subjects’ lives and added their own uniquely irreverent observations. Ludicrous in scope, whimsical in its arrangement, this wildly entertaining tome presents pithy and provocative biographies of the no-longer-living from the famous to the undeservedly and—until now—permanently obscure. Here, then, is a dictionary of the dead, an encyclopedia of the embalmed. The team behind the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance turns conventional biography on its head-and shakes out the good stuff.įollowing their Herculean-or is it Sisyphean?-efforts to save the living from ignorance, the two wittiest Johns in the English language turn their attention to the dead.Īs the authors themselves say, “The first thing that strikes you about the Dead is just how many of them there are.” Helpfully, Lloyd and Mitchinson have employed a simple—but ruthless—criterion for inclusion: the dead person has to be interesting.
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