Washoe County Library System

Comedy sketches and animation.

"The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning and Booker-shortlisted blockbuster Ducks, Newburyport returns with a rollicking new collection of satirical essays"--

Some of the best of Terry Jones' sketches from the Monty Python television program, selected by Terry Jones himself.

Michael Palin, globe-trotting adventurer and comedian's comedian, has somehow managed to sit still just long enough to put together his compilation of the very best of Monty Python, including the fan-favorites Fish Slapping Dance and The Cheese Shop.

In short, wordless cartoons, Simon's cat frustrates him by scratching up the furniture, pulling pranks on a neighbor's dog, hunting for food around the house, trying to catch birds outside, and pulling gags on Simon.

Valerie lives on her own and has, shall we say, a rich interior life. Serially unlucky in love, to feel better she imagines that her previous boyfriends are dead and that their bodies are kept downstairs in the cellar in a strange, mummified state. Every day she brings them upstairs and speaks with them about what went wrong. What follows is a series of peculiar and funny, and sometimes disturbing short tales about inept lovers, weird obsessions,...