P. G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, H. F. Ellis, Frederic Raphael, Mark Twain, Keith Waterhouse, Barry Pain, Paul Theroux, Nathaniel Gubbins, James Herriot, Bret Harte, A. C. Games, Burdette, Robert J., Bob Larbey, Oscar Wilde, Seán Ó Faoláin, Jerome Klapka Jérôme, David Nobbs, Giovannino Guareschi, Dorothy Parker, Arnold Bennett, William Somerset Maugham, Stephen Leacock, Rob Buckman, Alasdair Gray, Joyce Grenfell, Art Buchwald, Saki, John Verney, Harry Secombe, John Wyndham, Jean Davis, Groucho Marx, Douglas Sutherland, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, Iris Murdoch, Arthur Marshall, James Thurber, C. Northcote Parkinson, Douglas Adams, Mole, John, Rudyard Kipling, Fran Lebowitz, Peter Ustinov, Patrick Campbell, Phyllis Eleanor Bentley, O. Henry, Basil Boothroyd, Robert Robinson, Sue Townsend, Neil Boyd, Damon Runyon, George S. Kaufman, Max Apple, Gerald Malcolm Durrell, E. F. Benson, Auberon Waugh, David Niven, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Nancy Mitford, Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle, E. M. Delafield · First published 1987
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