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Oliver Double (born 22 April 1965) is a British stand-up comedian, author and academic. Since 1999, he has taught comic and popular performance at the University of Kent. His current roles at the university are Reader in Drama and Theatre, and Head of Comedy and Popular Performance. Career Double worked as a circuit comedian and founded the Last Laugh comedy club in Sheffield. He continues to perform in his one-person shows Saint Pancreas and Break a Leg and in a monthly comedy club called Funny Rabbit. He has written books on the subject including 1997's Stand Up! and 2012's Britain Had Talent as well as book chapters and articles about stand-up comedy, alternative comedy, variety theatre and vaudeville Double contributed to the creation of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA) at Kent University's Templeman Library and he produced a monthly podcast about BSUCA called A History of Comedy in Several Objects. He has appeared on TV programmes and documentaries discussing stand-up comedy, including BBC's Imagine and Horizon. He has also appeared on numerous comedy podcasts including The Alexei Sayle Podcast where he discussed Bertolt Brecht and Book Shambles where he discussed the history alternative comedy with Josie Long and Robin Ince. Double teaches practical performance including stand-up comedy based on research and many of his students have become professional comedians. Books Stand-Up! On Being a Comedian (1997, Methuen Drama) ISBN 9780413703200 Getting the Joke: The Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy (2004, Bloomsbury) ISBN 978-0413774767 Britain Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre (2012, Palgrave Macmillan) ISBN 978-0230284609 Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up (2020, Bloomsbury) ISBN 9781350052819 Collections In 2014 Double helped to establish the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA) at the University of Kent. The archive's founding collection was the archive of comedian Linda Smith. BSUCA has been actively acquiring material ever since, and now holds a wide variety of collections including material from Mark Thomas, Andy de la Tour, Josie Long, Funny Women, Harry Hill, and Jeremy Hardy. Double also deposited his own material into the archive; the Oliver Double Collection includes extensive audio-visual material (featuring interviews with many comedians), live recordings and show notes. References External links Oliver Double at University of Kent British Standup Comedy Archive (BSUCA) Oliver Double Collection at University of Kent Oliver Double on Twitter Oliver Double at IMDb. Discover the Oliver Double popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Oliver Double books.
Best Seller Oliver Double Books of 2024
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The Man with a Load of Mischief
Martha GrimesFrom bestselling author Martha Grimes, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury is back on the case in an installment in the Richard Jury Mystery series. Long Piddleton had always be...
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The Way of All Fish
Martha GrimesAn “absurdly amusing” (The New York Times Book Review) sequel to Martha Grimes’s bestselling novel, Foul Matter, this wicked satire of the publishing industry is “comic, caustic, a...
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The Old Contemptibles
Martha GrimesFollowing a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth, Jury finds himself, unaccountably, a suspect in a murder investigation. Detained in Londo...
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Double Double
Martha Grimes“A thoughtful twist on the recovery memoir” (O, The Oprah Magazine) that explains the different ways bestselling author Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, recognized and overca...
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The Old Fox Deceived
Martha GrimesIt is a chilly and foggy Twelfth Night, wild with North Sea wind, when a bizarre murder disturbs the outward piece of Rackmoor, a tiny Yorkshire fishing village with a past that pr...
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The End of the Pier
Martha GrimesThe setting: a small, sleepy American town where secrets are almost impossible to keep. The center of town life: the Rainbow Cafe where Maud Chadwick works as a waitress, hiding be...
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Genetics
Adam RutherfordPart of the ALLNEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.Who discovered genetics?How does gene inheritance work?Is DNA common to all living things?We inherit CODES from our parents. And these cod...
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Send Bygraves
Martha GrimesIn Send Bygraves, Martha Grimes has given us her most fascinating book, a dramatic mystery poem that uses the conventions of the traditional British mystery to explore the very nat...
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The Anodyne Necklace
Martha GrimesThe third in the bestselling Richard Jury mystery series by Martha Grimes.A spinster whose passion was birdwatching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made th...
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The Horse You Came in On
Martha GrimesThe murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sargeant Wiggins, Jury arr...
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Biting the Moon
Martha GrimesThe girl’s hair was white below the scarf, now a scarf of snow, and there was a fine rime of ice on her eyebrows. Her mouth was so numb she couldn’t have spoken even if there had b...
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The Deer Leap
Martha GrimesIn her latest Richard Jury adventure, Martha Grimes takes us to Ashdown Dean, a little English village where animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents. While t...
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Jerusalem Inn
Martha GrimesFrom the rough but colorful pub that provides the book’s title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphereor thwarted romanc...
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Help the Poor Struggler
Martha GrimesBook seven of the suspenseful Richard Jury Mystery series!Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Ric...
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The Stargazey
Martha GrimesSaturday night. It was not a night to be spending alone, riding a bus. When he was a teenager at the comprehensive, Saturday night without a girl, without a date, without at least ...
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The Case Has Altered
Martha GrimesThe sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly again...
