Theres nothing much left to feel good about these days if youre British but one of the few things where we all agree that were 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 MikesJane 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.