RONNIE CORBETT: Introduction
P.G. WODEHOUSE: 'The Voice from the Past'
RING LARDNER: Mr and Mrs Fix-It
H.F. ELLIS: Lent Term 1939 The Man Faggott (from The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA)
FREDERIC RAPHAEL: Chinatown
MARK TWAIN: A Restless Night
KEITH WATERHOUSE: A Family Breakfast (from Billy Liar)
BARRY PAIN: The Insult
ANONYMOUS: The Simple Story of G. Washington
PAUL THEROUX: Algebra
NATHANIEL GUBBINS: Gubbins Goes to War
JAMES HERRIOT: Tristan's Romance (from Vet in a Spin)
BRET HARTE: A Jersey Centenarian
A.C. GAMES: Russell's Fantasy
ROBERT J. BURDETTE: First-class Snake Stories
BOB LARBEY: New Jobs for Old (from A Fine Romance)
OSCAR WILDE: The Canterville Ghost
RING LARDNER: A Day with Conrad Green
SEAN O'FAOLAIN: The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
JEROME K. JEROME: I Become an Actor
DAVID NOBBS: Chlistmas (from The Better World of Reginald Perrin)
BARRY PAIN: The Unsuccessful Sinner
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI: Crime and Punishment (from The Little World of Don Camillo)
JAMES HERRIOT: The Butcher (from Vets Might Fly)
DOROTHY PARKER: You Were Perfectly Fine
ARNOLD BENNETT: Raising a Wigwam (from The Card)
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: The Facts Of Life
STEPHEN LEACOCK: Mr Plumter, BA, Revisits the Old Shop (from Happy Stories)
ROB BUCKMAN: Jogging from Memory (from Jogging from Memory)
ALASDAIR GREY: The Problem (from Unlikely Stories, Mostly)
JOYCE GRENFELL: Canteen in Wartime (from Turn Back the Clock)
ART BUCHWALD: Coward in the Congo (from I Chose Caviar)
SAKI: The Story-teller
JOHN VERNEY: Tea at the Embassy (from Verney Abroad)
HARRY SECOMBE: Goon Away — Try Next Door (from Goon for Lunch)
JOHN WYNDHAM: Pawley's Peepholes (from The Seeds of Time)
JEAN DAVIS: Trees and Tribulations
GROUCHO MARX: A Blind Date Can Be a Pig in a Poke Bonnet (from Memoirs of a Mangy Lover)
DOUGLAS SUTHERLAND: The Gentleman at Home (from The English Gentleman)
P.G. WODEHOUSE: 'The Great Sermon Handicap' (from The Inimitable Jeeves)
GEORGE & WEEDON GROSSMITH: Diary of a Nobody (from Diary of a Nobody)
ART BUCHWALD: My Favourite Tourists (from I Chose Caviar)
IRIS MURDOCH: The sale of the Artemis (from The Flight from the Enchanter)
ARTHUR MARSHALL: Take A Pew (from I'll Let You Know)
JAMES THURBER: The Day the Dam Broke (from My Life and Hard Times)
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON: Nonorigination (from In-laws and Outlaws)
DOUGLAS ADAMS: April Showers (from So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)
JAMES THURBER: A Sequence of Servants (from My Life and Hard Times)
JOHN MOLE: The Monogamist
RUDYARD KIPLING: A Friend's Friend
FRAN LEBOWITZ: Writing: A Life Sentence (from Metropolitan Life)
PETER USTINOV: Schooldays (from Dear Me)
PATRICK CAMPBELL: East is West
PHYLLIS BENTLEY: At the Crossing (from More Tales of the West Riding)
O. HENRY: Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
BASIL BOOTHROYD: Coming to Grips (from Let's Move House)
A.C. GAMES: The Concerns of Angus Daines
ROBERT ROBINSON: The Middle-aged Philistine Abroad (from The Dog Chairman)
SUE TOWNSEND: A New School Year (from The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)
GROUCHO MARX: Speed the Parting Guest (from Memoirs of a Mangy Lover)
SAKI: The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
NEIL BOYD: One Sinner Who Will Not Repent (from A Father Before Christmas)
DOUGLAS SUTHERLAND: The Gentleman and the Opposite Sex (from The English Gentleman)
DAMON RUNYON: The Big Umbrella
ROBERT ROBINSON: Our Betters (from The Dog Chairman)
JOYCE GRENFELL: Antique Shop (from Turn Back the Clock)
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: The Escape
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN: School for Waiters
ARTHUR MARSHALL: Cold Comfort Cottage (from I'll Let You Know)
MAX APPLE: Carbo-loading (from Free Agents)
ROB BUCKMAN: Gray's Anatomy in a Country Churchyard (from Jogging from Memory)
BARRY PAIN: The Recitation
ART BUCHWALD: Alone in No Man's Lapland (from I Chose Caviar)
GERALD DURRELL: The Human Animal (from Encounters with Animals)
E.F. BENSON: The Party (from Lucia's Progress)
AUBERON WAUGH: Inflammable Nighties (from Consider the Lilies)
DAVID NIVEN: 'The Emperor' (from Bring on the Empty Horses)
G.K. CHESTERTON: The Singular Speculation of the House Agent (from The Club of Queer Trades)
NANCY MITFORD: Castle Life (from Love in a Cold Climate)
GEOFFREY WILLANS and RONALD SEARLE: How to Succeed as a New Bug (from How to be Topp)
GERALD DURRELL: A Porcupine in the Parish (from Menagerie Manor)
E.M. DELAFIELD: Foreign Climes (from The Provincial Lady Goes Further)
JOHN VERNEY: Top of the Morning (from Verney Abroad)