How The World Wags:         very silly things

A Listmania! list by Kentish Sir Byng
 
Carry on Cleo [DVD] [1964]
1.  Carry on Cleo [DVD] [1964] DVD ~ Kenneth Williams
The list author says:
  "The best carry on film: slapstick, memorable punchlines, all the regulars at their best.  Where are my laurels? Oh silly me, I've been resting on 'em."
Used & New from: £0.01
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

See buying options
The Naked Anthropologist: Tales from Around the World (Wadsworth modern anthropological library series)
2.  The Naked Anthropologist: Tales from Around the World (Wadsworth modern anthropological library series) by Philip R. DeVita
The list author says:
  "Not as popular as The Naked Chef, few academics have followed this route."
Used & New from: £1.76

See buying options
Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
3.  Sir Henry At Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall
The list author says:
  "Spoken word and songs: Vivian Stanshall's ludicrous backwater, grotesque, funny, brilliant. I listen to it again and again."
£5.67   Used & New from: £3.29
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

Girls on the Run: A Poem
4.  Girls on the Run: A Poem by John Ashbery
The list author says:
  "A novel in poetry that is hybrid, silly, sometimes opaque, always interesting. Follow Tidbit, Dimples, Pliable, Uncle Margaret, Rags the Dog and Mr McPlaster, the school principal. Sweet and sinister."
Used & New from: £12.19
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

See buying options
The Willowdale Handcar: Or the Return of the Black Doll
5.  The Willowdale Handcar: Or the Return of the Black Doll by Edward Gorey
The list author says:
  "horribly silly"
Used & New from: £5.06
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

See buying options
The Smallest Book in the World
6.  The Smallest Book in the World by Joshua Reichert
The list author says:
  "a little light reading..."
Used & New from: £1,965.00

See buying options
Blithe Spirit (Classic Drama)
7.  Blithe Spirit (Classic Drama) by Noel Coward
The list author says:
  "Noel Coward's plays sparkle on. A classic recording of 'Blithe Spirit'"
Used & New from: £5.00

See buying options
Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times [1936] [DVD]
8.  Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times [1936] [DVD] DVD ~ Charles Chaplin
The list author says:
  "Slapstick satire like no other. The one where the tramp gets stuck in the cogs, and the employee-feeding machine, the nonsense song at the Red Moon Cafe."
Used & New from: £8.74
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

See buying options
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) -- Royal Opera House/Davis [DVD]
9.  Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) -- Royal Opera House/Davis [DVD] DVD ~ Willi Hartmann
The list author says:
  "An operatic character with a stutter?"
Used & New from: £149.00
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

See buying options
The Electric Spanking of War Babies
10.  The Electric Spanking of War Babies by Funkadelic
The list author says:
  "p-funk master-work. let the spanking commence."
Used & New from: £7.67

See buying options
Bach - Cantatas
11.  Bach - Cantatas by Istvan Gáti
The list author says:
  "coffee was the new thing all the rage when Bach lampooned it in this comedy 'Coffee' cantata. Good old Bach, he was a bit of a wag you know."
£8.14   Used & New from: £1.98

The Betrothed (Classics)
12.  The Betrothed (Classics) by Alessandro Manzoni
The list author says:
  "There was once a vogue for parodying Homeric epic. What would start the great war? A pail of water?"
£9.09   Used & New from: £1.98
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

The Rape of the Lock and a Key to the Lock (Hesperus Classics)
13.  The Rape of the Lock and a Key to the Lock (Hesperus Classics) by Alexander Pope
The list author says:
  "Come, silly spirits..."
Used & New from: £0.85

See buying options
Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction)
14.  Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction) by Bernhard
The list author says:
  "Morbidly silly..."
Used & New from: £5.50
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

See buying options
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (FF Childrens Classics)
15.  The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (FF Childrens Classics) by Edward Lear
The list author says:
  "complete nonsense, made-up words, strange drawings, runcible spoons and pea-green things, toeless pobbles and a luminous nose"
£5.59   Used & New from: £0.87
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Magritte (Basic Art Album)
16.  Magritte (Basic Art Album) by Marcel Paquet
The list author says:
  "each image a clot of life: a rain of men in bowler hats, horses galloping over cars, birds made of sky.."
£5.49   Used & New from: £1.03
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
17.  Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
The list author says:
  "intricate and mad annotations to a poem, a fictional kingdom, adventure, jealousy, a chess-game, a bogus index, endless mirrors... I trust the reader has enjoyed this note."
£8.40   Used & New from: £3.32
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Slim Gaillard Rides Again
18.  Slim Gaillard Rides Again by Slim Gaillard
The list author says:
  "includes maybe the silliest Lady Be Good ever recorded"
Used & New from: £23.89

See buying options
Russian Ark [2003] [DVD]
19.  Russian Ark [2003] [DVD] DVD ~ Sergei Dreiden
The list author says:
  "okay, not that silly, but there's one moment half-way through when a door is slammed, silence, and then a man in a wig opens it and makes a rude noise that I found so funny i laughed for 15 minutes"
£8.50   Used & New from: £3.97
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Metropolitan/Levine [DVD] [NTSC]
20.  Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Metropolitan/Levine [DVD] [NTSC] DVD ~ James Morris
The list author says:
  "Brothers and sisters and birds and a tree and a catastrophe - an example of how the really rather silly can be exalted to great and moving heights by some brilliant, shifting, elusive music."
£45.99   Used & New from: £45.00
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

How the World Wags: Social Music for a 17th Century Englishman
21.  How the World Wags: Social Music for a 17th Century Englishman by Anonymous
The list author says:
  "includes Henry Purcell's bawdy round, 'A pox on you', complete with raspberry sounds and the immortal lyric: 'Why don't I, why don't I, why don't I let fly in your face?'"
£7.60   Used & New from: £4.15
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies [DVD]
22.  Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies [DVD] DVD ~ Walt Disney Treasures
The list author says:
  "Disney did silly as well as cute, you know; many composers have written a "hidden" silly symphony - Beethoven's Ninth is one of these."
Used & New from: £19.99
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews) | 2 customer discussions

See buying options
Silly Sisters
23.  Silly Sisters by June Tabor
The list author says:
  "actually, a good folk album, a good way to say bye-bye to the silly for now. Now stop reading this list, it's far too silly..."
£8.19
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

More Actions

Discover more about this author
 See all of their Listmania! lists
Make your own list
 Create a Listmania! list
View your page on Amazon.co.uk
 Go to Your Profile page

About this Listmania!

 

Author

Kentish Sir Byng
Qualifications: student of the silly
Last updated: 04/10/2007
Report abuse
    

More Listmania!

 

My top ten Carry on Films My top ten Carry on Films

My top ten Carry on Films: A list of 10 items by "chadmatt"

Films that make me go Yeeaahhh!!! Films that make me go Yeeaahhh!!!

Films that make me go Yeeaahhh!!!: A list of 25 items by Ms. Felicia Davis-burden

Albums that inspire Albums that inspire

Albums that inspire: A list of 10 items by Mr. Paul N. J. Cunningham "woodbutcher"

Formative music Formative music

Formative music: A list of 25 items by TR Shackleton

Top 10 Carry On films Top 10 Carry On films

Top 10 Carry On films: A list of 10 items by Andy Davidson