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Pelham-Jones, Herbert2

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Herbert Edward Plunkett Pelham-Jones, Esquire: Joke Teller and Joke Maker

Shaw, Carol

1974

A study of joke maker Herbert Edward Plunkett Pelham-Jones and his repertoire, including a brief biography and sections examining why he tells jokes, and the kind of jokes he tells. Typed Tape Tables ...

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Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]

Shaw, Carol

[1973/1974]

Herbert Pelham-Jones talks about joke-telling: the jokes he tells, why, when and where; reference to the Jokers' Club and Hampshire Club; gives examples of stories, inc. tongue twisters (crude); jokes...

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Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]

Shaw, Carol

[1973/1974]

Herbert Pelham-Jones gives examples of tongue twisters, obscene jokes; talks about his parents, grandparents and uncles; Irish jokes; Jewish joke; jokes about nuns; crude nursery rhyme parodies; more ...

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