The Incomplete Framley Examiner by Amazonundefined

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In 2001, fans of the internet were introduced to scanned pages from spoof local newspaper The Framley Examiner. Packed with humdrum and preposterous news stories, classified ads, local business features and headlines that seemed to have been typed while asleep, it skewered the banal madness of small-town existence, perfectly encapsulating the British national character.
Framleys strange yet familiar community stuffed with its own cast, insane geography and rich local history struck a chord with those who recognised their own home towns in its reflection. The website was loved and shared by an eager public as well as famous fans from Little Britain, The Simpsons and the Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (Professor Stephen Hawking was a Framley enthusiast).
Marking the twentieth anniversary of the website's first appearance The Incomplete Framley Examiner combines the pages of the original book, published in 2002, with all the pages published online in the years since and brand new material for a bigger, more luxurious, toilet-proof compendium for the annals of history.
Recenzja
'Packed with hard laughs'
Bob Odenkirk,
Better Call Saul
,
Mr. Show
'The funniest book ever written'
Josh Weinstein, showrunner of
The Simpsons
'Some of the funniest, cleverest satirical pieces of writing in the world'
Aisling Bea, creator of
This Way Up
'So accurate and perfect you would think it was the real thing'
Jeremy Dyson,
The League of Gentlemen
O autorze
The Framley Examiner team met at school and made each other laugh. An online spoof local newspaper, every corner filled with gags, was designed to make up for the slow internet connections of 2001; every click gave you 100 jokes. Within two weeks of launching, we had a book deal with Penguin, and Framley had become a cult. Off the back of it, we variously went on to work for Viz, Mitchell & Webb, Charlie Brooker and the Paddington films. And when six of the top ten bestsellers were our Ladybird spoofs in 2015, shifting over 5 million books, you could say that all started with Framley.