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  2. Librarians in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Librarians have often been depicted in broadcast and streamed television series. Last of the Summer Wine, a BBC comedy that ran from 1973 to 2010 was originally titled The Library Mob. [30] Many episodes took place in the local library and featured library staff. CBS, NBC, Cartoon Network, and Disney Channel had a number of shows which depicted ...

  3. Conan the Librarian - Wikipedia

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    This was followed by The Return of Conan the Librarian and Conan the Librarian on the Information Highway. The author of these stories is the fictitious "Hadley V. Baxendale" (a pun on the famous law case Hadley v. Baxendale). This Conan is an ordinary librarian who lives in the mythical "Information Age". [10]

  4. Norman D. Stevens - Wikipedia

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    Stevens was one of the creators of The Molesworth Institute, a fictional organization devoted to library humor. [6] Using various pen names, he wrote many satirical articles on aspects of librarianship, including Preserving Books with Jell-O™ under the pen name Nouleigh Rhee Furbished, which was published in the Journal of Irreproducible ...

  5. List of The Librarian characters - Wikipedia

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    Creator of The Librarians, John Rogers, noted that Dean Devlin wanted to do a television version of the Librarian movies, in the style of the revived Doctor Who series. . Unfortunately, because Noah Wyle was still doing Falling Skies, and Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin were only going to be available periodically, Rogers had to come up with a new approach, noting that Wyle did not want to be ...

  6. List of humorists - Wikipedia

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    A humorist (American English) or humourist (British English) is an intellectual who uses humor in writing or public speaking. [1] Humorists are distinct from comedians, who are show business entertainers whose business is to make an audience laugh, though it is possible for some persons to occupy both roles in the course of their careers.

  7. S. J. Perelman - Wikipedia

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    S. J. Perelman's typewriter (New York Public Library) They were infused with a sense of ridicule, irony, and wryness and frequently used his own misadventures as their theme. Perelman chose to describe these pieces as feuilletons — a French literary term meaning "literary or scientific articles; serial stories" (literally "little leaves ...

  8. Category:Fictional librarians - Wikipedia

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  9. Mark Twain's Library of Humor - Wikipedia

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    The book was published in 1888 by Charles L. Webster & Company. When that firm collapsed in 1894, Harper and Brothers took over the publication of all of Clemens' work. The Library of Humor was a valuable piece, containing many copyrighted works by many distinguished and popular authors. Secretary of Harper and Brothers Frederick A. Duneka had ...