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Stand-up comedian, comedy writer, radio presenter, and children’s author, Ricky Gervais's talent have brought him extraordinary success over the last few years.

Best-selling author Michael Heatley reveals how Gervais journeyed from his childhood in Reading to international stardom with his groundbreaking TV series The Office and the critically acclaimed Extras.

An outspoken personality who divides opinion, Jeremy Clarkson has made a successful career out of his love of cars and speed.

Since becoming Top Gear supremo, the programme has become one of the most widely distributed TV shows on the planet. His candid views on practically every subject under the sun have often landed him in hot water. Love him or loathe him, this fascinating biography tells his far-from-over life story.

From his school days in Stoke -on-Trent to his years in Take That, his battle with drink and drugs and the song that 'saved his life', this is the most intimate and well balanced portrait of this excitingly unpredictable showman to date. This Sunday Times bestseller has become the definitive account of Robbie Williams life.

For half a century Ken Dodd has been sending audiences around Britain in to spasms of laughter and at the age of 80 he is still performing. How did this feather duster salesman from Liverpool become one of the greatest comic geniuses of his generation? In this entertaining biography we follow his life from schooldays in Knotty Ash to the top of his profession with the odd excursion through the courts and Shakespeare!

King of comedy? Well if anyone were to be accorded that accolade right now it would have to be Peter Kay. In the last five years he has risen to the top of the comedy world with astonishing speed. He has had record-breaking tours, TV shows, and even a number-one single. Add to that an appearance in Dr Who and what else is there left to do? More of the same one suspects, as Kay is still a young man.