Author | Founder, Ross Literary & Media 💋 HERLARIOUS — coming 2027 📚 The Carry On Girls ✍️ Comedy • Women • Culture • History 📩 hello@rossliterarymedia.co.uk
London, England
Joined March 2013
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Excited to reveal the cover of my new 📕
HERLARIOUS A Celebration of Women in Comedy 💋
Published by @TheHistoryPress coming to a bookshop near you in February 2027
#newbook #womenincomedy #women #celebration #comedy
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Think you know your Only Fools, Dad’s Army, Fawlty Towers and Blackadder?
My new quiz book, How Well Do You Know… Classic British Sitcoms?, is on its way!
Who’ll be brave enough to score 100%? 🎭📚
#BritishComedy #Sitcom #Quiz #Books
📚 Cover reveal!
Delighted to share the new paperback edition of The Carry On Girls, co-authored with @RobertWRossEsq.
Coming this October! @TheHistoryPress
#CarryOn #BritishComedy #ComedyHistory #Books #FilmHistory
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “James & Ivy” is a wonderful new audio comedy featuring Jeffrey Holland & Su Pollard 🎧💙
Listen now 👉 payhip.com/b/wW0Ih
#JamesAndIvy #BritishComedy #AudioDrama #YouRangMLord #ListenNow
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Looking forward to joining Susie Brann aka Miss Poppy and Robert Ross for an evening of conversation and fun at the Carnegie Rooms, Thetford tonight 15th May as #JamesAndIvy launches today! See you there, 7.30pm. #YouRangMLord #SusieBrann @RobertWRossEsq @JudyBuxton7
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Important news! Happy to report I will be signing copies of my book, “The First Rule Of Comedy” now in paperback, in the Dad’s Army museum, Thetford, 12pm, Saturday 16th May with Robert Ross. See you on parade! #DadsArmyWeekend @RobertWRossEsq #HideHi #YouRangMLord #JamesAndIvy
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Minty Python on the Prom! @PythonOnTheProm
What a weekend! Should you ever visit Terry Jones remember to rub his bottom for good luck! 🍑
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Here is the actual moment of Terry’s suitably anarchic unveiling on Colwyn Bay beach. It was a glorious day with nothing but blue skies, blazing sunshine and several thousand onlookers dressed as anything and everything #terryjones and #montypython instagram.com/reel/DXkDzODiE…
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Preparing to plan the launch of James and Ivy, a new audio drama, with some of our wonderful cast! #SuPollard #MichaelFentonStevens @DavidBensonSays #PerryBenson @peritosbentitos and the very lovely @JudyBuxton7 #JamesAndIvy
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BREAKING NEWS: Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam will be unveiling Terry J’s statue on Saturday 25th April in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. Why not join us and plan your trip at visitconwy.org.uk #terryjones #apythonontheprom #montypython #colwynbay #michaelpalin #terrygilliam
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It’s World Book Day so seems like the perfect time to tell you my memoir “The First Rule Of Comedy…! will be out in paperback from 16th July. Available to pre- order on Amazon now!
🛒 amzn.to/4cyezXn #WorldBookDay @RobertWRossEsq @JudyBuxton7
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Looking forward to being @SuffolkLib with @JeffHolland07 this March for #afternoontea
Book here: ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/…
@JudyBuxton7 @GemmaVRoss @TheHistoryPress
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Our glorious #ComedyHistorian #Christmas Dinner this afternoon, with dearest chums @JeffHolland07 and @JudyBuxton7 at 2 Brydges club.
The festivities have well and truly began. Hi-De-Hi! 🤪❤️🎄 #Comedy #Friends #Food #Fun
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RIP to the wonderful Stanley Baxter. What a glorious age and what a glorious legacy of laughter he leaves.
Gemma and Robert xxx
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Don’t forget @JeffHolland07 memoirs are available as the perfect Christmas gift 🎁
#ComedyHistorian #Christmas #hidehi #giftideas #bookrecommendations
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There will be a book signing afterwards too - tickets below👇
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Just announced: @RobertWRossEsq is bringing SERIOUSLY SILLY to Slapstick Festival!
Robert joins Gemma Ross in conversation on Sunday 8th February 13:30 at @stgeorgesbris to celebrate @PythonJones and discuss his latest biography SERIOUSLY SILLY: The Life of Terry Jones.
ALT Photo of Terry Jones from Slapstick Festival 2012
ALT Photo of book Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones
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A Seriously Silly Day for TERRY JONES… See you in February, m’lovelies. ❤️🎬
What a wonderful night at @Thehexagon celebrating #TerryJones with #MichaelPalin, @TVSanjeev and @RobertWRossEsq!
Thank you to everyone who joined us- we hope to see you at the festival in Bristol from Wed 4th to Sun 8th February.
📸 David Betteridge Photography
ALT Michael Palin, Sanjeev Bhaskar, and Robert Ross in suits, holding glasses and posing for the camera.
ALT Sanjeev Bhaskar and Michael Palin in conversation on stage
ALT Michael Palin introducing Life of Brian
ALT A shot of the audience watching Life of Brian