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John Lloyd

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in Dover, The United Kingdom

September 30, 1951

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John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd CBE is a British comedy writer and television producer. Lloyd was Trinity College, Cambridge, where he befriended and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams. He worked as a radio producer at the BBC 1974–1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born (with Peter Spence) and Quote... Unquote (with Nigel Rees). He wrote Hordes of the Things with Andrew ("A. P. R.") Marshall, co-authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams and then went on to co-write the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with him. Lloyd then worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979–1989 where he created Not the Nine O'Clock News (with Sean Har...more

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Average rating: 3.90 · 8,085 ratings · 630 reviews · 47 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 594 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of General Ignorance by John Mitchinson, Stephen Fry (Introduction), Alan Davies (Foreward) 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 3,357 ratings — published 2006 — 30 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure by John Mitchinson, John Lloyd 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 502 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?: Smart Quotes for Dumb Times by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 192 ratings — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The QI Book of Quotations ADVANCED BANTER 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2008	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Discreetly Plumper Book QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The QI Annual 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Qi Annual 2011 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?”
― John Lloyd, 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

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