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    Heroes of mine - loads of laffs and some thinking going on

One link doesn't do anybody justice - try Google...

Spike Milligan - the grand master Lord Buckley - His Hipness
Jacques Tati - comic film maestro Andy Goldsworthy - artist
Buster Keaton - silent comedian Marcel Duchamp - chess player
Bill Hicks - noisy comedian Wim Wenders -film maker
George Carlin - also noisy... Lenny Bruce - the source
Eddie Izzard - a bit quieter Gaudi -inspired architect
W.C.Fields - mumbling comedy Buckminster Fuller - design genius
Bob Dylan - breath control Timothy Leary - Cyberpunk
George Carl - genius clown (OK, link goes to his son...sigh) Robert Anton Wilson - fnord
Laurel and Hardy - sweet hearts Jerry Mander - stunning insights
Thomas Pynchon - enigma Ivan Illich - insights & revelations
Philip K Dick - stoned writer Tom Robbins - anarchist writer
Kurt Vonnegut - atheist writer William S Burroughs - alien visitor
Dave Allen - Irish storyteller Joseph Heller - Catch-22 ......20th Century key text

The list is endless...

And the women deserve a page of their own...Laurie Anderson, Mae West, Madame Blavatsky, Maya Angelou - it's a whole other number.....another day.