Mark Leigh is a British author and scriptwriter. He is the author of over 50 humour and trivia books. He has also co-authored books with a number of British celebrities.
Mark Leigh was born and brought up in North West London in Kenton, a suburb of Harrow in Middlesex. His parents are Philip Leigh who worked for the UK agent of a Japanese technology company and Edith Leigh (nee Gluckstein) who worked for the film distributor Gaumont British. Leigh attended Harrow County School for Boys where he met his future writing partner Mike Lepine and then Stanmore College. He was offered a place at Central London Polytechnic on a Photographic Arts degree but did not take this offer up. Instead he began work at London advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach.
Leigh’s first book The Complete Revenge Kit, a collection of fake but authentic and official-looking letters designed as practical jokes was published in 1985, co-authored with Mike Lepine. A year later he wrote How To Be A Complete Bastard with Mike and alternative comic Ade Edmondson. The book was a best seller and spawned a calendar, board game and computer game. Since then he has written over 50 books including those with celebrities Julian Clary, Jeremy Beadle, Pamela Stephenson, Roy 'Chubby' Brown, Des Lynam and Chris Tarrant. Leigh followed a parallel career in TV scriptwriting and development work for a number of British comedians including Hale and Pace, Noel Edmonds, Bobby Davro, Brian Conley, Joe Pasquale and Russ Abbot. He was also employed by London Weekend Television as script consultant on the Hall and Pace show.
How To Talk Teen
How To Be A Cat
Is It In Yet?
How To Be A Dog
The World According to Nigel Farage
How To Chat Someone Up At A Funeral
Weird Sh*t
Must Try Harder!
Eurrgh!
Epic Fail!
FBI’s Most Wanted Cats
CIA’s Most Wanted Dogs
Release Your Inner Old Fart
Crash! The Official Bankers Joke Book
Foul Mouthed Pets
The Loo Companion
Teddy Bears Of The Rich & Famous (written with Barney Leigh)
Celebrities Behaving Badly (With Carol McGiffin)
More Pets With Tourettes
Pets With Tourettes
The Book Of Stupid Lists (New Version)
You Know You’re A Child Of The 70s…
You Know You’re A Child Of The 60s…
The Advanced Swearing Handbook
You Know You’re A Child Of The 80s…
The Gossip’s Guide To Madam Tussauds (With Jeremy Beadle)
How To Make It In Advertising
Tall Animal Tales (With Rolf Harris)
Tarrant On Millionaires (With Chris Tarrant)
The Big Viagra Joke Book
Sports Crazy (With Des Lynam)
Jeremy Beadle’s How To Make Your Own Video Blockbuster
The Book Of Utterly Ridiculous Stupid Lists
Wannabe A Spice Girl?
The Lovers’ Revenge Kit
Beastly Behaviour (With Rolf Harris)
The Really Rough Holiday Guide
The Extra-Terrestrial’s Guide To The X-Files
True Animal Tales (With Rolf Harris)
The Official Politically Incorrect Handbook - Volume 2
The Office Revenge Kit
Roy Chubby Brown Unzipped! (With Roy Chubby Brown)
The Ultimate Revenge Kit
Back To Basics
The Official Politically Incorrect Handbook
How To Be A Real Man (With Julian Clary)
The Book Of Stupid Lists
How To Be A Superhero
The Return Of The Complete Revenge Kit
The Naughty '90s
The Book Of Revelations
How To Be A Complete Bitch (With Pamela Stephenson)
How To Be A Complete Bastard (With Adrian Edmondson)
The Complete Revenge Kit
The BARFTAS
Z For Fake
The Story Of The Unexplained
Thank You For Not Smoking
The Crazy World Of Joe Pasquale
Would You Believe It?
We Know Where You Live
Noel’s House Party
Chronicles Of The Count
Oink!
Television X
Hatches, Matches, Dispatches
The Newmans
Time Of Your Life
Beadle's About
All Star Arena
Short Change
Would You Believe It?
It'll Never Work
Russ Abbot
An Audience With Jimmy Tarbuck
You've Been Framed!
Artrageous
Tarbuck Late
Beadle's Hot Shots
Hale And Pace
Brian Conley
Short Change
Russ Abbot
The Last Tycoon
Hale And Pace
Rock With Laughter
Sports Bag
The Brian Conley Show
Saturday Zoo With Jonathan Ross
The Rory Bremner Show
'The Show With No Name'
Life's A Pitch
Hale And Pace
The Josie Lawrence Show
The Real McCoy
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Heil Honey, I'm Home
