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Tony Hendra (born 1941) is an English satirist and writer, who has worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School and Cambridge University, where he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside the likes of John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor, he moved to America a few years later, where he became one of the founding editors of National Lampoon magazine in 1970. In the early 1980s Hendra helped create the British television puppet show Spitting Image. Hendra also edited Spy Magazine for a period in the 1990s. His most notable acting role was in This Is Spinal Tap, as the band's manager, Ian Faith.

Hendra received acclaim for his 2004 memoir Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul. His novel The Messiah Of Morris Avenue, published in April 2006, depicts the second coming of Christ in a future United States ruled by the religious right.

Hendra's daughter, Jessica Hendra (wife of Kurt Fuller), has written a book (How to Cook Your Daughter) in which she describes being sexually abused by Hendra when she was a young girl. Hendra has denied those allegations.

• Tales From the Crib (with Peter Saggets)
• The Messiah Of Morris Avenue
• Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
• The Book of Bad Virtues
• Born to Run Things: An Utterly Unauthorised Biography of George Bush
• Brad '61: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Not the New York Times (with Christopher Cerf. Larry Durocher, Josh Feigenbaum, George Plimpton, and Rusty Unger)
• Off the Wall Street Journal and Off the Wall Stret Journal II which were made during a strike of the wall street journal and was distributed through news stands throughout New York City
• Not the Bible (with Sean Kelly)
• Going Too Far
• The 80's: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade 1980-1989 (with Christopher Cerf and Peter Elbling)
• The 90's: A Look Back
• The GIGAWIT Dictionary of the E-nglish Language

• New York Times Book Review by Andrew Sullivan of Tony Hendra's book Father Joe
• Reproduction of Los Angeles Times article describing Jessica Hendra's charges that her father abused her when she was a child (Note: this article contains explicit content).
• 'How to Cook Your Daughter': Father Tony - New York Times article on Jessica Hendra's charges. (Requires Subscription)
• Daughter Says Father's Confessional Book Didn't Confess His Molestation of Her - New York Times article that originally aired the Jessica Hendra abuse allegations.
• When the Right to Know Confronts the Need to Know The New York Times ombudsman comments on the publication of Jessica Hendra's accusations.
• Village Voice on the Jessica Hendra allegations
• God Save This Book An essay by Davis Sweet on Father Joe, and the public's reaction to Jessica Hendra's charges.
• Tony Hendra at the Internet Movie Database
• Tony Hendra interview about The Messiah of Morris Avenue
• Tony Hendra at the Notable Names Database
• Tony Hendra at the Internet Broadway Database