Humor audiobooks

Confessions of a Scary Mommy

By: Jill Smokler

Narrated by: Jill Smokler

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes I just let my children fall asleep in front of the TV.In a culture that idealizes motherhood, it’s scary to confess that, in your house, being a mother is beautiful and dirty and joyful and frustrating all at once. Admitting that it’s not easy doesn’t make you a bad mom; at least, it shouldn’t.If I can’t survive my daughter as a... Read more

Tom Keith

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Keith had a wonderful ear for sound and beautiful sense of comic timing.
 
 As a schoolboy imitator of birds, livestock, and people being punched in the face, he had natural abilities that pointed to a career in the Live Radio Sound Effects Production Industry. But by the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota in the late ’60s,... Read more

Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays

By: Paul Fussell

Narrated by: William Lavelle

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is not a book to promote tranquility, and readers in quest of peace of mind should look elsewhere,” writes Paul Fussell in the foreword to this original, sharp, tart, and thoroughly engaging work. The celebrated author focuses his lethal wit on habitual euphemizers, artistically pretentious third-rate novelists, sexual puritans, and the... Read more

The Good Nanny

By: Ben Cheever

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Expert satirist Benjamin Cheever, author of Famous After Death, uses his dark sense of humor to deliver another searing look at suburbia. Literary editor Stuart Cross and his wife Andie, a film critic, hire the talented Louise to be nanny to their two young girls. Louise's perfection, however, begins to irritate the ambitious, but less... Read more

Confessions of a Male Nurse

By: Michael Alexander

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP. From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty... Read more

The Party

By: Sally Quinn

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

No one knows better than Sally Quinn how to make parties work. She has thrown some of the most talked-about parties and has attended most of the others. Here, she turns her trademark sharp wit on the Washington social scene and offers an irreverent look at what goes on at the parties you read about in the columns. From seating debacles to... Read more

Rumpole and the Golden Thread

By: John Mortimer

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this engaging collection of stories, Rumpole continues to deftly juggle the vagaries of law, the ambiguities of crime, and the contradictions of the human heart in his death-defying performances on behalf of justice. The irreverent, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister takes on suspect connoisseurs in the art world, journeys deep into... Read more

Piccadilly Jim

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

He was a gossip columnist’s dream. Piccadilly Jim’s life was a collage of broken promises and drunken brawls.And Jim’s straight-laced Victorian aunt was not amused. So, she decided to reform him. Unfortunately, her reform project started at a time when Jim had fallen in love and had already decided to reform himself. Thus, life became... Read more

Pigs Have Wings

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jeremy Sinden

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler, and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe. Galahad... Read more

A Pelican at Blandings

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Nigel Lambert

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, sank back in his chair looking like the good old man in a Victorian melodrama whose mortgage the villain had just foreclosed. He felt the absence of that gentle glow which customarily accompanied the departure of one of his sisters. Lord Emsworth needed Galahad. There are tricky corners to be rounded and... Read more

The Goon Show Compendium Volume Three: Series 6, Part 1

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Immensely popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking series The Goon Show changed the face of British comedy. Now, for the first time, this box set collection presents the episodes in chronological order as they were scheduled to be broadcast.

This third volume includes: 'The Man Who Won the War', 'The Secret Escritoire', 'The Lost... Read more

Scummow Things Washed Up By The Sea

By: Annamaria Murphy

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When a delirious Irishman arrives in a Cornish harbour, baker Mary Kneebone takes him in, and soon the sick and gullible are queuing at her door. A wry comedy about faith, love and redemption from outstanding Cornish playwright Annamaria Murphy. Starring Mary Woodvine, Barbara Jefford, Stephen Hogan, Alison Pettit, John O'Mahony and Charles... Read more

Slowness

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

""Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it."" — MirabellaMilan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the... Read more

Hector and the Search for Lost Time

By: Francois Lelord

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful third book in the multimillion-copy internationally bestselling seriesFirst he tackled happiness. Then he took on love. And now Hector, our endearing young French psychiatrist, confronts the persistent march of time.His patients lament that there is not enough time in the day. Or they feel that life is passing them by. And in one... Read more

Pyg

By: Russell Potter

Narrated by: Simon Callow

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming debut introduces readers to the adventures of its overachieving porcine narratorBlending the sophisticated satire of Jonathan Swift with the charming exuberance of a Pixar film, Pyg tells the story of Toby, a truly exceptional pig who lived in late eighteenth-century England. After winning the blue ribbon at the Salford Livestock... Read more

Some Like it Hawk

By: Donna Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Meg Langslow is plying her blacksmith's trade at Caerphilly Days, a festival inspired by the town's sudden notoriety as 'The Town That Mortgaged Its Jail.' The lender has foreclosed on all Caerphilly's public buildings, and all employees have evacuated - except one. Phineas Throckmorton, town clerk, has been barricaded in the courthouse basement... Read more

Harry Lipkin, Private Eye

By: Barry Fantoni

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Harry Lipkin, the world's oldest private detective: part Sam Spade, part Woody Allen, all mensch.

Harry Lipkin is a tough-talking, soft-chewing, rough-around-the-edges, slow-around-the-corners private investigator who carries a .38 along with a spare set of dentures. Harry specializes in the sort of cases that cops can't be bothered with,... Read more

Fifty Shames of Earl Grey

By: Fanny Merkin

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Young, arrogant tycoon Earl Grey seduces the naïve coed Anna Steal with his overpowering good looks and staggering amounts of money, but will she be able to get past his fifty shames, including shopping at Walmart on Saturdays, bondage with handcuffs, and his love of BDSM (Bards, Dragons, Sorcery, and Magick)? Or will his dark secrets and... Read more

Year Zero

By: Rob Reid

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet.
Worse, they were lawyering up. . . .
 
In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe—and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry.
 
... Read more

The Great Escape

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrated by: Shannon Cochran

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Next to Tracy and Hepburn, nobody does romantic comedy better than Susan Elizabeth Phillips.”
—Minneapolis Star TribunePerennial New York Times bestseller Susan Elizabeth Phillips now provides her fans with The Great Escape from ordinary women’s romantic fiction. One of today’s most beloved writers, the incomparable Phillips follows up her... Read more

The After Wife

By: Gigi Levangie Grazer

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Gigi Levangie Grazer, the New York Times bestselling author of The Starter Wife, returns with a hilarious and spirited tale of love—both lost and found.

L.A. is no place for widows. This is what forty-four-year-old Hannah Bernal quickly discovers after the tragic death of her handsome and loving husband, John. Misery and red-rimmed eyes are... Read more

Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series

By: Ben Elton & Richard Curtis

Narrated by: Full Cast, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Rik...

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete soundtracks of all four Blackadder series, plus over three hours of specials and extras

Through the ages of Britain, from the 15th century to the 21st, Edmund Blackadder has meddled his way along the bloodlines, aided by his two imbecilic sidekicks, Lord Percy and Baldrick, and hindered by an assortment of dimwitted aristocrats. With... Read more

Dan Gets a Minivan

By: Dan Zevin

Narrated by: Dan Zevin

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling and beloved tradition of Dave Barry, a coming-of-middle-age tale by Thurber finalist Dan Zevin, master of "Seinfeld-ian nothingness" (Time) about a man's inevitable transition into midlife and fatherhood. The least hip citizen of Brooklyn, Dan Zevin has a working wife, two small children, a mother who visits each week to... Read more

The Inimitable Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Bertie Wooster is in trouble again as his lovesick pal, Bingo Little, falls in love with every girl he lays eyes on. The real problem starts when Bingo decides to marry one of the girls and he enlists Bertie's help. Luckily for Bertie, Jeeves once again comes to the rescue! With his usual savoir-faire and panache, Jeeves unties the tangles and... Read more