Humor audiobooks

The Storyteller

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding himself trapped in a compartment with a set of unruly children, the Storyteller decides to take revenge by narrating a tale with a most immoral twist. This is a wonderful example of witty and multi-layered storytelling by Hector Hugh Munro (aka Saki), satirizing British Edwardian society. The listener is drawn into the story along with... Read more

If You Were Here

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The fiction debut of the New York Times bestselling author of My Fair Lazy.Told in the uproariously entertaining voice readers have come to expect from Jen Lancaster, If You Were Here follows Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying-but always... Read more

S'Mother

By: Adam Chester

Narrated by: Adam Chester

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

S'Mother is a hilarious memoir based on 30 years of unsolicited advice, news updates, and opinions in the form of thousands of inappropriate, embarrassing, and utterly crazy letters showing the pathological extremes maternal instincts can take. Why is a grown woman so frantic that her adult son screw on his windows to keep out killer bees? Are... Read more

The Chaplet

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When master chef Monsieur Aristide Saucourt presents his signature dish to diners at the Grand Sybaris Hotel, he anticipates they will acknowledge this as the pinnacle of his career. But the moment does not go as planned and ends in a fatal tragedy involving hot soup. Read more

A Far Cry from Kensington

By: Muriel Spark

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation.Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. There, as a fat and much admired... Read more

The Quest

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Momeby family’s baby goes missing, their neighbour Miss Gilpet undertakes to find the child. Her immediate success turns out to be less of a miracle and more of an embarrassment for all. Read more

Sredni Vashtar

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Conradin is a sickly and introverted child who hates his guardian, Mrs. De Ropp. When she takes away his pet hen and threatens to do the same with his pole-cat, whom he worships like a god, Conradin makes a special prayer and his sinister wish is answered. Hector Hugh Munro (aka Saki) at his most sinister and macabre. Superb! Read more

Tales of the Macabre

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A quartet of short stories by the British master of the macabre, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym “Saki”. This collection brings together four of his most macabre tales, all of which will surprise the listener with an uncanny twist at the end. "The Background": When Henri Deplis comes into a small inheritance and celebrates... Read more

The Unrest Cure

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When the prematurely middle-aged J.P. Huddle is recommended to take an “unrest-cure” by a friend, he little realizes that the other passenger in the railway compartment, the prank-loving Clovis, will take this as a personal challenge. The havoc which Clovis’s macabre and at times shocking practical joke causes is beyond anything that the sleepy... Read more

Tales of Naughty Pranks

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A quartet of short stories by the mastermind of practical jokes, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym “Saki”. This collection brings together four of his most ingenious tales, all of which involve one character playing a prank on the others. The results range from the comic to the macabre… but all are brilliantly narrated with... Read more

The Background

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When Henri Deplis comes into a small inheritance and celebrates his new found wealth by getting an elaborate tattoo, he little realizes what a series of catastrophic events will ensue. The tattoo is recognized as a masterpiece of modern art and given to the city of Bergamo. This is the start of a series of restrictions on Henri Deplis’ lifestyle... Read more

Curious Animal Tales

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A quartet of short stories by Britain’s raconteur supreme, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym “Saki”. This collection brings together four of his most curious and amusing tales, all of which involve animals. Saki’s satirical take on the morals and eccentricities of Edwardian society, combined with a compelling narrative and an... Read more

Tobermory

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mr. Cornelius Appin announces that he has succeeded in teaching the cat, Tobermory, to speak, nobody in the house party believes him. But when Tobermory makes his entrance and begins to reveal the kind of personal secrets only a cat can know about the assembled company, chaos breaks out. Tobermory must be destroyed at all costs. Hector Hugh... Read more

Mrs. Packletide's Tiger

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs. Packletide is determined to shoot a tiger in order to get one up on her arch rival Loona Bimberton. In a comical and at times ironic sequence of events, Mrs. Packletide finds herself at the mercy of another rival, just when she had least expected it. Hector Hugh Munro at his most witty and ironic. A masterpiece! Read more

Esme

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Baroness recounts a hunting story with a twist. Instead of a fox, the quarry turns out to be an escaped hyena, which adopts her and Constance Broddle and leads them to cover up a heinous killing. Hector Hugh Munro at his most macabre. Read more

The Stampeding of Lady Bastable

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs. Sangrail is determined to offload her wayward son Clovis onto Lady Bastable for six days while she takes a trip to Scotland. Is desperation she resorts to cunning bribery, but Clovis has other ideas and devises an ingenious scheme to thwart his mother’s plans. Another piece of genius humour writing by Hector Hugh Munro, peppered with his... Read more

The Mouse

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When Theodoric Voler boards a train he finds he is not alone in the compartment. Not only is there a female companion asleep in one corner, there is a mouse which has hidden itself inside his clothes. Can the sensitive and prudish young man manage to undress and extricate the mouse without his female companion waking up? Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)... Read more

Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable

By: Marcy Kahan

Narrated by: Stephen Mangan, Naomi Frederick, Adeel Akhtar, ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama written by the award-winning screen and stage dramatist Marcy Kahan, and starring Stephen Mangan as Ed, whose life is about to change forever when he accidentally puts National Treasure Penhaligon Rhinehart into a coma. First broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 14 January 2011. It's an important day for Ed Hanson. He... Read more

Something Fresh

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter.Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what... Read more

Die Wahrheit über Deutschland, Pt. 9

By: Diverse Autoren

Narrated by: Diverse Sprecher

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die Wahrheit über Deutschland" zählt schon lange zu einer festen Größe im Programm des Kölner Labels WortArt. In regelmäßigen Abständen wird hier das Beste aus aktuellen Produktionen gesammelt und auf einer Compilation zusammengefasst! Read more

Love among the Chickens

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend and novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his enterprise. Complications ensue, involving the taciturn Hired Man and his bumptious dog, supercilious... Read more

Puppenmord - Abridged

By: Tom Sharpe

Narrated by: Olli Dittrich

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Henry Wilt ist Hilfslehrer an einer Berufsschule auf dem platten Lande, beruflich und im Eheleben tritt er auf der Stelle. Der Mittdreißiger hat es seit zehn Jahren mit künftigen Gasinstallateuren, Maurern und Fleischern zu tun, denen er die hohe Literatur näher bringen soll. Daheim erwartet ihn seine Frau Eva, sexuell unbefriedigt und schnell... Read more

The Open Window

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Framton Nuttel pays an unannounced call on Mrs. Sappleton and finds himself in the midst of a macabre spectacle which is not as it seems. Hector Hugh Munro’s genius storytelling at its best. Read more

Rubber Balls and Liquor

By: Gilbert Gottfried

Narrated by: Gilbert Gottfried

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1970s, as our nation's youth railed against every conceivable societal norm, a funny-looking teenage Jew started turning up at open mike nights in various New York City comedy clubs. Surprisingly, he didn't suck. That funny-looking teenage Jew is now the even funnier-looking middle-aged comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who despite his... Read more