Humor audiobooks

Half Empty

By: David Rakoff

Narrated by: David Rakoff

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The inimitably witty David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Get Too Comfortable, defends the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst, because you’ll never be disappointed.

In this deeply funny (and, no kidding, wise and poignant) book, Rakoff examines the realities of our sunny,  gosh­... Read more

Mini Shopaholic - Abridged

By: Sophie Kinsella

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “frothy fun . . . Faster than a swiping Visa, more powerful than a two-for-one coupon, able to buy complete wardrobes in a single sprint through the mall—it’s Shopaholic!” (The Washington Post)

“Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while... Read more

Michael Lerchenberg liest Ludwig Thoma: Jozef Filsers Briefwexel

By: Ludwig Thoma

Narrated by: Michael Lerchenberg

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein politisches Schlitzohr: scheinheilig, bauernschlau und stets den eigenen Vorteil im Sinn - das ist er, Ludwig Thomas königstreuer und erzkonservativer Jozef Filser. Michael Lerchenberg erweckt den fiktiven bayerischen Landtagsabgeordneten in unnachahmlicher Weise zum Leben. Beißende Satire steht neben komischer Naivität und hält erstaunlich... Read more

The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten

By: Harrison Geillor

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The town of Lake Woebegotten, Minnesota, is a small town, filled with ordinary (yet above average) people, leading ordinary lives. Ordinary, that is, until the dead start coming back to life, with the intent to feast upon the living. Now this small town of above average citizens must overcome their petty rivalries and hidden secrets, in order... Read more

Wicked Appetite

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

With delectable characters and non-stop thrills that have made Janet Evanovich a household name, Wicked Appetite will leave you hungry for more.

Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston's... Read more

Wicked Appetite - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With delectable characters and non-stop thrills that have made Janet Evanovich a household name, Wicked Appetite will leave you hungry for more.

Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston's... Read more

Hugo Egon Balder liest Ephraim Kishon Vol. 2

By: Ephraim Kishon

Narrated by: Hugo Egon Balder

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Alles Theater - ganz besonders hinter der Bühne. Wie schon in Vol. 1 erzählt der große Satiriker und Kenner zarter Künstlerseelen Ephraim Kishon hintergründig und mit einzigartiger Treffsicherheit Geschichten rund um die Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten. Und ob's ein Happy End für Podmanitzki gibt - das Hörbuch-Publikum wird's erfahren. Read more

Old Jews Telling Jokes

By: Sam Hoffman & Eric Spiegelman

Narrated by: Various

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Jews have a centuries-old tradition of telling jokes, from the ghettos of Europe to Hollywood and the Catskills. Jewish jokes are entertainment, the oral history of a culture, insightful social criticism, and survival tactic rolled into one.

In 2008, Hollywood director and producer Sam Hoffman launched a website called “Old Jews Telling Jokes.”... Read more

True Prep - Abridged

By: Lisa Birnbach & Chip Kidd

Narrated by: Lisa Birnbach

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Wake up, Muffy. We’re back.”

From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook—and designer Chip Kidd—comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.

True Prep is a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping,... Read more

Chocolate Wishes

By: Trisha Ashley

Narrated by: Julia Rounthwaite

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is sweet for chocolate maker Chloe Lyon… Business is booming at her artisan chocolate-makers 'Chocolate Wishes' in the picture-perfect Lancashire village of Sticklepond – not least because all of Chloe's sweet treats contain an inspirational prediction for each customer. If only her own life was as easy to read in the... Read more

Fresh Air: Just For Laughs

By: Terry Gross

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Terry Gross brings out the best in the greatest minds on the planet—including the funny ones. Drawn from her long-running, award-winning public radio show, this new collection features in-depth interviews with the bright, shining wits of our time. One of the nation’s leading interviewers, Gross is incisive, respectful, and always well-informed.... Read more

Remembering Willie Rushton

By: Willie Rushton

Narrated by: Willie Rushton & Barry Cryer

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Career highlights from one of this country’s funniest satirists and comedy men. Willie Rushton’s career spanned decades, from the cutting edge satire of television’s 'That Was The Week That Was' to the razor-sharp punnery and verbal wizardry of Radio’s 'I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue'. Actor, writer, lyricist and veteran satirist, this is Rushton at... Read more

Endlich! (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Ildikó von Kürthy

Narrated by: Anneke Kim Sarnau

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vera führt eine ordentliche Ehe, kontrolliert ihre Sehnsüchte und ist dauernd damit beschäftigt, irgendwas zu optimieren - meistens ihren Partner oder ihre Figur. Vera ist gerade 40 geworden. Aber ansonsten ist in ihrem Leben eigentlich alles in Ordnung. Eigentlich. Bis sie versehentlich herausfindet, dass ihr Mann eine Geliebte hat. Und nun... Read more

Jeeves and the Unwanted Guest

By: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeeves stays his hand. Yes, that’s right. Even though a particularly well upholstered friend of Aunt Agatha chucks her bleary-eyed milk sot of a son Bertie for a month. Jeeves refuses to rally to the cause. Of course, if Bertie would simply throw out the offensive tie and hat, things might be smoothed over soon enough. But Bertie, just this... Read more

God and Football

By: Chad Gibbs

Narrated by: Chad Gibbs

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of 8, Chad Gibbs attended his first Southeastern Conference football game. Since then he has been in a constant battle to not let his love of all things pigskin consume him. As a Christian, Gibbs knows he cannot serve two masters, but at times his faith is overwhelmed by his fanaticism. He is not alone.In 2008 over six million... Read more

Smoke

By: John Ed Bradley

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When fledgling novelist Pace Burnette heads home to Smoke, a quiet hamlet in Louisiana, he finds that the mom-and-pop businesses that gave the place its character and charm have been put out of operation by an enormous Monster Mart on the outskirts of town. His best friend, Jay Carnihan, is struggling to keep his family’s general store from... Read more

The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise

By: Julia Stuart

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.

Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a... Read more

Confessions of a GP

By: Benjamin Daniels

Narrated by: Eamonn Riley

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving)... Read more

Good Morning Nantwich - Abridged

By: Phill Jupitus

Narrated by: Phill Jupitus

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the... Read more

Wortstoffhof

By: Axel Hacke

Narrated by: Axel Hacke

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit Jahren betreibt Axel Hacke einen Wortstoffhof, in dem er Wörter sammelt: falsche, unsinnige, unbrauchbare. Sie sind weder nützlich noch irgendwie verständlich. Sie kommen zum Beispiel aus Speisekarten, Gebrauchsanweisungen, Tourismusprospekten. Aus den Lautsprechern der ICE-Züge gleich in ganzen Sätzen. Selbst in seriösen Zeitungen findet... Read more

Finnen von Sinnen - Abridged

By: Wolfram Eilenberger

Narrated by: Christoph-Maria Herbst

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sie gehen ständig in die Sauna, haben Millionen Handys und leben mit Milliarden von Mücken. Finnen sind eigenwillig, aber Wolfram Eilenberger liebt sie. Ganz besonders eine. Deswegen zieht er mit ihr vor 14 Jahren für ein halbes Jahr nach Finnland. Mittlerweile hat er festgestellt: Sie sind wunderbar, aber irgendwie spinnen sie auch. Sie... Read more

Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident - Abridged

By: Jürgen Roth

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1949, Bundestag zu Bonn. Kurt Schumacher, Vorsitzender der SPD, wirft Konrad Adenauer vor, ein "Kanzler der Alliierten" zu sein. Der skandalöse Vorwurf ist der erste dokumentierte Zwischenruf der bundesdeutschen Parlamentsgeschichte. Nicht selten schlugen im Plenarsaal in der Folge die Wellen derart hoch, dass sogar dem als besonnen geltenden... Read more

Neues von Gott

By: Funny van Dannen

Narrated by: Funny van Dannen

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Gott gründet eine Familie, aber natürlich nicht so, wie normale Leute das tun. Ein Staubsauger fliegt um die halbe Welt, um eine Staubsaugerin kennen zu lernen. Gelbe Astern lachen den Herbst aus. Sabrina erklärt, dass sie an gesellschaftlichen Diskussionen überhaupt nicht mehr teilnehmen will, weil ihr die Gesellschaft zu doof ist. Eines Tages... Read more

Ein Wort liebt das andere

By: Fritz Eckenga

Narrated by: Fritz Eckenga

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Heute wollen wir Schönes bedichten / sangwirmal Weiber, Wohlstand und Wein / heute wolln wir auf Ödes verzichten / zum Beispiel: Dosenpfanddebatte. / Deswegen heute nur Liebenswertes / irgendwas, das die Mühe auch lohnt / was schmetterlingsmäßig Unbeschwertes / also auf keinen Fall: Bürgerversicherung." Laut Gedachtes kommt hier zu Ohren,... Read more