Humor audiobooks

Mort - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received... Read more

Guards! Guards! - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'The people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor I don't know who is.'

An aura of mean-minded resentfulness is thick in the streets of Ankh-Morpork. Insurrection is in the air. The Haves and... Read more

Feet Of Clay - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


'The work of a prolific humorist at his best' Observer

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
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'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit... Read more

The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel

By: Jill Conner Browne & Karin Gillespie

Narrated by: Jill Conner Browne

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“I have no pride. I tell anything,” Jill Conner Browne is fond of saying. As Her Royal Highness, Boss Queen of the Sweet Potato Queens,® she has told legions of fans, known as “SPQ Wannabes,” her delectable secrets to living, loving—and eating—like a queen. In her words, “More is more.”How much more? The #1 New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

Stolen from Gypsies

By: Noble Smith

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A twisted tale of love lost, alluring demons, idiotic servants, beautiful ladies, magicians, spells, pirates, and duels, Stolen from Gypsies has been called a comedic tour de force comparable to Shakespeare. The unusual hero is British nobleman Ambrogio Smythe, a rich but comical hypochondriac. Obsessed by childhood memories of Gypsies, the... Read more

A Comedian Dies

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Paris, middle-aged actor turned amateur sleuth, is vacationing at a small English seaside town. Irresistibly drawn to anything theatrical, Charles seeks entertainment at the local music hall and endures a series of not-so-wonderful vaudeville acts in the hope that the man given star billing will be worth watching. This performer, Bill... Read more

Name Dropping

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When El Matador opened in 1958, Bennett Cerf called it "the most attractive room in America." Part saloon, part salon, Barnaby Conrad's nightclub was nestled in the heart of San Francisco's cabaret and nightlife district. On any given night, one might find Noël Coward, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, or Tyrone Power... Read more

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Abridged

By: Fannie Flagg

Narrated by: Fannie Flagg

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the
now-classic story of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to
Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the
irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend... Read more

What Would MacGyver Do?

By: Brendan Vaughan

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier & Patrick Lawlor

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

You're driving on a deserted road when your car dies. Your cell phone isn't getting service. All you have on hand are a gum wrapper and a wire hanger.


Or maybe you're living in a building without central air conditioning in July. You can't afford an AC; all you have access to are a fan and a bucket of water.



In such times of desperation, many... Read more

The Book of Samson

By: David Maine

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the story of my life and it's not a happy one. If you wish to read about me you're welcome to but if you're looking for something to give you hope & joy comfort & inspiration then you had best leave off here straightaway and go find something else. My life has an abundance of frustration and pain plus a fair bit of sex and lots... Read more

Sellevision

By: Augusten Burroughs

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, Sellevision explores greed, obsession and third tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home shopping network.

Welcome to the troubled world of Sellevision, America's premier retail broadcasting network. When Max Andrews, the much-loved and handsome (lonely and gay) host of "Slumber Sunday Sundown"... Read more

Nature Girl

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Lee Adams

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Honey Santana–impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”–has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie, into the wilderness of Florida’s... Read more

Nature Girl - Abridged

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Jane Curtin

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Honey Santana–impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”–has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie, into the wilderness of Florida’s... Read more

Provence A-Z

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.

Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting,... Read more

The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dave Barry

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist comes one of the funniest, warmest, most delightful Christmas stories ever. Read more

There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say - Abridged

By: Paula Poundstone

Narrated by: Paula Poundstone

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Part memoir, part monologue, with a dash of startling honesty, There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say features biographies of legendary historical figures from which Paula Poundstone can't help digressing to tell her own story. Mining gold from the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and Beethoven, among others, the... Read more

Don't Get Scrooged - Abridged

By: Richard Carlson

Narrated by: Richard Carlson

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The holidays can bring out the worst in people and turn cheer and good tidings into ""I saw that first"" and ""Bah, humbug!"" But this season you don't have to get scrooged by other people's bad behavior. Don't Get Scrooged will show you how to avoid, appease, and even win over the Scrooges who haunt your holidays. Whether it's the salesclerk... Read more

Chris Addison's The Ape That Got Lucky

By: BBC & Chris Addison

Narrated by: Chris Addison, Dan Tetsell, Geoffrey McGivern &...

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on his hit Edinburgh show, The Ape That Got Lucky is Chris Addison's first series of comic lectures for BBC Radio 4, in which the thinking idiot's pretend anthropologist takes on human evolution. Mr and Mrs H. Sapiens like to think of themselves as rather special, yet we share 98% of our DNA with chimps. That's why we have so much in... Read more

Chart Throb - Abridged

By: Ben Elton

Narrated by: Adam Godley

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest.

Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner.
And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show.

Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his... Read more

Provence A-Z - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Peter Mayle

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.

Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting,... Read more

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is “laugh-out-loud funny.”

Some say that... Read more

Destined for Destiny

By: Scott Dikkers & Peter Hilleren

Narrated by: Scott Dikkers & Peter Hilleren

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In Destined for Destiny, George W. Bush offers readers an intimate, plainspoken, and often readable look at the character-shaping achievements that led to his inevitable rise to the office of President of the United States.

Written from the heart, not from the brain, this definitive autobiography takes readers on a journey through the 43rd... Read more

Bill Bryson Collector's Edition - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Notes from a Small Island
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. The result is a hilarious social commentary that... Read more

A Visit to Mark Twain's House

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic performance of Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company was broadcast live from the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford Connecticut.

The Hartford house is where Twain wrote many of his works. The show pays homage to Twain's genius and personality with humor, period music, and a classic Keillor monologue. Guests included Roy Blount,... Read more