Humor audiobooks

WLT: A Radio Romance - Abridged

By: Garrison Keillor

Narrated by: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

See what WLT was "really like" before it became the radio station featured in the Robert Altman film.

In 1926, brothers Ray and Roy Soderbjerrg plunge into radio by founding Station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next twenty-five years, the... Read more

Motor Mouth

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the last race of the season, and the wheels are smoking and the temperature is rising at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Alexandra Barnaby is NASCAR driver Sam Hooker's raceday spotter, his eye-in-the-sky, telling Hooker when to pass and when to get off the gas. From her vantage point high above the grandstand she's also seeing things going on in... Read more

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

By: Tucker Max

Narrated by: Tucker Max

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Tucker Max graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago in 1998 and received an academic scholarship to Duke Law School, where he graduated in 2001, despite the fact that he spent part of one semester--while still enrolled in classes--living in Cancun. He took these degrees and set out to help the world--by drinking, hooking up,... Read more

Spoiled Rotten America - Abridged

By: Larry Miller

Narrated by: Larry Miller

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like Kofi Annan, Larry Miller is one of the most irresistible comic personalities working today. Known for years as an actor, writer, comedian, and sexual pioneer, he's gained a new following as a cultural commentator and frequent guest on political shows. Now, in Spoiled Rotten America, he fixes his gaze on what's funny about our daily... Read more

Motor Mouth - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's the last race of the season, and the wheels are smoking and the temperature is rising at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Alexandra Barnaby is NASCAR driver Sam Hooker's raceday spotter, his eye-in-the-sky, telling Hooker when to pass and when to get off the gas. From her vantage point high above the grandstand she's also seeing things going on in... Read more

The News Quiz: Hold The Front Page

By: John Lloyd & Simon Littlefield

Narrated by: Simon Hoggart & Various

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The News Quiz, one of Britain's funniest and quirkiest panel games, has been providing headlines and punchlines since it first aired in 1977. In these four episodes, among the panellists offering wit and wisdom on both national and parochial events are Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay and Francis Wheen. Together with... Read more

Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: John Ritter & Arte Johnson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tupperware ladies, eighties people, and leisure concept salesmen beware: Dave Barry is on the loose and no one is safe! In this collection of eighty essays, the inimitable columnist observes everything that makes America the unique, special place you've grown to love: taxes, toilets, airbags, baseball, beer commercials, and numerous other... Read more

Jewtopia - Abridged

By: Bryan Fogel & Sam Wolfson

Narrated by: Bryan Fogel, Sam Wolfson & Jackie Tohn

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Finally, the ultimate book of Jewish humor is here, complete with Jewish nursery blueprints (which includes a panic room, fireproof wallpaper, and a guardian ninja, of course), the top-ten list of Jewish 'dont's', the complete timeline of Jewish expulsion, and much, much more.
Before creating Jewtopia the play in 2003, Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson... Read more

Car Talk: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

You decide to waste another perfectly good hour getting bogus car advice from the Car Talk guys when what should happen but some remark from the caller launches either Tom or Ray off topic and onto a story about The Sleek Black Beauty, their most recent wife, or their days at MIT. Read more

The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The aptly titled sequel to "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" which is also recorded by Assembled Stories and proved immensely popular.In this succeeding outburst of whimsy Jerome reflects on a variety of subjects such as 'the art of making up one's mind', 'the care and management of women' and 'the minding of other peoples business'. A childhood... Read more

Wobegon Boy - Abridged

By: Garrison Keillor

Narrated by: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Keillor's follow up to Lake Wobegon Days has his protagonist, John Tollefson, now a forty-something radio station manager living in upstate New York, return to Minnesota for a life-changing visit. Read more

The First Assistant

By: Mimi Hare & Clare Naylor

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Second Assistant, readers across the country found a heroine they loved to love in Lizzie Miller, the smart and witty East Coast girl clinging for dear life to the bottom rung of the Hollywood ladder. But no more coffee runs and sorting thumbtacks by color for Lizzie; she's been promoted. As first assistant to Scott Wagner, now president... Read more

The Zombie Survival Guide

By: Max Brooks

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now.

Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most... Read more

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: Live

By: BBC & Iain Pattinson

Narrated by: Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Humphrey Lyttelton,...

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to attend a live recording of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, the antidote to panel games, now is your chance to discover how much fun they are! These two extended editions of the programme, from 1995 and 1996, offer an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes, in the company of players Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer,... Read more

Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Since Dave Barry writes about weird things, you might be tempted to think he has a weird brain. He does, of course, but that's not the whole explanation: A lot of the things he writes about—exploding Pop-Tarts, for example—are real. Join Dave as he examines UFO thrill-seekers and Elvis-worshippers, runs for president, and plays Claptonesque... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion 10th Anniversary

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This tenth anniversary show—recorded July sixth-seventh, 1984—is considered a must-have by long time fans of A Prairie Home Companion.

Guests include Greg Brown; the Butch Thompson Trio; the Dale Warland Singers; Lieberman, Fogel and Bey; Sue Shepard; Stoney Lonesome; and Vern Sutton. Read more

The Areas of My Expertise - Abridged

By: John Hodgman

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hot on the heels of the #1 bestsellers The Onion's Our Dumb Century and Jon Stewart's America comes The Areas of My Expertise, the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon in its own right-no, seriously) - a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom - all of it completely... Read more

The Rant Zone - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this fourth installment of his acclaimed Rants series, the bestselling author, Emmy® Award-winning talk show host and wise-cracking analyst for ABC's Monday Night Football makes hamburger out of society's most sacred cows as only he can, with the kind of allusions that require high SAT scores—or at least a smart crib sheet. In ranting against... Read more

Tales of the City - Abridged

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Armistead Maupin

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City“A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love... Read more

Chris Addison's Civilization

By: Carl Cooper & Chris Addison

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

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on his Perrier-nominated Edinburgh hit show of 2004, Chris Addison's Civilization is a comedy lecture series for Radio 4. It neatly follows on from Chris's first Radio 4 series, The Ape That Got Lucky. Western Civilization, like many very old things, is pretty much on its last legs. And if Western Civilization as we know it is dying... Read more

Microthrills

By: Wendy Spero

Narrated by: Wendy Spero

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in Manhattan by her overprotective sex-therapist mother (who wore “nine inches of shoulder pads”), Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in microthrills, the small, strange highs that give her life meaning—from finding a strip tease video of her grandmother to selling knives door-to-door. As a little girl, Spero passed the time... Read more

The Fourth Bear

By: Jasper Fforde

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadman—sadist, psychopath, cookie—is on the loose in Reading, but that’s not who Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary are after. Instead, they’ve been... Read more

Spaßmacher - Ernstmacher

By: Robert Gernhardt

Narrated by: Robert Gernhardt

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Der große Robert Gernhardt in einer einzigartigen Live-Lesung: Ein Plädoyer, den eigenen Schalk wieder zu entdecken! \n \n"Am Ende stelle ich nur drei Forderungen: Gedichte zu lesen, Gedichte auswendig zu lernen und Gedichte mit sich zu führen." Robert Gernhardt liest aus seinen Werken und erklärt in seiner hintergründigen Art, wo ihre... Read more

Ein Abend mit Ephraim Kishon

By: Ephraim Kishon

Narrated by: Ephraim Kishon

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Ephraim Kishon live auf einem Hörbuch zu erleben, ist ein absolutes Novum! Schließlich legte der galante Satiriker nicht allzu viel Wert auf seine eigenen Darbietungen auf Tonträger... Um so interessanter ist dieser private Live-Mitschnitt von 1995, der sich - eher zufällig - in seinem Privat-Archiv fand. Mit seiner Freude am Reden, der... Read more