Humor audiobooks

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House

By: Charles Osgood

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

As Charles Osgood showed in his popular book Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II, sometimes the most intense situations yield the most unexpectedly funny stories. And few situations are more intense than a presidential campaign.



From FDR to Harry Truman to JFK to George W. Bush, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the... Read more

Nicht mein Tag (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Ralf Husmann

Narrated by: Christoph Maria Herbst

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Till Reiners ist einer, der so ist wie alle, und bislang hat er das für etwas Positives gehalten. Da wo Till ist, ist es nicht trendy. Er hat eine Frau und ein Kind und ein Leben wie eine Tatort-Folge: ziemlich deutsch, mäßig spannend, mit wenig Sex, und man ahnt nach der Hälfte, wie es ausgehen wird. Bis Nappo auftaucht, ein Kerl mit einer... Read more

The Garden Angel

By: Mindy Friddle

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A Southeastern Booksellers Association Best-seller, Mindy Friddle's The Garden Angel has been praised for its comic grace. Cutter is determind to sabotage the sale of her family's dilapidated ancestral home. Her sister Ginny (in the midst of an affair with a professor) doesn't seem to care either way. When the professor's reclusive wife gathers... Read more

The Tortilla Curtain

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author T. Coraghessan Boyle weaves together the stories of two families in Southern California - one affluent, the other destitute. As Boyle creates a counterpoint of personal needs, civic responsibility, and social custom, each family's quest for the American Dream fuels a deep fear and anger that ultimately lead to a... Read more

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

International best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith delivers another delightful tale from his critically acclaimed No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe's comfortable existence as the only detective in Botswana is suddenly rattled when the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency opens, and its brochure proclaims, "Don't... Read more

Fearless Fourteen

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet.

The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars

Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn't be more proud. He always was the smart one.

The Cousin: Joe... Read more

Executricks

By: Stanley Bing

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The central question of every hard-working person's career is how to work less hard while still being able to buy a bottle of ninety-five-dollar Borolo without trembling. This is as true at age thirty as it is at more advanced ages. But by age forty, most of us are already thinking of exit strategies that will place us firmly off the grid for... Read more

Fearless Fourteen - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet in Fearless Fourteen, from bestselling author Janet Evanovich.

The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars

Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn't be... Read more

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

By: Erma Bombeck

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

You can count on bestselling author Erma Bombeck to show you the funny side of any situation-no matter how ordinary or difficult. In this collection of heartwarming essays, she ponders what it takes to survive the rigors of contemporary living. As Erma shares her worries about the American way of life, she'll have you chuckling right out loud.... Read more

How to be Single - Abridged

By: Liz Tuccillo

Narrated by: Judy Greer

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The inspiration for the hit film!

From the coauthor of He’s Just Not That Into You and a former story editor for Sex and the City, How to Be Single is about one woman’s attempts to navigate a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.

Julie Jenson is a single thirty-seven-year-old book publicist in New York. When her friend Georgia’s... Read more

Outtakes from a Marriage

By: Ann Leary

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"A sparkling debut novel...a bittersweet tale about love, marriage, and the perils of fame." —People

Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joe’s finally made it; he’s the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly in love.

Or so Julia thinks... Read more

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the... Read more

Me of Little Faith

By: Lewis Black

Narrated by: Lewis Black

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Abridged CDs * 5 CDs, 6 hours

From the hilariously mad-as-hell Daily Show regular and New York Times– bestselling author comes a ferociously funny exploration of religion and faith. Read more

Dave Barry Talks Back

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In yet another collection of essays, investigative journalist Dave Barry is on the job, hard at work between lunch and naps researching and compiling out-of-the-ordinary news stories from his legion of loyal readers all across the country. Reported as only Dave's wit and wisdom can accomplish, Barry covers everything from exploding municipal... Read more

The Big Bamboo

By: Tim Dorsey

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Tim Dorsey is the internationally best-selling author of the gleefully over-the-top series starring spree-killer Serge Storms. In The Big Bamboo, Serge and sidekick Coleman head out west to take on Hollywood bigwigs and L.A. lowlifes in Dorsey's most outrageous novel yet. Before Tinseltown knows what's hit it, Serge has made an unforgettable... Read more

frühlingshaft

By: Ernst Jandl

Narrated by: Ernst Jandl

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernst Jandl liest live seine besten Gedichte und erklärt die Hinter- und Abgründe seiner Dichtkunst. Seine absurd-hintergründigen Gedichte, seine Wortakrobatik und sein subtiler Humor haben ganze Generationen geprägt, sie begeistern und verstören bis heute. In der Weilheimer Literaturlesung aus dem Jahr 1982 gibt sich der Meister selbst die... Read more

Swine Not?

By: Jimmy Buffett

Narrated by: Jimmy Buffett & L. J. Ganser

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling writer Jimmy Buffett weaves an irresistible tale filled with colorful characters, wry humor, and the pursuit of a very clever pig.

When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from Vertigo, to New York City, they wouldn't dream of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel where Ellie has found work (and living... Read more

Dearest Dorothy, Merry Everything!

By: Charlene Baumbich

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlene Ann Baumbich's beloved Dearest Dorothy books feature the loveable, eccentric residents of Partonville, Illinois, including one 88-year-old Dorothy Jean Wetstra. The holidays are coming and a plan to build a mini-mall has some residents in a tizzy. It'll take some shrewd negotiating and a little help from the Big Guy upstairs for Dorothy... Read more

Miss Julia Paints the Town

By: Ann B. Ross

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The sleepy town of Abbotsville is abuzz over the mayor's plans to replace the old courthouse with luxury retirement condos. On top of that, several of the town's husbands seem to have flown the coop. As usual, it falls to Miss Julia to save the day-and the courthouse- even if she has to expose a few of the town's not-so- well-kept secrets. Fans... Read more

The Downhill Lie

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Carl Hiaasen

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years–and memories of shanked 7-irons faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as a youth. So gradually he ventured back to the dreaded driving... Read more

Car Talk Field Guide to the North American Wacko

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A radio road trip across America featuring the wackiest calls from the nuttiest specimens ever to phone the show.

A high point of every Car Talk show is the call-in segment, when listeners phone in for advice and regale hosts Click and Clack with tales of their own automotive misadventures.

Like Dave from Bemidji, Minnesota, who drives his... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion: Tourists

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1981-82, A Prairie Home Companion went on tour, visiting and performing in friendly places like Lansing, Michigan and Ashland, Oregon. This scrapbook of musical highlights features performances by The Butch Thompson Trio, Robin and Linda Williams, The Odessa Balalaikas, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, and Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This festive collection is a nostalgic trip through five years of America's favorite radio show. "Commercials" for Powdermilk Biscuits, Jack's Deep Valley Bed and more introduce songs and sketches like "The Finn Who Would Not Take a Sauna," and "The Cat Came Back." Selected from the original live radio broadcasts.



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The Little Book of Failure

By: Crombie Jardine & Crombie Jardine Publishing

Narrated by: Joy Gelardi

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a compendium of also-rans and never-made-its. We're talking Betamax, the Sinclair C5, puffball skirts, sporks, the Millennium Dome... and countless other products that never quite cut it. Read more