Humor audiobooks

Witches Abroad - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of modern endeavour' Daily Mail

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 .... 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

Wyrd Sisters - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle.

Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. The omens are not... Read more

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

The Light Fantastic - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

'What shall we do?' said Twoflower.
'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.

As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn’t need is a singularly inept and cowardly wizard, still... Read more

Maskerade - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now everwhere I go there's...'

Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations. This isn't real life. This isn't even cheesemongering. It's opera.... Read more

Men At Arms - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the stone in the first place.'

Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another... Read more

Eric - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it.

All he wants is his three wishes granted.Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff.

But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably... Read more

Reaper Man - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Death has to happen. Tha'ts what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.'

But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the disc, as here, they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you... Read more

Equal Rites - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard - by mistake. Everybody knows that... Read more

Hogfather - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decorations, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys... He's gone.

Susan the governess has got to find him before morning, otherwise the sun won't rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven with an... 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

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

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

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

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

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