Humor audiobooks

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

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

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

Heilige Nacht - Ein Weihnachtslegende

By: Ludwig Thoma

Narrated by: Michael Lerchenberg

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein besinnliches Hörbuch für die Weihnachtszeit: Ludwig Thomas berühmte, im oberbayerischen Dialekt gedichtete Weihnachtsgeschichte. \n \nUmgedeutet in die tief verschneite oberbayerische Dorfwelt, in der nur die einfachen und armen Leute das Wunder der heiligen Stunde begreifen, erzählt Ludwig Thoma in der Mundart seiner Bauern die... 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

Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA

By: Ellen Meister

Narrated by: Lisa Kudrow

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When a Hollywood location scout comes to Applewood, Long Island, and announces that the local elementary school might make the perfect backdrop for an upcoming George Clooney movie, the PTA’s decorum crumbles like a cookie from last week’s bake sale. Enter Maddie, Ruth, and Lisa, three women who become the glue that holds the project... Read more

Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex

By: Mark Leyner & Billy Goldberg

Narrated by: Mark Leyner

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Did the mega-bestselling Why Do Men Have Nipples? exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing? ""No,"" you say? Well good, because the doctor and his able-bodied buddy are IN! Again! Now go-to authorities for that sort of thing, Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., take on the differences... Read more

Der Glückspilz

By: Ephraim Kishon

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Über Nacht vom erfolglosen Schauspieler zum Shootingstar, so ergeht es dem Helden in Ephraim Kishons neuem Roman. Der kometenhafte Aufstieg beschert ihm alles, wovon ein Mann nur träumen kann: Ruhm, Geld, Frauen. Doch wie alle bemitleidenswerten Glückspilze der heutigen Gesellschaft erlebt er nicht nur seine unaufhaltsame Selbstzerstörung,... 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

Ephraim Kishons beste Familiengeschichten

By: Ephraim Kishon

Narrated by: Thomas Fritsch

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Familie von Ephraim Kishon, so wie sie seine große Leserschaft aus zahlreichen Büchern kennt: die drei fröhlichen Kinder und seine zierliche, aber überaus einflussreiche Ehefrau stehen im Mittelpunkt dieser köstlichen Sammlung. \n \nDie liebenswerten Geschichten über die Familienprobleme des weltbekannten Satirikers stellen den... Read more

Reisegeschichten - Abridged

By: Ephraim Kishon

Narrated by: Johannes Steck

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Wenn du deinem Passbild ähnlich zu sehen beginnst, wird es höchste Zeit, wegzufahren." Dieser Ausspruch Ephraim Kishons steht als Motto für die köstliche Sammlung von Satiren von und für Reisende. Wir besuchen das berühmte Tal der Schmetterlinge auf Rhodos, werden in Wien von Mantelhexen gejagt und begleiten Kishon zu den Luststätten... Read more

Oma Krause oder Der Untergang Preußens in Anekdoten - Abridged

By: Georg Lentz

Narrated by: Ursula Karusseit & Johannes Steck

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Freut euch des Lebens, weil noch das Lämpchen glüht, sangen Großmutter und ihre Schwestern, meine Großtante Anna, beim trauten Schein der Pretroleumlampe, die manchmal blakte. Wir Rangen, zu dritt, viert oder fünft mit um den Tisch versammelt, der in unserer Laube den Mittelpunkt bildete, schmetterten zurück: Großmutter wird mit der Sense... Read more

Hugo Egon Balder liest Ephraim Kishon Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Ephraim Kishon

Narrated by: Hugo Egon Balder

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Das Theater gehört zu den großartigsten Erfindungen, die dem menschlichen Geist jemals mißglückt sind", so Ephraim Kishon. Jarden Podmanitzki ist ein mittelmäßiger Schauspieler, der noch nie allein auf der Bühne stand. Ephraim Kishon spaziert mit ihm in dieser Geschichtensammlung durch die Welt des Theaters. Bühne frei also - für einen... Read more

Too Much of a Good Thing Low Price - Abridged

By: Kimberla Lawson Roby

Narrated by: Heather Simms

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In the sequel to the enormously successful Casting the First Stone, Kimberla Lawson Roby brings back a character readers love to hate.Curtis Black might be a man of the cloth, but with his irresistible looks, seductive charm, and charismatic personality, he's particularly beloved by his female parishioners––and almost every other woman he's ever... Read more

Life, the Universe and Everything

By: Douglas Adams

Narrated by: Martin Freeman

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!

“Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”—Chicago Tribune

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it.... Read more

The Men I Didn't Marry

By: Janice Kaplan & Lynn Schnurnberger

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The authors of the national bestsellers Mine Are Spectacular! and The Botox Diaries apply their trademark wit and wisdom to another delicious adventure. Join Hallie Lawrence Pierpont as she’s whisked away on a journey into her past love life that leads to her future.

Hallie’s husband, Bill, doesn’t even wait until they get home from dropping off... Read more

Can't Wait to Get to Heaven

By: Fannie Flagg

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?

Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner... Read more

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

By: Douglas Adams

Narrated by: Martin Freeman

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!

“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their... Read more

Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Abridged

By: Fannie Flagg

Narrated by: Fannie Flagg

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?

Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner... Read more

Twelve Sharp

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, where bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is about to implode in Janet Evanovich's wildest, hottest novel yet!

FIRST A STRANGER APPEARS
While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her.

THEN THE STRANGER REVEALS HER SECRETS
The woman dresses in black,... Read more

Twelve Sharp - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, where bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is about to implode in Janet Evanovich's wildest, hottest novel yet!

FIRST A STRANGER APPEARS
While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her.

THEN THE STRANGER REVEALS HER SECRETS
The woman dresses in black,... Read more

Right Ho, Jeeves

By: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Michael Hordern & Richard Briers

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Wooster. Mayhem has broken out at Brinkley Court... Gussie Fink-Nottle has fallen in love with Madeline Bassett. Angela has argued with young Tuppy and the air is full of mangled fragments of engagement. Aunt Dahlia has lost a fortune at the gaming... Read more