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By: Moe Moskowitz

Narrated by: The Punsters

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than fifteen years Moe Moskowitz and the Punsters were the court jesters of National Public Radio, performing the funniest songs and nonsense that NPR has to offer. Here, Moe and the Punsters are joined by NPR's Bob Edwards, Alex Chadwick, Terry Gross, Cokie Roberts, Susan Stamberg, Robert Siegel, Carl Kasell, and Frank Tavares, among... Read more

Prairie Home Comedy

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-four of the best-loved, most-requested songs and sketches from the original radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

Contents:

Freelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am a Tenor; Car Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management Assumes No Responsibility; Second Methodist Church; Moodism; Reaching Out; Sex; Washing Your Hands; The... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Spring

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the spring season.

Includes: "Me and Choir," "A Day in the Life of Clarence Bunsen," and "Letter from Jim." Read more

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies

By: Jean Kerr

Narrated by: Marni Webb

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr’s parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal... Read more

Notschlachten - Die 7 Weltverbrechen

By: Matthias Beltz

Narrated by: Matthias Beltz

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Sieben Weltverbrechen, drei Metzger-Geschichten und die Geschichte von Kain und Abel. Live aus der Comedia in Köln, 1998. Read more

Mother Father Uncle Aunt

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"...where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." There's a reason all those children in Lake Wobegon are above average. It might be the clean prairie air. It might be the wholesome wheat that's grown by the Norwegian bachelor farmers. And it just might be their strong, good-looking... Read more

A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears... Read more

Dirty Jokes and Beer - Abridged

By: Drew Carey

Narrated by: Drew Carey

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

We all know Drew Carey from his award-winning stand-up career, and his hit
television show, but do we really Drew Carey, the person? In his first book, the
bawdy and irreverent DIRTY JOKES AND BEER, find out about all the many sides to
this misunderstood Hollywood star:

The Health Conscious Drew:... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Winter

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the winter season.

Includes: "Guys on Ice," "The Christmas Story Re-told," and "Storm Home." Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Fall

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the fall season.

Includes: "Giant Decoys," "Daryl Tollerud's Long Day," and "Thanksgiving." Read more

Mort Sahl's America

By: Mort Sahl

Narrated by: Mort Sahl

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Mort Sahl has been described as one of the greatest political and social satirists of the 20th century. In Mort Sahl's America, the sophisticated political satirist exposes the grand follies of the powers that be. Deflating celebrity pretensions, he skewers liberals and conservatives alike. From Bill Clinton to Bob Dole, from Al Gore to Jesse... Read more

Dave Barry's Worst Songs and Other Hits

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Arte Johnson & John Ritter

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Ever notice how bad song lyrics get stuck in your head? It's not just you. After Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's column about this tendency, reader response was enormous. But Barry didn't know what he was getting himself into when he invited his Legion of Alert Readers to submit their nominees in the Bad Song Survey. "Song badness,"... Read more

Apocalypse Wow - Abridged

By: James Finn Garner

Narrated by: James Finn Garner

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the year 2000 bears down, the best-selling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, James Finn Garner, confronts a series of monumental questions: Will we remember to order new checks from the bank? Did our invitation to the Kennedy New Year's party get lost in the mail again? Are we all poised on the brink of worldwide enlightenment or... Read more

Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

1997 Grammy® Award nominee
1996 Listen Up Award—Best Humor

Enjoy the best of Garrison Keillor's comic fables from A Prairie Home Companion, all about true love and other tribulations, brought to life by a cast of brilliant radio actors.

Contents:
This Man This Woman; Taking a Chance on Love; Bertha's Kitty Boutique: Cat Box Video; Greenwich... Read more

The Family Radio

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, "commercials" for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts.

Contents:
World Theater, Here We Come!Powdermilk BiscuitsThe Family RadioBertha's Kitty... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Summer

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the summer season.

Includes: "The Living Flag," "The Tollefson Boy Goes to College," and "Tomato Butt." Read more

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

By: Scott Rice

Narrated by: various narrators, Marni Webb, Bob Nathan, Ray ...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Little did the obscure novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton know in 1830 when he penned that most relished, imitated, and lampooned opening sentence in English literature, "It was a dark and stormy night..." that his words would inspire countless aspiring writers struggling incessantly like boats against the current to emulate his unparalleled style... Read more

Exploded

By: Tom Bodett

Narrated by: Tom Bodett

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

There are certain defining events that occur to people— the sort of things we use as markers in the timetables of our lives: Birth and Deaths. Marriages and Divorces. Windfalls and Calamities. For Tom Bodett, it was the day he got electrocuted. On May 27, 1975, about seven o'clock in the morning, Tom Bodett was “ ... Read more

Political Incorrections - Abridged

By: Bill Maher

Narrated by: Bill Maher

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher
Featuring an introduction by Penn Jillette
For everyone who's had their fill of politicians, TV trials and the daily events seen on the evening news, Simon & Schuster Audio offers some relief with POLITICAL INCORRECTIONS-a collection of the funniest opening monologues... Read more

Dr. Katz's Therapy Sessions - Abridged

By: Jonathan Katz

Narrated by: Jonathan Katz

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the producers of the runaway Emmy Award-winning Comedy Central animated TV series "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist" comes DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS-a hiply hilarious compilation of Dr. Katz's funniest sessions with his all-star cast of "patients."
Based on Comedy Central's hit phenomenon "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist," DR. KATZ'S... Read more

The 7 Habits of Highly Defective People

By: Cathy Crimmins

Narrated by: Cathy Crimmins

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Better than CliffsNotes, funnier than Monarch Notes, and shorter than the originals—comes a hilarious spoof of the blockbuster hits you love, not to mention many books you've come to despise. From the authors of the bestselling Newt Gingrich's Bedtime Stories for Orphans is a parody that lampoons all the popular books you'd ever want to read—or... Read more

And then Arnie Told Chi - Abridged

By: Done Wade

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection of anecdotes—from Golf Digest editor Don Wade—brings out of the locker room and onto the green an engaging treasury of more than 100 of the greatest golf stories ever told from the game's legends: Ben Hogan, Nancy Lopez, Fred Couples, and others. From Augusta National to Royal St. George, this entertaining, intimate, and funny... Read more

Horrors!

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Fear and loathing in Lake Wobegon? You betcha.

Garrison Keillor's Horrors! is a grab bag of treats from Halloween broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Horrors! features eclectic musical performances, commercials for loyal Prairie Home "sponsors" like Guy's Shoes, and lighthearted comedy from A Prairie Home Companion's cast of... Read more

Readers Digest's Humor in Uniform

By: Reader's Digest

Narrated by: Jamie Farr

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From basic training to World War II to the Gulf War, America's veterans share their funniest stories in this collection of Reader's Digest's popular "Humor in Uniform" column. Beneath the horror of war lies a rich tradition of comedy and satire, and these anecdotes have entertained readers for decades. Stars of the TV and movie versions of... Read more