Humor audiobooks

The Nanny Diaries - Abridged

By: Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

Narrated by: Julia Roberts

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by Julia Roberts

Based on the real-life experiences, the inside story on the real lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all the secrets - the nannies.

The Nanny Diaries deftly skewers the manner in which America's over-privileged raises les petites - as if grooming them for a Best of Show competition. A poignant satire, it... Read more

Tepper Isn't Going Out - Abridged

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Calvin Trillin

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out.

Tepper... Read more

Basket Case - Abridged

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Carl Hiaasen

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, “plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.” Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba “accident,” might be the stiff of Jack’s dreams—if only he... Read more

A Double-Barreled Detective Story

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Thomas Becker

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Twain is at his irreverent best with this hilarious parody of the 19th-century mystery. The tale begins with the murder of Flint Buckner and a heinous crime against a young woman. A man with special gifts - no less a personage than Sherlock Holmes! - Enters the scene to solve the mystery and avenge the lady. He matches wits with an... Read more

Uncle Dynamite

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A chance meeting on a train brought together Lord Ickenham and Bill Oakshott—although being told that the love of his life, Hermione, was engaged to none other than Pongo, Lord Ickenham’s nephew, did make Bill feel like he’d been struck behind the ear. But Pongo has troubles of his own to deal with when he accidently breaks one of Hermione’s... Read more

Fierce Pajamas - Abridged

By: David Remnick & Henry Finder

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic & Chris Gannon

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, George S.... Read more

Skipping Christmas

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won’t be hosting ... Read more

Young Men in Spats

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author whom the Times called “a comic genius” and “an old master of farce” come eleven further stories featuring such eccentric characters as Freddie Widgeon, Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay Phipps, Percy Wimbolt, and Pongo. This collection includes the stories “Fate,” “Tried in the Furnace,” “Trouble Down at Tudsleigh,” “The Amazing Hat... Read more

And then Tiger Told the Shark

By: Done Wade

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Don Wade has proved himself to be golf's master storyteller. He returns once again with this truly delightful collection of real-life stories from and about the world's greatest golfers. This collection of anecdotes brings together past heroes like Ben Hogan and Sam Snead and living legends like Chi-Chi Rodriguez and Jack Nicklaus with current... Read more

Car Talk: Men Are from GM, Women Are from Ford

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When a question about anti-lock brakes becomes and entrée for dispensing marital advice, you know you've entered the world of Click and Clack, the Car Talk guys. Together they dish up sage advice, car guidance, and fun as they irritate, pontificate, and finally illuminate life for the less fortunate of us who are mechanically disinclined. ... Read more

Car Talk: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Father When It Comes to Cars

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a fact: 98% of what fathers say is dead wrong. Join famous syndicated radio talk show hosts and ingenious car experts Click and Clack as they bring this little known fact to light. Car Talk: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Father ... is a hilarious collection of the Tappet brothers' favorite calls over the years about fathers,... Read more

The Fourth Hand

By: John Irving

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant. But what if the donor’s widow... Read more

Hollywood Wives - The New Generation - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The sexy page-turner picks up where the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollywood Wives left off showing Jackie Collins at her “ultra-celeb, super accessorized, bestselling best” (Publishers Weekly).

Power. Sex. Money. Fame. The new Hollywood wives have it all. And if they don’t have it—they want it. And whatever these women want—they get.
... Read more

Shiksa Goddess - Abridged

By: Wendy Wasserstein

Narrated by: Wendy Wasserstein

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Though celebrated playwright Wendy Wasserstein was firmly rooted in New York's cultural life, her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathetic essays, all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein' s mid-life... Read more

Die 4. Wahrheit über Deutschland

By: Diverse Autoren

Narrated by: Diverse Sprecher

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Die nun seit 1997 erscheinende Compilation von WortArt. Ein Querschnitt der letztjährigen Neuveröffentlichungen aus dem Genre Kabarett und Comedy. Eine Auswahl der besten Programmausschnitte diverser Künstler aus den Jahren 2000 - 2001. Read more

Un Tenorio Impoluto - Instantáneas de la Ciudad, Volumen 3

By: Miguel Ángel Tenorio

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Tenorio

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Estas historias son momentos para acercarnos al lado humano de la ciudad, para acercarnos a personajes que transitan, corren, sueñan, se enamoran, se pelean, se descubren en un momento climático de su existencia, donde el deseo juega su parte, en estas ... "Instantáneas de la Ciudad" Read more

Wenn Worte reden könnten - oder 14 Tage im Leben einer Stunde

By: Jochen Malmsheimer

Narrated by: Jochen Malmsheimer

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Als Künstler ist man, von wem auch immer, gehalten, den drängendsten Menschheitsfragen, nach dem "Wieso" und "Warum" etwa oder dem "Wann eigentlich?" unserer Existenz nachzugehen. Doch was soll man mit der Zeit zwischen Mittagsschlaf und den 18:00-Uhr-Nachrichten anfangen, wenn diese Fragen beantwortet sind? Wer, wie ich es als Preis einer... Read more

Napalm and Silly Putty - Abridged

By: George Carlin

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He's the inventor of Past-Tense TV (featuring "Got Smart," "Father Knew Best," and "It Was Left to Beaver"); the tireless crusader for such charities as the Center for Research into the Heebie Jeebies, Children of Parents with Bad Teeth, and the State Hospital for Those Who Felt All Right About a Year Ago; founder of the George Carlin Book Club... Read more

Ivan El Imbecil Y Otros Cuentos

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Guillermo Piedrahita

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Aventuras cómicas de Ivan: León Tolstoi es mejor recordado por sus novelas inmensas épicos como "Ana Karenina" y sobre todo "La guerra y la paz" y nos hacen olvidar las historias deliciosas que, con espíritu pedagógico, que escribió sobre confeccionados leyendas rusas. Uno de los más famosos es la historia de Iván, el imbécil, que gracias a su... Read more

Ich bin nichts. Ich hab nichts. Aber ich lach mich tot.

By: Matthias Beltz

Narrated by: Matthias Beltz

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthias Beltz schrieb "ich bin nichts. ich hab nichts. aber ich lach mich tot." zunächst als Theaterstück. Für das Hörstück arbeitete er die Parts für Gerd Knebel und sich um. Die schöngeistige, oberlehrerhafte Diktion Eigenbrods brauchte für ein Hörstück unbedingt das lebendige Hessisch, das dem Volk aufs Maul schaut. Ohne die auflockernden... Read more

Stella in Heaven - Abridged

By: Art Buchwald

Narrated by: Elliott Gould

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Roger Folger, age 61, recently lost his wife, Stella, but her spirit hasn't wandered far. In an all-too-earthly way, Roger converses with her disembodied voice in the privacy of the home they shared for many years, and you can bet Stella talks back. Roger fills her in on the latest about their kids and neighbors, while she tells Roger what... Read more

Shopgirl

By: Steve Martin

Narrated by: Steve Martin

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BESTSELLING NOVEL BY STEVE MARTIN
IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore..."
Mirabelle captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost... Read more

Natural Blonde - Abridged

By: Liz Smith

Narrated by: Liz Smith

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth autobiography, she tells all about herself, and... Read more

The Man Who Ate the 747

By: Ben Sherwood

Narrated by: David Schramm

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of the greatest love, ever....

J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, is an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world’s longest continuous kiss. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel. He has tasted the world’s largest menu item. But J.J. has never witnessed... Read more