Humor audiobooks

The Wind and the Monkey

By: Robert G. Barrett

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A week's holiday in Shoal Bay, courtesy of Price Galese. All Les had to do was help Eddie Salita get rid of a crooked cop. Why not? Les always wanted to visit Port Stephens. And nobody liked Fishcake Fishbyrne that much anyway. The first night in town, Les gets arrested by the federal police then collared by a drug-crazed, feminist author. The... Read more

Jewtopia - Abridged

By: Bryan Fogel & Sam Wolfson

Narrated by: Bryan Fogel, Sam Wolfson & Jackie Tohn

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Finally, the ultimate book of Jewish humor is here, complete with Jewish nursery blueprints (which includes a panic room, fireproof wallpaper, and a guardian ninja, of course), the top-ten list of Jewish 'dont's', the complete timeline of Jewish expulsion, and much, much more.
Before creating Jewtopia the play in 2003, Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson... Read more

Car Talk: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

You decide to waste another perfectly good hour getting bogus car advice from the Car Talk guys when what should happen but some remark from the caller launches either Tom or Ray off topic and onto a story about The Sleek Black Beauty, their most recent wife, or their days at MIT. Read more

The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The aptly titled sequel to "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" which is also recorded by Assembled Stories and proved immensely popular.In this succeeding outburst of whimsy Jerome reflects on a variety of subjects such as 'the art of making up one's mind', 'the care and management of women' and 'the minding of other peoples business'. A childhood... Read more

The First Assistant

By: Mimi Hare & Clare Naylor

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Second Assistant, readers across the country found a heroine they loved to love in Lizzie Miller, the smart and witty East Coast girl clinging for dear life to the bottom rung of the Hollywood ladder. But no more coffee runs and sorting thumbtacks by color for Lizzie; she's been promoted. As first assistant to Scott Wagner, now president... Read more

The Zombie Survival Guide

By: Max Brooks

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now.

Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most... Read more

Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Since Dave Barry writes about weird things, you might be tempted to think he has a weird brain. He does, of course, but that's not the whole explanation: A lot of the things he writes about—exploding Pop-Tarts, for example—are real. Join Dave as he examines UFO thrill-seekers and Elvis-worshippers, runs for president, and plays Claptonesque... Read more

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: Live

By: BBC & Iain Pattinson

Narrated by: Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Humphrey Lyttelton,...

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to attend a live recording of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, the antidote to panel games, now is your chance to discover how much fun they are! These two extended editions of the programme, from 1995 and 1996, offer an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes, in the company of players Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer,... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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