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A Laugh-in for
Your Ears
This list of "10 favorite
humor" audiobooks was created by Audiofile
Magazine.
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- Scott Adams, Read by Scott Adams. Dilbert
and the Way of the Weasel
- Taking a look into the Weasel Zone of American corporations--the
giant gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious
activities--Adams builds on his popular comic strip and looks
into work, home, and everyday life, exposing the way of the weasel
for everyone to see. (Abridged
CD)
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- Dave Barry. Read by Johnny Heller. Dave Barry Is Not
Making This Up
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- Erma Bombeck. Read by Barbara Rosenblat. If
Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
- In this collection of heartwarming essays, the bestselling
author ponders what it takes to survive the rigors of contemporary
living. (Unabridged
Cassette & CD)
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- George Carlin. Read by George Carlin. Napalm
& Silly Putty
- Carlin waxes wickedly philosophical in this hilarious new collection
of razor-sharp observations. The bestselling author of "Brain
Droppings" proves once again that he's one comic who can successfully
make the transition from stage to page with his ironic take on
life's annoying universal truths. (Abridged
CD)
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- Garrison Keillor. Read by Garrison Keillor. A
Prairie Home Companion: 25th Anniversary Collection
- Includes 15 monologues, 7 never before available, plus 33 songs
and jingles from 25 years on the air. (Cassette)
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- Tom & Ray Magliozzi. Read by Tom & Ray Magliozzi. The
Best of & The Second Best of Car Talk
- A collection of material from the radio call-in show, nominally
about car problems, usually involving an interesting side story,
and always treated with humor by Click & Clack, the Tappet
Brothers. (CD)
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- P.J. O'Rourke. Read by Dick Hill. The
CEO of the Sofa
- Humorist O'Rourke embarks on a mission to the most frightening
place of all--his own home, where he holds forth on a variety
of topics, including a three-year-old who wants a cell phone,
his career as a freelance writer, Hillary Clinton's election victory,
how to get toddlers to sleep, and neighbors who smell like Democrats.
(Unabridged
Cassette)
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- David Rakoff. Read by David Rakoff. Fraud
- A hilarious collection of essays that single-handedly raises
self-deprecation to an art form. (Unabridged
CD)
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- David Remnick, Henry Finder [Eds.]. Read by Patrick Frederic,
Byron Jennings, Julie Halston, Michael Goz, Chris Gannon, Faith
Prince. Fierce
Pajamas: Selections from an Anthology of Humor Writing from the
New Yorker
- This audio gathers together, for the first time, the funniest
work of more than thirty New Yorker contributors. Pieces offer
perspectives on the heights of fame, the depths of social embarrassment,
and the ups and downs of love and sex. Such well-loved sketches
as Thurber's 'The secret life of Walter Mitty' take their place
alongside light-hearted essays on food, film, and flights of fancy
that follow an apparently simple premise to the point of no return,
and sometimes well beyond.
(Unabridged
CD)
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- David Sedaris. Read by David Sedaris. Me
Talk Pretty One Day
- A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling
author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work
yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to
learn French. (Cassette
& CD)
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