One of the most anticipated books of 2017: New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiotDavid Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the makingIt's no coincidence that th...

The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods/b now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities.After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved...

Al Franken's landmark bestseller, Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them'a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a 'bitterly funny assault' (The New York Times) that rang 'with the moral clarity of an angel's trumpet' (...

The popular humorist explores the world of finance, sharing his unique advice on the stock market, the art of making and losing money, furniture in the CEO's office, getting rich in real estate, and the financial benefits of an early ...

IPrairie Home Comedy and IGarrison Keillor's Comedy Theater in one fun-filled gift package.ibrPrairie Home Comedy Contents:brFreelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am A Tenor; Carp Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management As...

Includes the complete Pretty Good Jokes, Few More Pretty Good Jokes, and New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes.

In April 2002, Garrison Keillor gave three live performances at the Yale Repertory Theatre, reading from a variety of his published and unpublished stories, novels, and essays. The award-winning radio personality and man behind the La...

The latest in a line of bestselling collections that began with News from Lake Wobegon, this set selects monologues from four years (1999-2002) of live radio programs. Some were broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theatre, the show's St....

Book by Barry, Dave

The new book of hilarious essays by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

What's a "driveway moment"? IIt's when you're so captivated by a story you're hearing on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you're sitting in your driveway with the motor running. For years, listen...

Unabridged, 5 CDs, 6 hoursRead by the author A look at the man, the myth, and the magic that is William Shatner.

Michael Hordern stars as Jeeves with Richard Briers as Bertie in a BBC Radio full-cast dramatization. Steeple Bumphleigh is a very picturesque place. But for Bertie Wooster, it is a place to be avoided, containing not only the appalli...

The great comedian celebrates his one hundredth birthday with a selection of his favorite and funniest stories that include reminiscences about his own past and anecdotes about friends, family, and colleagues. 300,000 first prin...

Read bybr5 CDs/6 hoursA cornucopia of literary humor from the magazine that has defined the category for almost a century.When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a "comic weekly." And although it ...

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio listeners test their knowledge against a panel of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world: Adam Felber; Roy Blount, Jr.; Pau...

Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down: What's been getting Dave Barry all worked up lately? What can possibly induce him to rise up - yes, actually out of his chair - in indignation? Well, lots of things, including the real skinn...

Steve Martin has always been one of the most intelligent of comedians (you won't find Adam Sandler writing a play about Einstein and Picasso anytime soon), but this intelligence is manifested in gymnastically absurdist flights of fanc...

Political provocateur Bill Maher tells it like it is in a useful and hilarious guide for the many Americans who want to do more here at home to help the war effort, but are at a loss as to what. Thirty-three dynamic new posters and se...

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedar...

The big things in life look after themselves. Birth, love, death-they're all terrifically exciting, but they happen whether we like it or not. IIt's the little things in life that cause the most trouble. How do you deal with the milli...

In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children—everything from cousins (&q...

Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About Famous People, Exceptional Places, Historical Happenings, Holidays and Traditions, Everyday Objects, Remarkable Inventions, Space, Sports, Food, Ente...

After a decade spent in isolation in the Ugandan jungles thinking about stuff, David Cross has written his first book. Known for roles on the small screen such as "never-nude" Tobias Funke on Arrested Development and the ro...

The Emmy award-winning former executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report has assembled a stellar lineup of men who have one thing in common: all have been dumped...and are willing to share their pain and the lessons ...

Jokes are good for your health,' Garrison Keillor says. 'They reduce stress, even jokes as old as `Does this bus go to Duluth?' `No, this bus goes beep beep.' Or the blind man who picked up a hammer and saw. They keep on pleasing us, ...

DIVb"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."BR/b—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850DIV DIVb"How do I hate thee? How much time do you have?"/DIV—Joan Rivers, today, about two-ishJoan Rivers is a groundbreakin...

Everyone's life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code.Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next,...

From the bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs dec...

A Prairie Home Companion celebrates that one person who manages to make you feel that you're special and that you aren't living up to your potential-all in the same sentence. Skits, songs, and stories from Garrison and the regular cas...