A Life in Comedy: An Evening of Favor...
Garrison KeillorIn 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Keillor gave three live performances at the Yale Repertory Theatre, reading from a variety of his published and unpublished stories, novels, and essays.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....
The new book of hilarious essays by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
NPR Driveway Moments All About Animal...
Steve InskeepWhat'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...
Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understand...
William ShatnerUnabridged, 5 CDs, 6 hoursRead by the author A look at the man, the myth, and the magic that is William Shatner.
Jeeves: Joy in the Morning: A BBC Ful...
P. G. WodehouseMichael 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...
George Burns 100 Years, 100 Stories
George BurnsThe 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...
Fierce Pajamas: Selections of Humor f...
David RemnickRead 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 Collection: Dave Barry Is ...
Dave BarryDave 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...
When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin...
Bill MaherPolitical 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...
Holidays on Ice: Jacket tag: Featurin...
David SedarisDavid 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...
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
Kenneth C. DavisDon'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...
Things I've Learned from Women Who've...
Ben KarlinThe 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 ...
New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes (Pr...
Garrison KeillorJokes 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, ...
I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me
Joan RiversDIVb"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,...
The Year of Living Biblically: One Ma...
A. J. JacobsFrom 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...
Prairie Home Companion Tourists
Garrison KeillorFrom 1981-82, A Prairie Home Companion went on tour, visiting and performing in friendly places like Lansing, Michigan and Ashland, Oregon. This scraook of musical highlights features performances by The Butch Thompson Trio, Robin an...
NPR Laughter Therapy: A Comedy Collec...
NPRLooking for an alternative to the seriously reliable, soothing yet informative sound of NPR? Try NPR! Prepare to be surprised by this collection of interviews with some of the funniest personalities on the planet, and by the memorabl...
If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Moth...
Julia SweeneyJulia Sweeney, the delightful former cast member of Saturday Night Live, takes listeners into the depths of her family in this hilarious and unique parenting book.Since her time on Saturday Night Live, where she created the infamous a...
Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling IMy Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a...
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of...
Mark LeynerSetting the record straight on folk remedies, traditional cures, and medical myths, an entertaining but informative medical reference furnishes informative answers to such questions as 'Do microwaves cause cancer?,' 'Is sperm nutritio...
The Darwin Awards : Evolution In Acti...
Wendy NorthcuttThe Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be. Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient po...