Humor
From comedians George Carlin and Paula Poundstone to the Pretty Good Jokes series from A Prairie Home Companion, these audio collections are sure to keep you laughing. For more fun, check out the Car Talk collections under Public Radio.
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What Time Is Noon?
by Chip Leighton; read by Chip Leighton
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The instant New York Times bestseller from the TikTok creator of "Texts from my College Freshman." Learn More
American Laughter, American Fury
by Eran A. Zelnik; read by Joe Barrett
How humor helped white men cast the United States as a nation in which only they were entitled to citizenship. Learn More
Life's Short, Talk Fast
by Ann Hood; read by Kevin T. Collins, Khristine Hvam, Zehra Jane Naqvi, and Sanya Simmons
Fifteen leading writers explore what Gilmore Girls means to them in this delightful celebration of a contemporary TV classic. Learn More
The White Privilege Album
by A. J. Rice; foreword by Vince Everett Ellison; read by Rick Adamson
A comedy about race, wokeness, and cancel culture in America. A tragedy about race, wokeness, and cancel culture in America. Part satire, part journalism, part truth serum, A. J. Rice follows up his runaway #1 bestseller The Woking Dead with a hilarious sequel that picks up where the laughs left off. Learn More
Sex Lives of Superheroes
by Diana McCallum; read by Andrew Ivimey
Based on genuine scientific research and both Marvel and DC comic book and movie canon (and more!), Sex Lives of Superheroes is a refreshingly frank and fun deep dive into the pros, cons, and plot twists of superpowered sex. Learn More
The Road Trip Rewind
by Kate Tamberelli and Danny Tamberelli; read by Danny Tamberelli and Mara Wilson
Back to the Future meets 10 Things I Hate About You as the past, the present, and two hearts with unfinished business collide in the most epic, hilarious, and downright poignant way . . . Learn More
Riven Rock
by T. C. Boyle; read by Michael Kirby
Blending social history with some of the most deliciously dark humor ever written, T. C. Boyle employs his hallmark virtuoso prose to tell the story of America's age of innocence—and of a love affair that is as extraordinary as it is unforgettable. Learn More
Alexandra Petri's US History
by Alexandra Petri; read by Alexandra Petri
A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri's US History is the fake textbook you never knew you needed. Learn More
The Improbability of Love
by Hannah Rothschild; read by Adam James and Kristin Atherton
Reeling from a sudden breakup, thirty-one-year-old Annie McDee is rummaging through a secondhand shop, when an anonymous old painting catches her eye. The artwork becomes hers, and Annie begins to suspect that it may be more valuable than she'd thought. Soon she is pursued by parties who would do anything to possess her picture: an exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious sheikha, an unscrupulous art dealer. In her search for the painting's identity, Annie will unwittingly discover some of the darkest secrets of European history—and the possibility of falling in love again. Learn More
Users
by Colin Winnette; read by Justin Price
Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is for readers of Ling Ma, Dave Eggers's The Circle, and viewers of the hit Apple TV+ original series Severance. Learn More
That's Not Funny
by Matt Sienkiewicz, Nick Marx; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
A rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. Learn More
A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching
by Rosemary Mosco; read by Janet Metzger
Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We've kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, listeners can rediscover the wonder. Learn More
The Blind Accordionist
by C.D. Rose; read by BJ Harrison
A supposedly long lost collection of fable-like stories supposedly written by the little-known middle European writer Maxim Guyavitch . . . with a helpful intro and afterword making it hilariously clear that the keyword is "supposedly." Learn More
The Funny Stuff
by P. J. O'Rourke; read by L. J. Ganser
A compendium of quotes and riffs by P. J. O'Rourke on subjects ranging from government to fishing to apps, to be published on what would have been his seventy-fifth birthday. Learn More
How to Win the War on Truth
by Samuel C. Spitale; read by Patrick Lawlor
Made to Stick by Chip Heath meets Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe in this guide to navigating today's post-truth landscape, filled with examples of modern-day propaganda campaigns. Learn More
Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned Beauman; read by John Hastings
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident. Learn More
How to Be a Man (Whatever That Means)
by James Breakwell; read by James Breakwell
In a series of funny, sharply observed, and occasionally poignant essays, everyone's favorite internet-famous father of four daughters lays down a lifetime of lessons in what it means to be a man. Learn More
LaserWriter II
by Tamara Shopsin; read by Tamara Shopsin
From the incomparable New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Tamara Shopsin, a debut novel about a NYC printer repair technician who comes of age alongside the Apple computer. Learn More
Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old
by Steven Petrow; read by Michael Butler Murray
For fans of David Sedaris and Nora Ephron, a humorous, irreverent, and poignant look at the gifts, stereotypes, and inevitable challenges of aging, based on award-winning journalist Steven Petrow's wildly popular New York Times essay, "Things I'll Do Differently When I Get Old." Learn More
How to Tell a Joke
by Marcus Tullis Ciccero, Michael Fontaine; read by Roger Clark
How to Tell a Joke provides a lively new translation of Cicero's essential writing on humor alongside that of the later Roman orator and educator Quintilian. The result is a timeless practical guide to how a well-timed joke can win over any audience. Learn More
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