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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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Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! The Best of "Not My Job"

Hosted by Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell

Features highlights from the popular “Not My Job” segment of the show, during which celebrity guest contestants answer questions on topics unrelated to their particular area of expertise. Learn More

There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say

Paula Poundstone; read by Paula Poundstone

There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant To Say is self-awareness and honesty at its most hilarious. Learn More

Mommies Who Drink

Brett Paesel; read by Brett Paesel

Wickedly funny and irreverent, yet deeply honest and touching, Mommies Who Drink confronts a brave new world of motherhood. Learn More

New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor, Paula Poundstone, and an ensemble cast

Originally the bonus CD in the Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes compendium, this collection from Joke Shows 7-8 is now available separately. Learn More

Growing Up Lutheran

Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann (Johnson) Nelson; read by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann (Johnson) Nelson

If you search for the word ‘coffee’ in the Bible, if you're pretty sure that all the pairs of animals in Noah’s Ark were married, and if you know that Heaven is up and Hell is down, you'll love Growing Up Lutheran. If the Lutherans you know seem rather, er, mysterious, it will do you good.” Learn More

Fresh Air: Laughs

Terry Gross; interviews with comedians

A collection of interviews with top comedians from the award-winning NPR interviewer Terry Gross. Learn More

George Carlin Reads to You (Digital Edition)

George Carlin; performed by George Carlin

Great comedy and a good deal, this new gift set gathers three timeless Carlin recordings including two Grammy® winners.

Includes Brain Droppings, Napalm & Silly Putty, and More Napalm and Silly Putty. Learn More

Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor, Roy Blount Jr., Calvin Trillin, Paula Poundstone and an ensemble cast

Includes all the jokes from the first eight Joke Shows. Learn More

I Think There's Another Terrorist In My Soup

David Brenner; performed by the author

This release completes Brenner's recording of I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup, his brilliant, healing post-9/11 comedy collection. Learn More

I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup

David Brenner; performed by the author

Brenner offers brilliant comic riffs—well-tested on his audiences—on a wide range of issues, from the personal to the political. Learn More

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Al Franken; read by Al Franken

Franken trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene, earning him the nickname the "master of political humor" (Washington Post) . Learn More

Wigfield

Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert; read by the authors

Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert join forces to write and read this satire on the American Small Town. Learn More

A Few More Pretty Good Jokes

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor, Calvin Trillin, and an ensemble cast

A Few More Pretty Good Jokes is the second collection of material taken from the popular A Prairie Home Companion Joke Shows. Learn More

Live from New York

Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller; read by Christopher Burns, Eric Conger, Agnes Herrman, Jeffrey Joseph, Phil Lee, Don Leslie, Kevin McCue, Beth McDonald, Ron McLarty, Paula Parker, Charles Stransky, and Oliver Wyman

Live from New York does what no other book about the show has ever done: It lets the people who were there tell the story in their own words, blunt and loving and uncensored. Learn More

More Napalm and Silly Putty

George Carlin; performed by George Carlin

What his candid take on "life's little moments" lacks in political correctness, it more than makes up for in gut-busting laughs. He's the guy who dares say what the rest of us hesitate even to think. Learn More

Oh, the Things I Know!

Al Franken; read by Al Franken

A Grammy® nominee.

The bestselling author and Emmy®-winning television star guides graduates across the uncertain seas of post-academic life. Inspired, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny. Learn More

Napalm and Silly Putty

George Carlin; performed by George Carlin

Napalm & Silly Putty is just what his fans have been waiting for—another generous helping of notions, nonsense, assertions, assumptions, mockery, merriment, silliness, sarcasm, and, to be sure, plenty of disturbing references and toxic alienation. George wouldn't have it any other way. Learn More

How to Talk Minnesotan

Howard Mohr; performed by Howard Mohr and an ensemble cast

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Speak with confidence when using Minnesota words and phrases to make indirect commands and statements. Feel at ease constructing whole conversations based on “the weather”. Learn More

Brain Droppings

George Carlin; read by George Carlin

Grammy® Award Winner!

In Brain Droppings, Carlin brings to audio his singular brand of comedic satire that has made him a favorite of stage, screen and cable audiences. Learn More

Pretty Good Jokes

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor, Roy Blount Jr., Paula Poundstone, and an ensemble cast

Fulfilling the flood of requests from enthused listeners, Pretty Good Jokes combines all the jokes from A Prairie Home Companion's first four joke shows (1996-1999). Learn More