Humor audiobooks

Freiheit ist alles - Abridged

By: Vince Ebert

Narrated by: Vince Ebert

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Was genau ist der freie Wille? Wer hat die Freiheit erfunden? Und warum sind die Griechen dann heute pleite? Der Wissenschaftskabarettist Vince Ebert wandert auf den Spuren von Freidenkern und Denkfreien, geht dabei an die Grenzen - und darüber hinaus. Mit spannenden Erkenntnissen aus Philosophie, Naturwissenschaft und Bunte. Freiheit ist alles... Read more

Für immer, oder was? - (K)ein Liebes-Roman (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ellen Berg

Narrated by: Tessa Mittelstaedt

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Schluss mit dem Schlussmachen! Es ist wie verhext: Bei Blumenhändlerin Laura will es einfach nicht klappen mit dem Für-immer-Mann. Sie kommt ins Grübeln. Ist sie bislang nur an die falschen Kerle geraten, oder liegt das Problem etwa bei ihr? Bevor sie den vielversprechenden Daniel datet, will Laura auf Nummer sicher gehen - und besucht ihre... Read more

Precisamos falar mais sobre corvos - Abridged

By: Juliana Daglio

Narrated by: Carol Futuro, Mariana Dondi, Loretta Martins & ...

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aquela manhã poderia ter sido como qualquer outra, se Caio não tivesse encontrado o corpo da raposa. Enquanto isso, Moira e Bea são perseguidas por um misterioso corvo. Esses três adolescentes, que frequentam a mesma escola mas nunca haviam se falado, são levados pelo destino para um único lugar: a casa da "bruxa da estrada", como os alunos... Read more

Equal Rites - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard - by mistake. Everybody knows that... Read more

Mort - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received... Read more

Reaper Man - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Death has to happen. Tha'ts what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.'

But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the disc, as here, they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you... Read more

The Light Fantastic - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

'What shall we do?' said Twoflower.
'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.

As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn’t need is a singularly inept and cowardly wizard, still... Read more

Wyrd Sisters - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle.

Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. The omens are not... Read more

Interesting Times - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'A foot on the neck is nine points of the law'

There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance between two informed partners, determined by an elaborate set of elegant and unwritten rules. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. Like when a large, heavily... Read more

Maskerade - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now everwhere I go there's...'

Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations. This isn't real life. This isn't even cheesemongering. It's opera.... Read more

Men At Arms - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the stone in the first place.'

Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another... Read more

Small Gods - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.'

Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt. And it's certainly not remotely helpful to be... Read more

Soul Music - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Be careful what you wish for. You never know who might be listening.'

There's no getting away from it. From whichever angle, Death is a horrible, inescapable business. But someone's got to do it. So if Death decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, then there is going to be a void... Read more

Witches Abroad - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of modern endeavour' Daily Mail

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .... Read more

Eric - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it.

All he wants is his three wishes granted.Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff.

But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably... Read more

Feet Of Clay - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


'The work of a prolific humorist at his best' Observer

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
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'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit... Read more

Real Men Don't Apologize! - Abridged

By: Jim Belushi

Narrated by: Jim Belushi

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this "guys guide to life," the star of the hit TV show According to Jim talks about how men can continue to be real men while still managing to make things work with the opposite sexJim Belushi is a national celebrity who has starred in numerous movies as well as the current hit TV show airing on ABC, According to Jim. His "guy's guy" take on... Read more

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Abridged

By: Toby Young

Narrated by: Toby Young

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan—Alistair Cooke then, Anna Wintour now—so why couldn’t he? But things didn’t go quite according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most... Read more

Hogfather - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decorations, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys... He's gone.

Susan the governess has got to find him before morning, otherwise the sun won't rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven with an... Read more

Ist das ein Witz? Kommt ein Literaturkritiker zum Arzt ... (ungekürzte Ausgabe) - Abridged

By: Eckart von Hirschhausen & Hellmuth Karasek

Narrated by: Eckart von Hirschhausen & Hellmuth Karasek

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nüchtern betrachtet: eine Schnapsidee! Treffen sich ein Mediziner und ein Literaturkritiker … Nein, das ist kein Witz, sondern die humorvollste literarische Begegnung des Jahres: Dr. med. Eckart von Hirschhausen und Hellmuth Karasek erzählen Witze und kommen dabei dem Wesen dieser kürzesten und präzisesten Form von Literatur auf die Spur. Witze... Read more

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Abridged

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus”... Read more

Eleven on Top - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her... Read more

Gereon Klug - Die Nachteile von Menschen - Abridged

By: Gereon Klug

Narrated by: Gereon Klug

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Was haben wir denn hier für ein Buch? Es sollte eigentlich »Zum Scheißen reicht's« heißen, aber so ein Titel führt zu sehr in die Irre. Gereon Klug beschäftigt sich ja richtig mit den Menschen und schreibt jeden Tag Reisewarnungen, Glückskekszettelpoeme, Kriegserkärungen und Latrinenpredigten. Also daraus ein Buch machen? Seine Psychiaterin... Read more

Political Incorrections - Abridged

By: Bill Maher

Narrated by: Bill Maher

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher
Featuring an introduction by Penn Jillette
For everyone who's had their fill of politicians, TV trials and the daily events seen on the evening news, Simon & Schuster Audio offers some relief with POLITICAL INCORRECTIONS-a collection of the funniest opening monologues... Read more