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James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
- Written by: James Acaster
- Narrated by: James Acaster
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story5 out of 5 stars 28
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny
- By Grace on 2019-10-21
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Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection
- Written by: Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
- Narrated by: Paul Eddington, full cast, Nigel Hawthorn
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 21
For the first time in one audio collection, all sixteen Yes Minister radio episodes plus six further TV episodes....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bahahaha
- By Jim Brown on 2019-08-25
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Paranormal Misdirection
- Sasha Urban Series, Book 5
- Written by: Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
With my seer powers finally under my control, I'm ready to plunge into the unknown to find my father. He may have abandoned me, but I’ll go to the ends of the Otherlands to save him from his torment....
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4 out of 5 stars
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spoiler alert
- By Terranth on 2019-08-29
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 2
- The Germans
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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The Goon Show, Volume 1
- Moriarity, Where Are You?
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Here's a crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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George Carlin Reads to You
- An Audio Collection Including Grammy Winners 'Braindroppings' and 'Napalm & Silly Putty'
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
If one George Carlin audio is funny, then two are funnier and three must be funniest, right? That's our thinking behind this new collection....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I miss George!
- By Jessica Timmins on 2019-03-21
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James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
- Written by: James Acaster
- Narrated by: James Acaster
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story5 out of 5 stars 28
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny
- By Grace on 2019-10-21
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Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection
- Written by: Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
- Narrated by: Paul Eddington, full cast, Nigel Hawthorn
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 21
For the first time in one audio collection, all sixteen Yes Minister radio episodes plus six further TV episodes....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bahahaha
- By Jim Brown on 2019-08-25
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Paranormal Misdirection
- Sasha Urban Series, Book 5
- Written by: Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
With my seer powers finally under my control, I'm ready to plunge into the unknown to find my father. He may have abandoned me, but I’ll go to the ends of the Otherlands to save him from his torment....
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4 out of 5 stars
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spoiler alert
- By Terranth on 2019-08-29
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 2
- The Germans
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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The Goon Show, Volume 1
- Moriarity, Where Are You?
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Here's a crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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George Carlin Reads to You
- An Audio Collection Including Grammy Winners 'Braindroppings' and 'Napalm & Silly Putty'
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
If one George Carlin audio is funny, then two are funnier and three must be funniest, right? That's our thinking behind this new collection....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I miss George!
- By Jessica Timmins on 2019-03-21
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Written by: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle
- Length: 53 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Perhaps the ultimate in TV madness and absurdity, this is innovative and ground-breaking comedy....
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The Noël Coward Collection
- Written by: Noël Coward
- Narrated by: Annette Bening, Joe Mantegna, Eric Stoltz, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Six phenomenally sophisticated Noël Coward comedies: Fallen Angels, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter....
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It's Me Again
- The Bandy Papers
- Written by: Donald Jack
- Narrated by: Robin Gabrielli
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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As usual, the RAF top brass don't know what to do with maverick flying ace and well-known loose cannon Major Bartholomew Bandy. They pack him off to a squadron where everything's as smart as paint and the flying record barely registers, thinking it'll keep him out of their hair....
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 1
- Basil the Rat
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- Written by: Fran Lebowitz
- Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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In "elegant, finely honed prose" ( The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life....
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Brain Droppings
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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The thinking person's comic who uses words as weapons, George Carlin shares all-new, cutting-edge opinion and observational humor in this best seller...
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 3
- The Psychiatrist
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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Blackadder Goes Forth
- Written by: Richard Curtis, Ben Elton
- Narrated by: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Tony Robinson....
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The Comedians
- Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
- Written by: Kliph Nesteroff
- Narrated by: Kliph Nesteroff
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts....
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4 out of 5 stars
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History of comedians
- By Ron on 2019-04-17
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Short Cruises
- 12 Humorous Short Stories
- Written by: W. W. Jacobs
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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W.W. Jacobs was an English writer, famous for his humorous short stories, particularly those relating the preposterous adventures and misadventures of sailors on leave....
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More of the 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said
- Written by: Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
- Narrated by: Arte Johnson, Jayne Meadows, Bruce Vilanch, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In More of the 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said, Ross and Kathryn Petras continue their connoisseur's compendium of awkward utterances....
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Mapp and Lucia
- Written by: E. F. Benson
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Abridged
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Mapp and Lucia is the centrepiece of E.F. Benson's series of Lucia novels - bringing together for the first time the eponymous middle-aged doyennes of polite 1930s society....
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An Ideal Husband
- Written by: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Michael Ward
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of 24 hours....
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A Woman of No Importance
- Written by: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes, Samantha Mathis, Rosalind Ayres, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer....
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The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show: Hotel Harris
- Written by: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Phil Harris was brash, egotistical, and charming as hell. Alice Faye was regarded by George Gershwin and Cole Porter as the best female singer in Hollywood. Together, they starred in one of the most uninhibited and funny comedy series on radio....
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Dad Jokes
- Gift Book
- Written by: Ralph Lane
- Narrated by: Ralph Lane
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Now, the best dad joke book is available on Audible for even more dad jokes fun. Ralph Lane reads his hilarious jokes with all the gusto that made him a local legend, except you get the added bonus of crazy sound effects in addition to Ralph's uproarious narrating style....
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The Goon Show, Volume 12
- Shut Up, Eccles!
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Here is another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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Jennings Again!
- Written by: Anthony Buckeridge
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Dear Miss Thorpe, We hope you are quite well. We are very sorry we did not do your leaflets very well owing to strong winds.....
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The Goon Show, Volume 10
- You Can't Get the Wood, You Know!
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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GO ON, take a trip to Monmartre with Neddie Toulouse-Lautrec, the famous French Impressionist (all right, do Al Jolson)....
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The Goon Show, Volume 11
- He's Fallen in the Water
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Original Recording
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Join Inspector Seagoon in the amazing hunt for a missing piece of string or journey with nude Ned the Piano Dancer on the trail of sennapod smugglers in South America....
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Mr. Slater's Poultry Market
- Retro Audio
- Written by: Retro Audio
- Narrated by: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
- Length: 25 mins
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A classic comedy as Stan and Ollie are sent out to deliver a chicken, but get mistaken for a pair of hired killers....
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The Goon Show Compendium: Volume 11 (Series 9, Pt 2 & Series 10)
- Twenty episodes of the classic BBC radio comedy series
- Written by: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Twenty remastered episodes of the legendary series plus bonus material. Popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking radio series changed the face of British comedy....
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Something Fresh
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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The one thing that could be expected to disturb the peace of life at Blandings is the incursion of imposters....
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The Goon Show, Volume 9
- What Time Is It, Eccles?
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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From a watery Westminster Pier to the far-flung Foreign Legion, from Yehti-ridden Yorkshire moors to a leather omnibus with a phantom conker-puncher....
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Napalm & Silly Putty
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Abridged
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Yes, George Carlin is here with more of what he did better than any other comic: uproarious observations, laser-targeted crankiness, linguistic legerdemain, and inspired weirdness....
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- Written by: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Mark Twain discusses the telling of stories, rather than providing more stories....
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What Makes Sammy Run?
- Written by: Budd Schulberg
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The classic book that shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. As Budd Shulberg follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character....
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- Written by: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Matt Montanez
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895....
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The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Included in this collection are 19 of Wodehouse's classic pre-World War II stories....
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Fierce Pajamas
- Selected Humor Writing from The New Yorker
- Written by: David Remnick, Henry Finder, editors
- Narrated by: Byron Jennings, Julie Halston
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more...