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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 46
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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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Good Read (Think of this as a joke book)
- By Richard on 2018-12-27
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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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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 3
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Tough Go
- By Paul Hunter on 2019-03-10
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Occupational Hazards: The Blue-Collar Omnibus
- Written by: Geoff Sturtevant
- Narrated by: John McLain, Jonathan Sleep, Steven Jay Cohen, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Occupational Hazards is an unflinching ride through the absurdity of it all. Existentialism, absurdism, and outlandish humor merge with ordinary, workaday life for a truly unique perspective of the human experience. Not recommended for the faint of heart or easily offended. But if meaty stories are what you're after....
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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 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
For the first time in one audio collection, all sixteen Yes Minister radio episodes plus six further TV episodes....
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Love Among the Chickens [Classic Tales Edition]
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Stanley Featherstonehough Ukridge is positively convinced that his complete ignorance of chicken farming gives him a particular advantage in the subject. A bombastic blowhard, he persuades his wife and his mild-mannered chum to start a chicken farm with him....
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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 3
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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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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 46
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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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Good Read (Think of this as a joke book)
- By Richard on 2018-12-27
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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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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 3
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Tough Go
- By Paul Hunter on 2019-03-10
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Occupational Hazards: The Blue-Collar Omnibus
- Written by: Geoff Sturtevant
- Narrated by: John McLain, Jonathan Sleep, Steven Jay Cohen, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Occupational Hazards is an unflinching ride through the absurdity of it all. Existentialism, absurdism, and outlandish humor merge with ordinary, workaday life for a truly unique perspective of the human experience. Not recommended for the faint of heart or easily offended. But if meaty stories are what you're after....
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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 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
For the first time in one audio collection, all sixteen Yes Minister radio episodes plus six further TV episodes....
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Love Among the Chickens [Classic Tales Edition]
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Stanley Featherstonehough Ukridge is positively convinced that his complete ignorance of chicken farming gives him a particular advantage in the subject. A bombastic blowhard, he persuades his wife and his mild-mannered chum to start a chicken farm with him....
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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 3
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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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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 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17
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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Hilarious!
- By Adam Drew on 2019-02-04
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Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
- The Speediest Car on the Road
- Written by: Victor Appleton
- Narrated by: John Michaels
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout takes us back to gentler times when the bad guys weren't really that bad, didn't carry Uzis, and being an inventor like Thomas Edison was the dream of many young boys....
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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 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
In "elegant, finely honed prose" ( The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life....
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The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 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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Blackadder Goes Forth
- Written by: Richard Curtis, Ben Elton
- Narrated by: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Original Recording
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Six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Tony Robinson....
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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 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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The Goon Show, Volume 6
- Have a Gorilla
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Here's another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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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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Table Manners
- Part One of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests Trilogy
- Written by: Alan Ayckbourn
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Martin Jarvis, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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In Table Manners, the action occurs in the dining room of Mother’s house, where a conventional middle-class family is attempting to have a pleasant country weekend....
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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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Hancock
- A Celebration: The Very Best of Hancock's Half Hour
- Written by: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
- Narrated by: Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Original Recording
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Ray Galton and Alan Simpson present, with personal recollections, a comic feast of Hancock's Half Hour....
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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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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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
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Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer....
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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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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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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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Perhaps the ultimate in TV madness and absurdity, this is innovative and ground-breaking comedy....
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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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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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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Something Fresh
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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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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Do Not Adjust Your Set - The Best Of
- Written by: Humphrey Barclay, Ian Davidson, Denise Coffey, and others
- Narrated by: Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Original Recording
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Do Not Adjust Your Set is a 60s comedy show comprised mostly of satirical sketches, often presented in a bizarre, surreal and disjointed manner....
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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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Friday Night Live, Volume 1
- Written by: Lee Evans, Hugh Laurie, Jo Brand, and others
- Narrated by: Lee Evans, Hugh Laurie, Jo Brand, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Original Recording
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Friday Night Live was a late night programme that pushed comedy on TV to new levels....
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The Man Upstairs [Classic Tales Edition]
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
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P. G. Wodehouse gives us a delightful romantic comedy of two struggling artists who fantastically misunderstand each other....
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Abbott & Costello
- Masters of Comedy
- Written by: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection presents the flat-out funny misunderstandings and wacky word play you expect from Bud and Lou....
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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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Here's a crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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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 3
- I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Here's another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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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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I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
- Written by: Lewis Black
- Narrated by: Lewis Black
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic New York Times best-selling author comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas....
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The Goon Show, Volume 7
- Ying Tong Iddle-i Po!
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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GO ON, but watch your feet. Boots are exploding everywhere; in Hungary, on the football field, and at home where Britain's scradje deposits are on the blink....
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The Goon Show, Volume 5
- And There's More Where That Came From
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Here's another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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Yes Prime Minister
- Volume 1
- Written by: Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Four episodes of the television comedy series...