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Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy life. Well, easy as long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix, life became more difficult. So Todd Glass decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results. Now, Todd has written an open, honest, and hilarious memoir in an effort to help everyone - young and old, gay and straight - breathe a little more freely.

Once in a lifetime a venue comes along that changes show business dramatically, that fosters growth and camaraderie, experimentation and freedom. The Comic Strip is one of those places, and Make ’Em Laugh is an inside look at how it all happened, straight from the mouths of the stars who built their careers on its stage.

From 2011 up until his death at the end of 2016, the inimitable AA Gill reigned supreme as Uncle Dysfunctional, Esquire's resident advice columnist. In this raffish, hilarious, scathing yet often surprisingly humane collection, Gill applies his unmatched wit to the largest and smallest issues of our time. Whether you're struggling to satisfy your other half, having a crisis over your baldness, don't like your daughter's boyfriend or need the definitive rules on shorts, leather jackets and man-bags, AA Gill has all the answers - but you'd better brace yourself first.

Randy and Jason Sklar have a knack for exploring what makes America’s cities unique and wonderful, whether it’s finding out who in San Diego serves the best burritos, why basketball is so popular among those in Bloomington, or why the people of Portland can't let go of their old airport carpeting.

The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour is Canada's top award for humour - and nobody has won it more times than Arthur Black, who carried off his third medal in June 2006. Now, in case there is anyone left standing who still disputes Black's claim to the title of Canada's funniest man, Harbour presents the laughing proof: a retrospective of Black's best hits, high-graded from eleven previous collections stretching back over the past 20 years.

In 2004 Dom Joly wrote a spoof autobiography called Look At Me, Look At Me. In Here Comes the Clown, he takes up the story of his life from 14 January 2000 when the very first episode of Trigger Happy TV aired on Channel 4 and everything changed for him. Suddenly he was famous; reality was weirder than any fiction he could conjure up. This is the story of what happened next, through snippets of recollections from his adventures in show business....

A Week to Kill is 10 episode stand up comedy series from Audible Suno created and hosted by Abish Mathew. In each episode, Abish challenges two comedians to write, workshop & perform a completely new stand up comedy set based on topics they select at random with only a week to prepare. Will they succeed? Will they bomb on stage? Find out on A Week to Kill.

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道具屋を舞台とした滑稽噺。後半に登場する上方弁でまくし立てる長台詞は一聴の価値あり。第一回オーディブル寄席、立川志の春「金明竹」をお楽しみください。

正直者同士が意地を張り合う明るい人情噺。第一回オーディブル寄席、立川志の春「井戸の茶碗」をお楽しみください。

「ナンシー」。立川志の春作の新作落語。錦糸町の居酒屋で語り合う上司と部下。フェイスブックに促された「お誕生日おめでとう」の言葉は果たして嬉しいものなのか？言葉ではなく、自分の誕生日を覚えていてもらったということが嬉しいのではないか？ということを熱く語る上司に対し、別にいいのではないかとクールに言う部下。母親の「ありがとうございますは？」を受けた、子供の「ありがとうございます」に心はこもっているのか？義理チョコは？年賀状は？「ナンシー」ちゃんの登場により、議論はおかしな方向へと向かっていく。第一回オーディブル寄席、立川志の春「ナンシー」をお楽しみください。

"Tenshiki" is a classical rakugo story about a temple priest, who gets into trouble when he pretends to know the word "Tenshiki" which he does not know. What does "Tenshiki" mean? You will know after hearing this story.

古典落語「転失気」の英語バージョン。知ったかぶりをする和尚と、小僧の珍念の間で繰り広げられるドタバタ劇。果たして転失気とは何を意味するものなのか、それは聴いてのお楽しみ。第二回オーディブル寄席、立川志の春の英語落語「Tenshiki」をお楽しみください。

"Yabuiri (Child's Homecoming)" is a classical rakugo story about a boy who comes home for the first time, after three years of apprentice training. His parents welcome his return, but from a minor misunderstanding, faces trouble with their son.

古典落語「藪入り」の英語バージョン。三年間の奉公を経て、初めて我が子が家に帰ってくる。些細な誤解が元で、トラブル発生！？それでも親子の情愛が漂う名作落語。第二回オーディブル寄席、立川志の春の英語落語「Yabuiri (Child's Homecoming)」をお楽しみください。

"Chilitotechin" is a classical rakugo story about a man who cannot appreciate anything, learning what it is to appreciate something, when he encounters "Chilitotechin".

古典落語「ちりとてちん」の英語バージョン。お世辞上手の金さんと、お世辞下手の六さん。台湾土産の「ちりとてちん」に六さんが七転八倒。第二回オーディブル寄席、立川志の春の英語落語「Chilitotechin」をお楽しみください。

「だいじなもの」。立川志の春作の新作落語。孫のたかしが父の転勤でアメリカへ行くことになったため、おじいちゃんがすき焼きをご馳走してくれる。アメリカで友達が出来るかどうか心配をするたかしに、日本のことを色々と教えてあげればいいとおじいちゃんはアドバイス。日本のどんなこと？と聞くと、日本に昔から伝わる言い伝え、と答えるおじいちゃん。なぜ、食べた後ですぐに寝ると牛になるのか？なぜ、手の冷たい人は心が温かいのか？そんな話を通じて、実は身近で気づかないようなところにも「だいじなもの」は転がっているのではないかと問いかける、ハートウォーミングな新作。第一回オーディブル寄席、立川志の春「だいじなもの」をお楽しみください。

Sie sagen ständig "Sorry", können uns in den Wahnsinn smalltalken und sind zugleich Olympiasieger im obszönen Fluchen. Sie haben die halbe Welt kolonisiert und beschweren sich jetzt über die ganzen Fremden in ihrem Land. Die Briten sind die Nachbarn, über die wir uns am liebsten wundern. Mit seinem Bestseller "Wie man Deutscher wird in 50 einfachen Schritten" hat Adam Fletcher den Deutschen den Spiegel vorgehalten. In diesem respektlosen, wunderbar komischen Hörbuch zeigt er uns jetzt sein eigenes Land, wie es wirklich ist. Gut möglich, dass Sie einen Regenschirm brauchen.

Since it began several years ago Hugo Rifkind's dazzling My Week column has been satirising the high profile and the famous, and basically anyone foolish or unfortunate enough to find themselves at the top of the news agenda that week. The column itself is a fictional diary parodying their movements over seven days in a rarely flattering but always hilarious manner. Rifkind's victims are as diverse and as headline-grabbing as David Cameron, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, Edwina Currie, Barack Obama and Pippa Middleton.

Dici Vincenzo Salemme, dici Napoli. Infatti non c'è sua opera, sia essa teatrale o cinematografica, e recentemente anche narrativa, che non ci cali nell'atmosfera del Golfo e, soprattutto, che non ce ne trasmetta i colori vividi, la filosofia, il modo di intendere la vita. A volte però essere napoletani è difficile: bisogna farsi piacere il caffè bollente, mangiare il ragù la domenica e il capitone a Natale, saper raccontare barzellette, suonare il mandolino e cantare perfettamente intonati i grandi classici della canzone partenopea.

L’infanzia fiorentina in una famiglia particolarmente moderna e illuminata, con la mamma maestra montessoriana che gli permetteva di leggere libri pornografici perché consapevole dell’importanza della lettura tout court. La precocissima folgorazione per il teatro che lo fa trasferire a Roma poco più che ventenne. I primi passi nel cinema e nei fotoromanzi, che interpretava indossando le giacche rubate a Franco Zeffirelli. La gaia atmosfera della Dolce Vita. Le avventure mondane con Laura Betti, l’affinità elettiva con Federico Fellini, la severità di Pier Paolo Pasolini.