Comedy Audiobooks | Biography & Memoir

Colored People Time: A Case for (Casual) Rebellion

"A celebration of tardiness through funny, revealing, and deeply thoughtful essays on the nature of time and collective memory, and a jovial argument that until America reaches genuine racial equity, people of color can be late to anything they want. Since the dawn of time, punctuality has been a scam. You rush to get ready for an event, only to discover that your pants have a hole in them, there's a chance of rain, and the train is skipping your stop, so now the fastest method is a $100 rideshare to go 2 miles. And for what? To arrive "on time" rather than "whenever I want"? Enough is enough. In Colored People Time, Manny Fidel bravely confronts this injustice head-on, arguing that until America reaches genuine racial equity, people of color are allowed-nay, encouraged-to be late to anything they want. Since our country's inception, the gears that operate it have been oiled to privilege some over others, and the result is that they have fewer barriers to timeliness. For Black and brown people, any number of offenses-grave, minor, or pettily imagined-can gum us up. Fidel argues we deserve the extra time to ourselves. And not for nothing, race relations in the US-by design-are advancing in their own molasses-like pace, ever shifting the ETAs of justice and freedom. Fidel incisively builds this argument in essays like "Summer '16," a nostalgic exploration of a dearly-held season, or "Ocarina of Time," a meditation on near-death and time travel via video game. Colored People Time addresses and diffuses the tension of lateness in a new context informed by history, pop culture, and social camaraderie. It reminds readers that they are not alone in a world that is, in some ways, moving fast, and in more familiar ways, taking its sweet time."

Manny Fidel (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Where Did Everybody Go?: Why We're Lonely but Not Alone

"In the bestselling tradition of Mary Roach and A.J. Jacobs comes a fresh and powerful deep dive on loneliness, illuminating the complexity of this misunderstood social phenomenon and why people need people. According to a report by the US Surgeon General in 2023, one out of every two American adults are lonely. Author and podcaster Don Martin was one of them: in 2020, as the COVID pandemic raged and Don's once-vibrant social life was reduced to Zoom calls and Animal Crossing, he realized that lockdown did not create these feelings—they just amplified them until they could not be ignored. He wondered: how did we get here? What exactly is loneliness, anyway? How is it measured, and how is it useful to us as a species? Blending thorough research with humor and personal insight from his own experience, Don takes listeners on a loneliness deep dive, all the way from the conception of the term itself in the 1800s through the death of the American mall and rise of social media, which is too often blamed as the root cause of a centuries-old problem. Along the way, he talks to everyone from prominent researchers in the space to historians, city planners, and other writers and creatives working through this ever-evolving topic from unique angles. You'll learn about how loneliness affects different age groups and communities, the history and future of third places, the ways loneliness can deteriorate your physical health, and how everything from capitalism to the placement of garages in modern home construction ultimately impact our social bonds. Don leaves listeners with an action plan, sharing insights on how we can build a more connected future for ourselves and our neighbors. Fascinating, witty, and ultimately hopeful, Where Did Everybody Go? is perfect for fans of Mary Roach and Jennie Allen."

Don Martin (Author), Don Martin (Narrator)

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Sorry, Not Sorry: An Unapologetic Look at What Makes Canada Worth Fighting For

"Known for his sharp-witted skits on CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Mark Critch uses his keen observational skills to explore Canadian identity and the new wave of Canadian patriotism. In Sorry, Not Sorry, Critch delves into the heart of what it means to be Canadian at a time when national pride is on the rise. Examining everything from the historical decision of Newfoundland to join Canada, to the modern-day implications of the Freedom Convoy, and the evolving symbolism of the Canadian flag, he reminds us of where we came from, and of the many reasons Canada is worth fighting for-elbows up! In chapters like "It Can Happen to You," "I Want My Flag Back," and "Operation Trojan Moose," Critch uses humour and satire while referencing our all-important history to tackle serious questions about national identity and the future of Canada. He offers a unique perspective on the country's relationship with the monarchy, the cultural impact of Canadian celebrities living abroad, and the hypothetical scenarios of provincial separations. Sorry, Not Sorry is more than just a comedic take on Canadian life; it's a deeply personal and insightful look at the free country Critch has spent decades satirizing. Whether he's writing as a lieutenant in a fictional American invasion or penning a love letter to Canada in the voice of Donald Trump, Critch's essays are sure to entertain, provoke thought, and stir a sense of pride in readers."

Mark Critch (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You

"Writer, comedian, and content creator Elyse Myers gets real about life’s awkward moments in her bold, funny, and unfiltered debut book Elyse Myers is known to her twelve million followers as “The Internet’s Best Friend,” sharing her relatable stories and comedic sketches and serving as an advocate for topics such as neurodivergence, impostor syndrome, body image, and more. Whether she’s making people laugh with tales of disastrous dates or giving a voice to that awkward internal monologue many of us have, she has three simple goals behind everything she makes: To make people feel known, loved, and like they belong. In That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You, Elyse delivers a debut collection of deeply personal stories and hand-drawn illustrations, offering even more intimate reflections beyond what fans have seen on her social media, including: Spending 7 Minutes in Heaven accidentally friend-zoning her crush How Lucy, the Magic 8 Ball keychain, changed her life by accident Moving from California to Australia to Texas to Nebraska to like (maybe even love!) herself How to Fold Hospital Corners in 10 EASY STEPS!—a practical guide and a rumination about…everything The “meat cute” when she met her smoke show of a husband at a butcher’s counter in Australia—and how she revealed herself to be an emotional runner Plus, tales involving bad dates and is-this-a-dates; the tempting yet futile urge to reinvent yourself, panic attacks and escape hatches, and favorite pens and systems to use them, all while loving and letting yourself be loved, preferably at the same time."

Elyse Myers (Author), Elyse Myers (Narrator)

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Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?: Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis

"From TikTok star and the author of I Didn’t Know I Needed This Eli Rallo, a reflection on the anxiety of transitioning into adulthood, navigating the quarter-life crisis, and realizing you’re actually not alone. Does anyone else feel like they’re the only one having a quarter-life crisis? As a senior in college, Eli Rallo expected her post-grad years to be filled with certainty, that she would finally feel that she was the “adult” she had long dreamed she’d be, with a cool job, an amazing apartment, fabulous friends, and lots of fun and flirty date nights. Instead she was met with crippling social anxiety, no idea what direction her career was taking, an inability to stop comparing herself to her peers’ picture-perfect lives on social media, and a looming sense that she may never feel certain—about her dating life, friendships, career, or even herself. With deep honesty, raw emotions, humor, and relatability, Eli analyzes life in your twenties with a candid and heartfelt approach, asking and answering questions like: How do you manage losing a best friend? How do you know who you are or what you want to do with your life? How do you find time and space for all of your priorities? How do you navigate the choppy waters of the social media world, and not fall victim to the comparison game? What happens when the timeline you made for yourself as a child is long in your past? How do you know you’re making the right decisions? Even though early adulthood doesn’t look just like Sex and the City or Thirteen Going on Thirty the way Eli thought it would, with Does Anyone Else Feel This Way? Eli shows you that you’re not the only one who misses the days when they could swing by the dining hall or just wants to call their mom to make it all go away. With a look at her own misadventures and hard-won life lessons, Eli shares the journey she’s been on to find herself as an adult, and the twists and turns she’s taken while navigating her own quarter-life crisis."

Eli Rallo (Author), Eli Rallo (Narrator)

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Does This Make Me Funny?: Essays

"From the singular mind of Zosia Mamet, a collection of charmingly witty and achingly vulnerable essays about the challenge and magic of growing up in show business You may know Zosia Mamet from her role as Shoshanna on Girls, or for being one of Hollywood's original nepo babies (or as she says, "So if I'm a nepo baby I'm like a B minus one at best and maybe not even a full one. I'm like a nepo baby lite, a nepito baby, if you will"). What you might not know is that as a toddler she visited theaters where her mom was rehearsing and crawled around on the floor, scrunching herself between seats; that she earnestly believed in Santa Claus for way too long; that she spent years navigating body image issues in hopes of finding elusive self-love; and that she was so overwhelmed and overjoyed when finally meeting her idol David Sedaris that she hid in the bathroom and melted into a "glitter puddle." The essays in Does This Make Me Funny? introduce us to Zosia Mamet in all her glory-from her early days growing up in literary and dramatic circles, to her years as a young adult pining for acceptance and love, to her first attempts to make it as an actor, to where she and Shosh are now. A gripping, funny, and earnest look at what it means to be a girl in the world and how to define yourself amid the bustle of show business, Does This Make Me Funny? is a captivating debut from a natural-born storyteller."

Zosia Mamet (Author), Zosia Mamet (Narrator)

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Successful Failure: Lessons Learned Flat on My Face

"Being successful is no laughing matter . . . unless the road there is littered with flops, fool's errands, fizzles, and straight-up failures-from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Marriage Be Hard. "I'm so happy Kev failed, because these stories will set so many free from perfection!"-Tabitha Brown, bestselling author of Feeding the Soul Kevin Fredericks (aka KevOnStage) is a viral stand-up star, an NAACP Image Award-winning comedian, the founder of KevOnStage Studios, a New York Times bestselling author, and a superstar on social media. But his path to success wasn't always smooth. As a kid, Kevin noticed something useful: If he made people laugh, the grown-ups would let him stay up late. In church plays, his commitment to the role of Goliath led to a busted lip, and the audience couldn't get enough. He dreamed of becoming a performer, of finding that big break that would launch him into the bright lights of pop culture fame. But as he soon found, the road to the life we want is longer, weirder, more embarrassing, and more entertaining than we think it will be. In Successful Failure, the comedian recounts hilarious stories and sincere insight from his adventures (and misadventures) trying to make it in life. From performing under an alias to avoid getting fired from his suit-and-tie day job to breaking a chair onstage and quitting stand-up for six months, from pooping his pants on a bus next to his future wife to starting a clothing line called Dreams Don't Die (they sure do if the merch doesn't sell), Kevin reminds readers that while we might not be The Rock, Warren Buffett, or Kevin Hart, we're all out here trying, and that's okay. Laugh-out-loud in one moment and perceptive in the next, Successful Failure is a wild ride from one of America's funniest comics and a sendup of our ideals around hustle culture and success."

Kevin Fredericks (Author), Kevin Fredericks (Narrator)

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[German] - Realität Fantasie Poesie

"Vom Autor: Dieses Hörbuch ist in drei Teile gegliedert und kann in beliebiger Reihenfolge gehört werden. Es ist aufgeteilt in die drei Kategorien Realität, Fantasie und Poesie. In der Realität findest du meine Gedanken zu Themen, die mich in der Entstehungszeit der Texte interessiert und beschäftigt haben. Sie besitzen weder gültige Aktualität noch wissenschaftliche Richtigkeit. Es sind reine Zeitzeugen meines Ichs. In der Fantasie findest du von mir erfundene Geschichten. Wo sie herkommen? Aus meinem wirren Gehirn! Woher sonst? Ich habe mir ein bisschen was von der Fantasiewolke genommen. In der Poesie findest du Gedichte. Die habe ich alle selbst geschrieben. Sie behandeln, ähnlich wie die Realität, Themen, die mich seinerzeit beschäftigt haben und teilweise noch nicht losgelassen haben. Dieses Buch spiegelt das Sprunghafte meines Denkapparats wieder und lässt dich in mein Gehirn eintauchen. Viel Erfolg beim Hören."

Lucas Pinnow (Author), Lucas Pinnow (Narrator)

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Butterfly Goo: The Down and Dirty Truth of Transformation

"You think transformation is pretty? Think again. Just like the messy goo a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly, human transformation is equally 'gooey.' Rachel Burr’s story is filled with mishaps, mistakes, misadventures, and… yes, mess. But it’s not all slog. There are also triumphs and growth in Butterfly Goo as Burr takes you on a hilarious and poignant sightseeing tour of her own transformative journey. With important lessons/chapter takeaways and experiential exercises for you to try, this book that's part memoir and part self-help will make you think about where your life is working and where it isn’t. Maybe you’re stuck in comfortable discomfort or searching for something, but you don’t know what it is. Maybe you want to make a change, but you’re afraid you’ll fail. Worse, maybe you think you aren’t good enough, smart enough, or just not enough, so you feel stuck. As a successful executive coach and people expert, Burr has the experience you’d look for to lead you through change. But her most important credential is having confronted and survived her own fears, challenges, and reluctant decisions to emerge out the other side. Don’t get us wrong: Butterfly Goo won’t create the change you’re looking for. Only you can do that. But it just might inspire you to step into the mess of your own transformative journey. After all, as Burr found out, you have to go through the goo before you can spread your wings."

Rachel Burr (Author), Rachel Burr (Narrator)

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That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor

"From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today A critic explores the paradox of finding community in "the dozens" while grieving. A violent town ritual causes an all-too-familiar moral panic. An email thread between friends on why we need an updated Green Book but for public toilets. All across the nation, "Karens" become illegal overnight. These are just a few of the hilarious worlds contained in Damon Young's groundbreaking anthology featuring the best, funniest, and Blackest essays, short stories, letters, and rants. With words that roast, ignite, and burn while connecting to and coalescing around a singular thesis, That's How They Get You emphasizes how and why Black American humor is uniquely transfixing. This is a mixture of not just observational anxieties and stream-of-consciousness lucidities but also acute political clarity about America. Edited and with an introduction by Damon Young, the critically acclaimed author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker, the collection features new material from an all-star roster of contributors, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Mahogany L. Browne, Wyatt Cenac, Kiese Laymon, Deesha Philyaw, Roy Wood Jr., and Nicola Yoon."

Damon Young (Author), André Santana, Cary Hite, Chanté McCormick, Damon Young, Deanna Anthony, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Janina Edwards, Je Nie Fleming, Ozzie Jacobs, Ryan Vincent Anderson (Narrator)

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Random Curiosities: The Sh*t I think About!

"What do aliens, dying planets, ancient pyramids, quantum weirdness, gender politics and sandal design have in common? They all find a place in this wildly entertaining exploration of the questions most of us think about but rarely say out loud. From the baffling to the brilliant, the hilarious to the haunting, Random Curiosities takes you on a freewheeling ride through the strange chaos of human thought. Broken down into essay style chapters on random ideas (that the author somehow manages to link!) relating to humanity and the world around us, this isn’t a book with neat answers. It’s a celebration of the questions themselves. Get ready to laugh, wince, wonder, and maybe—just maybe—make a little more sense of this absurd thing called life. “Like a fireplace discussion with friends after our second bottle of wine” — Amazon reviewer"

Ross Scafidas (Author), Josh Darcy (Narrator)

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Symptoms of being 35

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. At the breakfast table of middle age, a man pauses between bites of waffle and sips of lukewarm coffee to face a quietly hilarious crisis: turning 35. In Symptoms of Being 35, Ring W. Lardner delivers a droll, sharply observed portrait of a man reckoning with the subtle absurdities of adult life. From creaking knees to creeping self-doubt, unopened bills to inexplicable mismatched socks, the signs are all there—and Lardner, with his trademark wit and understatement, catalogues them with knowing charm. Originally published in the early 20th century, this short story remains timeless in its comedic dissection of modern anxieties and the quiet comedy of growing older. Perfect for listeners who enjoy wry humor, vintage style, and a gentle nudge that maybe, just maybe, 35 isn’t as young as it used to be."

Ring Lardner (Author), Digital Voice Andrew E (Narrator)

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Comedy Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir