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"Ever notice how bad song lyrics get stuck in your head? It's not just you. After Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's column about this tendency, reader response was enormous. But Barry didn't know what he was getting himself into when he invited his Legion of Alert Readers to submit their nominees in the Bad Song Survey. 'Song badness,' he soon learned, 'is an issue that Americans care deeply about.'
Encompassing such categories as 'songs people always get wrong,' 'teen death songs,' and 'songs women hate,' this musical commentary offers a humorous look at the world's worst lyrics and bad songs in general; 'Feelings', 'MacArthur Park.' Any record by Gary Puckett. The largest number of votes went to 'MacArthur Park,' followed by 'Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (I Got Love in My Tummy)' by the Ohio Express and '(You're) Having My Baby' by Paul Anka. Who can resist such a book?!"
"A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four 'News from Lake Wobegon' monologues, 'commercials' for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts.
Contents:
- World Theater, Here We Come!
- Powdermilk Biscuits
- The Family Radio
- Bertha's Kitty Boutique
- Lifestyle Waltz
- Fearmonger's Shoppe
- As We Get Older
- Jason's Song
- Dave's Harmonica
- Porch Song
- News from Lake Wobegon
- Ballad of The Autoharp Man
- Origins of Lake Wobegon
- Meatballs
- News from Lake Wobegon
- The Song of the Exiles (The Lake Wobegon Anthem)
- News from Lake Wobegon
- Why Must the Show Go On?
- Hotel Minnesota
- O Father Dear Why Did You Roam?
- Obedience
- The Whippets Rag
- News from Lake Wobegon
- Ajua!"
"1997 Grammy® Award nominee
1996 Listen Up Award—Best Humor
Enjoy the best of Garrison Keillor's comic fables from A Prairie Home Companion, all about true love and other tribulations, brought to life by a cast of brilliant radio actors.
Contents:
This Man This Woman; Taking a Chance on Love; Bertha's Kitty Boutique: Cat Box Video; Greenwich Village Days; Cafe Boeuf: Secrets of the Kitchen; Beebopareebop: The Operation; Cowboys: The Second Lefty; Famous Celebrities: New Years Eve; Just One of Those Things; Chicken Little-Starring Tom Keith; Beebopareebop: The Dream; Adventures in Ethics; Guy Noir, Private Eye: Tony Rigatoni; Fred Farrell Animal Calls; How I Met George Gershwin; Little House on the Desert; Silver Lining: Cold Weather; Mel's Big Boy Buffet; Newt; La Influenza; Lutheran's On-Line; Silver Lining: Getting Older; The Ketchup Advisory Board; Bemidji Fishing Opener Song; Beebopareebop: The Contest
Plus a bonus joke collection."
"Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the summer season.
Includes: 'The Living Flag,' 'The Tollefson Boy Goes to College,' and 'Tomato Butt.'"
"Clone Miss Marple, give'em a heavy dose of nitrous oxide, and you've got the Brooke Sisters! Two lovely, wacky little old ladies keep finding themselves bloomers-deep in murder and mystery in this hilarious series from the Radio Repertory Company of America. Four great stories feature our heroines as inmates, contestants, linebackers and time-travelers."
"Little did the obscure novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton know in 1830 when he penned that most relished, imitated, and lampooned opening sentence in English literature, 'It was a dark and stormy night...' that his words would inspire countless aspiring writers struggling incessantly like boats against the current to emulate his unparalleled style and that his name would grace 'The Bulwer-Lytton Contest' honoring his most successful followers. Get it? Abounding in shameless sentences, this audio rendition of the original contest is a hilarious—even perversely instructive—collection of skilled, inept writing."
"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 from Comedy Central's hit show Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher.
From Republicans to Democrats, politics to pop culture, nothing will be spared from Bill Maher's hilarious, 'politically incorrect' commentary in this collection of his most outrageous material.
Whether you're liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between, this witty, irreverent stab at the politics of the day will have you laughing as you listen!"
"From the producers of the runaway Emmy Award-winning Comedy Central animated TV series 'Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist' comes DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS-a hiply hilarious compilation of Dr. Katz's funniest sessions with his all-star cast of 'patients.'
Based on Comedy Central's hit phenomenon 'Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,' DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS lets us listen in on the hilarious sessions between the wry, downtrodden Dr. Katz (comedian/actor Jonathan Katz) and his roster of patients, whose voices are provided by such popular comedians as Gary Shandling, Steven Wright, Rita Rudner, Anthony Clark, Janeane Garofalo, Carol Leifer, and more. Therapy has never been this funny!
A truly witty audio program, DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS will bring therapeutic laughter to all who listen!"
"Better than CliffsNotes, funnier than Monarch Notes, and shorter than the originals—comes a hilarious spoof of the blockbuster hits you love, not to mention many books you've come to despise. From the authors of the bestselling Newt Gingrich's Bedtime Stories for Orphans is a parody that lampoons all the popular books you'd ever want to read—or not!
Included are:
'The Fridges of Marin County': A hip California housewife finds brief happiness in the arms of an Iowa refrigerator.
'Embarrassed by the Light': A guide for people who are self-conscious about near-death experiences.
'A Year in Pompeii': Fond pre-Vesuvius anecdotes and recollections.
'Iron Tom': Help your neutered cat regain his masculinity.
'The 7 Habits of Highly Defective People': Annoying strategies for getting what you want.
'Listening to Pringles': A psychologist/grocer chronicles his experience in treating depressive patients with prescription junk food.
And more!"
"Fear and loathing in Lake Wobegon? You betcha.
Garrison Keillor's Horrors! is a grab bag of treats from Halloween broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Horrors! features eclectic musical performances, commercials for loyal Prairie Home 'sponsors' like Guy's Shoes, and lighthearted comedy from A Prairie Home Companion's cast of regulars.
Halloween is a time when everyone's a kid again—perhaps that's why it's so eagerly celebrated by adults. Listen to Horrors! and you'll smile, you'll shiver, and you might even take a peek to see what's lurking in the shadows.
Contents:
Halloween; This Wonderful World-Bats; Butch Thompson: In the Dark; The News from Lake Wobegon: The Ethics of Jokes; Blue Turtles by Rich Dworsky; The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe; Halloween: The Movie; Cafe Boeuf; That's Odd; Halloween at the Radio Station; Funerary Verse; Flies; News from Lake Wobegon: The Do-Rites; Celebrity Halloween; Little Red Riding Hood; Buried Alive; Butch Thompson: Creepy Feeling by Jelly Roll Morton"
"From basic training to World War II to the Gulf War, America's veterans share their funniest stories in this collection of Reader's Digest's popular 'Humor in Uniform' column. Beneath the horror of war lies a rich tradition of comedy and satire, and these anecdotes have entertained readers for decades. Stars of the TV and movie versions of America's favorite military comedy, M*A*S*H, read equally hilarious pieces from all four branches of the armed forces. Whether poking fun at the higher echelons of army power or joking about retired sergeants adjusting to civilian life, Humor in Uniform earns its stripes with laughter."
"Every other Thursday on Santa Monica Boulevard's Comedy Central Stage, a motley assortment of Hollywood writers, actors, and comics convened to reveal the most personal—and colorful—parts of their lives. Their soul-baring monologues revealed the sources of their creative genius, from wacky families and psycho exes to random ramblings and unbelievable Hollywood insights. This hilarious collection features confessions from such performers as Richard Belzer (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), Jennifer Elise Cox (The Brady Bunch Movie), Marc Evan Jackson (The Good Place), and Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live), among others. In more than three dozen anecdotes, they provide the inside scoop on Hollywood, including stories about mishaps at the Emmys, writing for popular shows, being put in a sleeper hold by Hulk Hogan, growing up in famous families, and what it's like to play Jan Brady. Funny, embarrassing, or sordid—or a combination thereof—but always brutally honest, Dirty Laundry shines a voyeuristic light on the underbellies of the people who have sold their souls to the entertainment biz."
