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In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.

From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships. "Girl Logic" is Iliza's term for the way women obsess over details and situations that men don't necessarily even notice. She describes it as a characteristically female way of thinking that appears to be contradictory and circuitous but is actually a complicated and highly evolved way of looking at the world.

Caddyshack is one of the most beloved comedies of all time, a classic snobs vs. slobs story of working-class kids and the white-collar buffoons that make them haul their golf bags in the hot summer sun. It has sex, drugs, and one very memorable candy bar, but the movie we all know and love didn't start out that way, and everyone who made it certainly didn't have the word classic in mind as the cameras were rolling.

There was a time when Ralphie May was one of the biggest stand-up comedians in the country, both by ticket sales and by tonnage. While some things changed - Ralphie lost half his body weight - others did not: He will be remembered as one of the most successful comics of his time. Completed just months before his untimely passing, in This Might Get a Little Heavy, Ralphie takes listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of his life and career, one that winds across the country, over obstacles, beyond heartbreak, and through the golden age of stand-up.

Doug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably honest sense of humor to his mother, Bonnie.

In The Comedians, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts. Based on over 200 original interviews and extensive archival research, Nesteroff's groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past 100 years.

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.

What Peter Biskind did for filmmaking, Richard Zoglin does for comedy in this meticulously researched and eminently readable account of stand-up comedy in the 1970s, when a small group of brilliant, iconoclastic comedians ruled the world and quite possibly changed it, too.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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Sex, Stachelschweine, Allmachtsfantasien, Ozeane aus Erdbeerjoghurt, das Abitur ohne Hose: Die Menschheit träumt die wildesten Sachen. Und kratzt sich nach dem Aufwachen verwundert am Kopf: Was soll das alles denn bitte bedeuten? Haben wir ein göttliches Orakel im Kopf oder leben wir nur in Neuronengewittern? Sind das Visionen oder kann das weg?

"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。

"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。

"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。

Steve Patterson's The Book of Letters I Didn't Know Where to Send is a collection of - wait for it - letters, written by award-winning stand-up comedian - you guessed it - Steve Patterson. The host of CBC Radio's The Debaters since 2007, Steve Patterson has become a household name, with more than 700,000 listeners tuning in each week. Patterson's letters may not change the world, but frankly, it's too early to tell. In these letters, he pleads, begs, cajoles, grovels, and always makes a compelling argument.

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。