Humor: Stories from the Collection Mo...
Garrison KeillorSuccessor to the best-selling INews from Lake Wobegon, this collection of Garrison Keillor monologues includes 16 stories, grouped by theme: ILove, IFaith, IHope, and IHumor. All are from original live broadcasts of IA Prairie Home ...
Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Patience (Lake W...
Garrison KeillorThese news from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Patience includes 'Aunt Ellie,' 'Duke's 25th,' and 'You're Not the Only One.
Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Rhubarb (Lake Wo...
Garrison KeillorThese news from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Rhubarb includes 'Rhubarb,' 'Sweet Corn,' 'The Sun's Gonna Shine Someday,' and 'Yellow Ribbon.
Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Youth (Lake Wobe...
Garrison KeillorThese news from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Youth includes 'Blue Devils,' 'Nostalgia,' 'O Christmas Tree,' 'Pageant,' and 'Messy Shoes.
More News from Lake Wobegon Love (Mor...
Garrison KeillorA thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Love includes "Truckstop," "Uncle Al's Gift," "Rotten Apples," and "The Wise Men."
IIt's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town….' Each week, more than four million radio listeners hear these words, and settle in for some old-fashioned, up-to-the-minute storytelling. During live broadcasts of A Prair...
On July 6, 1974, about a dozen people made their way to the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in St. Paul for the first broadcast of a new radio show. Things went pretty well, so Garrison Keillor and his team produced ano...
Sue Scott: Seriously Silly (A Prairie...
Garrison KeillorShe's a regional treasure and a national pleasure. With Tim Russell, she's half of the non-Garrison Keillor actors on public radio's A Prairie Home Companion. A vocal talent without compare, Sue Scott can be anyone she wants.This CD c...
Summer: Stories from the Collection N...
Garrison KeillorThese 20 stories follow the seasons in Lake Wobegon.
NPR More Funniest Driveway Moments: R...
Robert KrulwichMost NPR listeners have experienced at least one "driveway moment": You're so captivated by a story, interview, or essay you're hearing on the radio that you sit in your driveway, motor running, to hear it all the way throug...
Car Talk: 25 Years of Lousy Car Advic...
Ray MagliozziIn 1987, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, made the leap from nursing the motley car population of New England to creating the nationally beloved public radio phenomenon that we all know as Car...
You'll Never Blue Ball in This Town A...
Heather McDonaldYou'll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again is the laugh-out-loud story of an attractive Los Angeles woman who found herself in the predicament of being an unwilling virgin. As an actress, writer, and stand-up comedienne, Heather McDona...
That Mitchell and Webb Sound: Series ...
David MitchellThis hilarious mix of satirical sketches and surreal characters provides a fantastically skewed perspective on everyday life. Meet soporific late-night DJ Adrian Locket; Peter and Ted, commentators who reveal the murky underside of th...
One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming-of-age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoi...
NPR Classic Driveway Moments: Radio S...
Michele NorrisPresented together for the first time, here are the very first, and very best, definitive listener favorites that came to be known as Driveway Moments: the classic, spellbinding stories that keep getting better with repeated listening...
More Tinsel Tales: Favorite Christmas...
NPREach year, listener's tune in to NPR for holiday offerings of all kinds: funny, touching, insightful, and surprising. Now anyone can listen to these evergreen delights while driving to the mall, wrapping gifts, entertaining friends, o...
New York Times bestselling author P.J. O'Rourke has toured the fighting in Bosnia, visited the West Bank disguised as P.J. of Arabia, lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of the Gulf War, and traded quips with Communist rebels in the...
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A ...
The OnionAre you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the...
Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About L...
Patton OswaltNew York Times bestselling author, comedian, and actor Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about coming of age as a performer and writer in the late '90s while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary New Beverly C...
What Einstein Told His Barber: More S...
Robert L. WolkeWhat makes ice cubes cloudy? How do shark attacks make airplanes safer? Can a person traveling in a car at the speed of sound still hear the radio? Moreover, would they want to. . . ?Do you often find yourself pondering life's little ...
The Best of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tel...
Peter SagalBilly Collins, U.S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003, plays a game called, "I can feel it coming in the air tonight," in which he responds to questions about musician Phil Collins. Al Gore tries to match his former boss' mast...
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween...
“Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book ReviewDavid Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable c...
Jean Shepherd likes to muse out loud about what we say and what we do - and why we say it and why we do it. In this collection, Shep regards the thirst for holiness, victimization by myths, official discoveries known to the world for ...
Jean Shepherd: Pomp and Circumstance ...
Jean ShepherdJean Shepherd again demonstrates his broad knowledge, unusual turn of mind, and humor, in this series of programs. From monologues of tragedy in the world of children, the seemingly minor disappointment of not being chosen for a game ...
From the producer of the enormously popular "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie", Thou Shalt Laugh is the hit standup comedy series audio book that's cleaning up comedy one BLEEP at a time!
Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on H...
Lauren WeedmanLauren Weedman is not okay. She's living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurr...
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an...
A. J. JacobsA book of essays on all of A.J.'s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including 'My Outsourced Life' and 'My Life as a Hot Woman.
Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of V...
P. J. O'RourkeA New York Times bestselling author and America's most preeminent political satirist PJ O'Rourke has a past that some of his listeners may not know about — he's a longtime gearhead. The son of a car dealer from Ohio, O'Rourke has be...