Comedy

Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words....

Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep....

Michael McIntyre has become Britain’s biggest comedy star....

Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man....

The hilarious and heartwarming account of Miranda and her life changing dog, the inimitable and most lovable Peggy....

When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk! After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly-board pub crawl around London, he came to in a burger bar on one of Saturns moons....

Well hello to you dear audiobook browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast....

Billions of you have watched their videos, and millions of you have followed them on social media. So here we go: it's time to back up, because YouTube superstars The Sidemen....

Twenty episodes from the first BBC Radio series plus an hour-long Christmas special, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn....

James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows....

Kate Schechter would like to know why everyone she meets knows her name - and why Thor, the Norse god...

Adams was one of the earliest public figures to predict Trump's win, doing so a week after Nate Silver put Trump's odds at 2 percent in his FiveThirtyEight.com blog....

The complete collected series 1-5 of the gloriously daft Victorian romp Bleak Expectations....

Meet The Bear - a cat who carries the weight of the world on his furry shoulders, and whose wise, owl-like eyes seem to ask, Can you tell me why I am a cat, please....

Ricky chats with comedians Kerry Godliman, Sean McLoughlin, Diane Morgan, Robin Ince, Sara Pascoe and Shappi Khorsandi....

In the first series, Armando Iannucci and his guests pull apart the news with a heady mix of topical comedy, messed-about archive, chat and outrageous fibs, recorded in front of a live audience....

Cabin Pressure is set in a small airline business....

Face it - being a young adult in the digital era is one of the hardest things to be. Well, maybe there are harder things in life…but being an adult is difficult....

Christmas stories, jokes, and more! Once upon a time, there lived a group of five little penguins. They loved Christmas more than anything! They all teamed up and decided to share the magic of Christmas with everyone....

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another....

Hilariously funny, wonderfully uplifting and brutally honest, Luisa's memoir shows us all that there is no situation in which Bey can't save the day....

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves....

Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....

Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....

What does it mean to say “I love you” in the digital age? Fresh off the Boat author and host of Viceland’s Huang’s World Eddie Huang swipes right and meets his perfect match in this short tale of “shooting your shot”....

The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer....

Were you one of the several people on Earth who didn't catch every historic episode of the most-downloaded podcast ever?....

Once there was a tree, and she loved a boy - and already this story is getting weird. This tree did everything for the little boy, spoiled the heck out of him, only to raise a monster, proving to everyone that trees make terrible parents. But whoever thought trees would make good parents? In this satirical, cautionary tale about the consequences of over-coddling your kids, watch the downward spiral of bratty-child-turned-evil-lunatic against a tree who was just trying to live her tree life. Enjoy this dark parody of indulgent parenting gone horribly wrong.

Mark Twain delivered this humorous speech on taxation and morality at the Tuskegee Institute to commemorate its 25th anniversary. With his signature ironic wit, he told the audience woefully of the public vs. private morals of Christians. He says the Christian maintains the nation’s integrity 363 days a year, but the "other two days of the year he leaves his Christian private morals at home and carries his Christian public morals to the tax office and the polls, and does the best he can to damage and undo his whole year's faithful and righteous work."

In Planet Funny, Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means - or doesn’t - to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected president of the United States purely on showmanship.