Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Comedy & Humour

The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, and one extraordinary beauty pageant. When her husband is offered a post at a small northwestern university, Maye Roberts is only...

Bodett offers his keen, unforgettable observations of the lives of the peopleof Homer, Alaska, who "just ended up there, and stayed...

In All is Vanity, Margaret and Letty, best friends since childhood and now living on opposite coasts, reach their mid-thirties and begin to chafe at their sense that they are not where they ought to be in life. Margaret, driven and overconfident, decides the best way to rectify this is to quit...

Why are Americans so disinterested in politics? Because we can be. Democracy is voluntary. And our lack of interest hasn't happened overnight. It can be traced directly back to our ever-decreasing attention spans. We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez-small, sweet, and...

Attention would-be paesans: Can’t distinguish “gabagool” from “pasta fazool”? Not sure how to properly accessorize your track suit with gold chains? Does the phrase “go to the mattresses” make you sleepy? Now Steven R. Schirripa, The Sopranos’ own Bobby Bacala, exposes the inner...

As in the original novel, the story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya. These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of...

The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America’s most amazing and outlandish politicians–the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless–drawn from more than twenty years of reporting on the folks who attempt to run our government (in some...

The Right Address sears through the upper crust of New York’s glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the backstabbing, champagne-sipping, socialite-eat-socialite stratosphere. When...

Academy Award—nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is a jittery father-to-be with a simple question: If OBL is behind 9/11 and all the ensuing worldwide chaos, then why can’t we just catch him? And furthermore, why is his message so compelling to so many people? So the intrepid Spurlock...

Witzig, klug und mit Botschaft. Nur mal kurz die Welt retten? Dafür hat Marlin eigentlich keine Zeit. Schließlich steht sie kurz vor dem Abitur, muss den Haushalt schmeißen und sorgt sich um ihre schusselige Oma. Doch dann trifft sie vor dem Kölner Dom auf ein kleines Reptil mit großer Klappe und noch größeren Plänen: Die Schildkröte will den Klimawandel umkehren und den Menschen endlich aufrütteln. Und mit Marlin fängt sie an! So wird aus der Eigenbrötlerin eine engagierte Kämpferin für die Umwelt, die mit ihren Freunden, wenn schon nicht die ganze Welt, so doch den Wald vor ihrer Haustür vor der Abholzung rettet.

Ein ganz linkes Ding. Ein Zwei-Personen-Stück. Ein Pingpong mit Geistesblitzen. Ein jeder des anderen Sparring-Partner. Der versierte Oppositionspolitiker und der ebenso versierte Clown streitend vereint: im Einsatz gegen politische Routine. Gregor Gysi, der die Politik mit Witz reicher machen möchte; Martin Sonneborn, der mit seinem Witz der Politik ein Armutszeugnis ausstellt - zwei testen im Gespräch, wie weit man gehen muss, um aus dem Rahmen zu fallen.

Frühjahr 2020. Die Menschen erwachen aus dem Winterschlaf, blinzeln in die Sonne und ahnen nicht, dass kürzlich im fernen China ein erkältetes Gürteltier auf eine kranke Fledermaus geniest hat. Ein Virus war geboren, das die Welt lahmlegte - nur der Neugier von Wladimir Kaminer konnte es nichts anhaben. Wie gingen die Menschen mit Ausgangssperre, Mundschutz und Sicherheitsabstand um? Wie fühlten sich die ersten zarten Lockerungen an? Und welche Welt fand man da draußen vor?

Im Lesereisegepäck sind der im Januar 2019 erscheinende erste Roman Nudel im Wind, eine Medienkrimi-Satire, sowie ein kleines Best of der bisherigen 15 Bücher. Könnte ein langer, lachtränenreicher Abend werden!

A biting, hilarious literary satire of war, business, and contemporary masculinity, set in the cutthroat-but-ridiculous world of management consulting King of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity and delusion, centered around a "war" for dominance of...

A baby can be a good excuse to skip a party, but . . . goodbye alone time, hello awkward new social obligations. All parents want the same things: to balance work and home life, to raise happy kids, to never attend a baby drumming class, and to build a secret room in their home where they can...

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of...

Bursting with bittersweet nostalgia, a funny, poignant, perfectly voiced debut that captures what it's like to be a teenage girl—“full of brilliantly-rendered awkwardness and the hilarious minor horrors of a privileged adolescence, The Brittanys shimmers with the everyday incandescence of...

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. "Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and...

At long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American “friends.” “A balm for tongues bitten and comments swallowed . . . A bitingly humorous compendium of the absurd subtle racism of the American workplace.” —Kirkus...

The creator of the Instagram sensation But Like Maybe takes us on a journey through her worst dating mistakes--a hilarious, hopeful guide to what you need to get wrong in love before you get it right. Arianna Margulis's pen was set aflame when a boyfriend took her for a walk in Central Park. She...