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

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Real love . . . as seen on TV. A plus-size bachelorette brings a fresh look to a reality show in this razor-sharp, “divinely witty” (Entertainment Weekly) debut. “Effortlessly fun and clever . . . I found the tension impeccable . . . and that made my reading...

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show, starring actor-Writer-Monologist, David Dean Bottrell. In the newly revised 2019 version of the show, David Dean Bottrell performed his highly-acclaimed comic storytelling show...

A couple determined not to end up like their divorced friends try a radical experiment—and get in way over their heads—in this hilarious, heartfelt novel from the author of We’re All Damaged. New York Post’s Best Books to Read in Our Age of Social Isolation “[Matthew] Norman’s...

A wondrous collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of The Rain in Portugal “The poems are marked by his characteristic humor and arise out of small, banal moments, unearthing the extraordinary or uncanny in the everyday.”—The Wall...

Ever suffered the collective flatulence of eighty co-passengers while sailing on a serene Asian river? Or called out for rescue in true Bollywood style while locked up in a minaret in Persia? Or had to cross a pack of hyenas en route to the loo?...

Besharam is a book on young Indian women and how to be one, written from the author's personal experience in several countries. It dissects the many things that were never explained to us and the immense expectations placed on us. It breaks down the taboos around sex and love and dating in a...

Whatever its faults, the Indian bureaucracy cannot be accused of bias when it comes to confounding those who have to deal with it. Veteran insiders who return to it with their petitions after retirement are as clueless about how it functions as freshly minted supplicants. Outsiders in any case...

A collection of short stories from The Big Garage on Clear Shot chronicles the offbeat lives of the colorful inhabitants of The End of the Road, a small town in Alaska...

The corporate masks we wear hide many a secret. The most potent are not the secret financial numbers or confidential strategy documents hidden away in locked drawers or in safes but the simple ones-good filter coffee generosity and thirty minutes of me-time. This book offers a selection of...

When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San...

In The Right Address, Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman seared through the upper crust of New York’s glitterati with wicked glee. In their delicious new novel, Wolves in Chic Clothing, they train their merciless spotlight on the young princes and princesses poised to inherit Park Avenue. Julia...

From the bestselling author of Fresh Off the Boat comes a subversively funny and surprisingly moving rom-com about a haunted manchild’s twisted search for love. Hubie lives an exciting life. He hosts a traveling food show, works with his best friend, and samples the best the world has to offer...

“Classic small-town, homecoming rom-com goodness! I laughed, I gasped, and I wished I could be in the front row of the community theater. You’ll want this one in your beach bag!”—Lyla Sage, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Soul Searching When four former...

This "thoroughly engaging" third novel by the author of Beetlecreek ("[a] quiet masterpiece" —Kirkus Reviews) follows a Black journalist in the 1970s whose bourgeois life is turned upside down by the subject of his writing assignment. In the midst of the tumultuous 1970s, Edwards, a freelance...

Past and present collide in this posthumous, semiautobiographical masterpiece by the author of Beetlecreek. In the present day, a Black American expat to Rome named D. reconnects with his former Army friend, Tillman, and their former commanding officer, Joe Stabat, to organize a gospel summit...

Von einem, der auszog, ein Haus zu bauen... Frühmorgens um fünf liegt ein Mann schlaflos im Bett und wackelt unschlüssig mit den Zehen. Soll er, oder soll er nicht...

Juliane Hempel, 36 Jahre, erfolgreiche Immobilienmaklerin, geschieden und allein erziehend, lernt den obdachlosen Georg kennen. Doch für einen "Penner aus dem Park" ist in ihrem Lebenskonzept kein Platz. Ein großer Immobiliendeal, ein Koffer voller Schwarzgeld und eine Menge turbulenter Verwicklungen lassen Georg jedoch plötzlich in ganz anderem Licht erscheinen.

Neues vom Meister der kurzen Form. Franz Hohler kehrt zu jener Form zurück, die ihn berühmt gemacht hat, nämlich zu kurzen Geschichten, in denen er von einem alltäglichen Leben erzählt, das sich von seinen grotesken, schrecklichen, lustigen, unterhaltsamen und meist abgründigen Seiten zeigt.

Dieter Hildebrandt war in den vergangenen Jahren ein eifriger Vorleser seiner Texte. Bei Lesereisen lernte er seine Heimat Deutschland so richtig kennen, und er war fasziniert von den fulminanten Angeboten der Hotellerie, dem begeisterten Service der Bahn AG wie der Lufthansa, von kulinarischen Angeboten in allen deutschen Auen; und wenn er im Hotelzimmer mal den Fernseher anschaltete, verging ihm der Appetit. Seine Erlebnisse auf diesen Fahrten hat er aufgeschrieben - und sie zeigen den großen Kabarettisten erneut als kritischen und witzigen Erzähler.

100% Elton! "Ich bin Elton, etwas zu klein für mein Gewicht und es gibt viele, die sehen besser aus. Ich bin nicht klüger als man sein muss, kann nicht singen, spiele aber ganz gut Fußball. Gerne auf dem Platz, lieber noch auf dem Sofa an der Konsole. Alles ganz normal!? Nein. Jeder kennt mich. Ich gebe Autogramme und trete in Stadien auf. Ich bin ganz normal und trotzdem Elton!" Mit Normalität zum Erfolg. In Zeiten von Schönheitswahn und durchgeplanten Karrieren zeigt Elton in Geschichten aus seinem Alltag, wie man auch 100% normal erfolgreich sein und dabei jede Menge Spaß haben kann.