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

Julia Summers seems to have it all: a sprawling Upper East Side apartment, a successful husband, and two adorable children attending the best private school in the city. She relishes wielding influence over her well-heeled girlfriends...but her star appears to be fading. That’s why, when stranded in Manhattan for the summer as her entire crowd flees to the Hamptons, Julia is on the hunt for the next big thing that will make her the envy of her friends and put her back on top.

The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls "a comic institution himself", the only comedian (26 years in stand-up) to have made Elie Wiesel laugh, as well as having appeared on The Tonight Show (140 times, second only to Bob Hope, but who's counting). From the director of TV comedy series Mad About You, Seinfeld, Friends, Weeds, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway, set against the world of New York publishing, McInerney provides a stunningly accomplished portrayal of people contending with early success, then getting lost in the middle of their lives.

Neulich sagte meine Frau zu mir: "Warum schreibst du nicht endlich mal was mit Niveau, ich würde gerne mal ein Panoptikum an Figuren, eine welthaltige, vielschichtige Romanhandlung, eine ausgebuffte Mischung aus Action und Reflexion, Gesellschaftskritik und psychologischer Tiefgang, vielleicht sogar auch eine raffiniert eingebaute Krimihandlung, meinetwegen gern auch mit ein bisschen geschmackvoll beschriebenem Sex gewürzt, von dir lesen, mach doch, du kannst das!" Und ich setzte mich an mein Notebook und schrieb: "Ich möchte Ihnen eine ziemlich unglaubliche Geschichte erzählen.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Jack Benny, Eve Arden, William Conrad and many more.

Ich bin ein großer Freund der Unterscheidung zwischen Sie und Du. Wenn jemand auf der Straße ruft: »Äh Jürjen, wie jeht et dich?«, dann lasse ich das durchgehen, denn die Person hat dringendere Sprachprobleme. Aber wenn mir beim Radio so ein hipper Moderator sagt: »Hi Jürgen, ich bin der Stulle«, dann sage ich: »Negativ, Herr Stulle. Ich habe Socken, die älter sind als Sie, also warten Sie bitte ab, bis ich Ihnen das Du anbiete, vielleicht in ein paar Jahren, wenn Sie dann im Heim mein Pfleger sind.« Was tun gegen Nerv-Deutsch und Dauer-Geduze? Wie macht man eigentlich achtsam Schluss?

Since the dawn of time, punctuality has been a scam. You rush to get ready for an event, only to discover that your pants have a hole in them, there’s a chance of rain, and the train is skipping your stop, so now the fastest method is a $100 rideshare to go 2 miles. And for what? To arrive “on time” rather than “whenever I want”? Enough is enough. In Colored People Time, Manny Fidel bravely confronts this injustice head-on, arguing that until America reaches genuine racial equity, people of color are allowed—nay, encouraged—to be late to anything they want.

By the spring of 1954, Sid Caesar was the most influential, highly paid, and enigmatic comedian in America. Every week, twenty million people tuned their TVs to his NBC extravaganza, Your Show of Shows, and witnessed his versatility and virtuosity in sketches and film spoofs, pantomime and soliloquy. Onstage, Caesar could play any character and make it funny: a befuddled game-show contestant, a pretentious expert, a beleaguered husband (opposite his redoubtable co-star Imogene Coca), even a gumball machine and a bottle of seltzer.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Lucille Ball, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Cary Grant, Sydney Greenstreet, Don Ameche, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Ray Milland, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Robert Cummings, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Milton Berle, Orson Welles, Lauren Bacall, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Joseph Cotton, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Lucille Ball, Orson Welles, Ed Begley, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Eve Arden, Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy Carmichael, Hedy Lamarr, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Edgar Bergen, Robert Young, Raymond Burr, and many more.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Dana Andrews, and many more.

Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New York Times bestselling author paints a portrait of true romance for our times in these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss.