Satire Comedy

From visionary creator Kenya Barris (Black-ish) comes the hilarious and heartwarming Audible Original about love, aging, and finding your way in life's next chapter. Starring comedy legends Jenifer Lewis, Cedric the Entertainer, and Niecy Nash-Betts, Big Age follows recently retired couple Dot and Butch Watts' reluctant relocation to their new Floridian home, Sunset Gardens, a senior community that is anything but relaxing.

The Roman poet Juvenal was the greatest satirist of Imperial Rome. His 16 satires encompass attacks on the immorality, abuses and hypocrisy of the Romans of his day. The last of the great Roman poets, he wrote between CE 110 and 130, his approach to satire coming close to modern expectations of the genre.

Meet Jeff: overworked, underappreciated, and stuck granting 1,000 wishes for humanity before he can retire or get promoted—whichever comes first. Unfortunately, Jeff isn’t your typical genie. He’s a cosmic entity with an attitude problem, a hatred of paperwork, and a flair for granting wishes in the most inconvenient, ridiculous ways possible.

Dive into the thought-provoking world of Erewhon, a timeless classic by Samuel Butler that masterfully blends satire, philosophy, and speculative fiction. Set in a mysterious and isolated land, Erewhon explores a society that challenges conventional notions of morality, technology, religion, and justice.

An underpaid, overworked certified flight instructor cheats death while attempting to teach a cast of incompetent student pilots to fly at a skeezy South Florida flight school; all in the quest to build flight time so he can get a “real job” at an airline. The planes break, the regs break, metal gets bent, students are lost at sea, and a Top Gun wannabe student, who has 400 hours of flight instruction, still hasn’t made his first solo flight.

Everyone wants to find a Velociraptor in their backyard until members of a dinosaur skull-worshipping cult show up. Ian Henry and his dog, Quiche, find themselves not only dealing with this aggravation, but also an underground lab filled with dinosaurs, an obnoxious conspiracy theorist, and an evil bipedal vegetable from outer space. With their new friend Claire Tiptree and a familiar cryptid named Amy, they will accidentally become part of a plan to save the world from becoming the plot to a ninety’s dinosaur movie not based in a park.

I've always been her shelter in the storm. Hockey players. MMA fighters. Rock stars. The boys in blue. Even sexy SEALs have all offered to slay my dragon - or in my case, my stalker. Why can't they get it through their thick, stubborn heads that I can take care of myself? I'm no damsel! But...what if the real villain in this story is me? Now the one person I've never been able to resist has appointed himself as my protector.

Geht es Ihnen auch so? Früher war alles besser?! Aber wie viel früher jetzt genau? Einen Tag? Einen Monat? Oder sogar schon ein Jahr oder noch länger? Und war es früher auch schon noch früher besser? Und woher kommt das, wo doch eigentlich jetzt alles immer besser werden sollte? Denn egal was auch immer war, mit Humor erträgt man es am besten!

Radical environmentalist Roscoe Alolo has been abducted. As ransom, his kidnappers demand that the village of Golden Springs cancel its gala Earth Day celebration. Whiz sociologist Huck Carp, who idolizes Alolo, vows to solve the case, and unexpectedly teams up with a hermit calling himself Johnny Appleseed.

Asynchronous telecommuting meets the radioplay for this comedic parody of AI-narrated audiobooks. Featuring a comedic ensemble devising global profiles of the anglophone virtual space, Alphabet Play is a futuristic meditation on pandemonium employing the genre codes of field recording & pop music to up-end conventional literary theory.

When an underground lab beneath a sleepy British village loses power, all hell breaks loose—literally. The experiment they swore was "contained" has clawed its way to the surface. It's eight feet tall, covered in fur, and learning faster than your Aunt Doris with a new Wi-Fi router. Up top, the villagers are blissfully unaware—until the fuse box starts leaking glowing goo, the barman goes missing (his shoes don't), and the Women’s Institute arms itself with weaponised jam.

This novel is a satirical look at my life, and I have never written for a porn site. There are four parts to this book: The Rehearsal (trying to figure out my life and men), The Performance (a story in two perspectives about a transgender guy being interviewed), The Reviews, and Pornopraphy (amusing selection of commentary and reviews of media products). I write just a little soft porn for humor, but mostly it's about why my satirical "drag queen" narrator started writing erotica.

Ludwig Kalisch war Gründer der Sonntagszeitung "Der Demokrat" und der Karnevalszeitschrift "Narrhalla", in welchen er Feudalismus und Zensur bekämpfte, was Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ein höchst gefährliches Unterfangen war. Nachdem er zum Tode verurteilt wurde, lebte und arbeitete er als Journalist in London und Paris. Seine Satiren spiegeln sehr aufschlussreich und humorvoll die autoritären Macht- und Gesellschaftsstrukturen einer Zeit dar, in welcher die freiheitliche Knospe der Demokratie in Europa begann zu versuchen sich langsam zu entfalten.

Norman, a schizophrenic, hears a voice that tells him he has to build a new genetic Ark to save the planet. He struggles to get a grip on reality, but he is told by sexy Jane that his hallucinations might be real. He is visited by Darwin and Einstein, who are excited about Internet gadgets, want to help him fight an evil TV evangelist, and who refuse to leave him alone. On top of this, he is stuck working in the IT support department with his friend Gupta, who likes to spend his time watching porn and avoiding his parents.

Sammlung der 16 wichtigsten Satiren von Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), darunter die bekannte Schrift "Was darf Satire?" Tucholsky zählt zu den bedeutendsten Publizisten der Weimarer Republik. Er schrieb unter anderem unter den Pseudonymen Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger und Ignaz Wrobel.

Piedra Negra is an isolated village that is home to many soldiers who were injured in the revolution and now pass their time drinking firewater so intense that they all hallucinate and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter, Elena, longs to be a poet. After a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, she wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There, she encounters a population adjusting to a new way of life post-revolution: spies with secret meetings and black marketeers dealing with censorship.

The insure-tech industry has become an overnight sensation and darling of Wall Street. In the span of a decade, the Insure-tech industry has become a 10 billion dollar behemoth. Leading the way is a fast up-start insure-tech plainly named Flushy. In the blink of an eye, Flushy has become the most powerful insure-tech of them all. Flushy set out to up-end the entire insurance industry and become the world’s first insurance carrier to be valued at one trillion dollars.

This isn't where Nick Owen thought he would be by this point in life. He used to be a busy web programmer. Now, he spends most of his energy trying to stop his three-year-old twins from playing in a dirty sand pit. Nick thinks of himself as Daddy 3.0, a stay-at-home dad - but he just wasn't programmed for this. He's just about nearing the end of his rope when the Swing Incident happens. Now, Nick's going to have to learn to fight fire with fire and become the best super-parent on the block.

Zara James never expected to fall in love, leaving the hopeless romantic lifestyle to her friends. She also never imagined she'd be expecting a baby and married to the one guy she fought so hard to keep at arm's length. Faced with life's challenges of insecurities, pregnancy hormones, and the pressures of being a new wife in the burbs of Atlanta, Georgia, Zara tries to master them one cupcake at a time. Well, that is until her world is turned upside down by one accident that could change everything.

A Modern Comedic Satire relating to and utilizing how the film "Drunken Master" used novel characters to depict different aspects of Kung Fu.