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A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, "commercials" for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts.Contents:World Theater, Here We Come!Powdermilk BiscuitsThe Family RadioBertha's Kitty BoutiqueLifestyle WaltzFearmonger's ShoppeAs We Get OlderJason's SongDave's HarmonicaPorch SongNews from Lake WobegonBallad of The Autoharp ManOrigins of Lake WobegonMeatballsNews from Lake WobegonThe Song of the Exiles (The Lake Wobegon Anthem)News from Lake WobegonWhy Must the Show Go On?Hotel MinnesotaO Father Dear Why Did You Roam?ObedienceThe Whippets RagNews from Lake WobegonAjua!

Garrison Keillor (Author), various (Narrator)

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Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater

1997 Grammy® Award nominee1996 Listen Up Award-Best HumorEnjoy the best of Garrison Keillor's comic fables from A Prairie Home Companion, all about true love and other tribulations, brought to life by a cast of brilliant radio actors. Contents:This Man This Woman; Taking a Chance on Love; Bertha's Kitty Boutique: Cat Box Video; Greenwich Village Days; Cafe Boeuf: Secrets of the Kitchen; Beebopareebop: The Operation; Cowboys: The Second Lefty; Famous Celebrities: New Years Eve; Just One of Those Things; Chicken Little-Starring Tom Keith; Beebopareebop: The Dream; Adventures in Ethics; Guy Noir, Private Eye: Tony Rigatoni; Fred Farrell Animal Calls; How I Met George Gershwin; Little House on the Desert; Silver Lining: Cold Weather; Mel's Big Boy Buffet; Newt; La Influenza; Lutheran's On-Line; Silver Lining: Getting Older; The Ketchup Advisory Board; Bemidji Fishing Opener Song; Beebopareebop: The Contest Plus a bonus joke collection.

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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News from Lake Wobegon: Summer

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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The Adventures of The Brooke Sisters

Clone Miss Marple, give'em a heavy dose of nitrous oxide, and you've got the Brooke Sisters! Two lovely, wacky little old ladies keep finding themselves bloomers-deep in murder and mystery in this hilarious series from the Radio Repertory Company of America. Four great stories feature our heroines as inmates, contestants, linebackers and time-travelers.

Larry Weiner (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)

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Gay From Las Vegas

America's hottest and funniest gay comedians got together for this live recording at the Las Vegas Riviera Hotel. Each member of this diverse group shares his or her own unique perspective on the world, and its guaranteed to tickle your funny bone. Hosted by Frank Moreno, this performance features critically acclaimed comedians Suzy Berger, Elvira Kurt, Mark Davis, and Scott Kennedy. For Adults Only: Explicit language. Must be 18 years of age to purchase.

Elvira Kurt, Scott Kennedy, Suzy Berger (Author), Elvira Kurt, Scott Kennedy, Suzy Berger (Narrator)

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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Best (?) from the Bulwer-Lytton Contest: 101 Funniest Opening Se

Little did the obscure novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton know in 1830 when he penned that most relished, imitated, and lampooned opening sentence in English literature, 'It was a dark and stormy night...' that his words would inspire countless aspiring writers struggling incessantly like boats against the current to emulate his unparalleled style and that his name would grace 'The Bulwer-Lytton Contest' honoring his most successful followers. Get it? Abounding in shameless sentences, this audio rendition of the original contest is a hilarious-even perversely instructive-collection of skilled, inept writing.

Scott Rice (Author), Bob Nathan, Marni Webb, Rachel Songer, Ray Nakamoto, Various, Various Narrators (Narrator)

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Political Incorrections: The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher

The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher Featuring an introduction by Penn Jillette For everyone who's had their fill of politicians, TV trials and the daily events seen on the evening news, Simon & Schuster Audio offers some relief with POLITICAL INCORRECTIONS-a collection of the funniest opening monologues from Comedy Central's hit show Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher. From Republicans to Democrats, politics to pop culture, nothing will be spared from Bill Maher's hilarious, "politically incorrect" commentary in this collection of his most outrageous material. Whether you're liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between, this witty, irreverent stab at the politics of the day will have you laughing as you listen!

Bill Maher (Author), Bill Maher (Narrator)

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Dr. Katz's Therapy Sessions

"From the producers of the runaway Emmy Award-winning Comedy Central animated TV series "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist" comes DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS-a hiply hilarious compilation of Dr. Katz's funniest sessions with his all-star cast of "patients." Based on Comedy Central's hit phenomenon "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist," DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS lets us listen in on the hilarious sessions between the wry, downtrodden Dr. Katz (comedian/actor Jonathan Katz) and his roster of patients, whose voices are provided by such popular comedians as Gary Shandling, Steven Wright, Rita Rudner, Anthony Clark, Janeane Garofalo, Carol Leifer, and more. Therapy has never been this funny! A truly witty audio program, DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS will bring therapeutic laughter to all who listen!

Jonathan Katz (Author), Jonathan Katz (Narrator)

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Horrors!

Fear and loathing in Lake Wobegon? You betcha. Garrison Keillor's Horrors! is a grab bag of treats from Halloween broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Horrors! features eclectic musical performances, commercials for loyal Prairie Home 'sponsors' like Guy's Shoes, and lighthearted comedy from A Prairie Home Companion's cast of regulars.Halloween is a time when everyone's a kid again-perhaps that's why it's so eagerly celebrated by adults. Listen to Horrors! and you'll smile, you'll shiver, and you might even take a peek to see what's lurking in the shadows. Contents:Halloween; This Wonderful World-Bats; Butch Thompson: In the Dark; The News from Lake Wobegon: The Ethics of Jokes; Blue Turtles by Rich Dworsky; The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe; Halloween: The Movie; Cafe Boeuf; That's Odd; Halloween at the Radio Station; Funerary Verse; Flies; News from Lake Wobegon: The Do-Rites; Celebrity Halloween; Little Red Riding Hood; Buried Alive; Butch Thompson: Creepy Feeling by Jelly Roll Morton

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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Unzipped

Entering school at the age of three, it was soon obvious that Pat Paulsen was an exceptional child. At 11, MENSA confirmed his IQ at 205. He was awarded the Medal of Honor and Nobel Prize in Physics and has several masterpieces hanging in the Louvre. He debuted at La Scala Opera House in Milan in the role of Pietro in Don Giovanni and later performed in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York for 12 years. Paulsen culminated his career by collaborating with British scientist Stephen Hawking on a paper to reconcile quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity. They explained the meaning of life and how it started, and proved the existence of God. And then he woke up! Possessed of a sharp wit, to say the least, Pat Paulsen will amaze and amuse you. Unzipped is his posthumous release.

Pat Paulsen (Author), Pat Paulsen (Narrator)

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Mark Twain's Library of Humor

Master wit Mark Twain selected these twenty-seven stories himself by fifteen of his favorite nineteenth century authors. The order follows that which Twain placed them in in the original anthology, published in 1888. He indulged his comic fancy rather than making a textbook in which all themes or authors are placed together, saying that "This way, you will have to peruse the whole thing before discovering that one of your favorites is not included." However, it is no joke that these are the authors represented: Charles Dudley Warner, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Eugene Field, William D. Howells, James M. Bailey, Joel Chandler Harris, Katherine Kent Child Walker, Robert J. Burdette, Sam Davis, Artemus Ward, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis Lee Pratt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Frederick W. Cozzens, and Twain himself.

Mark Twain, Various Authors (Author), Marni Webb, Richard Russ, Various (Narrator)

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It's Better to Laugh...Life Good Luck Bad Hair Days & QVC

The ultra-popular host of QVC shares her fascinating life story! "I am who I am, and you like it or don't. I'm not changing. Since I made the decision to be myself, I've had more fun and better relationships than ever. No lightning bolt is going to strike this girl twice!" Kathy Levine is the girl next door who answered an ad in 1986 and became a host for the then-infant cable-TV shopping network, QVC. A few years and over fifty million viewers later, Kathy, "the champion of the middle-aged, not-so-beautiful woman," is a national phenomenon. In It's Better To Laugh..., Kathy reveals to her fans the most precious jewels of all -- her laughter, her tears, her hard-won triumphs, and what she's learned about life and being good to herself. She also tells all about life at QVC -- off and on camera, her romantic ups and downs, her special bond with her mother, and her ongoing struggles with her weight and hair! Told with the warmth, honesty and humor that could only come from Kathy herself, It's Better To Laugh... brings us the nicest, funniest, most down to earth woman on television today -- sharing her intimate thoughts and experiences.

Kathy Levine (Author), Joan Rivers, Kathy Levine (Narrator)

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