The hilarious sitcom written by and starring Miles Jupp, featuring the entries and recipes from the kitchen diary of cookery writer Damien Trench. In these four episodes, Damien decides to do a radio programme about the French bean, accepts a job for a supermarket's online magazine, deals with a crisis affecting his Umbrian holiday villa and is offered a chance to front his own TV show.
Victoria says:
"Gentle Comedy for Sunday Afternoons"
Fictional cookery writer Damien Trench promises to reveal 'the grisly and the gristly' details of his life as he embarks upon his first diary entries. As Damien deals with the ups and downs of his media career, his partner Anthony resolves to get fit and start the 'courgette diet'. Recipes include a potent hangover cure, easy Wiener Schnitzel and 'pilchards al limone'. Deliciously funny.
One of Britain's best comics, recorded down under at the Enmore Theatre Sydney. Stephen K. Amos has become an assured comedy performer with great material and a superb relationship with his audience.
From one of Britain's best comics comes this recording from down under at the Enmore Theatre Sydney, Australia. Stephen K. Amos has become an assured comedy performer with great material and a superb relationship with his audience. 'Stephen K. Amos is a genius. His jokes are good and his timing is perfect. This is the epitome of stand-up comedy. Absolutely brilliant!' -- Amazon Customer Review.
Well hello to you dear audiobook browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that adulthood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors, peculiar lack of physical coordination and sometimes unexplained nudity, that accompanied childhood and adolescence? I am proud to say I have a wealth of awkward experiences - from school days to life as an office temp - and here I offer my 18-year-old self (and I hope you, too, dear listener) some much needed caution and guidance on how to navigate life's rocky path.
This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It will detail some of Fry's most turbulent and least-well-known years, with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you, and, above all, surprise you.
Michael McIntyre has become Britain's biggest comedy star. His debut stand-up DVD, Live & Laughing, was the fastest selling of all time, only to be eclipsed by his second, Hello Wembley, which sold over 1.4 million copies and was the 2009 Christmas number one. He hosts his own BAFTA nominated BBC1 series, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, and won the British Comedy Award for Best Live Stand-up in 2009 following his record breaking 54-date Arena tour.
John says:
"An absolute pleasure from start to finish"
A guy walks into a bar.From here, the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humour and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. In Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant), and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered Pygmy. The common thread? Sedaris masterfully turns each episode into a love story: how it feels to be in a relationship where one loves and is loved over many years, what it means to be part of a family, and how it's possible, through all of life's absurdities, to accept oneself. With Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris shows once again why he has been called 'A humorist par excellence, he can make Woody Allen appear ham-tongued, Oscar Wilde a drag' (Observer).
Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch & Roger Allam star in the fourth series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. By John Finnemore (The News Quiz, Mitchell & Webb).
L says:
"'Everyone in the car, we're going for a drive...'"
1913 - Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse. 1969 - Feminists storm Miss World. Now - Caitlin Moran rewrites "The Female Eunuch" from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller. There's never been a better time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain.... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should you get Botox? Do men secretly hate us? What should you call your vagina?
Britty Britty Bang Bang: One Man's Attempt to Understand His Country
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 49 mins)
By Hugh Dennis
Narrated By Hugh Dennis
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Mock the Week and Outnumbered's Hugh Dennis with an hilarious and insightful exploration of the changing image of Britain and Britishness.
Hugh Dennis has secretly been worrying about what being "British" meant for nearly a decade, ever since his friend Ardal O'Hanlon had told him in passing that he was the most British person he had ever met. Hugh was unclear whether he was being praised, teased, vaguely insulted, or possibly all three - because it has always been very difficult to know how to feel about being British.
Who is the man behind the many voices of Rob Brydon? Read by the man himself, this audiobook memoir will reveal the warm heart behind one of Britain's favourite impressionists. A multi-award-winning actor, writer, comedian and presenter known for his warmth, humour and inspired impressions, Rob Brydon has quickly become one of our very favourite entertainers.
Were you one of the several people on Earth who didn't catch every historic episode of the most-downloaded podcast ever? Or maybe you treasured every golden moment and want to preserve it for future generations? Now, all 12 episodes of The Ricky Gervais Show: The Complete First Season are here in one package that's far tidier than Karl Pilkington's thought processes.
Narrated By Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam, Benedict Cumberbatch
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John Finnemore (Dead Ringers & Mitchell & Webb) has written this brilliant new sitcom starring Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam & Benedict Cumberbatch. Cabin Pressure is set in a small airline business. The flipside of the glamorous world of international airlines.
He's back! Yes, Russell Brand has ended his exile from radio with a very special show in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. Returning to his old stomping ground of Xfm, Russell is joined by his old team of Noel Gallagher, Matt Morgan, Trevor Lock, and poet-in-residence Mr Gee for a special show to raise money for Xfm's fund for Teenage Cancer Trust. In this very special audio, you can listen again to the whole broadcast.
Narrated By Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, and others
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Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith. In this 15th collection of the perennial antidote to panel games, regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, and Graeme Garden - plus guests - are given silly and hilarious things to do. Listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless revelry, and Colin Sell at the piano.
Don't let Tommy Johnagin's clean cut, regular guy persona fool you. His razor sharp wit and self-deprecating humor keeps audiences on the edge of their seats and laughing out loud. On this, his debut album, Johnagin cleverly approaches a range of relatable topics, from trying not to get beaten up (Not a Fighter) to his mother's rushes to judgment (My Mom, Cats Are Walkers) to bad bachelor parties (Scab at the Wedding Party).
Narrated By Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, and others
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Among radio comedy's most enduring features were its running gags - and few gags ran longer, or more hilariously, than the legendary feud between two of its great masters: Jack Benny and Fred Allen. For nearly 20 years the mere mention of Benny on an Allen program was guaranteed to produce an escalating laugh - just as bringing Allen up with Benny had listener in stitches at the mere anticipation of a response. This collection brings together the classic episodes that started it all, to the showdown that was supposed to end it once and for all.
Comedian Tom Segura is incapable of doing an Asian accent. He can't dazzle you with puppets or an acoustic guitar. What Tom Segura can do is tell jokes. Jokes about black people, Mexican people, homeless people, little people, and, yes, his balls. But he's light enough, endearing enough and downright wacky enough to tackle these topics without sounding like a fulminating Tea Party candidate or a Ragin' Palin apostle on his delightfully deranged and dippy debut album.
W. Kamau Bell is one of the most important entertainers and racial commentators performing comedy today. Face Full of Flour does not disappoint. With a blistering wit and a willingness to approach the most delicate of political topics, Bell's act is nothing less than a tightrope walk of weighty issues and hilarious material.
Narrated By William Bendix, Paula Winslowe, John Brown
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William Bendix stars as Chester A. Riley in producer Irving Brecher's outstanding radio comedy series The Life of Riley. Co-starring with Bendix is Paula Winslowe as Riley's long-suffering wife, Peg, and John Brown performing in two roles, that of Riley's pal Gillis and, most memorably, as the hilarious "friendly undertaker" Digger O'Dell.
Before Lisa Landry became a headlining comic with an hour long special, a comedy central Premium Blend and a handful of late night appearances under her belt, she was a sharp and witty stand-up comic roasting her marriage, motherhood and life at large. On her debut album, Landry's voice rings loud as a female voice to reckon with, and puts the ordinary under a microscope to see the humor therein.
Life is full of strange and awkward events seemingly designed to annoy us. To Thomas Sullivan, these trials and tribulations are actually meant to entertain us.
One of Britain's funniest comics performs in front of a rapturous London audience. Always superb at interacting with his fans, Ross can go off on hilarious tangents and then return faultlessly to his main theme. Much like a jazz musician! On this recording he touches on accents, meeting a drug dealer and Billy Elliot!
A fractured family's dirty laundry is aired, soiled, stained, muddied, fumigated and declared a health hazard when their patriarch succumbs to barbecued neck bones laced with arsenic.
This hilarious, whip-smart collection of essays from a top writer and producer of Six Feet Under crisscrosses from the highly personal (conflating her own loss of virginity and the Kobe Bryant accusations), to the political (what she has in common with Monica and Chandra), to the outrageously Los Angelean (why women wear huge diamonds and what they must do to get them). Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants is a genre-defying combination of personal essay and memoir, or a hilarious, unruly and unapologetic evaluation of society, religion, sex, love, and - best of all - Jill Soloway.
The Finger: What It's Like Getting Old in America Today
UNABRIDGED (10 mins)
By Will Bevis
Narrated By Robert King Ross
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"Just a very short memoir... of getting the 'finger'. Again. If you're getting on up there in years and you still haven't had it, come along with me for the practice. It's a barrel of fun... Not."