Edinburgh Unlocked review – a carnival of comedy from the festival that never was

Audiobook, available onlinePenguin’s fine pandemic audio festival delivers hours of laughs from comics including Jordan Brookes, Glamrou, Mo Amar, Michelle de Swarte and Sheeps‘I’m just imagining a world in which, I’m going to the fringe, the highlight…

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Summer reads for your ears, from Audible

Audible, Amazon’s audio arm, has ramped up its original comedy programming to go along with an already-robust array of audiobooks narrated by comedians this summer. To wit: In mid-July, Audible released both a podcast series from Bob Newhart as well as an exclusive audiobook-only memoir from David Spade. Since then, we’ve seen… A memoir and […]

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David Spade skips straight to the audiobook for new Audible memoir

No reading required for David Spade’s new memoir, A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World. Spade skipped the whole book part, instead going straight to audiobook for a special six-hour, 12-minute Audible-exclusive performance. A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World premiered today at www.audible.com/davidspade. “It was a fun experience trying to make my stories come to life,” […]

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Randy and Jason Sklar’s Audio Documentary ‘Sklars and Stripes’ Is Out Next Month

The Sklar Brothers have teamed up with Audible to release a 6-hour audio documentary they made while on the road. Titled Sklars and Stripes, the project will be out as an Audible original on Thursday, April 5th, and if you purchase it, the audio documentary will also come with the Sklars’s full standup album recorded […]

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Episode #145: Jay Chandrasekhar

Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing and acting in film and television. With his group Broken Lizard, he has co-written, co-starred and directed their feature films, Super Troopers, Beerfest and Club Dread. He’s also directed the big-screen version of Dukes of Hazzard, small-screen episodes of Arrested Development, and appeared in a […]

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George Saunders’s ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Audiobook Features Bill Hader, Nick Offerman, Keegan-Michael Key, and More

George Saunders’s novel Lincoln in the Bardo is out next month, and if you’re an audiobook fan, this will be one you won’t want to miss. According to Time, Penguin Random House Audio is applying for the Guinness World Record for the most individual voices on a single audiobook now thanks to Lincoln in the […]

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