DescriptionFresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week nearly two million people tune in to the show's intimate conversations broadcast to ov…
DescriptionGeorge Burns, Dave Barry, Andy Rooney, Joan Rivers, and many others all have one thing in common: they're all very funny and they're all right here! Laugh along with Andrei Codrescu in Fax Your Prayers, Art Linkletter in Kids Say the Darndest Things, and Mark Leyner in I Smell Esther Williams . And with your set of free Ginsu knives (just kidding) you'll also receive selections from such great humorists as Art Buchwald, Garrison Keillor, Calvin Trillin, Russell Baker, Jonathan Winters, Bill Geist, Daniel Pinkwater, and Bailey White.
DescriptionLegendary entertainer Carl Reiner, author of Continue Laughing, is back with this humorous collection of short stories, including "How Paul Robeson Saved My Life". In the title story, Corporal Reiner attends a noncom's school in the South where his Army barracks is being integrated, and in "G.G. Giggler" - why won't Miss Georgia stop giggling?
DescriptionDublin-born actor Gabriel Byrne shares his life in this frank and absorbing collection of memories and episodes. He leads you from his youth through his career on stage and screen and his current work as a producer and actor. Along the way, he gives his impression of Hollywood, New York, and his native Ireland, and provides insights on famous actors such as Richard Burton. His unique narrative style, a blend of colloquial dialogue with evocative descriptions, provides an intimate account of the man - and the writer - behind the actor's many faces.
DescriptionJoin Rick Reynolds as he guides you through the foibles, fumbles and pratfalls of his own life beginning with his bizarre childhood. From the drowning of his father at a family picnic, to a bank-robbing stepfather, to his mother's 3 marriages and innumerable affairs, Reynolds portrays a striking picture of the lengths people will go for love and the human connection. His veritable laundry list of obsessive habits, vanities, and personal quirks, provides the most awesome of reactions, the shock of recognition. This is the truth. It may not set you free, make you smarter, or win the lottery, but it may make you more human. And it will definitely make you laugh.
DescriptionIt's funny! It's clean! And it's quite possibly George Carlin's earliest recording. A must for die-hard fans.
DescriptionIt seems to happen overnight. One minute your daughter is wearing bunny slippers and demanding bedtime stories. The next, she's wearing a midriff-baring t-shirt and demanding the car keys. 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter takes us shriek by shriek through the process of raising teenage girls, including braces (the most expensive metal on earth), the telephone (seemingly wired to her nervous system) and, of course, dating ( Rule #2: Keep your hands and eyes off my daughter's body, or I will remove them ).
DescriptionPart memoir, part mystery, Find Me is a compelling and utterly original tale that will break your heart as it heals it. Told in Rosie's candid, moving voice, it is the story of a friendship between a troubled young woman and a celebrity obsessed wi…
DescriptionUniversally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe's dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. Here, 20 of Poe's most chilling stories and poems are performed by two of his most brilliant interpreters: Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Included are The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, Bells, The Gold Bug, and many more!
DescriptionStephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, speaks at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 29, 2006.
