Comedy

The Foolish Dictionary

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Charles Wayland Towne


"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…

Whittington and his Cat

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E. L. Blanchard


Whittington and his Cat, or Harlequin Lord Mayor of London was the 26th Grand Comic Christmas Annual, written by E. L. Blanchard for perform…

The Anderson Family 30 Eps


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(30 Episodes) "The Anderson Family" Syndicated and broadcast from 1947-1948, "The Anderson Family" situation comedy radi…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors…

Mary Broome

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Allan Monkhouse


Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…

The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce

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William Mountfort


First produced between 1684-1688, this - as the title says - is Faust played as a comedy. Angels to go along with Mephistopholis and Lucife…

Alan Young Show 51 Eps


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(51 Episodes) "The Alan Young Show" was a 30 minute situation comedy that ran from 1944 thru 1949. In 1944, Canadian actor Alan Yo…

The Skin Game

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John Galsworthy


A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rura…

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Mr H

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Charles Lamb


Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane in 1806. The plot is slender and revolves around a single rather feeble joke, but the…

A Visit From Saint Nicholas

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Clement Clarke Moore


LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore. More commonly known today as 'Twas the N…

The Country Wife

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William Wycherley


One of the most notorious Restoration comedies in existence, William Wycherley’s The Country Wife is a lively and riotous exploration of cou…

Old Time Radio : Billy Bunter


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Recordings related to Billy Bunter , a fictional character created in 1908 in a boy's weekly story paper in England. The recordings feature …

The Tinker's Wedding

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John Millington Synge


The Tinker's Wedding is a two-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge. The author's only comedy, it is set on a roadside near a cha…

The Law Against Lovers

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William Davenant


The Law Against Lovers was a dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare, arranged by Sir William Davenant and staged by the Duke's Company in 1662. …

The Smiths of Hollywood 28 Eps


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(28 Episodes - 1 Audition & 27 EPs) "The Smiths of Hollywood," broadcast in 1947, was a 27 episode, syndicated, situation come…

The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


"Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, has…

How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers

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Robert Williams Wood


How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, …

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