Humor
More Bab Ballads
Read by Graham Redman
W. S. Gilbert
This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert…
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
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Sir Walter Raleigh
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry proj…
Slovenly Betsy
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Heinrich Hoffmann
Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collecti…
Washington Irving's Visit to England
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Famed American humorist Washington Irving published a series of short stories telling of his adventures traveling from America to England. T…
The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities
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Stephen Leacock
More stories by Canadian Stephen Leacock. Some of these stories carry over characters introduced in Further Foolishness. Some stories are hu…
Mollie of the Movies
Read by Amanda Friday
Kenneth Mcgaffey
This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He w…
Perfect Behavior (Version 2)
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Donald Ogden Stewart
A humorous guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises. (Summary by MaryAnn)
There is a Tavern in the Town
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James Stephens
The soul of Irish wit is captured in this unique tale of a barstool philosopher, the concluding story from 'Here Are Ladies' by James Stephe…
Humour of the North
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Variousandlawrence J. Burpee and Various And Lawrence J. Burpee
Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and hu…
Will Nobody Marry Me?
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George Pope Morris
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Will Nobody Marry Me? by George Pope Morris. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July…
Early Rising
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John Godfrey Saxe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Early Rising by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 31, 2…
The Maxims of Methuselah
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Frank Gelett Burgess
Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age, in Regard to…
Vice in its Proper Shape
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William James McGlothlin
Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemb…
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 31, March, 1922
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W. H. Fawcett
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue was packe…
Duffy's Tavern 46 05 03 Archie Talks About World Hunger
Archie explains to Finnegan about the problems of famine around the world after the second World War. The show presents serious dramas about…
The Honour of the Gout
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Philander Misaurus
This droll and 'enflammatory' pamphelet doth be a grondebreaking worke of musing upon a great aflicktion of Man, upon the better nature of t…
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 20, May, 1921
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W. H. Fawcett
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue was packe…
Behind The Mike 40 10 27 Stoogedom
Graham McNamee interviews Minerva Pious, the female stooge of the Fred Allen Show, who demonstrates the many voices she uses. Uncle Jim Hark…
Behind The Mike 41 05 18 Amusing Stories Behind Radio
Host Graham McNamee introduces the columnist Al Simon who has collected amusing stories about radio, and dramatizes some of his findings. So…
Club Car Special
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
CLUB CAR SPECIAL All Aboard! Club Car Special! All Aboard! With that porters' cry, we climb onboard the Club Car Special . The Club Car Spec…