10 Best Humorous, Performing Arts Books
Humorous, Performing Arts is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Humorous, Performing Arts audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 10 Humorous, Performing Arts audiobooks below.
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Tom Jones
- By: Henry Fielding
- Narrator: Anton Lesser
- Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.75(29168 ratings)
3.75(29168 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDFielding’s rollicking comic masterpiece sparkles with life in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization. Abandoned child Tom is raised by the rich and benevolent squire Mr. Allworthy, much to the chagrin of Allworthy’s mean-natured nephewFielding’s rollicking comic masterpiece sparkles with life in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization. Abandoned child Tom is raised by the rich and benevolent squire Mr. Allworthy, much to the chagrin of Allworthy’s mean-natured nephew Blifil, and develops into a good-natured rake. But Tom’s inability to resist a pretty face lands him in hot water when he impregnates Blifil’s betrothed. When the lovely Sophia runs away to London, Tom pursues, embarking upon a series of riotous and amorous adventures. However, further trouble and the revelation of his true identity await him in London.
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The Youth of Old Age
- By: Stuart Price
- Narrator: a full cast
- Length: 1 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3(1 ratings)
3(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.95 USDWickedly acerbic, The Youth of Old Age shows acclaimed British actor Prunella Scales at her dragon-tongued best. As the story’s matriarch, she’s determined to prevent her heir from marrying “out of sorts.” Written andWickedly acerbic, The Youth of Old Age shows acclaimed British actor Prunella Scales at her dragon-tongued best. As the story’s matriarch, she’s determined to prevent her heir from marrying “out of sorts.”
Written and directed by award-winning Stuart Price, you’d be mad not to listen to this wicked comedy.
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Spook Squad
- By: Jim Spiers
- Narrator: a full cast
- Length: 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.003.95 USDThis radio show is from The Wireless Theatre Company Collection, Vol. 1. In this hilarious British comedy, a mismatched bunch of oddballs and geeks, along with a borderline-psychotic television presenter, venture to a haunted inn in England toThis radio show is from The Wireless Theatre Company Collection, Vol. 1.
In this hilarious British comedy, a mismatched bunch of oddballs and geeks, along with a borderline-psychotic television presenter, venture to a haunted inn in England to record the first-ever episode of Spook Squad–a groundbreaking television show investigating the bizarre, the mysterious, and the supernatural.
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Yogi Comes to Camp Waterlogg
- By: Joe Bevilacqua
- Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua
- Length: 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDWhen a bear gets in the Camp Waterlogg chicken coop, young Squeaky Lkie dreams that it’s Yogi Bear. Joe Bevilacqua, prot+(r)g+(r) of renowned voice-actor Daws Butler, uncovered rare recordings of Butler as Yogi Bear and, along with his wife,When a bear gets in the Camp Waterlogg chicken coop, young Squeaky Lkie dreams that it’s Yogi Bear.
Joe Bevilacqua, prot+(r)g+(r) of renowned voice-actor Daws Butler, uncovered rare recordings of Butler as Yogi Bear and, along with his wife, Lorie Kellogg, improvised this hour-long story. This special edition of Bevilacqua’s Comedy-O-Rama Hour has aired on Sirius-XM, NPR stations, and podcasts throughout the world.
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Uncle Dunkle and Donnie, Vol. 3
- By: Charles Dawson Butler
- Narrator: Charles Dawson Butler
- Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDA must-have for collectors, these recently discovered master reels of cartoon-voice legend Daws Butler performing all the voices for twenty-one of his hilarious fractured fairy tales have been digitally remastered by Butler prot+(r)g+(r) JoeA must-have for collectors, these recently discovered master reels of cartoon-voice legend Daws Butler performing all the voices for twenty-one of his hilarious fractured fairy tales have been digitally remastered by Butler prot+(r)g+(r) Joe Bevilacqua.
Titles include The Tardy Wedding Guest, Sticky Wicket, Jack and the Beans Talk, The Green Cow, Alexander Remembers, The Big Wind, Murray the Magpie, The Talking Violin, The Cherry Tree Caper, Johnny the Giraffe, Britty the Star Fish, Pennie and Guinnie, Little Red Who?, Donnie and the Piggy Bank, Punky Possum’s Mud Bath, Theodore the Turtle, Pete the Pelican, Humpty-Dumpty’s Friend, The Lonesome Umbrella, and Perky the Pig.
Bonus tracks include a Dunkle prototype of Peppy Possum, early workshop readings of Sticky Wicket and Punky Possum, and a live performance of Punky Possum.
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The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Joe Bevilacqua
- Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua
- Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDComedy and mystery are happy bedfellows in The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Veteran award-winning radio producer Joe Bevilacqua’s ten-part radio theater series pays humorous homage to the classic characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. TheComedy and mystery are happy bedfellows in The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Veteran award-winning radio producer Joe Bevilacqua’s ten-part radio theater series pays humorous homage to the classic characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are filled with sly references to the original “Canon,” and even the Baker Street Irregulars and other Holmesian groups and scholars have enjoyed this about the series.
Titles include: Episode One: “The Mystery of the Creepy Hack Writer”Episode Two: “My Dinner at Baker Street”Episode Three: “Sherlock Holmes in Trouble”Episode Four: “A Study in Lavender”Episode Five: “The Death of Mr. Sherlock Holmes”Episode Six: “The Giant Rat of Sumatra” Episode Seven: “Tales From the Vienna Wards”Episode Eight: “His Second to Last Bow”Episode Nine: “Revenge of the Beekeeper”Episode Ten: “Holmes’ Creepy Christmas”
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The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles 11
- By: Joe Bevilacqua
- Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua
- Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDFiresign Theatre’s David Ossman (as George Tirebiter), comedy legend Shelley Berman, and former SNL comedian Senator Al Franken join the cast of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour for another six misadventures of Sgt. Lefty, Ellis da Boatkeeper, AdamFiresign Theatre’s David Ossman (as George Tirebiter), comedy legend Shelley Berman, and former SNL comedian Senator Al Franken join the cast of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour for another six misadventures of Sgt. Lefty, Ellis da Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, Andy, and Woody (all voiced by Joe Bev); Olive Pitts, Ellis, Mrs. Terwilliger, and Lkie (all voiced by Lorie Kellogg); Ron Drysdale and Jimmy (both voiced by James Folly); and Stinky Peter Moss (voiced by Kenny Savoy), as well as the rest of the cabal of crazy Camp Waterlogg characters.
Included in this set:
“Camp Waterlogg Homeland Security Needs to Go-Go-Go!””A Happy Camp Waterlogg Father’s Day from Uncle Goopie””A Camp Waterlogg July 4th Fundraiser””Camp Waterlogg: Firesign Gets Waterlogged””The Camp Waterlogg Election Special””Camp Waterlogg: Shelley Revisited, Part 1”
The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is story- and character-driven improvisation that goes beyond sketch comedy to blossom into full-fledged radio theater. Recorded in and around husband-and-wife creative team Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg’s Napanoch, New York, house in the woods, the series first aired on XM Radio in 2002. More than 120 shows and thirteen years later, the series is heard weekly on public radio stations nationwide, streamed on the web at bearmanormedia.com, and podcast anytime all over the Internet, including on Waterlogg.com.
Joe Bev says, “We have been doing most these characters for more than twelve years now and some I have been voicing for more than forty years. We no longer have to write what we want to say. The Comedy-O-Rama Hour has also evolved from a scripted to a fully improvised hour of radio theater.”
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The Aldrich Family, Vol. 1
- By: Hollywood 360
- Narrator: Bobby Ellis
- Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDThe Aldrich Family was a popular situation comedy that was heard on radio and seen in films, on television, and in comic books. Teenager Henry Aldrich, the creation of playwright Clifford Goldsmith, was an endearingly bumbling kid growing awkwardlyThe Aldrich Family was a popular situation comedy that was heard on radio and seen in films, on television, and in comic books. Teenager Henry Aldrich, the creation of playwright Clifford Goldsmith, was an endearingly bumbling kid growing awkwardly into adolescence. Episodes revolved around Henry’s misadventures with girls, his family, and his friends.
Henry Aldrich was portrayed on radio by twenty-something Ezra Stone when The Aldrich Family launched as a summer replacement program for The Jack Benny Show on NBC in 1939. He kept the lead role until 1942, followed by others, including Bobby Ellis, who became the last Henry Aldrich in 1952.
The show had a top-ten rating within two years of its launch, landing it solidly alongside The Jack Benny Show and Bob Hope’s The Pepsodent Show. Earning $3,000 a week, Goldsmith was the highest paid writer in radio, and his show became a prototype for the teen-oriented situation comedies that followed on radio and television.
Included in this collection are twelve episodes from 1952 and 1953:
“The Barter System” (21 Sep 1952)
“He-Man or Mouse?” (28 Sep 1952)
“Class Debt Chairman” (5 Oct 1952)
“The Big Deal” (12 Oct 1952)
“The Debating Team” (16 Nov 1952)
“The Thanksgiving Turkey” (22 Nov 1952)
“Henry’s Father is Sick” (30 Nov 1952)
“The Lost Watch” (7 Dec 1952)
“The English Project” (11 Jan 1953)
“Love Letter Mix-Up” (25 Jan 1953)
“Latin Homework” (15 Mar 1953)
“The Delivery Bicycle” (26 Apr 1953)
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Duffy’s Tavern, Vol. 1
- By: Hollywood 360
- Narrator: Ed Gardner
- Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDDuffy’s Tavern was a radio comedy series featuring tavern manager Archie, his get-rich-quick schemes, and his well-known guest stars. The familiar opening song “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” is interrupted by the ring of a telephoneDuffy’s Tavern was a radio comedy series featuring tavern manager Archie, his get-rich-quick schemes, and his well-known guest stars.
The familiar opening song “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” is interrupted by the ring of a telephone and actor Ed Gardner’s New Yorkese accent as he answered, “Hello, Duffy’s Tavern, where the elite meet to eat. Archie the manager speakin’. Duffy ain’t here–oh, hello, Duffy.”
Duffy’s Tavern, first heard in 1940, was cocreated and written by Ed Gardner, who played Archie, the manager of Duffy’s Tavern, which was a flea-infested dive in New York City. Archie’s abuse of the English language quickly became a favorite feature of the show. Regulars on the show included Duffy’s man-hungry daughter Miss Duffy; Clifton Finnegan, the classic village idiot, played by Charlie Cantor; Eddie the waiter, played by Eddie Green; and Clancy the cop, played by Alan Reed. Duffy himself was never heard on the show; he was an absentee owner who left the daily operations to Archie.
Archie was always trying to get rich quick, and his harmless schemes often involved weekly guests who were well-known stars, including Shelley Winters and Vincent Price.
Some of radio’s sharpest comedy was penned for Duffy’s Tavern by top Broadway and TV veterans, including Abe Burrows, Larry Marks, Larry Gelbart, and Dick Martin.
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A Joe Bev Cartoon Collection
- By: Joe Bevilacqua
- Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua
- Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDIn A Joe Bev Cartoon Collection, award-winning radio producer and voice actor Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, presents … Hard-Boiled Joe Bev: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 1An hour of film noir parodies, including The Mysterious Thief ofIn A Joe Bev Cartoon Collection, award-winning radio producer and voice actor Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, presents …
Hard-Boiled Joe Bev: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 1An hour of film noir parodies, including
The Mysterious Thief of ThievesThe SafeThe Japanese SandmanThe Mystery of the Missing CoinThe Camp Kilmer Case
Joe Bev at Sea: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 2An hour of sea adventure parodies, including
An Octopus in TroubleBritty the StarfishThe Good PiratePete the PelicanLola the WhaleBirth of the TurtlesSherlock Snail Finds a HomeThe Cockerel, the Duck, and the MermaidsStickybeard’s TreasureA Warm WhaleMaddie’s Treasure
Joe Bev Joins the Circus: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 3An hour of big-top parodies, including
The Careless ClownThe Happy SweeperPerils of the Tiger BarnSticky WicketThe Mysterious Juggling ClownThe Traveling Extravaganza, or, His Name is Bub
Joe Bev Goes West: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 4Two hours of horse opera parodies, including
The Deductive Mr. HorseflyThe Mystery of the Bodiless HorsemanJohnny the LizardThe Lonely RangerDeadeye DunbarRapunzel and the BanditThe Old RangerThe Full Warren
Joe Bev in Outer Space: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 5An hour of sci-fi parodies, including
The Crashed MartianThe Red MoonThe Best RobotThe HypersensorSquidge AttackHuck Goes to the MoonDrums in SpaceTimmy in the FutureRobot with a VirusThe Old Man on the Moon
Joe Bev up the Jungle: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 6An hour of jungle adventure parodies, including
A Lion without a RoarJohnny the GiraffeThe Colorless TigerIce in the JungleThe Tickling ScalesThe Mocking TigerJemima the Nosy GiraffeNever Make Fun of a RhinoThe Photographic ElephantPeter Bergman and the End of the WorldThe Boo Boo Monkeys
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