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6 Hilarious Audiobook Excerpts to Take Your Mind Off Everything

by  | April 1
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I think we can all agree that there’s no pranking allowed on this April Fool’s Day. But just because we could all use a little less stress, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to fit in a bit of laughter today wherever we can. If you find yourself needing a Twitter timeout, take a self-care break and listen to these six audiobook excerpts read aloud by some of your favorite comedians. For more hilarious excerpts, be sure to check out the complete Soundcloud playlist of audiobooks to make you laugh!

Scrappy Little Nobody

Scrappy Little Nobody

by Anna Kendrick

With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she’s experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can—from her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial “dating experiments” (including only liking boys who didn’t like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual “man-child.”

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Born Standing Up

Born Standing Up

by Steve Martin

In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. Born Standing Up is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Martin also paints a portrait of his times: the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies.

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F*ck Your Diet

F*ck Your Diet

by Chloé Hilliard

Fans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society reinforces the message that we are nothing without the perfect body. The perfect mix of cultural commentary, conspiracies, and confessions, F*ck Your Diet pokes fun at the all too familiar, misguided quest for better health, permanent weight loss, and a sense of self-worth.

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Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Something That May Shock and Discredit You

by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Daniel Mallory Ortberg is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids—from lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture. In his most personal work to date, he turns his attention to the essay, offering vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition, family dynamics, and the many meanings of faith.

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Idiot

Idiot

by Laura Clery

A 2020 Audie Award Finalist!

Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the Internet. She writes songs about her anatomy, talks trash about her one-eyed rescue pug, and sexually harasses her husband, Stephen. And it pays the bills!

With her signature brand of offbeat, no-holds-barred humor, Idiot introduces a wildly original—and undeniably relatable—new voice.

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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

by Issa Rae

Being an introvert (as well as “funny,” according to the Los Angeles Times) in a world that glorifies cool isn’t easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Award-winning hit series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, is that introvert—whether she’s navigating love, the workplace, friendships, or “rapping”—it sure is entertaining. Now, in this New York Times bestselling debut collection written in her witty and self-deprecating voice, Rae covers everything from cybersexing in the early days of the Internet to deflecting unsolicited comments on weight gain, from navigating the perils of eating out alone and public displays of affection to learning to accept yourself—natural hair and all.

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