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14 replies

netto · 07/07/2023 12:45

I'm going on holiday and would like to listen to something that I can easily dip in and out of without losing the thread. aka as falling asleep
I was thinking a comedian might be good but no idea what I might like so someone mainstream. :-/
Thanks

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ScottBakula · 07/07/2023 12:57

I can't help you with comedians , but Bill Bryson is very easy to listen to and funny . Notes From A Small Island and the Walk in the woods are my favourites.

I also really like Gerald Durral , tho I am not sure which ones of his are on Audible.

netto · 07/07/2023 13:03

Thank you @ScottBakula I will look at these if no one can recommend a comedian.

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SilverShadowNight · 07/07/2023 13:07

I like the Mark Steel's in town series and It's a Fair Cop by Alfie Moore. There's a lot of the latter available on BBC Sounds.

cato75 · 07/07/2023 13:08

I love In and Out of the Kitchen by Miles Jupp and Justin Edwards. It runs in episodes rather than chapters. It's so funny and a definite comfort listen for me.

ScottBakula · 07/07/2023 13:41

@SilverShadowNight I really like both of them , particularly It's A Fair Cop as Alfie has a great way of telling you about the incident and making uou think about policing but keeping it very lighthearted.
His gentle ribbing of other police forces is great .

FinallyHere · 07/07/2023 14:00

Cabin Pressure.

You can thank me late 😁

JaneyGee · 07/07/2023 23:03

cato75 · 07/07/2023 13:08

I love In and Out of the Kitchen by Miles Jupp and Justin Edwards. It runs in episodes rather than chapters. It's so funny and a definite comfort listen for me.

Yes, brilliant recommendation. Miles Jupp is so good in that part.

A few hilarious audiobooks:

Brian Blessed reading his autobiography

Stephen Fry reading P. G. Wodehouse

Michael Maloney reading Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall

ChaoticCrumble · 08/07/2023 21:24

I like comedy on audible.

Cabin Pressure is a very funny radio sitcom
I liked Lee Mack's autobiography (but mostly because he's partly from the same bit of the north as me)
Josh Widdicombe's Watching Neighbours Twice a Day is only good for people who grew up watching kids TV in the late eighties and nineties (then it's very good)
Parsnips Buttered by Joe Lycett is very funny
As is James Acaster's Classic Scrapes

Nateismine · 10/07/2023 13:22

Another vote for Cabin Pressure!

tregunamekoidestrecorumsatisdee · 10/07/2023 13:36

Definitely Cabin Pressure

OmniPocket · 10/07/2023 13:38

Most absolutely and very definitely Cabin Pressure.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 10/07/2023 15:50

Has anyone mentioned Cabin Pressure?

I'm also enjoying "It's a Fair Cop" at the moment too.

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 13/07/2023 21:49

I second Lee Mack and add French and Saunders on BBC sounds ‘ Titting About’ 😂

BarbaraofSeville · 14/07/2023 08:07

I recently had an Audible trial and binge listened to I've Never Seen Star Wars with Marcus Brigstocke talking to various celebrities about trying things they've never done.

And also the world according to Jeremy Hardy, which was funny but also sad because he died so young. And interesting because while a lot of it was quite old (started in the 1990s I believe, it seemed very timely because a lot of it was about how much the Tories had shit on the country and ordinary people)

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