True Humor

Seventeen-year-old River doesn't know what to do with himself when Penny, the girl he adores, breaks up with him. He lives in LA, where nobody walks anywhere, and Penny was his ride; he never bothered getting a license. He's stuck. He's desperate. Okay...he's got to learn to drive. But first he does the unthinkable - he starts walking.

Some people have to be force-fed maturity - particularly teenagers stranded helplessly on remote Canadian Islands. Join Patrick Marks, a towering icon of wimp-i-tude, in this hilarious short tale about maturing experiences with bears, mosquitoes the size of large poodles, Pot-Licker the cat, and near-death experiences with outhouses.

What does a lonely girl in Japan do when she's bombarded with a lack of sleep and love on the brain? She makes some questionable online dating decisions, of course! Follow me, Cyndi, as I descend into some of the craziest days of my life. Dealing with creepy swipe-righters, fighting pharmacies for rubber prophylactics, getting lost in sleepy Japanese neighborhoods, staring at a bedazzled karaoke machine.... Oh, and meeting the one-night stand who would become the love of my life.

No two are exactly alike, but they are as inevitable and as prevalent as the common cold. They are "dates from hell", those traumatic dates that are too terrible to believe, yet too vivid ever to forget. The only thing better than recounting details of your own hellish date is hearing about other people's disaster dates. Here are true-life accounts of dates gone horribly wrong.

The events unfolded in these tales, the collected shards of my fractured memories, are neither sworn truths nor total fictions. We all know that two different witnesses to the same history standing right beside each other are likely to have differing opinions as to what just transpired before them. Because perceptions, those mirrors to our souls that authors are damned to try and change in others, are born of deeper stuff than mere experiences of perspective. The weight of human experience strongly suggests that this is rarely accomplished by telling the naked truth.

Bath, England. A city steeped in culture and rich historical significance. Except it's the seventies and this once glorious city has seen better days. Enter Peter True. Peter is a much-loved and mollycoddled four-year old boy who enjoys the attention of his mother, father, cousins, and aunts. But not his sisters. When it comes to his education, Mum has the very best intentions for Peter. So she sends him to a girls' school. Whatever was she thinking? 

From Benjamin Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman's attempt to levitate the Pentagon - pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have caused confusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profiling the most notorious mischief-makers from the 1600s to the present day, Pranksters explores how "pranks" are part of a long tradition of speaking truth to power and social critique.

In 1971, Terry Tarnoff packed a bag, a guitar, and 16 harmonicas and headed out on an eight-year journey that would take him into the jungles of Africa, the mountains of India, and beyond. This account of his revelatory journey is a tumultuous love story, a spiritual odyssey, and a rollicking escapade all rolled up into one. Tarnoff is a fevered, risk-taking writer with an uncanny ability to render place.

South Carolina secedes from the Union in 1861, but the sleepy city of San Francisco cares more about its war on rats. Bummer, a stray dog, has earned fame for his many rat kills. When one night he jumps in to save another stray (Lazarus) from the attack of a vicious dog, the new pair catch the attention of two rival reporters: Albert Evans with the Alta California, and Frank Gross with the Bulletin. This historical comedy traces the personal and professional competition that drove these two newsmen to serve as the personal biographers of two stray dogs, and how these animals captured the hearts of a city with their loyalty and kindness.

Ever been to a trailer park? Ever lived in one? Well here's your chance! Roll-A-Home Trailer Park's home to it all, the pervert, the redneck, the tobacco-chewing, fun-wielding penis-puller-outer, the destitute. Good ole boys come in all flavors and sexes. But they all have one thing in common: they want out of the trailer park life. Who'll make it out? Listen on to find out! 

Joseph has been captured by soldiers. A pregnant Mary is being hunted by the king. She needs to escape Nazareth but doesn’t know how. Three hard-drinking strangers claim they can help, but she isn’t sure she can trust them. Oh, and let’s not forget that the baby daddy is God, The God, The Great "I Am". She’s had better days. Herod the Great has been king of Judaea for 30 years. He is losing his sanity to a disease. He learns shepherds are being visited by angels, bringing tidings of comfort and joy. What the hell are tidings?

The coronavirus pandemic changed everyone’s lives, but some more than others. Here, one high-schooler shares his fresh perspective. Offering a witty account of life during the pandemic, high-school sophomore JohnGabriel Duque guides listeners through the events, thoughts, and feelings of the first week of the coronavirus lockdown from the perspective of a 16-year-old boy. For future generations, Duque shares an inside look at his family’s experience, writing in the moment as he witnesses history in the making.

Knockabout brothers Gus and Steve Worland know a good joke when they hear one, and this smorgasbord of their favourite gags and yarns will keep the men in your life giggling all the way to the dunny and back. Full of the Worland brothers’ best jokes about being a dad, a son, a mate, a husband and much, much more, this collection gives you their funniest thigh-slappers, from one-liners and wait-for-its to shaggy dog stories, knock knocks, light bulb jokes, Aussie rhyming slang, the longest and shortest jokes in the world...and, of course, their choicest and most time-honoured dad jokes.

My Real Estate Nightmare has been hailed as "hilarious and clever" by critics. It describes the true story of real estate broker Bob Boog's attempt to help out a pony-loving California homeowner who rented out half her house to a family from her church - thinking they'd be good tenants. However, shortly after moving in, the tenants filed a restraining order against the owner and stopped paying rent.

Meet the Evil Legion of Evil: evil yet beautiful space princesses; international lords of hate; one brain in a jar; and the Supreme Dark Lord himself, super-nerd Vox Day. Who would dare attack these frightful folk? The brave men and women of the Puppy Kickers. Safely entrenched in their safe zones, they lash out the only way they can: through proxies, slander, and calling out SWAT teams. Will the Puppies be SWATted once and for all? Or will the Puppy Kickers learn that these puppies bite back?

Jude, a profoundly unsuccessful chicken farmer, finds himself at the center of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis when Europe’s economic elite convince him that his roofless henhouse needs to become too big to fail. What starts out as a simple roofing job quickly spirals into a hundred-billion euro project to cover Jude’s native Squanderland in solar panels. But when the latest Eurozone scheme plunges his homeland into darkness, Jude must decide whether listening to the experts or listening to his heart will ultimately save his homeland, himself, and his beloved hen, Enda.

The story of Adam and Eve updated as an elderly couple coping with Alzheimer's disease, alcoholism and poverty. Ever since they were expelled from the garden, they've been condemned to living their mistakes and variations of their lives over and over without end.

A fake fiancée. An alive deceased husband. Samantha’s life just got more complicated. When Stella MacInerney asks Samantha to be her maid of honor, she's surprised. The woman has enough stepdaughters from her three previous marriages to ask one of them. Why didn’t she? Then Leo asks Samantha to be his plus-one to the wedding, as his fake fiancée. What’s up with that? So when Stella is kidnapped the eve of her wedding it’s up to Samantha to get to the bottom of these mysteries. When Stella’s ransomed for three million dollars, Samantha has 24 hours to find her alive.

There’s no rule book for this deadly game. When Samantha’s friend and sometimes boss AJ Gunn is accused of murdering the star quarterback for the Oregon pro-team she knows three things: No way is AJ guilty even if he doesn’t have a solid alibi, this is not a one gal PI gig, she’s going to need help, and rich people are crazy. If Samantha thought she was out of her element in Wind River, investigating in a new town is like working in a foreign land. Looking for a real suspect, Samantha meets a host of powerful characters with deep pockets and dark secrets.

Pete Walker is back on the dating scene. He wants that Romeo and Juliet level of passion but keeps getting Shrek and Donkey instead. Could uninhibited fitness fanatic Penny be the one? Cat-crazy Miranda seems nice, but there is something intriguing about Lila. It’s just a shame her hobbies include car theft.