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Jack Benny
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Mary Livingston
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Phil Harris
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Jack Benny
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It's midcentury madness as Jack Benny slides smoothly into the 1950s with great guests, hilarious running gags, and even a song or two! This classic collection features 20 episodes from Jack's final years on radio, accompanied by his constant cohorts Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Bob Crosby, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, the Sportsmen Quartet, and Don Wilson.
Episodes include: "To New York on the Train for the Heart Fund Benefit" 01-29-50; "Jack Tries to Buy Tickets to the USC-UCLA Game" 11-26-50; Guest: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 01-28-51; "Jack Goes to the Dentist" 03-04-51; "Jack Catches His Nose in a Gopher Trap" 10-12-52; "Jack Buys Twentieth Century Fox" 10-19-52; "High Noon" 02-01-53; "The Beavers Impersonate the Show" 02-22-53; "Bob Borrows Five Hundred Dollars from Jack" 04-19-53; "Four a.m. Walk" 11-01-53; "Jack Prepares for His TV Show" 11-15-53; "Jack Talks About His TV Show" 12-06-53; "Jack at the Train Station" 02-21-54; "Dennis Wants to Join the Air Force" 04-04-54; "Jack Loses $4.75 at the Race Track" 05-02-54; "Dinner at Don's House" 11-14-54; "Jack Has a Cold He Caught at Don's House" 11-21-54; "Television Wrestling" 02-27-55; "Bob Hope and Jack Double Date" 04-17-55; "Renting the Maxwell to a Movie Studio" 04-24-55.
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Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
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Fanntastic book but maybe not for everyone....
- By So Fain on 03-27-11
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CRAY
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He is one of the longest-running cast members on Saturday Night Live, an American comedy genius renowned for his spot-on sendups of politicians and celebrities. But off-stage, Darrell Hammond’s life was anything but a joke. In CRAY, a special audio performance captured live onstage at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, Hammond brings to life his acclaimed memoir, God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem.
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Thanks for sharing
- By Nickisnotgary on 09-06-24
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Breakfast of Champions
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Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
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Kurt Was Right to Grade This a C
- By Dubi on 01-10-16
By: Kurt Vonnegut
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Heads Will Roll
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Heads Will Roll is an Audible Original from Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon and her cocreator/costar (and real-life sister) Emily Lynne. Produced by Broadway Video, this is not an audiobook - it’s a 10-episode, star-studded audio comedy that features performances from Meryl Streep, Tim Gunn, Peter Dinklage, Queer Eye’s Fab Five, and so many more. Please note: This content is not for kids.
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More like this please
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Napoleon's Hemorrhoids…And Other Small Events That Changed History
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Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs. In one of Phil Mason's many revelations, you'll learn that Communist jets were two minutes away from opening fire on American planes during the Cuban missile crisis, when they had to turn back as they were running out of fuel. You'll discover that before the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon's painful hemorrhoids prevented him from mounting his horse to survey the battlefield.
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They just throw the facts too fast
- By Concerned_llama on 12-11-20
By: Phil Mason
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- Elizabethy
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Delightful!
Jack Benny and his cast make me smile. These episodes are refreshingly clever and laugh-filled.
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