Audie Award for Humor
Annual award for audiobooks
The Audie Award for Humor is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a humor audiobook released in a given year. It has been awarded since 1997.
Winners and finalists
Winners are listed first and highlighted in light green.
1990s
2000s
Year
Title
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
2000[ 4] 5th
How Paul Robeson Saved My Life, and Other Mostly Happy Stories (1999)
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner
NewStar Media
How Men Have Babies (1999)
Alan Thicke
Alan Thicke
The Audio Partners
Rants Redux (1999)
Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller
Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio
2001[ 5] 6th
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Helen Fielding
Tracie Bennett
Random House Audio
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
Time Warner AudioBooks
Pretty Good Joke Tape (2000)
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor , Roy Blount, Jr. , and Paula Poundstone
HighBridge Audio
2002[ 6] 7th
Napalm and Silly Putty (2001)
George Carlin
George Carlin
HighBridge Audio
Blandings Castle (1935)
P. G. Wodehouse
Jonathan Cecil
Chivers North America
The New Joys of Yiddish (2001)
Leo Rosten
Ron Rifkin , Peter Riegert , Harry Goz , Michael Goz, Larry Keith , and Carole Shelley
Random House Audio
2003[ 7] 8th
Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight (2000)
Peter Ackerman
Jeffrey Donovan , Richard Kind , Clea Lewis , Alan Mandell , Mandy Siegfried, and Joey Slotnick
L.A. Theatre Works
Jump the Shark: When Good Things Go Bad (2001)
Jon Hein
Jon Hein
Listen & Live Audio
Mirth of a Nation (2000)
Michael J. Rosen
Tony Roberts , David Rakoff , Gary Trudeau , Paul Rudnick , Rick Moranis , et al.
HarperAudio
Sixteen Scandals (2002)
William Strauss and Elaina Newport
William Strauss and Elaina Newport
Sourcebooks
Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! (2001)
Michael Moore
Arte Johnson
New Millennium Audio
2004[ 8] 9th
Live at Carnegie Hall (2003)
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
Time Warner Audio
Boogers Are My Beat (2003)
Dave Barry
Dick Hill
Brilliance Audio
The Funny Thing Is… (2003)
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres
Simon & Schuster Audio
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (2001)
Sophie Kinsella
Emily Gray
Recorded Books
The Pleasure of My Company (2003)
Steve Martin
Steve Martin
Time Warner AudioBooks
2005[ 9] 10th
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
Time Warner Audio
America (The Book) (2004)
Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show
Jon Stewart et al.
Time Warner Audiobooks
My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy (2000)
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright
Blackstone Audio
The Reluctant Metrosexual (2004)
Peter Hyman
Peter Hyman
Blackstone Audio
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
George Carlin
George Carlin
Time Warner AudioBooks
2006[ 10] 11th
The Truth (With Jokes) (2005)
Al Franken
Al Franken
Brilliance Audio
The Adventures of Guy Noir (2005)
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor and full cast
HighBridge Audio
Car Talk (2005)
Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi
Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi
HighBridge Audio
Fired! (2006)
Annabelle Gurwitch
Annabelle Gurwitch , Charlayne Woodard , Carl Capotorto , Dana Gould , et al.
L.A. Theatre Works
Nothing's Sacred (2005)
Lewis Black
Lewis Black
Simon & Schuster Audio
2007[ 11] 12th
Spoiled Rotten America (2006)
Larry Miller
Larry Miller
HarperAudio
Company (2006)
Max Barry
William Dufris
Tantor Audio
F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare (2006)
Sam Seder and Stephen Sherrill
Sam Seder
HarperAudio
Solomon vs. Lord (2005)
Paul Levine
Christopher Lane
Blackstone Audio
The Areas of My Expertise (2005)
John Hodgman
John Hodgman
Penguin Audio
2008[ 12] [ 13] 13th
I Am America (And So Can You!) (2007)
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert , Paul Dinello , Kevin Dorff , Greg Hollimon , Evie McGee, David Pasquesi , Amy Sedaris , Allison Silverman , Brian Stack , and Jon Stewart
Hachette Audio
Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings (2006)
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry
Penguin Audio
Our Dumb World (2007)
The Onion
The Onion
Hachette Audio
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar (2007)
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Johnny Heller
Recorded Books
The Ultimate David Sedaris Box Set (2007)
David Sedaris
David Sedaris , Amy Sedaris , and Ann Magnuson
Hachette Audio
2009[ 14] [ 15] 14th
The Learners (2008)
Chip Kidd
Bronson Pinchot
Blackstone Audio
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008)
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
Hachette Audio
Atomic Lobster (2008)
Tim Dorsey
Oliver Wyman
HarperAudio
Martin Misunderstood (2008)
Karin Slaughter
Wayne Knight
BBC Audiobooks America
Me of Little Faith (2008)
Lewis Black
Lewis Black
Penguin Audio
2010s
Year
Title
Authors(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
2010[ 16] 15th
Church People: The Lutherans of Lake Wobegon (2009)
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
HighBridge Audio
Don't Say I Didn't Warn You (2009)
Anita Renfroe
Anita Renfroe
Hyperion Audio
I Drink for a Reason (2009)
David Cross
David Cross
Hachette Audio
I Shudder (2009)
Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick
HarperAudio
More Information Than You Require (2008)
John Hodgman
John Hodgman and full cast
Penguin Audiobooks
2011[ 17] 16th
Old Jews Telling Jokes (2010)
Sam Hoffman
Sam Hoffman , Eric Spiegelman, and full cast
HighBridge Audio
Earth (The Book) (2010)
Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show
Jon Stewart et al.
Hachette Audio
Paul Is Undead (2010)
Alan Goldsher
Simon Vance
Blackstone Audio
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (2010)
David Sedaris
David Sedaris et al.
Hachette Audio
Shit My Dad Says (2010)
Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker
Sean Schemmel
HarperAudio
2012[ 18] [ 19] 17th
Shatner Rules (2011)
William Shatner and Chris Regan
William Shatner
Penguin Audio
Bossypants (2011)
Tina Fey
Tina Fey
Hachette Audio
Go the Fuck to Sleep (2011)
Adam Mansbach
Samuel L. Jackson
Audible/Brilliance Audio
In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks (2010)
Adam Carolla and Mike Lynch
Adam Carolla
Random House Audio/Books on Tape
This Is an Audiobook (based on This Is a Book ; 2011)
Demetri Martin
Demetri Martin
Hachette Audio
2013[ 20] 18th
I Suck at Girls (2012)
Justin Halpern
Sean Schemmel
HarperAudio
America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't (2012)
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
Hachette Audio
The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days (2012)
Ian Frazier
Cynthia Nixon
Macmillan Audio
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012)
Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson
Penguin Audio
Me the People (2012)
Kevin Bleyer
Kevin Bleyer
Random House Audio
2014[ 21] 19th
Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? (2013)
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal
Macmillan Audio
How I Slept My Way to the Middle (2012)
Kevin Pollak and Alan Goldsher
Kevin Pollak
Brilliance Audio
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
Hachette Audio
Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood (2013)
Drew Magary
Drew Magary
Penguin Audio
The Stench of Honolulu (2013)
Jack Handey
Jack Handey
Hachette Audio
2015[ 22] 20th
Yes Please (2014)
Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler , Carol Burnett , Seth Meyers , Mike Schur , Eileen and William Poehler, Patrick Stewart , and Kathleen Turner
HarperAudio
Ben Franklin Unplugged (2013)
Josh Kornbluth
Josh Kornbluth
Audible
The Disaster Artist (2013) and Tom Bissell
Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
Greg Sestero
Tantor Audio
Food: A Love Story (2014)
Jim Gaffigan
Jim Gaffigan
Penguin Random House Audio
God Is Disappointed in You (2012)
Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler
James Urbaniak
Audible
You Can Date Boys When You're Forty (2014)
Dave Barry
Dave Barry
Penguin Random House Audio
2016[ 23] 21st
Furiously Happy (2015)
Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson
Macmillan Audio
Almost Interesting (2016)
David Spade
David Spade
HarperAudio
Car Talk Classics: No Factory Recalls. So Far. (2015)
Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi
Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi
HighBridge Audio/Recorded Books
Modern Romance: An Investigation (2015)
Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
Aziz Ansari
Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio
Texts from Jane Eyre (2014)
Daniel M. Lavery
Amy Landon and Zach Villa
Tantor Audio
Why Not Me? (2015)
Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling
Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio
2017[ 24] 22nd
I'm Judging You (2016)
Luvvie Ajayi
Luvvie Ajayi
Macmillan Audio
The Bassoon King (2015)
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson
Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape
Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years (2017)
D. L. Hughley
Keith Szarabajka , John Reynolds, Fran Tunno, Cherise Boothe, Dan Woren , P. J. Ochlan , Gregory Itzin , Paula Jai Parker-Martin, Mia Barron , Ron Butler , and James Shippy
HarperAudio
Life and Other Near Death Experiences (2015)
Camille Pagán
Amy McFadden
Brilliance Audio
You Can't Touch My Hair (2016)
Phoebe Robinson
Phoebe Robinson
Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape
You'll Grow Out of It (2016)
Jessi Klein
Jessi Klein
Hachette Audio
2018[ 25] 23rd
Carpet Diem; or ...How to Save the World by Accident (2015)
Justin Lee Anderson
Matthew Lloyd Davies
Tantor Audio
The Book of Leon : Philosophy of a Fool (2017)
J. B. Smoove and Iris Bahr (as "Leon Black, as told to J. B. Smoove and Iris Bahr")
J. B. Smoove (as Leon Black )
Simon & Schuster Audio
I Can't Make This Up (2017)
Kevin Hart and Neil Strauss
Kevin Hart
Audible
Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality (2017)
Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal
Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal
Audible
The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness (2017)
Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone
HighBridge Audio
2019[ 26] 24th
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (2018)
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
Penguin Random House Audio
Calypso (2018)
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
Hachette Audio
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay (2018)
Phoebe Robinson
Phoebe Robinson
Penguin Random House Audio
How Not to Get Shot (2018)
D. L. Hughley
D. L. Hughley
HarperAudio
Noir (2018)
Christopher Moore
Johnny Heller
HarperAudio
2020s
Year
Title
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
2020[ 27] 25th
More Bedtime Stories from Cynics (2019)
Kirsten Kearse , Gretchen Enders, Aparna Nancherla , Cirocco Dunlap, and Dave Hill
Nick Offerman , Patrick Stewart , Alia Shawkat , Elliot Page , Jane Lynch , John Waters , Anjelica Huston , Wendell Pierce , Mike Birbiglia , Rachel Dratch , Matt Walsh , Nicole Byer , Harry Goaz , Aisling Bea , and Gary Anthony Williams
Audible
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life (2019)
Ali Wong
Ali Wong and Justin Hakuta
Penguin Random House Audio
Idiot (2019)
Laura Clery
Laura Clery
Simon & Schuster Audio
Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations (2019)
Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson
Penguin Random House Audio
A Woman First: First Woman (2019)
Billy Kimball and David Mandel (as "Selina Meyer")
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as Selina Meyer )
Penguin Random House Audio
2021[ 28] 26th
A Very Punchable Face (2020)
Colin Jost
Colin Jost
Penguin Random House Audio
The New One (2019)
Mike Birbiglia and J. Hope Stein
Mike Birbiglia and J. Hope Stein
Hachette Audio
Nothing Like I Imagined (2020)
Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling
Brilliance Audio
Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use (2019)
Amanda Seales
Amanda Seales
Audible Studios
Surrender, White People! (2020)
D. L. Hughley and Doug Moe
D. L. Hughley
HarperAudio
Wow, No Thank You (2020)
Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby
Penguin Random House Audio
2022[ 29]
27th
How Y'all Doing?
Leslie Jordan
Leslie Jordan
HarperAudio
Brackish Waters
Matt Boren
Christina Applegate
Audible Originals
A Carnival of Snackery
David Sedaris
David Sedaris and Tracey Ullman
Hachette Audio
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
John V. Petrocelli
Larry Herron
Macmillan Audio
The Seven Day Switch
Kelly Harms
Arielle DeLisle and Megan Tusing
Brilliance Publishing
2023[ 30] [ 31]
28th
Happy-Go-Lucky (2022)
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
Hachette Audio
Let's Catch Up Soon
Sarah Cooper
Sarah Cooper and Felip Jeremic
Audible Originals
The Office BFFs
Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
HarperAudio
Who Do You Think I Am?
Anjelah Johnson-Reyes
Anjelah Johnson-Reyes
Hachette Audio
The Wilder Windows
Katherine Hastings
Pamela Dillman
Flyte Publishing
2024[ 32]
29th
Leslie F*cking Jones
Leslie Jones , foreword by Chris Rock
Leslie Jones , foreword by Chris Rock
Hachette Audio
How to Survive History
Cody Cassidy
Dennis Boutsikaris
Penguin Random House Audio
Uncle of the Year
Andrew Rannells
Andrew Rannells
Penguin Random House Audio
No One Leaves the Castle
Christopher Healy
Jessica Almasy
HarperAudio
Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
Jamie Loftus
Jamie Loftus
Macmillan Audio
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