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[Thornlord]

Going through a really bad time and could use some mindless comedic distraction.

Anybody have any recommendations for dirty and irreverent comedic audiobooks/radio programs?

The comedy I like is of the lowbrow variety, Family Guy, American Dad, Brickleberry, Robot Chicken, Austin Powers, to name a few as examples.

Any suggestions will be most appreciated.

[Dallis24F]

Here are authors I think are funny:
Terry Pratchett, Christopher Moore, Douglas Adams, Robert Bevan, Tim Dorsey.

Theres also Steven Campbell. I haven't listed to any his books yet.

[illodiini]

Try Jim Butcher and Barry J. Hutchison. The latter is your basic idiots-in-space variety, though laugh out loud funny at times. Butcher's Dresden Files is funny noir fantasy type, and personally I can't get enough of them.

[wedis1]

M.k. Gibson, dark arrogant sarcastic mildly dirty but not graphic and the narrator does a great job and each book is better than the previous. Imho
I can list more if you want. But that was the first in mind.
I know this is an old post, but be careful with butcher, I love everything he has written, but they are not light humor. That being said,  cinder spires  is pretty safe, but Dresden will hit everyone different, again imho.

[ChazWylde]

It's a short story, and it helps to know the context of the series around it, but I found "A Ship Named Francis" from the Service of the Sword anthology in David Weber's Honor Harrington universe gut-bustingly funny, in the tradition of Catch-22. Parts of it made me realize why the "No, John Ringo, no" thing became a thing, but it's still hilarious.

[illodiini]

Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger books are occasionally laugh-out funny, even while heartpoundingly exciting. Very much like Dresden Files.

[nasaria42]

The Caverns and Creatures series by Robert Bevan fits your requirements perfectly!  The humour is dirty and low-brow, though aware of itself in a way that isn't condescending or patronizing.  The story is compelling, the characters are imperfect to the extent of being offensive, and the voice acting adds just enough to the feel of the material to keep it energized.  Though it works perfectly on a superficial and escapist level, there is a lot of meaning to be found if you look for it.  Can't really beat the title, either.

Avoid the short story collections until you have finished the first book.  They're missing the world-building and character development which add a sort of glimmering, intangible appeal to the story universe.

Critical Failures Book I:
https://audiobookbay.lu/audio-books/critical-failures-caverns-and-creatures-book1-robert-bevan/

I hope it gets easier.

[Whackbag]

The Caverns and Creatures series by Robert Bevan fits your requirements perfectly!

I was just going thru my Failures folder & it seems somehow I still need CF4 - 2D6 - & 4D6 in true decrypt m4b's

If anyone has them in their collections or Audible library aax's that'd be cool...i don't want the re-release version of 1-4 for book 4 (i have it) but they did some re-encoding or something with it & it doesn't sound as good as the original single releases do.

[JoeSoap]

These are the funniest books I've come across. I primarily read Scifi and Fantasy books so there's that...
In no particular order...

Barry J. Hutchison - Space Team
Robert Rankin - Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Benjamin Wallace - Dads vs. Zombies
Terry Pratchett - Discworld series - Especially  -The Colour of Magic and  -Going Postal
Craig Robertson - The Forever Series and Galaxy on Fire Series
Dennis E. Taylor - Bobiverse
Karl Pilkington - An Idiot Abroad
Kevin Hearne - Iron Druid Series (The First couple novels especially)
Felix R. Savage - The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad
Craig Alanson - Expeditionary Force series
Scott Barron - Bad Luck Charlie
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The first book is read by Stephen Fry (Awesome) and the rest are read by Martin Freeman and its just as good.
Peter Cawdron - Alien Space Tentacle Porn (quite funny but also really good)

There is a podcast series that you can get for free on Google podcasts called "My dad wrote a porno" and it is brilliant.

I will add to the post as I remember more books

[illodiini]

Almost forgot this:
https://audiobookbay.lu/audio-books/bbc-radio-cabin-pressure-s01-to-s05-audio-comedy-bbc/

May cause some damage (and embarrassing situations, if listened in public), but very well worthwhile. Don't say I didn't warn you.

[ReallyInventiveUserName]

I know this is an old post but here's my two cent..
In no particular order
 
Christopher Robertson - The Forever series, Galaxy on Fire series
Barry J. Hutchison - Anything
Christopher Dowell - The Adventures of Badass Mike
Karl Beecher - Interstellar Caveman
B.V. Larson - Undying Mercenaries Series
Jeremy Robinson - Space Force
J.R. Grey - Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices
Scott Meyer - Magic 2.0 series
Robert Asprin - Phule's Company series
Clayton Smith - Apocalypticon
Benjamin Wallace - Duck and Cover series
Michael-Scott Earle - Death Ship Kill Count
Andy Weir - The Martian
Ernest Cline - Ready Player One, Armada
Felix R. Savage - The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad, Void Dragon Hunters
John P. Logsdon - Platoon F series
Jay Key - The Adventures of Duke LaGrange

[illodiini]

Robert Rankin, Tom Holt, and Asprin's Myth books, at least the first half dozen.