They transform boring tasks like cleaning your room and make going for a jog fly by. But once I dipped a toe in to the world of listening to books, I was hooked. I'll be honest, I didn't hop on the audiobook bandwagon for a long time. The truth is sometimes you're just not in the mood to sit down and read a book, but you're still craving the immersive experience that literature provides. Consider an audiobook the next time you want to give your eyes a lil break.
Oh, and duh, there are full seasons of new Netflix shows that need to be demolished in a single day. These are the most laugh-out-loud audiobooks of all time.Your eyeballs have a lot on their plate these days-you gotta stay up on the news, scroll through Twitter and Instagram, read your book club book, scan emails from your boss, and skim through your group text which is never not popping off. That said, occasionally, a book will get to me, and I find it much easier to laugh when I hear it out loud rather than reading it off a cold, dead page. Though I’ve spent much of my "career" as a comedian attempting to make people laugh with words, a book often feels stale, dry, and at best, more winsome than funny. It’s more rare to find myself laughing from books I’ve read. If you didn’t know anything about Plath, and you read a book about a woman toying with the idea of suicide after spending a month in a hellish internship program in New York City, and ultimately deciding suicide is not the answer… isn’t that what dark comedy is supposed to do? To walk right up to the worst subjects in life and thumb your nose at them? Regardless of plot, the acerbic narrator's observations sound more like Larry David than Virginia Woolf. For instance, I laugh every time I read Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. I guffaw at extremely sad and poignant moments in movies. I’m not the first person to point out that humor is like porn: what works for me may not work for you. I often find myself laughing at stuff others don’t find funny.
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