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Cosa avrebbe da dire un girino che abita uno stagno all'arrogante che cerca in tutti i modi di contaminare l'acqua? E cosa pensano davvero le acciughe sui banconi dei bar liguri di questa tra- dizione alimentare? Com'è, insomma, la vita in questo mondo alla rovescia in cui gli animali e le sirene parlano, si lamentano dell'uomo, lo sfidano e lo contrastano?

Go Piss Yourself: Comedy for People Who Aren't Snowflakes is an audiobook that tells the story of a hilarious cast of characters who find themselves unexpectedly sharing a house in Colorado. A criminal blunder in Tennessee means a sweet lady and her two stepsons must flee the state. They end up moving in with a hilarious gay couple and are soon joined by a salty, middle-aged woman from New York. A blend of mismatched personalities, questionable conduct, and good intentions must navigate the messy Coronavirus pandemic.

Space exploration gone different. Although HAM was the first US astronaut, at one point in history it seemed inevitable that the first deep-space pilots would be humans. Of course, we know that things didn't work out that way. This is the story as it actually unfolded, including the real story of Tolan Baboon's flight and his best dirty jokes. A humorous alternate history of the space program.

“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.” Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism.

Sturgis Sturdevant is a professional troll. He works for a fake news website; he can’t seem to find a decent therapist or meet a nice girl; and it looks like he’s inadvertently joined a cult. If that wasn’t bad enough, Stu might also be a hypnotically programmed assassin.

Ferdinand Mount’s stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America. We follow the hapless Dickie Pentecost, redundant diplomatic correspondent for a foundering national newspaper, together with his stern oncologist wife, Jane, and their daughters, Flo, an aspiring ballerina, and the quizzical teenager Lucy.

Dear God a zombie bit Myffaine! All merry hell breaks loose and life as we know it is in danger of being snuffed out from the planet on what is otherwise not too bad of a Tuesday. Barry and Myffanie have to negotiate a Zombie apocalypse in an effort to save the market value of the house they bought in Ptthwit five years ago. An accident in a nearby cosmetics laboratory has unleashed a zombie horde onto the village, one that may take over the entire planet if they don't stop it, or worse completely wipe out the extra value Barry's Garage extension put onto their property.

Fans who have enjoyed the first four novels in the series have questions, such as, "What would Steve do next?" "How did it all begin?" and "What the heck is a dweebil?" More Circles in Hell: A Boxed Set has the answers. I'm No Angel picks up where The Reluctant Demon leaves off. Beelzebub: A Memoir is the ultimate back story. Fourteen billion years in the making, Beezy's tale is one of chaos, creation, and of course comedy. In The League of Unusual Denizens, seven inhabitants of hell join forces to save the universe from destruction.

Rose Well Holiday Park needs a hero. This once shining icon of the Great British Holiday Camp is dying and the last residents are more interested in preparing for a zombie apocalypse or fighting off imaginary UFOs than playing crazy golf or bingo. In addition, a foreign bottled water company is attempting to force a sale so they can seize the last asset of Rose Well Park, the Rose Well Spring. What Rose Well Park could probably do without is a hero whose belief in a better tomorrow far outweighs any of his past achievements. But William Fox is all they have.

In an alternate timeline, John F. Kennedy goes into acting instead of politics and ends up as captain of the starship Enterprise. But what if history has its own plan for JFK? This savage satire of American politics and Hollywood egos was written by Star Trek's most notorious scribe, David Gerrold, who also wrote Star Trek's popular "Trouble with Tribbles" episode.

What happens when social media becomes social reality? Something very, very odd happens! "Social media is everywhere; it knows everything; it knows what you think. It gives and takes...it's giving you something now. Social media is social reality." With these words Penelope urges her friend Teddy Vroom to embrace the world - as it invades his life!

Ein musikalisches Hörspiel für Eltern und Kinder, in dem vieles genau umgekehrt ist als in Wirklichkeit. Manches ist auch nur Quatsch - aber ganz schön guter! 1979: Das war eine Zeit, da wurde in der Pädagogik des wohlanständigen Bürgertums noch völkisch abgedampft, und die Ohrfeige galt als äußerst nützliches Kommunikationsmittel mit Kindern. Kennzeichnend für diese Gesellschaft war die von der Bildzeitung ein Jahr zuvor angeschobene Aktion "Ein Herz für Kinder".

Die Lage ist prekär: Charlie, Ferdi und Raimund wollen mit Glitterschnitter den Weg zum Ruhm beschreiten, aber es braucht mehr als eine Bohrmaschine, ein Schlagzeug und einen Synthie, um auf die Wall City Noise zu kommen. Wiemer will, dass H. R. ein Bild malt, aber der will lieber eine Ikea-Musterwohnung in seinem Zimmer aufbauen. Frank und Chrissie wollen die alte Trinkerstube Café Einfall zur kuchenbefeuerten Milchkaffeehölle umgestalten, aber Erwin will lieber einen temporären Schwangerentreff etablieren.

Blood felt good in the enormous child’s hands.The 12-year-old never expected to turn his family into cherry red ragdolls, but the beatings had made him into a monster. It was all he knew. After being exiled by the vile inhabitants of the Lowlands, Preston “Porky” Sullivan planned his revenge for over 40 years. Hate. Loathing. Despise. Will it end in blood, or become yet another sad, moronic tale to dwindle in the raging abyss of the Lowlands?

Have you ever slathered mustard on a hotdog and thought, "Wow, I sure hope the company that made this condiment isn't a corrupt tech startup run by a CEO who is a tyrannical chauvinist!" Well, you're about to.

Take a space-pirate, inspired by a long-ago Dark Lord. Take a long period of quarantine within the tiny confines of a stolen starship. Now, take 42 busted, broken, or overbearing tropes of fantasy and science fiction. One by one, the Dark Lord twists each into a strange shape and uses it to tell a new story - many of them disgracefully funny, some rather dark, and none of them suitable for vulnerable minds such as yours. Jeff Mach brings tight, interesting, usually satirical, often quite twisted stories, to light a fire in your belly like whiskey, and light a whiskey on fire.

"Matías no baja" es la primera novela de Hugo Burel. En ella empezamos a notar al narrador experto, amante de la prosa afilada y concisa y con gusto por la psicología de sus personajes en que se convertiría en los años venideros. En el texto, asistimos a una trama de novela negra clásica mezclada con un cierto costumbrismo satírico centrado en los últimos años de la dictadura en Uruguay. Burel se sirve de esta trama para una de sus señas de identidad: reflexionar sobre el Uruguay contemporáneo y sus absurdos, sus contradicciones y sus soledades.

My name is Tilly, and when I was 17, I lost the love of my life because my mum and his dad did the nasty, made a baby, then got hitched. It drove us apart, me into the arms of another and him as far away as he could get. Now six years later, he shows up telling me he doesn’t care that he’s my stepbrother, that we share a sibling, or that I’m a single mum with three kids to a guy he’s always hated. He wants me back and he’s willing to prove it.

Eight dark comic dramas narrated by Alexei Sayle and adapted from his original short stories. Dramatised from Alexei Sayle's hilarious, highly acclaimed fiction, these satirical, surreal and surprising tales feature some of the UK's foremost comic actors, and are introduced by the award-winning comedian himself.

It was just supposed to be a quick trip to the pet store for some cat food, but the universe had other plans for Florence Valentine. Good for nothing kids and some annoying store employees were giving her a hard time, and then things got worse when she was killed by a delivery truck. Instead of angels, pearly gates, and eternal rewards, a voice in her head keeps telling her that she’s become a dungeon core, whatever that is.