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A laugh-out-loud, heart-warming read for every parent who has struggled bleary-eyed through toddler tantrums, school fancy dress fails and found unlikely friendships over wine and cake. As a single mom, Frankie’s bold and brave, and right now she’s winning at life – isn’t she? Underneath her big smile and daring outfits, she’s hiding a secret. Her five-year-old son Liam is awesome.

Bran wakes in Neuroma, but has no idea what happened the previous night. He continues to progress through Office Wars while secrets start unraveling everything he thought he knew. Some secrets could destroy everything, while others open new paths. What future path will Bran's secrets reveal?

This is what the world of improv sounds like.Improv is constantly evolving so how do we chronicle what is happening to it as an art form on and off stage? Each episode, The Improv Chronicle seeks to ignite and expand your interest in improvised theatre and comedy by speaking to people who are knowledgable about or impacted by different issues and topics related to the art form. Hosted by improviser and broadcaster Lloydie James Lloyd from Nottingham, England, each short episode lifts the lid on an aspect of improv worth exploring and helps chronicle the growth of spontaneous discovery and ...

A call in show with Kevin James Thornton

After Godiva's son Torch buys a condo in Las Vegas, his grandmother Flossie and great uncle Sterling decide to pay him a visit. When the old vaudeville magicians drag him to the Pageant of Peacocks starring sexy Mara the Magnificent, it's love at first sight. The romance blossoms, but when Torch returns from a meeting in LA, Mara seems cold and distant. Torch turns to his mother, the advice columnist, for a helping hand.

A biting satire on American life which turned convention on its head. This story explores the obsessive affections of the radical Olive Chancellor for Verena Tarrant, a gifted young speaker in the feminist movement. When Olive's cousin Basil becomes equally besotted, the scene is set for a bitter tug of war.

In Season 1 of Coming to the Stage, Comedy Dynamics’ first original series, comedian Dan Levy hosts and introduces a talented pool of up-and-coming comedians who people WILL be talking about tomorrow. Levy hosts Ian Abramson, Benji Aflalo, Dave Anthony, Rell Battle, Jen D’Angelo, James Davis, Matt McCarthy, Rob O’Reilly, Jesse Popp, Sara Schaefer, Joe Sib, and Allen Strickland Williams. Each episode also features the well-known Internet cartoon, Humorous Vacuum Robot.

On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a new generation of smart comics emerged - Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols, and Elaine May, Lenny Bruce, Bob Newhart, Dick Gregory, Woody Allen, and the Smothers Brothers, among others.

My creator once reveled in his mastery over life and death. He dug from graves, stitched me together, and brought me to life. However, he never anticipated how hard it would be to get good tech support.

Comedy writer James Boughen and artist Andy Lee are friends from the north east of England. They're in their 30s so naturally they've made a podcast. Subscribe to Seadog Radio to listen to their weekly conversations about anything and everything they find funny - from weird real-life deaths, items you can (allegedly) buy on the dark web, and people who claim to have been abducted by aliens from the streets of Gateshead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Canadian author James K. Moran's debut collection of dark fiction offers fantasy, sci-fi, and horror shot through with hope and friendship.

More than four million blissfully ignorant American men are thrust into fatherhood every year, yet these men are rarely armed with an honest account of what to expect in the first nine months. This nine-month, non-fiction account details how one man learns to let go of control in the quest for the perfect pregnancy.

Nicknamed after the gas mask he and his fellow soldiers will wear as they fight in the Persian Gulf War, Aardvark is a tactical jet crewman headed for combat in this dark comedy. He recounts the days before he is called to fight and the carrier's progress toward its destination in blistering prose. The war is really happening on TV, and everyone on the ship is tuned to CNN. Aardvark wanders the ship with video camera in hand, filming the rule-bound officers, musclehead bunkmates, and porn entrepreneurs in an attempt to tune out reality. But as the ship nears its destination, he is forced to face his growing fears and sense of alienation.

A podcast for movie nerds. Be prepared for long-winded, rambling chit-chat. Your hosts DO NOT know how to shut up! Action-thriller authors Matt James and Richard F. Paddon take you through their favorite movies, many of which also happen to be their biggest influences as writers. What would they do different as the film's writers, and is there such thing as a perfect movie? Listen and find out! New episodes regularly. SUBSCRIBE today!

When Jack Jones's ranch is overwhelmed by foul pests, he seeks out Coyote Cal and Big Yap for help. But our heroes run into their own trouble along the way, captured by a wicked fiend intent on taking over their 30-episode serial and making it his own. In the process, the author is also kidnapped, sending events spiraling out of control. As the plot unravels, unlikely allies must unite to save the day. Or something like that.

Welcome to Sounds Sketchy, a sketch comedy podcast! It’s an audio-only comedy show hosted by and starring Kyle James. Give us a listen and we'll give you a laugh.

A quirk of fate has enabled the donation of a history-altering amount of cash to the ministry of a popular religious leader in a solidly Conservative state. Having interpreted the donation as a sign from above, the pastor has divined its purpose: to enable his state’s formal secession from the Union and to have their U.S. Senator appointed President of the newly created country.

On this podcast we go off trail and talk about everything that is off the beaten path.

Getting a vasectomy these days can be a responsible social gesture, but for Hank and Chuck back in 1950s Appalachia, it’s but a boozy night’s whim and all about hating to use rubbers, leaving them unprepared for how complicated their lives are about to get because nobody told them that they would have to keep using those slimy things until they’d experienced 20 ejaculations. With malleable resolve, they work through the embarrassment of producing semen samples, counting down their ejaculations, and actually talking about sex with their partners.

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