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  Fakist The: Season 1

  Bill Meeks, Rebecca Johnson

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  LeAnn Snyder is the new Executive Producer In Charge Of Production at The Fakist, a news organization as devoted to making sh– up as other news organizations are to actual journalism. Will she get kicked out of the revolving door when lead anchor Paul DaFoe’s life falls apart on air? As The Fakist himself slowly falls apart, it’s up to LeAnn to hold her favorite newscast together. 
  Between all the drama, enjoy sketches like “Mr. Rogers Returns,” “Martin Zendler’s Rascals and Rodents Report,” “The Latest Disney Princess,” plus the introduction of the multi-level maniac Debra Dawnstar.

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  The Crowd Work Tour

  Todd Barry

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  A Todd Barry show consists of two things: amazing jokes and amazing crowd work. He went on a tour without the amazing jokes and did entire shows of riffing and bantering with the audience. Filmed in seven west coast cities.

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  Brief Encounters - Conversations...

  Dick Cavett

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  Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons, and the absurdities of everyday life.In Brief Encounters, the legendary talk show host Dick Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, from James Gandolfini and John Lennon to Mel Brooks and Nora Ephron, enhancing our appreciation of their talent, their personalities, and their place in the pantheon. We tag along as Cavett spends an afternoon with Stan Laurel at his modest apartment in Los Angeles, spars with Muhammad Ali at his training camp, and comes to know a young Steve Jobs—who woos him to be Apple's first celebrity pitchman. He also offers piquant commentary on contemporary politics, the indignities of travel, the nature of comedy writing, and the utter improbability of being alive at all. 
  On his talk show, Cavett welcomed the leading figures from film, music, theater, literature, comedy, sports, and politics, and engaged them in conversation that made viewers feel that the discussion was taking place in their own living rooms. Jimmy Fallon, the new host of The Tonight Show, has called him "a legend and an inspiration" and has written a foreword that makes clear the debt that today's talk show hosts owe to Dick Cavett. Brief Encounters opens the door on how Cavett's mind works and what it is like to live in his world. 
  To spend a few minutes, or an hour, or even a whole evening with Dick Cavett is an experience not to be missed, and now there's no reason to deny yourself. Settle in, and enjoy the conversation!A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Living From A Suitcase - Join...

  Chirag Patel

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  A collection of comic articles, collecting humorous travelogues as a Brit wanders the wilds of Africa and Asia. Includes... 
  - A rock diary following a gigging band in London in the mid 2000s, who might be any aspirant post student band you've ever known 
  - Travels around Asia on the modern Grand Tour, back in the years before the crisis hit 
  - Strange journeys and getting attacked at a go kart track in India 
  - The ruminations of an Englishman emigrating to South Africa and wondering what the hell is going on, but loving it 
  - collected journalism from Durban in South Africa, early in the Zuma years 
  - selected short fiction

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  Trimmed Lamp The: and other...

  O. Henry

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  Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime. 
  The Trimmed Lamp follows The Four Million and provides another series of short stories that take place in New York City in the early years of the 20th century and are representative of the surprise endings that popularized O. Henry’s work. They also capture his use of coincidence or chance to create humor in the story. O Henry wrote about ordinary people in everyday circumstances. He is quoted as once saying, “There are stories in everything. I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts and newspaper stands.” 
  I hope you enjoy the following readings as much as I enjoyed recording them. 
  (Summary by Marian Brown)

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  Shifting Accommodation

  Mikhail Bulgakov

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  Shifting Accommodation  is a short humorous story by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940).
  From the Diary of an ingenious comrade Polosukhin:
  November 21.
  Well, Moscow… What a city… Oh, I will tell 
  you now. There are no available apartments here. 
  Absolutely no vacant flats! I even had to send a 
  telegram to my wife and tell her to stay home and wait 
  for a while. I slept three nights in the bathtub at 
  Karabuev's apartment. Well, what can I say, not that 
  bad as it may seem, pretty comfortable, I would say, 
  just water dripping from time to time. Then I slept two 
  nights on a gas stove at Shchuevsky's apartment. In 
  Yelabuga, my hometown, people say that this stove is a 
  very convenient thing. Hell no, I say! Some screws are 
  sticking in here and there, and the cookmaid is 
  grumbling, obviously not happy about my sleeping 
  there...
  December 23.
  I'm done, I'm going back to Yelabuga…

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