The Audie Award for Humor is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a humor audiobook released in a given year. It has been awarded since 1997.
Winners and finalists Winners are listed first and highlighted in light green.
1990s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result 1997 Calvin Trillin, Piece by Piece (1995)HighBridge AudioWinner (1976)HighBridge AudioFinalist (1996)Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist1998 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) Dove AudioWinner Babyhood (1997) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing (1997) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist1999 Ranting Again (1998) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioWinner God Is My Broker (1998) and John Tierney (as "Brother Ty") Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist Pure Drivel (1998) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist
2000s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2000 How Paul Robeson Saved My Life, and Other Mostly Happy Stories (1999) NewStar MediaWinner How Men Have Babies (1999) The Audio PartnersFinalist Rants Redux (1999) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist2001 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) Random House AudioWinner Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist Pretty Good Joke Tape (2000) , Roy Blount, Jr., and Paula Poundstone HighBridge AudioFinalist2002 Napalm and Silly Putty (2001) HighBridge AudioWinner Blandings Castle (1935) Chivers North AmericaFinalist (2001) , Peter Riegert, Harry Goz, Michael Goz, Larry Keith, and Carole Shelley Random House AudioFinalist2003 Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight (2000) , Richard Kind, Clea Lewis, Alan Mandell, Mandy Siegfried, and Joey Slotnick L.A. Theatre WorksWinner Jump the Shark: When Good Things Go Bad (2001) Listen & Live AudioFinalist Mirth of a Nation (2000) , David Rakoff, Gary Trudeau, Paul Rudnick, Rick Moranis, et al. HarperAudioFinalist Sixteen Scandals (2002) and Elaina Newport and Elaina Newport SourcebooksFinalist Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! (2001) New Millennium AudioFinalist2004 Live at Carnegie Hall (2003) Time Warner AudioWinner Boogers Are My Beat (2003) Brilliance AudioFinalist (2003) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (2001) Recorded BooksFinalist (2003) Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist2005 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) Time Warner AudioWinner America (The Book) (2004) and the writers of The Daily Show et al. Time Warner AudiobooksFinalist My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy (2000) Blackstone AudioFinalist (2004) Blackstone AudioFinalist When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004) Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist2006 (2005) Brilliance AudioWinner (2005) and full cast HighBridge AudioFinalist Car Talk (2005) and Ray Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi HighBridge AudioFinalist Fired! (2006) , Charlayne Woodard, Carl Capotorto, Dana Gould, et al. L.A. Theatre WorksFinalist Nothing's Sacred (2005) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2007 Spoiled Rotten America (2006) HarperAudioWinner Company (2006) Tantor AudioFinalist F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare (2006) and Stephen Sherrill HarperAudioFinalistSolomon vs. Lord (2005) Blackstone AudioFinalist (2005) Penguin AudioFinalist2008 I Am America (And So Can You!) (2007) , Paul Dinello, Kevin Dorff, Greg Hollimon, Evie McGee, David Pasquesi, Amy Sedaris, Allison Silverman, Brian Stack, and Jon Stewart Hachette AudioWinner Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings (2006) Penguin AudioFinalist Our Dumb World (2007) Hachette AudioFinalistPlato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar (2007) and Daniel KleinRecorded BooksFinalist (2007) , Amy Sedaris, and Ann MagnusonHachette AudioFinalist2009 (2008) Blackstone AudioWinnerWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) Hachette AudioFinalistAtomic Lobster (2008) HarperAudioFinalistMartin Misunderstood (2008) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalistMe of Little Faith (2008) Penguin AudioFinalist
2010s Year Title Authors(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2010 Church People: The Lutherans of Lake Wobegon (2009) HighBridge AudioWinner Don't Say I Didn't Warn You (2009) Hyperion AudioFinalist I Drink for a Reason (2009) Hachette AudioFinalist I Shudder (2009) HarperAudioFinalist More Information Than You Require (2008) and full cast Penguin AudiobooksFinalist2011 Old Jews Telling Jokes (2010) , Eric Spiegelman, and full castHighBridge AudioWinner Earth (The Book) (2010) and the writers of The Daily Show et al. Hachette AudioFinalist Paul Is Undead (2010) Blackstone AudioFinalist Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (2010) et al. Hachette AudioFinalist Shit My Dad Says (2010) and Patrick Schumacker HarperAudioFinalist2012 Shatner Rules (2011) and Chris Regan Penguin AudioWinner Bossypants (2011) Hachette AudioFinalist Go the Fuck to Sleep (2011) Audible/Brilliance AudioFinalist In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks (2010) and Mike Lynch Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist This Is an Audiobook (based on This Is a Book; 2011) Hachette AudioFinalist2013 I Suck at Girls (2012) HarperAudioWinner America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't (2012) Hachette AudioFinalist (2012) Macmillan AudioFinalist Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012) Penguin AudioFinalist Me the People (2012) Random House AudioFinalist2014 Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? (2013) Macmillan AudioWinner How I Slept My Way to the Middle (2012) and Alan Goldsher Brilliance AudioFinalist Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013) Hachette AudioFinalist Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood (2013) Penguin AudioFinalist (2013) Hachette AudioFinalist2015 Yes Please (2014) , Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen and William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, and Kathleen TurnerHarperAudioWinner Ben Franklin Unplugged (2013) AudibleFinalist (2013) and Tom Bissell Tantor AudioFinalist Food: A Love Story (2014) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist God Is Disappointed in You (2012) and Shannon Wheeler AudibleFinalistYou Can Date Boys When You're Forty (2014) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist2016 Furiously Happy (2015) Macmillan AudioWinner Almost Interesting (2016) HarperAudioFinalist Car Talk Classics: No Factory Recalls. So Far. (2015) and Ray Magliozzi and Ray MagliozziHighBridge Audio/Recorded BooksFinalist Modern Romance: An Investigation (2015) and Eric Klinenberg Books on Tape/Penguin Random House AudioFinalist Texts from Jane Eyre (2014) and Zach Villa Tantor AudioFinalistWhy Not Me? (2015) Books on Tape/Penguin Random House AudioFinalist2017 I'm Judging You (2016) Macmillan AudioWinner (2015) Penguin Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years (2017) , John Reynolds, Fran Tunno, Cherise Boothe, Dan Woren, P. J. Ochlan, Gregory Itzin, Paula Jai Parker-Martin, Mia Barron, Ron Butler, and James Shippy HarperAudioFinalist Life and Other Near Death Experiences (2015) Brilliance AudioFinalist You Can't Touch My Hair (2016) Penguin Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalistYou'll Grow Out of It (2016) Hachette AudioFinalist2018 Carpet Diem; or ...How to Save the World by Accident (2015) Tantor AudioWinner : Philosophy of a Fool (2017) and Iris Bahr (as "Leon Black, as told to J. B. Smoove and Iris Bahr") (as Leon Black) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist I Can't Make This Up (2017) and Neil Strauss AudibleFinalist Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality (2017) and Link Neal and Link NealAudibleFinalist (2017) HighBridge AudioFinalist2019 (2018) and Megan Mullally and Megan MullallyPenguin Random House AudioWinner Calypso (2018) Hachette AudioFinalist Everything's Trash, But It's Okay (2018) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist How Not to Get Shot (2018) HarperAudioFinalist Noir (2018) HarperAudioFinalist
2020s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2020 More Bedtime Stories from Cynics (2019) , Gretchen Enders, Aparna Nancherla, Cirocco Dunlap, and Dave Hill , Patrick Stewart, Alia Shawkat, Elliot Page, Jane Lynch, John Waters, Anjelica Huston, Wendell Pierce, Mike Birbiglia, Rachel Dratch, Matt Walsh, Nicole Byer, Harry Goaz, Aisling Bea, and Gary Anthony Williams AudibleWinner Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life (2019) and Justin Hakuta Penguin Random House AudioFinalist Idiot (2019) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations (2019) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist (2019) and David Mandel (as "Selina Meyer") (as Selina Meyer) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist2021 (2020) Penguin Random House AudioWinner (2019) and J. Hope Stein and J. Hope SteinHachette AudioFinalist Nothing Like I Imagined (2020) Brilliance AudioFinalist Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use (2019) Audible StudiosFinalist Surrender, White People! (2020) and Doug Moe HarperAudioFinalistWow, No Thank You (2020) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist2022How Y'all Doing?HarperAudioWinnerBrackish Waters Audible OriginalsFinalist and Tracey UllmanHachette AudioFinalist Macmillan AudioFinalist and Megan TusingBrilliance PublishingFinalist2023Happy-Go-Lucky (2022)Hachette AudioWinnerLet's Catch Up Soon and Felip JeremicAudible OriginalsFinalist and Angela Kinsey and Angela KinseyHarperAudioFinalistWho Do You Think I Am?Hachette AudioFinalistFlyte PublishingFinalist2024Leslie F*cking Jones , foreword by Chris Rock, foreword by Chris RockHachette AudioWinnerHow to Survive HistoryPenguin Random House AudioFinalistUncle of the YearPenguin Random House AudioFinalistNo One Leaves the CastleHarperAudioFinalistRaw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot DogsMacmillan AudioFinalist2025 and Emily LynneHachette AudioWinnerErasure (2001)Tantor AudioFinalistGlory Days Hachette AudioFinalistJoyful Recollections of Trauma HarperAudioFinalistWilder Widows Walk on the Wilder SideFlyte PublishingFinalist
References
External links
Audie Award winners Audie Awards official website