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When I worked in a news environment years back, I found that (hold onto your butts) hearing hours of news a day was an emotional and spiritual grind, so sought out more comedy to offset it. Podcasts especially.
Well, it won’t surprise you to find I’m looking for more comedy these days, plus trying to read (/listen to audiobooks… shut up, it’s still kind of reading) more.
If anyone’s looking for good, funny audiobooks, I’d recommend any by Samantha Irby and at least All Things Aside by Iliza Shlesinger (the only one of hers I’ve tried out), both read by the authors, and SO good because of that.
Added bonus to audiobooks: Apps like Libby let you borrow audiobooks from libraries and are nuanced enough that you can control their speed. Irby talks (reads?) a bit slowly for my tastes, so I notched those books up to an added speed of 15%.
Do check out those books.
And meanwhile, if you have any favourite comedy podcasts or funny books to recommend, please send them my way in the comments.
@reay IMHO audiobooks are 100% reading! The funniest audiobooks I've heard are the Douglas Adam's hitchiker series.
@derek I get up in my head about it. Like, I’d seen a debate online years back about it and someone pointed out that reading a book and hearing a book activate much of the same parts of your brain and so what’s really the fundamental difference if we call listening to a book “reading”, but in a quick check online I can’t verify that and then I realize I’m WAY overthinking it and should just enjoy what I enjoy.
… having said that, I’m totally calling it reading for the sake of seeing how many books I can get though (COUGHreadCOUGH) this year.
@reay I hear you! I wish I could find the link to standup routine I saw. The comedian said, "'Oh, you only listened with your ears...' So? You only looked with your eyes! Why privilege one sense over another?"
@reay former news guy here, and your first sentence is so true.
@Mollarom More power to you. I couldn’t do that for long.
I mean, local small paper stuff?
Greg Celebrates His 80th Birthday With A Game At The One Sheet Curling Club, and Mr. Whiskers Was Found… At The Town Library! and stuff? Sure.
But death and destruction and international tensions and the like? Not something I could just do day to day.
@reay Yeah, that was my job starting a few months before 9/11 to 2019. Rough times.
@reay I'm a fan of David Sedaris, and I'm currently rereading some of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
@reay everything by Terry Pratchett