Selected from the National Public Radio archives, these stories by some of NPR’s favorite commentators will keep listeners laughing.
A “driveway moment” is when you’re so captivated by a story on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you’re sitting in your own driveway. Some are serious, some are touching, and some, like the stories included here, are very, very funny.
Literate, intelligent, and droll, each tale is worth hearing again and again, and now you don’t have to stay in your car.
NPR Funniest Driveway Moments includes stories and interviews from your favorite NPR commentators and guests such as David Sedaris, Sarah Silverman, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Dame Edna, Larry David, Darryl Littleton, Justice Stephen Breyer, Jonathan Winters, Phyllis Diller, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, and more.
Funny but not funniest I expected the stories to be a lot funnier because it is called teh funniest driveway moments. I found that I laughed at some parts, but it was just as easy to turn it off and not finish the story or just skip to the next track. Overall it was good, but not as funny as I anticipated.
not so funny or gripping, and not too family-oriented either I like NPR and the comedians on the CD, however I don’t particularly agree with the title of the product or the product description. While there are (mostly) interviews with comedians, not much of the interview time is spent on their comic material. They spend more time talking about their lives. If you’re familiar with the comedians (as I was) then this will be of some interest, whereas if you’re not (or even if you are) you want to hear more of what makes them funny than that. Given that…
Hit or Miss collection from NPR Truth in advertising – The 16 stories on this set – most about eight minutes long – are NOT the “funniest moments” from NPR. Because they were culled from shows aired only between 2003 and 2008 on NPR news magazine type programs like “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered”, there was a limit. While some are truly funny interviews (Only David Sedaris’s track is a monologue, rather than an interview), others are actually serious discussions of comedy. Author and comedian Daryl Littleton…