Best Comedy Audiobooks UK 2026: 10 Picks from £6.19

Quick picks

• Best overall: And Away... by Bob Mortimer, read by the author, £9.79 to buy. A funny and moving life story, from a Middlesbrough childhood to meeting Vic Reeves, prompted by a 2015 heart scare.
• Best budget: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding, read by Imogen Church, £6.19 to buy, the lowest price in this guide. The first Bridget Jones book, written as her diary.
• Best classic comic novel: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, read by Pearl Mackie, £9.79 to buy. Flora Poste takes her gloomy Sussex relatives in hand in this 1932 parody of rural melodramas.

The 10 comedy audiobooks in more detail

And Away... by Bob Mortimer, read by Bob Mortimer. Read by the author; funny memoir (publisher description). Audiobook published 16 September 2021. Listening length 7 hours and 59 minutes, unabridged. £9.79 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. In 2015 Bob Mortimer was diagnosed with a heart condition that needed immediate surgery and forced him to cancel a tour, and the scare made him look back on his life so far. He covers a Middlesbrough childhood marked by the loss of his dad and by misadventures such as burning down the family home and starting a short-lived punk band called Dog Dirt, then training as a solicitor in London before a chance meeting with Vic Reeves in a pub in the 1980s changed everything. Bob reads it himself.

Bridget Jones's Diary (Book 1) by Helen Fielding, read by Imogen Church. Book 1 of 4 in the Bridget Jones series (listing); read by Imogen Church. Audiobook published 10 October 2013. Listening length 8 hours and 27 minutes, unabridged. £6.19 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. Bridget Jones keeps a diary as she struggles through the social minefield of her thirties, weighing up the eternal question of Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy. For support she turns to her friends Shazzer, Jude and Tom, and a bottle of chardonnay. This is the first of the Bridget Jones books, read by Imogen Church, and the lowest-priced pick in this guide.

Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics) by Stella Gibbons, read by Pearl Mackie. Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Lynne Truss (listing); read by Pearl Mackie. Audiobook published 25 June 2020. Listening length 8 hours and 6 minutes, unabridged. £9.79 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. Orphaned at nineteen, sensible and sophisticated Flora Poste goes to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in deepest Sussex, home of the doom-laden Starkadders, including Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for twenty years. Flora loves nothing better than organising other people, so she sets out to take each of the family in hand. The 1932 novel is a parody of rural melodramas, and Pearl Mackie reads this Penguin Classics edition.

Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly, read by Billy Connolly. Read by the author; his first full-length autobiography (publisher description). Audiobook published 14 October 2021. Listening length 8 hours and 38 minutes, unabridged. £15.69 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. Billy Connolly's first full-length autobiography, read by Billy himself. It runs from his birth in a Glasgow tenement in 1942 and a very hard childhood, through work as an apprentice welder in the Clyde shipyards and years as a banjo-playing folk musician, to the stand-up career and the 1975 Parkinson appearance that made him a national star. It also covers his diagnoses of cancer and Parkinson's disease, so there are serious passages alongside the stories and jokes.

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes by James Acaster, read by James Acaster. Read by the author; introduction by Josh Widdicombe (listing). Audiobook published 24 August 2017. Listening length 6 hours and 8 minutes, unabridged. £13.79 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. Comedian James Acaster tells the stories of the embarrassing scrapes he keeps getting into, from disappointing a skydiving instructor mid-flight to hiding from thugs in a bush while wearing a bright red dress. The stories began as a regular feature on Josh Widdicombe's radio show, and this first book collects them along with some new ones. James reads it, with an introduction credited to Josh Widdicombe.

This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay, read by Adam Kay. Read by the author; includes extra diary entries and a new afterword (publisher description). Audiobook published 7 September 2017. Listening length 5 hours and 47 minutes, unabridged. £9.39 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. Adam Kay's diaries from his years as a junior doctor on the NHS front line, written in secret after long days, sleepless nights and missed weekends: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, and a hospital parking meter that earns more than he does. The publisher describes it as funny, horrifying and heartbreaking in turn. Adam reads it, and this edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword.

Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders, read by Jennifer Saunders. Read by the author; comedy memoir (publisher description). Audiobook published 10 October 2013. Listening length 8 hours and 10 minutes, unabridged. £7.49 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. Jennifer Saunders looks back on a career that runs from the Comic Strip to Comic Relief and Absolutely Fabulous, including accidentally enrolling on a teacher training course with a young Dawn French, bluffing her way to each BBC series and touring India with Ruby Wax and Goldie Hawn. She also writes about having cancer, though the publisher promises laughter rather than misery. Jennifer reads it herself.

Alan Partridge: Nomad by Alan Partridge, read by Alan Partridge. Read in character as Alan Partridge (listing credits Alan Partridge as narrator). Audiobook published 20 October 2016. Listening length 6 hours and 2 minutes, unabridged. £13.79 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. The fictional broadcaster Alan Partridge puts on his boots, windcheater and scarf and sets off on a walk through Britain, intent on completing a journey of immense personal significance, which he records in a 'journey journal'. Along the way he describes the people and places he meets and muses on matters large and small. It is read in character as Alan.

Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome (Book 1) by Garth Marenghi, read by Garth Marenghi. Book 1 of 3 in the TerrorTome series (listing); read in character as Garth Marenghi. Audiobook published 3 November 2022. Listening length 8 hours and 14 minutes, unabridged. £13.79 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. Horror writer Nick Steen is sucked into a cursed typewriter by the Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, and the visions inside his head are unleashed for real. With Roz, his frequently incorrect editor, he has to defend the town of Stalkford from his own fictional horrors. It is a horror parody credited to and read in character by Garth Marenghi, the horror-author character created by comedian Matthew Holness.

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, read by Geoffrey Palmer. Shortest pick at 4 hours and 53 minutes; read by Geoffrey Palmer. Audiobook published 13 November 2015. Listening length 4 hours and 53 minutes, unabridged. £9.62 to buy outright on 2 November 2026. The diary of Mr Pooter, who records in painful but very funny detail everyday life in the lower-middle-class suburbs of Victorian England and his attempts to better himself socially. First serialised in Punch between 1888 and 1889 and published as a book in 1892, it gave English the word Pooterism, the tendency to take yourself far too seriously. Geoffrey Palmer reads it, and at 4 hours and 53 minutes it is the shortest pick here.

How we chose these comedy audiobooks

• Funny memoirs and comic fiction. Five picks are comedy memoirs or diaries and five are comic novels, so there is something whether you want true stories or made-up ones. We left out radio sitcom recordings and panel shows, which are a different kind of listen.
• Read by the right voice. All five memoirs are read by the people who wrote them, and two of the novels are read in character, as Alan Partridge and Garth Marenghi. The other three novels have a single professional narrator.
• One pick per author. Every audiobook comes from a different author, and none of these 10 titles appears in our other audiobook guides.
• The full recording. All 10 are listed as unabridged on Amazon UK. We skipped abridged editions, such as an abridged reading of Right Ho, Jeeves and an abridged Dear Fatty.
• A real price. Each pick showed a price to buy the audiobook outright on its Amazon UK listing on 2 November 2026. We used the price shown in the Buy row, not any struck-through list price, and skipped anything without a price.

How to choose a comedy audiobook

• Memoir or novel? A comedy memoir is a real life story told for laughs, and often has sad or serious parts too. Windswept & Interesting covers Billy Connolly's illnesses, Bonkers covers Jennifer Saunders' cancer, and This Is Going to Hurt has harrowing hospital moments. If you want pure escapism, pick one of the novels.
• Author-read memoirs. Comedians reading their own books keep their timing and delivery. Bob Mortimer, Billy Connolly, James Acaster, Adam Kay and Jennifer Saunders all read their own memoirs here.
• Character comedy. If you know the TV characters, Alan Partridge: Nomad and Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome are read in character, which suits fans of the shows. TerrorTome is also the first of three books in its series on Amazon UK.
• Older classics. The Diary of a Nobody (1892) and Cold Comfort Farm (1932) are older books with a gentler, drier humour than modern stand-up memoirs.
• Match the length to your listening. The Diary of a Nobody (4 hours and 53 minutes) and This Is Going to Hurt (5 hours and 47 minutes) are the shortest picks. Windswept & Interesting (8 hours and 38 minutes) is the longest, followed by Bridget Jones's Diary (8 hours and 27 minutes).
• Play the free sample. Humour is personal, so listen to the sample on the Amazon UK listing to check the voice and style suit you before you buy.

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