Comedy audiobooks are a different beast from reading jokes on a page. The delivery, timing, and voice of a narrator, especially when it’s the author performing their own work, turns a funny book into something closer to a live set. David Sedaris reading his own essays is the clearest proof of this: the pauses, the deadpan, the barely-contained amusement in his voice adds layers no print edition can replicate.

If you laugh out loud on public transport without shame, this category is yours. Memoir-style comedy tends to work best in audio because the personality of the writer comes through so completely. Listeners who love Nora Ephron, Samantha Irby, or the sharper end of British humor will find this format genuinely revelatory rather than just convenient.