PRX - Pieces for Topic: Humor

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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Producer Taylor Quimby has been defending Vibram FiveFingers™ shoes to naysayers for years. When people see him wearing them while he’s on the trai...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 24:42
Caption: How does one get to the 19th floor?
Produced by two-time Peabody Award winning feature producer, Greg R. Barron, “The 19th Floor” is a light-hearted little “ditty”, an acoustic ariett...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 12:53
Caption: Hunter S. Thompson, Long Beach, California, May 1989, Credit: Rs79
Hunter S. Thompson had his first run-in with federal agents as a young boy during the Louisville summer of 1946

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
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A private detective recounts her evening.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:11
Caption: Kyle, Sam, and Ed on deck during a loading operation in South Chicago
Narrative sound-rich documentary about life aboard a cargo ship on the Great Lakes, told from the perspective of Kyle, the newbie on board.

Bought by ABC and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 11:57
  • Purchases: 2
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A lucid, non-conventional radio play--a dark and humorous piece lightly based on the industrial revolution.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 20:25
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An homage to those who enjoy hard candies and cough drops at classical concerts, plays, lectures, etc.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:02
Caption: check out mondolithic.com, Credit: Kenn Brown via mondolithic.com
Lacy Roberts and Charles Darwin muse on what's in store.

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Feb 24, 2009
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
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all 24 fuges from the Well Tempered Clavier at once!

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
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"Misfire" is an experimental sound piece that blends 1940s Dr Pepper radio ads, original violin music and sounds of thirst and thirst quenching.

Bought by WZBC, East Village Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 26, 2004
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 3