I love audiobooks sometimes.

I have Amy Sedaris reading her "I Like You" book, and it's almost more entertaining than reading the book (I like the pretty pictures). I have John Waters reading his book "Shock Value", and that's a treat too. I also have Laurie Anderson reading a novel called "The Body Artist", and even though I've listened to it several times, I couldn't tell you what it's about because her voice is so pretty and soothing I'm always out like a light within 20 minutes. It's better than Xanax, I'm telling you.

ANYWAY. Say you wrote your autobiography and the publisher came to you and said they're making an audiobook of it and they wanted you to choose who reads it.

Who would you choose?

Here's my shortlist:

John Houseman (if still living; preferably drunk)
Janice from The Muppet Show
Linda Hunt
Bobby Trendy
Tracy Nelson
Tracy Morgan
Eartha Kitt
Shane MacGowan
Anthony Daniels
Courtney Love
Beaker from The Muppet Show


ok, your turn

might not suit my life, but i could listen to donald sutherland all day & night

angelcat said:

"Chapter One. GET OUT OF THE WOMB AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR - NOW!!! DO IT!!!"

oh, wait. that's kiefer.

Bobcat Goldthwait

Laurie ANderson

Amy Sedaris

Charo

Anxiety said:

DAMNIT!

Oh and if I could

Julia Child or Madelaine Kahn or Gilda Radner doing her Rosanne Rosannadana would be cool.

Foghorn Leghorn.

"I lost my--I say, I lost my virginity in my teens. Sex, that is...Pay attention, boy."

James Earl Jones.

DanceWme

Emo Phillips

Anxiety said:

"DAMN IT!"

applekisses said:

OMG, i'd rip that to my iPod.

Anxiety said:

He would be so stellar.

Anxiety said:

i'm not that fussy, kiefer would do. but he learned it all from his poppa!!!

Karl from Slingblade

applekisses said:

I thought of him, but not sure it would be appropriate and long and drawn out. Steven Wright would be cool.

WIlliam Shatner? ANyone? Bill Sten? Anyone ANyone? Buhler?

Oh god, Prince of course.

Especially if he uses that really gay voice from the "New Power Generation Maxi-Single".... are there really angels?.....

Who else? Prince,of course.

Stephen Hawking...

or Camille...
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superspaceboy said:

Little Richard would be awesome too...or one of the trinity - Rip Taylor, Paul Lynde or Charles Nelson Riley...or Madame from Wayland Flowers & Madame.

sexxydancer said:

i would choose prince if he read it in that toothless hillbilly voice from "poom poom".

Laurence Fishburne.


Yeah.

Anxiety said:

You've either got a lot of secrets you want hidden or you want people to spend days listening, rewinding and listening again.

clooney!

Sally Kellerman, but she has to read it like she's doing a Hidden Valley Ranch commercial. I want people to jizz in their pants during the first chapter.

PopeLeo said:

i think it would be easier to understand if beaker from the muppet show did my audiobook. MEE MEEP!!!

Ethel Merman but she's have to do it in recitative.

Maybe Arnold.

NDRU said:

Ziffel?

I'd read it myself.