Philomena Cunk Audiobooks

Cunk on Everything: comic history and culture explained with total confidence

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

1 listener rating

Who is Philomena Cunk?

Comedy that plays it straight is the hardest kind to write, and Cunk on Everything commits to the bit without a single wink. The name on the cover is also the voice in your ears, which is exactly the joke: the whole enterprise depends on a narrator who never once concedes that anything being said might be wrong.

Our shelves file it under comedy, arts and society all at once, and that spread is a fair description of the range. Culture, history and the general state of things are taken on with the same undented confidence. Deadpan throughout, it belongs to the tradition of satire that mimics the form it mocks closely enough to be briefly mistaken for it.

Philomena Cunk in audiobooks

Running to a little over five and a half hours, the recording is performed by Philomena Cunk, and the performance is inseparable from the material; read on the page, half the comedy would simply evaporate.

It works best in short bursts rather than one long sitting, since the humour is cumulative and unrelenting in equal measure. Good company for a dull commute, and easy to dip back into anywhere at all. Have a listen below.