Professor K. McCoy Audiobooks

This Audiobook Will Send You to Sleep: comic tedium delivered with a straight face

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

40 listener ratings

Who is Professor K. McCoy?

The title does the introducing here, and it does so without cracking a smile. This Audiobook Will Send You to Sleep announces its ambition up front and then sets about honouring it, which is a far harder trick to pull off than it sounds. Comedy built on deliberate dullness has to be timed as carefully as any punchline.

Beyond that, we hold no verified account of the person behind the byline, and we are not about to assemble one. What the catalogue does show is a sensibility: an author content to be the least urgent voice in the room, working in the space where gentle absurdity meets the bedside table. Our shelves file the recording under comedy and humour on one side and religion and spirituality on the other, an odd pairing that turns out to describe the mood rather well.

Professor K. McCoy in audiobooks

This Audiobook Will Send You to Sleep runs to eight hours and forty minutes, read by Bruce Alexander, whose measured delivery is the whole engine of the joke. The reading never rushes, never signals the gag, and lets the material do its slow work. Listeners who have scored it have been generous, which suggests the effect lands exactly as intended.

There is no complicated route in. Put it on late, expect to lose the thread somewhere in the middle, and count that as success rather than failure. Whatever is currently catalogued under this name is gathered below.