Do you listen to your own narration but at the same time, Not listen to your own narration? If so then you know how it feels to be us. Of course, if you are distracted by the sound of your own voice telling you a story, you might what to seek psychiatric help. 😅
I listen to loads of audiobooks while kniiting... so I connect those books my knitted garments. So when I think about any book, it is like: yes, I remember that one, I was knitting those fluffy red mittens for aunt Mary then...
I feel you, though it's with music. I went to uni by bus, which took about an hour, so i usually put on my headphone. Even as i type this comment, i'm remembering a specific song when the bus went through a location on its route, the time, the sky, the trees ect.
@@thienkimnguyen1260 It's actually really good for the memory; if you can link two experiences together in your head you are splicing something into your mind in two different, but connected, ways. I used to get students to try it when they had something to memorise.
For me, it's usually the nail art I painted while listening! But also sometimes more random things like repainting my kitchen, sewing some pillowcases, or baking pumpkin bread for Thanksgiving. :)
As someone who mostly consumes books aurally while doing housework out of a need to feel like I'm being productive, I'm feeling very condemned by "What task were you doing while reading it?" 😂
While I'm at work and on the clock for me. 👍 (Look, you gotta stay engaged to be efficient, and between obsessing over pallet dimensions or listening to Plutarch's _Parallel Lives_ I know which one, at least on the face of it, is going to keep me more engaged.)
I know the problem of light traffic! You just can‘t listen to the book long enough! That‘s when you‘ll find me sitting in my car in front of my house listening to the audio book which will end any second now…😅
Gotta at least read to the end of the chapter! (Makes me loathe books with long chapters now though 😂) And I ❤❤❤ the ones that put the book into 3 min tracks! Modern problems smh
My audible subscription still has not 100% recovered from Covid. Before Covid, I'd listen to the 1 free audiobook every month during my commute. Between 2020 and 2021 I ended up doing so much home office that by 2022 I had a whole year's worth of unconsumed balance on my account. I am FINALLY down to a balance of only 3 books.
Great storytelling. Focusing on the eyes added to the tension and drama. Excellent technique. Reflected the tendency of human nature to get judgy and somewhat elitist when someone is at variance from the group think. The acting, filming and editing were top notch in this video. So far in 2025, the stories, sets and filming techniques are a cut above. Though, no wig for Hog in this one. Kudos to FAH. I still prefer the act of reading a physical book. I've been a voracious, some would say compulsive, reader since I learned to read nearly 70 years ago. When our kids were young we used to listen to books on tape on road trips. Multiple cassette tapes to be kept in order and carefully placed in and later removed from the tape player so as to not destroy the tape. We didn't use earphones, so for one sweet, shining moment, we were all tuned in as one. Good times. I seem to remember there was a time in FAH's past when the books threw a party and would not let the audiobook join in with them, asserting that an audiobook was not a real book. That tide has apparently turned with the times. Have a great week everyone. I'll reconnect with you all next Thursday. - Mickey
You know ... podcasts seem to have overtaken audiobooks, I just realised, so they might also be nostalgia soon. Podcasts give the reader the illusion they aren't alone, with the chatty tone and usually more than one speaker, and listeners can be more fannish about it than books.
For me, cassette audiobooks were solely consumed on childhood family trips while travelling in the car. We had three books and repeatedly listened to them on trips to Scotland, Wales or France.
@@mickeysanders74Our summer is going pretty weird actually! The other week it SNOWED! Like for real!!! Then it was too hot. The poor planet right now is so confused 😅 Sorry you're having to live with bitter cold days atm! Here, have some fire to warm you up 🔥😊
I was tasked with selecting and buying the first audio book (talking books) collection for my public library - on cassette. Imagine listening to 7 cassettes and halfway through the 8th the tape is chewed up by your player. Glad you get to find out who done it these days.
@@lexicornix7530 That's part of the beauty of the skit. These audiobook listeners do not read, so they need not know proper spelling. Based on their reactions, they probably comission Stephen Fry to make audio recordings of emails, presentations, and reports to send to their bosses.
I often have to take the audio book route to get the thing read in time for book group. But one time I accidently listened to a radio play version with a different (and happier) ending - it made for a confusing discussion I can tell you!
My sister does that Simultaneously! I bought her a year subscription to audio books. One day I askd which book she was listening to, and she said she was waiting for the physical book to come in. O_o What ever gives one joy :)
That was funny! But yes, guilty of that on occasion. I like non-fiction so it really helps with technical things. I’ve got a shark book in paperback that I’ll be reading and listening too next.
Haha, brilliant 😂 I remember the German audio books for Harry Potter read by Rufus Beck. They were so funny, cause he ran out of different voices at one point and started reading the characters in random accents instead. Madame Pomfrey suddenly sounded French, Snape Russian and for Lupin he chose to do the weirdest pauses in the middle of sentences, haha Have a wonderful day!
And Fred and George sound creepy af always saying long sentences in unison! Why???? Btw in French audiobooks, Ron speaks with a lisp. Very unfair to give the boy a speech impediment he doesn't have in the books!
Oh, the German audiobook was awful! Don't know how said "OK" to that crap to be published. On the other hand that's why I heard the version of Stephen Fry over and over again. And again. And again.... That is voice acting at its finest!
@@foilarmsandhog That's my best reading time. If you fall asleep reading a real book, at least you can pick up where you left off next day. Whereas an audiobook will just keep going. Confusingly.
@@Steffibear267 on my old stereo, it used to simply be that you tell it to switch off in an hour or two. Still doesn't help with finding your place in the book if you fall asleep before that time I guess.
The ruler and the set square fighting, who is better and the eraser complaining that nobody knows why he is half blue while the dried up pens get a laugh out of stories where someone tried to use them, which didn't work, but they still weren't thrown out. 😅
Tape tells a story that goes around in circles and doesn't know where the end is. Paperclip and stapler argue over who is responsible for getting everyone together. Binder then enters the chat. Music is provided by the rubber band
Loving the mildly threatening cult vibes, such good cinematography and return of the creepy child soundtrack. I wonder if they have a good recipe for goat curry...
I used to listen to 1-3 audiobooks per DAY while trucking cross-country. I had a 12 hrs shift so it was easy to breeze through. I started buying longer books to last a few days. GOT was awesome. Each book was super long + there are so many of them. (Still waiting, George!!!!)
@ Mistborn: The Final Empire or the Way of Kings are your two best books to start with. Both are clear opening stories. Or Warbreaker and Elantris are both stand alone.
Ah the Snob would have been a great club member...joining without any invitation and drinking an entire box of wine by himself, straight from the carton!
The audiobook book clubbers' posters as so authentic, they even use the greengrocer's apostrophe, thus proving they never read😂 As always, a brilliant and innovative sketch. Thanks for brightening Thursday mornings!
They really are like the difficult-school-subject-books that I would try hard to study and wake up on in the mornings. I would SO like to give my eyes a rest sometimes but my ears are obviously used to other sorts of processes (I will be BURNT soon, I know)
As a child my audiobooks were on tape, and the equivalent is the sound of it reaching the end. It's even worse when you're awake, and the book is scary, and you're lying in the dark with the hiss of dead air, waiting for that guillotine thunk.
This is so spot on. Though as for the trees fellin' fella, I find physical labour one of the most rewarding opportunities for audiobook listening, that's when they excel for me.
I just started listening to a new audiobook today, because my grandma used to be a narrator, and I really missed her, so I wanted to hear her voice. Its weirdly calming listening your grandma talk about the warsaw ghettos.
Yes, honestly think that's the way publishing companies will go (cp. how Gaiman's name got ever larger on Good Omens from being smaller first and that probably changing in future editions)
Oh, you have no idea what this meant to me! I get frustrated by audiobooks! That would be the perfect audiobook club for me. And here I was, literally crying about what's going on in my country, and I switched to your video--and instant laughter! Thank you so much!
Wow, this was really funny again, but such a superb change of direction as well. The guests were brilliant and the whole idea was so well explored. I've been scrolling the comments, and there is actually the feel of a proper discussion going on... guys, you're amazing, and you've brightened my Thursday yet again. ❤
Yes, a more pleasant one than with other subjects, I would love photographs of shelves of people who still own books (thought the comments about " ITS " are also starting again ;))
@@a__cat___asis Yeah, despite my grammar fixation, and as a linguist it's a heavy one, and does have its place in discussion (see what I did there? 🤣), I am *not* going to fuss about intelligent people making an excellent point without ambiguity!
Never understood how people can drive an actually imagine a book that is read to them. Guess it's because I am in one of the most dangerous cities in the USA for car crashes, because at least 50% of people either do not have a valid license and/or car insurance; yet drive like they no one else in on the road. In the past month, have almost had 10 accidents, not because of me; and also seen 3 police chases where someone drove on the shoulder of the highway/interstate. A good joke was "People in Memphis don't know how to drive when it snows. People in Memphis don't know how to drive when it rains. People in Memphis don't know how to drive when there are LINES on the road." And sadly it's true.
Love how they are reading After The Silence. Now if only some well-learned snappy-dressed highfalutin' indivudual could explain the title to me. Preferably on a 5 hour flight.
I was so confused about how many people were in this. It honestly added to the confusion and tension at the bit at the end there where it was zooming in and people were talking one after another. Not sure what your goal(s) was/are for this video, but I think you succeeded.
"We understand you can't always find the time but if you do it adds to the discussion." Sounds like my actual bookclub.
😂
You just want to punch him don't you.
As someone who reads a lot, I’m feeling slightly smug :)
Hilarious, the look when they put the earphones on!
My last book club devolved into a wine -drinking ladies night out. Was happy to move away from that town
"What did your ears do?" is not a sentence I thought I'd ever hear 😂
Sounds like a sentence you'd encounter on Duolingo 😂
@christopherfleming7505 It really does! I think I had something like "My grandmother is hiding in the blue bin" once
Maybe they held up his reading glasses
@@meehall3960 Wow, such hard work
@@87worms In my Polish course I had the following sentence: "pingwin pije wino." Translation: "the penguin drinks wine." WTF?
Lads, I just can’t follow this video. Please re-release it in Audio-book form whenever you can.
Funny 😂👍🏴🇬🇧
Perfect comeback.
And it must be narrated by Stephen Fry...
The subtitles are great so you can just read it, if you don't have time to listen to it. 🙂
😂😂😂
I'm an audiobook narrator, not sure whether to feel victimised or INCREDIBLY powerful now
Do you listen to your own narration but at the same time, Not listen to your own narration? If so then you know how it feels to be us.
Of course, if you are distracted by the sound of your own voice telling you a story, you might what to seek psychiatric help. 😅
Powerful!
Oh, so you’re the author!
Thank you for many hours of lovely book listening. You are POWERFUL.
I'd say both
I listen to loads of audiobooks while kniiting... so I connect those books my knitted garments. So when I think about any book, it is like: yes, I remember that one, I was knitting those fluffy red mittens for aunt Mary then...
I do that with CDs and car journeys. Florence and the Machine always brings back camping with my daughter in Glenties.
I feel you, though it's with music. I went to uni by bus, which took about an hour, so i usually put on my headphone. Even as i type this comment, i'm remembering a specific song when the bus went through a location on its route, the time, the sky, the trees ect.
@@thienkimnguyen1260 It's actually really good for the memory; if you can link two experiences together in your head you are splicing something into your mind in two different, but connected, ways. I used to get students to try it when they had something to memorise.
For me, it's usually the nail art I painted while listening! But also sometimes more random things like repainting my kitchen, sewing some pillowcases, or baking pumpkin bread for Thanksgiving. :)
I sleep to them. Romance ones which is funny because that's the one genre I cannot stand reading but they do make for very peaceful dreams.
As someone who mostly consumes books aurally while doing housework out of a need to feel like I'm being productive, I'm feeling very condemned by "What task were you doing while reading it?" 😂
I wrote that line, and it's about me
Me too 😂😂😂
While I'm at work and on the clock for me. 👍
(Look, you gotta stay engaged to be efficient, and between obsessing over pallet dimensions or listening to Plutarch's _Parallel Lives_ I know which one, at least on the face of it, is going to keep me more engaged.)
I mean, it's better than consuming books rectally.
Oh yeah. That one hit way too close to home.
I know the problem of light traffic! You just can‘t listen to the book long enough! That‘s when you‘ll find me sitting in my car in front of my house listening to the audio book which will end any second now…😅
I've done that, and people are like "is he okay"
You could always take the dog for a good long walk. My dog LOVES audio books!
The comedy slot on BBC Radio 4 does that for me. I don't want to miss the best bit.
Gotta at least read to the end of the chapter!
(Makes me loathe books with long chapters now though 😂)
And I ❤❤❤ the ones that put the book into 3 min tracks!
Modern problems smh
My audible subscription still has not 100% recovered from Covid. Before Covid, I'd listen to the 1 free audiobook every month during my commute. Between 2020 and 2021 I ended up doing so much home office that by 2022 I had a whole year's worth of unconsumed balance on my account. I am FINALLY down to a balance of only 3 books.
Ok but the posters behind everyone IS SENDING ME 😂
‘Well played, lads!’ is too limiting as a compliment. It’s beyond brilliant.
Cheers mate
You can’t get paper cuts from a kindle either guys…
@ What do you ears do when you read the Kindle? 😂
Hog's script for this one:
-_tongue click_
-_empathetic grunt_
-_whispering:_ no
-hm
-oooh
I know!!!! I wanted to see and hear more of him 😢 ❤
The book is the Snob's "Apres le Seelaaance"!!
I would LOVE the Snob to narrate a book. I wouldn't have hair left by the end of it, but... actually no that sounds terrible 😂😂😂
It IS! 😲🤩😆 Good catch!
I have actually read (yes, with my own eyes) that book 😄
Haha, yes, I thought of him immediately when Foil showed his real book.
😂Oh yes 🤩all we need is Snob as the narrator. He should really join this book club.
Great storytelling. Focusing on the eyes added to the tension and drama. Excellent technique. Reflected the tendency of human nature to get judgy and somewhat elitist when someone is at variance from the group think. The acting, filming and editing were top notch in this video. So far in 2025, the stories, sets and filming techniques are a cut above. Though, no wig for Hog in this one. Kudos to FAH.
I still prefer the act of reading a physical book. I've been a voracious, some would say compulsive, reader since I learned to read nearly 70 years ago. When our kids were young we used to listen to books on tape on road trips. Multiple cassette tapes to be kept in order and carefully placed in and later removed from the tape player so as to not destroy the tape. We didn't use earphones, so for one sweet, shining moment, we were all tuned in as one. Good times.
I seem to remember there was a time in FAH's past when the books threw a party and would not let the audiobook join in with them, asserting that an audiobook was not a real book. That tide has apparently turned with the times.
Have a great week everyone. I'll reconnect with you all next Thursday. - Mickey
Thanks Mickey, thats a lovely nostalgic picture you paint with the cassette tapes. Interesting how some technologies can bring us together
You know ... podcasts seem to have overtaken audiobooks, I just realised, so they might also be nostalgia soon. Podcasts give the reader the illusion they aren't alone, with the chatty tone and usually more than one speaker, and listeners can be more fannish about it than books.
Cassette tapes, now that was a joy. I did actually possess ONE book on tape once upon a time. Do people still do anything resembling a mix tape?
I guess that'd be playlists on Spotify
For me, cassette audiobooks were solely consumed on childhood family trips while travelling in the car. We had three books and repeatedly listened to them on trips to Scotland, Wales or France.
The simultaneous "Hi Simon" made it sound like an AA meeting.
Audiobooks Anonymous 😂
Greetings, Sam. I hope your summer is going well. Here in the US we are experiencing bitter cold this week. - Mickey
@@mickeysanders74Our summer is going pretty weird actually! The other week it SNOWED! Like for real!!! Then it was too hot. The poor planet right now is so confused 😅
Sorry you're having to live with bitter cold days atm! Here, have some fire to warm you up 🔥😊
You mean "Hi SIMON! ", right?? 🤨😁 I agree otherwise✌️
@tobiMelka OMG I'm so used to calling him Stephen haha!!! Lemme edit that
Good catch on AA.
"She's fallen asleep... reading!" Hog, with contempt, as an angry Irish mother.
1:15 Genre shift from skit comedy to psychological horror.
"You can't get a papercut from an audiobook" 😂😂😂😂
Poor Hog getting all dressed up in a suit, all for an "Ahhh" 🤣🤣🤣
@@SamFAHntha He does look great, though!
Yeah... who does need lines when the blue suit speaks for you 💙👌
Maybe it’s from another video 😛
@@chapoule Oh he looks fookin fantastic
I was tasked with selecting and buying the first audio book (talking books) collection for my public library - on cassette. Imagine listening to 7 cassettes and halfway through the 8th the tape is chewed up by your player. Glad you get to find out who done it these days.
Feels like when I watched 23 out of 24 episodes of a show called... 24.
As a Deaf avid book reader, thumber of real paper books, I find this very funny!! Keep up your good work lads!
The cross eyes were not necessary, but very much laughed at, thank you Foil 🤣
Then they were clearly necessary
@@foilarmsandhog...... sorry I don't believe in logic and facts ✋😌
Round of applause to whoever made the signs they are perfect
Except for the "it's" where it should be "its".
@@lexicornix7530
That's part of the beauty of the skit. These audiobook listeners do not read, so they need not know proper spelling. Based on their reactions, they probably comission Stephen Fry to make audio recordings of emails, presentations, and reports to send to their bosses.
It’s crazy how this book isn’t blowing up yet. The Censored Guide to Wealth on Bovolorus is packed with real gems.
Stephen fry is a very good narrator, can't blame them there..
Cheers from the Netherlands!
I'll have to give him a try. Robin Miles is my favorite.
There aren’t many sketches I come back to every day, but I did with last week’s one. I absolutely loved it!
Thanks Gemma, it's one of favourites in a long time. Wish we could have a set like that every week.
Me too!! Absolutely loved it! It reminded me a bit of their Worst Job on the Battlefield sketch - and that's one of my favourites!
I often have to take the audio book route to get the thing read in time for book group. But one time I accidently listened to a radio play version with a different (and happier) ending - it made for a confusing discussion I can tell you!
What!! Thats gas
Cat got Hog's tongue? Sore throat? Oath of silence? 😂
A lost bet, perhaps?
Maliciously edited out? What could he have done to Arms?!
Reading the book AND listening to the audiobook.....is that going the whole Hog?!!.....I'll get my coat...
My sister does that Simultaneously! I bought her a year subscription to audio books.
One day I askd which book she was listening to, and she said she was waiting for the physical book to come in.
O_o
What ever gives one joy :)
That was funny! But yes, guilty of that on occasion. I like non-fiction so it really helps with technical things. I’ve got a shark book in paperback that I’ll be reading and listening too next.
"by it's thumbnail" is amazing attention to detail, I love it
Haha, brilliant 😂 I remember the German audio books for Harry Potter read by Rufus Beck. They were so funny, cause he ran out of different voices at one point and started reading the characters in random accents instead. Madame Pomfrey suddenly sounded French, Snape Russian and for Lupin he chose to do the weirdest pauses in the middle of sentences, haha
Have a wonderful day!
And Fred and George sound creepy af always saying long sentences in unison! Why???? Btw in French audiobooks, Ron speaks with a lisp. Very unfair to give the boy a speech impediment he doesn't have in the books!
@@TerezatheTeacher How do you know it wasn’t in the book, who read it to you?
Oh, the German audiobook was awful! Don't know how said "OK" to that crap to be published. On the other hand that's why I heard the version of Stephen Fry over and over again. And again. And again.... That is voice acting at its finest!
This is the only time I wish I understood German because that sounds hilarious!
I for one enjoy adding to the dust mite sheltering totem pole balanced by my bed.
You too! There's a pair of you in it
@@foilarmsandhog That's my best reading time. If you fall asleep reading a real book, at least you can pick up where you left off next day. Whereas an audiobook will just keep going. Confusingly.
@@Steffibear267 that's why I use the sleep timer.
@@AmandaKMason ?? Yes, I'm actually going to ask it...what's a sleep timer??
@@Steffibear267 on my old stereo, it used to simply be that you tell it to switch off in an hour or two. Still doesn't help with finding your place in the book if you fall asleep before that time I guess.
Sketch Idea: Stationery items having a party
It sounds a bit sketchy
The ruler and the set square fighting, who is better and the eraser complaining that nobody knows why he is half blue while the dried up pens get a laugh out of stories where someone tried to use them, which didn't work, but they still weren't thrown out. 😅
Nah, I don't think they can go anywhere with them
Yes, we need this sketch! 😅
Tape tells a story that goes around in circles and doesn't know where the end is. Paperclip and stapler argue over who is responsible for getting everyone together. Binder then enters the chat. Music is provided by the rubber band
I feel like this was the genuine reaction when they invented the printing press and Reading To Yourself became a thing
I love listening to audiobooks, it is neat and less strenuous on the eyes.
😂 the famous "Apres le silence", as the snob once translated! ❤❤❤
Hog is like the silent persons in groups, that usually know everything and have ideas, but never say a word.
Loving the mildly threatening cult vibes, such good cinematography and return of the creepy child soundtrack. I wonder if they have a good recipe for goat curry...
I just love that child soundtrack
Beautiful quotes on the wall. Especially about the papercut 😄Loved the collab! And Arms, i think you found a cult if you were to join one 😂
I'm visually impaired so can only read audiobooks.I didn't realise people did other stuff while listening!
Shoutout to Fiona and Sophia! They were fab in the sketch. Good luck with the shows, ladies!
No borrowing turtlenecks and upping the wig budget.
Yes! Especially when she said what did your ears do 😂
Damn it, should have rolled out the turtlenecks
@@foilarmsandhog No no, you roll them *down* or you can't see out of them. Fiona and Sophia were brilliant, loved seeing their contribution.
@@foilarmsandhogthere's always the next sketch
I like the way that the sepia-type colouring adds to the "cult" of audio books. Great filmatography and drama, lads! 🤣👍
I used to listen to 1-3 audiobooks per DAY while trucking cross-country. I had a 12 hrs shift so it was easy to breeze through. I started buying longer books to last a few days. GOT was awesome. Each book was super long + there are so many of them. (Still waiting, George!!!!)
Brandon Sanderson is the name you need.
@martind2520
If I could find book 1, yes. I'm not starting at book #45 in a series of 300.
@@theTeslaFalcon What do you mean? As I understand it, he has several self contained series that have a bit of minor relatedness.
@ Mistborn: The Final Empire or the Way of Kings are your two best books to start with. Both are clear opening stories.
Or Warbreaker and Elantris are both stand alone.
I imagine this as an actual conversation between Arms and Foil. And the audio was great
The misspelled signs really add an extra level to the sketch 😄
So now I have to watch for a second time to pay attention to spelling!
Possibly an accident.
@@foilarmsandhog "we might have done it, but we weren't paying attention"? So what audiobook were you listening to
@@effiemills5251 Yepp, me too! 😄
Physical copies are people too 😅🎉
😂 The face close-ups with fantastic sounds at the back and possessed voice tones did it for me.
I feel like this would have been the perfect cameo opportunity for The Snob.
Ah the Snob would have been a great club member...joining without any invitation and drinking an entire box of wine by himself, straight from the carton!
The audiobook book clubbers' posters as so authentic, they even use the greengrocer's apostrophe, thus proving they never read😂
As always, a brilliant and innovative sketch. Thanks for brightening Thursday mornings!
“Yee shall be saved from damnation by the power of eternal narration”
Foil getting all his hate for audiobooks out in one sketch.
WITCHCRAAAAFT... Is what too many of my students think when there's a classmate who actualy read the book before writing the paper.
Audiobooks are the modern day lullabies for adults 😂
And short story podcasts like LeVar Burton Reads, or ghost stories read by Christopher Lee which are on TH-cam
haha
They really are like the difficult-school-subject-books that I would try hard to study and wake up on in the mornings. I would SO like to give my eyes a rest sometimes but my ears are obviously used to other sorts of processes (I will be BURNT soon, I know)
True crime podcasts are.
@@koorkad7405 that's a fact, many women have already told me so
God, your quality of cinematography just keeps going up and up and up! Love it :)
Thanks Andro, trying to up it in 2025!
The texts on the wall are great! Loving the new guest stars! 😄
If FAH ever narrate an audiobook (which they should - lovely voices) then I'll get into audiobooks!
Their voiceovers are excellent, so that's a good sign.
FOR THE GREATER GOOD
Ah yes, apres le se-lounce. 🧐 A classic
“By the power of eternal narratioonnnn! “ 😂 thanks lads I enjoy your spoofs!
Pity Simon's buddy Schuster didnt come along. They would have owned the club
"I only listen to books written by Stephen Fry"
Instructions unclear. How do you do the "jolted awake by book falling to your face as you fall asleep reading" with an audiobook?
hahah would pay to see
I've done that with my phone... more times than I care to admit 😆
I've done that multiple times with my diary!
@@SamFAHntha right on my teeth, too
As a child my audiobooks were on tape, and the equivalent is the sound of it reaching the end. It's even worse when you're awake, and the book is scary, and you're lying in the dark with the hiss of dead air, waiting for that guillotine thunk.
This is so spot on. Though as for the trees fellin' fella, I find physical labour one of the most rewarding opportunities for audiobook listening, that's when they excel for me.
At least he couldn't hear the screams of the people who's house he dropped the tree on
'Tree fellers'. So that would be Foil, Arms and Hog? :)
@@foilarmsandhog 😂😳😱😂
Maybe audio books are a good thing for Oisin: he can listen to it while helping Anne around the house
And this is why I'm always late for work on a Thursday.
I do not and will not apologise
Someone needs to say it - you're silly. And very funny.
Cork Foil to narrate every audiobook from now on please.
By the power of the enternal narration.
I just started listening to a new audiobook today, because my grandma used to be a narrator, and I really missed her, so I wanted to hear her voice. Its weirdly calming listening your grandma talk about the warsaw ghettos.
Let’s ignore the chart and pretend that Stephen Fry wrote Harry Potter. Save the millennials from a dreadful dilemma!
That's actually hilarious
Absolutely brilliant 😂 Life hack!
Yes, honestly think that's the way publishing companies will go (cp. how Gaiman's name got ever larger on Good Omens from being smaller first and that probably changing in future editions)
Someone hasn't read 1984...
I'm like Simon, I have to read a book
I only listen to books read by Sir Stephen too, which makes the range very wide.
“You can’t get a paper cut from an audiobook.” Thousands of lives have been saved 👏😂👏
I really want to see 'parents on their birthday' with Anne and Oisín. And possibly oisín applying for a job would be fun.
Yes, thanks for that
Oh no they're onto us!
Real books all the way - reminds me, I need a bigger bookcase…
You're hoarding Claire
As an editor of printed books I would like to offer Simon a silent escape in our publishing house!😂
Love it! Love it! Love it! So atmospheric, so spine-tingling..
Ah, that background music again. It goes so well with a traumatised Foil!
Oh, you have no idea what this meant to me! I get frustrated by audiobooks! That would be the perfect audiobook club for me. And here I was, literally crying about what's going on in my country, and I switched to your video--and instant laughter! Thank you so much!
Admit it Arms: The Exorcist Priest role is something you like to play! You are so convincing 😂
Absolutely, a whole childhood of catholicism to draw on
@@foilarmsandhog And cowls REALLY suit you, from Curries to WhatsApp to Monks
Love Foil‘s jumper.
Wow, this was really funny again, but such a superb change of direction as well. The guests were brilliant and the whole idea was so well explored. I've been scrolling the comments, and there is actually the feel of a proper discussion going on... guys, you're amazing, and you've brightened my Thursday yet again. ❤
Greetings, Steffi. Hope your are having a great week. - Mickey
Thanks Steffi, it is interesting indeed!
Yes, a more pleasant one than with other subjects, I would love photographs of shelves of people who still own books (thought the comments about " ITS " are also starting again ;))
@@mickeysanders74 As ever - hi Mickey, hope all is well with you!
@@a__cat___asis Yeah, despite my grammar fixation, and as a linguist it's a heavy one, and does have its place in discussion (see what I did there? 🤣), I am *not* going to fuss about intelligent people making an excellent point without ambiguity!
Love the videos lads!
Never understood how people can drive an actually imagine a book that is read to them. Guess it's because I am in one of the most dangerous cities in the USA for car crashes, because at least 50% of people either do not have a valid license and/or car insurance; yet drive like they no one else in on the road. In the past month, have almost had 10 accidents, not because of me; and also seen 3 police chases where someone drove on the shoulder of the highway/interstate. A good joke was "People in Memphis don't know how to drive when it snows. People in Memphis don't know how to drive when it rains. People in Memphis don't know how to drive when there are LINES on the road." And sadly it's true.
Eternal narration - a fate worse than eternal damnation for sure. Love it as usual lads.
Thanks morag
I was half expecting a sponsorship from audible to pop up 😂
Nobody expects the audiobook inquisition.
"Dry humour turned dark," the narrator narrated.
"Witchcraft! Take him! He shall be saved from damnation by eternal narration!" 😂 Definitely didn't see that coming 😀
you guys (+ the guest comedians) are the best comedy group I have encountered in the 2020s. Top of the decade so far.
LOL, lads! That was unexpected and unexpectedly creepy! Thank you for the laughs!!
You are very welcome annie
NEW IRISH COMEDIANS TO CHECK OUT!! Yay thank you for making me aware of those two, their acting is amazing!!
Three.
Love how they are reading After The Silence. Now if only some well-learned snappy-dressed highfalutin' indivudual could explain the title to me. Preferably on a 5 hour flight.
I like the Bluetooth joke 😄
I'm one of those who can't concentrate when listening. Would my ebook be acceptable? I love the presentation of this.
Loved the close ups 😂
I was so confused about how many people were in this. It honestly added to the confusion and tension at the bit at the end there where it was zooming in and people were talking one after another.
Not sure what your goal(s) was/are for this video, but I think you succeeded.
The signs on the wall are superb.
The book title being "After the _Silence_ " works in so many levels, even beyond the Snob reference.
Please tell me you haven't replaced the almighty Derek reign with... Simons 😂
Those Simons are everywhere, though I'm more worried about the lack of an Ed in the comments. 🤔
Well Simon is half yellow
Well, that took a turn.
Audio books are a gateway drug to "I'll wait for the movie".