HumorUs Stories — Classic and Original Funny Stories
Hosted by Don McDonald · Don McDonald
4.2from 50 ratings
- 26
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 50
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About HumorUs Stories — Classic and Original Funny Stories
Classic Tales and New Laughs from Twain to Today Comedy is the oldest trick in the book (or the short story), and HumorUs goes digging for the funniest classic tales with a few new ones sprinkled in. Each episode is one short story, narrated with care and a raised eyebrow. Bureaucratic guinea pigs that simply will not stop multiplying, courtesy of Ellis Parker Butler. A backwoods divorce that doubles right back into a wedding, by way of O. Henry. A shipwreck that strands exactly the wrong man, from the dry wit of W.W. Jacobs. A town so devoted to oversight it forms a committee to oversee the committees. Some of these tales are a hundred years old. Some are brand new. All of them prove the same stubborn little fact, that a good laugh never goes out of print. So pour something, settle in, and let the great humorists, famous and forgotten alike, humor us. A comedy fiction podcast from Short Storyverses. All episodes are narrated by professional voice actor, Don McDonald (Donmcdonald.com). Please help me out. If HumorUs makes you smile, please take ten seconds to give the show five stars in Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humorus-stories-classic-and-original-funny-stories/id6786425040). A couple of recent one-star ratings (one stating that I am actually AI) have had an outsized effect on this young show. Your rating genuinely helps. Thanks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Don McDonald
- Category
- arts · fiction · fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Jun 2026
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 26 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm by Mark Twain — Confounding Contraptions Are Nothing New
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Eyes Have It — A Classic Tale by Philip K. Dick
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Romance of a Busy Broker — A Classic Humorus Story by O. Henry
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The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm by Mark Twain — Confounding Contraptions Are Nothing New
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] At length, a perfectly natural thing came about. After we had answered three or four hundred false alarms, we stopped answering them. Yes, I simply rose up calmly, then slammed across the house by the alarm, calmly inspected the annunciator, took note of the room indicated, and then calmly disconnected that room from the alarm, and went back to bed as if nothing had happened. Moreover, I left that room off permanently and did not sin for the expert. Well, it goes without saying that in the course of time all the rooms were taken off and the entire machine was out of service. It was at this unprotected time that the heaviest calamity of all happened. […]
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