Grammy Awards for Spoken Word

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Sponsored by the Recording Academy, the prestigious Grammy is awarded to exceptional audiobook productions in Best Spoken Word Album and Best Spoken Comedy Album.  The Grammys are announced in February.

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2012

Best Spoken Word Album

Title:Society's Child: My Autobiography
   Available on CD (B I115.so)
   Performing Artist: Janis Ian

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: Blow Your Pants Off
   Available on CD (792.23 F1964.bL)
   Performing Artist: Jimmy Fallon

2011

Best Spoken Word Album

Title:If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)
   Available on CD (B W5827.if)
   Performing Artist: Betty White

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: Hilarious
   Available on CD (792.23 L8884.hi)
   Performing Artist: C.K. Louis

2010

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth
   Available on CD (817.54 E125ea)
   Performing Artist: Jon Stewart

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: Stark Raving Black
   Available on CD
   Performing Artist: Lewis Black

2009

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: Always Looking Up
   Available on CD (B F7935.aL)
   Performing Artist: Michael J. Fox

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
    Performing Artist: Stephen Colbert

2008

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: An Inconvenient Truth
   Available on CD (363.73874 G)
   Performing Artist: Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, and Blair Underwood

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: It's Bad For Ya
    Available on CD (792.23 C2824.it)
    Performing Artist: George Carlin

2007

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: The Audacity of Hope
    Available abridged on CD (320.973 0)
    Performing Artist: Barack Obama

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: The Distant Future
    Available on CD (MR FLIG DF F46)
   Performing Artist: Flight Of The Conchords

2006

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
    Available unabridged on CD (306.0973 C)
    Performing Artist: Jimmy Carter

Title: With Ossie and Ruby: In this Life Together
    Available abridged on CD (927.92 D)
    Performing Artist: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: The Carnegie Hall Performance
    Available on CD (792.23 B6275.ca)
    Performing Artist: Lewis Black

2005

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: Dreams from My Father
    Performing Artist: Barack Obama

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: Never Scared
    Available on CD (792.23 R6822.ne)
    Performing Artist: Chris Rock

2004

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: My Life
    Available unabridged on CD and abridged on CD (B C6413.my)
    Performing Artist: Bill Clinton

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: America (the Audiobook): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
    Performing Artist: Jon Stewart and the Cast of the Daily Show

2003

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Available unabridged on CD (320.520973 F)
    Performing Artist: Al Franken

Best Comedy Album

Title: Poodle Hat
    Available on CD (MR YANK PH Y94)
    Performing Artist: "Weird Al" Yankovic

2002

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: A Song Flung Up to Heaven
    Available unabridged on CD (B A5846.so)
    Performing Artist: Maya Angelou

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: Robin Williams Live 2002
    Available on CD (792.23 W7186.Li)
    Performing Artist: Robin Williams

2001

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones    
    Performing Artist: Quincy Jones

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: Napalm and Silly Putty
    Available unabridged on CD (818.54 C2824.na)
    Performing Artist: George Carlin

2000

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: The Measure of a Man
    Available unabridged on CD (B P7575.me)
    Performing Artist: Sidney Poiter

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: BrainDroppings
    Available unabridged on CD (817.54 C2824.br)
    Performing Artist: George Carlin

1999

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Performing Artist: LeVar Burton

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: Bigger & Blacker
    Available on CD (792.23 R6822.bi)
    Performing Artist: Chris Rock

1998

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: Still Me    
    Performing Artist: Christopher Reeve

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000
    Available on CD (792.7028 B)
    Performing Artist: Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner

1997

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: Charles Kuralt's Spring    
    Performing Artist: Charles Kuralt

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: Roll with the New
    Performing Artist: Chris Rock

1996

Best Spoken Word Album

Title: It Takes a Village
    Performing Artist: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Title: Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
    Performing Artist: Al Franken