The Funniest AA Speakers

AA speakers are some of the funniest people alive — and that’s not an accident. The program attracts people who survived the unsurvivable by narrating it. A man whose parents hired private investigators and staged a fake DEA raid as his intervention. A woman who married her psychiatrist. A circuit speaker who passed a collection basket while wearing a stained bathrobe. These are not embellishments. They are exactly what happened — told by someone who can finally see the whole picture.

The humor in these tapes is a specific kind: earned, dark, and delivered with the authority of a person who has already hit bottom and come back. It’s not stand-up comedy. It’s a drunk looking backward at his own catastrophe and finding the part where it was also, somehow, hilarious. Jack B. ran crap games, shook down Greeks, and got a wet-brain diagnosis — and he tells it like a man who knows the wreckage was the diploma. Russell S. forgets Danny’s name for the 29th year running and treats his own defect with more clarity than most people bring to their virtues.

These 50 tapes were selected because their titles alone tell you what you’re getting into. Every speaker here has something to say about staying sober — they just say it in a way that makes you snort-laugh before the lesson lands.

1. My Parents Hired Private Investigators and Staged a Fake DEA Raid on My Apartment 🤣 – Randy L.
2. Silly-Funny Story and The Solution Presented Simply – Earl H. 🤣
3. You Cannot Nail Sincerity to the Wall Like Jello 🤣 – Russell S.
4. Jack B. Passes the Basket While Wearing a Stained Bathrobe 🤣
5. Danny’s 6,000th “You Don’t Remember My Name” Roast and My Step 6 Brain Freeze 🤣 – Russell C.
6. Our Family Crest Features a Wine Bottle and a Pair of Handcuffs 🤣 – Jimmy T.
7. She Said Snort This and You Can Feel My Boobs — That Decision Cost Me 25 Years 🤣 – Robert B.
8. Told the Judge His Kidnapper Looked Like a Cross Between ZZ Top and Jesus 🤣 – Local S.
9. A Few Drinks Make Me Feel Momentarily Omnipotent 🤣 – Clancy I.
10. I Married My Psychiatrist Which Isn’t a Terribly Smart Thing to Do 🤣 – Ajit
11. Most of My Life When I Stood in Front of a Podium with a Tie on I Was Called Defendant 🤣 – Local S.
12. Redneck Twelve Steps — I Can’t, He Can’t, I Think I’ll Let Him 🤣 – Bill T.
13. Sponsored Myself for a While and Turns Out I Had an Idiot for a Sponsor 🤣 – Justin
14. Dog Turds Wrapped in Gold Tinfoil — That’s What We Call Our Worst Defects and We Guard Them Like Treasures 🤣 – Bob B.
15. Arrested at a Naked Hedgehopping Contest and the CO Asked Why — I Thought He Meant Why I Got Caught 🤦 – Dick G.
16. Good News, I Found Out I’m an Alcoholic — She Said Nope, You’re an A**hole 🤣 – Pat R.
17. I Must Have the IQ of a Houseplant If One Meeting a Week Could Keep Me Sober 😂 – Tom I.
18. My Stepfather Hired Vito to Break My Legs — That Was My Intervention 🤣 – David R.
19. My Doctor’s Cure Was Self-Hypnosis with a Biscuit Pan and a Blank TV 😂 – Dupree W.
20. I Married My Psychiatrist Which Isn’t a Terribly Smart Thing to Do 🤣 – Mildred F.
21. Trying to Be Air Force ROTC and Drink Like I Drank Was Like Being an Opera Singer With a Tracheotomy 🫠 – Will D.
22. It Was Love at First Vomit — Schlitz Malt Liquor at Twelve 🫠 – Siobhan W.
23. I Was Once the Thumb Sucking Cry Baby of the Aa Meeting 🤣 – Russell S.
24. I Am Addicted to Talking Shit About Other People 🤣 – They F.
25. They Told Me to Stop Talking About Higher Power in the Chapel So I Doubled Down 🤣 – Russell S.
26. The Truth Comes When Someone Hits You With a Two-By-Four 🤣 – Russell S.
27. The Original Manuscript Said Directions Not Suggestions and I Almost Argued With It 🤣 – Clancy I.
28. Hank J. Cracked the Dam with a Borrowed Big Book at 2 a.m. on a Garage Floor 🤣 – Hank
29. I Drew the Amends List on a Bar Napkin and Called It Medical Research 🤣 – AA
30. I Wrote a Bum Check for a Quart of Whiskey and Called It Problem-Solving 🤣 – Al E.
31. I Married My Husband Because He Was Sober — Turns Out I Wasn’t 🤣 – Mary S.
32. Can’t Overdose on Meetings So I’m Testing That Theory Every Single Day 😂 – Craig G.
33. You Really Have to Get Up Early in the Morning to Drink Enough to Get Kicked Out of the University of Georgia 🤣 – Jiggs T.
34. Question Sixty-Eight on the Hazelden Fourth Step Asked If I Was Afraid of Red-Headed Women 😂 – Local S.
35. I’m a Gang of One — There’s No Gangs in Palos Verdes 🤣 – Local S.
36. He Cracked Up Laughing at My Worst Amends — ‘Oh, That’s a Good One’ 🤣 – Bill S.
37. Mom Said Don’t Drink Alone or That’ll Make You an Alcoholic — So I Drank Socially 😂 – Pat F.
38. Growing Old Is Natural — Growing Up Is a Son of a Bitch 😂 – Jim L.
39. Our Courtship Was 20 Minutes — Alcoholics Take a Long Time with Heavy Decisions 😂 – Jay P.
40. Higher Power Did Not Whisper Go Straighten Those Bastards Out Tonight Myers 🤣 – Myers R.
41. They Asked Me First — You’re Going to the State Convention as a Damn Substitute 😂 – Dave C.
42. Called Al-Anon the Sisters of Perpetual Revenge 🤣 – Tom N.
43. Whole Commuter Bus Stood Up and Clapped When I Finally Got Off at My Stop 🤣 – Terri B.
44. When Higher Power Was Giving Out Ears I Thought He Said Beers and I Said Two Large Ones 🤣 – Sister M.
45. We Went to Find Our Inner Child and Discovered What We Desperately Need Is an Adult 😂 – Polly P.
46. Scored 17 Out of 20 on the Addiction Test, Lied on Two, and the One Honest Answer Was Have You Ever Drank While Pregnant 🤣 – Scott H.
47. If I Ever Locate My Inner Child I Will Choke Him Unconscious 🤣 – Frank J.
48. All You Need to Start a Group Is Two Resentments and a Dozen Donuts 🤣 – Wesley P.
49. Jumping to Conclusions Is One of My Favorite Indoor Sports 😂 – joe-m
50. Defects of Character — Don’t Have Any So I Wouldn’t Really Know What to Say 🤣 – Maren B.