If you like "A Christmas Story"

You should check out In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, by Jean Shepherd. a collection of stories of life during the depression in Indiana that are excerpted to make up the movie. Shepherd, who narrates the movie, was a monologist. He had a hour long nightly show on WOR-AM in New York from the mid-1950's to the 70's, where he would come on and just talk, play the kazoo and the Jew's Harp along with 30's and and 40's novelty songs, and tell long stories about growing up in a scruffy midwestern town and his subsequent time in the army.

When I was about 11, my parents gave me a clock radio where you could turn on the radio and it would automatically turn off in an hour. This was miraculous to me, and for years I would go to bed around 10 and turn on my radio for just long enough that I could hear Jean Shepherd, who was on from 10 to 11. It was a great way to spend some time in the dark, waiting to fall asleep.