Starter for 10 had me crying with laughter. The film was a real letdown, not funny at all.

Trendy But Casual by Paula Morris is just fantastically funny. I started it while I was on bedrest at 8 months and had to stop because it was giving me serious contractions. It is just brilliant - not chicklit but intelligent humour comedy. It's called a comedy of manners. She is a really fantastic writer. You can get it from Books New Zealand - It's published by Penguin New Zealand or from normal amazon.

James Thurber "The Thurber Carnival"

Clive James "Unreliable Memoirs"

Also agree with India Knight "Don't You Want Me" - the bumsex film titles game is brilliant! And 'raaaah, hot lady!' <snort>

I mentioned 'Any human heart' as funny. I take it back: NOT funny, very sad actually.

I second India Knight 'My Life on a Plate' and also 'Don't You Want Me' - I was literally LOL.

The Mortdecai Trilogy by Kyril Bonfiglioli is hysterical.

Agree re Adrian Mole + WMD (is that the one with the swans...?)

Adrian Mole - esp Weapons of Mass Destruction - my husband has been belly laughing at Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawkes - it is quite funny!
Three Men in a Boat - good one and a classic too.
Avoid Cold Comfort Farm - touted as hilarious - but was actually quite dull (though I may have missed the point!) - Timewaster Letters is OK - but a bit short for my liking and gets a bit samey.
I liked This is Your life by John O Farrell.
Good luck!

anything by bill bryson.. especally his biography one the thunderbolt kid ... had me howling anyway and thats not soemthing i do often.. but that might have something to do with my reading alot of horror and urban fantasy

Bill Bryson Down Under - or any really. No one mentioned P G Wodehouse yet? Some of the non-Wooster ones have left me helpless

Fotherington-Thomas. He is a wet and a weed.

I read them as a kid too, then found an anthology in Waterstone's recently after I'd been reading a tribute thread on here. I was laughing at the thread, so had to buy the book. It's sublime.

oh, MissM,

I remember reading the Molesworth stories when I was a kid..wow, I had forgotten them.

Fotherington Smythe or something...he was a weed, if I recall!!

The Timewaster Letters.

Down with Skool. One of the Molesworth books. DH is getting irritated by me cackling at it in bed.

oh im just reading lost in a good book jux! i concur!

Jasper Fforde - anything by him.

I second (actually, I third) 'starter for ten'.

I also seem to remember I laughed out loud quite a lot with 'Prayer for Owen Meany' (mind you, I also cried a lot with that).

The book I'm reading now is, I think, very very funny: 'Any human heart' by William Boyd. Hilarious! (and a very good read in many other ways).

Lou - certainly one of the best titles I've ever seen!

'Don' tell mum im working on the oil rigs.She thinks I am a piano player in a whore house' by Paul Carter
The FUNNIEST book I have read. Had to get off the bus to find a loo I thought I was going to wet my pants.

Got it, just started it!

Have you read the Middle England one yet? I'm back in the Uk in 2 weeks and it will be the first thing I buy!

Disclaimer: I'm not northern but I thought Maconie's P&P was hilarious.

Are you northern? Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie....like Bryson, but more relateable as it's about Brits.

India Knight - My life on a Plate made me bark with laughter and I concur with 8oreighty, anything by David Sedaris

Also 'Are You Experienced' by William Sutcliffe was funny too.

Anything by Christopher Brookmyre, always made me laugh quite loud and get many many stares from folks on the bus to work

Just came on to suggest Starter For Ten but beaten to it! V funny tho.

Janet Evanovich, very easy reads & lol funny

oh, ehem, should be thank you ladies and gentlemen...

Gotta be Bryson.

thanks so far ladies...rofl @ rofling like a loony!!

I was about to say the same as myfeethurt!

Humour is very personal though. Some Christmases I'd be in the corner choking with laughter to Pratchett, and would read a chunk out to my mum and sister to stony silence.

Last couple of books which really made me laugh were non-fic - Bill Bryson's Down Under and Stuart Maconie's Pies & Prejudice.

If you're into music and fancy something non-fiction then Stuart Maconie's Cider With Roadies had me ROFL-ing on a tube train like a loony.

starter for ten by David Nicholls

Anything by David Sedaris, had me in fits while waiting in casualty once...actually finding that Slummy Mummy book funny, but you prob. already read that one?

Marley and Me

anything by marian keyes

I could do with something very very funny atm. You know the tear-producing kind.
Any suggestions please?
TIA