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

anything by marian keyes

Marley and Me

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?

starter for ten by David Nicholls

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.

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.

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

Gotta be Bryson.

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

Janet Evanovich, very easy reads & lol funny

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Got it, just started it!

'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.

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

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).

Jasper Fforde - anything by him.

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

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