I dont really laugh when reading ..do you?

I've cried at plenty of books. I find I smile at things I like in books but laughter is a rare thing for me - generally, I think. It's one of those things that gets me like an attack of hiccups. I have done a lot of little snorts reading comments on ongoing threads on here, quips from some very clever people - but if something in a book really catches me as funny I'm more likely to grin and want to read it to someone. I don't laugh at comedy either. I know when something is funny to me, but actually laughing is another thing. My other half laughs more than I do at the TV. I suspect I'm more prone to being thrown off course by things that annoy me, and I also think I have a weird sense of humour. My kid is the same. I do love it when something makes me laugh unexpectedly though, because of how rare it is. I absolutely adore the fruit game in Bob Mortimer's autobiography. I think about it often.

Seconded!

I was at school, aged 12, reading it on my knee in a very boring History lesson.
One chapter closes with Gerald's mother absolutely putting her foot down and strongly lecturing them all there is no way they are moving home again.

The next chapter starts with something like 'The new villa was painted pink'

I got the giggles and had to spend the rest of the lesson standing in the corridor outside the classroom then detention was spent writing an apologetic letter to the history teacher. 😂

Yes. I very rarely laugh out loud when reading. Maybe because the bulk of what's amusing is coming more from the cleverness of the writing, not a silliness of plot?

In our family we still say "paddle your own canute"

1066 is just brilliant.

I liked The Tent, The Bucket and Me, until it got to the bit with the pencil and suddenly it wasn’t funny any more and I had to stop reading.

I laughed out loud at a Bill Bryson book, and I crease up after a few concerted pages of '1066 and all that'. I can't remember whether I laughed out loud at 'Cold Comfort Farm' or not but I smile about many parts of it. Something narsty in the woodshed.

I do laugh at funny books. Christopher Brookmyres books, The Tent the Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy, Bill Bryson, and Unruly by David Mitchell spring to mind.

DH never laughs at them. He's read a couple of the above, after hearing me laugh whilst reading, and doesn't seem see them the same way I do.

The Brookmyre book he claims is just a violent farce.

The Tent, the Bucket and Me - he felt it was made up , couldn't accept the stories were true events. I actually went camping in the 70s and can believe it.

one of the joys of reading to children is laughing with them IMO. Mum & I also found the Bagthorpe saga hilarious too (Helen Cresswell, I think?).

another one I’d forgotten, but was reminded about on another thread, is Stuart Maconie’s ‘Cider with Roadies’. That creased me up too. ‘I’ve seen the wild dogs of Skem’ as a bumper sticker always makes me laugh.

Yes to Diary of a Nobody- the bit where his new trousers need taking up and he ends up in the office with someone calling 'Hornpipe!' at him as they're too short! Also Bob Mortimer and Daisy May Cooper's autobiogs

I only laugh out loud reading Ross O’Carrol Kelly books. They are so good you want to tap the stranger beside you and share the joke. But that’s probably it for the LOLs.

I like it when I hear people giggling when they're reading!!

Irvine Welsh books have made me laugh out loud, but I come from Scottish family so brought up with Scottish humour.

reading the thread with the "sweaty bum hole" had me laughing and im still laughing thinking about it

The 'Jennings' books made me laugh out loud when I was a kid too.

Woody Allen, David Sidaris, wry smile Jane Austen.

Some of my fondest memories are of reading Mr Grim books to my boys. We used to howl, and still quote them to each other to this day 😀

The passage in Neither Here Nor There where Bill Bryson imagines a man having a dinner date with a blow-up doll made me literally weep with laughter.

The passage in Peter Kay’s first book about being shown The Terminator on a school coach trip did the same.

Wodehouse makes me chuckle, as does The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

But some of the old threads on Mumsnet have made me laugh more than anything else I’ve ever read. I used to be unable to breathe for laughing. Women are so funny.

James Herriot’s books made me laugh and cry . I laughed out loud reading Windswept and Interesting by Billy Connolly . Bill Bryson is funny too .

@TonstantWeader Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf! I used to feel so sorry for the
wolf but I still laugh (to myself) when I remember the one with the ear trumpet.

Reading funny books to children is lovely. My DNephew and I had a good laugh at The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter a couple of years ago.

Yep JD Kirk has made me crack up many times!

Yes Sue Townsend's books. Remember reading Adrian Mole as a teenager and lending it to my brother afterwards, and lying in bed hearing his laughter from the next room!
Also found Morrissey's autobiography really funny. He's hilarious.

I read Down Under by Bill Bryson lying poolside in Kefalonia. I was crying with laughter. I mean I could barely read a line without cracking up. It was worse trying to hold it in, I had tears running down my face and was wheezing like Steptoe. When the last person packed up I was finally able to let go.

Occasionally. But it's more like a 'snort' or a little 'titter' escapes, or I'll be grinning whilst I'm reading it. I don't really properly laugh out loud when reading books.

A few posts on here by very funny people making quips have made me snigger, but not in a raucous proper laugh out loud way.

Usually a chortle but I've laughed alot at Terry Pratchett, and its always so hard to explain why its funny when someone's asks, just met with a blank look back when I describe what's funny. Some things just tickle me, I cracked up at "see a pin, pick it up, all day long you'll have a pin" but it needs context and my husband just didn't find it funny at all when he asked what inwas laughing at 😆

Also laughed aloud at Bill Bryson :)

Yet another Bill Bryson shoutout. Snorting out loud on the train and tears of laughter.