What books made you weep with laughter?

As a Christian and a long suffering C of E Church-goer, my favourite PG Wodehouse is "The Great Sermon Handicap" in which - deprived of gambling opportunities - BW and chums decide to bet on which local Vicar produces the longest-winded sermon on a particular Sunday. They spend quite some time studying form: The Rev'd So-and-So had a fine trial gallop this morning at the Mothers' Union meeting, etc.

I think my favourite P G book is Code of the Woosters..I was laughing from the first paragraph (althought I love the short stories too!)

Also,
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
The Liar - Stephen Fry

The best PG Wodehouse in my opinion is a short story - Crime Wave at Blandings. It is a peach and a lovely quick read at the end of a bad day.

I agree with lots of the other suggestions, except Last Chance to See. It's very wittily written and has an important message but I found the book very depressing.

have to do another vote for Jasper Fforde here

Bill Bryson - A walk in the woods
Douglas Admas - Dirk Gentlys holistic detective Agency
Peter Tinniswood - I didnt know you cared
Clive James - Unreliable memoirs
Dom Joly - Look at me!
Anything by P G Wodehouse
Have fun!

I'm currently reading "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."
The premise is so ridiculous it can't not be funny. Can be a bit graphic

Also William Sutcliffe

Brookmyre is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. For those who are going to try him: start at beginning (quite ugly one morning) and DO NOT start with the Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, it's the weakest one! Just finished A snowball in Hell - v.v.good.

Pratchett makes me laugh. The Bursar is brilliant

Oh - not sure if anyone else has mentioned Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. It was one of two books (the other Notes from a Small Island) that my sister and I both said to each other 'oh my god you have to read this book' without knowing we were talking about the same one (we're both useless about remembering titles/authors etc)

Spike Milligan's war-memoirs and, especially, Puckoon - couldn't agree more with whoever nominated those. 'Puckoon' had me doubled up with helpless weeping laughter.

'Confederacy of Dunces' doesn't do it for me, though - on a recent 'which books are the most over-hyped' thread, that was my undisputed number-one choice! (Sorry to disagree with whoever loved it...)

Till the fat lady sings by Bob Jackson had me crying with laughter and when I let someone borrow it, I knew as I could hear them laughing too!!

Oh yeah, definitely second The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryon - it's wonderful...

The Liar by Stephen Fry. I read it aged 19 on holiday with relatives in France. I'm sure my Gran thought I was unhinged from all the hysterical laughter.

The first book I read by Carl Hiassen was Sick Puppy, lent to me by my mum. I didn't look very intellectual when I said to her in company: "Oh yes, I really liked it. I loved the bit at the end with the Rhino."

DEFINITELY the Wilt books, especially the original 'Wilt' that is just hysterical, and I love it! Actually, I might read it again very soon.

Also, a really silly book by Carl Hiassan called Native Tongue makes me giggle a lot. I tried other books by him on the basis of Native Tongue but they just did not work so well...or...at all.

Bill Bryson travel books and Notes from a big country

Marley & Me by John Grogan surprised me with how much it made me laugh - and I'm not even a dog lover.

Bill Bryson Notes From a Small Island
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby - cried with laughter.

Alan Carr's or Frank Skinner's autobiographies both laugh-out-loud funny too if you like that sort of thing!

I'd second that coco...they tend to be put in chicklit if they're funny. And OP said no chick lit.

Marian Keyes is funny.

Apart from Evanovitch (and Kate Atkinson who doesn't write comic novels but is described by a poster as 'wry') there are no women on these lists.

Are women unable to write funny books? Or do publishers refuse to publish funny books by women? Do readers not trust that women can write books that make us laugh?
Discuss.

And no sniggering.

Unreliable Memoirs is properly, laugh until tears pour down your cheeks funny. Clive James is usually funny, but that's his best by far.

MyCatIsABiggerBastardThan - The Throwback is one of my favourite books too. I used to read parts out to my mother as I wept with laughter, but she just didn't - and doesn't - see the appeal.

Bill Bryson's description of blow up dolls in Neither Here Nor There - oh God!

Douglas Adams, PG Wodehouse, Roddy Doyle and Terry Pratchett - yes to all of those, too.

I liked Stephen Fry's The Liar, but can't remember how funny it was.

More, more - tell me more!

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Brilliant!

the thunderbolt kid by bill brsyon....i still wet myself at the thought of his superhero jumper