Funniest book you have ever read?

[adventuremom]

I need a reading list which is full of funny as I need a good laugh right now. What is the funniest laugh out loud book you have read. I remember cracking up on an airplane reading " I don't know how she does it" but maybe I was just tired. Any suggestions?

Gerald Durrell books and Clive James autobiography especially the story about the dunney Man I nearly stopped breathing it was so funny

Good Omens - Pratchet & Gaimen
100 year old man who climbed out the window...
All Douglas Adams books.

There's a lot of very funny kids books that I like reading too (i'm only almost 50!)

The Tent the bucket on me. HILARIOUS!

Second (third/fourth) Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, the Clive James autobiographies and Gerald Durrell.

Also seem to remember The Buddha of Surburbia was very amusing.

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg, who wrote Fried Green Tomatoes.

Leaving Matthew
By Jane Fallon

It's begging to be made into a film.

The Weeping Women Hotel and Mr Roberts, both by Alexie Sayle.

Elle
I've read the weeping womens' hotel.
Each time I cull my books I keep it.

Last - I love it! Definitely due a re-read. Beautifully barmy.

Place marking. Great thread.

Well, on your recommendation I'll read the other one.
I can't really stand AS on tv but, that was good. And really sad, too.

DO try Leaving Matthew.

Soup soup loop the loop!

:)

I second French Revolutions by Tim Moore. I've read it several times and still makes me laugh out loud.

Another vote for Danny Wallace and Yes Man. I had to stop reading it on my journey to work as it made me laugh too much.

One day I was on a train going through a station and saw a woman on the other platform, reading it and laughing her head off too.

Love David Sedaris too. Will have to hunt out his books, God know what I've done with yhemx

Definitely yesman

And Mark Watson.

The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W E Bowman

Another vote for French Revolutions by Tim Moore.

The Crystal Bucket/Visions before Midnight/Glued to the Box by Clive James. his Observer TV columns from the 70s and 80s. Admittedly they are funnier if you remember more of the programmes but I saw very few of them and they still make me laugh more than anything in the world, more so than his autobiographies which are more painful. All the columns from these books are available on his website www.clivejames.com so you can either test them out or read the whole things on there.

I laughed til the bed shook last night reading Charlie's Brooker's Dawn of the Dumb. I guess I just like TV criticism [lowbrow]

Mr Gum. I know they're supposed to be for kids but I couldn't breathe for laughing when reading them with DC.

Cold Comfort Farm
Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegone books
Decline and fall (Evelyn Waugh) - read it for A level and the whole class was laughing.

I was intrigued by the Alexei Sayle suggestions on this thread, and had an audio book credit to use, so had a look to see if any available. None mentioned here, but his autobiography, Stalin Ate My Homework was there, read by the man himself. I listened to the free few minutes preview before deciding to download, and DH was shouting through "why are you SNORTING??", which bodes really well for listening to it on the bus.

Adrian Mole books. Especially the early ones.

The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass (the Christian version) and series is also very funny.

James Herriot books (particularly the early ones), some of the anecdotes about Siegfried are priceless.

I laughed like drain at Stark (Ben Elton) but in my defense, that was in 1989, when he wasn't unfunny.

Im struggling to remember the book I was snorting reading on a plane. It contained the line 'it looked as if the hair on his head had been kicked off' I was helpless and drawing strange looks, I'm sure. To make matters worse, I'd just calmed down and then my eyes were drawn back that line and off I went again. I wish I could remember it, I could badly do with a laugh.

I knew sue. She was even funnier in LR.
Every time I related hilarious incidents (eg Mole getting his arm stuck in the spaghetti jar to get the emergency cash to see his mum in hospital) she just LOOKED at me and said, 'But Last, that was ME!'

Adrian Mole was a real person. Including the poems to the BBC man.

Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan and The 100-year old man who climbed out of the window.

Why isn't Terry Pratchett getting more mentions on here? His books are laugh-out-loud funny, at the same time as being fiendishly clever and thought-provoking.

I love Mort the best.

Also A Man Called Ove. Funny in a quiet, deadpan way. Massively moving and humane too.

Most Ben Elton books, but my favourite "laugh out loud" one is "Stark".....the bed shakes when I read it.