What will make me laugh like Bill Bryson does?

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Inspiration needed please! I stopped reading for fun a few years ago due to studying and I need a few books for my holiday. I've read everything Bill Bryson has written, and they made me laugh out loud. Can anyone point me in the direction of something similar? Not necessarily travel books or non fiction but easy to pick up and put down and funny? Thanks.

Dave Gorman!

David sedaris

Marian keyes

Tina fey's book bossyboots is v funny

Jon ronson is witty and funny

David Nicholls "Us" is light and funny.

A long time since i read it but i really liked Richard Pryor: Pryor Convictions: And Other Life Sentences.

Or you should just read Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid again

This is going to hurt by Adam kay

Stuart Maconie, Pies and Prejudice, if you’re northern especially!

Sick Puppy - Carl Hiassen
Porterhouse Blue
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

I must admit though that I’ve never found anything to make me laugh quite as much as Bill Bryson ... wondering if They’d be as funny if I re-read them ....

Fab thanks everyone, I didn't know where to start.

Or you should just read Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid again The bit with the dad and the diving board had me crying laughing.

Alexander McCall-Smith, the books set in Edinburgh are particularly amusing.

Wilt by Tom Sharpe

David Sedaris is excellent but I like his better because I love his accent .

But my all time humorous book has to be 3 Men in a Boat.

'Attention all shipping' by Charlie Connolly. A voyage around the shipping forecast. Amusing and informative

Another vote for Marian Keyes especially Walsh family novels

Bateman's 'Mystery Man' series is very funny fiction, real laugh out loud stuff.

The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow. Not so well known but everyone I have recommended it too absolutely loves it. He has a similarly self-deprecating sense of humor as BB https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97501.TheUnlikelyyVoyageoffJackdee_Crow

My friend recommended Sedaris to me after I introduced her to Bryson.
Nope. Funny in places, but too vulgar to come close.
If you want non-fic, then definitely Stuart Maconie or Jon o'Farrell (if you vote Labour!)
Fiction- early Marian Keyes- were excellent, they're pretty unfunny now. The first Bridget Jones takes some beating, it was very much a zeitgeist novel. Don't touch anything after the second one though. Total rubbish.
First two Adrian Moles can still make me l-o-l as can Nigel Williamson (Wimbledon Poisoner made me guffaw on a train once)

Nothing makes me laugh like Bill Bryson but the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith have had their moments. I love them.

I read them a very long time ago but the books that made me laugh aloud in public & then my parents in turn when we all read them on the same holiday were Maureen Lipman. They may have dated.

I've read a few of Marian Keyes years ago, and the no.1 ladies detective agency. I'm on Amazon now, thanks for all the recommendations!

More travel literature - Tim Moore! I find out almost as funny as Bill Bryson, although with a different feel. Definitely worth looking at. I recommend perhaps starting with 'Spanish Steps' or 'French Revolutions'.

I always recommend Nigel Williamson - The Wimbledon Poisoner. This is the only book that did make me laugh out loud many times. There was that one bit in Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh that had me in hysterics, but I suspect he's an acquired taste?

Sam Winder, Danubia or Lotharingia. Part travel book , part history book.

My favourite Bill Bryson has to be a walk in the woods. That line about the bear and the nail clippers! 'Were you going to give it a pedicure?'