Can anyone recommend a decent funny book?

[dalek]

I fabcy something that makes me laugh - or at least chuckle - any suggestions?

TIA
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Definitely David Sedaris - caused me to snurfle a lot on the tube.

Not fiction, but The Timewaster Letters books get me every time.

the edible woman by margaret atwood, cold comfort farm, anything by marian keyes.

holidays in hell by pj o'rouke might be abit dated but always makes me chuckle.

Only book to make me laugh out loud is A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (I think!)

'The Shape of Water' by Andrea Camilleri, and this hols have been snortng aloud reading 'My family and Other Animals' by Gerald Durrell - so funny that after I finished it, DS1 grabed it and has also been laughing aloud, so DH has baggsyed it next

Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James
England Their England - A.G Macdonell
Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
Portnoy's Complaint - Phillip Roth
London Fields - Martin Amis (all parts with "Keith Talent" are a scream. Skip the rest)
P.G Wodehouse (long stretches are not funny, but always one or two scenes, or just lines, that have you on the floor.)
Daisy Ashford - The Young Visiters

Dave Gorman and Marian Keyes' 'Under the Duvet'

Roxynotfoxy - I hope you see this. Could you email me at trangoni at btinternet dot com.

Kate Atkinson - Emotionally Weird is funny. And the new Mark Haddon (A Spot of Bother) is pretty funny at times.

just came on to see if anyone had mentioned Mark Haddon's latest, v funny

got to add;

all Bill Bryson's travel books - don't read in public!

Don't think anyone's mentioned Pete McCarthy - 'McCarthy's Bar' and 'The Road to McCarthy' are achingly funny.

Dave Gorman is quite amusing, Danny Wallace too.

But really, it's Bill Bryson has me stifling giggles into the duvet every night. His books do, I mean, not the man himself.

anything by joseph connolly they make me laugh out loud.

I haven't read the whole thread, so someone might have mentioned these, but the 44 Scotland Street series by Alexander McCall Smith are very funny and much better than the Detective Agency ones (though they are ok).
PG Wodehouse makes me roffle.
Peter Kay's autobiography isn't entirely literary, but I suspect a lot of it is fiction, and it is very funny in parts.
John O' Farrell's May Contain Nuts is hilarious and not a little discomfiting.
Of course, any Douglas Adams.
India Knight's How Do You Want Me? made me cry with laughter in parts.

Can't think of any more...

I know - Pauline McGlynn's books are really funny! Wish I could remember the titles - they are about a female detective. Google her - she's Mrs. Doyle off Father Ted. Well-written books, though, not the usual I'm- off -the -telly -so -I -got- a -book- deal dross (yes, I am looking at you, Jo Brand).

Under the Duvet & Further under the Duvet both by Marian Keyes, very, very funny.

A little obscure book called The little world of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi (translated by Una Troubridge)It is warm and really funny.

A short history of tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka had me in stitches.

The No 1 Ladies' detective agency books by Alexander McCall Smith are really funny especially if you are a woman and even more so if you have lived or travelled in Africa.

Anything by Douglas Adams. Who can resist a line like this: The space ships hung in the air in much the same way as brick don't. (The hitchhiker's guide)

Another Sue Townsend book - 'Rebuilding Coventry'.
Loved 'The Queen and I' too and enjoyed the series of Adrian Mole back in 80's with Julie Walters as Adrian's mum!

Another vote for all of Bill Bryson's.

All of them truly laugh out loud, great belly laughs complete with snorting and tears

'The best a man can get' by John O'farrell. Written from the point of view of a new father .... quite insightful re. the mother, and v. funny ! I've copied and pasted an Amazon review below, if that's ok....

I really enjoyed this book, it drew me in at the start, and kept me laughing throughout. While the ending is arguably weak, and the funnier parts are at the start, the book is about a journey of self-awareness.
Michael Adams is essentially a good father and a loving husband, caught up perhaps in his own selfishness and always aware of the mess his own father made of being there for him. As he tells the story, O'Farrell adds observational, sardonic humour but still manages to produce a tale that should resonate with any father, or anyone who has ever questioned their commitment in any long term relationship.

blimey, I just clicked on this thread intending to recommend John O'Farrell ! was going to suggest that one or 'May Contain NUts'

Molesworth books - Back in the jug agane, Down with skool
by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle

Woman's World by Graham Rawle

Look it up. It's brilliant and var funny. He has made a story from cutting out sentences and words from 1950s women's mags (and a good plot it is too). SOunds like it wouldn't work but it's genius. So funny in parts.

oh merry - can I hug you?

I suggested molesworth to my book group, I loved it and everyone else farking hated it. With a passion

this is an old old thread, isn't it