Funny book for sick friend

[Wildblood]

Help please finding a good funny book, light reading for a friend with cancer. No mention of death or illness and nothing preachy about life etc. Finding it really difficult to choose when all the chicklit books have titles like "time of your life" etc. Thank you

Michael McIntyre autobiography is a good with lots of his funny stories.

Bill Brysons travel books are very funny.

I always recommend The Tent, The Bucket and Me. It's hilarious!

My go to funny books are by Kristen Bailey- has anyone seen my sex life? Pure escapism and hilarious. I re-read them when I’m sad. Would avoid for someone really prudish though!

P J O'Rourke 'Bachelor's Home Companion' is fab. The photos make me howl with laughter.

www.amazon.co.uk/Bachelor-Home-Companion-Practical-Keeping/dp/0871136864

I would agree with this.

I also really rate The egg and I by Betty MacDonald.

Thank you some great suggestions, I'll get ordering

Just William
Richmal Crompton

Ideal.

I had to ban DH from reading 'Man Walks into a Bar' in bed as the laughing made me seasick. It's a joke book so nice for short reads.

I don’t read nearly enough so don’t have anything to contribute there I’m afraid. I read the thread though and just had to say; you’re a fabulous friend and it’s heartwarming that you’re making this effort and being so sensitive to her needs. I hope your friend has the best outcome possible and that you’re doing ok (given the circumstances) xxx

I read The Tent, The Bucket and Me whilst in hospital for breast cancer having a mastectomy. I never laughed as much in all my life even thought what I was experiencing was deeply traumatic. I still read it from time to time for the laughs.

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I was just coming to suggest The Tent, the Bucket and Me @paisley256
So funny, how can so many misfortunes befall one family? 😂

Tom Sharpe?

The Tent, The Bucket and Me has a disturbing scene involving a pencil being put into a place no pencil should be, though.

I had to stop reading it after that. Just not funny.

What about the early Adrian Mole books? PG Wodehouse is an absolute ray of sunshine, too. Or James Herriot.

The Tent, The Bucket & Me is my recommendation too, also love a reread of that one!

If an autobiography is an option then I'd suggest the audio version of Peter Kay, absolutely brilliant. I've read the book and it was great but he reads the audio version himself and there's lots of extra bits because he goes off on a tangent and makes extra comments while chuckling away. Very good!

Wwhhaat? I don't remember the pencil episode. Unless you mean the French method of taking a temperature?

Also love these Scotland street stories. Ideal for audible which may be better for when your friend doesn't have the energy to read.

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd?asin=B01NCVA76B&sourcecode=ASSORAP0511160006&shareelocation=libraryoverflow 

Georgette Heyer's Regency romances? Fun and witty with heroines who know their own minds, and often very entertaining secondary characters. .

A very easy read and so witty - Bossypants by Tina Fey. It's her autobiography but full of laughs.

Not sure that link works.
Try this one.

44 Scotland Street: Series 1-3
By Alexander McCall-Smith
Narrated by Crawford Logan, Carol Ann Crawford, full cast

Listen on Audible:
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd?asin=B01NCVA76B&sourcecode=ASSORAP0511160006&sharee_location=pdp

When it first came out there was a scene in it where an older boy put a pencil in the narrator’s bum. I found it really disturbing. It didn’t sit well with the tone of the book.

While you’re deciding, send a link to the thread about the embarrassing Facebook mistake, so funny!

P. G. Wodehouse. No one even comes close. Sublimely beautiful language, very funny, and amazingly joyful. Somebody once said that Wodehouse's world is like Eden. It's how the world would be if Eve hadn't eaten the apple and got us kicked out of paradise. There's no death, no pain, no sadness, nothing horrible. Somebody else described reading him as "like swimming in champagne," which is wonderfully accurate. He's perfect. If your friend isn't up to reading him, I'd recommend the Stephen Fry audiobook. Fry really brings him alive.

Evelyn Waugh is also very funny – but nastier and darker.

Oh, and the Ladybird Books for Grownups series is hilarious.

I hope your friend is OK. She's lucky to have somebody like you in her life OP x

Tim Moore’s book French Revolutions is very funny (it’s about his attempt to follow the Tour de France route). There’s another one too about doing the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with a donkey that is v funny too