Your funniest books

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I'm particularly melancholy tonight. Hit me with some funnies!

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons always makes me laugh.

I think The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion was funny too, but it has been six years since I read it so can't remember much

Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island

David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day

Jenny Lawson's Furiously Happy

Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened--the dinosaur suit story never fails to make laugh till I cry!

Anything by P.G. Wodehouse!

Early Evelyn Waugh

Adrian Mole

Yep

Adrian Mole

Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!

Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men on a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel,
EF Benson’s Mapp and Lucia series,
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series,
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey and Maturin series,
Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm,
Bill Bryson’s The Lost Continent, A Walk in the Woods, Notes from a Small Island.

The first half of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall. John Betjamen said that when Waugh read it out loud to him, he knew he'd never read anything funnier.

Also, Right Ho Jeeves, by P G Wodehouse, which is as close to perfection as any work of art I know. The prize giving speech is pure genius. Read Wodehouse out loud. There is literally nothing like it in all literature. Better than Prozac.

I'm very fond of Bill Bryson, Douglas Adams, Oscar Wilde, Dickens, etc. But they are merely witty or amusing. None of them hit the heights of Waugh and Wodehouse.

Pretty much anything by Pratchett

A bit dated I suppose but I loved French Revolutions by Tim Moore.

It's an oldie but the funniest book I read was e:a novel. Can't remember who the author is
It's a story about an advertising company pitching for the coca cola account and it's all written in the form of emails. I was in stitches reading it as some of the characters reminded me of my work colleagues at the time.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. And her second one, not quite as funny but still good.

Hitchhiker’s Guide series.

e by Matt Beaumont - it's very funny.

Matt Beaumont e: A Novel https://amzn.eu/d/g4SbbDU

Jasper Fforde’s ‘Thursday Next’ series. The Eyre Affair is the first one - completely bonkers!

The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

It's about a group of (fairly posh) British blokes who decide to climb the mountain Rum Doodle in Nepal? But they're all totally incompetent, especially at the jobs they've been assigned to (which are supposed to be in their areas of expertise).

Recommended by Bill Bryson. Look up the reviews on Amazon.

I know it’s a teen type book but

angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging.

i still find it hilarious

I loved Tom Sharpe's novels. I read them a long time ago, so not sure how well they've aged, but Wilt, the Wilt Alternative and Riotous Assembly were all favourites of mine.

'In at the deep end' has recently properly made me laugh out loud. My username is one of the chapter titles

The TimeWaster Letters. Silly but brilliant.

Anything by Rich Amoii, Keris Stainton, Tracy Bloom, B R maycock (all rom coms) or there’s a book called how self help didn’t change my life

The Maze (Panos Karnezis)

I can't tell you how happy your post made me. My husband wrote e. We're both authors and it was the first time either one of us had been published. Such happy days. Thank you for the reminder. It means a lot.

A bit dated now but I still find Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis very funny.