Looking for a really funny book- funny haha not funny peculiar !

[macherie]

Need a bit of light relief - what book made you laugh out loud?

[Portofino]

I erm fifteenth Bill Bryson and love Evelyn Waugh too - or The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde). DH has been enjoying Stuart Maconie's Pies and Prejudice though I can't comment as he "stole" it from me before I started. Def. more humorous than the latest Ruth Rendell I have just finished....

[littlelamb]

Someone bought me Who moved my Blackberry for Christmas and it made me chuckle

[Portofino]

And who is the guy who wrote "Nul Points" about the losers from Eurovision and London from the Monopoly perspective. I really enjoyed those too....

[Portofino]

littlelamb, we were all given "Who moved my cheese" at work, to "celebrate" all the redundancies changes that were happening. I love the sound of the Blackberry one!

[Poppity]

Oh, I do seem to have a boy's taste in books, I try to read some Jane Austen regularly to balance it out!

Clive James autobiography was also side splitting.

[snigger]

That's reminded me - I Lick My Cheese (A collection of septic notes left for flatmates) has some gigglesome moments, but it's a 'flick-through' book as opposed to a read.

[EachPeachPearMum]

John O'Farrell is quite funny too, and the bloke who wrote one foot in the merde books...

[Poppity]

Can't find any more really funny ones, but for general loveliness I just have to mention my favourite book, As I walked out one Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee. Warm and evocative, laugh out loud in parts, Cider with Rosie too.

Any authors your DH could recommend for me then? I'm always on the lookout for a new funny book, it's always sad to finish them!!

[Poppity]

snigger, your post reminded me of this site

[macherie]

Hi poppity,

Jpod by Douglas Coupland, says dh

[LightShinesInTheDarkness]

'Moab is my Washpot' by Stephen Fry
'I don't know how she does it' by Alison Pearson
Kate Atkinson has a dry humour, but made me laugh
and absolutely Bill Bryson

[Poppity]

Oooo! that looks good, thank you

[littlelamb]

O yes to Stephen Fry.
Also Roald Dahl's Boy and Going Solo are brilliant books- I think Going Solo is a bit more sober, but Boy is a howler

[southeastastra]

life in hell by matt groening is excellent

[suiledonn]

I add my vote for Bill Bryson. There is a book of pieces he wrote about the differences between living in England and the U.S.. Hilarious.

Also, Garrison Keillor is very funny. Lake Wobegone Days is a great book.

[muffle]

Jenny Eclair's two novels really made me laugh (though also deep and moving in parts)

Also the fish finger years by Fiona Gibson, though it's not a novel.

And try catriona mccloud Growing Up Again.

[BitOfFun]

I agree Bill Bryson.

Also Christopher Brookmyre if you like sharp witty crime stuff.

And David Lodge if you are on the intellectual side...

[Snorbs]

P.J. O'Rourke has written some very funny books, particularly "Holidays in Hell", "Give War A Chance" and "Eat the Rich". If you don't know him he's an American columnist who used to be a hippie but grew up to be a right-wing libertarian.

Mark Steel's "Vive La Revolution" is a funny (and interesting) look at the French Revolution.

I also second the recommendations for Wodehouse and Pratchett.

[pingviner]

the tin men, michael frayn was the last thing that had me in stitches
the aberystwyth books - last tango in aberystwyth etc
saki if you like short stories
3 men in a boat
magnus mills is quiet,eerie and oddly funny
Carl Hiassen and Christopher Brookmyer
and the kids books ´the wonderful o´ and ´the thirteen clocks´ have just been reissued and are still cute and funny

but i have an odd sense of humour

[pingviner]

David sedaris as an afterthought!

[BitOfFun]

I luuuuuuurve Mark Steel! I stayed at his house once you know...I had a little frission around him, I must say

I was very good though, and he was entirely appropriate- but I must admit when I read he'd split from his partner I had a little daydream

[janeite]

Jane Austen is funny too! There are several scenes (Mr Collins' proposal to Elizabeth, Marianne saying goodbye to the house, loads in 'Northanger Abbey') that are hilarious.

[Nyx]

Terry Pratchett's 'Good Omens' (think it's been mentioned already) makes me laugh every time I read it.

PJ Wodehouse - also very funny, and I loved the series too!

I loved Bill Bryson, but found the travel books more of a 'dip into' type of book, not a sit and read straight through type of thing.

[janeite]

'Reaper Man' is fab - deffo his best.