I reeeeeaaaallly need a good lol-book

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I could do with something very very funny atm. You know the tear-producing kind.
Any suggestions please?
TIA

oh, MissM,

I remember reading the Molesworth stories when I was a kid..wow, I had forgotten them.

Fotherington Smythe or something...he was a weed, if I recall!!

Fotherington-Thomas. He is a wet and a weed.

I read them as a kid too, then found an anthology in Waterstone's recently after I'd been reading a tribute thread on here. I was laughing at the thread, so had to buy the book. It's sublime.

Bill Bryson Down Under - or any really. No one mentioned P G Wodehouse yet? Some of the non-Wooster ones have left me helpless

anything by bill bryson.. especally his biography one the thunderbolt kid ... had me howling anyway and thats not soemthing i do often.. but that might have something to do with my reading alot of horror and urban fantasy

Adrian Mole - esp Weapons of Mass Destruction - my husband has been belly laughing at Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawkes - it is quite funny!
Three Men in a Boat - good one and a classic too.
Avoid Cold Comfort Farm - touted as hilarious - but was actually quite dull (though I may have missed the point!) - Timewaster Letters is OK - but a bit short for my liking and gets a bit samey.
I liked This is Your life by John O Farrell.
Good luck!

The Mortdecai Trilogy by Kyril Bonfiglioli is hysterical.

Agree re Adrian Mole + WMD (is that the one with the swans...?)

I second India Knight 'My Life on a Plate' and also 'Don't You Want Me' - I was literally LOL.

I mentioned 'Any human heart' as funny. I take it back: NOT funny, very sad actually.

James Thurber "The Thurber Carnival"

Clive James "Unreliable Memoirs"

Also agree with India Knight "Don't You Want Me" - the bumsex film titles game is brilliant! And 'raaaah, hot lady!'

Trendy But Casual by Paula Morris is just fantastically funny. I started it while I was on bedrest at 8 months and had to stop because it was giving me serious contractions. It is just brilliant - not chicklit but intelligent humour comedy. It's called a comedy of manners. She is a really fantastic writer. You can get it from Books New Zealand - It's published by Penguin New Zealand or from normal amazon.

Starter for 10 had me crying with laughter. The film was a real letdown, not funny at all.