What books made you weep with laughter?

[Pennies]

The school hols are taking their toll on my sense of humour. I need something to make me laugh for my holidays. Nothing chick-litty though.

Also enjoyed The Moon's a Balloon and Bring On the Empty Horses by David Niven.

all the David Sedaris books- brilliant

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome is fabulous - recommend not reading it on a train.

MASH - the book not the TV series - had me choking with laughter. Must go back to it. Also Tom Sharp - Blott on the Landscape especially (again, the TV series was nothing like as funny). Most Pratchett, but especially the witches. The description of a witches training in Equal Rites (involved a lot of cleaning out of the goat pen) was what got me into reading the Discworld books. Anything by Saki.

P G Wodehouse every time
Every holiday I read one.
Just read Ring For Jeeves.
Hysterical!

lots of books that make me smile but only P G Wodehouse makes me laugh.

Things My Girlfriend and I Argue About by Mil Millington - ROFLsome even the second time around

The Plague and I by Betty Macdonald - all of hers are funny but that's my favourite for sheer laughs.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr - only a collection of Polly Filler columns from the Fifties but really, really funny. Unfortunately costs a lot on Amazon - could try library if interested.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Her naughtiest and funniest.

Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse.

Visions before Midnight by Clive James (any of his TV criticism, in fact).

Molesworth.

Ooooh, I have the Egg & I by Betty McDonald & another one as well, IIRC - yes, very funny

(It's Onions in the Stew - have just googled & discovered, via Wiki, that she was only 49 when she died, how tragic )

three men in a boat - jerome K jerome

I don't weep with laughter at books, but agree with a number of books suggested, and would add Mapp & Lucia to the list.

Ponders, I love Betty McDonald too. 'The Plague and I' really IS a laugh-out-loud book but it's so sad that all those hilarious experiences took place while she was in a sanatorium recovering from TB - which I think is what she eventually died of, if I recall rightly. 'Anyone can do Anything' is great too, about her awful jobs during the American Depression.

Oh dear, have just gone to your Wiki link, Ponders, and read about Betty McDonald's very sad early death (ovarian cancer ). But I really do recommend her books - they're great.

Another vote for the Janet Evanovich books.

Also, after recommendations on MN, I read all the Jasper Fforde books and The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (couldn't find any others of his in our library at the time). Absolutely loved them. Very, very funny.

After reading this thread, I now have a very long list of authors to look for at the library again. Shame it's closed on a Sunday.

Just checked Waterstones. The new Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey, is out at the end of December this year. Bit late for the school holidays but one to hide away with over the Christmas break.