Funny books. The Times article help me find the list

[Starbear]

last week in The Times there was an article about well written funny books. I planned to save the article and buy some of the books BUT..... The newspaper ended up being recycled before I saved the list. I have looked at Times online but still can't find the list.
Does anybody have that list or know how I can find it? I need a lot of cheer in my life please.

No luck with that, I'm afraid, but I did find this list from Abe books:
www.abebooks.co.uk/books/funniest-books.shtml

Would agree with 'Lucky Jim'. Still up there with the greats of comic fiction imho.

Is this the article you mean here?

yes yes Yes KurriThank you so much I don't know what I did but couldn't find it. Thank you.
Serena Thank you too. I Love comedy, life is too short read misery novels. I'm a very light reader which are your favorite funny books?

I agree with Serena, Lucky Jim is very funny, also Cold Comfort Farm.
An old one I really enjoy is 'Diary of a Nobody' by George and Weedon Grossmith.

I also find Terry Pratchett very funny.

From the Times list, I enjoyed Headlong by Michael Frayn.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka amused me but not roaring laugh.

I can't read Terry Pratchett as I'm a sci-fiction fan NOT Sci-fantasy. I really should get over this fact as dh has every one of his books.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the other Brillant I read that when I was about 17 yrs. I read Catch 22 then I realise now I should read it again because I forgotten the whole story.
Any more recommdations welcomed

Spike Milligan's 'Puckoon' is hilariously funny but VERY politically incorrect (however, I have memories of my Dad reading it with tears of mirth coursing down his cheeks). The world seems to be divided into people who like Milligan's writing and those who hate it - would also recommend his war memoirs if you're looking for a laugh, though obviously they're not novels.

No I don't want to Join a Bookclub, by Virginia Ironside.
I laughed out loud a couple of times.

I would never have listed Digging To America as a comic novel!
Enjoyable, witty, yes, and amusing in places, but not laugh out loud funny.

Ukranian Tractors was a bore, the comedy was far too laboured to be funny, imo.

Spike Milligan wish I found him funny but I don't. Shame. Comedy is hard to write isn't it

Spike Milligan war books
Carl Haissen
Janet Evanovitch

All of Betty MacDonald, but The Plague And I is the one that still makes me laugh so much that I have to lean helplessly against doors with snot running out of my nose [appealing, eh?]

Clive James' TV criticism (Visions before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket and Glued to the Box, published together more recently as On Television. I think some bits of it are supposed to be on www.clivejames.com, but as of today I can't find them). Why would you want to read reviews of TV shows that were forgotten before you were born? Trust me, give it a try. The only trouble is that you will realise just how many journalists nick much of their phrasing and voice directly from him.

ah, found them. here for instance is the 1972 Olympics

Wodehouse. Any of the Jeeves novels for starters. Literally make me cry with laughter, no matter how many times I read them.

Not novels, but Bill Bryson especially good for a belly laugh.

Another vote for Lucky Jim - genius

Jerome K Jerome every time - both Three Men in a Boat and the sequel Three Men on a Bummel
Both have me laughing out loud every time (especially the scene where they try to open a tin of pineapple with no can opener in TMIAB)

I just finished Johnathan Coe, what a carve up, from the list. It was great, and had funny moments, but I found it rather macabre and sad. I wonder why it was listed as a great comic read. I get the irony and all that, and it is witty butI would nto describe it as a comic book.

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer is very funny and written with much more style and insight than the trashy chik-lit cover suggests.

The White Boy Shuffle, by Paul Beatty. Loses its way a bit towards the end but oh god, painfully funny for most of the way through.

For non-fiction, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King and most of Tim Moore's books have had me in stitches.