Recommend some funny books

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[ebonics]

I really liked Sean Condon's My 'Dam Life

Oh, and Marlon Brando's autobiography is, as you would expect, randomly, inexplicably, and charmingly nutso. Heartily recommend.

 

[Fez909]

Surprised no one's mentioned Catch-22; or does it just go without saying?

 

[DRINK?]

Anything by Tom Sharpe, though in particular The Great Pursuit, The throwback and Blott on the landscape,

 

[Kanda]

Knitting with Dog hair
Fabulous Small Jews
The Anger of Aubegines
How Green were the Nazis
Fancy Coffins - To make yourself
Nuclear War - What's in it for you



They're in our library at work amongst all the financial books

 

[Geri]

Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs (although also disturbing)
My Fat Brother - Jim Keeble
Reasons to be Cheerful - Mark Steel
Where Did It All Go Right? - Andrew Collins
The Timewaster Letters - Robin Cooper

All made me laugh.

 

[Geri]

Anything by Tom Sharpe, though in particular The Great Pursuit, The throwback and Blott on the landscape,

Oh God, I remember reading Wilt and laughing so much I thought I would never stop.

 

[Y_I_Otter]

I like Spider Robinson's "Callahan's" books (especially the first few)--

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Time Travellers Strictly Cash
Callahan's Secret
The Callahan Touch
Callahan's Legacy
Callahan's Key
Callahan's Con

ETA: I've lost track of how many copies of Puckoon I've bought. People never seem to return it when its loaned.

 

[soulman]

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Keep them coming.

I've read most of the Sharpe and Rankin books but a lot of the other authors are totally new to me

 

[Grub str. hack]

The Flashman books should be called a national treasure. Very sad, funny, frisky account of how the bumbleing British officer class pissed the empire away. The books are very informative about victorian history, and hilarious wether you know about it or not.

 

[N_igma]

Anything by Tony Hawks. Hilarious.

Michael Moore's-Stupid White Men is a good laugh too.

 

[Gavin Bl]

'Diary of a Nobody' by George and Weedon Grossmith is wonderfully funny, and an early version of Basil Fawlty, or even David Brent - in Edwardian England.

Outraged at the behaviour of the lower orders, disgusted by the upper classes who look down on him, despairing of youth, and exasperated at the entire universe, he misses his own ineptitude and stupidity at every turn. Great stuff.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Danny wallace - Yes Man. Had me in stitches

Polly Evans - Fried Eggs With Chopsticks. Hilarious account of travel in China.

 

[cyberfairy]

What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn is funny in a satirical way but does not have a happy ending-still a superb book though. Made me laugh a lot anyway.

 

[sumimasen]

Always makes me laugh. Quintessentially English.

Thirded. It's the way he writes as Wooster in the first person, sharp and subtle observations as well as satirical. Also pretty rare to find such great humour is pretty what is pretty much PG-rated content!

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Danny wallace - Yes Man. Had me in stitches

agreed- a funny book, if slightly overlong.

I really enjoyed 'solitary fitness' by Britain's most notorious prisoner, Charles Bronson. it's ostensibly a book about exercise regimes, but it's funny as fuck

 

[albionism]

Very often "laugh out loud" funny

 

[The Octagon]

Any of Bill Bryson's earlier books, particularly Notes From a Big Country, Neither Here Nor There and The Lost Continent.

I've lost count of the times I've read them and still chuckle out loud (which irritates the hell out of my girlfriend).

 

[5t3IIa]

Conferderacy of Dunces reminded me of a few of my more useless mates. V funny.

I also like One People by Guy Kennaway - proper gentle but sharp as fuck. http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-People-Guy-Kennaway/dp/0862418291

 

[damnhippie]

The Dirt by Motley Crue
Wodehouse x lots


am reading 'Wiffle Lever to Full' by Bob Fischer at the moment which is pretty funny, in a gently amusing way. it's a bit like McCarthy's Bar but with science fiction conventions instead of bars.

 

[Badgers]

The Flashman books should be called a national treasure.

Love these myself.
They are really laugh out loud, even on the train

Like the Jeeves & Wooster books a lot but they can be heavy going.

Add the Hitchhikers series to my list as well as Bryson too.

 

[El Jefe]

Any of Bill Bryson's earlier books, particularly Notes From a Big Country, Neither Here Nor There and The Lost Continent.

I've lost count of the times I've read them and still chuckle out loud (which irritates the hell out of my girlfriend).

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[The Octagon]

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[BassJunkie]

I'll second the PJ O'Rourke books, I think they're hilarious, but as mentioned, he's wrong like.

Danny Wallace - Yes Man - the bit where he's in the club in Barcelona almost killed me with laughter.

But, by far the funniest laugh out loud books I've read are by Mark Twain. Forget about Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn etc, his 'autobiographical' books are the wittiest use of the English Language in my opinion.

 

[Cribynkle]

"Rosie is my relative" by Gerald Durrell. I remember it making me laugh out loud, not read it for ages mind

 

[Homeless Mal]

Honk if You Are Jesus by Peter Goldsworthy Laughed and laughed and laughed

 

[homooxoniensis]

Penguins Stopped Play - Harry Thompson

 

[D'wards]

Oh God, I remember reading Wilt and laughing so much I thought I would never stop.

I'm just reading The Wilt Alternative now. Brilliant
Reread Wilt earlier in the year.

I wonder if it would be written in the same way now, as it is ostensibly about a man trying to murder his annoying nagging wife

 

[bellaozzydog]

John Cooper Clarke I want to be yours

 

[Orang Utan]

Dan Rhodes’ When The Professor Got Stuck In The Snow is the funniest book I’ve ever read. Actual lols n that