Douglas Adams' The Deeper Meaning of Liff, a tongue-in-cheek dictionary, much like the also hilarious Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce makes a good read. The irrepressible Dave Barry has an entire series of books that could make a cow laugh with his misadventures in Japan, Cyberspace, Turning Forty, etc. If you can get into small town backwoods humor dealing with the outdoor life and kids growing up, Pat McManus' books are great. The sardonic wit of Lewis Grizzard is also pretty funny.
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
I've never heard of that and being the big Adams fan I am, I think I need to find it. Thank you, Pen, for bringing it to my attention.Originally Posted by Pendragon
Depending on how sophisticated you want the novel to be you could give Ben Elton or Stephen Fry a go.
I agree that Pratchett is hilarious and 'Catch 22' is amazingly funny in a completely horrific way.
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King was not a funny book, as far as subject matter and overall plot, but there was one line in the book that made me laugh out loud. It was about a clipboard: "The clipboard he'd been carrying went sliding like a toboggan for leprechauns." This character Henry has been through hell, he's being held against his will, and it looks like the situation is only going to get worse. Someone has dropped a clipboard on the snow, and to Henry it looks like a toboggan for leprechauns. That, to me, was funny.
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
the canterbury tales-chaucer
Don Quixote
Master and Margarita
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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Celine's and Bukowski's works have been riots. Don Quixote has been the exemplar of wholesome humor that has yet to be surpassed.
The Artemis Fowl series, I saw someone mentioned it. It's very clever and funny. I can't think of anymore at the moment.
A Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams made me laugh
and Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov made me giggle
The Georgia Nicolson series, the first book is entitled "Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging". Kinda says it all.......
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Tartarin de Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Bridget Jones (1 & 2) by Helen Fielding
lets start with the old ones
candide voltaire(almost everything he wrote even on the napkiens in french cafes would make me laugh)
canterbury duh
gulivars travels
sherlock holmes(not necissarly comedy but cleverness always makes me giggle)
The Imitatable Jeeves(I have read this the most recentley.. LOVED IT)
Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxcy
DIRK GENTLEY (I like these better than HG2G)
Most books I have read make me laugh but these especially.
deus ex machina
Oh yes, Candide made me laugh too!
Lucky Jim ~ Kingsly Amis
Nice Work ~ David Lodge
Try them, you won't be dissappointed. Let me know if you are.
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