Book Worm

decky1

can anyone recommend some books that are genuinely funny. Thanks.:D:):cool:

fryup

alan partridge books - i partridge and nomad

both hilarious

Guy:Incognito

https://www.easons.com/1001-cool-jokes-glen-singleton-9781743520703?gclid=Cj0KCQjw0dHdBRDEARIsAHjZYYDe2fiWlTKmHWIk5qUQQlboDqjd1ef5iJWYovW10Z8HJmRumZiMB2IaAj7fEALw_wcB

Conall Cernach

PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books.
Most of Terry Pratchett.
I will second I, Partridge and Nomad.

Autecher

Woody Allen's books Without Feathers & Getting Even. A collection of mostly very short stories with guaranteed laughs on every page.

MonkeyTennis

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330919.Adolf_Hitler

Spike Milligan

Roger Hassenforder

Tom Sharpe

Try "Wilt" to whet your appetite.

Lord Glentoran

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330919.Adolf_Hitler

Spike Milligan

All seven war books from “Adolf Hitler - My part in his Downfall” through to “Peace Work”. Utterly brilliant.

benjamin d

Catch 22 is the only book that genuinely had me laughing out loud. Hilarious and a great read too.

biko

Anything by Douglas Adams

Boom_Bap

There's a new book out recently about how people thought a magician died, but it was all a trick and he reappeared a few days later. Hilarious, a bit bulky though. Can't remember the name of it though.

chakotha

James Herriot's vet books. I've never laughed so much while reading.

Shenshen

Anything by Terry Pratchett, and the Hitchhiker's series by Douglas Adams.
Those are the only books that ever made me laugh out loud.

GBX

The bible ?

zanador

The World According to Garp is fantastically funny.

i71jskz5xu42pb

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

jiltloop

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is a great book and a funny read.

I Partridge is definitely the funniest book I've ever read.

I would also second Catch 22 and there is also another very funny book which is has similar quirkiness that I found very funny, The Third Policeman by our own Flann O'Brien, fantastically strange!

Another funny series of books once you get past the first few pages and get a sense of the main character is The Enderby Series by Anthony Burgess, 3 brilliant books with a very funny main character!

Porklife

jiltloop wrote: »

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is a great book and a funny read.

I Partridge is definitely the funniest book I've ever read.

I would also second Catch 22 and there is also another very funny book which is has similar quirkiness that I found very funny, The Third Policeman by our own Flann O'Brien, fantastically strange!

Another funny series of books once you get past the first few pages and get a sense of the main character is The Enderby Series by Anthony Burgess, 3 brilliant books with a very funny main character!

A Confederacy of dunces is my favourite book of all time. There's a statue of the main character in his home town cos he's such a legend. So funny!

WhatsGoingOn2

The Superchick trilogy by Stephen Martin is very funny

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006VWR63A/

WhatsGoingOn2

And the Dublin Trilogy by Caimh McDonnell

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LB4O01I/

Not as funny, but a good mixture of crime, suspense and humour

Mint Sauce

Ronald Dahl, most are for kids, but still some funny moments. Or any of the Red Drawf books by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.

BeerWolf

Discworld novels.

Absolutely loved Terry Pratchett's narrative and dry humour.

Morpork

Another vote for Discworld!!!!!

Dick Swiveller

Many Charles Dickens books. And it's real humour; not lots of shouty swear words.

JohnnyFlash

benjamin d wrote: »

Catch 22 is the only book that genuinely had me laughing out loud. Hilarious and a great read too.

One moderately funny joke spread out over 400 pages. The most overrated book ever printed. It’s like you have to say it’s hilarious.

The Flashman books are very funny. Loads of riding, cheating on cards, racism, drunkenness, cowardly behaviour, and being a rich cad in 1800’s London. Extremely politically incorrect, so not for sensitive types.

The Tetrarch

Rodney Dangerfield's biography
It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

jiltloop

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

One moderately funny joke spread out over 400 pages. The most overrated book ever printed. It’s like you have to say it’s hilarious.

The Flashman books are very funny. Loads of riding, cheating on cards, racism, drunkenness, cowardly behaviour, and being a rich cad in 1800’s London. Extremely politically incorrect, so not for sensitive types.

Many people disagree with you there, in fact you're the first dissenting voice I've come across, most people I know who've read it found it hilarious. It's all subjective of course, it's all just a matter of opinion but I'm not sure how you think it's just one joke spread out. What may I ask is the joke you're referring to in it?

Ipso

The first five Ross O'Carrol Kelly books are great (the rest are readable). Great satire for Ireland in the early 2000's.

JohnnyFlash

jiltloop wrote: »

Many people disagree with you there, in fact you're the first dissenting voice I've come across, most people I know who've read it found it hilarious. It's all subjective of course, it's all just a matter of opinion but I'm not sure how you think it's just one joke spread out. What may I ask is the joke you're referring to in it?

War is terrible and I’ll pretend I’m mad. I don’t like most of those ‘great American novels’ written in the 60’s and early 70’s though.

While Pratchett was indeed very funny his Wizards and Witches world where most of his books were set is not really for everyone.

He co-wrote some books in a fantasy vein (called good omens) and a science vein similar to Bill Brysons "Short history of nearly everything" (called the science of discworld) which might be more up the street of anyone who wants humor but not magic and wizards.

benjamin d

jiltloop wrote: »

Many people disagree with you there, in fact you're the first dissenting voice I've come across, most people I know who've read it found it hilarious. It's all subjective of course, it's all just a matter of opinion but I'm not sure how you think it's just one joke spread out. What may I ask is the joke you're referring to in it?

I started rereading it for five minutes the other week because I saw a copy lying around somewhere and the bit about censoring the letters while in hospital in the first chapter had me almost in tears laughing again. That's within the first couple of pages. The on-going thread about what constitutes Catch 22 may be what he's referring to, but even that is brilliantly done.

Yillan

Before you read any of them, try the John Swartzwelder books. I think the first one is called the time machine did it. JS is responsible for the best Simpsons episodes you can think of as writer and consultant. Very private man. Some doubt he even exists and is just a name for a collaboration of multiple writers.

Roger Hassenforder

IMO you get tired of Discworld. Funny, but a sense of horse flogging. I did anyway!

One of the funniest Irish book ive read was McCarthys bar. Albeit author was English . AFAIR

Arghus

Anything by P. G. Wodehouse - pure comic brilliance.

The Flashman Novels by George MacDonald Fraser - a truly amazing series of novels. The fake memoirs of an aristocratic Victorian gentleman, about his life and times during the pivotal moments in the history of the British Empire, where he was usually in the thick of the action, trying his best not to die and to have as much sex as possible.

THESE NOVELS ARE EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD.

I'm no fan of the British Empire, but I find it impossible not to love these novels. The central character is a complete bastard: cowardly, racist, misogynistic, self-centred. But he's also completely honest and extremely lucky. The level of historical research that went into the writing of these was first class, you'll actually learn something about the real life history contained in the adventutes. And George McDonald Fraser is, in my opinion, the most underrated prose writer of the last fifty years. He was a brilliant writer: his storytelling and pacing, his research, his gift for descriptive language, characterisation and dialouge - he was an absolute genius. And he manages to make it all so funny and decidedly un-PC. Unmissable stuff!

Roger Hassenforder

+1 on Flashman

facehugger99

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis is very funny

ToddyDoody

The Darwin Awards series can be quite funny.

decky1

GBX wrote: »

The bible ?

I just knew when i posted someone was going to say this.:D

decky1

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

One moderately funny joke spread out over 400 pages. The most overrated book ever printed. It’s like you have to say it’s hilarious.

The Flashman books are very funny. Loads of riding, cheating on cards, racism, drunkenness, cowardly behaviour, and being a rich cad in 1800’s London. Extremely politically incorrect, so not for sensitive types.

think i'll try this one first. :eek:

decky1

decky1 wrote: »

think i'll try this one first. :eek:

just had a look for this book --sure there's a load of them:cool:

Relikk

Puckoon by Spike Milligan.

Conall Cernach

decky1 wrote: »

just had a look for this book --sure there's a load of them:cool:

Yeah, he started writing them in the 60s and only stopped because he died in 2008. I would read them in the order they were released if I were you rather than chronologically.



The conceit behind the books is that they are meant to be the memoirs of Harry Flashman that have been unearthed in an attic or something like that by the author. Flashman is the bully in Tom Brown's Schooldays and Thomas Hughes who wrote that pops up the odd time in the Flashman books.

Roger Hassenforder

Relikk wrote: »

Puckoon by Spike Milligan.

Fantastic book!

mazwell

Any of Bill brysons travel books particularly a walk in the woods

Franz Von Peppercorn

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

The Flashman books are very funny. Loads of riding, cheating on cards, racism, drunkenness, cowardly behaviour, and being a rich cad in 1800’s London. Extremely politically incorrect, so not for sensitive types.

They are great (and surprisingly historically accurate outside of the protagonists escapades) but there’s more than one way to read Flashman. It’s only pro empire at a superficial level.

Franz Von Peppercorn

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

War is terrible and I’ll pretend I’m mad. I don’t like most of those ‘great American novels’ written in the 60’s and early 70’s though.

You’re right. None of them have aged well.

bazz26

The Satanic Verses, though a few didn't see the funny side of it.

Skatedude

Who goes here by Bob Shaw

Ficheall

Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman.


Also The Madman by padraiggg.

decky1

mazwell wrote: »

Any of Bill brysons travel books particularly a walk in the woods

great books , think i have them all , his last was a big disappointment i thought.:(