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Funny books 16:26 - Feb 25 with 4493 viewsBrixtonBlue

I was just thinking to myself that the funniest book I've ever read is Yes Man by Danny Wallace... then I realised I haven't actually read that many funny books. Anyone got any recommendations?

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Funny books on 16:27 - Feb 25 with 3715 viewsartsbossbeard

The answer is always:

Clive James - Unreliable Memoirs

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Funny books on 16:30 - Feb 25 with 3700 viewsitfcjoe

I recently read 'This is going to hurt' by Adam Kay

it's memoirs of a Junior Doctor, you'd like it as is framed around how the NHS is massively under resourced - but it is very, very funny and well writted

The only thing I'd say is that I may have got a bit more of it as is about a gynaecologist and I'd recently been through bits of it having just had children which may have made it funnier

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Funny books on 16:30 - Feb 25 with 3695 viewsfooters

The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper aka Robert Popper.

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Funny books on 16:39 - Feb 25 with 3665 viewsDarth_Koont

Funny books on 16:27 - Feb 25 by artsbossbeard

The answer is always:

Clive James - Unreliable Memoirs


Agreed. That's that.

Moving onto the runners-up, the ones that spring to mind are:

Alexei Sayles' Barcelona Plates and Barcelona Chairs (short story anthologies) are also very good. And surprised none of them have been made into films or even as some Black Mirror/Inside No.9 series.

John O'Farrell is also very good - This is your life but also his short story about a mime artist Walking into the wind is utterly fantastic.

PJ O'Rourke's Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut is excellent as is almost everything by Jon Ronson (who's always amusing and self-deprecating rather than laugh out loud funny).

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Funny books on 16:43 - Feb 25 with 3633 viewsBrixtonBlue

Funny books on 16:30 - Feb 25 by footers

The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper aka Robert Popper.


Yeah, read some of this as my GF has it/recommended it. It's alright, but I kind of got bored after a while.

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Funny books on 16:50 - Feb 25 with 3596 viewsPecker

Paul Lamberts autobiography should be a laugh. (or cry).
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Funny books on 16:52 - Feb 25 with 3593 viewsHalf_Idiot

If you like Horror/Comedy then I'd strongly suggest the John Dies at the End trilogy by David Wong
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Funny books on 17:46 - Feb 25 with 3531 viewsCanadafan

Bill Bryson- Notes From A Small Island. His other travel books are worth a read too.
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Funny books on 17:58 - Feb 25 with 3505 viewsPlums

Puckoon by Spike Milligan. His war diaries are also brilliantly funny but moving tragi-comedies.

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Funny books on 18:00 - Feb 25 with 3499 viewsbluelagos

Another vote for Bill Bryson's travel writing.

Very dark humour but Irvine Welsh is fookin awesome imho

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Funny books on 18:20 - Feb 25 with 3474 views66notout

Funny books on 16:50 - Feb 25 by Pecker

Paul Lamberts autobiography should be a laugh. (or cry).


PL’s autobiography is out there and was actually ghosted by a guy called Graham Clark, who worked for ITFC in the lates 70s. Probably sold out thanks to his many fans on TWTD.
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Funny books on 18:23 - Feb 25 with 3460 viewsbrogansnose

J P Donleavy - A Confederacy Of Dunces.
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Funny books on 18:30 - Feb 25 with 3429 viewsRadlett_blue

Racing driver Perry McCarthy's "Flat out - Flat Broke" was hilarious.

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Funny books on 18:32 - Feb 25 with 3421 viewsDarth_Koont

Oh, I forgot. Anything by David Sedaris. Me Talk Pretty One Day and the Santaland Diaries are my favourites.

He's definitely nudging Clive James.

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Funny books on 18:37 - Feb 25 with 3408 viewsDarth_Koont

Funny books on 18:23 - Feb 25 by brogansnose

J P Donleavy - A Confederacy Of Dunces.


John Kennedy Toole you mean.

It's a great book but does it really hold? Things like the Levi's Pants letter are brilliant but little too real and depressing. It's a better book when you know the author's own story but it becomes less funny too.

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Funny books on 18:45 - Feb 25 with 3373 viewshampstead_blue

Spike Milligan - The Murphy.

I can't help but cry when I read it. I tried to read it during boring MSc lectures but was busted when I started laughing in the middle of math lectures!

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Funny books on 18:46 - Feb 25 with 3372 viewsLord_Lucan

Funny books on 18:00 - Feb 25 by bluelagos

Another vote for Bill Bryson's travel writing.

Very dark humour but Irvine Welsh is fookin awesome imho


Porno is a brilliant read.

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Porno is a brilliant read.


But too much will turn you blind.

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Funny books on 18:50 - Feb 25 with 3348 viewsbluelagos

Funny books on 18:46 - Feb 25 by Lord_Lucan

Porno is a brilliant read.


Indeed. As are Filth and Glue though my favourite is Acid House.

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Funny books on 18:52 - Feb 25 with 3338 viewsLord_Lucan

Funny books on 16:30 - Feb 25 by footers

The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper aka Robert Popper.


They are brilliant, from memory there is a couple of them. In my mind I'm pretty sure I've also listened to some audio timewaster phone calls but I can't find them on Coopers website.


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Funny books on 18:52 - Feb 25 by Lord_Lucan

They are brilliant, from memory there is a couple of them. In my mind I'm pretty sure I've also listened to some audio timewaster phone calls but I can't find them on Coopers website.



You've actually picked out one of my favourites there!

'I had a piece of halibut last night - it was bloomin' lovely.'

Obviously it depends on the recipient but some made me literally LOL. 'I eat Waspard straight from the jar' was one.

There is a second, and I believe you're right- think they're on YouTube. Although prank calls make me cringe a bit, poor beggars.

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Funny books on 19:00 - Feb 25 with 3297 viewsbrogansnose

Funny books on 18:37 - Feb 25 by Darth_Koont

John Kennedy Toole you mean.

It's a great book but does it really hold? Things like the Levi's Pants letter are brilliant but little too real and depressing. It's a better book when you know the author's own story but it becomes less funny too.


Doh,


that's who I meant.
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Funny books on 19:02 - Feb 25 with 3292 viewsLord_Lucan

Funny books on 18:50 - Feb 25 by bluelagos

Indeed. As are Filth and Glue though my favourite is Acid House.


Yes I've read Filth and Glue.

Pretty sure I've got Acid House but never read it, isn't it a collection of short stories?

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Funny books on 19:09 - Feb 25 with 3275 viewsbluelagos

Funny books on 19:02 - Feb 25 by Lord_Lucan

Yes I've read Filth and Glue.

Pretty sure I've got Acid House but never read it, isn't it a collection of short stories?


3 stories that stand alone and are sort of connected.

Highly recommend it 👍

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Funny books on 19:27 - Feb 25 with 3256 viewsjontysnut

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