| Funny books 16:26 - Feb 25 with 4992 views | BrixtonBlue |
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 4133 views | artsbossbeard |
The answer is always:
Clive James - Unreliable Memoirs |  |
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| Funny books on 16:30 - Feb 25 with 4118 views | itfcjoe |
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 4113 views | footers |
The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper aka Robert Popper. |  |
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| Funny books on 16:39 - Feb 25 with 4083 views | Darth_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 4051 views | BrixtonBlue |
| 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 4014 views | Pecker |
Paul Lamberts autobiography should be a laugh. (or cry). |  | | |
| Funny books on 16:52 - Feb 25 with 4011 views | Half_Idiot |
If you like Horror/Comedy then I'd strongly suggest the John Dies at the End trilogy by David Wong |  | | |
| Funny books on 17:46 - Feb 25 with 3949 views | Canadafan |
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 3923 views | Plums |
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 3917 views | bluelagos |
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 3892 views | 66notout |
| 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. |  | | |
| Funny books on 18:23 - Feb 25 with 3878 views | brogansnose |
J P Donleavy - A Confederacy Of Dunces. |  | | |
| Funny books on 18:30 - Feb 25 with 3847 views | Radlett_blue |
Racing driver Perry McCarthy's "Flat out - Flat Broke" was hilarious. |  |
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| Funny books on 18:32 - Feb 25 with 3839 views | Darth_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 3826 views | Darth_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 3791 views | hampstead_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 3790 views | Lord_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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| Funny books on 18:47 - Feb 25 with 3781 views | footers |
| Funny books on 18:46 - Feb 25 by Lord_Lucan |
Porno is a brilliant read. |
But too much will turn you blind. | |
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| Funny books on 18:50 - Feb 25 with 3766 views | bluelagos |
| 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 3756 views | Lord_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 18:55 - Feb 25 with 3743 views | footers |
| 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.
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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 3715 views | brogansnose |
| 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. | | | |
| Funny books on 19:02 - Feb 25 with 3710 views | Lord_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 3693 views | bluelagos |
| 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 3674 views | jontysnut |
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis |  | | |
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