Some FUNNY GOOD BOOKS list!

Look Who's Back (Er ist wieder da) by Timur Vermes.

A Child Called "It."

Joe Keenan. Wrote Frasier scrpts, too. Old time very funny simple novels.

Blue Heaven (1988),

Putting On the Ritz (1991)

My Lucky Star (2006).

Bj Novak

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher.

OP - I think that humour is in the eye of the beholder. However, 2 authors that I liked were Jenny Lawson and Joe Queenan.

I will never get tired of recommending "A Confederacy of Dunes" by John Kennedy Toole. It is perfection to me, but most of those to whom I've given it as a gift or recommended it ended up not liking it, in fact hating it to the point of not finishing it.

A few things to keep in mind: It was written in a New Orleans dialect in the early 1960s, with all that social milieu entails, Ignatius embodies the idea of antihero, and it is thoroughly satirical, a form not everyone loves. My usual note: if you're not laughing by page 10 put it down. You will not like it.

Also, many of the novels of Dawn Powell are magnificent with my favorite being "The Locusts Have No King." But again, you must have a taste for satire.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Nothing by David Sedaris.

^ anything!

Naked - by David Sedaris. I think it's his funniest - and quite hilarious.

The Art of the Deal

"A Voyage Round the Queen" by Craig Brown.

I'm just about to wrap up "Noir" by Christopher Moore. It's the first of his books I've read and I think it's hilarious. It's absurdist fiction with comedy that's remniscent of movies like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" or "Airplane!". Sometimes he delivers a line that catches me off-guard and makes me laugh out loud. An example:

[quote]His experience of the lesbian community was somewhat limited, which is to say, limited to what he had read in certain novels, such as Gunslinger Gym Teachers of Lesbo Gulch, Jailhouse Sex Kittens in Heat, Little Women, and so forth.

Next up for me is his novel "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal".

The Something by John Grisham

Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin.

Crackpot by John Waters

The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits, and Aunt Erma's Cope Book: Erma Bombeck

Post Office, Charles Bukowski

Lake Wobegon Days, and Leaving Home: Garrison Keillor

I'll Take It by Paul Rudnick. Condensed from the back cover:

They came. They saw. They came and took what they saw.

The Esker sisters are shoppers. Loving, caring, powerful, driven, merciless shoppers.

Twenty-six year old Joe joins Mother and his aunts on a week-long shopping trip that takes them everywhere from Bloomingdale's to L.L. Bean. But Joe notices a difference between himself and his mega-shopping mentors. You see, he figures you're supposed to PAY.

Little Me

Bill Maher’s book…soon in paperback

Bill Bryson - A Walk In The Woods

Boy George's autobiography, Take It Like A Man

John Waters - Crackpot

Read anything by Alan Bennett.

Genius by Patrick Dennis

Love Junkie by Robert Plunket

Anything by David Rakoff

Good Material by Dolly Alderton

The Lucia books by E.F. Benson