Books that made you laugh out loud?

[Broadwater_seagull]

"Delete at your peril" by Neil Forsyth is a very funny book

 

[Beach Hut]

Bill Bryson books have made me laugh out loud on trains, trams, metro etc...

And me, At Home is very funny

 

[Common as Mook]

Not read any Tom Sharpe so time for a try I think. Any recommendations on a particular book to start with, or is Riotous Assembly a good a start as any?

Riotous Assembly is pant wetting funnily. Definitely start there and then move on to the Wilt series.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

'Good Omens' by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gamain.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Riotous Assembly is pant wetting funnily. Definitely start there and then move on to the Wilt series.

Thanks, ordered, £2.75 from Amazon, bargain.

 

[Mtoto]

Riotous Assembly is pant wetting funnily. Definitely start there and then move on to the Wilt series.

Is that the one where they recreate the Zulu war at the end? Or was that the sequel?
Almost had a seizure reading one of his on a train many years ago, it was the bit in The Throwback involving the condom and the oven cleaner...

 

[Fungus]

I read quite a bit but have never found 'funny' books compelling to read. I'm not really an autobiography reader so that puts me at a disadvantage. Spike Milligan books were the last ones I enjoyed.

Yeah, I've just started his memoirs - "Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall". Genius, a different and unexpected way of looking at life - I think it's the sudden connections in the mind/brain that make you laugh out loud. Bill Bryson used to have that effect, but I find him a bit predictable now.

Mind you, I did have a few LOL moments with Dickens' Great Expectations recently - I've read it before, but this time it was the language rather than the plot that struck me.

 

[Badger]

I have never read a book as funny as this. I, Partridge We need to Talk About Alan, is simply a work of comedy genius that ties together the whole Alan Partridge story from the man himself. There is barely a paragraph that goes past that isn't funny.

I've been reading it while getting Youtube clips from the relevant shows as well. Can't recommend the book enough to anybody that has even had a passing interest in Partridge over the years.

You can hear Alan's voice in your head saying the words as you read it. I love all the little touches like the list of songs to play at specific parts of the book (e.g. The Ski Sunday theme tune), the footnotes on every page and the hilariously detailed index at the back.

 

[catfish]

The Hap & Leonard books by Joe R Lansdale combine laugh out loud dialogue with some very near the knuckle hard boiled action. Also another vote for Spike Milligan's war memoirs.

 

[pasty]

Riotous Assembly is pant wetting funnily. Definitely start there and then move on to the Wilt series.

Another classic example of a book being far better than a film. Wilt, the book was superb. Wilt, the film was utter shite.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

E by Matt Beaumont

If you've ever worked in an office (or more specifically an ad agency) you will relate to this.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Anything by Tom Sharpe. Good old fashioned British farce.

Agrred

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

This for me, introduced to it by my brother who himself bought it at Victoria and laughed on the commuter train all the way back to Brighton. The Timewaster Letters: Amazon.co.uk: Robin Cooper: 9781843171089: Books

That is a very funny book.

As is this:

 

[kevo]

This for me, introduced to it by my brother who himself bought it at Victoria and laughed on the commuter train all the way back to Brighton. The Timewaster Letters: Amazon.co.uk: Robin Cooper: 9781843171089: Books

Yes, Timewaster Letters is brilliant. I lent it to a friend and he liked it so much I had to buy it for him for his birthday.

If you're into music, I'd recommend Stuart Maconie's 'Cider with Roadies' - absolutely hilarious in parts. Maconie's 'Pies and Prejudice' is also very funny.

 

[Questions]

Tom Sharpe for me. I still laugh if I am ever reminded of Constable Els and the trophy on his fireplace.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Not read any Tom Sharpe so time for a try I think. Any recommendations on a particular book to start with, or is Riotous Assembly a good a start as any?

the only book I have ever read and had to put down as I was crying with laugher was Ancestral Vices by Tom Sharpe...

Although not a book, but more like blogs are postings on Ocean cruising by a guy who goes under the name of Neil Down ( and his wife Ida) ....he is a travel writer and posts on cruise.co.uk, and rips some cruise lines to shreds, but as with this site, people answer him and totally miss the sarcasm and irony in his posts. He slags off P&O as Butlins on sea and calls their top ship The Azura a Chav-magnet Hell hole. You shoud read some of the things people write back...it makes the banter on here read like shakespeare.

 

[Don Quixote]

Catch-22 is hilarious.

 

[Capricorn]

Mr Pratchett's Jingo was the first book I read that made me laugh out loud.

All the Discworld books make me laugh! Some more than others.

 

[Jam The Man]

Really ? I've read that and all I can recall about it is him bragging about having anal sex with loads of people.

Stop fantasising!

 

[braintree]

You can hear Alan's voice in your head saying the words as you read it. I love all the little touches like the list of songs to play at specific parts of the book (e.g. The Ski Sunday theme tune), the footnotes on every page and the hilariously detailed index at the back.

I downloaded the audio book to listen to in the car, narrated by Coogan as Partridge - absolutely brilliant.