Please recommend an incredibly funny book for me to read.

[Poyetry In Motion]

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

This. 100% this.

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

Bloody hell I remember that circus being there. Wow what a memory jog hadn't thought about that in decades.

I really can't recommend the book highly enough. I've never cried with laughter at a book other than this one. The old guys tale of the animals going beserk at the greyhound stadium and roaming the streets of hove was fantastic. Mainly because he was getting pissed up at the hove park tavern.


Sent by Derek Acorah via the spirit world.

 

[Bhafc11]

Karl Pilkington.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Balham to Bollywood - Chris England

Jobbing bit part actor indulges passion for cricket whilst working in India on a movie that involves a final cricket match in any case. The real life movie itself is worth a watch (Lagaan). A huge Bollywood hit! One for sports fans

I shall have to get that, love the film

Another actor/ writer book that's a great read is 'Swimming to Cambodia' by Spalding Gray about his experiences shooting 'The Killing Fields' (adapted into a cracking monologue by same)

 

[cunningplan]

Book of Heroic Failures - Stephen Pile. Priceless!!!

 

[Return of the Rev]

The Death of Bunny Munro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Pogue Mahone]

French Revolutions by Tim Moore. He's a non-cyclist who decides to cycle the entire Tour De France route six weeks before the actual tour. This is a fantastic book, one of the few that has caused me to laugh out loud again and again.

Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen is also a good shout.

 

[Dirk Gently]

Round Ireland with a Fridge , by Tony Hawks.

Read it when it was 1st released about 10 years ago .
Think the Albion even get a mention and pretty sure that "the bet" is struck whilst in Brighton .

Round Ireland with a Fridge - Tony Hawks - Google Books

I was going to receommend this, but you got here first.

So I'll add that his later book "Playing the Moldovans at Tennis" is just as good - if not better.

 

[Frank Inkerman]

Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe. Took me twice as long to read as it should because I had to put it down while I was laughing and wait for the tears in my eyes to clear.I read it twenty tears ago and still remember it all.

And the good thing is,if you like it,and you will, there is an equally funny sequel called Indecent Exposure.

And also most of his other books, Wilt, Blott on the Lanscape, Porterhouse Blue etc. Not always done justice to by the TV progs.

 

[Seagull58]

Hello Sailor by Eric Idle.
Down Under by Bill Bryson.

Both are hysterically funny.

 

[El Presidente]

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

 

[Eggmundo]

Spike Milligans war stories are superb.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Pretty much anything by Chris Brookmyre or Colin Bateman....... black black comedy crime which leaves me in tears of laughter

particularly reccomend A big boy did it and ran away

 

[Manx Shearwater]

Just started reading Rick Wakeman's Grumpy Old Rockstar, and its hilarious. Ludicrous anecdotes from his rock star days, written in a deapan style (if that's even possible).

Both Pete McCarthy books are great although the one about Irish pubs is tremendous. I met him briefly in the Prestonville once (he was a friend of a friend) and my girlfriend still tells tales of his legendary bus tour of Hove, which was (by her account) hilarious.

 

[rouseytastic]

THE funniest book i have ever read, in my life, ever. Amen

 

[bhafc99]

Another vote for Hitchhikers.

 

[Bean]

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

 

[The Maharajah of Sydney]

I was going to receommend this, but you got here first.

So I'll add that his later book "Playing the Moldovans at Tennis" is just as good - if not better.

Yes , that was very good too . Excellent revenge twist at the end .

 

[Postman Pat]

Last house in the galaxy by Andy Secombe. A Sci-Fi comedy.

He also wrote Limbo and Limbo II which are partly based in Brighton & Hove (I haven't read them but I intend to).

 

[Storer 68]

Joy In The Morning by P>G.Wodehouse

Just brilliant and laugh out loud funny.