Please recommend an incredibly funny book for me to read.

[Seagull on the wing]

'Ginger man......forget the Author...but very funny.

 

[Bozza]

I, Partridge is supposed to be very funny.

I have it but yet to read it.

(The audiobook read by Coogan himself supposed to be even better.)

 

[Seecider]

Another Bloody Tour by Frances Edmonds, wife of Phil Edmonds, former England spinner.

 

[Motogull]

I can recommend 'picking up the brass' by Eddy Nugent which is about a young lad joining the army.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Karl Pilkington. Any of his. (if you don't know, he's that bloke who knocks about with Ricky Gervais and done the Idiot Abroad series)

The bloke just seems to be a complete idiot - I just don't get why anyone would think he's funny. Gervais tweats about him a lot, but none of it seems remotely interesting to me.

 

[Scampi]

If it's fiction you want then you could try;

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

The Yiddish Policemans Union by Michael Chabon

A Fraction of The Whole by Steve Toltz

I thought all three were excellent and funny.

 

[ferring seagull]

Funniest ever for me was 'McCarthy's Bar'

A bit like 'Round Ireland with a Fridge' but ten times funnier.

 

[jasetheace]

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

 

[Beach Hut]

Bill Bryson - At Home

It is laugh out loud funny

 

[n1 gull]

Best biography I've ever read, laughed out loud at how the Tory party managed to promote this tit.

cheers, this looks like perfect holiday reading - the bloke is a complete nob

 

[cookie63]

Not in the same field really but ''Portable Door'' by Tom Holt made me laugh out loud first time i read it. Or for a footy related one try ''Bowles'' brilliant stories about the QPR legend!

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

Writer called Peter McCarthy (sadly since passed away) Wrote 2 books called McCarthys bar and road to McCarthy. Peter McCarthy is from Brighton but travels around Ireland drinking in bars only in his name.
It's a heartwarming and funny story with all the characters he drinks with on the way.
There is one section near the end where he is talking to this real character who used to own a traveling circus and by coincidence he finds out that this guy once pitched his circus up at the greyhound stadium in hove. The story of the animals running amock in and around the stadium made me weep with laughter.


Sent by Derek Acorah via the spirit world.

 

[zigyo]

The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson (author of Withnail & I). Very funny.

 

[Pevenseagull]

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

I win

 

[salty seagull]

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.

 

[One Love]

'Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About' by Mil Millington. For a taster of what to expect, pop along to his website.

Excellent

 

[One Love]

Writer called Peter McCarthy (sadly since passed away) Wrote 2 books called McCarthys bar and road to McCarthy. Peter McCarthy is from Brighton but travels around Ireland drinking in bars only in his name.
It's a heartwarming and funny story with all the characters he drinks with on the way.
There is one section near the end where he is talking to this real character who used to own a traveling circus and by coincidence he finds out that this guy once pitched his circus up at the greyhound stadium in hove. The story of the animals running amock in and around the stadium made me weep with laughter.


Sent by Derek Acorah via the spirit world.

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

 

[maltaseagull]

I've just read Catch 22 for the umpteenth time. Can anyone on NSC recommend anything as good as that?

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

 

[ArcticBlue]

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

Crude writing style but a good read nonetheless. defo worth reading.

 

[ArcticBlue]

Getting rid of Mister Kitchen by Charlie Higson. A black comedy along the lines of a Tom Sharpe farce. One of my fav books.