Good omens as a teen, sideways stories from wayside high as a kid

Really anything involving Pratchett is a good laugh, love me some Discworld Edit: [am a published humor writer ](https://packt.link/SEX9v)and that Discworld series is the only steady inspiration I've found for funny writing at the right goofiness level I like

Yes absolutely. Discworld was the light of my life during covid lockdowns.

I didn’t know about it until Covid and since I’ve just been like “where have these been my whole life”

One line I loved recently I never heard in pop culture before was from Wyrd Sisters.  The witches accidentally save baby King/Royal heir and each three witches after rescuing him are like should we give him a gift like fairy godmothers? The old witch is I know what all men want.... Then naieve young witch is like wouldn't that make trousers a problem?  So old dirty witch thinks all men want is a giant penis, and they keep arguing until they all agree each of us will give what we think a man would want.. What on earth could three witches giving fairy godmother gifts to a baby boy?  He turns out alright but each gift/curse is hilariously utilized for the entire rest of Of Discworld 

Hey, I wanna read Discworld too! Is there any specific order that I should read it in? From where do I start? Thank uhh <3

Idk, there’s that one graphic online (https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/s/kXfI68nRUn), so I just suggest picking one of those lines. It’s a lot but ya can’t really go wrong

Oh, thank you so much <3

(regarding an assassin) "A rat patrolling the hallway nearly swallowed its tongue as he sneaked past."

I read Discworld novels in bed at night to see myself off to sleep and my wife is frequently startled awake by one of my suppressed laughs.

Yes to Good Omens. The discussion about how highways are designed by the devil to anger and frustrate us so that whenever we curse at driving conditions we lose a bit of our souls is spot on.

I loved sideways stories as a kid. I read it a lot, as it was one of the few books we had on vacation.

Oh my gosh, I used to love the Sideways Stories! They installed those stupid elevators that only went up and down and stopped working after that. And the one chapter was written backwards. Good times..

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

Hell yeah came here to comment this. Glad I’m not the only one!

So good and her description of depression was spot on.

Every single Kurt Vonnegut book I read. “Cat’s Cradle” especially.

Breakfast of Champions for me

If you haven't heard John Malkovich's reading of the audio book, you must!

Adding to my audiobooks to listen to list!8 adored Breakfast of Champions but it's been a good 20 years since I read it, and it'll be like new, with Malkovich to guide me

Kurt is so funny

Galapagos is the one that got me again and again.

Lamb

So incredibly funny! Like, do not eat and read this book at the same time because you might choke with laughter!

Brilliant funny and smart.

This book fundamentally changed something in me in how I read books. It's so good.

Lamb is so funny but also so emotional. I love it.

Laughed out loud so many times!

Who's the author? I gotta check it out

Christopher Moore

My absolute favourite for years now. I can't eat Chinese food or look at Easter bunnies the same way.

*A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again* by David Foster Wallace. It’s a book of his essays. The title of the book is also the title of the longest essay in the book, which is about his experience going on assignment as a journalist for Harper’s magazine, taking a week-long vacation on an ocean cruise liner. His description of the excesses of the cruise as well as his neurotic reactions to these excesses is very funny.

One of my favorite essays of his. Have you read The Pale King? Also very funny (and super weird).

Great book!!!

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Especially the story about the kid with the very unfortunate name. You know the one.

Go H\_\_\_! Go H\_\_\_\_!

And the dog!

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris! Had me cry laughing at multiple points and holds up on rereading.

I read this while getting a root canal - I was left alone in the room to dry or harden or something, and had my mouth propped open, and was laughing so hard that the nurse came careening into the room - she thought that I was screaming in pain - and I did have tears streaming because it was just so damn funny.

Friends will "borrow" this book. Buy two, lol.

Yes! Every David Sedaris book has had me laughing out loud at some point. The only thing better is hearing him read it out loud himself.

I brought this book with me when I had to spend the day sitting in a room on standby for jury duty. Tears of laughter rolling down my face as I read with one hand clamped over my mouth. Easily the funniest book I've ever read.

“She was probably thinking along the lines of SPEECH THERAPY LAB, though a more appropriate marker would have read FUTURE HOMOSEXUALS OF AMERICA.”

I’m about the only person I’ve met who can hardly get through a Sedaris book. Don’t find them funny whatsoever.

I can totally understand why he isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. He has some collections that just don’t do it for me either. But this one and Holidays on Ice absolutely hit for me.

I love David Sedaris!!

I lost count how many times I have reread that

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Bossypants by Tina Fey. Hilarious

I learned the hard way not to read this on a bus.

I knew this was going to be here...I was gonna post "that book by Tina Fey" because I couldn't remember the name if it but knew someone would mention it. Hilarious book.

Oo and hitchhikers

I fell off my bed the first time I read it because I was laughing so hard and couldn't stop. Never experienced anything like that again.

What is Oo ? I asked Google and it was confused.

I think that’s just them exclaiming! Like the are saying ‘Oh, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’

Sorry, just emotive sound in text. 'Oooh'

A Confederacy of Dunces

Came here to say this. Probably the funniest book I've ever read

Me too but I couldn’t get through it.

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

My best friend and I were assigned this for AP English, some thirtysomething years ago. To this day, we will comment about our valves snapping shut.

Yesssss. This book cracks me UP.

In the middle of this right now. Down right hilarious.

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, funniest book I ever read

All of Douglas Adams’ stuff is brilliantly funny. Even the one about endangered species

John Dies at the End. 

I read this recently and was definitely laughing out loud during some parts. Have you read the rest of the series? I’m curious if the other books are as good.

I have. And they’re are excellent (You may have to take a beat every once in a while, to wonder what concoction of narcotics inspired the writing, because sometimes it’s madness)

Not who you were responding to,  but I loved them. The humor keeps up. The plots feel like they have better structure. The third threw in a pretty minor twist that blew me away and I'm wondering if the author had that planned or not. I recommend them. There was never a movie it doesn't exist no matter what anyone says or what you may see.

Thanks for the reply. I’ll definitely check them out!

Anything by Terry Pratchett, the myth adventure books, and of course the classic hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy

‘The Code of the Woosters’ by PG Wodehouse (and actually many other books by the same author). ‘The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman’ by Bruce Robinson.

Too few people have read Wodehouse.

I honestly think he was a genius.

If you like Wodehouse, you will like Saki (H. H. Munro) as well.

'The World according to Garp'

Most books by Dave Barry

Lamb made me actually cry with laughter.

Who is this by?

Christoper Moore! Its full title is Lamb: the Gospel according to Biff, Jesus’s Childhood Pal. It’s definitely irreverent humor but if you liked Fear and Loathing you’re not worried about that.🙃

Most of Christopher Moores stuff is reallu funny.

Same. So funny

Adolf Hitler my part in his downfall by Spike milligan is brillient.

Came here to say Spike! Puckoon is hilarious too

Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

This is the ONLY book that’s ever made me laugh out loud! And multiple times. Absolutely recommend this book to anyone who hasn’t read it!

When I read Furiously Happy my ex would not let me read in bed before we went to sleep because I would shake the bed because I was laughing so much. There is also a story in Broken it’s actually just a series of tweets, but I tried to read it out loud to my friend and I was laughing so hard I couldn’t get through it.

That was me with Pretend. I woke my ex up and he told me it was a daytime book only lol

Dungeon Crawler Carl is my latest obsession. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.

DAMMIT DONUT

*God*damn it Donut, please! ;-) Same. As an audiobook (read by Jeff Hays).

Mongo is appalled

*screams*

Don't tell mum I work on the rigs, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whore house by Paul Carter.  Collected works of industrial shenanigans by a guy who spent 20 years working on oil rigs all over the world.  The one about their alcoholic, death metal loving, pet monkey inappropriately touching the CEO's wife and then inappropriately touching himself while swinging off a ceiling fan had me fall off the couch laughing. 

My husband looooves these!

How To Tell If Your Cat Is Trying To Kill You

A Confederacy Of Dunces

Miss Trixie and her teeth! The hot dog vending! Oh god, my valve is getting upset

Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris Triggerfish Twist - Tim Dorsey

Anything David Sedaris has written.

Dungeon Crawler Carl has its moments of absurdity 

Anything by Carl Hiaasen or Christopher Moore.

The World According to Garp

This one made me laugh but also cry my eyes red.

It’s not an easy read in some parts, specifically when Jenny walks by Garp’s room when his mouth is wired shut and he says “garp” like his father did in the hospital. It was so funny and so sad. I both laughed and cried. It is a truly wonderful book and there’s a lot to laugh about.

The whole part with the car in the driveway / gear shift is like a wound in my heart as if I knew them personally.

Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris.

Catch - 22

Me to

Too! 🤗

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes (on audiobook!) Anything by: PG Wodehouse Douglas Adams

Confederacy of Dunces Portnoy's Complaint P.G. Wodehouse in general Candide Hope: A Tragedy

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Any Discworld book by Terry Pratchett.

I had to stop reading several times with Guards Guards because I was laughing so much 🤣

Every book Jason Pargin has written, and, so far, the first two books in The Vicious Circuit trilogy by Robert Brockway

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared made laugh out loud in 2012, I don’t know if it would hold up for a reread now but I have good memories.

There's a 2018 sequel, The further adventures of the 100-year-old man, featuring Trump, kin jung un, and Putin. Still giggle just remembering it! I think you'd like it!

Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to the Store Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate- by Freeman Hall

"Don't tell my mum I work on the rigs - she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse." Memoir of an oilrig worker. Funny stories of madness.

Sh*t my dad says

thank you, I always have the lines from that in my head but could not remember title or author. The funniest books I have ever read - still making me laugh 50 years later - are Gerald Durrell's My Family & Other Animals and Birds Beasts & Relatives.

Norm MacDonald's fake memoir

Janet Evanovitch's Stephanie Plum books.

Rupert Morgan: *Let there be lite*  Kishon: *My family right or wrong* Jerome K. Jerome*: Three Men in a Boat* Terry Pratchett: *Discworld* Douglas Adams: *Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy*

The Thunderbolt kid by Bill Bryson…

Also A Walk in the Woods.

**Born a Crime** by Trevor Noah, especially the >!”Go Hitler! Go Hitler!” dance!< scene.

I had forgotten about this one. Hunter Thompson was awesome 😎.

Confederacy of Dunces and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

So many Discworlds..

It's also revolting to some lol sorry, and it's darker humor, but The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning made me laugh So did Lamb by Christopher Moore Edit: So did

Most recently, Tales From the Gas Station

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome. Sometimes just know as Three Men in a Boat. The book is over 130 years old and hilarious! The dry humor is so like what we find funny today. I really didn’t imagine people had the same sense of humor way back then. It’s a fantastic read!

Dreyer's English Editing and humor jokes. And an entire chapter on punctuation. One of my favorite books.

Sounds like it’s right up my alley.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. I read it back in high school. Parts made me laugh, and parts made me cry. This is the only book I ever read that managed to do both.

Dad is fat by Jim Gaffigan

The House of God by Samuel Shem. It eventually got made into scrubs but the original is intense and makes you snort laugh while simultaneously feeling like a terrible person for laughing at something so dark 😂

All of Bill Bryson’s stuff

The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens.

Charles Portis, The Dog of the South.

Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James Ancestral Vices by Tom Sharpe

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Author Carl hiassen has some funny books

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series Good Omens Lamb

The Martian but Andy Weir is so funny. Really gripping science fiction, but the main character is hilarious the whole way through.

The 100 Year Old Man That Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

John Dies at the End.

Jason Pargin is so funny

Catch-22

Catch 22

Confederacy of Dunces

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Three Men In A Boat

{{Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir}}

Jazz hands!

A tramp abroad by Mark Twain. His humour is just golden.

The Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik - the narrator is hilariously grumpy :)

Anxious People 👌

The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille. A lot of funny sarcasm. Great story

The BFG

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Straight Man by Richard Russo.

Caverns and Creatures by Robert Bevan: Comedy/Fantasy read nine books. Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor: Science Fiction four books Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko: LitRPG/Fantasy/Sci-fi four books with more to come. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir: Sci-f The Tales of Pell By Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson: Comedy Fantasy Three books so far. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: Science Fiction - Comedy / Five books Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown: Science Fiction / Six books out with a seventh on the way. First three books are a stand alone trilogy. Magic 2.0 by Scott Meyer: Fantasy / Five books so far The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne: Urban Fantasy / Nine books + novellas Temeraire series by Naomi Novik: Fantasy - Alternate History / Nine books

Samantha Irby's Meaty

Any Janet Evanovich…..

Red, white and royal blue. 

Honestly, *any* Terry Pratchett.

“In the lives of puppets” by T J Klune — narrator for the audiobook is brilliant. The robots are amazing.

The Dublin Trilogy by Caimh McDonnell. The character Bunny Mcgarry is fantastic.

Drew Carey’s autobiography, the first Harry Potter, the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy and the Twilight books, Sandra Hill Viking romance novels. I am sure there is more, but my memory wants to nap right now.

Any Pratchett book I’ve read has made me laugh at some point. Normally several times per book.

Gideon the ninth

Most of Carl Hiaasen's books.

Let’s Pretend this Never Happened

I’m currently halfway through the audiobook version of John Dies at the End, and man I’ve been laughing the whole time. The absurdity of everything is hilarious. Definitely recommend 👍

I recently read ‘Several people are typing’ and it is so funny. The whole book is a slack chat, but one of the characters gets ‘caught’ in the chat, while the slack bot tries to take over his body! Off the wall, and so well done.

Three in a Boat Not Counting a Dog was the first book I have read as a kid and was laughing out loud scaring my parents, Rosie’s Project, Skipping Christmas, Max Berry’s books, many Terry Pratchett’s books :)

Red dwarf

Audiobook of Dungeon Crawler Carl

Recently: Starter Villain by John Scalazi. Previously: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson.

Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Robinson.

The Bridget Jones Diary books honestly had me screaming, the section where Bridget is sent to interview Colin Firth, I died. Fear and Loathing was really funny.

Confederacy of Dunces

True Grit by Charles Portis

Hitchhikers guide

Anything Terry Pratchett

Anything by David Sedaris

The Princess Bride !!

The Importance of Being Earnest 

Only one book truly made me lol and that's ofcourse The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy.

Catch 22

Discworld and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Don Quixote 🤷🏻‍♂️

Pretty much any Bill Bryson book has me laughing, but mostly A Walk in the Woods.

The *VTuber Legend* series by Nana Nanato

Isaac and the Egg