There are passages in both Confederacy of Dunces and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that make me laugh every single time.

Maybe I'll read them in the bath tonight.

Sally is sending me her extra copy of Confederacy whenever we get the TC cd exchange accomplished. Yay! I can't wait to read it again. It was definitely a hoot. I don't remember laughing that much at .

I love that cover thing! That's so cool!

Hunter S. Thompson makes me laugh, but mostly when read out loud by my guitarist, who has one of the best HST reading voices ever. He used to do whole chapters when we were touring. There's a chapter from Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 that was one of the funniest things I've ever heard, but when I went back to read it, I found it wasn't quite as funny (but still funny).

Thanks a lot Bunny for the screwtape rec. I checked it out of my school library today. I haven't got to the lol parts yet but it's turning out to be less comedic and more of a conviction.
When I read the part about the demon making people who live together believe that the other person is purposefully doing the things that annoy them the most, I was truly convicted. I have already begun to change my comportment towards my hubby due to just that portion.
Lewis is a genius....there would have been no other way for me to see how illogical that belief was. Any other attempts besides satire to open my mind would have made me defensive.
This should be a must-read for all Christians.

I can't believe I forgot about already. I laughed throughout this whole book. It is TOOOOO funny. I hurt myself laughing.

I'm glad you're liking Screwtape Carlie. I find it really funny and also full of insight. If you like it you might also try The Great Divorce also by CS Lewis, which isn't quite as funny but easily as insightful. The premise is that there's a bus that runs from hell to heaven and sometimes the damned in hell take day trips. They can stay in heaven if they choose, but generally they find some excuse to go back to hell instead. Oh sure they're gonna move to heaven later on of course they are, but right now they think they might have left the stove on, and they promised to help their friend move, and anyway their knee is a bit sore and they need to go home and put that leg up... A lot of wisdom in there about the human tendency to settle for even very bad situations because at least they are familiar.

I haven't read his adult mysteries, but I found Hoot by Carl Hiaasen laugh out loud funny. I especially love all the creative sabotage at the future pancake house construction site, where the owls are living.

Jackie, do yourself a favor and read any of Hiaasen's works they are all humerous, and he has a creatively sick mind, that keeps you laughing'

Peter David wrote two really funny pieces Sir Apropos of Nothing and its sequel Woad to Wuin had me in tears. In one of them there is a spoof on the Rings from Tolkien that is absolutely hilarious.

Back in the dark ages, I read a take off gangster book called The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight which was very funny at the time. By Jimmy Breslin I think.

As for Pickwick Papers it carries the humor of character that Dickens does so well in all his works to a different level as there are more comic characters in the book. I think it is a funny book but I don't see that as a negative comment on Dickens.

Carlie said Why on earth would saying Pickwick was funny be a negative comment on Dickens?

??? Yours, confusticated.

I agree.
Bunz.

If you like Hiaason, check out
Island by Thomas Perry if you can find a copy. Its out of print. Mostly Perry writes thrillery things some of which I like, but this one is a caper novel about con artists and its funny funny.

Bunny stole the words right out of my mouth.....now go repent you thief!

Je ne regrette rien.

the road to perdition is paved with je ne regrette riens

Well unless and until somebody invents a time machine ain't much I can do to change the past. So rather than regretting I learn and forge on. A quote I love (apologies to those who have seen it before) -

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Emerson.

Well Bunny....I simply insist that you go back and undo the thievery of my mouth's words. I really don't think that is too much to ask.

The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat by Harlan Ellison. Ellison is a very funny dude, and he is quite visceral about things he dislikes. He hates TV.

These two books are a collection of essays and reviews of TV shows.

Time machine accomplished.

That was awesome....you're a riot miss Bunny Piaf!

i thought for sure you couldn't give an answer to that....I stand corrected. I am not worthy, I am not worthy.

Ha!
::Takes a bow::

Steve Martin's books "The Pleasure of My Company" and "Pure Drivel" and also his first book, "The Cruel Shoes".

Much of Mark Twain's work makes me laugh out loud as does Kurt Vonnegut's.

Bruce Campbell's biography, "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor" is pretty hilarious, too.

Pure Drivel was hilarious in a very smart sort of way. Woody Allen's three collections of prose are also very smart and funny:

(in order of funniness)

Oh yeah, my English teacher gave me a copy of "Side Effects" when I freshman in high school. I'd never read anything quite like it. Very funny!