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  5 0 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. ...what? it made ME laugh. Geni answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 0 Confederacy of Dunces is outrageously funny, especially if you are a little bit intellectually pompous yourself, and you know it. Adam answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 Okay, I know it's basically a 19th Century romance novel, but Pride and Prejudice is actually quite hilarious. Jane Austen's social commentary slays me. I would also second Dan Williams' suggestion of Catch-22. I laughed quite a bit while reading that one... in a laugh til you cry sort of way. e.strange answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 I wouldn't describe these books as laugh-out-loud funny but they all contain a good amount of dark/wry/satiric humor: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Dan Williams answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 "The Pirates! In An Adventure with Communists" by Gideon Defoe is amazingly funny, the rest of the books in the series are funny as well but Communists is the funniest of them all. Little Red Ryan Hood answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by Paul Constant… 0 0 Agreed! It was hilarious. Paul Constant commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - George Carlin's standup is funnier than his books, but they make for a great giggle while you're in the bathroom - Anything by Augusten Burroughs, Michael Thomas Ford, or David Sedaris - Animal Farm Jennifer Sweeney answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson or "My Family and Other Animals"by Gerald Durrell. The second one is FINALLY back in print and both are hysterical. I highly reccommend anything either one wrote, but those are the funniest IMHO. Christy Wright answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 "Good Omens" - pratchett and gaiman is a long term favorite of mine. And having just read Paul Constant's post on another question - Wodehouse!!! all of it. ozchick answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 When I was a kid, it was the first four Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Books. In the last ten years, Simon Rich's book Ant Farm totally wins. Paul Constant answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Pastoralia by George Saunders--especially the story 'Sea Oak' A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace has some very funny moments. Edward Smith answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 I really like Chuck Klosterman for a laught, especially Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs... Michelle B answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Three Men in a Boat, by Jermoe K. Jerome. Anything P. G. Wodehouse ever wrote. Catch-22 is wondeful. A Confederacy of Dunces is lovely. Life Against Death, by Norman Brown, which I had to stop reading after about 90 pages. I think the laughter would have killed me. Lilting Missive answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Auntie Mame seemed utterly hilarious when I was in my early teenage years. I haven't read it since because I don't want to spoil the memory. CrazyCatLady answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 off the top of my head and in no particular order. Lamb by Christopher Moore Side Effects by Woody Allen Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley Stiff by Mary Roach There is a short story by Gene Shepherd called "The Dago Bomb", and it might be the funniest thing I have ever read in my life. I'm sure I'm leaving something out. Rotten666 answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 I second Me Talk Pretty One Day and I'll add Pure Drivel by Steve Martin. Most of the "stories" are more clever than funny, but the apology letter at the beginning of the book and "Schrodinger's Cat" had me rolling. keshmeshi answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 "Wilt" by Tom Sharpe. Anything by P.G. Wodehouse. Fnarf answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris made me pee my pants. I'm not joking, I actually laughed so hard I squirted a bit. so-so answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Good Omens for me as well. Possibly some of the Myth series by Robert Aspirin. Basil answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 It's been a while since I've read this, but I remember thinking "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal was funny enough to annoy people around me by reading them excerpts from it every 5 minutes or so. virginia mason answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 1 Anything by Tom Robbins. nseattlite answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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