/lit/ - Literature

Have you read any Douglas Adams? If not, do so.
Hitchhiker's Guide and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency are both hilarious.
Terry Pratchett is a pretty funny guy as well.

>>541055

HGttG isn't really hilarious, it was more entertaining and witty.

I'm talking laugh out loud literature.

Dave Berry is pretty funny.

>>541060
I had a bunch of laugh out loud moments with them.
Chris Moore also has some funny books. Lamb and A Dirty Job are my favorites by him.

>>541065
If you're a weaboo (or even if you aren't, I wasn't when I read it), Dave Barry Does Japan will make you shit bricks.

you don't like black comedy? well. I for one want black comedy recommendations.

All of Dave Barry's stuff is decent. I haven't read anything by him that's just not funny at all.

Bill Bryson always cracks me up. Seriously, if Neither Here Nor There doesn't make you laugh, you probably don't share my sense of humour. Notes from a Big Country is also bloody brilliant, but that's a collection of articles, not a novel.

1. Some toads are poisonous
2.Marlon Brando looks increasingly like a toad
3.Therefore, you should probably not eat Marlon Brando.

perhaps matt taibbi? i've always found his writing style funny and his most recent book The Great Derangement made me cry at some parts from how ridiculous some of the scenarios he got into were.

>>541111
sounds like good advice

Men Are Better Than Women?

Adams, yes. Berry, yes; but he is an essayist, not a novelist. For more laugh-out-loud essays, consult Sedaris.

One of the few novels to make me LOL--and repeatedly--was Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, though you ain't gonna be laughing at the final chapter. Trust me.

I actually enjoyed 'I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell' immensely.
It's not literature, but it's still entertaining as fuck. What made me rage was some idiot who tried to lable the book as a new genre; 'Fraterature'. I replied at length and with great intensity that it is known as Gonzo Journalism, it is not a new concept and the inventor - Hunter Thompson - shits all over Tucker Max from great heights.

LOL when I click on this thread to recommend Douglas Adams and it's the first reply. I love you /lit/.

I think Kurt Vonnegut is hilarious, but when I start thinking, the same passages bring me to tears.

Catch-22 is the funniest book I've read. I'm pretty sure it made me lol, which is something I rarely do with books. Vonnegut made me laugh ONCE during slaughterhouse, that was from a line that was something like "Go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut."

>>541543

Oh yeah, how could I forget, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Pratchett is a comedy god in my mind.

Apathy and Other Small Victories
~ Paul Neilan

>>541538
I would agree, what it comes down to I think I could best relate to a class in college. We had to watch the movie Roger & Me by Michael Moore, it is a documentary about the exit of Gmc from a rural own in Flint, Michigan (in spite of what you think about moore this is a decent film btw). Anyway the teacher had some kind of enhanced copy of the dvd and she had left a feature on that would break from the film and people would discuss what was going on. There was a particularly poignant point of the film and there was quite a bit of nervous laughter in the class and they broke away from the film and Moore was talking about how people usually laughed at that part. He and another person were discussing why this was, because the scene was incredibly sad, I remember it broke my heart, but I laughed right along. Moore said he thought that the situation had to elicit some reaction and people would rather laugh than cry.

This is how Vonnegut is for me, what he says moves me and cuts me to the core, but you have to laugh because of the absurd truth of what he says. The things he writes are not funny they are sad and deeply laugh changingly reflections of truths we fear to face and we know it in our secret hearts.

>>541567
jeez, anon. flex that writer's muscle, why don'cha?

(in a good way)

catch 22 is funny. not super hilarious, but funny.

barrel fever - david sedaris