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Hello boys.
I'm dying of a melancholy that has descended upon me of late. By that I mean for the past three years. Anyways, what are the funniest works that you've read? Not 'terrible' funny, but so humourous that you burst out laughing, laughing hard.

I await your recommendations.

>> No.1209055

most of nick hornby's are worth a chuckle, I read
high fidelity when i was 14 loved ever scince.

>> No.1209060

Portnoy's Complaint
Flashman

>> No.1209066

>>1209060
Portnoy's Complaint is really funny and Jewish

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1209174

>Go to Doctors office
>PACKED
>Pull out Catch-22 since it's taking a while
>Read
>Hold in laugh
>Hold in laugh...
>Break the fuck out laughing, to myself, while listening to jazz on iPod with no knowledge to how loud I was being
>Realization- I look around and everyone's staring at me


>mfw

>> No.1209183

There's a part in the second chapter of The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul that is so funny your mind will explode, I don't care who you are.

Douglas Adams is pretty masterful at humor, in general.

>> No.1209202

>>1209183
He really wasn't a funny writer

>> No.1209225

Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.1209226

I laughed out loud at a few parts of Breakfast of Champions. I think the one I laughed the most at was the thing about hemorrhoid cream.

>> No.1209263

If you love puns, read Terry Pratchett.

Fucking read Terry Pratchett.

(The Colour of Magic - The Light Fantastic - Sourcery to begin with. Rincewind is my favorite character >:3)

>> No.1209270

Read something from the Jeeves series by P.G. Wodehouse, man.