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What is the best comedic /lit/?

>> No.17738659

>>17738651
The Divine Comedy was pretty funny

>> No.17738692

>>17738651
Rabelais, Cervantes, Molière, Aristophanes, Voltaire

>> No.17738702

>>17738651
Catch-22

>> No.17738795

>>17738651
You posted it OP

>> No.17738805

I loved Svejk.

>> No.17739313
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>>17738651
J R is probably the hardest I've ever laughed at a book. The scene where Bast meets Gibbs in the train station is the exact moment I knew I would fucking love the book.

>> No.17739354

American Psycho deserves a nod

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>>17738651
Since A Confederacy of Dunces and Catch-22 have already been posted, I'll go with No Word From Gurb.

>> No.17740000

Dog of the South

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>> No.17740096

Tristram Shandy is by far the funniest novel ever written

>>17738692
Does anyone actually laugh at rabelais? surely it's only funny if you're a medieval parisian theology student

>> No.17740110

>>17738651
If you are willing to read black lit, the sellout was really funny.

>> No.17740463

>>17740110
Agreed. I think you'd have to be pretty humourless to hate that book.

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>>17738651
pic related is the funniest book ive read. the antics with gene harrogate were hilarious especially the pig scene. i've read a confederacy of dunces and it certainly wasn't as funny as its made out to be but it stilled made me exhale heavily from my nose a few times.

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>>17740096
>>alcofribas! Where did thou appear from?
>i came out of your mouth, my lord
>>and how long hast thou been there?
>since you fought the almirods, my lord
>>why that was above six months ago! But where didst thou live, and what didst thou eat?
>of the same daintest morsels that passed by your throat
>>yes, but where didst thou shite?
>in your throat, my lord!
>>Ha-ha! Thou art a merry fellow!

>> No.17740808

>>17739313
What a slog

>> No.17740983

Sorry Link, I can't give credit

>> No.17740995

>>17740632
lol
this sounds good

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This has some pretty funny stuff in it
Its pretty depressing too

>> No.17741242

>>17740057
Wasn’t funny

>> No.17741319

>>17738692
>Cervantes
Don Quixote is the only book that's caused me to laugh so often that, when read in public, other folks in the area might've gotten the impression that I'm insane.
>guy sitting in a chair with a book, alternating between chuckles and fits of laughter
This wasn't lost on me at the time and only improved the experience.

>> No.17741376

You posted it. No other book can compete

>> No.17741401

>>17738795
>>17741376
Is it really THAT funny?
There are some funny parts but it takes about 300 pages before you get over how obnoxious and unlikable everyone is, the funny bits are dealing with people that aren't main characters.

>> No.17741419

>>17741401
>Is it really THAT funny?
Yes
>the funny bits are dealing with people that aren't main characters.
So?

>> No.17741465

>>17741401
idk I thought it was really funny anon. His longwinded exasperations and pontifications had me in stitches every time. And a lot of that was with main characters I feel. Felt really relatable because there's a lot of that kind of smart-assery on 4chan

>> No.17741724

>>17738651
The one you posted and My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger (but that one's accidental)

>> No.17742310

sides were literally hurting after the description of the donuts with the jelly sucked out

>> No.17742325

>>17742310
>She offered Patrolman Mancuso a torn and oily cake box that looked as if it had been
subjected to unusual abuse during someone’s attempt to take all of the doughnuts at once.
At the bottom of the box Patrolman Mancuso found two withered pieces of doughnut out
of which, judging by their moist edges, the jelly had been sucked.

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>>17738702

>> No.17742397

>>17740096
>implying

>>17740110
Not a critic

>>17740983
Try harder tryhard

>> No.17742409

>>17741401
The unlikability is a big part of the humor.

>> No.17742423

>>17738651
The Princess Bride script

>> No.17742439

>>17740632
MY FAV SCENE FROM BOOK 1
Its right next to the one where they get a squad of guys to mine a kidney stone out of him

>> No.17742450

>>17740512
I haven’t read suttree yet but Child of God had some great humor in it, like when the baby eats the bird. The descriptive writing alone was hilarious, he described the baby like it was an ancient monster.

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>>17738651
Come back when you’re a little, mmm... richer!

>> No.17743008

Oblomov

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>>17738651

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>>17740808
it's hard to really post my favorite passages from J R because the entire book is written like one continuous scene

>> No.17743341

>>17740983
>>17742562
Kek

>> No.17743575

>>17741401
Ignatius eating the entire stock of his own hot dog stand and trying to start a BLM rally with his piss-soaked bedspread were fucking hilarious.
>Dear Mongoloid, Esq.
still gets me to this day

>> No.17743600

This place blows

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>>17738651
pic related is the only thing (at all) that has got me to actually, physically, laugh this year

>> No.17744278

Has diaphragm; actin'

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>>17738651
for me, its the Master and Margarita

also Lord of the Flies weirdly enough (not sure how intentional that was)

>> No.17744341

Kafka is funny in a "I can't help but laugh" way

>> No.17744360

IS HE ILL?
DOES HE FIT THE BILL?

>> No.17744429

>>17739313
What the hell is J R

>> No.17744442

>>17744341
And then he turned into...a bug!

>> No.17744547

Was the light on?

>> No.17744555

>>17742450
I liked the bit in Outer Dark where the main male protagonist is looking for work so he goes up to a white man and two black men working in a field in the ante bellum southern United States and asked the white man if he was the overseer.
The white man looks at him for a second then answers, Why no, I work for these here niggers.

>> No.17744585

>>17744555
Man, I was out there, and they weren't paying

>> No.17744646

>>17744429
a novel by gaddis