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9360613

Anonymous Sun Apr 9 20:50:57 2017 No.9360613 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Patrician comedy

Now THIS is pure gold.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 9 20:58:04 2017 No.9360645 Importance of Being Earnest and Don Quixote are the funniest pieces of literature I've read.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 9 20:58:52 2017 No.9360650 Dead Souls is also pretty funny

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 05:01:36 2017 No.9362080 A lot of things by Wilde and also Decline and Fall by Waugh

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 05:04:29 2017 No.9362088 I really like the Ubu plays.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 05:55:19 2017 No.9362184 I had some chuckles reading catcher in the rye, especially when somebody has a strong new york accent like when the cab driver says "sore? Nobodys sore" That killed me

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 06:45:50 2017 No.9362306 >>9362184 how's that funny

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 06:47:28 2017 No.9362308 >>9362306 New york accents just about kill me. I can picture so clearly in my mind some guy putting his hands up to his chest, raising his eybrows and saying something like "Hurt? Whos getting hurt? with a slightly higher voice

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 06:49:35 2017 No.9362313 Kafka's work

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 06:53:06 2017 No.9362316 confederacy of dunces good soldier svejk at swim-two-birds (everything flann/myles) molloy war with the newts also seconding don quixote i love the depressive side of /lit/ but comedy is so underappreciated here

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 07:32:19 2017 No.9362386 >>9360613 True. I'd love to see a good rendition of the final scene on stage. Molière is also pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 07:37:01 2017 No.9362397 Anyone got a .mobi? I guess I could just gogol it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 07:37:57 2017 No.9362398 American Psycho

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 07:40:20 2017 No.9362405 M o l i è r e o l i è r e

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 07:43:39 2017 No.9362410 >>9362397 >I guess I could just gogol it HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH Also it's fucking public domain

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 07:45:14 2017 No.9362415 >>9360613 Jeeves and Wooster

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 07:45:43 2017 No.9362416 File: 62 KB, 384x640, Rainald-Goetz-Johann-Holtrop1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 07:46:59 2017 No.9362419 nah

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 09:43:54 2017 No.9362772 Call me a pleb but the novel that made me laugh the hardest was Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 12:26:23 2017 No.9363318 The first part of Notes from the underground

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 12:29:59 2017 No.9363338 File: 81 KB, 702x531, voices.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9362386 Tee Bee Hache the Danny Kaye version was god-tier comedy as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 12:39:43 2017 No.9363370 >>9362316 >at swim-two-birds This book made me feel like such a brainlet. My Irish friend had to gloss every chapter for me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 18:47:27 2017 No.9364652 Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh Its as if guy is pol during ww2

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 18:49:35 2017 No.9364659 Tortilla Flat is goddamn hilarious

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 18:59:10 2017 No.9364692 >>9362313 I never found what's funny about him

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 19:22:16 2017 No.9364771 >>9364652 That's not how I would describe Waugh

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 19:35:08 2017 No.9364814 File: 35 KB, 500x558, shandyhall2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Easily

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 20:36:14 2017 No.9365014 "Candide", by Voltaire. If anyone's Spanish, read the Moratín translation. It's don Quijote level of funny, but condensed in a pinky finger width length.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 20:38:24 2017 No.9365022 Catch 22

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 20:42:02 2017 No.9365032 >>9362316 Svejk is the shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 20:54:13 2017 No.9365055 Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 20:59:36 2017 No.9365075 File: 52 KB, 420x388, 1480289650729.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9365055 "Vonnegut" more like Vonnebutt lmaooo

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 21:27:45 2017 No.9365149 Melville

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 10 22:03:40 2017 No.9365286 >>9360613 Oblomov had me lolling desu based Zachar

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 11 04:08:25 2017 No.9366410 Anything written appealing to a very simple sense of comedy , a la physical comedy, people falling, wordplay etc?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 11 04:17:49 2017 No.9366422 Kharms always gets me

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 11 08:50:58 2017 No.9366960 >>9366410 See >>9366422

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 11 09:23:56 2017 No.9367048 Why are most classic or renowned authors so bad at humour? most of the ones mentioned in this thread just made me smirk now and then

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 11 09:45:45 2017 No.9367101 >>9366410 Kharms is pure literary slapstick.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 11 09:47:52 2017 No.9367103 >>9367048 It may have something to do with your lack of wit

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 11 10:50:54 2017 No.9367239 >>9367103 Are you implying stuff like this >>9362184 is remotely funny?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 11 11:00:58 2017 No.9367256 >>9367239 You've only got yourself to blame if you consider Salinger "classic" or renowned. Do you really not see the humour in Melville, Gogol, Dostoevsky?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 11 11:22:58 2017 No.9367330 >>9367256 other guy, but whenever I've read Gogol I saw it was funny, saw how it was funny, it even was funny to me, but it always got grating after a while.