Please recommend a laugh out loud book

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I discovered her here on DCUM - Sarah Vowell's books make me laugh out loud

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Anonymous wrote:If you’re open to audiobooks, I always listen to a David Sedaris book read by the author when I’m in a funk and need a good laugh.

Should I start with Happy Go Lucky? Did a search and discovered this interview with Colbert. He’s likable and funny without droning on and on.

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Anonymous wrote:Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.

This is far and away the worst book I have ever read and it's not the least bit funny.

It took me a little bit to get into it but I thought it was really funny and very well written. It's not an quick/easy read and I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea. I read it when I didn't have the demands of kids around.

NP. I thought it was one of the least-funny “humor” books I’ve ever read. So tedious.

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please dont sit on my bed with your outside clothes

I'm not familiar with this book but it just reminds me of a typical DCUM post you might see in Relationships -- How would you handle if your MIL insists on sitting on your furniture in her outside clothes?

This book is very funny, though

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Very funny book.

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Anonymous wrote:If you’re open to audiobooks, I always listen to a David Sedaris book read by the author when I’m in a funk and need a good laugh.

He loves the word retard. I'll pass.

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I've read most of the books mentioned here and Jenny Lawson's book Let's Pretend This Never Happened is the funniest thing I've ever read.

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It’s older but A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle was great.
Also, Babyhood by Paul Reiser.

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Anonymous wrote:I laughed out loud reading the epistolary novel Dear Committee Members

So good!

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Anonymous wrote:If you’re open to audiobooks, I always listen to a David Sedaris book read by the author when I’m in a funk and need a good laugh.

Yes!
Dave Barry, also.
I don’t recall Winter Dance by Paulson being funny at all.

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Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. Hysterical. I might have to reread!

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Anonymous wrote:Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.

This is far and away the worst book I have ever read and it's not the least bit funny.

You beat me to it. It's awful.

Bill Bryson's early work is great, particularly "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", a compendium of a British weekly newspaper column, about coming back to live in the US after many years in Britain.
I fell off my chair when reading the passage about snowmobiling through the woods, and explained what "jettisoning weight via my bladder" meant to my 8 year old. Now it's a household phrase. Equally hilarious are the passage about his experience ice-skating and the one where he carries the Christmas tree into the house.

Well, the overwhelming majority of people disagree with you humorless people. You probably hate New Orleans too.

I’m joining in with the group that couldn’t get through Confederacy of Dunces. I think NO is great though.
I’m also joining in with those who recommend Born a Crime.

No other titles come to mind, so I’ll return to add to the list the next time I read something appropriate.

I checked my bookshelves, so here’s an addendum:

--I’ll Take It by Paul Rudnik literally had me laughing until I cried. It helps that some of the settings and characters and, um, behavior felt very familiar. I love this book.

— Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg also had me howling with laughter.

—Raney by Clyde Edgerton is also laugh-out-loud funny.

I love Clyde Edgerton. All of his books have a bit of humor.

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David Sedaris

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Up the down staircase, by bel kaufman

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This is Where I leave you - Jonathan Tropper

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Lucky Jim!