Humor, book recommendations

[nq:1]um... there must be more. Bill Bryson, Dan Savage, and Annie Lamott, sometimes. Dave Barry rarely.[/nq]
All your authors seem to be Americans writing 1970-2000 which is a narrow range excluding funny earlier Americans e.g. Mark Twain, funny earlier Britons e.g. Grossmith, funny 1950 Americans e.g. S.J. Perelman, funny 1950 Britons e.g. Bernard Hollowood, and so on. Histories of funny jou

[nq:1]um... there must be more. Bill Bryson, Dan Savage, and Annie Lamott, sometimes. Dave Barry rarely.[/nq]
Humorous books I've enjoyed include "The Santaland Diaries" by David Sedaris, "Republican Party Reptile" (and others) by PJ O'Rourke, "Downsize This" by Michael Moore, "The Dilbert Principle" by Scott Adams and "Round Ireland with a Fridge" by Tony Hawks. It's a long time since I read

[nq:2]um... there must be more. Bill Bryson, Dan Savage, and Annie Lamott, sometimes. Dave Barry rarely.[/nq]
[nq:1]All your authors seem to be Americans writing 1970-2000[/nq]
Most of them, true. That was just off the top of my head. I can appreciate really well-done humor from other times and places, e.g. the Molesworth books or Jeeves stories, though.
[nq:1]which is a narrow range e

[nq:2]um... there must be more. Bill Bryson, Dan Savage, and Annie Lamott, sometimes. Dave Barry rarely.[/nq]
[nq:1]Humorous books I've enjoyed include "The Santaland Diaries" by David Sedaris,[/nq]
Oh yes!
[nq:1]"Republican Party Reptile" (and others) by PJ O'Rourke,[/nq]
I like him even though we disagree on everything...
[nq:1]"Downsize This" by Michael Moore,[/nq]
...an

[nq:1]Any recommendations for funny books?[/nq]
"A Confederacy of Dunces", by John Kennedy Toole.

Mike Nitabach

[nq:2]Any recommendations for funny books?[/nq]
[nq:1]"A Confederacy of Dunces", by John Kennedy Toole.[/nq]
Tried it once, twenty years ago. I thought it was depressing as ****.

SML

That bit about who caught that hugh fish they had mounted on the wall from "Three Men In A Boat", that was funny:
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/3boat10.txt
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We went into the parlour and sat down. There was an old fellow there, smoking a long clay pipe, and we naturally beg

[nq:1]um... there must be more. Bill Bryson, Dan Savage, and Annie Lamott, sometimes. Dave Barry rarely.[/nq]
In no particular order
Roy Blount
Joe Keenan his two novels /Blue Heaven/ and /Putting on the Ritz/ remind me of P.G. Wodehouse but they're practically unknown. (He was a head writer on /Frasier/ during the good years.)

E.F. Benson's "Lucia" novels
Tom Holt's nove

"Adrian Bailey" <>
[nq:1]Humorous books I've enjoyed include "The Santaland Diaries" by David Sedaris, "[/nq]
Is that the one with "The Christmas Letter"? That is one of the most dickly funny things I ever read.

[nq:1]Any recommendations for funny books?[/nq]
I make no claim as to anyone else's sense of humor, but I'm not the only person I know who loved "To Say Nothing of the Dog". This is a time-travel novel by Connie Willis written around 1999, and set largely in Victorian England. It's not only very funny, it's got romance, cats, references to trains and mystery writing, and a wonderfully logical