comedy books (1 Viewer)

[Leon585]

yeh i know of terry pratchet(who is consistantly good in most cases), um Douglas Adams(but he starts to lack in the later half of the hitchhikers) some of his dirk gently books are good although I havent read all of em? Do you know of anyone else, Nick Hornby, um feck Im just interested if there is some author other there I havent read who does comedy books- and is also moderately funny(call me a stickler for tradition, but I personally find this of value in these books)

so please post any good ones

 

[MiuMiu]

John Clarke's 'A Dagg at my Table' is hilarious...

 

[Leon585]

never heard of him ill be sure to check it out

 

[Mojoman]

ben elton books are goddamn funny.. and clever, i recommend dead famous

 

[MiuMiu]

Originally posted by Leon585
never heard of him ill be sure to check it out

John Clarke is the comedian who did 'The Games'.

 

[Leon585]

Originally posted by Ms 12
John Clarke is the comedian who did 'The Games'.

oh right still havent heard of him lol

Originally posted by Mojoman
ben elton books are goddamn funny.. and clever, i recommend dead famous

yeh he's meant to be good eh? you read many of his books? what about bill bryson?

 

[+:: $i[Q]u3 ::+]

ben elton!!!!!.. damn funny.. a bit rambly, but really clever.
'gridlock's prolli my fave from him...

 

[glitter burns]

syrup by max barry was good.
i don't know if many people have heard of him, it was his first book i think... still, very funny.

 

[Mojoman]

Originally posted by +:: $i[Q]u3 ::+
ben elton!!!!!.. damn funny.. a bit rambly, but really clever.
'gridlock's prolli my fave from him...

im reading gridlock now, its really hard to get into... i find its too stand up comedy-ish.. like too obeservational and goes off the track too much.

 

[dead cactus]

i'll emphasise nick hornby whom you mentioned in your initial post. i just finished about a boy, laugh out loud funny, and am now into high fidelity. both v good books, am going to go through his works i think!

 

[Logain]

Smithereens. gawd I love Shawn Micallef. In a platonic, male-male, fan to idol kind of way.

 

[mayhemily]

Ya know I actually don't think i've read a comedy type book before! Cept briget Jones, I guess thats comedy. Im going to have to give some of these books a go I think!

 

[Soma]

Kurt Vonnegut/Evelyn Waugh

 

[Iron]

Smithereens. gawd I love Shawn Micallef. In a platonic, male-male, fan to idol kind of way.

Yes! He (and this book) is so incredibly funny and brilliant. Buy it today you small minded worms! (sorry, got carried away)