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Ask someone the best place to make laugh, and they will probably give you the name of theirpreferred sitcom or YouTube channel or cartoon standing. But how many of them will suggest a book? Not enough. What is a pity, because good books - the printed type on paper and distributed in mysterious places called libraries and libraries - contain some of the best comedy ever created by other human beings.

If you really need a laugh - and face that, in the world, we live today, it's everyone - you're not going to find it on something that requires an internet connection or a laugh track. The intimacy of reading a book is what makes humor more personal, dig deeper into your soul and arouse guufaws that can really feel like a sweet relief.

Here are 40 pounds that we consider as funny ever written. Obviously it's not thealone Funny books out there and there is a good chance we have forgotten to include at least one of your favorites. (Hey, there is aparcel Books there.) Of course, there is also the flip-flip: you might still have to read these gems. And if so, well, lucky you: it seems like you have a reading to do.

Armageddon has never been so funny. When a prophecyto warn that the world ends next Saturday before dinner, an angel and a demon, who lived between the mortals and have learned to love the human world, team up to find the antichrist - a young boy named Adam who ended with the Bad family after a mixture at the hospital - and see if they can end the end times before it's too late.

Ah, if only thehistory books Was it interesting in high school, we would have welcomed all the tests. It's never too late forimprove On the highlights of the twentieth century, although most of them are reported through a highly satirical lens. You will learn that theTitanic was really "the largest metaphor in the world" and the nineteenth amendment meant that women are "finally authorized to participate in a unnecessary fiction of democracy", and that the first words of Neil Armstrong on the March of the Moon. did not almost that pg you were led to believe.

Sedaris haswriting Many books and they are all hilarious in their own way, but this collection of 27 tests will always be our favorite. We love stories about his father, Lou, who tried and failed to convince his children to start a jazz combo. We love his learning attempts from the French language - it's the inspiration behind the title - and how he went "to talk like a diabolical baby to talk like a hill". But above all, we read about the brother of David Paul, otherwise known as "the cock", a man who loves cursed and reminiscent of friends and enemies, "no one kills the ... cock."

Pete Tarslaw, a guy who wins his Ghostwrit Ghostwrit application tests, decides he wants to become rich and famous byWrite a Bestial bookIn rather, a "complex loading of literary wastewater". Why exactly? "If you could write a book and act as if you mean that," he says, "the reward was a succession of flexible countries and college girls." Tarssslaw is an if unrecoverable blocker, but also actually entertaining, that you are not sure you want to see it succeed or fall flat on his face.

Strawself-use This novel - the first of a series of a 14 year old boy obsessed with the loss of his virginity to the daughter of his dreams - and he is filled with lines that every teenager wants the wishes to be rolled quite effortlessly tongue. Nick is like a cross between Ferris Bueller and Holden Caulfield with a simpler mouth.

When youreadThis, another dozen books written by the comedians have been published. And most of them will never be close to being as funny as the debuts of Tina Fey. If she described why the photoshoots are "the most fun" or reminding you to ignore the "do never let them cry" the rule ("I say, if you're so crazy, you could just cry, then cry. He Terrifies everyone. ") It is both self-erased and a feminist feminist warrior - not an easy-to-shoot hat.

Yes, well, you saw the movie version with John Cusack, it's great. But do we believe on that, Nick Hornby'snovelIs 1,000 percent better, to better understand the delicious Nerd-dom of a man and his obsession with his collection of records, and the women he wants to win with these songs. "What came first - music or misery?" Rob, the main character, wonder at some point. "Have I listened to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music?" If you liked your favorite albums too much, every page of this novel of the most beautiful sales will be filled with hilarious and accomplished moments.

Ignace Reilly, the "Dunce" in the center of thisMasterpiece Prize winner Pulitzer, is like a study in bad decisions. A 30-year-old scholar with a master's degree and a chip on his shoulder living with his mother in New Orleans and unable to do anything from his life. It's like the guy from the comic strip onThe simpsons But with higher references to the eyebrow. "I am for the moment written a long indictment against our century," says Ignace in a chapter. "When my brain begins to seek my literary work, I make an occasional cheese dip."

In this collection of tests, the writer is best known to lift the scenarios forYou've got mailandInsomnia in Seattle,explore His own life and the many traps of older. It finds humor in places that most writers never think about looking, as in the surprisingly trying to "walk around", about its love story with a building in New York. It is a romance condemned at the end when its rent jumps from 400%. "Just like that, I fell from love," she writes. "Twelve thousand dollars a month is a lot of cappuccino."

You know you're in a wild walking when a bookbegin With, "we were somewhere around the Barsttow at the edge of the desert when the drugs started to take." The end of Thompson tells his misadventures in Las Vegas with his lawyer also debauched, where they break more laws and consume more illegal substances than if they should be humanitarian. It is weakened that all the tale is just a hallucination and none of this happened like Thompson described it, but with the prose this funny and Purish, we do not really care.

If you were a fan of "deep thoughts" of Handey onSaturday Night LiveYou have barely scratched the surface of his weird spirit. The title comes from a short test of Handey, originallypublished in theNew Yorker, a ridiculous monologue by a human prisoner to his extraterrestrial captors. "If I could lose myself from this cage," he says, "I will tear you guys a new Martian (Expletive)!" This gives you a very good idea of ​​the comedic tone of this Rip-ROIR collection.

The McSweeney Internet Humor Website, created by the best author Dave Eggers,collect Some of their most hilarious literary spoofs, sending everything from "lolita" (Catch a predator: Humbert HumbertFor "Rip van Winkle" (in a story entitled "Other ends of famous literary works as it is written fifteen years with a rancor," the sleeping colonial becomes a written blade on his forehead).

Are there any more poignant advice, morenecessaryIn 2018 that: "Do not panic." You will get a timeless wisdom like this and much more in this classic of the science fiction comedy, whichfollowsTwo humans barely escape the destruction of land-demolism to make room for a galactic highway - and are placed to discover the meaning of life, or at least one cup of decent tea, which can be the same thing.

"Like most New Yorkers have done," This collection of stories begins, "I gave a serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I be killed during the day." The urban stories of Crosley are as funny as the title of his book,documentation All of his strange obsession with plastic ponies to try to determine which parties of party have left a "surprise" undesirable on his soil of his bathroom.

When the novelcame In 1969, theNew YorkerCalled "one of the dirtiest books ever published". It could still be true in 2018. It is fundamentally a long monologue from Alexander Portnoy, a young Jewish Jewish baccalaureate "of the mother's casual," to his therapist, telling his shocking and hilarious sex escapades, including a little. Crazy behavior of teenager. We will not spoil too much for you, but let's just say that you will never want to eat liver if there is a teenager at home.

You probably do not care about an artist of performance and a filmmaker like July - his debut of the Indie film,Me and you and everyone we knowwas an arthouse struck-to be able towrite Short stories that are anything but good, weird. But the characters in this collection, while being odd, are also extremely funny and relativable. They are lonely, isolated souls looking for something to give their lives to their lives. This may not seem particularly worthy of gig, but July mines of their pathos for hilarity. In a story, a pair of fantasy teenagers about being orphans. "We felt deserving of the pity that the orphans get", written July. "But quite embarrassing, we had parents. I even had two."

One of the most vonnegutbeloved Novels, written like a 50th anniversary gift to itself, is also its most optimistic. Little authors can make depression and futility as entertaining as Vonnegut, who peppers his story - about the fateful meeting between an author of the dark science fiction and a car dealer who slowly crazy - with drawings Gross of animals, pyramids, underwear, tombstones and, well ... let's just say an intimate part and rarely seen from the author's body.

If you are already a fan of Martin, especially his surreal support for the 70s, thiscollection Short stories, most of which are no longer a page, will be like meetings with an old friend. We have trouble choosing once as favorite stories like "poodles ... super eat" and "how to fold the soup" stand out - but we have a particular penchant for the history of the title, on a "pair Hideous black and white pumps "apparently designed to torture feet with impossible angles and razor blades. Spoiler Alert: The story has a happy ending.

Imagine George Orwell with a twisted sense of humor and you have a great sense of what you expect from a short story by George Saunders. Whether parents attach computerized masks to their babies to make them more attractive and verbaux, or orphans sold to a market research company where they become "Tastemakers & Trendsters", Saunders empoweredsatin Our culture of consumption and our saturated media life.

If you are not already familiar with the perfect mind, which often targets Hollywood, this is where to start. Like himdescribe His work in the opening pages: "I do my life by looking indesirable movies without fail, desperately incomprehensible, then coming out of warnings caused and useless to the public."

In addition to Takedowns from Woody Allen and Barbra Streisand, Queenan tries to live like Mickey Rourke for a day, which implies not bathing, smoking an insane amount of cigarettes, constantly swear and repeat ridiculous quotes That Rourke said in movies and talks, like random people, "sometimes you just rolled the potato."

Jacobs, a man who describes himself as "Jew in the way the garden of olive trees is an Italian restaurant"given He himself the unique challenge of passing 12 months to live according to the teachings of the most literally possible Bible. All 700 biblical rules are not as easy as to grow a beard and not covet the woman of your neighbor. He must also make stone adulterers. "I thought my gap would be the following: The Bible does not specify the size of the stones," writes Jacobs. "So ... pebbles."

If you query why we would include a book of poems on this list, even awriting By a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, we present this unique poem as proof of Parker's collection:

"If I do not care about pleasure and such,
I would probably be a lot.
But I will stay as I am,
Because I do not care. "

Need us say more?

Sex, death and family are all fodder for comedy and this novelcombinedThe three seamlessly transparently in a seamless manner that will ask you to laugh or cry. Judd Foxman, fresh of a laid divorce (his wife deceived him with his boss), returns home after the death of his father to sit in Shiva for a week with his three adult brothers and sisters and a mother Pop-psychologist. The relationship of the family with the other is complicated and hilarious. As a tropper observes about one of the brothers, the black sheep of the family, he is "The Paul McCartney of our family: better than the rest of us, facing a different direction in pictures, and sometimes rumor to death. "

"A low-culture culture manifest", Klosterman's test collectionreadings Like deep but silly bombings of a philosopher of Lapidé who has looked over the reality TV, and we hear this as a compliment.

The book has become a cult blow by taking a weak culture seriously, whether it isStars wars, computer game,Baywatch, or MTV, and could simply change your way of thinking about the media you consume every day. "The main problem of mass media," Klosterman writes "is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with an acum of normality. You can not compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next because they are Probably modeling after Chandler Bing and Monica Geller. "

The late author can be the most memorized for his magnum opus,Infinite jokebut this collection of tests reallystrong points His talent as the funniest criticism of funny pop culture. The best stories are when it comes in the dark belly of Central American tourism, visiting the Fair of the State of Illinois or taking a seven-day luxury cruise in the Caribbean. "I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue," he writes. "I saw a completely red leisure costume with flared lapels. I felt that Sontan's lotion spread over 2,100 pounds of hot flesh."

Atravelogue ofTom Sawyer Tour of the author of Europe and the Holy Earth with a group of Americans, as part of the so-called "great pleasure excursion". TWAIN has a spirit of taking prisoners and preventing, there is a lot here to offend the politically correct sensitivities. But despite his obsolete opinions of the Arab world, he pauses the obnoxitude of the typical American tourist. As TWAIN writes, "the soft drive will never know, will never know what a consumed ass it can become so far away."

AmemoryTo grow in a small town in Indiana, where the population has always been exactly 300 because of a "mysterious principle and mysterious mathematics", it is a tale that will be familiar to anyone who remembers the simple pleasures of the childhood, climbing trees ("there is a finite number of times that can be climbed safely at the same tree in one day") at the sport ("in order to be a good athlete, we must worry about Intensely what's going on with a ball, even if we have not possess that. It was finally my failure: my inability to pass a passion for the location of bullets. ")

Located in Blandings Castle, houses the Emsworth family, this comic novel, the first in a series on the inhabitants of the castle, isfull of the intrigue and romance, empty implements and gems missing, and some if the best comedy writers on the British aristocracy ever published. Here is a sampling of one of our favorite lines: "One of King Georges de l'England - I forget who has already said that a number of hours of sleep every night - I can not remember me At the moment to know how much man something, who for the moment slipped my memory. "

"Nick Naylor had been called most of things since becoming spokesperson for the academy of tobacco studies, but so far, no one had really compared to Satan." The opening line of Buckley's novel tells you just about what to expect from hissting From a tobacco propagandist, who is determined to keep his industry alive at all costs, regardless of the number of customers he kills. Even to have kidnapped by anti-smoking activists, who try to kill him by covering his body with nicotine patches, are not enough to make faith lost in the costable but fatal plant.

An American Indian mother in the commuter Cleveland,tryingTo find a meaning in his life after his son goes to college, you need a job of receptionist in the office of an Indian proctor and the moonlight writes an erotic supernatural fiction. Naughty equal parts and funny, it is really a universal tale of immigrants trying to find their place in the American society and the balance of keeping a foot in both identities.

Other than cigarettes, furniture and sleep ("death without responsibility"), there is not much that Lebowitz really cares, which makes this book such pleasure.Reading It's like sharing an end-of-evening cocktail with a funny, Custic Curmudony, while she breaches children ("all the children of God are not beautiful. Most of the children of God are, in fact, to Presentable sentences ») and t-shirts with messages (" If people do not want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater? ")

A satirical novel on the breed that was the first book of an American author to win the prestigious Booker Booker award, one of the largest literary rewards in the world. Even if it is necessary on a subject that does not feel particularly mature for comedy - there is not much funny racism and slavery - it makes every ridiculous premise and guffaw that feel important. The principle involves a black man in the suburbs of Los Angeles who tries to save his dying city by reintroducing slavery and segregation, which lands him before the Supreme Court. "It's the problem of history," observes the main character without name. "We like to think it's a book, that we can turn the page and move ..." ""

He started as a blog where the author combines Broshcreated Bizarre Microsoft Paint illustrations on dogs, cake and battles with depression. She quickly developed a cult and had her best work in this brilliant collection, which or even from Bill-yes, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder-bliss: "funny and intelligent. I must have interrupted (my wife) Melinda a dozen times reading to his passages that made me laugh aloud. "

It's so much more than just a comic newspaper strip on an early kid and his best friend, a tiger doll that only speaks of his imagination. It is a portrait of all that is magical and mischievous on childhood. As Calvin introduces the big questions, like "there is never enough time to do whatever you want," his fantastic life took him to universes beyond his reach, where dinosaurs and spacemians coexist and engage in epic battles.

Let's be honest, the best memories we distinguish in the schadenfall of someone spectacularly rotten childhood. That's exactly what you will get here, like Lawson, who built online follow-up as a bloggess,shine About his stressed family, which includes a taxidermist father, a mother of the school cafeteria and a sister who was elected to play the mascot of high school and now walks constantly dressed as a giant bird named Wally.

A middle-aged writer regrets to sell his collection of records in the 90s and stands off a brewed Haare adventure to follow his old vinyl, but theexact recordings He owned once, including a good Jovi record with his phone number of his first friend writing on the Channel. FrequentBetter life Contributor of Eric Spitznagelsocket We by a journey through the subsoils of Misonos and the old hats, culminating in a meeting with old friends on his empty childhood house, where they turn in the records and revisits their childhood by eating a box of 40 years Booberness of boo.

As a child, John Irving never knew his organic father, and he told his mother that if she refused to tell her anything, he would just constitute the story of her father. She soaled to him, "Go ahead, my dear" and the result was this revolutionary novel, a man named Ts Garp born in a feminist icon and a soldier who died before Garp was conceived (it's a long story),research For his identity in a world where he feels like an outsider. He meets a motley moted crew, like a former transsexual football player and a dog with taste for Lifobes (who must pay attention to his own ears).

If you jumpedreadingThis one in English class, you missed something special. Written in 1895 by the Master of Farce, Oscar Wilde, it is a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy that may not have created but at least sophisticated comedy thaps such as erroneous identities, bizarre coincidences and a lot of breakdown doors. The problem begins with the invention of a fictitious "brother" and a wild child named Ernest, whose shenanigans of the noneless city give to the Gentleman John, John, has a chance to sow his oats in London. But things get more complicated when John learns that the woman he hopes to get married is more interesting in this regard Ernest.

If someone will succeed in making a memoir about funny and sincere sleeping, Sarah Silverman. His childhood was anything but easy, with struggles to overcome depression, an Xanax habit that started when she was 13 years old and her therapist commits suicide. But most of the intimidants were his sleeping, who continued well in his high school years. She explains how she pushed the deeper depression and finally fueled her comedy ambitions. As she writes: "My early trauma was a gift, it turned out, in a vocation where your best headspace feels you have nothing to lose."

A novel thatconceivedThe story individually from a young Jesus - the lost gospel of the Bible, if you should be scandalous and outrageous. But instead, Moore managed to write a sweet and bizarre portrait of a young man who has just discovered his powers and responsibilities. There is a scene where a six-year-old Jesus brings the same lizard to life several times, after his little brother, "struck powerfully with a rock. He finds so much joy to make people's lives better than he Cross a crowd, cure people random, murmuring, "cured this guy. Heeved it. Troque his suffering. Curifice it. OOO, this guy was just stinky. she. Whoops, missed. Healed. Healing. Comforted. Calm. "

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