So, I'm looking for suggestions on well written humorous books. Also your favorite funny movies.
My all time favorite humor (or should I say humour)books are the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, by Douglas Adams. Of course, you may have guessed that by my screen name... If you aren't familiar with his writing, it's zany but intelligent british sci-fi. New movie coming out the end of April, looks good-ish.
My favorite new book is Pirates of Pensacola by Keith Thomson. Official release date is tomorrow, but Amazon released it a couple weeks early. (Oh, and one of the bad guys is named Lyme, which pushed it over the top in my list of faves.)
One of the few books that actually had me laughing out loud!
Favorite funny movie is The Princess Bride. (Also an excellent book.)
Loved Shrek. Yes, I have been told that I have the mind of a 12 year old. No, it isn't in a bottle of formaldehyde on my desk.
So, what are your favorite comedy books/movies?
How about TV shows? I nominate The RED GREEN show.
Thanks for replying, I was starting to think I'm the only person who likes to laugh...
Two of my favorite movies are oldies but goodies,
"The Lion in Winter" (1961) starring Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn
"Little Big Man", starring Dustin Hoffman
Newer movies would include:
"As Good as it Gets", with Jack Nicolson and Helen Hunt
"The Life Aquatic with Steve ZuZu" Bill Murray, Angelica Huston, ect.
This is a dark comedy--so if you like that sort of thing--fine, if you don't--you probaly will think it's the dumbest flick on the planet.
I place it in the same catergory as "The Royal Tennenbaums'", and "Pulp Fiction"
Sitcoms: I just love "Seinfeld", and "Frasier", but "Will and Grace" come in a close second--that Karen is my alter ego!!!
Drew Carreys' pretty funny also!!
"Red Green" IS just like my father, and my brother-in-law---with all that duck tape--it's a great show!!
Get the following on tape if you can (I did through my library) because the accents are so much fun:
MC Beaton -- the Hamish Macbeth series (Death of a Dentist, etc.) Not at all morbid--the mysteries are just an excuse to talk about small town life in the hebrides.
Lilian Beckworth -- The Sea for Breakfast, The Loud Halo, and some others (but not An Island Apart). She went to the Hebrides in the 60s an lived on her own small croft. She might as well have timetravelled to the 1500s.
John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey series.
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Betty McDonald -- The Plague and I (absolutely fascinating, as well as beautifully written), about her recovery from TB in the days before antibiotids; The Egg and I; Onions in the Stew
Terry Pratchett (Discworld series), if you enjoyed Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
Simon R. Green's Nightside series
James Thurber
HL Menken, if you have a taste for a master of words from the turn of the century (the turn before the most recent turn).
Gerald Durrell's "My Family and Other Animals"
And if you like travel, and food, and very fine writing, MFK Fisher is a pearl. Not a side splitter, but very funny in parts and can take you completely out of yourself. Her "How to cook a wolf" is a classic, but my favorite is "Two Towns in Provence"
Dave Barry
Jon Stewart in the Daily Show.