Good comedy

[Anonymous No.13985058]

Newfag here. Recommend me some good comedy /lit/.
Whenever I google for comedy, all I get is nickelodeon-tier shit like Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or unfunny sex comedies written by american women with names like Tiffany

[Anonymous No.13985222]

A Midsummer Night's Dream

[Anonymous No.13985367]

>>13985058
Lysistrata
A Confederacy of Dunces

[Anonymous No.13985371]

>>13985058
Guns, Germs and Steel

[Anonymous No.13985393]

I mostly know funny short stories. Bartleby the Scrivener and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are both funny enough I can't stop from snickering every time I read them.

Oh, and Hunter S Thompson is also hilarious. My favorite thing by him was The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved. I ran out of breath laughing while reading it.

[Anonymous No.13985406]

the decameron

[Anonymous No.13985417]

>>13985058
Nikolai Gogol

[Anonymous No.13985624]

Kingsley Amis, Saki, PG Wodehouse, GK Chesterson, Philip Roth, Christopher Moore, Mark Twain, Henry Fielding

[Anonymous No.13985692]

>>13985058
As much as he gets memed on here, DFW is pretty damn funny. His essay on the AVNAs, "Big Red Son" was the first time in a while that I audibly laughed while reading.

[Anonymous No.13985705]

>>13985058

[Anonymous No.13985717]

>>13985058
I haven't started reading it, but Norm Macdonald has a book and Norm is the funniest man alive

[Anonymous No.13985725]

>>13985692
This ain’t Reddit mate, no need to add a caveat

[Anonymous No.13985733]

>>13985058
The Clouds by Aristophanes (Ay-Wrist-Oh-Fanes)
4chan Greentexts by Anonymous (An-Yon-A-Mouse)

[Anonymous No.13985737]

>>13985058
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.13985769]

>>13985058
P.G. Wodehouse

[Anonymous No.13985772]

>>13985058
The Bible.

[Anonymous No.13985817]

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[Anonymous No.13987002]

J.G. Ballard

[Anonymous No.13987217]

>>13985058
American Psycho is the only book that has made me laugh until I ran out of breath.
Even if you've seen the movie, it's still well worth the read

[Anonymous No.13987223]

>>13985058
3 men in a boat dont forget the dog

[Anonymous No.13987229]

>>13985058
The Twelve Chairs

[Anonymous No.13988201]

>>13985058
Catch 22 of course

[Anonymous No.13988892]

>>13985058
How has nobody mentioned Don Quixote?

[Anonymous No.13988903]

Journey to the end of the night

[Anonymous No.13989431]

>>13987217
might i ask which passage was so funny

[Anonymous No.13989448]

3 men in a boat lmao makes me kek every time

[Anonymous No.13989486]

[Anonymous No.13990401]

>>13988201
This. Most fun I've ever had with a book.

[CalvinoShill No.13991035]

Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

[Anonymous No.13991060]

>>13985058
In english? A Confederacy of Dunces. If you can read Spanish I highly recommend you Cartas Marcadas.

[Anonymous No.13991063]

>>13987229
the sequel is even better, but they're both great so no reason not to start with chairs

[Anonymous No.13991090]

>>13985692
>“Weight Watchers holds as a descriptive axiom the transparently true fact that for each of us the universe is deeply and sharply and completely divided into for example in my case, me, on one side, and everything else, on the other. This for each of us exhaustively defines the whole universe, Vigorous. The whole universe. Self and Other.”
>“Sounds uncontroversial to me, Norman.”
>“Yes and also not only that each of our universes has this feature, but that we are by nature without exception aware of the fact that the universe is so divided, into Self, on one hand, and Other, on the other. Exhaustively divided. It’s part of our consciousness.”
>“Okey dokey. ”
>“And then they hold as a prescriptive axiom the undoubtedly equally true and inarguable fact that we each ought to desire our own universe to be as full as possible, that the Great Horror consists in an empty, rattling personal universe, one where one finds oneself with Self, on one hand, and vast empty lonely spaces before Others begin to enter the picture at all, on the other. A non-full universe. Loneliness, Vigorous. Weight Watchers sees itself as a warrior in the great war against loneliness. Is that not noble? One moment. You, waiter! I wouldn’t say no to a mint, you know! Feel free to bring some mints! Excuse me. Loneliness. Balance. The emptier one’s universe is, the worse it is. This we all surely accept. Do either of you not accept this?”
>“....”
>“....”
>“Now, Weight Watchers perceives the problem as one involving the need to have as much Other around as possible, so that the relation is one of minimum Self to maximum Other. This is a valid though, as I’ve seen this afternoon, by no means exclusive way to attack the problem. Are you getting my drift, Vigorous?”
>“Well, a drift is such a—”
>“It occurs to me that I couldn’t care less. A full universe, Vigorous, Ms. Beadsman. We each need a full universe. Weight Watchers and their allies would have us systematically decrease the Self-component of the universe, so that the great Other-set will be physically attracted to the now more physically attractive Self, and rush in to fill the void caused by that diminution of Self. Certainly not incorrect, but just as certainly only half of the range of valid solutions to the full-universe problem. Is my drift getting palpable? Just as in genetic engineering, Vigorous. There is always more than one solution.”
>“I think I—”
>“An autonomously full universe, Vigorous. An autonomously full universe, Ms. Beadsman.”
>“What should I do with these mints, here?”
>“I’ll just take the bowl, thank you. Rather than diminishing Self to entice Other to fill our universe, we may also of course obviously choose to fill the universe with Self.”
>“You mean ... ?”
>“Yes. I plan to grow to infinite size.”

[Anonymous No.13991319]

Joker movie

[Anonymous No.13991328]

>>13987229
came here just to post this, based

[Anonymous No.13991343]

>>13985406
Basado e Hispanopastillado.

[Anonymous No.13991674]

>>13991343
>Basado e Hispanopastillado
What? The Decameron was written by Boccaccio, an italian

[Anonymous No.13991743]

Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are dead
One of the few high school books I enjoyed

[Anonymous No.13992070]

>>13985393
Bartleby fucking killed me, The Miller’s Tale from Canterbury Tales, Gulliver’s Travels (especially part 4) and A Modest Proposal (or anything else written by Swift), Vonnegut (my favorites are Slaughterhouse and Sirens, Cat’s Cradle is good too), Don Quixote, Metamorphosis, the only other book I remember making me laugh out loud was Frank Zappa’s autobiography, it has some good sections on music too, but it’s really only for fans of his

[Anonymous No.13992114]

Liveblog is pretty funny