I run the performing arts section of my store. It includes celebrity, filmmaker, and music biographies. Games. Books about movies and TV. And also humor. Before I started running the section a couple weeks after getting hired I wouldn’t have been able to name a single book that would fall under humor. Now I know plenty.
The thing is that the books that fall under this category aren’t always very popular. Sure Mindy Kaling and Chelsea Handler have both written multiple books that would certainly qualify as humor, but there are plenty that would barely cause a stir in the market. Just like any other genre.
I still haven’t read any book that would fall under humor, but maybe you have. Or maybe another author has managed to get you laughing during the course of reading a book in another genre. What’s the funniest book you’ve read? Maybe it was penned by a celebrity, but probably not.
Johnny Reads 
Like you I’ve never been that interested in humour before, but the funniest book I have ever read is Michael McIntyre’s Life and Laughing. He’s my favourite comedian so it’s not surprising that it is funny, but the book is also intended as an autobiography.
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Hmm. I wish I knew of him. 😳
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Hands down: The entire H2G2 “trilogy” by Douglas Adams. Changed my life, freshman year of college.
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H2G2?
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Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. think: HitchHikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, 2 x H, 2 x G. I know, technically there are three h’s present, but I like to think of “ch” as its own letter, since I learned outdated Spanish as my second language.
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You can’t take Two seconds to type the title out? Okay.
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Hey, I didn’t come up with the acronym.
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“The Disaster Artist” was pretty humorous. It’s sort of a biography of Tommy Wiseau, the weirdest man who ever lived.
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Not a clue who he is. 😳
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Ever hear of “The Room”? Worst movie ever made? It’s hysterically bad. It’s kind of a cult movie though, so a lot of people are unfamiliar with it.
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Nope. Not that either
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David Sedaris “Me Talk Pretty One Day ” in brilliant. All of his books are really funny. And Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes” will have you crying from laughter and sadness.
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Haha! Well David Sedaris is shelved under essays. But I can tell from his titles that there’s humor in there. No idea who the other guy you mentioned is.
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Anything by P.G. Wodehouse. And on the NF front, a collection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings entitled “Fart Proudly.”
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Oh geez. Can’t imagine something like that not being funny.
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H2G2 is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the very books I was going to nominate too. Douglas Adams was just a very funny man. And many of the Terry Pratchett books make me smile because they’re surprisingly satirical – if not laugh out loud funny.
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Oh. I guess the title is too long to take five seconds to type? I think you know I’ve never read Pratchett.
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Yup, I do know you’re not attracted to the Discworld. Fair enough. I could recommend Douglas Adams, but comedy is such an individual thing and you might loathe him! I think his humour is quite British – whatever that means 🙂
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I don’t know what that means. I wouldn’t even know what American humor would be. Maybe really vulgar? I just don’t go to books for comedy at all.
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I couldn’t really define the difference – Brits can be pretty vulgar too! But it is something that’s said of Adams. We like sarcasm, irony – a fondness for wordplay? It would take a better mind than mine to define it 🙂
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Hmmmm. I know nothing about nothing. 😂
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The Princess diaries series! And Twenties girl by Sophie Kinsella.
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Hmmm. I said “funniest book” not book series. 😂😉
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Ooooops.
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Follow directions, please. 😂
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The Princess Bride by William Goldman is very good. If you’ve seen the film you get the idea of the “princess bride” part, which is actually a story within a story. The novel is actually written as fiction memoir of Goldman trying to find the book his grandfather used to read to him, “True Love and High Adventure” by S Morganstern. He then reads the book again as an adult and discovers everything grandpa left out.
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Haven’t read the book or seen the movie. Though it is on my Kindle.
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I don’t read a ton of books that are pure humor. But one that stood out for me when I was younger is George Carlin’s “Braindroppings.” And “Napalm and Silly Putty.”
Other than that, I just appreciate the humor in all the books I read.
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Hmm. Good point. Though I have no idea who George Carlin is. 😳
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WHAT?!?!?! That’s a shame. He died when you were probably about seven years ago. He was a comic, but also an actor. He was in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. And voiced Fillmore in the Disney movie Cars. He’s done a bunch of other stuff, too.
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I don’t know any of that stuff. Oh well.
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