Do you have a favorite funny author? Who do you read to get a guaranteed good laugh?

 

Here is the place to chat about all of our favorite funny authors. They can pick us up when we feel down, they make us laugh when we are reading in a crowded waiting room (and then the looks we get from other people are almost as funny as what we were reading)!

 

This is the place to share!

 

If you have some authors that are guaranteed to bring the reader a good time, I want to know! Tell me why you like them, what makes their stories so fun?

 

Have fun!

Terry Pratchet all the way!

 

And Neil Gaiman but not as much

I have read a little Neil Gaimon, but it wasn't funny, and for other reasons I didn't finish the book.  I really need to check out Terry Pratchett though - everyone tells me I should read him, and I haven't yet. 

 

My go-to funny author is Janet Evanovich. The Stephanie Plum series, but I recently have also enjoyed the Wicked series. She really cracks me up - I find myself laughing uproariously at awkward moments like in the DMV waiting room. Everyone just stares at me, and you can't quite explain how a car just got blown up and its hilarious... Such good funny easy read books. 

 

I also love the Dresden Files - the aren't really humor books, but I think he does such a good job integrating some sarcastic and witty humor into the characters and their interactions, that it really adds to the stories he tells in that series. 

Douglas Adams. And Pratchett.

and Vonnegut and dickens and mark twain

I love Mark Twain and Dickens

 

I haven't read Douglas Adams, or Vonnegut (Like Pratchett, I know I should try Vonnegut)

 

What kind of stuff does Douglas Adams write?

 

What makes these authors works funny or humorous to you?

I don't really like books that are usually described as "funny books". 

 

The thing that really makes me laugh the most is the delivery which I find hard to picture in books. However when it comes to longstanding series and you feel like you "know" the protagonist I find it a lot easier to laugh books as you can imagine how they'd say it.

 

If that makes any sense at all. 

Apart from Pratchett, there are two other authors whom I also find quite humorous. Actually, some of their books are absolutely hilarious! They would be Gerald Durrell and James Herriot.

To quote the net:

Gerald Durrell was born in India in 1925. His family settled on Corfu when Durrell was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family and Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets.

On leaving Corfu he returned to England to work on the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper. His adventures there are told with characteristic energy in Beasts in My Belfry. A few years later, Durrell began organising his own animal-collecting expeditions. The first, to the Cameroons, was followed by expeditions to Paraguay, Argent...more

 

 

James Herriot is the pen name of James Alfred Wight, OBE, FRCVS also known as Alf Wight, an English veterinary surgeon and writer. Wight is best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, often referred to collectively as All Creatures Great and Small, a title used in some editions and in film and television adaptations.

In 1939, at the age of 23, he qualified as a veterinary surgeon with Glasgow Veterinary College. In January 1940, he took a brief job at a veterinary practice in Sunderland, but moved in July to work in a rural practice based in the town of Thirsk, Yorkshire, close to the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. The original practice is now a museum, "The World of James Herriot...more

 

Love, love Terry Pratchett and Doug Adams. Will Rogers and Twain are also a hoot. And David Eddings had a lot of tongue in cheek humor all throught his stuff.

I definitely loved some of the humor in all of Eddings work. 

 

I also like the flippant sarcasm that Terry Goodkind puts into his books. 

*has to go away and think of something else, cos it would be silly to say Terry Pratchett again*

dahl's kinda funny in a really mean way

Stephen Colbert. His is one of the only comedy books that I have read but really enjoyed it.

RTE - I absolutely LOVE Stephen Colbert!

 

Not just as an author, but I also love watching his show the Colbert Report. Just awesome.