Quote: darkcomedylover @ May 10 2013, 1:19 PM BSTtry this:
http://authonomy.com/books/52226/barnacle-brat-a-dark-comedy-for-grown-ups-/
Christ! Is f**king Authonomy still going?
Any really funny comedy novels? Page 3
Yep -- until Harper Collins keels over (and I can't see that happening any time soon), I'm sure it will be 
The description of that book makes it look about as funny and original as the Book of Mormon (moronic religious text not the sell out musical).
Fortunately all the other writers on the site like it.
So it must be hilarious.
Some inspiration for you.
Short Story - Collections
Alexie, Sherman. The Toughest Indian in the World
Allen, Woody. Side Effects
Allen, Woody. Without Feathers
Banks, Melissa. The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Barthelme, Donald. Sixty Stories
Boyle, T.C.. T.C. Boyle Stories
Colette, Sidonie-Cabrielle. Collected Stories of Colette
Collier, John. Fancies and Goodnights
Dahl, Roald. The Roald Dahl Omnibus
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friedman, Bruce Jay. Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman
Gaitskill, Mary. Bad Behavior
Homes, A.M.. The Safety of Objects
Lardner, Ring. Selected Stories
Moore, Lorrie. Birds of America
Moore, Lorrie. Self-Help
O'Connor, Flannery. The Complete Stories
Packer, ZZ. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Parker, Dorothy. The Portable Dorothy Parker
Runyon, Damon. Guys and Dolls
Salinger, J.D.. Franny and Zooey
Salinger, J.D.. Nine Stories
Saunders, George. Pastoralia
Schickler, David. Kissing in Manhattan
Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival
Twain, Mark. The Portable Mark Twain
Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the Monkey House
Wallace, David Foster. Girl With Curious Hair
Novels & Novellas, Contemporary
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Block, Lawrence
Boyle, T. C.. Budding Prospects
Boyle, T.C.. Drop City
Buckley, Christopher. Thank You For Smoking
Evanovich, Janet
Ferris, Joshua. Then We Came to the End
Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones's Diary
Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
Hiassen, Carl
Hornby, Nick. High Fidelity
Irving, John. The World According to Garp
Keillor, Garrison. Lake Woebegone Days
Kosinski, Jerzy. Being There
Leonard, Elmore
Leyner, Mark. Et Tu Babe
McInerney, Jay. Bright Lights, Big City
Moore, Lorrie. Gate at the Stairs
O'Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces
Portis, Charles. Masters of Atlantis
Portis, Charles. Norwood
Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49
Robbins, Tom. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Roth, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint
Russo, Richard. Straight Man
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five
Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest
Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities
Novels & Novellas, Early/Mid 20th Century
Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim
Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita
Salinger, J.D.. The Catcher in the Rye
Waugh, Evelyn. Scoop
Waugh, Evelyn. Vile Bodies
West, Nathanael. Miss Lonelyhearts
Wodehouse, P. G.. Life With Jeeves
Novels & Novellas, 17th-19th Century
Austen, Jane. Emma
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations
Gogol, Nikolai. The Overcoat
Jerome, Jerome K.. Three Men in a Boat
Rabelais, Francois. Garganua and Pantagruel
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels
Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Twain, Mark. Pudd'nhead Wilson
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de. Candide
Nonfiction, Contemporary
Allen, Woody. Without Feathers
Almond, Steve. Not That You Asked
Ames, Jonathan. What's Not to Love?
Barron, Sara. People are Unappealing
Barry, Dave. Dave Barry Turns 50
Barry, Dave. Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
Bombeck, Erma. Forever Erma
Bombeck, Erma. If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?
Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential
Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods
Buchwald, Art. We'll Laugh Again
Buckley, Christopher. Wry Martinis
Burroughs, Augusten. Dry
Burroughs, Augusten. Running with Scissors
Bushnell, Candace. Sex and the City
Cahill, Tim. A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg
Cahill, Tim. Road Fever
Crosley, Sloane. I Was Told There'd be Cake
Daum, Meghan. My Misspent Youth
Dowd, Maureen. Bushworld
Eggers, David. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ephron, Nora. I Feel Bad About My Neck
Feig, Paul. Kick Me
Franken, Al. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Frazier, Ian. Coyote V. ACME
Frazier, Ian. Dating Your Mom
Geng, Veronica. Love Trouble
Handler, Chelsea. My Horizontal Life
Horwitz, Tony. Baghdad Without a Map
Ivins, Molly. Who Let the Dogs In?
Kaysen, Susanne. The Camera My Mother Gave Me
Klosterman, Chuck. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Lamott, Anne. Operating Instructions
Lebowitz, Fran. Fran Lebowitz Reader
Martin, Steve. Pure Drivel
Max, Tucker. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
O'Rourke, P. J.. Parliament of Whores
Rakoff, David. Don't Get Too Comfortable
Sedaris, David. Dress Your Family in Cordoroy and Denim
Sedaris, David. Holidays on Ice
Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sedaris, David. Naked
Shepherd, Jean. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories
Thompson, Hunter S.. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Thompson, Hunter S.. Hell's Angels
Trillin, Calvin. The Tummy Trilogy
Vowell, Sarah. Take the Cannoli
Wallace, David Foster. Consider the Lobster
Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Nonfiction, Early/Mid 20th Century
Benchley, Robert. The Best of Robert Benchley
Hart, Moss. Act One
Mencken, H. L.. The Vintage Mencken
Parker, Dorothy. The Portable Dorothy Parker
Perelman, S. J.. Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman
Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival
White, E.B.. Essays of E.B. White
Nonfiction, 17th-19th Century
Franklin, Benjamin. Poor Richard's Almanack
Johnson, Samuel. Selected Essays
Twain, Mark. Following the Equator
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark. Roughing It
Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad
Read em all
Any others?
A Confederacy of Dunces is the cream of comedy.
Its language might be a tad dated and parochial but if you stick with it for ten pages you will enter one of the finest comedy minds ever.
As for the writer, like so many of us his words went unread and like some do he sadly killed himself.
The book was taken around publishers by his mother who knew that what her son had written was a true classic and this was proven once the book was eventually published.
A truly wonderful and funny story capable of making your eyes water with laughter a fete everyone on these boards know is very hard to achieve.
I loved Stephen Fry's 'The Hippopotamus' - both very funny and full of sharp observations about life, poetry, the relationship between men and women, etc.
Also, Sandi Toksvig's 'The Chain of Curiosity' which is a collection of her columns is informative like QI and funny if you're into her kind of humour.
Richard Gordon novels Doctor in the... which the sitcom stemmed from. He has a very wicked (and often crude) sense of humour. And a lovely man to boot.
Peter Tinniswood is very overlooked now. A Touch of Daniel, I Didn't Know you Cared, Call it a Canary...
Anything by Danny King.
Not a "comedy novelist" as such, but if you want something dark and edgy with a punk attitude, try Charles Bukowski. He can make me laugh out loud. I re-read POST OFFICE not long ago, and that was pretty funny in places.
Quote: uncle mort @ June 4 2013, 8:32 PM BSTAnything by Danny King.
Uncle Mort! Yes indeed, anything by Danny King, a lovely writer and a lovely man to work with.
anything by the late great Tom Sharpe