Is this the only decent comedic novel out there? All the other ones I've read are trash.
Is this the only decent comedic novel out there? All the other ones I've read are trash
There are two, if you count God
Don Quixote
You'd better be baiting.
Tristram Shandy is one of the greatest novels ever written, to say nothing of it being hands down the greatest comic novel in the English language
At swim-two-birds is pretty funny so far
I've never laughed as hard reading a book as with Confederacy.
Parts of Gravity's Rainbow are very funny, but I wouldn't call that a comedic novel.
Brothers Karamazov is pretty funny. It's like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but better.
The Master and Margarita
what is this meme
Is it a meme?
first 6 chapters of confederacy of dunces is good then it drags on and on (and on and on)
Journey to the End of the Night
Rontel
Don Quixote
how does it feel having no sense of humor
Early Dickens is hilarious - Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, etc.
Quevedo's "Pablo the Swindler" had me almost paralyzed with laughter.
I recommend picaresque literature. Fielding's "Tom Jones", Smollett's "Roderick Random", etc.
Ferdydurke
this nigga.
I don't get what's funny about this isn't it just like young sheldon but in the middle ages or something
most dostoevsky and 20th century russian shit is hilarious. henry miller is funny and not at all as overwhelmingly sexual as people make it out to be.
Infinite Jest is pretty funny.
lord henry in the picture of dorian grey is pretty funny
bro. Lucky Jim.
JR by William Gaddis, although extremely pessimistic, is hilarious
Almost any PG Wodehouse book
Hitchhiker's Guide is great and funny despite what Veeky Forums might meme, as well as the Dirk Gently duo
Catch-22
he's an overeducated bum who manipulates any situation so his principles come out on top, he feeds on righteous anger and pretension. he goes to movies he dislikes so he can critique them out loud and get mad at the "degeneracy" on display. he is miserable virgin who lives with his mom and uses his education to convince himself he is some kind of intellectual on the outside of a decadent society. he's also just a classic bawdy and slapstick character, somewhere between Fallstaff and Bluto, lumbering around, lying about everything, slurping hotdogs and burping
I love 20th century Polish aforisms myself.
This
>when Sancho gets tossed in the blanket.
No, there's pedo shit and shit-eating.Gross pervert is Mr Pynchon.
Funny how that is what torments him the most all through their subsequent adventures.
The Loved One
Candy
Hitchhikers Guide is excellent
As are the Discworld novels
>inb4 somebody wants to prove their worth by calling me reddit
I appreciate your taste.
Hmm... now it really sounds like bazingo
What about Three Men in a Boat? Whisky Galore? The Doctor is Sick?
And the sheer absurd of Dan Brown's lumped together wikipedia facts?
Nothing about Dan Brown is funny though.
it's mildly overrated. also, reading it in translation makes it lose part of its linguistic humour
yeah, i remember crime and punishment being extremely funny at times
Pynch's more comedic works like IV are pretty enjoyable. Not as good as his more serious stuff but pretty funny and well-written all the same.
Obviously Don Quixote.
J R is quite funny. But if you can't see images in your head then you lose a lot of the comedy. It's very visual in its comedy despite being nearly all dialogue.
I'm not sure I've ever laughed at anything in my entire life as much as I did while reading the vomit scene.
For the OP - hurr durr fart jokes so funneh. GARGANTUAN.
Three men in a boat is way better.
It's only a comedy if you're a normie. Toole offed himself after he realized the semi autobiographical tragedy he had written would be viewed as one of the greatest comedic novels of all time.