ITT: Patrician comedy

ITT: Patrician comedy

Now THIS is pure gold.

Importance of Being Earnest and Don Quixote are the funniest pieces of literature I've read.

Dead Souls is also pretty funny

A lot of things by Wilde and also Decline and Fall by Waugh

I really like the Ubu plays.

I had some chuckles reading catcher in the rye, especially when somebody has a strong new york accent like when the cab driver says "sore? Nobodys sore"
That killed me

how's that funny

New york accents just about kill me. I can picture so clearly in my mind some guy putting his hands up to his chest, raising his eybrows and saying something like "Hurt? Whos getting hurt? with a slightly higher voice

Kafka's work

confederacy of dunces
good soldier svejk
at swim-two-birds (everything flann/myles)
molloy
war with the newts

also seconding don quixote

i love the depressive side of Veeky Forums but comedy is so underappreciated here

True. I'd love to see a good rendition of the final scene on stage. Molière is also pretty good.

Anyone got a .mobi? I guess I could just gogol it.

American Psycho

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>I guess I could just gogol it
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
Also it's fucking public domain

Jeeves and Wooster

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nah

Call me a pleb but the novel that made me laugh the hardest was Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald.

The first part of Notes from the underground

Tee Bee Hache the Danny Kaye version was god-tier comedy as well.

>at swim-two-birds

This book made me feel like such a brainlet. My Irish friend had to gloss every chapter for me.

Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh

Its as if guy is pol during ww2

Tortilla Flat is goddamn hilarious

I never found what's funny about him

That's not how I would describe Waugh

Easily

"Candide", by Voltaire. If anyone's Spanish, read the Moratín translation.
It's don Quijote level of funny, but condensed in a pinky finger width length.

Catch 22

Svejk is the shit

Vonnegut

"Vonnegut" more like Vonnebutt lmaooo

Melville

Oblomov had me lolling desu

based Zachar

Anything written appealing to a very simple sense of comedy , a la physical comedy, people falling, wordplay etc?

Kharms always gets me

See

Why are most classic or renowned authors so bad at humour? most of the ones mentioned in this thread just made me smirk now and then

Kharms is pure literary slapstick.

It may have something to do with your lack of wit

Are you implying stuff like this
is remotely funny?

You've only got yourself to blame if you consider Salinger "classic" or renowned. Do you really not see the humour in Melville, Gogol, Dostoevsky?

other guy, but whenever I've read Gogol I saw it was funny, saw how it was funny, it even was funny to me, but it always got grating after a while.