what book really made you laugh out loud many times? I need something funny. thanks! :)
what book really made you laugh out loud many times? I need something funny. thanks! 🙂
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what book really made you laugh out loud many times? I need something funny. thanks! 🙂
Idiot Girls Action adventure Club by Laurie Notaro!
Or we thought you’d be prettier.
OMG, i loved that book! (the action adventure one)
Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs. Chuck Klosterman.
LOVED.
1. Bitter is the New Black (obviously)
2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
3. Shit My Dad Says
Mindy Kaling’s books and Whitney Cummings book
The Tao of Martha. If you’re a parent then recommend- I Heart My Little A-holes or Class Mom
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell-Tucker Max
Me talk pretty one day
An oldie – Couplehood – Paul Reiser. I was on a plane snorting trying to contain myself.
Both of Jim Gaffigan’s books
A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
Carl Haaisen, especially the novels featuring at some point, Skink. Haaisen showcases the comedic absurdity of Florida politics and policies with over-the-top characters and plot. I find it laugh-out-loud funny at times, while I am silently chuckling on the inside for the rest of the time. He is a reread go-to when I am really stressed and/or busy at work and don’t want to read something I won’t appreciate, if that makes sense…
@Mary Skinny Dip is one of my absolute faves ?
@Genevieve mine too!
Notes From the Underwire by Quinn Cummings.
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.
Class Mom, Furiously Happy, A Walk in the Woods
Yes to class mom!
Loved Furiously Happy!
THANKS EVERYONE. got my list and will hit the library at some point. 🙂
The Potty Mouth at the Table (Notaro) & Rude Bitches Make Me Tired (Rivenbark). Hilarious & relatable sarcasm, like @Jen‘s books!
OMG, i love that title, Rude bitches make me tired.
I love Celia Rivenbark – so funny!
@Hazel Check it out, it’s a quick, very funny read!
@Micah I forgot about Celia Rivenbark. I love her. She hasn’t written anything for awhile. I remember checking her site a few months ago.
@Mary That’s all I’ve ever read by her, now I’LL have to check her site. TY for the idea!
@Micah go on amazon for titles. She’s written a ton of books, like Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank and You Don’t Sweat Much For a Fat Girl. She lives in NC and writes? wrote? a syndicated column.
OMG @Mary I am going to do just that, right now! Skank is one of my favorite words, lol Those titles sound totally sarcastic & brutal, my kind of books! TY so much!
@Micah she’s got several more…
Million Ways to Die in the West by Seth Mcfarlane
Anything by
Laurie Nortaro
Bitter is the New Black. My husband said he never heard me laugh so hard and we probably were married 15 years at that point.
@Lori my husband said the same!
@Lori well that was the fastest I ever went on my library app to order a book! Lol
I’m not a mom but I heart my little a-holes had me actually laughing out loud I can imagine for parents it will be funnier
really? ok. i’ll add to that to my list. (i dont have kids by choice. I think they should all be lysoled.)
@Hazel its by Karen alpert and yes it was a so funny, plus if you have amazon prime its a free book
@Hazel you may feel more so about the lysol after reading lol
Hazel, I do have kids and I agree that they should all be Lysol-ed. ?
Insane city by dave barry
@Jennifer did you read Big Trouble? I was crying while I read it. I have to read it again
Ya’ll effing rock!!! thanks so much.
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
An Oral History
By: Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman
Bitch be crazy!
Bridget Jones’s Diary 2
@Tina that was The Edge of Reason, I think was the title, and I read it in 2000 maybe & will never forget my teenager daughter one night running into my room because she thought I was crying but I was laughing so hard!
That’s the only book I can remember laughing so hard I couldn’t read through my tears. It’s been years, I might have to revisit the series!
@Tina just was thinking the same thing! Thanks for the reminder! I wonder if at 51 I’ll laugh as hard as I did at 31?! I’m willing to try ?
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum series. Soooo good!!
At Least In The City Someone Would Hear Me Scream by Wade Rouse ?
How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
Jenny Lawson books, @Jen books
@Denise yes Jen Mann is hilarious!!
All of the Jeeves books by P.G. Wodehouse
Such a pretty fat – Jen Lancaster 🙂 on a plane, laughing out loud (people stared – I didn’t care)
@Mygal I was at home, but I was howling. And I wouldn’t have have noticed if anyone was staring!
@Mygal Same for me!! I was on a flight when I was snorting laughing and could not stop!!! The guy next to me had to think I was certifiable!! ???
Stories I’d Tell in Bars
Sweet potato queens
The art of Racing in the Rain
@Hope omg this book made me bawl like a baby!!! I dont remember laughing out loud at all!!
@Tiffany yeah, i guess. I just lived the dog talking.?
The Tao of Martha. Glitter dogs are the best thing ever.
Class Mom
YES! This had me laughing SO hard!
Jeneration X: Jen
Me Talk Pretty One Day: David Sedaris
Leave the Cannoli: Sarah Vowell
I Was Told There Would Be Cake: Sloane Crosley
Fraud: David Rakoff
Forrest Gump.
I heart my little a holes by Karen Alpert
Furiously happy
@Brienne I’m trying to get into this one now. Struggling a bit.
@Lynn oh. I read it a while ago but there were some parts that just had me laughing out loud and I do not do that often.
Bitter Is the New Black; Bright Lights, Big Ass; Sh$t my Dad Says; I Suck at Girls. …all laugh out loud funny!!
Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
this guy is hilarious!
Sh*t My Dad Says. I finally had to stop reading it in public.
This! ☝?
totally agree!! I woke my husband up because I was laughing too hard
All David Sedaris books!!
Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
@Mollie classic!!! I vividly remember listening to this audio on a road trip and feeling the need to pull over because I was laughing hysterically, I had to reel it in for my own safety ??
I think I’m one of the only people in the world who does not find her funny. I hated that book and felt she was just rude and crude.
@Kimmy, that makes 2 of us. Haven’t bothered with the book, though, since I dislike her so much
Stephanie Plum series by Evanovich
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, and We Thought You Would Be Prettier (and basically any book by Laurie Notaro.
Bitter is the new black & people I want to punch in the thoat- holiday edition.
Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy. Maybe it was because I was pregnant and my hormones were crazy, but I laughed so freaking hard at this book.
Really funny stuff! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17852366-amateur-night-at-the-bubblegum-kittikat
Gold coast by Demille
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. It’s the first in a series. I was crying laughing at these books!
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Yes! My family thought I was crazy for laughing so much while reading.
Sweet potato Queen‘s book of love and God save the sweet potato Queens by Jill Connor Brown
Confessions of a Domestic Failure! Sooo funny.
@Lauren I love that title
The Spellman Files. Idiot Girls Action Adventure Club.
bossy pants by tina fey!!
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg. It’s an old one, but was laugh out loud funny to me.
@Wendy her friend pickle
McCarthy’s Bar!
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.
I think i have a list that will last me all year. LOL
Meaty by Samantha Irby
YES.
anything by David Sedaris
Murder On a Girls Night Out. All the books in this mystery series are lol
David Sedaris SantaLand Diaries! Also currently enjoying Maeve in America (Maeve Higgins)
@Kristen I love the Santaland Diaries and it is even better with Sedaris reading it!
I can imagine! I feel like I hear it on the radio every year. Is that him reading it? It gets me every time.
@Kristen if the voice is relatively high picked and soft for a man, it is Sedaris.
Jen Mann
David Sedaris anything.
@Jill I had to buy the special edition one he signs. Its bound like a bible. LOL
I have that one too…and the paperback…and the audio…hahaha
My Third Husband Will Be a Dog by Lisa Scottoline and her daughter!
@Hazel, I loved that book.
Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs. I was reading it late at night and was laughing so hard, all alone in my living room, I’m surprised I didn’t wake anyone up. My favorite part was about the song Wildfire. You HAVE to read it. Also anything by AJ Jacobs, and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson.
@Jill the audio?! I never thought of getting that!!
Shut My Dad Says
I happened to see the suggestion of “Sh*t My Dad Says” and am currently reading it while waiting on service for my car. Thanks for that suggestion-I am working hard to not laugh out loud like a lunatic in the waiting room ?.
Good luck. I think I gave myself a hernia trying not to laugh in public on that one.
@Rachelle yes to both! There’s so many laugh out loud moments with these two wonderful authors!
I just got the newest Stephanie Plum book from the library and am excited to dive right in and see what shenanigans that crew is up to this time around.
And…I’ve totally gotten those same looks from people on the subway when I was unable to contain my laughter while reading!! ?
Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffagan comedian
Food: A Love Story was also funny?
both of these Jim Gaffigan books are hilarious as audiobooks, because it is Jim himself narrating!
There was a Janet Evanovich novel that had me cracking up on the first page. I think it was Love Overboard or something like that.
Can you keep a secret by Sophie Kinsella