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The William Books by Richmal Crompton are brilliantly funny, and the audio books narrated by Martin Jarvis (who also did some of the Wodehouse books) are amazing. You won't believe someone can do 20 distinct upper class English voices and have them all sound like utter morons. Spike Milligan's war memoirs (Just the first four if you want to avoid his PTSD and subsequent depression) are very funny. Hard to get at the moment but "The Bagthorpe saga" by Helen Cresswell are books that I had to stop reading in order to breath. "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hasek is funny in the same vein as confederacy of dunces. "The Fan Man" by William Kotzwinkle is great, so is some of his other stuff (avoid "Dr Rat" unless vivisection is funny) Lastly, The Aubrey-Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian are surprisingly funny.
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A forgotten classic: "Augustus Carp Esq, by himself" is fantastic. Get the edition that maintains the pretense that he is a real person and this is his autobiography
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504 posted:A bunch of goons come sprinting into the thread: Thorne Smith motherfucker, Nightlife of the Gods is a great book.
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