Which was a satire on guess whom???

but I believe in gut instinct and the first thing that popped into my mind was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I may end up seeing others that come close but damn that book was fun.

There was some Kurt Vonnegut that was pretty funny too, but I can't remember which titles.

in school.

One of the books I'm currently reading is "Fart Proudly"...a collection of essays and short poems by Ben Franklin.

I honestly never knew he was such a mischievous fellow, and I think I may have liked him very much if I had known him in person.

PS...it's not all about farts, though. His essay on choosing a mistress is a hoot, as is the one written by the fictional "Alice Addertongue"

There is no close second for me.

Great literature and laugh out loud funny cover to cover.

Such a tragedy that he died before it was published, and that
he never got to write another.

A real miracle of a book!

I made the mistake of reading it on an airplane flight, disrupting my fellow passengers with periodic outbursts of laughter. You don't even see it coming with that book.

I also think Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen is hilarious but it's not for everyone as the humor is very dark.

The storyline was a little wacko, absurd, a stretch, but the writing was a laugh a minute.

I've seen him several times on late night talks shows and I love those appearances. He cracks me up. And I love his sister too.

BBC TV series = Better than the movie

shortly after a trip to England. I found it hilarious, because he exaggerates English ways just a little bit...

I also enjoyed his book about Australia, In a Sunburned Country, which is similar in tone.

He has a pretty good book on hiking the Appalachian Trail too

It's about his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail. His hilarious section on bears is worth the price of the book all by itself.

Edit: found an excerpt:

My particular dread--the vivid possibility that left me staring at tree shadows on the bedroom ceiling night after night--was having to lie in a small tent, alone in an inky wilderness, listening to a foraging bear outside and wondering what its intentions were. I was especially riveted by an amateur photograph in Herrero's book, taken late at night by a camper with a flash at a campground out West. The photograph caught four black bears as they puzzled over a suspended food bag. The bears were clearly startled but not remotely alarmed by the flash. It was not the size or demeanor of the bears that troubled me--they looked almost comically nonaggressive, like four guys who had gotten a Frisbee caught up a tree--but their numbers. Up to that moment it had not occurred to me that bears might prowl in parties. What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die, of course. Literally shit myself lifeless. I would blow my sphincter out my backside like one of those unrolling paper streamers you get at children's parties--I daresay it would even give a merry toot--and bleed to a messy death in my sleeping bag.

San Francisco vampires, and what not. He wove the first book in to two more, You Suck, and Bite me..

I've read about 5 of his books. They are all fun reads. If you like funny and fun check his stuff out.

http://www.chrismoore.com/books.html

He's great. Lamb has been my favorite so far.

by Terry Pratchett made me laugh aloud the first time I read it, as well as all the times after that. I love it. In fact, I love all of Terry Pratchett's books.

Anyone know how he is?

...he appears to be as busy as ever despite the early onset Alzheimer's. A new Discworld novel just out, and a new non-Discworld book due out in about 4 months.

so glad to hear it! Wow, this is wonderful news.

a wild ride as well, very creative.

First person narrative of the adventures of Horse Badorties.

I highly recommend it.

Then again, I'm getting a lot of good suggestions from this thread. Thanks, applegrove.

or maybe Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

or

Breakfast of Champions

I love that book.

They think granny is cool LOL

and so do i

LOL'd through the whole thing (I think I was a junior in HS).

I haven't read Confederacy of Dunces, though. That might win out in the end.

but I can never remember any of it.

When I lived in Miami, I worked for a city magazine, and one our editors did an interview with him. I begged to go along, but to no avail. He was my aunt's next door neighbor when he lived in Pennsylvania.

And of course who could forget "Big Trouble".

It has one of the funniest descriptions of a funeral I ever read.

LOL funny. I would read it on my breaks at work and get asked all the time "what's so funny?"

An amazing bit of writing for a first novel.

The source of A Christmas Story

Jean Shepherd was a great humorist.

but there have been a few:

All Creatures Great and Small--James Herriot

Couplehood & Babyhood--Paul Riser

Outrageous--Charles Barkley. (yes, it had a lot of humor)

edited to say: oops I misread it as funniest however all these book could be funnest too.

Both had me in stitches.

...but I read "Fool"

The lost gospel of Biff, Jesus' childhood friend.

What's amazing about it is that for as funny - and sometimes bawdy - as it is, it remains respectful and Biblically accurate with respect to the character of Jesus.

I definitely want to read more Moore!

Although for balance you should try reading "Orchid Fever" to hear opposing views on CITES. It also the only book (AFAIK) to use the phrase "fox testicle ice cream jump rope" in a way that makes perfect sense, and was indeed inevitable in context.

By Tom Robbins

There was some line in there about a medieval Bohemian prince who met a woman from India, and it went something like:

"It is said that when a man is contemplating sexual activity, his hair grows faster. Alobar may need a shave before we get to the bottom of this page."

You don't have to be a wrestling fan to really appreciate it. An awesome book.

Candide is up there as well.