Read It Forward "Rif's Favorite Reads of 2018"
Funny Books: NPR's Readers Pick The Best We thought you lot might need a laugh right about now, so this year's summer reader poll celebrates all the books (and one brusk story, and a few uncategorizable gems) that make you laugh out loud.
We Did Information technology For The LOLs: 100 Favorite Funny Books
The news cycle is driving us to the border of madness, so why not switch off, unplug and pick up a volume? We know you lot could use a laugh right at present — and luckily, several thousand of you told us all well-nigh the books, stories and poems that make yous laugh.
We took your votes (more than than 7,000 of them!) and with the assist of our panel of proficient judges — people and then absurd and then hilarious I'm surprised they even talked to me — created this list of 100 reads designed to make you laugh out loud. Want slice-of-life essays? Loopy poetry? Surreal 1-console cartoons? Blackly comic novels? Texts from famous literary figures? Ringlet down — we've got it all.
Every bit with all our reader polls, this is a curated list and not a straight-up popularity contest; you'll encounter that the books are grouped into categories rather than ranked from one to 100.
And, equally always, there are a few things that didn't make the list — surprisingly, Shakespeare didn't get plenty votes to brand it to the semifinals, and our judges decided the immortal Bard of Avon didn't exactly need our help to detect new readers. (Only read some Shakespeare anyhow, merely for the scorching burns in Much Ado About Nix.) Then in that location were books that didn't quite stand the test of time, or were so new we couldn't tell whether they'd stand upwards.
Some of the authors on this list are incredibly popular, and y'all voted them in over and once more (iii guesses as to whom, and the start two don't count, David Sedaris). Because infinite is express, nosotros try to hold each writer to one spot on the list, but there are some exceptions — in 2015, for the romance poll, we created the Nora Roberts Dominion. We've applied it somewhat ... flexibly, only it generally means that each yr, i especially honey or prolific author gets two spots on the list. This yr, nosotros used it for an actual Nora, Nora Ephron, which our judges idea was the perfect application.
And speaking of our judges, you will discover a couple of their works on the listing this year — nosotros don't let judges vote for their ain work, only readers loved Samantha Irby's Nosotros Are Never Meeting In Real Life and Guy Branum's My Life as a Goddess, so the panel agreed they should stay.
Laughter is the best medicine, or then nosotros hear — so read two (heck, read three) and phone call u.s. in the forenoon!
To brand navigating the list a lilliputian easier, click these links to get to each category: Memoirs, Essays, Comics & Cartoons, Novels, Fantasy & Scientific discipline Fiction, Nonfiction, Kids' Books & YA, Verse, Classics, Short Stories and ... Deep Thoughts (no, really, just Deep Thoughts. We couldn't figure out where else to put information technology).
Born A Criminal offence
Stories from a Southward African Childhood
Daily Prove host Trevor Noah was built-in in South Africa in 1984, to a white father and a black mother — confronting the law nether the apartheid system. In this memoir, past turns funny and wrenching, he describes the lengths his parents went to continue him safe and hidden from the regime. "I recall it set me upwardly for where I am at present in life," he told NPR's Renee Montagne in 2016. "More of my comedy and my showbiz, and that feeling came for me partly from my mother, came for me from the globe that I lived in."
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
A Savage Journey To The Centre Of The American Dream
Nosotros put this in the Memoirs section because Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo are, more or less, based on Hunter S. Thompson and his buddy Oscar Zeta Acosta ... only ane category tin't really incorporate this drug-befuddled desert odyssey. "If you're gonna take a route trip and you're gonna do it by automobile, I'm sad to say that the best you can hope for is for yours to be the second-greatest of all fourth dimension," says our critic Jason Sheehan. "Why? Because Hunter Thompson and Oscar Zeta Acosta have already taken the top slot and will hold it forever."
Bossypants
Reading Tina Fey's delightful memoir is like eating a bucket of picture popcorn — you can't stop until you lot get to the bottom. But different a bucket of movie popcorn, Bossypants volition leave you light and happy and wishing you were at least a tenth as absurd as Tina Fey. (And aye, of course, in that location'south also lots about actually beingness a dominate on the sets of Saturday Nighttime Live and thirty Rock.)
Funny In Farsi
A Memoir of Growing Upwards Iranian in America
When Firoozeh Dumas moved to America every bit a kid, she knew exactly seven words of English — the names of seven colors. (Her male parent had taught English in Islamic republic of iran, merely as information technology turned out, he wasn't that not bad at speaking American.) Funny in Farsi is a charming chronicle of her family's encounters with American culture, from her mother's fondness for The Price is Right to the truthful meaning of "elbow grease."
I Feel Bad About My Neck
And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
A few years ago when we did the romance poll, our judges created the Nora Roberts Rule: Normally, an author gets only ane slot in the concluding listing, but someone as legendary as Ms. Roberts tin can take 2 (she got in as herself and equally her pen proper noun, J.D. Robb). We practical that rule again this year to some other Nora — Nora Ephron, because we couldn't decide betwixt this candid, rueful, hilarious collection of essays on aging as a adult female and her scathing autobiographical novel Heartburn, which you lot'll see farther along in the list.
Wishful Drinking
Oh, Carrie Fisher. We miss you so much. Luckily, Fisher's words are still here for u.s. — Wishful Drinking, adapted from her autobiographical stage evidence, is a painfully funny, unsparing business relationship of her childhood as Hollywood royalty; her own ascent to fame, far also immature, with Star Wars; and marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon. What'due south it like to have your parents' marriage cleaved upwards by Elizabeth Taylor? And to have your own action figure at the age of 19? Fisher lays it all out.
Permit's Pretend This Never Happened
A Generally Truthful Memoir
Jenny Lawson kicks off this memoir with a story well-nigh how, at the age of 3, she allegedly nigh set her family's apartment on fire by shoving a broom into the furnace then waving it, aflame, around her caput. And things don't become whatsoever less weird from there — in fact, Lawson says she has spent her whole life beingness pigeonholed as "that weird daughter." Is it a little embellished? Yes. (Lawson herself calls information technology "a mostly true memoir" on the comprehend.) Is information technology hilarious? Besides yeah, even when Lawson is recounting the more painful parts of her life.
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Mindy Kaling's combination memoir, advice cavalcade and Hollywood tour is irreverent and eminently relatable — from her childhood struggles with weight and popularity to her eventual career breakthrough. But the most resonant office is her description of herself as a teenage comedy nerd breaking away from a familiar childhood clique to write sketches and film clips with a new friend who actually appreciated the glories of Wayne's World and Monty Python'south Flying Circus.
My Life Every bit A Goddess
A Memoir Through (United nations)popular Culture
"Guy Branum'due south drove of essays isn't just a hilarious memoir — though don't get me wrong, it is VERY much that," says Pop Culture Happy Hour's Glen Weldon. "It's a call to arms, a stirring, touching, beautifully written manifesto for queer self-fabricated autodidacts everywhere — anyone who has failed to come across themselves reflected in popular culture and knew that meant the culture had to change, non them. The searing insight with which he dissects his late father'southward love of the film The Human being Who Shot Liberty Valance, for example, will have you reassessing fathers, sons, violence, masculinity and — not for cipher — the film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."
Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood grew up with a Cosmic priest for a begetter (he had originally been a Lutheran, and kept his wife and family unit through a special Vatican dispensation) who converted onboard a submarine during a showing of The Exorcist. Her memoir is part freewheeling family unit portrait and part scathing, ribald critique of the Church building and its predatory, controlling men — our critic Annalisa Quinn calls the book "antic, deadpan, heartbreaking — and so, and then gross."
Running With Scissors
A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs' darkly comic memoir chronicles his childhood as the son of alcoholic, troubled parents who eventually sent him to live in the chaotic household of a psychiatrist he describes as almost like a cult leader. Both his family and that of the doctor accept challenged his account — just as long equally you're not holding to journalistic standards of truth, Running With Scissors is a wild ride of a read, by turns disgusting, upsetting and hilarious.
Life Among The Savages
Sure, anybody knows Shirley Jackson equally the queen of chills — notice me someone who claims to not take read "The Lottery" and I'll find you lot a liar. Just Jackson had another life as a humorist, whose wry, detailed observations about her family and their modest Vermont town — originally published in women'south magazines — share a little scrap of that border, that darkness that makes her horror writing so powerful.
The Last Black Unicorn
"I simply kept pushing," comedian Tiffany Haddish told NPR in 2017, "because I know what I'grand supposed to exercise here on this Globe." The Last Black Unicorn is her account of what she had to continue pushing through on her way to success — including an abusive wedlock, years in foster intendance and, ultimately, the challenge from a social worker that put her on the path to a career in one-act. Haddish herself says she couldn't mine her marriage for laughs, merely the residual of the book is honest, funny and, in the end, inspiring.
Ayoade On Ayoade
A Cinematic Odyssey
British player and filmmaker Richard Ayoade — The IT Crowd's honey, bad-mannered Moss — began directing music videos in 2007 and made his full-length directorial debut with Submarine in 2010. Mix that love of film with his comedic chops and you get Ayoade on Ayoade, an extremely loosely autobiographical series of essays (and silly footnotes) in which he interviews himself about his career every bit a filmmaker and the movies that shaped him. Did I mention the footnotes?
Yes Please
Amy Poehler takes off her wigs and costumes and steps out of character for her memoir, Yes Delight — a decision she says was difficult. Just it's fun getting closer to the real Poehler in this funny, eclectic, somewhat scattershot book and discovering the thought process behind some of her most indelible characters.
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
If David Sedaris thinks you're funny, you're probably pretty funny — and he has called Sloane Crosley "perfectly, relentlessly funny." I Was Told There'd Be Cake is her debut collection, and it introduces her equally an original yet definitely relatable voice. Who amongst us, after all, hasn't worried about dying all of a sudden and having friends and family unit detect something embarrassing — similar a stash of toy ponies under the sink — while cleaning out our stuff?
Me Talk Pretty 1 Twenty-four hour period
Everybody has a favorite David Sedaris drove. Many champion his early fiction/memoir-hybrid stuff like Barrel Fever and Naked, but in Me Talk Pretty, the hilarious essayist mines his real life — strip-mines it, in some cases — and the result feels richer, truer. In the first half, he selects moments from his childhood equally well as his life as a writer in New York Urban center for gentle (and not-so-gentle) (and often cocky-) mockery. In the 2nd half, Sedaris manages to write about moving to a country firm in France with his lover in a style that's so fresh and funny nosotros somehow get over our seething jealousy.
Assassination Holiday
Sarah Vowell walks the reader through the first three U.S. presidential assassinations (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley), but brand no mistake: This is no whistle-stop tour. Vowell, in her sardonic only never caustic way, grounds united states firmly in the era in question while never missing an opportunity to depict trenchant parallels to our own. She visits gravesites and ghoulish medical museums, just the book doesn't seem so much death-obsessed as expiry-charmed. Y'all'll come away wanting to trace her steps to the Washington, D.C., boardinghouse where the Lincoln assassins met and plotted, which is at present, as she notes, a karaoke restaurant serving better-than-boilerplate bubble tea.
One-half Empty
Readers voted in nigh every book David Rakoff e'er wrote, just our judges agreed that One-half Empty — in which he writes most the power of what he calls "defensive pessimism," or assuming the worst — was, in fact, the best. "I can encounter a smashing beauty in acknowledging the fact that the earth is dark," Rakoff told NPR's Linda Wertheimer in 2010. While writing the book, he learned he had the cancer that would eventually kill him, but as he put it in some other interview, with defensive pessimism, "you lot imagine the worst-example scenario you can and you get through it step past step, and you lot dismantle those things and you manage your anxiety about it."
Cool, Calm, And Contentious
Merrill Markoe has won multiple Emmy Awards for her work equally a writer on Tardily Nighttime with David Letterman, but she is less well-known than a lot of the other funny women on this list. (On her website, she claims to be "haunted past the fear that the creation of 'Stupid Pet Tricks' was going to exist the only thing that would appear in her obituary.") So choice upwardly this volume of essays and start getting to know Markoe — we promise, she's really funny.
We Are Never Coming together In Real Life
Essays
Readers loved this painfully relatable collection of essays from poll gauge Samantha Irby, and rightfully then — you lot may cringe occasionally equally you lot read, but it'll be because yous know you've washed exactly what Irby is describing in such droll, deadpan fashion. Besides, her true cat, Helen Keller, is one of the greatest comic creations of all fourth dimension.
If Life Is A Bowl Of Cherries What Am I Doing In The Pits
Erma Bombeck was an American humorist who, yes, captured the travails of suburban life and homemaking in the pages of newspapers and women's magazines — as well every bit weekly segments on Proficient Morn America for over a decade. But she was also a consummate prose stylist. You tin't read a Bombeck essay without hearing the weary affection behind every withering observation and her clear-eyed charm that never devolved to familiar clichés. This collection of essays finds her at the very top of her game equally a vocalization for millions of Americans who were beginning to realize that the American dream was ane that came with its share of night terrors.
You Tin't Touch on My Pilus
And Other Things I Nevertheless Have to Explain
Phoebe Robinson is one-half of the awesome podcast 2 Dope Queens and a fierce voice for multifariousness in comedy. Her debut essay collection is about black hair, yes, simply besides about what it's like to be the ane black friend in your group ("Hint," she writes, "information technology's annoying"), what it'southward like to be black in general ("very cool and awesome and as well annoying") and, as she puts information technology, "all the stuff that makes some dude on the Internet call me a 'See Y'all Adjacent Tuesday.' " Yous should likewise check out her follow-upwardly drove, Everything's Trash, But It'due south Okay.
I Can't Engagement Jesus
Love, Sex, Family unit, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyonce
Writer Michael Arceneaux grew up black, gay and Cosmic in Houston, an feel he chronicles in this eloquent, honest — and extremely funny — essay drove. He told Fresh Air's Terry Gross that his very religious mother hated the book'due south title, but it really came from a conversation they had. "I know that you lot're born gay. I know that you tin can't help it. But if you have sexual activity and become hit past a bus, I don't know where you're going to go," his mother told him — to which he replied, "Well, daughter, I can't date Jesus."
The Awkward Thoughts Of Due west. Kamau Bong
Tales of a 6' 4, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Male child, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
Comedian W. Kamau Bong says he has spent near of his life feeling awkward — growing upwardly alpine, but not an athlete, interested in comedy only feeling out of place in comedy clubs. He writes near that, along with race relations, intersectionality, politics and being a blerd (a black nerd) in this conversational collection that will get out you feeling similar yous've spent the afternoon with a very funny and definitely smarter-than-yous friend.
Ane 24-hour interval We'll All Be Expressionless And None Of This Will Affair
Scaachi Koul grew upwards in Canada the child of Indian immigrants, an feel she draws on in this sharp-edged collection of essays. Koul takes on some tough subjects — privilege, gender roles, online abuse and all the things that take made her miserable — merely she manages to wring laughs out of it all.
So Sad Today
Personal Essays
Writer Melissa Broder started the @sosadtoday Twitter business relationship in 2012 to deal with a merciless cycle of panic attacks and anxiety that went on and on. Which doesn't sound like smashing material for one-act, merely sometimes the just way out of unhappiness is to brand fun of it. As she puts it in the introduction to this collection, based on those darkly funny tweets, "There aren't that many means to find comfort in this globe. We must take it where nosotros can go it, fifty-fifty in the darkest, most disgusting places."
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Collecting her bestsellers Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, this indispensable volume of Fran Lebowitz'southward essays transports the reader to a place (New York City) and a time (late '70s-early on '80s) with uncanny specificity. Lebowitz writes lean but meaty prose equally effortless as information technology is ruthless. Y'all could bounce a quarter off every baking sentence, every scalding take (her ferocious defense of smoking in restaurants, for instance) and come away with your eyebrows happily singed. They telephone call her the modernistic-day Dorothy Parker, but there's a generation of contemporary writers who'd kill to be chosen the heir apparent to Fran Lebowitz.
The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Daughter
Our judges and you, the readers, were unanimous in wanting to see Issa Rae'south debut collection on this list. Named after her hitting Web comedy series — but written in her ain vox, rather than that of her character in the prove — it's a winningly deadpan account of all the bad-mannered, frustrating and embarrassing moments that helped shape her (as well as a guide to navigating any bad-mannered situations you might find yourself in). As well, Rae had a smashing conversation with our own Michel Martin well-nigh the Web series, which you can check out here.
Vacationland
Truthful Stories from Painful Beaches
John Hodgman wrote his first few books in a vocalisation one might call "Brainy, Condescending Polymath," but with 2011'south That is All, he began to driblet that pose and let notes of searching melancholy enter the mix. That process continued rapidly with this, his fourth book, a drove of essays congenital from his life as a writer, husband, father, friend, homeowner, full-time Yankee and part-fourth dimension Mainer. He's as funny and charming as ever here, but he is also more than worried, more doubtful, shuffling off the carapace of intellectual swagger to expose something more raw and relatable.
Y'all'll Grow Out Of It
In this collection, comedy writer Jessi Klein — she won an Emmy as the caput author for Inside Amy Schumer — considers everything from life equally a tomboy to her philosophical objections to baths ("I feel similar getting in the bathroom is a kind of surrender to the idea that we can't really get in on land," she writes). Poll judge Aparna Nancherla says Klein "is an absolute genius at taking an feel she's had and making information technology universally relatable using the about delightful imagery you would have never thought of, but is, in fact, the perfect and only description."
Nimona
Noelle Stevenson'south breakout graphic novel nearly a mannerly shape-shifter who apprentices herself to the local villain starts equally a lighthearted comic fantasy — and blossoms into a morally and emotionally circuitous (merely nevertheless funny) story about proficient and evil, dear and friendship and expose. Our critic Tasha Robinson calls information technology "a perpetual surprise ... still puckish even when it turns grim, simply for something that starts out so lighthearted and light-headed, information technology'southward astonishingly intense."
Hark! A Vagrant
History and literature (even Canadian history and literature) were never more fun than in Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant. Beaton'south loose, rubbery and incredibly expressive renderings of the Kennedy family, Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, and Odysseus encountering Sirens posing with Facebook duck lips will brand you laugh for sure — and you might even learn something. (For example, she was style ahead of the rest of usa on Rosalind Franklin.)
Almost Completely Baxter
New and Selected Blurtings
Glen Baxter is British, something that isn't immediately credible in his masterful drawings of cowboys property each other at gunpoint over a shirtful of kumquats or a strange spoken language balloon. And if that previous sentence went in a direction you didn't exactly expect, so do Baxter's surreally deadpan i-console cartoons, each with a caption similar "Hubert gazed on in awe at the morsel" or "The concept of the dimmer switch had nonetheless to reach the Lazy K bunkhouse."
The Complete Far Side
If you grew upwards in the '80s, Gary Larson'due south breviloquent cows and chickens, addled scientists, aliens and e'er present women in cat'south-eye glasses were an enduring role of your cultural landscape. Or if you were my dad, yous bought yourself a Far Side cartoon-a-twenty-four hour period calendar every year, carefully saved your favorite jokes, wrapped them up and gave them to yourself at Christmas and so you could savor them all again (Jane Goodall, that tramp!).
Can't We Talk Well-nigh Something More Pleasant?
A Memoir
Cartoonist Roz Chast turns her pen on herself in this painfully funny account of taking care of her aging parents after they became incapable of living lonely. Chast's jittery, wordy manner is perfect for depicting the indignities of age as they affected her overbearing mother and her gentle, unassuming father — who referred to each other unironically as "soul mates" and who, in Chast'southward words, "aside from WWII, work, illness and going to the bathroom ... did everything together."
The Groovy Outdoor Fight
Chris Onstad'south resonantly weird comic most anthropomorphic animals doesn't really have an ongoing story, simply it does accept a few standout arcs — including this 1, about the legendary, 3,000-man Great Outdoor Fight. Ray Smuckles — nominally a cat — discovers that his dad, Ramses, won the 1973 fight, so he is adamant to repeat the feat with the help of his best friend, Roast Beef. But things go sideways when Ray realizes he is going to accept to beat Beef to win. Onstad's fine art is spare at best, but his cats (and otters and robots) speak with a kind of poetry that'll stick in your head long afterward you shut the volume.
Adult female World
There are grim, dystopian visions of what life would exist similar if 1 gender went missing — think Y: The Last Man — and and then in that location'southward Aminder Dhaliwal's gently goofy Woman Globe. Human males are mysteriously extinct in her globe, and the women really aren't all that worked upwards about it. Our critic Etelka Lehoczky says their comfortable, uninhibited, matter-of-fact (and occasionally nude) lives make for a "remarkably sly and devastating critique of patriarchy."
Hyperbole And A Half
Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Allie Brosh adapted her deranged but deep blog into this book, which collects her bright, crude and incredibly quotable comics virtually All The Things, from grammer peeves and low to the unholy ability of a petty child's dinosaur costume. She described it to Fresh Air's Terry Gross as "stand-upwards comedy in book form," calculation that her signature fashion — tubular bodies, shark-fin hair and mismatched goggle eyes — is "what I'k like when I view myself. I am this crude absurd piffling matter, this squiggly piddling affair on the inside."
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Comics)
Eats nuts, kicks butts! Ryan Due north and Erica Henderson reboot one of the weirder Curiosity heroes every bit a bubbly, irrepressible calculator scientific discipline major who relies only every bit much on her STEM chops as on her ability to communicate with squirrels in defeating the bad guys. The marginalia — including footnotes and imaginary social media chats betwixt SG and other Marvel characters — are almost every bit fun every bit the main story.
The Essential Calvin And Hobbes
A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
A male child, his stuffed tiger, some tuna sandwiches and a really useful cardboard box — cartoonist Bill Watterson didn't need much to spin this heartfelt, gloriously loopy paean to childhood (and childhood imagination). Watterson stopped cartoon the strip more than than 20 years ago (sob!) but luckily we still take The Essential Calvin and Hobbes. It'south a magical earth, Hobbes, ol' buddy ... allow'due south go exploring!
Trust No Aunty
Creative person Maria Qamar — known on Instagram as hatecopy — turned her online work into this bright, satirical popular art-inflected tribute to the overbearing "aunties" who meddle in her life. "An aunty is any older woman who thinks she knows what's best for you lot," Qamar told NPR. "My mom'due south family is huge, so I have a meg aunties."
Bridget Jones'due south Diary
"V. v. good!" every bit Bridget Jones herself would say. Helen Fielding'southward messy, relatable heroine is an icon of chick lit — and actually, literature in general. Follow forth with Bridget Jones for a tumultuous twelvemonth of too many cigarettes, too many booze units consumed, iii colorful all-time friends and the one and only Mr. Marker Darcy.
A Confederacy Of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole's singular novel is the kind of book y'all'll cease, put downward, and instantly pick upwardly to read again — though yous may feel a little weird spending so much time with Toole's belching, bellowing protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly as he torments his long-suffering mother, attempts (with comic lack of success) new jobs, and lolls in bed with his Big Primary tablets full of ramblings about medieval history. The city of New Orleans is almost as much of a graphic symbol every bit Reilly is; Toole's rendering of street life, local characters and accents brings it blazing off the page.
Catch-22
Joseph Heller's masterpiece captures the brutal applesauce of war past edifice absurdity into the prose itself ("The Texan turned out to be practiced-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him"). Structurally innovative and blisteringly funny in its indictment of humanity in full general and the military in particular, Heller's novel became a miracle, and its title, referring to a war machine diktat that a soldier cannot claim insanity to avert flying missions, considering asking non to fly proves one sane, entered the lexicon as a means to describe, broadly, a no-win situation.
French Get out
To brand a "French exit" ways to leave without proverb goodbye — and in the case of "moneyed, striking" widow Frances Cost, to ditch Manhattan for Paris, forth with her lumpish, loyal son and geriatric cat in lodge to avoid looming penury and scandal. "All good things must end," says Frances at the start of the volume — so savor Patrick DeWitt's mix of understatement and over-frankness while it lasts.
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan'due south tale of love complicated by cool amounts of money is as fizzy as a flute of Champagne sipped in a super-deluxe first-class motel. As far equally NYU professor Rachel Chu knows, her boyfriend, Nick Young, is reasonably well-off. But when she agrees to spend the summertime with him back home in Singapore, she discovers his family owns half the island — and everyone's got their knives out for the nobody from New York.
Dear Committee Members
Julie Schumacher's epistolary novel is a footling scrap unusual — instead of recording a correspondence between writers, the story hither unfolds through an increasingly unhinged series of letters from one man, a disaffected creative writing professor who'southward got no problem writing incredibly insulting letters of "recommendation" for his students. "He is the sort of rageful person who you feel yourself to be, before the superego takes over and tells you, 'Don't say that,' " Schumacher told NPR in 2014.
Loftier Fidelity
Rob, the ostensible hero of Nick Hornby's brilliantly incisive comic novel, is not just a bad young man — though he is very much that — he's a bad nerd. He's the kind of obsessive who's not content to beloved what he loves — in his case, music. No, he and his co-workers at his London record shop insist on reducing music to an countless series of lists to be memorized, categorized, cross-referenced and, mostly, used equally a cudgel to lord their expertise over others. Years before nerd civilization became inescapable, Hornby had captured something essential about the contemporary male person — how fearfulness of intimacy inspires a fondness for arcana, and the corresponding conviction that personal taste is a reliable czar of worth.
The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern'south Classic Tale of True Love and High Take chances
If you've only seen the movie version of The Princess Helpmate, y'all're in for a treat (non to denigrate the movie, which is pretty much the most quotable moving-picture show of all time). All your favorite characters have circuitous, well-rounded backstories. And William Goldman's original framing device is much funnier and more elaborate than the film's simple storytime — Goldman claims to be searching for the book his begetter read to him equally a kid, only to notice that the existent book is excruciatingly wearisome and his male parent was but reading him the adept parts (not a spoiler, I promise). And in the interest of not spoiling things, nosotros won't talk almost how different the catastrophe is ...
Heartburn
What happens when a ability couple short-circuits? Nora Ephron'southward autobiographical novel about the collapse of her loftier-profile wedlock to reporter Carl Bernstein is filled with righteous fury, though it's filtered through Ephron'due south gimlet middle for the perfect, cut detail. Her novelistic stand-in is a food writer, so she includes several recipes that send up the prose style of those we would present call foodies, even as they underscore Ephron's tart-tongued ambiguity about being treated every bit a "woman writer."
Big Trouble
We love Dave Barry for his gently humorous approach to real life — but poll voters also loved his debut novel, a comic thriller about a truly catastrophic chain of events set off when a dumb kid with a watergun gets mixed upward in an actual assassination endeavour. In his foreword, Barry refers to the novel as part of the "Bunch of South Florida Wackos" genre, so fans of Carl Hiaasen will definitely go a bang out of Big Trouble.
In God Nosotros Trust
All Others Pay Cash
If y'all've ever seen a leg lamp in a basement rec room, or triple-dog-dared a friend to practice something stupid, you've experienced the comic legacy (har har) of Jean Shepherd, whose affectionately ironic stories well-nigh his Low-era Indiana childhood were eventually fabricated into the cult moving-picture show A Christmas Story. (Interestingly enough, a lot of them were originally published in Playboy magazine — but you can find them in this handy-dandy compilation and its follow-up volume, Wanda Hickey'southward Nighttime of Golden Memories.)
Lamb
The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
What if Jesus Christ knew kung fu? That's the after-midnight dorm room musing at the heart of Christopher Moore's novel nigh the parts of Jesus' life that aren't detailed in the Bible. He is born and laid in the manger, certain — and then the next time nosotros see him, he'due south in his 30s and kicking money-changers out of the Temple. So what was he doing all those years? Enter "Levi who is called Biff," resurrected by the angels afterward two millennia to tell the story of his adventures with his childhood best friend — including a trip to China to report martial arts.
Jitterbug Perfume
Dueling perfumers! Ancient Eurasia! A multidimensional quest for immortality! Pan, the caprine animal-god! Characters named Wiggs Dannyboy and Bingo Pajama! Welcome to Tom Robbins' sprawling, sexy cult novel (are there any Tom Robbins novels that cannot be said to be cult novels?). Jitterbug Perfume. Every Robbins novel has its devotees, but Jitterbug matches the writer'due south souvenir for hilarious wordplay with his ability to spin disparate plot threads that ultimately weave together in surprising only hugely satisfying means.
Daisy Fay And The Miracle Human
We thought the Fannie Flagg volume that might cease up on this listing would be Fried Dark-green Tomatoes at the Whistle End Buffet — but readers went for Flagg's first novel, virtually irreverent almost-6th-grader Daisy Fay Harper and her life on Mississippi's Gulf Coast during the 1950s. (The title comes from Daisy'southward ne'er-do-well dad, who concocts a get-rich-quick scheme with a local preacher to milk the faithful for coin past pretending to raise Daisy from the dead.)
Less
"Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer-winning comic novel about a eye-aged gay man on a circular-the-world trip is lite in tone but never slight in impact," says our own Glen Weldon. "The narrator observes the absent-minded Arthur Less' sexual and logistical perambulations with an artisanal alloy of exasperation and affection, but occasionally granting us access to the wider, deeper story Less is running abroad from. Every bit funny every bit it is, it'southward achingly poignant virtually what's been lost — an unabridged generation of gay men who aren't effectually to model what aging can wait like. All that, plus a terminal image that leaves you gasping — and grinning."
The Sellout
Paul Beatty was the offset American to win the Man Booker Prize, for his blistering satire The Sellout. It's the story of an African American man who ends upward being tried in court for reintroducing segregation in his hometown, and even owning a slave — a terrible transgression in our supposedly mail service-racial era. Our critic Michael Schaub calls it a comic masterpiece and also "one of the smartest and most honest reflections on race and identity in America in a very long fourth dimension."
Fabricated For Love
Alissa Nutting'due south wild ride of a novel is set in Florida (where else) and begins with the protagonist rolling up at her father'due south trailer only to detect he's living with a sex activity doll. Named Diane. "It'due south absolutely ridiculous but likewise Total OF JOKES, and the characters are fully realized and hilarious," says poll gauge Samantha Irby. "There's dolphin romance and a lifelike sex activity doll and robots!! It's perfect."
My Sister, The Serial Killer
Korede, the protagonist in Oyinkan Braithwaite'south debut novel, is tired. Tired of cleaning up the bloody offense scenes after her beautiful sister Ayoola murders yet another boyfriend. Korede knows she has to finish her sister, just she tin can't quite conduct to meet her become caught. Our critic Annalisa Quinn praises Braithwaite's "savage, succulent deadpan" that borrows from soap operas as much as it does from Hitchcock.
The Globe According To Garp
"In the world co-ordinate to Garp, we are all last cases." That's the famous last line of John Irving's novel — a sprawling, darkly funny family saga almost a moderately successful writer, his uncompromisingly feminist mother (who turns out to be much more than successful with her own writing), and the foreign merely winning community that forms around them.
Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo'south sprawling, irascibly funny novel invites usa to eavesdrop on the townsfolk of the less-than-idealized upstate New York village of North Bathroom — once a posh spa resort, and now home to a motley array of downwards-on-their-luck locals. And at that place'southward none more motley or luckless than Donald "Sully" Sullivan, a wisecracking, 60-yr-old, bandy-legged old cuss who clings to a rootless existence "divorced from his ain wife, carrying on halfheartedly with another man'due south, estranged from his son, devoid of self-knowledge, badly crippled and nearly unemployable — all of which he stubbornly dislocated with independence." Russo's prose and dialogue crepitation with dry out, mordant wit.
Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen was all over the poll results, simply nosotros went with Skinny Dip, a classic that packs in everything you want from Hiaasen: crooked businessmen, crooked scientists (crooked everyone, really), an attempted murder gone flamboyantly incorrect, colorfully bizarre supporting characters (too kleptomaniacal) and exotic animals, all stewing in the swampy Florida estrus.
The Wangs Vs. The World
The Wangs — the titular family in Jade Chang's debut novel — are having a bad year. Fiscal disaster has left them destitute, and they're on an epic cross-country road trip from their lost mansion in California to a new life crowded into the remaining family home in the Catskills. Critic Jason Heller says "their madcap trip serves as a travelogue of American weirdness, from desolate sands of the Mojave desert to the breakfast buffets of the Deep South."
Discworld (Serial)
A Discworld Novel
In that location are virtually as many ways to read Terry Pratchett's classic comic fantasy series every bit in that location are volumes in information technology. Practice you lot prefer witches? Specifically, badass teenage witches? Perhaps y'all're more than the type for wizards? Bumbling guardsmen? Charismatic swindlers? Expiry personified (and his pale steed Binky)? Or maybe a stand-alone gamble (seriously, read Monstrous Regiment)? There'south one thing most Pratchett fans agree on — skip the get-go two books, and if you must commencement at the offset, go with Equal Rites, which introduces i of Pratchett'south most iconic characters: the formidable witch Granny Weatherwax.
The Tough Guide To Fantasyland
Diana Wynne Jones starts with the idea that every unmarried fantasy narrative is set in one identify, chosen "Fantasyland," and follows it to the furthest reaches of absurdity in this mock travel guide. If, while on your Bout of Fantasyland, you demand help decoding a Small Ambiguous Confrontation, figuring out whether a brown-haired person with argent eyes is Adept or Evil or deciding what to guild at an Inn (the answer is nothing, because Inns serve simply Stew and Beer), the Tough Guide is an indispensable companion — far more useful than the Bard, Female Mercenary or Unpleasant Stranger that Management may have added to your party.
To Say Nothing Of The Dog
If time travel really existed, information technology seems obvious that historians would have a go at information technology. Connie Willis imagines merely that in To Say Nothing of the Canis familiaris — a romp between centuries that kicks off when a fourth dimension-traveling Oxford researcher accidentally brings something back from the Victorian era, prompting a mad scramble to prevent the timeline from disruption. The championship is a reference to Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 comic travelogue, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Domestic dog), which you'll find in the Classics section of this listing. And aye, there is a boat and a thoroughly delightful domestic dog.
The Hitchhiker'south Guide To The Galaxy (Series)
Practise y'all know where your towel is? Are y'all prepared for the horrors of Vogon poetry? Do you know how to fly? (Information technology's easy: Just throw yourself at the basis, and miss.) Douglas Adams' spacefaring epic about a bumbling, bathrobe-wearing human and his hitchhiking conflicting friend has warped the minds of countless impressionable baby nerds. Adams' vocalization and his comic sensibility were sui generis; lots of authors have tried to imitate him over the decades, and lots of authors have failed. Don't forget your Babel fish.
Thursday Next (Series)
If you've always talked about diving into a volume, getting lost in a book or wishing you could visit your favorite literary character in person, Jasper Fforde's delightfully surreal Thursday Next series is for you. Thursday herself is a literary detective in an alternate 1980s England where the Crimean War never concluded, dodos have been reverse-engineered out of extinction and the BookWorld is equally real as the world outside your door — and just equally prone to offense and mischief (just enquire all the Shakespeare forgers and Dickens thieves).
A Walk In The Forest
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
In all of his books, Bill Bryson skillfully and hilariously mixes exhaustive scholarship with personal, and often ruefully self-deprecating, anecdotes. Never more so, perchance, than in A Walk In The Woods, about his many abortive attempts to hike the Appalachian Trail. Whether he's supplying the reader with useful information about the behavior and habitat of black bears, or describing in painful detail how woefully unprepared he plant himself for the challenge before him, Bryson is an indispensable guide to both the eccentrics, and the environmental, of the AT.
How To Weep In Public
Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
Jacqueline Novak'due south combination memoir and advice book is a brilliant read for anyone who has depression — and anyone wanting to acquire more about it. It'southward the darkest of dark sense of humour (check out the chapter almost the joys crying on your cat), written by someone who knows that when yous're downwardly in the dumps, lying on the flooring is bang-up because at to the lowest degree you can't fall whatever further.
The New Joys Of Yiddish
"No lexicon has ever taken then much pride or pleasure in exploring a linguistic communication," says poll guess Guy Branum. "From the nuances of the many words for penis and prostitute to the use of classic jokes to illustrate definitions, it's bound to leave you farmisht, verklempt and occasionally farblondjet." And, I might add — a lebn af dayn kopf!
Shrill
Notes from a Loud Woman
Sometimes it seems similar any woman who speaks upwards in public gets tagged equally "shrill." Writer Lindy Due west embraces the label in this memoir — now a very funny TV show — virtually life as a loud, fat woman who refuses to comply with the demands guild places on women'due south bodies and voices — and non simply survives, but thrives.
How To Be A Woman
Part memoir and part banners-on-the-barricades defence of feminism, Caitlin Moran's How to Exist a Woman is packed with funny, provocative observations on what information technology'south similar to be a woman today. "People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk nigh themselves honestly and also make jokes because information technology'southward a really unstoppable combination," Moran told Fresh Air'south Terry Gross in 2012. "Information technology's part of the reason why I decided to use humor in my book considering it's kind of hard to argue with someone who'south making y'all laugh."
Stiff
The Curious Lives of Man Cadavers
Morbidly fascinating and cringingly funny, Mary Roach's dissection (heh) of humanity's use of cadavers in science and medicine is enlivened (pitiful) by her cheery enthusiasm for the subject area and her deft ability to explain, say, the procedure of decomposition in hilarious, disgusting item — and utter clarity. The volume touches on issues of morality, ethics and spirituality, but never gets bogged down in them, buoyed past a sincere fondness for the wonders of scientific discipline.
Sal & Gabi Break The Universe
Gabi Real just knows Sal Vidon is the one who planted a raw chicken in a bully's locker, but how? Sal is an amateur wizard, true — but across that, he has a truly cabalistic skill: He can open up holes in the space-time continuum and pull out all kinds of things, including alternate versions of his deceased mother. Quantum high jinks, a wonderful squad of friends and descriptions of incredibly delicious Cuban food brand this a delightful read, though you may be hungry afterwards.
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Wayside Schoolhouse was supposed to have 30 classrooms in a row, all on one floor. But instead, it was congenital with 30 classrooms all on top of each other in a teetering tower total of terribly cute children and extremely odd teachers. (Watch out for Mrs. Gorf — you don't want to be turned into an apple!) OK, the children are pretty odd, too, (peculiarly Leslie, who tries to sell her own toes) merely extremely entertaining.
The Phantom Tollbooth
Bring together Milo and Tock the Watchdog on a road trip through the Kingdom of Wisdom in search of the exiled princesses Rhyme and Reason — with stops along the way to jump to Conclusions, go stalled out in the Doldrums and tangle with short Officer Shrift. Norton Juster'southward archetype takes every figure of speech you lot can imagine and makes them gloriously literal — you'll never look at a foursquare meal the same way again.
Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Fourteen-yr-old Georgia Nicolson is a comic creation correct up there with her spiritual older sister, Bridget Jones. Angus is her cat — who keeps trying to consume the poodle side by side door. And thongs? "They merely become upwards your bum, as far as I tin tell." Georgia's sometimes minute-to-minute chronicle of the indignities of life with embarrassing parents and a toddler sister is a comic please. Yes, the book is full of snarky British slang, but author Louise Rennison has thoughtfully included a glossary at the back of the book for the states Yanks.
The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Adequately Stupid Tales
Writer Jon Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith'south flick book riffs on classic kids' tales such as "Chicken Little" and "The Gingerbread Human being" only outfits them with a knowing, smart-alecky, meta-fictional attitude. The narrator admonishes 1 character for trying to start her story on the inside encompass of the book; other characters become flattened when the Table of Contents collapses on them. Lane Smith'southward gorgeously grotesque art lends the book a disquietingly surreal feeling while driving dwelling the sense of humour. There have been enough of children's books that please in fracturing classic fairy tales, but none of them is this gleefully, and thoroughly, weird.
Where The Sidewalk Ends
The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein
Every kid should take copies of Shel Silverstein'due south poetry books, A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends — but every discerning child knows that Sidewalk is the superior of the two, because it has "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout," ol' human being Simon in his garden total of diamonds and, of form, the terrible Boa Constrictor. (Oh, heck, it'south up to my cervix!) Silverstein's Ralph-Steadman-for-kids illustrations are just the icing on the kingly cake.
Archy And Mehitabel
Archy, a gratuitous verse poet reincarnated every bit a cockroach, lives in a paper office and spends his evenings jumping on the keys of a typewriter to blindside out, yes, free verse descriptions of the critters he encounters every day — including, nigh memorably, Mehitabel the aisle cat, who claims to have once been Cleopatra. Get the edition illustrated past Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, for maximum cat-and-cockroach glee.
The Best Of Ogden Nash
"Beingness a Great Bad Poet is actually super hard," says poll judge Alexandra Petri, only Ogden Nash is one of the best. His loopy abuses of rhyme and meter swing and so far out that they come dorsum effectually to greatness, and this collection brings together a feast of his greatest. Information technology'southward an easy read, too, since so many of his poems are bite-size. E'er retrieve: "If called by a panther/Don't anther."
Clouds
The great-great-nosotros're-non-counting-all-the-greats granddaddy of all the works on this list. Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes sends up the intellectual fashions of Athens in this work, thought to accept been produced for the stage effectually 423 B.C. Aristophanes doesn't pull whatever punches — in fact, he was then mean about his contemporary Socrates, depicting him every bit a fraud and mocking his famed education mode, that Plato indirectly blamed him for Socrates' trial and execution. Spicy!
Jeeves And Wooster (Series)
Apparently, there are people in America who don't know that House star Hugh Laurie was one time a comic actor. Which is a shame, because he is the perfect embodiment of upper-class nitwit Bertie Wooster in the '90s Tv set adaptation of P.1000. Wodehouse's classic novels. Wooster and his impossibly competent butler, Jeeves, exist in a lovely, unmoored England with a vaguely 1920s feel, untroubled by anything more than unpleasant aunts, finicky fiancées and hapless friends. Carry on, Jeeves!
Candide
Voltaire coined the term "best of all possible worlds" in this scabrous 1759 satire on optimism and disillusionment. Candide himself is a cheerful young man whose at first simple life goes as wrong every bit it possibly tin, leading him — eventually — to reject his tutor'southward stubborn insistence that all is for the best. Though it was banned for irreverence (amid other sins) shortly after its publication, information technology'due south never been out of print since, and information technology'southward considered ane of the most influential works in Western literature.
Cold Comfort Subcontract
There'south something nasty in the woodshed! Sophisticated city girl Flora Poste finds herself an orphan at the age of xix, so she decides to move in with her rural relatives, the doom-and-gloom Starkadders — including Aunt Ada Doom, a recluse ever since her woodshed encounter at the age of 2 — and takes it upon herself to improve their lives. Our favorite librarian, Nancy Pearl, calls it "a deliciously entertaining read." The motion picture's pretty corking, too.
Pride And Prejudice
Information technology is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen was plenty funny even without zombies or cloak-and-dagger diaries (or Bridget Jones's Diary — which you'll discover elsewhere on this list). If yous can read nearly Mrs. Bennet'south nerves, or Mary'south purse-lipped piety, or Kitty and Lydia's antics without cracking a smile, y'all're more sour a soul than Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
Roughing Information technology
Sure, nosotros know Marking Twain as a author and a humorist — but as a young homo he went w and tried his paw at prospecting in the wilds of Nevada, aslope his adept friend Calvin Higbie (the volume is inscribed to Higbie, in honor of "the Curious Time When We Two WERE MILLIONAIRES FOR X DAYS" after finding and losing an ill-fated gold merits). Information technology's not quite fact and not quite fiction — rather, it'southward a glorious tall tale of misadventures in a place long gone.
Importance Of Being Earnest
Few people take contributed as many bons mots to English literature equally Oscar Wilde, and a lot of them are in his most popular play, well-nigh ii Victorian louts who are anything but earnest in their countless attempts to wiggle out of the era's stifling social strictures. Wilde's writing is similar a good cocktail: tart, refreshing and complex — and liable to leave you a little empty-headed.
The Loved Ane
An Anglo-American Tragedy
Personally, as a journalist (says Petra), I was hoping readers would vote in Evelyn Waugh's wicked journalism satire Scoop — but no, you guys preferred The Loved One, his savage have on death, American style. Waugh had visited Hollywood in 1947, and while he had no truck with the big studios or their interest in his work, he found groovy inspiration in the famous Woods Lawn cemetery (Bette Davis is cached at that place!) and its team of morticians.
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis' biting satire of college life follows the unfortunate Jim Dixon, a junior medieval history professor at a middle-of-nowhere university who has to put up with all kinds of indignities. Amis was swapping letters and jokes and rants virtually the earth in full general with his friend the poet Philip Larkin as he wrote it (in fact, Jim Dixon is based partly on Larkin), and then if yous don't know Larkin's bitter precious stone "This Be the Poetry," go read it now and you lot'll get an thought of where their heads were at. Just exist ready for a little profanity.
The Portable Dorothy Parker
If Dorothy Parker isn't already the vocalisation of your inner monologue, you lot tin can carry her around in book form with The Portable Dorothy Parker, which collects favorite stories like "The Big Blonde," her magazine writings and criticism, and, of form, her eminently quotable poetry, which though dark, delicately skirts the border of utter hopelessness ("you might also alive").
Iii Men In A Gunkhole (To Say Nothing Of The Dog)
"I did not intend to write a funny book at first," Jerome K. Jerome (and yes, that is his name) once said. Obviously, he intended this comic travelogue to be an bodily travel guide for people considering canoeing expeditions along the Thames — only the characters, based on Jerome and his friends, speedily took over. (Nosotros regret to inform you that Montmorency, the excellent dog, is entirely fictional.) Jerome made comic hay out of the nearly mundane things, similar weather condition, boats and English food — go on an heart out for the episode of the canned pineapple!
The Pursuit Of Love
Nancy Mitford was a journalist, novelist and part of the notorious "Brilliant Young Things" who ruled London'south social scene betwixt the wars. Our judge Guy Branum picked The Pursuit of Honey, Mitford'due south lightly fictionalized memoir of her aristocratic British childhood and her famous (and sometimes infamous) sisters. "The book delights in cruel wit and endless scandal," he says — and if you bask The Pursuit of Love, there are two more books featuring the aforementioned characters.
My Life and Hard Times
No list of funny books would be complete without writer and cartoonist James Thurber, one of the finest American humorists of the 20th century. Lots of readers voted in his story "The Night the Bed Fell," a confection of anarchy that merely tangentially concerns the actual bed — but we thought we'd give you more Thurber, so here's the book that contains that story, his illustrated business relationship of growing upwards in Columbus, Ohio, with a family of peerless eccentrics and a rather put-upon bull terrier.
The Benchley Roundup
Humorist and occasional actor Robert Benchley held downward one curve of the famed Algonquin Round Tabular array (along with Dorothy Parker, whom yous'll find elsewhere on this list), and this collection, curated past his son Nathaniel, rounds up (har har) some of his most timeless pieces on everything from Shakespeare to football. As our poll judge Alexandra Petri says, "You lot gotta have Benchley! He's a funnier Thurber!"
Texts From Jane Eyre
And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
You KNOW, you just know that if Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester could text, he'd be bombarding her with florid all-caps inanities — and that she would shut him downwardly demurely. "JANE I BOUGHT You A DRESS MADE OF TEN THOUSAND PEARLS Equally A Bridal PRESENT." "where on world would I wearable that." Simply honestly, the all-time role of this entirely delightful book is Daniel Mallory Ortberg'due south impression of Emily Dickinson, whose fractured phrases are already text perfect.
"Victory Lap"
"Victory Lap" is part of George Saunders' acclaimed collection Tenth of December, which you should also read. But offset with this story (conveniently, the get-go one in the book), which veers from uneasily charming to bleakly funny to blackness as night, right earlier it whacks you in the caput with a precious, expensive geode; those stars yous're seeing are a tiny sparkle of hope.
Deep Thoughts
"I tin picture in my heed a world without state of war, a world without hate. And I can picture u.s.a. attacking that earth considering they'd never await it." We had to end the list with Jack Handey'southward footling nuggets of absurdity, then cue the sunset properties and the easy-listening music, and remember that pelting means God is crying — probably because of something yous did.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/752044550/we-did-it-for-the-lols-100-favorite-funny-books
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