jools268 5:26 Thu Feb 9
Funniest book you have read!
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Adolf Hitler, my part in his downfall - Spike Milligan.
Hands down, the funniest one I have read.
"I got off at Bexhill-on-Sea. It wasn't easy - the train didn't stop there"
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jools268
5:38 Thu Feb 9
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I know.
Of course I was being a bit hopeful and presumptive in starting a thread on here related to "reading".
I will accept Audiobooks for the hard of thinking.
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Troy McClure
5:42 Thu Feb 9
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Not sure its the same book but its defo Spike when he wrote...
(he was complaining about something) "I left with my head held high. And my feet held higher - I was carried out"
He was a comedy genius that guy
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White Pony
5:59 Thu Feb 9
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Alex V - "WHO Agrees With Me? Nobody I hope." (The autobiography).
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mallard
6:01 Thu Feb 9
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Some of the early Ben Elton books used to make me chuckle
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Grumpster
6:02 Thu Feb 9
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Not sure I've ever read a particularly funny one. Probably as I generally only read on the train and would look a right pillock cracking up on my own.
Do have Karl Pilkington's book at home, so will read that soon.
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jools268
6:13 Thu Feb 9
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Grumpster
I did that when I was reading Spike and sprayed ribena out of my nose on to the rather attractive young lady sitting opposite me.
She was less than impressed.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
6:16 Thu Feb 9
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Bandmate: Why do you wear a jacket that's too long
Spike: Because Cab Calloway wears one like it
Bandmate: He must be a cunt, then.
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y2smif
6:18 Thu Feb 9
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I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan
"Putting a damp spoon back in the bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle. And I did not want to end up with the tea-drinking equivalent of AIDS"
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defjam
6:21 Thu Feb 9
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Getting Rid Of Mister Kitchen by Charlie Higson.
Read it years ago but remember laughing at lots of it, very dark humour.
'A man kills a prospective buyer for his car. On the verge of becoming a name in the interior design world, he can't afford a scandal and must discreetly dispose of the body-- not an easy job when the whole of London seems to be conspiring against him.'
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Aalborg Hammer
6:23 Thu Feb 9
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Maybe "The Throwback" by Tom Sharpe but any of his are very funny..."Puckoon" by Spike Milligan is brilliant.
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only1billybonds
6:25 Thu Feb 9
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The Choirboys (Joseph Wambaugh) had some seriously funny parts although it also had a very sad end.
Same goes for one flew over the cuckoos nest.
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Aalborg Hammer
6:28 Thu Feb 9
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only1billybonds "Eating pressed ham through the wrapper!"
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Ilford Hammer
6:28 Thu Feb 9
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The Partridge books are hilarious (the audiobooks even funnier).
There are a couple of books called The Timewaster Letters, which had me laughing out loud on public transport regularly. Basically a guy writing random letters off to people such as the Archbishop of Canterbury, John Lewis and the Lib Dems proposing stupid ideas and getting them to reply. Then replying back and getting them to reply again. And so on.
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Tomsdad
6:29 Thu Feb 9
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y2smif 6:18 Thu Feb 9
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Helmut Shown
6:31 Thu Feb 9
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Reply Aalborg Hammer 6:23 Thu Feb 9
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Good shout that I read Puckoon many years ago and is still the funniest one I have read
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Aalborg Hammer
6:32 Thu Feb 9
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Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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The Stoat
6:32 Thu Feb 9
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Maybe I Should've Stayed In Bed - The Flip Side Of The Rock’n’Roll Dream - Deke Leonard
Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics - The Legend of Man a rock’n’roll band - Deke Leonard
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Leonard Hatred
6:34 Thu Feb 9
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Danny Baker's autobiographies are very good.
Am seeing his stage show in Swindon tonight.
Oh, and agree on The Timewaster Letters.
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6:38 Thu Feb 9
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The art of the deal.
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