American Humo(u)r

Thomas Pynchon, not even memeing

I find Hunter S. Thompson to be absolutely hilarious. But that might just be because I can relate as someone who use to be heavy into drug culture.

Was Infinite Jest any funny?

>>8305667
Hunter S. Thompson is funny in the sense anyone ever took him seriously.

Mark Twain's short stories and essays.

>>8305617
Mark Twain introduced humo(u)r to the new world

>>8305695
No, only very long.

>>8305696
This

The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth is the funniest book you'll ever read.

>>8305695
It was some funny, but chocolate chips.

Mark Twain seems like the kind of person who would post on /lit/ if he were alive today

>>8305961
Because he's a racist, sexist, cis, white male?

What's American humor?

The scene in gravitys rainbow in which The Man Goes Down The Toilet is the pinnacle of american humor and one of the pillars of the 20th Century Sublime. NASA put a man on the moon, and thomas py chon pht a man down the freaking toilet. The achievements are very different on their face but equal in their magnitude. Its just so god damn fucking funny.