What is the funniest classic work of literature you have read?

>>9106025
That image us enraging

True History by Lucian of Samosata

>>9106025
moby dick

not even memeing

Don Quixote
The Canterbury Tales

That would be Tristram Shandy

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So far, Don Quixote. Shits actually hilarious.

>It's another "Sancho misuses several words in a row and throws a temper tantrum when Quixote corrects him" chapter

Comedic gold

>>9106059
haha when this kid was pissing through the window and BAAM!

Tom Jones was a riot.

my dairy desu

also
GARGANTUA, PANTAGRUEL and the rest of V books

Archilochus' fragments

>>9106063
Unironically this
Also, not sure if this is classic, but both Charles Dickens and Mark Twain are fantastic.

>>9106025

Don Quixote

>>9106057
Second on Canterbury

>>9106025
The Bible
>Am I my brother's keeper?

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>>9106063
>but yeah you know, St. Peter's fine in Rome

JR

A lot of Shakespeare is pretty funny too, even his works that aren't explicitly comedies

>>9106108
>GARGANTUA, PANTAGRUEL
this should be mentioned more

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DUDE FARTS LMAO

Notes from Underground

>>9106053
Also this

>>9106025
Candide is pretty funny but also edgy.

>>9106374
That's what Arouet wanted you to think

>>9106025
Euthyphro

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Is 1920s considered classic or is it too recent?

If it's ok then The Good Soldier Svejk by Hasek is definitely my favorite.

If that's too recent then probably Don Quixote

>>9106053
Yes

>>9106157
>Then the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever one of the fugitives of Ephraim said, ‘Let me go over’, the men of Gilead would say to him, ‘Are you an Ephraimite?’ When he said, ‘No’, they said to him, ‘Then say Shibboleth’, and he said, ‘Sibboleth’, for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites fell at that time.

I legit laughed out loud when I read that passage. It's like that story of Brits checking for German spies by asking them to say "squirrel". Then it super casually drops the fact that 42,000 people were killed.

The Golden Ass

Candide was absurdly modern and very funny. Weird quick cuts for comedic humor, matter-of-fact murders, innuendo. Great stuff.

>>9106393
>Euthyphro
What about it? I thought "What do I really mean? Well I gotta go" was funny

is J R a classic yet?

>>9106403
The Good Soldier Švejk is pure comedy gold

>>9106053
Truth. The Queequeg bed stuff is hilarious.

Symposium

>>9106555
class-sick
whole class was sick of HP
JKR made the whole class-sick

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>>9106197
>– erhm, uh, yes uh yes, yes yes uh

comedy gold

>>9106596
anattemptwasmade.jpg

>>9106025
紅樓夢 has a lot of subtle humour.

>>9106025
catch 22

hilarious holy shit, only book to actually make me laugh out loud and it wasn't one of those "intellectual" forced laughs.

>>9106025
>woman
>proper literature

>>9108027
>Anon
>proper posts

>>9106025
The Sot-Weed Factor is the funniest novel I've ever read, by a large margin

>>9108021
This. I'd pick Catch 22 and A Confederacy of Dunces. I dunno if they count as classic literature though.

>>9106555
Sure. It won the national book award too, right? Which ought to help

>>9106453
another great story for you: the Brits sent public schoolboys who had learnt ancient Greek to Greece to be spies. Apparently it never occurred to them that it would be easy to spot the spies by their use of Greek which hasn't existed since the 5th C BC.

>>9106025
The Iliad has some surprisingly funny parts when the gods start fighting each other. Especially when Athena bitchslaps Artemis and sends her reeling, arrows falling about from her quiver, is when I started heartily laughing out loud like that whiskered gentleman in that drawing.

>>9108200
Also, if you're asking about 20th century classics, one of the funniest books I've read was At Swim-Two-Birds. Kafka can be pretty funny too. The Trial especially had me bursting into laughter a few times.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and anything by Terry Pratchet :3

>>9106025
Bartleby the Scrivener

Absolutely Candide, that book is hilarious.

>>9108296
Probably this, that or Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

>>9106025
A confederacy of dunces.

>>9108353
>>9108138
How did Toole predict 4chan: the character so many years in advance?

The Meno

>>9106513
the ending had me dying.
all of the dialogues are funny though, so i just chose one that would be a good starting point.

>>9106059
Agreed

I found Dead Souls to be hilarious.
Fathers and Sons also had some funny moments.

>>9106555
Only by those in the "know". A lot of people won't be able to get into JR due to its structure. Actually took me three tries to finally get the rhythm of it

>>9106053
>>9106059
>>9106199
>>9106238
>>9106374
>>9106393
>>9106573
>>9108296
>>9110031
All great choices. I'll add that Kafka and Beckett are both hilarious. Surprised they haven't been mentioned yet, actually. Beckett's Molloy is probably the funniest novel I've read.

>>9108115
Good to know (just bought it). 100% hyped now because I love funny lit.

>>9108504
was he /pol/?

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

>>9110389
Oh, it's classic literature. In that case, Moby Dick. It had some pretty funny moments. I'm starting Don Quixote soon, so that might change.

>>9106213
DUDE RAP BATTLES LMAO

>>9108504
Toole was a goddamned visionary. He predicted neckbeards, reddit/4chan, contrarian pseudo-intellectual culture, NEETs, and just about every other pretentious movement in the 21st century decades ago. Then he killed himself like a true artist.

>>9106025
brothers Karamazov is actually hilarious.

>>9106057
Yeah canterbury was funny as shit.
Also I found chesterton's father brown series hilarious.

>>9106025
Gilgamesh is pretty hilarious, probably not intentionally though. Still pretty solid for the earliest recorded story.

>>9108296
I didn't find it funny, only depressing.

>>9106403
"The Good Soldier Svejk" is a wild and excellent ride, a shame it never got finished.

Canterbury Tales.

>>9106199
Have you read Titus Andronicus? That shit is so absurdly violent it makes me laugh. And the fucking ending is such garbage.

>>9111749
Is Titus so-bad-its-good or just bad?

Are there any classic works devoid of humor?

>>9106569
OMG yes. the alcoves decked with captured human sofas.

>>9112055
In my opinion, it's the so-bad-it's-good among Shakespare tragedies. Some Tarantino level of violence can be added to the mix too.