ITT: Patrician comedy Now THIS is pure gold.

Importance of Being Earnest and Don Quixote are the funniest pieces of literature I've read.

Dead Souls is also pretty funny

A lot of things by Wilde and also Decline and Fall by Waugh

I really like the Ubu plays.

I had some chuckles reading catcher in the rye, especially when somebody has a strong new york accent like when the cab driver says "sore? Nobodys sore"
That killed me

>>9362184
how's that funny

>>9362306
New york accents just about kill me. I can picture so clearly in my mind some guy putting his hands up to his chest, raising his eybrows and saying something like "Hurt? Whos getting hurt? with a slightly higher voice

Kafka's work

confederacy of dunces
good soldier svejk
at swim-two-birds (everything flann/myles)
molloy
war with the newts

also seconding don quixote

i love the depressive side of /lit/ but comedy is so underappreciated here

>>9360613
True. I'd love to see a good rendition of the final scene on stage. Molière is also pretty good.

Anyone got a .mobi? I guess I could just gogol it.

American Psycho

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>>9362397
>I guess I could just gogol it
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
Also it's fucking public domain

>>9360613
Jeeves and Wooster

nah

Call me a pleb but the novel that made me laugh the hardest was Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald.

The first part of Notes from the underground

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>>9362386
Tee Bee Hache the Danny Kaye version was god-tier comedy as well.

>>9362316

>at swim-two-birds

This book made me feel like such a brainlet. My Irish friend had to gloss every chapter for me.

Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh

Its as if guy is pol during ww2

Tortilla Flat is goddamn hilarious

>>9362313
I never found what's funny about him

>>9364652
That's not how I would describe Waugh

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Easily

"Candide", by Voltaire. If anyone's Spanish, read the Moratín translation.
It's don Quijote level of funny, but condensed in a pinky finger width length.

Catch 22

>>9362316
Svejk is the shit

Vonnegut

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>>9365055
"Vonnegut" more like Vonnebutt lmaooo

Melville

>>9360613
Oblomov had me lolling desu

based Zachar

Anything written appealing to a very simple sense of comedy , a la physical comedy, people falling, wordplay etc?

Kharms always gets me

>>9366410
See >>9366422

Why are most classic or renowned authors so bad at humour? most of the ones mentioned in this thread just made me smirk now and then

>>9366410
Kharms is pure literary slapstick.

>>9367048
It may have something to do with your lack of wit

>>9367103
Are you implying stuff like this
>>9362184
is remotely funny?

>>9367239
You've only got yourself to blame if you consider Salinger "classic" or renowned. Do you really not see the humour in Melville, Gogol, Dostoevsky?

>>9367256
other guy, but whenever I've read Gogol I saw it was funny, saw how it was funny, it even was funny to me, but it always got grating after a while.