8 of the Best Laugh Out Loud Funny Books

Everyone knows about the birth of Jesus. And his adult life, after he began teaching and performing miracles. But no one knows much about his childhood. 

No one, that is, except Biff, his best friend. By a miracle he doesn’t understand, Biff has been resurrected to tell his story. And he isn’t going to let his pal down.

Life in Manhattan in the year 2000 should be good. At least, that’s what our nameless narrator believes. She has an easy job at a hip art gallery and an apartment on the Upper East Side, and she’s young, thin, and pretty. 

Still, something is missing. Something that drives her to seek help. But instead of answers, she somehow ends up in the care of a terrible psychiatrist who encourages her to rest for one year with the help of medications. 

What could go wrong in this satirical, dark comedy?

Despite being an unlikely couple, Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett are getting married. After the bachelor party, a hungover Bertie visits his Aunt Dahlia when she demands his help. 

She needs him to buy an 18th-century silver cow-creamer for reasons he can’t understand. But when he arrives, he discovers it has been sold out from under them. Aunt Dahlia won’t rest until she has the item. 

As Bertie traverses the English countryside and gets caught in more than one scheme, it’s only thanks to his clever butler, Jeeves, that there might be a happily-ever-after at all.

It’s been years since Lillian and Madison have spoken. They were once inseparable, but after Lillian was forced to leave their elite boarding school thanks to a scandal, the two drifted apart. 

Now, Madison’s twin stepchildren are moving in, and she needs Lillian to be their caretaker. But there’s a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get upset. It only takes one incident for Lillian to realize it isn’t a hoax. 

Over the course of a summer, Lillian and the twins learn to navigate the house and each other. And most surprising of all, she discovers she might need the twins as much as they need her.

Charlie’s life isn’t exactly going anywhere. He’s a divorced substitute teacher with nothing to his name. Even the house he lives in, all his siblings want to sell. 

But when his long-lost uncle dies and leaves him a supervillain business, everything changes. Too bad being a villain isn’t as easy as it appears. It turns out, there’s actual evil in the world. 

And now Charlie has to fight it.

Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a galactic freeway. Arthur Dent is saved at the last minute by his friend, Ford Prefect, who, it turns out, is an alien. 

With their trusted Hitchhiker’s Guide, the two travel through the galaxy to find their new place in space. Somewhere along the way, they encounter life's big questions. 

Why are we born? Why do we die? And most importantly, why do we spend so much time wearing digital watches?

Ignatius Reilly is rebelling against modern life. His mother wants him to get a job. Which he does. A lot of them, in fact.

But no matter how hard he works, they all somehow escalate into disaster. His girlfriend thinks he needs sex. How will he handle that demand?

 It’s a one-man war, set in New Orleans.

Sure, Andrew Yancy might have a freezer in his arm. But there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation. 

Someone was murdered, and he wants to prove it. Of course, that last part might be a bit more difficult than he originally thought. 

Navigating a crew of unpredictable characters from a hot-blooded fugitive to a Bahamian voodoo witch, Yancy is determined to make his way out of his grisly Health Inspector gig to something far more meaningful.