Authors to read for Inspiration

[GMac04]

Any good authors to read for inspiration to write humor? My friend told me last week to read David Sedaris. Any others?

[Unique]

Lewis Grizzard

[batyler65]

Take a look here:
http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10181

You'll find many suggestions.

WELCOME ABOARD!

Barb

[rich]

Ted Kennedy.

[KTC]

Oh geez! When I read the heading I thought..David Sedaris! Sorry, can't think of anyone else at the moment. Ummm... ummm... no. I will have to think on it. But your friend is definitely right!

[Perks]

Dave Sedaris for certain. I also just read Hugh Laurie's novel, "The Gun Seller" and had to put it down three times in the first six page to wipe the tears away... best read I've had in a LOOONG time. He's a genuis.



Also, I find Stephen King to be a wonderful source of stream-of-consciousness humor. I know... weird source material, but he is actually very, very funny. If you haven't seen his book "On Writing" (I got the audio book version) you can really get into the rhythm of his humor. And it had a lot of interesting info too.

[GMac04]

Thanks everyone.

[maestrowork]

David Sedaris.

I'm also partial to George Carlin.

[MuckRaker]

:banana: DAVE BARRY!

[Cabinscribe]

Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Bennett Cerf, Ring Lardner, Mark Twain, James Thurber.

[batyler65]

Christopher Moore & Kurt Vonnegut