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Not discouraged, just wish someone would read the piece instead of requiring that I prove I'm funny with other things before reading the piece I wrote that I know is funny.

Mother of seven, don't know how to be anything but tenacious. It's required for survival.

Will keep submitting, writing and hoping, if only to dash the dire prediction of my high school English teacher.

I'm with SherryTex, I'm a mom of five and it's either sink or swim. If you're not funny, it's all over but for the lollipop stuck to your @ss.

humorous books

Darn, thought this thread would have a list of books that were funny, or amusing. Was going to print the list and go the library and possibly bookstore to stock up on 1,or5,or 25 to have something to read. My state of mind right now isn't capable of concentrating on anything that requires more than 5 min. or my complete attention. Also, I refuse to read books loaded (even sprinkled heavily) with love or death. Thus humorous books are my salvation. Anyone have any suggestions? The ones you wrote maybe?
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Nita

Joe Keenan is the funniest guy alive. Three books, My Blue Heaven, Lucky Star, and Putting on the Ritz. Gay themed, but not obnoxiously so. Laugh out loud, fall in the toilet stuff. (He'll probably write more now that he's not head writer for Frazier...but his books are WAY funnier than Frazier).

Tom Sharpe...British. Havoc on the half shell.

Well, there's the standards -- Robert Benchley, Mark Twain (read his short stories), James Thurber. Moving into more modern times -- Dave Barry, David Sedaris, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, P.J. O'Rourke (political commentary has never been funnier), Al Franken, Tim Allen, Bill Cosby, Ellen DeGeneres. The list is long and most libraries are decently stocked in humor, and I know the bookstores are. You'll find Pratchett and Adams in SciFi/Fantasy and their books are novel length. I think the others are all in humor (other than Twain) and should be shorts of some kind.

If you cook or entertain at all, the flat out funniest book I've seen in years is The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks. It should be in the humor section, but I found it in with the cookbooks, while shopping for a Christmas present for a friend last year. I bought one for her and one for me -- we both think it's hilarious, but our husbands only find it mildly amusing, because they never do the cooking. It is NOT a real cookbook, btw...as my friend's husband says, "It's a cookbook...for hilarity!" (He doesn't write. )

Oh, how could I have forgotten the other one in the Funniest Three Writers Alive trio...Christopher Moore.