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Why the fuck is comedy forever stuck in being either "memoirs or joke books". What the fuck?
What if I want a novel that's funny and ISN'T a memoir?
Why is the whole fucking genre fucking ruined by this fucking bullshit goddamn it. It pisses me off to no end.
Just look at the memoirs- all by some comedian assholes I've mostly never heard of. Are they physically INCAPABLE of just writing a fictional book instead of drawing from a past that would be better suited in a biography instead?
I'm fucking sick of it.
a lot of classics are hilarious but they aren't labeled 'comedy'
>>7891915
Kingsley Amis, pleb.
it's all because some douchebag named jorge ate the pages in the 1300s
check this out OP, you'll like it if you aren't a cunt
>>7891938
Familiar with Moore.
Meant to start this but never got around to it.
There's all of like 4 authors in existence today writing comedy as a lead.
Terry Pratchett was one of them.
Don Quixote
>>7891938
seconded, also pic related
>>7891915
Tom Sharpe - Riotous Assembly, Indecent Exposure
George Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Stephen Fry - The Liar
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall, Scoop
Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume
David Lodge - Changing Places
Graham Greene - Travels with My Aunt, Our Man in Havana
Hugh Laurie - The Gun Seller
Richard Russo - Straight Man
Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy
Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
Henry Fielding - Tom Jones
James Thurber - The Thurber Carnival
Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
P. G. Wodehouse - Right Ho, Jeeves
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman
Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate
John Barth - The Sot-Weed Factor
Spike Milligan - Puckoon
Dorothy Parker - The Portable Dorothy Parker
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman
Henry Howarth Bashford - Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself
Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth
W.C. Sellar - 1066 and All That
Jaroslav HaĊĦek - The Good Soldier Svejk
Charles Portis - True Grit
J. P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man
