A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
A Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
Alchemists Anonymous by Terry Pratchett
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All Fools by George Chapman
All in the Timing by David Ives
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Animal Farm (satirical humor) by George Orwell
Anti-Climax by Lennox Robinson
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Bachelor of Arts by R. K. Narayan
Bag of Bones (humorous parts) by Stephen King
Barking Man and Other Stories by Madison Smartt Bell
Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through by P. G. Wodehouse
Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Bring on the Girls by P. G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton
Candide by Voltaire
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
Cranford (comic realism) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dairy of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
Death by Laughter by Woody Allen
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Don’t Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
Dorothy Parker Stories by Dorothy Parker
Duds by Henry Irving Dodge
Emma by Jane Austen
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates
Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw
Far from the Madding Gerbil by Chris Riddell
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (dark humor) by Hunter S. Thompson
Fierce Pajamas (comic anthology) by David Remnick
Finnegans Wake (comic elements) by James Joyce
Flatland (satirical humor) by Edwin Abbott
Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
Foozlers by Theodore Dreiser
Four Plays for Coarse Actors by Michael Green
French Without Tears by Terence Rattigan
From the Earth to the Moon (comic science fiction) by Jules Verne
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Ghostbusters (novelization comedy) by Larry Milne
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Great Comic Scenes of the English Stage by J. R. Planche
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Happy-Go-Lucky Stories by David Sedaris
Have a Nice Day by Spike Milligan
Headlong by Michael Frayn
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
Hot Water by P. G. Wodehouse
Houseboat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs
How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
Humorous Tales by Anton Chekhov
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
I’m a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Insanely Great Stories by David Barry
It’s a Wonderful Life (satirical novella origins) by Philip Van Doren Stern
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves in the Offing by P. G. Wodehouse
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
Kafka’s Soup (comic recipes) by Mark Crick
King Ubu by Alfred Jarry
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Life with Father by Clarence Day
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Major Barbara (comic satire) by George Bernard Shaw
Make Room for Comedy by Bob Hope
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
Masterpieces of Humor by Alexander Jessup
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Mike and Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse
Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans
Money for Nothing by P. G. Wodehouse
Monty Python’s Big Red Book by Monty Python
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
My Sister Eileen by Ruth McKenney
My Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture (short story) by Jerome K. Jerome
Naked by David Sedaris
Nonsense Stories by Edward Lear
Northanger Abbey (comic parody) by Jane Austen
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
One Man’s Meat by E. B. White
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Out of Practice by Henry Cecil
P.G. Wodehouse Anthology by P. G. Wodehouse
Pardon My Planet by Vic Lee
Parkinson’s Law by C. Northcote Parkinson
Perelman on Perelman by S. J. Perelman
Peter Simple by Frederick Marryat
Phineas Redux (comic tone) by Anthony Trollope
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Psmith, Journalist by P. G. Wodehouse
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome
Sense and Sensibility (comic aspects) by Jane Austen
Sir Charles Grandison (comic satirical tone) by Samuel Richardson
Slaughterhouse-Five (dark comedy) by Kurt Vonnegut
Small World by David Lodge
Snobs by Julian Fellowes
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
Something Fresh by P. G. Wodehouse
Standup Diaries by Stewart Lee
Stella Fregelius by H. Rider Haggard
Stick Man (comic kids story) by Julia Donaldson
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Summer Lightning by P. G. Wodehouse
Sunstroke by T. C. Boyle
The 39 Steps (comic espionage elements) by John Buchan
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Adulterous Woman (comic aspects) by Albert Camus
The Alchemist (comic elements) by Ben Jonson
The Amateur Cracksman (Raffles comic crime) by E. W. Hornung
The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman
The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco
The Best of Friends by Hugh Walpole
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
The Comic Almanack by George Cruikshank
The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson
The Coward by Jaroslav Hašek
The Cricket on the Hearth (comic passages) by Charles Dickens
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
The Dunciad (comic satire) by Alexander Pope
The English as She is Spoke by Pedro Carolino
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
The Financier (comic social satire) by Theodore Dreiser
The Frogs by Aristophanes
The Funny Side by Mark Twain
The Gift of the Magi (comic tone in irony) by O. Henry
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
The Grownup (comic parody tone) by Gillian Flynn
The Hypochondriac by Molière
The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. Wodehouse
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
The Intellectual Devotional (comic tone) by David Kidder
The Irony of It All by Robert Benchley
The Ladies’ Paradise (comic tone) by Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset (comic elements) by Anthony Trollope
The League of Frightened Men (comic parts) by Rex Stout
The Letters of Groucho Marx by Groucho Marx
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
The Lucky Stiff by Craig Rice
The Mad World of William M. Gaines by Frank Jacobs
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The Millionairess by George Bernard Shaw
The Miser by Molière
The Moonstone (comic subplots) by Wilkie Collins
The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (comic characters) by Charles Dickens
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton
The Newcomes (comic parts) by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
The Old Curiosity Shop (comic parts) by Charles Dickens
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge
The Poor Mouth by Flann O’Brien
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Reivers by William Faulkner
The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Road to Wigan Pier (comic irony) by George Orwell
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes
The Satirist by Isaac Bickerstaff
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
The Shoemaker’s Holiday by Thomas Dekker
The Simpsons and Philosophy by William Irwin
The Stolen Bacillus by H. G. Wells
The Swiss Family Perelman by S. J. Perelman
The Tale of the Tub by Jonathan Swift
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Tin Drum (comic absurdity) by Günter Grass
The Topper Stories by Thorne Smith
The Trial of the Stickleback by Hilaire Belloc
The Twits by Roald Dahl
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Wasps by Aristophanes
The Wits by Sir William Davenant
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
Till Eulenspiegel by Charles De Coster
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Tropic of Hockey (comic nonfiction) by Dave Bidini
Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P. G. Wodehouse
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
What Ho! Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim (comic romance) by Jung Kyung-yoon
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
White Teeth (comic social novel) by Zadie Smith
Withnail and I (screenplay comedy) by Bruce Robinson
Wooster and Jeeves Omnibus by P. G. Wodehouse
You Can’t Take It With You by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
