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Kind of old, but The Black Marble by Joseph Wambaugh. Wambaugh is a former LAPD cop who wrote The Onion Field, a true crime story of a cop-killing, as well as cop books that were popular in the 1970's, like The Blue Knight and The New Centurions. The Black Marble is also a cop book, but it is also very funny. The gist of it is that a woman cop is dismayed when she gets paired with an alcoholic Russian cop to hunt down a man who has dognapped a wealthy woman's pooch and is holding it for ransom. I'd read the Onion Field, which was very sad, and then picked up The Black Marble and wasn't expecting the humor.
Another one with offbeat humor--Maximum Bob, by Elmore Leonard, about a lecherous "hanging judge" in Florida whose wife believes she is channeling spirits after a near-death experience. There is one line in that book that still makes me crack up just to think about it.
Lewis Grizzard's books are funny; "Shoot Low Boys They're Riding Shetland Ponies." After his open heart surgery; "They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat." He wrote about 25 books.
Tim Allen's "Don't Stand to Close to a Naked Man." His book explains the difference between men and women and it's funny!
Funniest book I've ever read was Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat". It was written over 100 years ago, and is a classic.
When my 75 year old mother came to visit once, and everyone was turning in, she said she wasn't sleepy yet, did I have anything she could read for a while, so I got out "Three Men in a Boat". Nobody could sleep, for the sound of my mother downstairs screeching with laughter, I was afraid we might have to call paramedics and see if they could find a way to make her stop laughing. In Algeria, I met a French guy and stayed for a few days at his house, and I saw the book on his shelf and mentioned it to him. He said it was the funniest book he had ever read, and we stayed up half the night reading passages to each other, until our sides ached.
Thanks for the suggestion, I just downloaded it for free for my Kindle
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