Humour Books > C Humour Books > less than 5 GBP

Advantages: Good read very funny
Disadvantages: none

...enjoy it as it's about the history of comedy, featuring some of the best one liners ever from all the great comics. It's really interesting too, I first just jumped through and read all the funny jokes that are usually in bold on a separate page but then reading it properly it goes through why we use comedy, when the first joke was ever told, all things ,ike that and it's interesting to read why people are funny etc. I got the hardback version on ... Read review

Advantages: Funny in places
Disadvantages: Lacks consistency

...aware of Jeremy Clarkson through the excellent TV programme Top Gear, a show that is not just for petrol heads as it is also one of the funniest programmes on TV as well given some of the stunts and challenges they do. In the show he is the arrogant, opinionated alpha male with a hearty dislike of Europe, foxes, anything environmentally friendly and French cars. Oh and political correctness. In addition to his TV work he also writes a newspaper column ...
...Apart from the toilet reading on offer at my sister house this was the first Clarkson book that I have read and I was interested to see if the humour generated on Top Gear could be translated into the written word. The book itself is made up of a series of short, two or three page, rants or observations on a myriad of topics that stretch from the opening page discussion of an additional public holiday to such varied topics as the joys of the circus, ... Read review

Advantages: Humorous, got some good tips
Disadvantages: Some might not find it funny

... The Genre 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do is a humorous book, so I would certainly say it falls into the Humour category and the publisher obviously agrees as this is what says above the barcode on the back, although some may say it could be a Reference book due to the recipes and suchlike in it. The Author This is what it says in the front of the book: "The son of a sex therapist and a sometime Dominican friar, Tom spent his early ...
...at a cloistered university. He began his professional career with a number of false starts as a teacher, set designer, double bass player, speechwriter, printer, toyshop manager, lyricist, wine waiter, City consultant, puppet maker, typographer, magazine editor, bandleader, portrait painter, radio reporter, cartoonist, and ghost writer for Cardinal Hume, before leaving the rat-race to spend more time with his slippers. Tom has written two acclaimed ... Read review

Advantages: A fun look at the festive season
Disadvantages: Far too short a book!

"Children: - 'Christmas is for the children.' Repeat this ten times when you're trying to park at the supermarket on Christmas Eve because you've forgotten the cranberry sauce." Let's cut to the chase - Christmas is shite. Whether you're a shopkeeper, teacher, bin man or nurse the run up to the festive season is one long headache on a path to lots of short headaches. The shops are packed, roads busy, your bank account takes a battering as do your ...
...abroad without first having to play that very British of Christmas games - guess when the fog will lift so your plane can take off. But despair not, you are not alone. Hot on the trail of the books 'Is it me or is everything shit' Volumes 1 & 2; comes 'I'm Dreaming of a Shite Christmas' a witty tome in which R.J. Clarke examines the season of goodwill in what he subtly calls 'A festive guide to overcooked sprouts, charades and giblets.' Who amongst ... Read review

Advantages: Some fantastic Metaphors as ever with Clarkson
Disadvantages: Much more specialist than his other books

...of machines on Top Gear I thought I couldn't go wrong with this book, I was mistaken... Although I read the blurb and knew this book was more machine orientated, the witty quotes on the back enticed me to buy it and read more... I shouldn't have. They were in fact the only witty quotes and although I learned a thing or two about ships and dams I was left cold by the clinical reviews of these machines. It was more a little boys wishist of things ... Read review