Whose writing makes you laugh out aloud?

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   defenestratethisposted 13 years ago

   David Sedaris is one of the few writers to send me into loud outburts of hysterical laughing. Very funny, witty man.

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   Eric Calderwoodposted 13 years ago

   Mark Twain makes me laugh out loud.  He sets up a punch line way ahead of time and then knows how to deliver it.

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   darksideposted 13 years ago

   Terry Pratchett.

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   Marisa Wrightposted 13 years ago

   Me too!  I was very distressed when he announced he had dementia.  Upset for him, of course, but also for me - no more Discworld

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   Jael Turnerposted 13 years ago

   David Sedaris's writing is like a stand comedian talking to me. I'll chuckle for Mark Twain, but Sedaris can make me break out in a full laugh. jael

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   Pcunixposted 13 years ago

   It's not that hard to get me laughing, so I agree with just about every one!

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   FuzzyCookieposted 13 years ago

   Mimi SmartyPants, Sarah Mlynowski and Sophie Kinsella are are few

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   ralwusposted 13 years ago

   you can send that blessing back in a barf bag then. Stan? Hah!

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   mega1posted 13 years ago

   Larry McMurtry - Texasville and Some Can Whistle make me laugh - but then right away he makes me cry so does that cancel out the laughing, then?  I love the things he has people saying to each other.
   
   ralwus just made me laugh by being jealous of Stan! 

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    SilverGenesposted 13 years ago

    Arthur Windermere right here on Hubpages!

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       saddlerider1posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I totally agree with you SilverGenes and my other choice would have to be Shadesbreath. They both kill me:0))))

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          SilverGenesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          How could I forget Shadesbreath! Vlad the Inhaler LOL

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    mega1posted 13 years ago

    so now we will turn this into another popularity contest thread - "Who is the funniest hubber"?  gag me with a spoon

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       DoorMattnomoreposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       why not a silk scarf for gagging? A silver spon seems sooo gaggy...
       
       to answer the real question, as far as hubpages goes, if I say HA HA HA  it means you made me laugh out loud. Y'all know who you are. For outside of HP..Dave Barry, Bill Watterson, Garrison Keillor, Gary Larson and Stephen King, to name a few.

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          mega1posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          perhaps a perfumed silk scarf -  yesh! yesh!

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    ralwusposted 13 years ago

    consider yerself gagged funny wacky mega, another comdienne

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       mega1posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       that was the best gagging I've ever had!

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          ralwusposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          LOL I have something else better for the gag, but we won't go there . . . oh my drab innards of a sh!t house mind.

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             mega1posted 13 years agoin reply to this

             I understand, I really do.  So, maybe that WASN'T the best gagging I ever had

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    ralwusposted 13 years ago

    

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    Adult Contentposted 13 years ago

    I have not laughed out loud at anyone here for a long time.  The people I used to laugh at have left or have been banned,

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       lorlie6posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I guess 6 hours is a long time to some...

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          Adult Contentposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          I have read hubs here for quite some time lorlie.  Honest.

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             lorlie6posted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Oh, then welcome-I guess you just decided to open an account?  I didn't read hubs until I joined...my loss!

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             DoorMattnomoreposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             ha ha....welcome back.

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    ralwusposted 13 years ago

    akirchner has made me bust a gut several times. she is a very funny lady and so is frogdropping

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    PoeticLicenseposted 13 years ago

    From what I know about the policies here i figure anyone with the name "Adult Content" has the potential to make me laugh out loud . . . providing I get to read the hubs before he/she is banned just for that screenname--LOL

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    Mighty Momposted 13 years ago

    Gosh, there are so many really, really witty people here on HP.
    Shadesbreath is hilarious (and brilliant).
    Christoph Reilly can spin a tale like nobody's business -- haven't seen him on here in awhile, tho.
    Mistyhorizon is another one.
    I always laugh at Ron Montgomery's forum posts.
    I could go on and on and on, but my brain hurts and I'm getting sleepy.
    
    As for non-HP writers,Dave Barry is LOL funny!

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       PoeticLicenseposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I will add Dave Barry to my list too because I know once or twice he has made me laugh out loud.
       Super reminder, girl.

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    CkhoffmanKposted 13 years ago

    I laugh super hard when I see foreign speaking people attempt to become english-speaking freelance writers. The bad grammar, the awkward syntax.. all of it. It brings tears of laughter to my eyes.
    
    Sometimes I want to say "You type with an accent, and your grammar is horrid".
    
    but Im not an editor so I digress.

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       DoorMattnomoreposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I really hope this doesnt come across rude. But whenever I see someone non english writeng in English, I think  "geeze..I wish I knew another lanugage. That must be so hard!!" Mangeled as thier English might be, its better then anything I could ever do in a foriegn language.

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          CkhoffmanKposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          linguistics are only as hard as the person using them makes them out to be.
          
          
          Im just saying it's hilarious to see someone *think* they have the grammar and syntax down enough to try to bid on paying writing jobs. I.e. Elance crowd. Even funnier when someone actually contracts them to write and they end up with unpublishable blither that looks like a 10 yr old wrote it.

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             PoeticLicenseposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             I agree.
             While I have met people from other countries who speak mangled English better than i can speak most of their languages I also find it funny when someone oversteps themselves.
             I think we all need to know and acknowledge our limits sometimes.
             Naturally, when someone doesn't--it CAN be very funny!

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                CkhoffmanKposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                exactly! the humor isn't in the fact they they are trying, the humor is found in the fact that they think they can do things that they can't. For example, when I was working for a content company as a "gatekeeper" (not an editor, just someone that trashed things that werent worth looking over) I got a lot of articles that were just so poorly done. It's like seeing someone who weighs 300 lbs try to stuff themselves into a bikini.

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    wavegirl22posted 13 years ago

    drbj always makes me giggle.
    
    and epigramman never fails to bring a smile and a laugh

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    Tusitala Tomposted 13 years ago

    John Steinbeck's book "Sweet Thursday" did so with me (though I read it fifty years back)  Also, Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.
    
    I think it really takes a great deal of skill to write in such a way that the reader is in stitches with laughter.   Nowadays, it all seems so serious.

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    whatkatiereadposted 13 years ago

    Alexander Mccall Smith and Kate Atkinson...in both cases it's more a knowing chuckle than a roaring belly laugh; although just as satisfying!  I had to really think about this one which has led me to the conclusion that I need to read some more 'funny' novels.

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    Scosgroveposted 13 years ago

    Another vote here for Kurt Vonnegut!

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    Mary Contraryposted 13 years ago

    Janet evanovich

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