Best comedy biography books
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Sarah Millican
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£8.99 Orion
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Dawn French
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£8.99 Cornerstone
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Jennifer Saunders
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£9.99 Penguin
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Tina Fey
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£10 Littl
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The Funniest Books of 2024
We’re here to discuss your shortlist of the funniest books of 2024. Has it been a good year for comic fiction?
I might not be allowed to say this, but this is the best shortlist I’ve seen in my time judging this prize. It’s going to be incredibly difficult to find a winner. I mean, nigh on impossible. We ended up with seven books on the shortlist this year, all of them extraordinarily good. And very different: from steampunk to romance to time travel. So yes, I’ve been really impressed. And if there’s ever been a moment when we need funny books, it’s now. These are books that will help people escape.
Is that the purpose, of comic fiction, do you think? Escapism?
It is. But it is also an incredibly serious medium. Some of our previous winners, like The Trees by Percival Everett, have taken very serious, even horrific, subjects. Through humour, through cartooning characters, you can make it readable and perhaps even more effective. Humour is a powerful way of making people look at an issue differently.
You know, Wodehouse did this himself. His books were very, very funny but they always had a deeper meaning. And all of the books on the shortlist this year have depth to them, even the ones that seem so light.
Shall we start with A Beginn • Subscribe Newsletters This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? . When in the mood for an entertaining read, comedic autobiographies are perfect. They cover the subject matter that the writer knows best — in other words, themselves — and are told with the trademark humor that often gave rise to their fame. Not only do they reveal more about your favorite comedians, journalists, and actors, but the best memoirs are told through the medium of hilarious anecdotes, which make these books an easy read. We've compiled the best of the bunch, including biographies from Mindy Kaling, A
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