I like them mixed in with mystery fiction, much like Janet Evanovich when she first started the Stephanie Plum series.    Any kind of fiction really..horror, detective. I just really like a wisecracking protagonist. 

 

I'm a big fat fan of Christopher Moore. I like my humor to be outlandish, certainly, and with snappy dialog.

 

I like my humor smart - and clean. Anything below-the-waste, anything that falls into the gross-out category is an instant turn-off for me.

 

I love Terry Pratchett, so I guess I like my humor to be a well-balanced combination of satire, parody, word play, slapstick, and situational humor mixed with some serious themes along with clever and original stories and characters I care about. That's all: should be simple, right?

 

Dry & intelligent, usually. I'm fine with stupid humor, though. I hate stand-up comedy and its e-book counterpart (it gets to be the writer's platform for rantings). I seldom read any comedy, though it's my favorite sort of movie & TV show.

I like it when I say something in a group and only one person dies laughing. My best moment was at the work cafeteria a few years ago... there was something on the news about the oldest fossilized rabbit having been found in the UK. I asked if it was Welsh, and only the Englander in our group was laughing.

 

Wack-a-doodle, like Christopher Moore and Tom Robbins, noir-ish, like Carl Hiaasen, non-stop gags, like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

 

Pratchett, Gaimon, Moore (though he is a weenie bit hit or miss for me recently).

I have to say... about 80% of the books people rave about as "hysterical" seem silly to me, and put me off.

Julia Quinn writes lovely light humor romances. 

Most of the books people recommend to me don't strike me as particularly funny at all... and a good portion just read forced and goofy.

 

I've given up laughing. Nothing is funny any more.

 

My humor is Jeremy Clarkson style. Witty, often politically incorrect and on the spot on every subject he chooses - from children, via homely subjects to politics. I am a big fan of the English TV program "Top Gear", and I can hear Clarkson in my head when I read him. Makes his writing even more funny. His personality combined with his writing makes me laugh my head off

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Straight up with a dash of lemon.

 

I like my humor dished up by Marian Keyes, (Watermelon, Rachel's Holiday, Anybody Out There?), Lisa Lutz (The Spellman Files series), and even Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential!).

 

Nelson DeMille makes me smile occasionally but Joseph Heller's Catch-22 was over-the-top, laugh-out-loud funny.

 

Like a Martini.......Dry & Sophisticated

 

Christopher Moore, Carl Hiaasen, David Sedaris, PG Wodehouse.  I also like mystery series that have a humorous vibe throughout like Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series or Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphey series (before she jumped the shark).

 

I like my humor like I like my coffee, black.

 

I love humor in suspense, horror, or any kind of novel actually.  I don't usually like slapstick,my co-author and I did use some slapstick on occasion.  But when writing suspense, I found that the humor my detectives use to deflect tension helped me deal with the tension in the scenes I was writing.  Even writing creepy or gross scenes, I needed a break!  I consider the Evanovich novels to be slapstick vs. witty banter type humor ala Robert Parker (like my Murry/Kidman series).

 

I like humor in novels. Particularly witty banter between the characters.

 

I love reading humor, whether it's a book by Dave Barry or a story by P.G. Wodehouse (I named my cat after his Mr. Mulliner). 

But I also like serious books laced with humor.  As someone mentioned above, humorous dialogue can make me laugh right out loud, especially when it's unexpected.

But humor is so subjective.  I once read a passage from one of Jonathan Gash's LOVEJOY novels out loud to my husband.  It had me in stitches--Lovejoy was in a doctor's waiting room and watching a baby that was standing in its mother's lap and marching in place.  Lovejoy viewed him as though he were a little man (he has no experience with babies) and found his behavior ostentatious and offputting.  It was written in (I thought) such a hilarious way that I had to read it out loud.  My husband looked back at me with a blank expression.  "That's not funny," he said.  "And the accents are annoying."

Oh, well.  That's why a person needs bookish friends. 

Julia

 

I love Terry Pratchett, so I guess I like my humor to be a well-balanced combination of satire, parody, word play, slapstick, and situational humor mixed with some serious themes along with clever and original stories and characters I care about. That's all: should be simple, right?

Pratchett is my favorite humor writer. I like humor that not only makes me laugh but stays with me and makes me think. There are rare occasions when I find slapstick humor necessary, but that only goes for the Three Stooges and old B&W silent movies, and the kinds of movies Hollywood made in the 30s-50s with Hepburn, Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Powell, Loy, and that crew. Those were funny and wonderful movies.

 

I'm told that my humor tastes are very British...whatever that means.  I just like it fairly clean and witty...and smart.  I do like sarcasm too, but not to excess. 

The books that I like that have humor in it are "Dresden Files" and the "Rex" series by Eric Garcia (read the first two books while taking a cross country flight...and laughed heartily).

Tris

 

I like my humor to be funny.  I can't really narrow it down beyond that ... I like Terry Pratchett, Carl Hiaasen, Christopher Moore, Chelsea Handler, Bill Bryson, David Sedaris .... so I guess I like intelligent humor - even when its foolish or dirty or whatever. 

I know I don't like stupid humor.

 

I love when humor is used in breathers between action scenes in mystery and crime novels. I believe the contrast adds to both the humor and the action. A character who does this well on a consistent basis is Nelson DeMille's John Corey.

 

I like any kind of satire...anything witty and smart.

 

Gallows humour, the bleaker and the blacker it is, all the better.

 

I like my humour to be dark. Really dark.

In fact I've spoken about it here: www.the-cambridge-list.blogspot.com/2011/03/isnt-murder-simply-hilarious.html