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Frost On My Moustache
by Tim Moore

Written by Tim Moore, splendid journalist and co-creator of Channel 4’s massively popular Digitiser magazine, Frost On My Moustache follows the exploits of the reluctant adventurer as he journeys around Scandinavia armed only with logbook of forgotten Victorian traveller Lord Dufferin. But don’t you worry none about that: this is probably the funniest book ever. Hugely offensive to anyone from Iceland, and stuffed with cultural references which you WILL understand, it’s sparklingly intelligent and profoundly stupid in equal measure.

Withnail & I Original Screenplay
by Bruce Robinson

Probably the second funniest book ever, the screenplay to the funniest film ever showcases sweary, boozed-up writer-director Bruce Robinson’s glorious prose, and features a number of scenes deleted from the final cut of the 1986 movie. Every line is an arse-splitting work of genius, every absurd situation potentially heart attack-inducing. In many respects a textbook on how not to write a film the Hollywood way, this is essential for anyone who so much as raised a smirk at the on-screen antics of messrs Grant and McGann.

THE PECULIAR MEMORIES OF THOMAS PENMAN
by Bruce Robinson

The most Withnail-like thing Robinson has done other than Withnail, this vaguely autobiographical novel tells the tale of the titular Penman, a boy with a penchant for shitting himself in class, and his grandfather’s exotic pornography collection (pictures of a duck up a woman’s arse etc.). You will laugh, and you will cry. Classic.

Fear Nothing/Sieze The Night
by Dean Koontz
The first two books in a proposed trilogy focusing on the mysterious life of the nocturnal Christopher Snow. Dean Koontz is regularly stacked alongside the likes of King and Herbert, but his writing is so much better, and the books as much manga-esque sci-fi thriller as they are horror. It’s his seemingly innocuous suburban backdrops that heighten the atmosphere, and ensure that he deserves a wider audience. Super-intelligent dogs, blood-lusting police chiefs and time travel; what more do you want from a book?

The Letters Of Oscar Wendlow

Though mercilessly “inspired” by The Henry Root Letters, The Letters Of Oscar Wendlow (written by the feller who does those semi-humourous Fred cartoons) are a series of genuine letters and responses between the fictional cab driver and portrait painter to the stars, and real-life celebrities and organisations. You have to respect anyone who can write to arrogant TV political prober Jeremy Paxman with an offer to “paint his nose smaller”, and not be ignored

OUR DUMB CENTURY: 100 YEARS OF THE ONION

Far and away the funniest site on the Net, The Onion has produced its first book – 100 years of made-up newspaper headlines, which include this classic from 1969: “HOLY SHIT! MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON!”. Read in one sitting and the joke rapidly wears thin, but with so much content it’s the sort of thing you can dip into again and again.