Funny Writers?

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JakeStratham

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I'm looking for consistently-funny writers (to read, not hire).

Clean or profane, chuckle-worthy or guffaw-inducing... it doesn't matter. Nor does it matter whether they're pros (e.g. Dave Barry) or amateurs. If you know of someone who is funny with the written word, I'd love to hear about them.

Three quick notes:

1. I'm looking for authors rather than sites. For example, Cracked and Onion are good, but I'd prefer to hear about your favorite writers at those sites.

2. I'm looking for writers as opposed to comics, such as Oatmeal or Cyanide.

3. I prefer male writers.*

To give you an idea of my tastes, I like "Lex" at wwtdd.com. Here are a few excerpts...


I like when people with problems misdirect negative attention by making up problems for other people. Like when people who love to booze got sick of being labeled alcoholics so they all chipped in loose change from their ashtrays and bought a study that showed that people who don’t drink daily are going to die by thirty from alien parasites or something. People who like coffee and chocolate and unprotected anal sex have all done the same. Now the fatty fats have gone on the offensive, challenging the healthiness of skinny people. Frances Chan is feeling the brunt of skinny shaming, which is not quite as bad as fat shaming since fat people have less energy to shame other people.
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Remember when Minnie Driver used to be the epitome of raw sexuality in Hollywood? When you’d lay in bed at night picturing her grotesquely brown tooth dripping with the byproduct of your lovemaking? Watching mediocre looking women slipping into slightly older mediocre women really is a hard process to endure. I do hear Minnie’s never been happier. Actually, no, I lied. I made that up so you’d feel better about how fall she’s fallen from a maybe five, to a high four.
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I’ve spent time in Italy. Every girl looks like the kind of girl you’d be tempted to make babies with and every dude looks like some swarthy beast who’s just been banging one these girls between the sheets. It’s a nation that looks like a porn set. Somehow nobody is making babies. It’s got more people dying than being born, a negative population growth, leaving the rest of the world facing the grim future of having to go elsewhere for their canned plum tomatoes and wacky foreign game shows. Lots of analysts are blaming the crappy economy and lack of hope in the future on people deciding not to have kids. Those people have never been to every single third world nation where people breed like desperate rabbits after taking their morning dumps in the open shit canal running through the village.
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Can you help me out?





* with a few exceptions, I don't find women to be funny (at least, not by intention)
 


Douglas Adams is a safe suggestion, he's a very popular humour writer though, so I'm guessing you've heard of him, but has many books you can check out.
 
 
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That's awesome guys. Thanks for the names and links.

At GimpSpack: I forgot about Maddox. I haven't read him in years, but a lot of his stuff is great. I'll definitely be going through your list of links. :)
 
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