Funniest book I ever read in my life: Transatlantic Blues by Wilfrid Sheed.

Second funniest: Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell

Third funniest: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

First runner up: After Claude by Iris Owens

Honorable mention: anything else by Wilfrid Sheed, The Belles Lettres Papers by Charles Simpson