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If you don't already have Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!, pick it up now. It's thoroughly awesome and worth the non-discount price, and Feynman (1962 Nobel for physics) tells some truly hilarious real-life anecdotes.
Second place pick: the Richard Lederer Anguished English book. Lederer's collections of humorous real-life language usage gaffes are generally pretty funny (but tend to get repetitive after a while).
ETA: The David Crystal and Jan Harold Brunvald books on English and urban legends will also be well done (I've read other works by them), but more of a "this is a kind of interesting cultural phenomenon" thing as their writing is not really supposed to be humorous.
Last edited by ATDrake; 11-28-2011 at 12:34 PM.
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