@LDBoblo; you sound like you would enjoy the more underplayed humour of for example Robertson Davies or David Lodge. Very different authors, but they both have a 'light hand' with humour.
Humour really is very subjective culturally. For example the Scandinavian humour tend to be rather dark, ironic and absurd. It'd whoosh beside the head of typical American humour which is much more direct, obvious and in-your-face in comparison.
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