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I forgot to mention "The Tough Guide to Fantasyland" by Diana Wynne Jones. Laugh out loud funny. It is set up like a dictionary / encyclopedia and pokes fun at fantasy tropes. As a fantasy lover, I loved it.
Humour is very culturally subjective, so it's really hard to find something that will appeal to everyone. Aristophanes (greek comedy), for example, I sometimes find hilarious, and sometimes I have no idea what he is talking about. My husband finds "Ante Tomić", a Croatian writer of humourous novels, laugh-out-loud funny, but I have a suspicion that people not from central or eastern Europe wouldn't get his humour. (I'm not sure if any of his stuff has been translated.)
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