A written version of all those AFV-type television shows. Good comic relief, not necessarily good lit. A nice way to pass the time and shake your head a lot at the lack of common sense shared by many of the 'anonymous' participants in the anecdotes. I saw it on a bookshelf and was fascinated by the book's title - might have been the funniest part of the entire book, I'm afraid. Yet, not a total waste of time.
This was an easy read, and some of the scenarios were amusing.
I wouldn't say it's hilarious as the title suggests, but a couple of these gave me a chuckle or two. The ridiculous puns at the end of some of the pieces were completely unnecessary and got to be annoying after a while.
Sorry, but this did not feel like a book, but rather an AI-aided scraping of "funny" news items from around the world, better suited for the Darwin Awards or AFV.
A publishing house shill would probably spin these sorts of books as proof that anyone can get published these days, but that wouldn't be true either, since the author appears to be an entertainment industry insider who pulled these pages together in their off hours.
An occasional graphic or cheeky drawing of any sort would have been a welcome visual diversion from the blocks and blocks of text.
Instead, the presentation was monotonous, offering few/no insights beyond the sort of obvious commentary and cringey puns which are easily found elsewhere; e.g., the aforementioned AFV.
Basically, a bundle of Buzzfeed listicles in book form. But we already have the interweb. Sorry.
Echoes of "News of the Weird" articles by Chuck Shepherd, only distilled from TikTok vid os and tabloid rags. Not sure why I finished other than it was a quick read.