Well, if we are on to books and plays.

I liked the Tudor play Royster Doyster, although it is probably too gross and slapstickish for most people's tastes. The Victorians despised it. I think the insult "thou shitten knave!" be revived.

I've never found Shakespeare's clowns to be very funny at all, although I find Falstaff very funny indeed if acted by the right person.

James Boswell is hilarious, although he didn't mean to be. His London Journal has to be amongst the best in journals in English and a masterpiece of unintentional humour. His other journals have their great moments of unintentional humour, especially those relating his love affairs on the continent, but none so good as the young Boswell.

Pepys could be funny in the same way, especially in his relations of his domestic problems and of the time he found his cellar flooded with turds, but he was too much of a fuddy duddy to be as funny as Boswell. I have only read the Victorian edited version, although I understand a full version is now out containing the racy bits the Victorians cut out. (It also contains an excellent first hand account of the Great Fire of London, and of Pepys encountering a distracted and nearly mad Lord Mayor in the midst of the confusion.)

Diary of A Nobody is funny too. I liked the first Adrian Mole book.