Discworld/Funny

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The Discworld series is a 37-book series full of awesome, hilarious, and heartwarming. Here are the funni(er) bits.

Now in convenient folders divided by book, so you don't have to read the entire series to read this page and not be spoiled! Please keep examples in the folder belonging to the relevant book.

Main Discworld novels

 * The Colour of Magic
 * The Light Fantastic


 * Mort
 * Sourcery
 * Wyrd Sisters
 * Pyramids
 * Guards! Guards!


 * Moving Pictures
 * Reaper Man
 * Witches Abroad
 * Small Gods
 * Lords and Ladies
 * Men At Arms
 * Soul Music
 * Interesting Times
 * Maskerade
 * Feet of Clay
 * Hogfather
 * Jingo
 * The Last Continent
 * Carpe Jugulum
 * The Fifth Elephant
 * The Truth
 * Thief of Time
 * Night Watch
 * Monstrous Regiment
 * Going Postal
 * Thud!
 * Making Money
 * Unseen Academicals
 * Snuff

Illustrated novels

 * The Last Hero

Young adult novels

 * A Hat Full of Sky
 * Wintersmith
 * I Shall Wear Midnight

Short stories

 * In the short story, "Theatre of Cruelty," where Carrot is investigating a death to which there were no apparent witnesses. So in search of a lead, he goes and waits with an elderly man until You Know Who shows up, goes, "Now I know you saw something, sir. You were there," and then tricks him into helping the police with their enquiries.

Characters who are mentioned but never appear
""Ye gods, I've never felt so clean.""
 * Anything involving Bloody Stupid Johnson, or the remarkable lateral thinking of Ankh-Morpork citizens.
 * The "Improved Manicure Device", now used for peeling potatoes at Unseen University.
 * "Retrophrenology": if the bumps in your head indicate your personality traits, then changing them will affect your character. In practice, this just means getting thumped with a variety of differently-sized hammers, but it provides work and it keeps the money circulating, and that's the important thing.
 * Archchancellor Ridcully, in Hogfather, taking a shower in a bathroom designed by Johnson. He made the mistake of pressing the tap marked "Old Faithful," and had a bit of trouble walking for a while afterwards.


 * The landscaping Bloody Stupid did for the palace garden, which included a 150 yard by 1 inch trout lake (home to one thin trout, who presumably would be periodiately turned around by the gardeners). The perimeter is presumably denotated by a hoho, i.e. 50 feet deep haha. Claimed three palace gardener's lives, and once trapped the Head of the Assassin's Guild.
 * Oh God, the Palace Gardens. The passage about the exploding sundial and the ornamental fountain / surface-to-air missile launcher nearly killed this troper.


 * The short film "Run Rincewind Run!" is a Crowning Moment of Funny addressed from Discworld's fans to Terry Pratchett.