Comedy Bucket List

Death takes an apprentice; the Discworld finds its voice.

Earth is demolished for a bypass; 42 and a towel.

Alexander Portnoy tells his analyst everything; the novel that scandalised 1969.

A writer raised by a nurse who wanted no husband; Irving's comedy of accidents.

Ignatius J. Reilly, hot-dog vendor and medievalist, against New Orleans; published eleven years after the author's suicide.

Lovers, fairies and a weaver with a donkey's head in an Athenian wood.

Fill in the blank as offensively as the deck allows.

The Boss is President of the United States, then a prisoner in a simulated Steelport with superpowers.

Five power-up costumes and a running commentary of jokes; the last of the 3D Raymans.

Guybrush in 3D, and monkey kombat: duels won by memorising sequences of four monkey noises.

Telltale's five episodes, with a pox and a voodoo lady.

Run the dungeon, slap your imps and defeat the heroes; Molyneux's reversal.

A brain in a jar and the Big Empty; the funniest thing Obsidian wrote.

Cheerleading agents rescue people through rhythm; the DS oddity.

Mini-games of pure rhythm; Nintendo's weirdest series.

A dog detective and a rabbity thing on a road trip through American kitsch.

Wobbly men solve physics puzzles badly; No Brakes Games.

A physics sandbox on the Source engine; Prop Hunt, Trouble in Terrorist Town and Gmod videos.

The original, before the sequels: hot-seat artillery with a banana bomb.

The hand-drawn third game, with the insult sword fighting moved to a boat.

Ichiban in Hawaii with a Pokemon parody; the biggest Yakuza.

A corporate explorer on a sarcastic alien world; Typhoon's comedy Metroid.

Jelly men wrestle each other off buildings; the physics party game.

Be a horrible goose in an English village; House House's to-do list of mischief.

An arcade cabinet programmed by the devil; the meta-game before Inscryption.

Theme Hospital's spiritual sequel, Light-headedness included.

Ron Gilbert's return to the pixel point-and-click, with two agents and a murder.

Wario Land at 200 miles an hour, drawn like a 1990s cartoon; the 2023 indie.

A goat, ragdoll physics and a city; the joke that sold millions.

Raz inside more heads; Double Fine's sequel sixteen years later, and better.