One of my official Comedy Guys adds his professional two cents:

“Office Space” is great, but it has some horrible slow spots,
especially at the beginning when Ron Livingston’s character is first
hypnotized and kind of out of it. Interestingly, the same thing
happens in my all-time favorite comedy, Albert Brooks’ “Modern Romance.” The slow spot in that movie is caused not by hypnosis, but
a Quaalude, which gives you a nice signpost for the era of the film.
Anyway, it’s a terribly funny (and kind of painful) movie, with an
especially nice portrait of working Hollywood — Brooks is a film
editor working on a hilariously bad sci-fi epic starring George
Kennedy.
As for books, “Confederacy of Dunces” is hands down number one, and
“Portnoy’s Complaint” is no slouch either….
In non-fiction, I nominate anything by Bill Bryson, especially “A Walk in the Woods,” but not so much his “Short History of Nearly Everything,” in which he seems obsessed with the many ways the
universe can deal out instantaneous death. Which come to think of it,
is pretty funny, too.