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Funny story: Book Author goes on pub crawl in Timbuktu hoping to spend all his royalties!

Book Author goes on pub crawl in Timbuktu hoping to spend all his royalties!

(NOT EDITED) Breaking all Covid-19 rules, and regulations, an impoverished, tax-exiled Brit author living in Timbuktu received an E Mail from Kindle about royalties being transferred to his bank account in the UK! "Yippee," he screamed, and decid…

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Funny story: Book author 'tops himself' after only flogging one book to his grandma!

Book author 'tops himself' after only flogging one book to his grandma!

(UNEDITED) Proclaiming himself to be a bestselling author because he hit the top million on the Amazon charts with his pathetic effort, unknown author JoJo Jobson has now divulged the truth in his last will and testament, leaving $ 0,08 cents in roya…

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Funny story: Bookworm Has Read Some Awful Books Lately

Bookworm Has Read Some Awful Books Lately

A man who considers himself something of a bookworm, has revealed how, over the last few months, he has had the misfortune to have selected for reading several books that have turned out to be an absolute bag of shite. Moys Kenwood, 55, reads book...

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Funny story: Adverbs Heatedly Blast Stephen King for Causing Them to Be Summarily Dismissed by Modern-Day Authors

Adverbs Heatedly Blast Stephen King for Causing Them to Be Summarily Dismissed by Modern-Day Authors

Adverbs everywhere have vocally and publicly come out against best-selling author Stephen King, blaming him for their summary dismissal by many modern-day writers. “Thanks to him, we’re being edited out of the game,” lamented adverb Beverly Passio...

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Funny story: Charleston Nurse Decides to Become Aspiring Author

Charleston Nurse Decides to Become Aspiring Author

Kendra Burke, a full-time nurse in Charleston, South Carolina, recently decided to become an aspiring author - which, she explained, has more to do with personal potential and possibility than with external accomplishment or even action. "I'm not...

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Funny story: State of Tennessee to open Cormac McCarthy Theme Park

State of Tennessee to open Cormac McCarthy Theme Park

Knoxville, Tennessee. An agent for the notoriously reclusive writer has claimed that Cormac McCarthy was "genuinely delighted and thrilled" at plans by State Officials to open a theme park in honor of his novels later this year. The venue will in...

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Funny story: Oxymora Dictionary Creator Retires, Says Career was Awfully Good

Oxymora Dictionary Creator Retires, Says Career was Awfully Good

Partially successful in two major industries during his peak professional years, Sandy Clay Livingstone was perhaps the best known secret of the literary world for founding the original Oxymora Dictionary, later in life. Recognizing the acute dull...

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Funny story: Pages from not so famous books 1

Pages from not so famous books 1

Lord of the Rungs: By J.R. Hartley Gadaffi stood quite still, his long beard rustling in the cold morning air. There came a shout from Fido. "Will you hold that fukin ladder still!". Gadaffi sighed. She: By H. Riding Hard Harry Holloway and Leo Da vinci were tiring as the heat from the African jungle bore down on thier backs. From the bush, Ayesha emerged with her tribe. "Have you got a...

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Funny story: Homeless author now a multimillionaire. Will play main characters in book adaptations.

Homeless author now a multimillionaire. Will play main characters in book adaptations.

A homeless man who ran away from his house 15 years ago when he learned the tooth ferry wasn't real has signed a £15,000,000 contract with Randomansion Inc, and Tigergate Pictures. For the past 12 years, Robin Davice-slatts, 28, from Croydon, sur...

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Funny story: Salinger sues self

Salinger sues self

CORNISH, New Hampshire - In a move that any who'd ever suffered through that piece of overblown crap "The Catcher In The Rye" could have seen coming years ago, J.D. Salinger has sued himself for "too closely resembling Holden Caulfield". In a lawsuit...

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Funny story: God's New Bestseller

God's New Bestseller

After the Bible and Koran, God has finally decided to write yet another bestseller. With a fan following which has no rival, the new book shall be translated into every language existing, including the dead ones.

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Funny story: Dr Edward Maxwell revealed as a Fraud

Dr Edward Maxwell revealed as a Fraud

Plymouth social circles were in shock last night when it was revealed that noted local author and literary critic Dr Edward Maxwell has never published a book. The fraud was uncovered following an anonymous tip by an unnamed Professor to leading loca...

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Funny story: First Draft of Poe's "The Raven" Found

First Draft of Poe's "The Raven" Found

NEW YORK, NY (AP Newsliar) - An early version of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" has been discovered in the upper west side building where the famed American poet and author once lived.

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Funny story: NOLA SWAB Name Change

NOLA SWAB Name Change

New Orleans, LA - The first anniversary of one of the worst disasters (natural) to hit the US has caused many to peer into their retrospectroscopes in the hopes either of finding ways to improve crisis response (numerous Katrina authors), or ass cov...

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