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Well... yes and no.
I've never read anything else that combines humor, wit, philosophy and phrase-turning in quite the same way.
Some that are at least similar in one or another way:
Lots of Terry Pratchett's stuff - I'd especially recommend Guards! Guards! or Monstrous Regiment.
Tom Robbins, and especially Jitterbug Perfume
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Kurt Vonnegut, and especially Cat's Cradle or Sirens of Titan.
Most anything by Carl Hiaasen. He writes in a completely different genre, but with a very similar sense of the absurd.
Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Yahtzee Croshaw.
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
^ This is a good list. I'll add Christopher Moore's Lamb or A Dirty Job and the comment that imo the Rivers of London series starts a bit skeevy with how women are written, but the author shakes it out by book 2 or 3, and it's got a great voice actor for the audio.
Yeah - Lamb and A Dirty Job were both pretty good, and I liked Practical Demonkeeping too.
I also thought after I posted that that I should've mentioned Tom Sharpe's Wilt.