He's definitely to fantasy what Douglas Adams was to sci-fi.
Wings is right. Discworld started as a joke, but Pterry grew to care for his characters, and you will too. The basic formula, so much as there is one, is taking a parallel fantasy-reality of about 200 years ago and introducing some modern societal issue - the internet, racism, wartime indoctrination etc. all the while laced with a sort of understated Dickensian humour.
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