My Brother was an Only Child

By Jack Douglas

Book Overview

"My Brother Was an Only Child" was Jack Douglas' very first humour book, having written for famous radio and television celebrities such as Jack Paar, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Durante, as well... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006AVWCE
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.

Customer Reviews

funniest book ever

Well, maybe not the funniest, but way up there. The story of a boy and his dinosaur that ends "step on Mother." A binding of Morrocan leather that may have come from your old Morrocan grandfather. But no Chapter Seventeen. Every damn book you pick up has a chapter seventeen.

Never Trust a Naked Bus Driver

Jack Douglas was a funny man that made others seem even funnier. He was a joke writer for--among others--Johnny Carson. I read this one give or take 30 years ago and have never been able to get hands on a copy of it or of "My Brother was an Only Child" since. Jack's Japanese wife--she spoke no English and he no Japanese when they were married--was a real trooper--he called her Huckleberrry Hashimoto and their adventures as newlyweds was a first serious (yeah, sure-HO HO)effort at humor.BEWARE of these books. They are addictive. Folks tend to read and reread them at a single sitting--reading through the night; missing their stop on the subway--all else fades into obscurity; there is a craving for more Jack Douglas--worse than chocolate!!!