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"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 as TV shows such as "Adventures of Harriet and Ozzie", "The George Gobel... Read Full Overview

Classic Humor from a Comic Legend

Before Jack Douglas published his hilarious and widely popular compendium of rejoinders-The Jewish/Japanese Sex and Cookbook-he wrote the absurdly witty tome, My Brother Was an Only Child. In a time when stand-up comedy was king on radio and... Read Full Overview

My Brother Was An Only Child is a novel by Jack Douglas that explores the complex relationship between two brothers growing up in a working-class family in the 1950s and 60s. The story is told from the perspective of the younger brother, who idolizes his older sibling despite... Read Full Overview