George Burns: All My Best Friends

This is one of the funniest books I have ever read as well as an informative and authoritative history of American show business and the men who invented it from burlesque to vaudeville, radio, movies and tv.

This book contains a treasure trove of hilarious anecdotes. Here's an example. George Jessel had a lot of girlfriends. Once in Florida one was running away with another man when George took out a pistol, shot at the other man, missed him completely and winged a Japanese gardener two blocks away. He was charged, of course. When the judge sourly asked him, "Mr. Jessel, how does a man take aim at someone and hit someone else two blocks away?" George replied, "I'm a comedian, not Buffalo Bill." If you liked that one you should get this book. It probably has sixty stories that good. by now.

George Burns is a funny man! This book deserves to be in print. It chronicles his and many other famous comedian's lives, like Al Jolson and Jack Benny. Al in all a great read.