A Gift of Laughter, the autobiography of Allan Sherman

"A Gift of Laughter", the autobiography of 1960s comedian-singer-songwriter Allan Sherman, tells in his own words how he "became an overnight success in only 38 years." After surviving World War II (in Camp Wolters, Texas, where he was discharged as medically unfit -- for an allergy to Brazil nuts), and then getting expelled from the University of Illinois for breaking into a campus sorority house, he struggled for years as a free-lance $5-a-joke gag writer for nightclub comedians like Joe ...