My Brother Was An Only Child

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 television, Douglas's witticisms set the tone for a form of entertainment Americans relished.

Beginning in the 1930s, the Emmy-award-winning Douglas wrote for the comic greats Bob Hope, Red Skelton, George Gobel, and Jim...