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Not Just a Stooge

The Autobiography of Hollywood's Most Prolific Third Stooge

Author: Joe Besser, with Jeff & Greg Lenburg
Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: Excelsior Books (1984)
Avg. Rating: [9.00/10]
In Print? No

Not Just a Stooge is the autobiography of comic Joe Besser, the sissy-talking member of The Three Stooges comedy team, who has been dishing out laughs in front of audiences for more than half a century.

Here Besser humorously recalls his heyday as a top vaudeville and Broadway comedian, as a motion picture, radio and TV star, as an overgrown brat named "Stinky" on THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW, and of course, "you crazy you-ou-ou," as a member of that screwball trio, The Three Stooges

But --- "Not so f-a-s-t!" --- there's more! Besser also reminisces about the four original Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp), and about his insights on such show business legends as Abbott & Costello, Ethel Merman, Olsen & Johnson, Milton Berle, Bing Crosby, Jerry Lewis, Debbie Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Jr., and others.

And, for true Besser addicts, 75 rare photographs from the comedian's personal collection are also included.


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