This is the second collection of scripts of the hugely popular Bickersons, a radio/TV series starring Don Ameche and Frances Langford. Includes never-before-published versions of their classic routines, plus original radio commercials, both radio pilots, Christmas episode for the unaired animation show, and more

About the Author

Philip Rapp began writing for Eddie Cantor's radio show in the early 1930s, then moved to help create Baby Snooks for Fanny Brice. Aside from his immortal Bickersons creation, Rapp wrote hit films for Danny Kaye (The Secret Life of...

Philip Rapp will remain immortal through his catty creation, The Bickersons, an insanely funny radio vignette that later emerged on TV and stage, and which influenced a generation of Honeymooners-loving viewers. But he was a far more prolific author than that.

In late 1958, he pitched an idea for a series called Deputy Seraph, starring the Marx Brothers, which would wind up being their penultimate appearance on film together. Only a few minutes of their scene was shot, however, along with the photos inside this book, and nothing else. The project was scrapped too quickly once Chico...

Stop crying! We've got more impossible kid humor for you! MORE Baby Snooks Scripts from the fertile mind of radio writer, Philip Rapp! Original radio scripts from Maxwell House, Good News, and a rarity - an undated script from Rapp written with Alfred Hitchcock in the unlikely role of Snooks!

For the first time ever, be privy to the open caverns of mirth that is the profilic Philip Rapp joke file! Rapp, writer for Baby Snooks, Eddie Cantor and creator of the Bickersons, wrote and collected jokes for years, drawing from it during his classic radio and TV years. Now we've taken the best quips and put them together for one great and funny book! Illustrated. Foreword by Laugh-In's Gary Owens.

Biography of the creator of The Bickersons, writer for Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice, by the author of The Bickersons, Don Ameche and the upcoming Frances Langford. Contains a wealth of Rapp's own work, including part of an unpublished autobiography This is the hardback version.

"THE BICKERSONS-THE BEST RADIO COMEDY EVER" -LARRY KING "QUARRELS BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN ARE NOTHING NEW, AND COULD BE DULL, BUT THEY TAKE ON A FRESHNESS AND MERRIMENT EXTRAORDINAIRE IN THE HANDS OF PHILIP RAPP." -GOODMAN ACE, AMERICAN HUMORIST "GRIPES OF RAPP IS A MUST READ FOR ANYONE WHO HAS VISIONS OF BEING A COMEDY WRITER." -SAM LOCKE, AWARD WINNING COMEDY WRITER "ANYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT COMEDY WRITING AND MUCH MORE." -ROGER CORMAN Biography of the creator of The Bickersons, writer for Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice, by the author of The Bickersons, Don Ameche and the upcoming...