THE COMEDY WORLD OF STAN LAUREL

by John McCabe

When McCabe wrote this book, he had already told Stan's life in MR. LAUREL AND MR. HARDY, so this book does not spend much time retelling that story. Instead, the heart of this book is a collection of sketches, dialogue, gags and ideas that Stan Laurel wrote throughout his years, many of them after Hardy had passed away. It is the "Stan Laurel Anthology", if you will, presenting much material that was never intended for public consumption and shows us a man who continued to exercise his comic muscles up until the end of his life. Like W.C. FIELDS BY HIMSELF, THE COMEDY WORLD OF STAN LAUREL is a look inside the mind of a comic genius, and deserves to be on any comedy fans' bookshelf. - JB