Jack Douglas (writer)
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Jack Douglas (July 17, 1908-January 31, 1989) was an American comedy writer. He was a writer in his early career for radio, followed by writing for television, including The Jack Paar Show, The George Gobel Show and Laugh-In from the 1950s to the 1970s. He also wrote several books of comedy as well as humorous memoirs.
Douglas and his Japanese-born wife Reiko were also regular guests on the Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson shows.
Some of his books, including Shut Up and Eat Your Snowshoes, were set in Northern Ontario, where Jack and Reiko Douglas lived for several years. The town of Chinookville in the Northern Ontario books is based on the Ontario city of Sudbury. The book The Neighbors are Scaring My Wolf was based on his experiences living in New Canaan, Connecticut, a suburb of New York City.
[edit] Works by Jack Douglas
- My Brother Was an Only Child (1960)
- Never Trust a Naked Bus Driver(1960)
- A Funny Thing Happened to Me On My Way to the Grave (1962)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Hashimoto (1964)
- The Neighbors are Scaring My Wolf (1968)
- Shut Up and Eat Your Snowshoes (1970)
- The Jewish/Japanese Sex and Cookbook, and How To Raise Wolves (1972)
- What Do You Hear From Walden Pond? (1971)
- Benedict Arnold Slept Here (1975)
- Going Nuts in Brazil (1977)
- Rubber Duck (1979)
