Ebook: Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny

The award-winning actress shares her funny and heartwarming stories of a life filled with laughter. Woven throughout the book are her interviews with many beloved American comedians about how they, too, found the funny in their lives.;Celebrations -- A kid at the studio -- The boys -- Socks and Moxie-Jerry Seinfeld -- The wives -- Stirring the sauce with Joy Behar -- Hotels -- Comedy begins at home-Billy Crystal -- On the road -- The first laugh-Robin Williams -- The funny barber -- He said/he said-Ben & Jerry Stiller -- aka Orson -- Testifying with Chris Rock -- Beverly Hills, my neighborhood -- My dad -- Harry and the parakeet -- Angelo's boy-Jay Leno -- Miss independence -- My big brown eyes -- Killing and dying-Alan Alda -- Comedians in their dressing rooms -- A phone call with Mr. Warmth-Don Rickles -- The two Dannys -- Turn-ons with Conan O'Brien -- The bow -- Twenty questions for Stephen Colbert -- Dinner at the Goldbergs -- The survivor-Joan Rivers -- Obsession -- Fall-down funny-George Lopez -- Tony's pilot -- Oh, Donald -- Lew Parker -- The comedian's comedian -- Growing up free -- One-girl show-Lily Tomlin -- Rose Marie -- The book on Kathy Griffin -- Capra, Orson (the other one), and me -- The Wright stuff-Steven Wright -- Growing a feminist -- The joke on me -- The making of a wisenheimer-Tina Fey -- The reluctant interview : an improv -- The storyteller-Whoopi Goldberg -- Against the odds -- Legends of comedy -- The Elm house -- Mother and Marge -- The only Jew in the neighborhood-Jon Stewart -- St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.