I really enjoyed reading about Tim Conway's life, especially his childhood while growing up in Chagrin Falls. He was the only child of Irish and Hungarian parents.
His dad was a fox hunting"whip" in Ireland, which was a man whose job was to keep the hound dogs from getting distracted from the chase. When he moved to America, he got a job at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club.
Tim's childhood provided him with abundant material for his later comedic career, but it wasn't until after college at Bowling Green and serving in the Navy that he figured out what he wanted to do with his life.
In his early years, he was great friends with Ernie Anderson who played the fictional character Ghoulardi (my brother Mike loved that show). He played Ensign Parker on McHale's Navy with Ernest Borgnine. Then he was discovered by Carol Burnett. He became a regular on her show and their friendship remains to this day.
Tim Conway is just a really great, down-to-earth, funny guy. This book was a walk down memory lane for me.
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