Laughing Gas

Summary

What happens when a proper British earl falls asleep in a dentist’s chair—and wakes up in the body of America’s favorite child star? You get a stylish, charming, and delightfully witty comedy that whisks you back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

When his sozzled cousin Egremont (Eggy, to his chums) runs away to Hollywood, the Earl of Havershot fears he may be caught in the clutches of an American “red hot momma.” Before he can rescue Eggy, though, the earl is stricken with a terrible toothache that sends him straight to the fang-wrencher’s office—the same office that Joey Cooley, the Hollywood child star, is visiting. Both patients inhale laughing gas … drift into the fourth dimension … and return to the wrong bodies.

Laughing Gas is a rollicking, wildly funny tale of misadventure that could only come from P.G. Wodehouse, one of the most sharp-witted and insightful writers of the twentieth century.