• Marlo Thomas is the author of five bestselling books, including The Right Words at the Right Time and Free to Be…You and Me.
• As the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Thomas appears regularly on television, including The Today Show, The View, Larry King Live and others.
• The memoir features Marlo's extraordinary conversations with dozens of comedians, including Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben and Jerry Stiller, and more.

Growing Up Laughing is an outrageously fun and funny book that reads like a guided tour of American comedy. And it’s a book only Marlo Thomas could write.

Born to comedy royalty, Marlo is one of the few people in show business to grow up surrounded by the greatest entertainers of the time. This landmark book is Thomas’s funny, honest, and heartwarming memoir of being Danny Thomas’s daughter, and of becoming a beloved comedienne in her own right.

Her childhood was star studded—Milton Berle performed magic tricks (badly) at her backyard birthday parties. George Burns, Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Bob Newhart, and other great comics passed countless hours schmoozing around her family’s dinner table. Clearly, Marlo Thomas grew up in an exceptional way, though nothing felt more normal to her than watching from a ringside seat as her father slay the crowd at Las Vegas’s Sands Hotel.

Growing Up Laughing is filled with stories about comedy superstars of the past and present—because in addition to her own reminiscences, Marlo includes her personal conversations and interviews with today’s A-list comedians—including Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Billy Crystal, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Ben and Jerry Stiller, Conan O’Brien, Lily Tomlin, Don Rickles, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Griffin, Joan Rivers, Alan Alda, George Lopez, Joy Behar, Steven Wright, and others.