Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up

The Roundtable

Dave Barry's new memoir is “Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up”

Joe Donahue

How does the son of a Presbyterian minister end up winning a Pulitzer Prize for a distorted newspaper column that is read by many? Well, in Dave Berry’s new book “Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up” he provides the details.“Class Clown” isn’t your regular memoir; it is a celebration of life rich with humor, joy, absurdity, and sadness.