num_pages: 256
description: Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap. Laughing Gas is Wodehouse's brilliantly funny take on the 'If I were you' theme - a wry look at the dangers of getting what you wish for in the movie business and beyond.
language: English
title: Laughing Gas
titlecomplete: Laughing Gas
characters: I.J. Zizzbaum, Diran Marsupial, Reginald John Peter Swithin, Egremont Mannering, Joey Cooley, Mabel Prescott, Cosmo Booch, Theodore P. Brinkmeyer, Tommy Murphy, Chaffinch, Horace Plimsoll, Beulah Brinkmeyer, Clara Mannering, Pomona Wycherley, April June, Ann Bannister, Lora Luella Stott, B.K. Burwash
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Audiobook, 20th Century
ratings_count: 2702
series: The Drones Club
publisher: Penguin Books