the whipping boy

Does anyone remember the children's book The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman? With Jemmy and Price Brat? I loved that book growing up. Even today, when I cook with too much garlic, I think of Hold-Your-Nose-Billy.

Maybe because I loved The Whipping Boy so much when I was little, I especially like these Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis clips from the Colgate Comedy Hour. This is the perfect premise for a Martin and Lewis sketch - Prince Dean has all of the fun while whipping boy Jerry gets beat up. I especially love Jerry's mock praises and insults. I cracked up when he said to the guards (with metallic hats), "A plague on thee, a plague on thee, thou father of a nail file!"