Anthony Tony Palma Palmeri, popular barber and humorist in Pittston, a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, began telling jokes as he began losing hair in his twenties.
With his dynamic wit, Tony built up a repertoire as The Bald Barber, which mushroomed into a stand-up-comedian routine over a 40-year career.
With the humor of Robin Williams and the gentleness of Bing Crosby, there was no frightened child whom Tony could not charm into a barber chair, and no sad person he could not make laugh.
Nurses, doctors, and townsfolk agreed, He's better than a medicine.
In Tales from the Barber Shop , his daughter, Sister Josephine Palmeri, a teaching nun in Morristown, NJ, shares Tony's 40 years of stories, along with inspirational gems from the life of her late Dad, a heartwarming story of down-to-earth holiness and humor.
Trafford Publishing Tales from the barber shop: 100 jokes & stories of tony palmeri, barber & joy-giver, paperback/sister jo palmeri mpf
