My Wonderful World of Slapstick Author:Charles Samuels, Buster Keaton Keaton's autobiography, My Wonderful World of Slapstick, is our only record of the quirky mind behind the stoic face. Filled with stories about his childhood in vaudeville where, billed as "The Human Mop," he was slammed on the floor, hurled into wings, banged on the bass drum-by his father!