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- S. J. Perelman, the humorist and author whose penchant for wordplay, spoofery and zaniness, indulged in essays, books, plays and movies, helped to shape American humor, died yesterday morning in his apartment at the Gramercy Park Hotel. He was 75 years old. Thecause of his death was not disclosed, but friends said he had died of natural causes.
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Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) was an American humorist and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for several other magazines, including Judge, as well as books, scripts, and screenplays.
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Aug 24, 2021 · S. J. Perelman’s reputation rose first in the nineteen-thirties, when he became famous as a comedy writer in New York and then in Hollywood, and rose still higher in the forties and...
Oct 29, 2021 · Although Sidney Joseph Perelman (1904–1979) co-wrote two Marx Brothers movies and won an Academy Award for his screenwriting on the 1956 Hollywood extravaganza Around the World in Eighty Days, he remains best known for the short comic pieces—Perelman called them feuilletons —he contributed to The New Yorker during its golden age of humor, in whi...
Oct 18, 1979 · S. J. Perelman, American humorist who continually touched both the joy and the persecution psychosis of the ordinary American, died yesterday in New York at the age of 75.
Oct 18, 1979 · S. J. Perelman, the humorist and author whose penchant for wordplay, spoofery and zaniness, indulged in essays, books, plays and movies, helped to shape American humor, died yesterday morning...
Mar 7, 2010 · Influenced not only by noted humorists Ring Lardner and Robert Benchley but also by the novelist James Joyce, Perelman easily surpassed his own definition by matching an erudite wit with...
Oct 29, 2021 · Meet S. J. Perelman, the “writer’s writer” who was audacious, original, and funny. October 29, 2021. Major works: “Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer” • “Frou-Frou, or the Future of Vertigo” • The Road to Miltown • The Beauty Part. Read a passage from “Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer” by S. J. Perelman.
