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| Author | : Sidney Joseph Perelman |
| Publisher | : New York : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 676 |
| Release | : 1958 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : |
S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) was probably the funniest American writer of the 20th century. He was a master of word-play and a cultural parodist without equal. Marshall Brickman wrote in eulogy to Perelman: "His genius defies criticism. He was the maestro, nonpareil, incomparable, beyond interpretation. As he himself once said, 'Before they made Perelman, they broke the mold.'"
| Author | : S. J. Perelman |
| Publisher | : Library of America |
| Total Pages | : 605 |
| Release | : 2021-08-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1598536931 |
Adam Gopnik presents the very best of S. J. Perelman, America's zaniest humorist. S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers and Monkey Business and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on Around the World in Eighty Days, but he remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for The New Yorker during its golden age of humor. In these short comic pieces--Perelman called them feuilletons--his penchant for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, self-deprecation, and plain zaniness are on full display. The New York Times once noted his ability in these magazine pieces "to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar." Author and New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including Perelman's parodies of books and films, his biting social satire, autobiographical pieces, and a selection from the celebrated Cloudland Revisited series, in which Perelman reminisces nostalgically about books and movies encountered in youth before describing in his inimitable hyperkinetic style the rude shock of revisiting them as an adult. Also included in this volume are the acclaimed play The Beauty Part (1963) from Perelman's Broadway career; profiles of the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Parker, and his brother-in-law Nathanael West; and a selection of letters written to correspondents such as Groucho Marx and Paul Theroux.
| Author | : Sidney Joseph Perelman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2006-06-01 |
| Genre | : American wit and humor |
| ISBN | : 9781853755941 |
Entering the warped world of SJ Perelman - the Marx brothers' greatest scriptwriter, amongst other things - is a unique comic experience. A satirist and parodist, his celebrated sketches lampoon the screaming absurdities of modern life and bring succour to that most persecuted minority of all: the embattled sane. The undoubted star of these sketches is Perelman's own put-upon fictional persona: all he craves is a little peace and quiet, yet he is continually pushed closer to the edge by those sent to try him. Written mainly for the New Yorker magazine, the sketches in this volume are a brand new selection of some of his finest pieces, many of which have been unavailable for decades. This collection covers every decade in which he wrote from the '30s to the '70s. His subversive wit seems as fresh today as it did when it first appeared and to many he is quite simply the most original and funniest humorist of the twentieth century.
| Author | : Tom Teicholz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012-04-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781617033353 |
Interviews with the author of Baby, It's Cold Outside; Chicken Inspector #23; and Crazy Like a Fox
| Author | : S.j. Perelman |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 1984-08-21 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 9780306802294 |
| Author | : S. J. Perelman |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2017-08-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781974296231 |
In any consideration of S. J. Perelman-and S. J. Perelman certainly deserves the same consideration one accords old ladies on street cars, babies traveling unescorted on planes, and the feeble-minded generally-it is important to remember the crushing, the well-nigh intolerable odds under which the man has struggled to produce what may well be, in the verdict of history, the most picayune prose ever produced in America. Denied every advantage, beset and plagued by ill fortune and a disposition so crabbed as to make Alexander Pope and Dr. Johnson seem sunny by contrast, he has nevertheless managed to belt out a series of books each less distinguished than its predecessor, each a milestone of bombast, conceit, pedantry, and strutting pomposity. In his pages proliferate all the weird grammatical flora tabulated by H. W. Fowler in his Modem English Usage-the Elegant Variation, the Facetious Zeugma, the Cast-iron Idiom, the Battered Ornament, the BowerVBird Phrase, the Sturdy Indefensible, the Side-Slip, and the Unequal Yokefellow. His work is a museum of mediocrity, a monument to the truly banal. What Flaubert did to the French bourgeois in Bouvard and Pecuchet, what Pizarro did to the Incas, what Jack Dempsey did to Paolino Uzcudun, S. J. Perelman has done to American belles-lettres.
| Author | : S. J. Perelman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 9781585741526 |
"The Last Laugh", as its name suggests, is the last of Perelman's 20 books and shows the humorist at his very best. Includes 17 pieces never before collected and the opening chapters of the author's uncompleted autobiography.
| Author | : Robert C. Benchley |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780226042183 |
Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence—on contemporaries such as E. B. White, James Thurber, and S. J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor—has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. The Benchley Roundup collects those pieces, selected by Benchley's son Nathaniel, "which seem to stand up best over the years"-a compendium of the most endearing and enduring work from one of America's funniest and most penetrating wits. "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous." —Robert Benchley
| Author | : Sidney Joseph Perelman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1947 |
| Genre | : American wit and humor |
| ISBN | : 9781580800167 |
Perelman's hilarious testament to the joys of owning country property, as he transforms from city lazybones to country squire at the family farm, Rising Gorge. Line drawings.
| Author | : David Remnick |
| Publisher | : Modern Library |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2002-10-15 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0375761276 |
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., Steve Martin, and Christopher Buckley. Fierce Pajamas is a treasury of laughter from the magazine W. H. Auden called the “best comic magazine in existence.”
