On S.J. Perelman
Today is the birthday of the great American humorist S.J. Perelman (Simeon “Sidney” Joseph Perelman, 1904-1979). Because of his association with The New Yorker he is often assumed to have been a member of the Algonquin Roundtable; because he wrote for the Marx Brothers he is often thought to have been an intime of Groucho. Both assumptions […]