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Sidney Joseph Perelman was an American humorist and screenwriter.

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S. J. Perelman

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.

S. J. Perelman was once described in these graphic terms:

Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of the Javanese or the Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence. His nose, broken in childhood by a self-inflicted blow with a hockey stick, has a prehensile tip, ever quick to smell out an insult; at the least suspicion of an affront, Perelman, who has the pride of a Spanish grandee, has been known to whip out his sword-cane and hide in the nearest closet. He has a good figure, if not a spectacular one; above the hips, a barrel chest and a barrel belly form a single plastic unit which bobbles uncertainly on a pair of skinny shanks. … A monstrous indolence, cheek by jowl with the kind of irascibility displayed by a Vermont postmaster while sorting the morning mail, is perhaps his chief characteristic.

That fanciful profile is from an introduction

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What Perelman offers us at his best is a picture of an entire civilization: mid-century America.Photograph from Getty

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 fifties, when he became the most admired of the New Yorker satirists. Perelman, whom everyone called Sid, then reached a kind of surprising apex of late fame in the nineteen-seventies, when a combination of the glamour associated with his thirties work as a scriptwriter for the Marx Brothers—not a word he would have used to describe the connection—got coupled with a larger rush of general reverence: Woody Allen’s early written work was as straight an homage to Perelman as one writer can give another. Those offering encomiums to his preëminence—as he might have said, the ill-turned cliché being one of his fascinations—included Dorothy Parker, Wilfrid Sheed, and many out beyond. The Australian critic Clive James recalls having lunch with the famously shy New Yorker editor William

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S. J. Perelman

American screenwriter (1904–1979)

S.J. Perelman

Born	Sidney Joseph Perelman (1904-02-01)February 1, 1904 New York City, U.S.
Died	October 17, 1979(1979-10-17) (aged 75) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Author, screenwriter
Alma mater	Brown University
Spouse	Laura West (m. 1929; died 1970)
Children	2

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. Perelman received an Academy Award for screenwriting in 1956.

Early life, family and education

Perelman was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the only son of Joseph and Sophie Perelman, who moved from one failed business to another until they found themselves raising chickens on a farm and running a dry goods store^[1] in Providence, Rhode Island.