Volume 28, Number 17 · November 5, 1981
No Need for Names
By Wilfrid Sheed
The Last Laugh
by S.J. Perelman
Simon and Schuster, 192 pp., $11.95
Cyril Connolly once observed that even P.G. Wodehouse might have profited from being told which of his books was better than which. But nobody wants to review a humorist. Such notices as the funnymen get are generally either facetious, because the reviewer dreads seeming pompous, or vaguely eulogistic. 'Another whatnot by the inimitable…need one say more?'
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