SOURCE: "'You Mustn't Say Things Like That'," in The Nation, Vol. 187, No. 18, November 29, 1958, pp. 410-12.
In the following excerpted review, Gibson lauds Perelman as a humorist skilled in the use of language, but not as a great writer.
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