SOURCE: "The First Laugh," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXI, No. 17, November 8, 1984, pp. 37-8.
In the following review, Crowther surveys the stories of That Old Gang O' Mine: The Early and Essential S. J. Perelman.
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