humorist
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card, comedian, comic, droll, farceur, funnyman, gagger, gagman, gagster, jester, joker, jokester, wag, wit
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Rick Chandler Rick Chandler, a Peninsula sportswriter and inveterate humorist, died Aug. 10. — John Horgan, The Mercury News, "Horgan: San Mateo to observe its 125th birthday next month," 16 Aug. 2019 In addition to being a celebrated actor, Eisenberg is a playwright and a humorist whoâs written for the New Yorker and McSweeneyâs. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Jesse Eisenberg on the âaspirational and also absurdâ manliness in his new movie," 12 July 2019 As the humorists say, the definition of a lawyer is a person who puts two people into a fight and runs off with their clothes. — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, "In the Trump era, the lawyer jokes are on us," 31 May 2019 The humorist Finley Peter Dunne used it in 1893, when a character assesses two replicas of Irish villages at the Chicago Worldâs Fair. — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, "What âDebunkingâ Owes to a 1923 Novel and Buncombe County, N.C.," 4 Jan. 2019 But my favorite writer at that time was Flann OâBrien, the great Irish humorist. — New York Times, "Niall Ferguson: By the Book," 11 Jan. 2018 His illustrations, one-liners, and miniature line poems caught the attention of almost 600,000 followersâincluding humorists, comedians, and artists like Patton Oswalt, Will Arnett, and Mara Wilson. — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, "Jonny Sun Knows That Twitter Can Still Be The Internet's Good Place," 22 Oct. 2018 Ward, though little-known today, was a highly popular American humorist whose work influenced Mark Twain. — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, "Storytelling Champ Matthew Dicks At RJ Julia, Psychotherapist Talks Women's Friendships," 20 June 2018 The late humorist Art Buchwald won a breach of contract lawsuit after demonstrating to a judge's satisfaction that the original idea for the movie was his, not Murphy's. — Amber Ferguson, chicagotribune.com, "Before Wakanda, there was Zamunda: Eddie Murphy's 'Coming to America' turns 30," 29 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'humorist.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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