A humorist is an intellectual who uses humor, or wit, in writing or public speaking. A raconteur is one who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way...
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The Humorist (Russian: Юморист, Jumorist) is a 2019 drama film directed and written by Mikhail Idov. The film is set in the mid-80s. In the center of the...
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Modern Humorist was a United States–based humor webzine founded in 2000 by John Aboud and Michael Colton (who later became panelists on VH1's Best Week...
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A humorist (American English) or humourist (British English) is an intellectual who uses humor in writing or public speaking. Humorists are distinct from...
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Henry Lerner von Ost Jr.; March 31, 1915 – May 19, 1994) was an American humorist. He first became familiar to radio audiences in the 1930s and 1940s as...
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Leopoldo Fernández (Tres Patines) (redirect from Leopoldo Fernández (Cuban humorist))
Leopoldo Augusto Fernández Salgado (26 December 1904 – 11 November 1985) was a Cuban comedian, known as Jose Candelario Tres Patines or Pototo, maker and...
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Martin Neil Lewis (born 24 July 1952) is a US-based English humorist, writer, radio/TV host, producer, and marketing strategist. He is known for his participation...
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List of comedians from Quebec (redirect from List of humorists from Quebec)
This list also includes Acadian humorists and Franco-Canadian humorists who have mostly worked in Quebec. These humorists are marked with an asterisk (*)...
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Daniel Frederick Wallace (born 16 November 1976) is a British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television. His notable works...
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David Sedaris (category American humorists)
Sedaris (/sɪˈdɛərɪs/ sih-DAIR-iss; born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in...
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Humorist (1918–1921) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a leading two-year-old in 1920 and finished third in the 1921 2000 Guineas before winning...
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international disability advocate Hugh Gallagher (humorist) (aka Von Von Von), author and humorist Hughie Gallacher (1903–1957), Scottish footballer Hugh...
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humor as a literary genre. With the paperback, Friedman labeled as "black humorists" a variety of authors, such as J. P. Donleavy, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller...
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Roger Price (March 6, 1918 – October 31, 1990) was an American humorist, author and publisher, who created Droodles in the 1950s, followed by his collaborations...
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Andy Borowitz (redirect from Andy Borowitz (humorist))
Andy Borowitz (born January 4, 1958) is an American writer, comedian, satirist, and actor. Borowitz is a New York Times-bestselling author who won the...
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Parliament of Whores (redirect from Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire US Government)
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government is an international best-selling political humor book by P. J. O'Rourke...
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Michael Green (born 2 January 1927 in Leicester, England, died 25 February 2018) was a British journalist and author of humorous books. He is best known...
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Maurice Alberto "Mo" Rocca (born January 28, 1969) is an American humorist, journalist, and actor. He is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, the host...
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Ian Frazier (category American humorists)
and humorist. He wrote the 1989 non-fiction history Great Plains, 2010's non-fiction travelogue Travels in Siberia, and works as a writer and humorist for...
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Der Humorist was a journal published from 1837 to 1926 with the title "eine Zeitschrift für Scherz und Ernst, Kunst, Theater, Geselligkeit und Sitte" (a...
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Phil Callaway (redirect from Humorist Phil Callaway)
Phil Callaway (born July 26, 1961) is a Canadian humor writer and author. He has written more than two dozen books of family humor, children's literature...
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Andrew (Andy) L. Levy (born 1966) is an American commentator and humorist. Levy grew up in Long Island, New York. He attended Columbia University, where...
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Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that...
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Seth MacFarlane (category American humorists)
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (/məkˈfɑːrlɪn/; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is...
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Munkatsher Humorist (Yiddish: מונקאטשער הומאָריסט) was a Yiddish language satirical weekly, published in Munkács, Subcarpathian Rus', Czechoslovakia (present-day...
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José Mota (comedian) (redirect from José Mota (humorist))
José Sánchez Mota (born 30 June 1965) is a Spanish comedian, television director, satirist, singer and actor, notable for his television comedy shows....
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Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (category English humorists)
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (9 January 1811 – 30 August 1856) was an English humorist. He was born in London, the son of solicitor William à Beckett, and belonged...
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González González (born 1965 in Sutamarchán, Boyacá, Colombia) is a Colombian humorist, journalist and actor also known as Don Jediondo (a play on the word hediondo...
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James Thurber (category American humorists)
(December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short...
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