List of humorists
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A humorist is a person who writes or performs humorous material. The material written and/or performed by humorists tends to be more subtle and cerebral than the material created by stand-up comedians and comedy writers. The intention is often to provoke wry smiles and amusement rather than outright belly laughs.
Notable humorists include:
- Cecil Adams (The Straight Dope)
- Scott Adams (Dilbert)
- George Ade
- Sholom Aleichem
- Henry Alford
- Baba Ali
- Woody Allen
- Michael "Atters" Attree
- Arthur "Bugs" Baer
- Russell Baker
- Linwood Barclay
- Dave Barry
- Robert Benchley
- Stefano Benni
- Ambrose Bierce
- Josh Billings
- Roy Blount, Jr.
- Bob & Ray
- Erma Bombeck
- Victor Borge
- Andy Borowitz
- Art Buchwald
- Christopher Buckley
- W. Bruce Cameron
- Nicolas Canteloup
- Al Capp (Li'l Abner)
- Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Al Clouston
- Stephen Colbert
- William Combe
- Alan Coren
- Will Cuppy
- Ivor Cutler
- Dick DeBartolo
- Raymond Devos
- Horace J. Digby
- Drew
- Gad Elmaleh
- Evan Esar
- Will Ferguson
- Scott Fivelson
- Ian Frazier
- Lewis Burke Frumkes
- Stephen Fry
- James Finn Garner
- Veronica Geng
- Michael Gerber
- Strickland Gillilan
- Janey Godley
- Barbara Florio Graham (Simon Teakettle)
- Lewis Grizzard
- Robert Grossman
- Jack Handey
- Chelsea Handler
- Don Herold
- John Hodgman
- Andy Offutt Irwin
- Roberta Beach Jacobson
- Dal Bahadur Gurung (Hum Jayega)
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Madeleine Begun Kane
- Chris Kanik
- George S. Kaufman
- Garrison Keillor
- Walt Kelly (Pogo)
- Doug Kenney
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Christian Lander
- Ring Lardner
- Hugh Laurie
- Gary Lautens
- Stephen Leacock
- Fran Lebowitz
- Harmon Leon
- Martin Lewis
- Lennie Lower
- Paul B. Lowney
- Merrill Markoe
- Don Marquis
- Bruce McCall
- Stuart McLean
- Patrick F. McManus
- H. L. Mencken
- John Bingham Morton (pen name: Beachcomber)
- Ebrahim Nabavi
- Petroleum V. Nasby
- Ogden Nash
- Richard J. Needham
- Aziz Nesin
- Eric Nicol
- P. J. O'Rourke
- Raffaele Palma
- Dorothy Parker
- S. J. Perelman
- Felice Prager
- Roger Price
- Bolesław Prus
- Joe Queenan
- David Rakoff
- Paul Rhymer
- Bill Richardson
- Will Rogers
- Anne Roumanoff
- Helen Rowland
- Paul Rudnick
- George Saunders
- David Sedaris
- Dr. Seuss
- Tom Sharpe
- Herb Shriner
- Wil Shriner
- Mark Shulman
- Max Shulman
- H. Allen Smith
- Ron Sparks
- William Tenn
- Nick Teplitz
- James Thurber
- Calvin Trillin
- Mark Twain
- Brian Unger The Unger Report
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Sarah Vowell
- Artemus Ward
- Ellis Weiner
- E.B. White
- Oscar Wilde
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Frank Zappa
