A humorist is a person who writes or performs humorous material. The material written or performed by humorists tends to be more subtle and cerebral than the material created by stand-up comics and comedy writers. The intention is often to provoke wry smiles and amusement rather than outright belly laughs. This list contains only those humorists for whom there is a Wikipedia article.
Notable humorists include:
- İncili Çavuş
- Kajetan Abgarowicz
- Cecil Adams
- Scott Adams
- George Ade
- Moin Akhter
- 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.
- Tom Bodett
- Erma Bombeck
- Victor Borge
- Andy Borowitz
- Art Buchwald
- Christopher Buckley
- W. Bruce Cameron
- Nicolas Canteloup
- Al Capp
- George Carlin
- Jimmy Carr
- Lewis Carroll
- Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Al Clouston
- William Combe
- Alan Coren
- Will Cuppy
- Ivor Cutler
- Hugleikur Dagsson
- Bertha Damon
- Dick DeBartolo
- Raymond Devos
- Daniel Dickey
- Drew
- Gad Elmaleh
- Evan Esar
- John O'Farrell
- Max Ferguson
- Will Ferguson
- Scott Fivelson
- Michael Flanders
- Michael Frayn
- Ian Frazier
- Lewis Burke Frumkes
- Rémi Gaillard
- Neil Gaiman
- James Finn Garner
- Veronica Geng
- Michael Gerber
- Strickland Gillilan
- Janey Godley
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Lewis Grizzard
- Robert Grossman
- Jack Handey
- Chelsea Handler
- A.P. Herbert
- Don Herold
- Carl Hiaasen
- Bill Hicks
- Nasrettin Hoca
- John Hodgman
- Andy Offutt Irwin
- Donald Jack
- Roberta Beach Jacobson
- Jay Jason
- Douglas William Jerrold
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Dom Joly
- Chris Kanik
- George S. Kaufman
- Garrison Keillor
- Walt Kelly
- Doug Kenney
- Ronald Knox
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Christian Lander
- Ring Lardner
- Gary Lautens
- Stephen Leacock
- Fran Lebowitz
- Tom Lehrer
- Virginie Lemoine
- David Letterman
- Martin Lewis
- Lennie Lower
- Paul B. Lowney
- Bill Maher
- Merrill Markoe
- Don Marquis
- David Martin
- Demetri Martin
- Steve Martin
- Bruce McCall
- Stuart McLean
- Patrick F. McManus
- Michael Moore
- John Bingham Morton
- Ebrahim Nabavi
- Petroleum V. Nasby
- Ogden Nash
- Richard J. Needham
- Aziz Nesin
- Eric Nicol
- Jay Onrait
- Raffaele Palma
- Dorothy Parker
- S. J. Perelman
- Terry Pratchett
- Roger Price
- Bolesław Prus
- Joe Queenan
- David Rakoff
- Bob & Ray
- Paul Rhymer
- Bill Richardson
- Will Rogers
- Andy Rooney
- Anne Roumanoff
- P. J. O'Rourke
- Helen Rowland
- Paul Rudnick
- Tim Sample
- George Saunders
- David Sedaris
- Dr. Seuss
- Tom Sharpe
- Harry Shearer
- Jean Shepherd
- Herb Shriner
- Wil Shriner
- Mark Shulman
- Max Shulman
- H. Allen Smith
- Jill Sobule
- Ron Sparks
- Jon Stewart
- Ed Subitzky
- Herbert Tarr
- Catherine Tate
- Jeremy Taylor
- William Tenn
- Thomas Bangs Thorpe
- James Thurber
- John Kennedy Toole
- Calvin Trillin
- Mark Twain
- Aisha Tyler
- Brian Unger
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Sarah Vowell
- Artemus Ward
- Bill Watterson
- Ellis Weiner
- E.B. White
- Oscar Wilde
- Marshall P. Wilder
- Connie Willis
- Justin Wilson
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Frank Zappa
- Lorna Jean Moorhead
- Walt Disney
Famous quotes containing the words list of and/or list:
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)