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
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