List of humorists

A humorist (American English) or humourist (British English) is an intellectual who uses humor in writing or public speaking.[1] Humorists are distinct from comedians, who are show business entertainers whose business is to make an audience laugh, though it is possible for some persons to occupy both roles in the course of their careers.

Despite the fact that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts annually bestows a Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (usually on comedians) since 1998, this award does not by itself qualify the recipient as a humorist. As of 2017 only two recipients, Steve Martin and Neil Simon, are known as humorists, being humorous playwrights.

List

Notable humorists include:

References

  1. Henry, Patrick (April 15, 2013). "Don't Call Me a Comedian". Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  2. "Franklin Funnies". PBS.org. Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  3. Eschner, Kat (17 January 2017). "Benjamin Franklin Was a Middle-Aged Widow Named Silence Dogood (And a Few Other Women)". Smithsonian Mag. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  4. Baumgartner, Jody C., ed. (2019). American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact on U.S. Policy and Culture. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. xvi. ISBN 9781440854866.
  5. Bennett, Troy R. (December 26, 2018). "How Down East storytelling shaped Maine's humor". Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine: Bangor Publishing Company. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  6. Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. pp. 93, 96. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
  7. Baumgartner, Jody C., ed. (2019). American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact on U.S. Policy and Culture. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. xvi. ISBN 9781440854866.
  8. "Obituary", Variety, February 1, 1956
  9. Whitman, Alden (August 29, 1971). "Bennett Cerf Dies; Publisher, Writer; Bennett Cerf, Publisher and Writer, Is Dead at 73". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
  10. Voorhees, Richard (1985). "P.G. Wodehouse". In Stayley, Thomas F. (ed.). Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists, 1890–1929: Traditionalists. Detroit: Gale. pp. 341–342. ISBN 978-0-8103-1712-3. [I]t is now abundantly clear that Wodehouse is one of the funniest and most productive men who ever wrote in English. He is far from being a mere jokesmith: he is an authentic craftsman, a wit and humorist of the first water, the inventor of a prose style which is a kind of comic poetry.
  11. "Terry Pratchett". Guardian Unlimited. September 24, 2014. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
  12. "Interview de Terry Pratchett (en Anglais) (Interview with Terry Pratchett (in English))". Nathalie Ruas, ActuSF. June 2002. Retrieved June 19, 2007.
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