humourist

• “I take this to be part of the trade of anybody labelled a humourist and paid as such.”

  My Discovery of England

• “I have no sympathy whatever with the idea that a humourist ought to be a lugubrious person with a face stamped with melancholy.”

  My Discovery of England

• “_ -- It was, no doubt, by way of brightening an unutterably gloomy week that Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE, who has not hitherto been known as a humourist, invited the Government to intercede at”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920

• “The lawyer who is a humourist is a man of ten thousand.”

  Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

• “My uncle was known as a humourist; and prove that a man differs from others in one thing, and the world will believe that he differs from them in a thousand.”

  Devereux — Volume 03

• “Mastiffe Whelp, with other ruff-island-like curs fetcht from among the Antipodes, which bite and barke at the fantasticall humourist and abuses of the time.”

  Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

• “Gally, who sets up Theophrastus as his model, apparently fails to realize that a "humourist" like Sir Roger verges on individuality.”

  A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725)

• “This year, Rien à Déclarer Nothing to Declare, directed by the humourist Dany Boon, has sold almost 8m tickets.”

  The Guardian: Cyrille Falisse on film in France

• “The main thing I'd define myself as is as a humourist, and there's so many jokes to be made that haven't been made, because we haven't talked about this stuff, you know?”

  The Guardian: The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran

• “On Friday the online version of Al-Hayat newspaper and the prominent news website Sabq.org both reported straightforwardly humourist Andy Borowitz's column that began: In his latest effort to find common ground with Republicans in Congress, President Barack Obama said today that he was willing to agree that he is a Muslim.”

  The Washington Post: Weekly Joke Revue: "In Latest Compromise with GOP, Obama Agrees He is a Muslim"

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