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- noun Plural form of
humorist .
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Examples
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_ -- "Unlike a number of so-called humorists, Mr. Leacock is really funny, as these sketches prove."
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels Stephen Leacock 1906
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Of course, I also think that Bruce Sterling and Jack Vance are often really funny in a deadpan, ultra-dry way, and nobody would think of them as "humorists" either.
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So, you've got to destroy the jokes, replacing them with the sort of dank, bitter fury that alleged 'humorists' on the right peddle.
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So, you've got to destroy the jokes, replacing them with the sort of dank, bitter fury that alleged 'humorists' on the right peddle.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Then there are the late-night comics, as well as snarky "humorists" like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, who take pride in being irreverent and "outing" both people and subjects that others avoid.
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By the time I knew him he had long been acknowledged as one of America's great humorists, but he still had his insecurities.
Howard Kissel: Sweet Bye and Bye Howard Kissel 2011
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By the time I knew him he had long been acknowledged as one of America's great humorists, but he still had his insecurities.
Howard Kissel: Sweet Bye and Bye Howard Kissel 2011
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Sterne, a clergyman who was born in 1713 and who was one of the most celebrated humorists of his day, taunted his readers with the idea that the mystery of the marbled page would never be solved, but he did suggest that it stood as a "motly sic emblem of my work".
Celebrated marbled image in Tristram Shandy inspires fundraising auction 2011
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TINA FEY: Eight things cartoonists and other humorists can learn from Twain Prize winner's craft.
THE YEAR IN COMIC RIFFS: What most resonated with readers in 2010 Michael Cavna 2011
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By the time I knew him he had long been acknowledged as one of America's great humorists, but he still had his insecurities.
Howard Kissel: Sweet Bye and Bye Howard Kissel 2011
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