Some days I can fix things others can't. I can find ways…

“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.”

— Paul H Tubb

“Hatshepsut has been called the first great woman of history. She simply appointed herself King of Egypt and that was all there was to…

— Will Cuppy

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I…

— Nick Offerman

I've always been leery of comical artists because I think oftentimes they're hiding the fact that they're not that talented. For example, with Martin…

— Diego Cortez

“Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.”

— David Sedaris

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Sahl was never a great comic. His nervous, jabbing, keep-them-off-balance delivery was the strategy of a man who was not comfortable in front of…

— Albert Goldman

I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

— David Sedaris

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

— David Sedaris

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist"…

— Dave Barry

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

— Peter De Vries

“I hate “fun runs” because, seriously, fuck you.”

— Allison Robicelli

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

— Will Cuppy

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

— Johnny Carson

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best…

— Ambrose Bierce