A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take… — M.J. McGuire Copy Share Image
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.” — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.” — Carl White Copy Share Image
“Wisdom of the Ages: "The Pope and Congress" It looks as if confidence in the American voter to exorcise the demons in… — Matthew D. Heines Copy Share Image
“Give a man a beer, the remote and a La-Z-Boy and he’s a happy camper! All Things Caveman humor cartoon book will… — Laurie Foxx Copy Share Image
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“Calvin, yelling: Mom, can I set fire to my bed mattress? Calvin's Mom: No, Calvin. Calvin: Can I ride my tricycle on… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“More women would be feminists but we spotted the haircuts before we joined” — Daily Florence Copy Share Image
“Behind every humorist who delights in knifing hypocrites is a major self-critic.” — Wendy Aron Copy Share Image
I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm… — George Burns Copy Share Image
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“A comedian is better than a politician; at least there is no doubt.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. — George Burns Copy Share Image
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“The fool has said in his heart: pass me another Everlasting God-Stopper, please.” — M.J. McGuire Copy Share Image
“Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and… — Jeannine M. Luby Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a lady humorist. I just have boobs and parts that allow me to give birth to… — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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