Classifying Quote by Johnny Carson

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

— Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

— Will Rogers

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's…

— Garrison Keillor

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.

— Art Buchwald

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

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

— Cullen Hightower

Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.

— Robert Orben

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

— Don Herold

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

— Peter De Vries

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

— Dick Gregory

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton