How to Use humorist in a Sentence

humorist

noun

• Mark Twain is perhaps America's most beloved humorist.
• For years, the humorist David Sedaris thought 62 would be a good age to die.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• The man is not a thrilling writer, or much of a humorist.
  — Justin Fox, New York Times, 18 May 2018
• British humorist Samuel Johnson wrote in the latter half of the 1700s.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
• The year 2017 promises to provide a rich vein for humorists.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2017
• Reviewing the book for The Times, the humorist Joe Queenan mocked the need for a toothpick tome that weighed in at more than 400 pages.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• Alan Zweibel, who was a part of that room, remembered a humorist with an edge.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• But my favorite writer at that time was Flann O’Brien, the great Irish humorist.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• The great humorist and Missourian Mark Twain was not a fan of taxes.
  — Patrick Ishmael, National Review, 28 Oct. 2022
• Tickets start at $57.75 to see why Sedaris is a bestselling humorist.
  — Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2022
• The humorist acknowledged the cuts on his Facebook page.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
• During the early days of the pandemic, humorist Fran Lebowitz made a shrewd point about Covid.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2022
• Thomas’ theater work and Elle column led to his recent Best of Philly award for best humorist.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• The prize, named to honor one of the world’s greatest humorists and author Mark Twain, was first awarded to Richard Pryor in 1998.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 26 Mar. 2024
• The most viral segment of the pilot was Ziwe’s sitdown with the humorist Fran Lebowitz.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• The humorist looks askance at being misidentified as all the wrong people.
  — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2020
• Martin Mull is a guitar player as well as such a great humorist.
  — Will Harris, VanityFair.com, 20 Mar. 2017
• If brilliance is the business plan, then the human humorist is secure.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• Will Rogers humorist Will Roberts will return to perform rope tricks and gun twirling all day throughout the fairgrounds.
  — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2017
• Certainly there were great humorist and satirists in Nazi Germany who failed to have any kind of impact, who failed to stop things.
  — Liza Donnelly, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• As the humorists say, the definition of a lawyer is a person who puts two people into a fight and runs off with their clothes.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 31 May 2019
• These days, those types of jokes are frowned upon, especially if the humorist isn’t a member of that group.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2021
• The popular humorist shares diary entries from the past two decades.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• The humorist chronicles the dumbing-down of U.S. politicians since 1966.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• The memoirists featured range from acclaimed poets to former slaves to humorists to rock stars.
  — Erin Donnelly, refinery29.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• George Hahn, an actor, writer and humorist who is gay, is also among those who have given up on X.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• One of the first people to draw the trickle-up/trickle-down distinction was the Democratic humorist Will Rogers.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 7 May 2021
• The conservative humorist who has found the most success with this technique is now the President of the United States.
  — Dan Brooks, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• The humorist maps out her mental and physical health journey.
  — New York Times, Star Tribune, 4 May 2021
• For most of the rest of his career, Keith was a sly humorist, a good-natured blowhard, a chronicler of what really happens below thick skin.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024