How to Use humorist in a Sentence

humorist

noun
  • Mark Twain is perhaps America's most beloved humorist.
  • His dad loved the humorist Robert Benchley and kept his books in the house.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Alan Zweibel, who was a part of that room, remembered a humorist with an edge.
    — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • For years, the humorist David Sedaris thought 62 would be a good age to die.
    — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 23 May 2018
  • 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
  • The humorist looks askance at being misidentified as all the wrong people.
    — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The popular humorist shares diary entries from the past two decades.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The popular humorist shares diary entries from the past two decades.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The humorist maps out her mental and physical health journey.
    — New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The humorist maps out her mental and physical health journey.
    — New York Times, Star Tribune, 4 May 2021
  • 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 great humorist and Missourian Mark Twain was not a fan of taxes.
    — Patrick Ishmael, National Review, 28 Oct. 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
  • There’s a good reason why David Sedaris is the most beloved humorist in America.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
  • 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
  • Thomas’ theater work and Elle column led to his recent Best of Philly award for best humorist.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • But my favorite writer at that time was Flann O’Brien, the great Irish humorist.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • British humorist Samuel Johnson wrote in the latter half of the 1700s.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
  • Southern humorist and actress Fannie Flagg narrates her own work with a touch of whimsy.
    — Audiofile Magazine august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The State Police magazine already has a crew of freelance humorists hard at work.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • During the early days of the pandemic, humorist Fran Lebowitz made a shrewd point about Covid.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The 79-year-old storyteller and humorist is getting chuckles on all the right beats from an audience of mostly gray heads.
    — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The most viral segment of the pilot was Ziwe’s sitdown with the humorist Fran Lebowitz.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Author and actor Dubac belongs to a rare breed of humorists who make comedy smart and tragedy funny, according to a news release.
    — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Author and actor Dubac belongs to a rare breed of humorists who make comedy smart and tragedy funny, according to a news release.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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