humourist
Professional funny person
A humourist is someone who creates humorous content—a comedian, comic writer, or witty essayist.
The term often suggests a gentler, more literary style of humor than stand-up comedy: Mark Twain was America's greatest humourist.
This British spelling appears as humorist in American English.
Professional humor performer
- stand-upSolo comedic performance
- entertainerOne who amuses others
- comicFunny performer or publication
- impressionistPerformer copying famous voices
monologist · after-dinner speaker · compere · roast · timing · punchline · deadpan · delivery
One who mocks through wit
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- witClever, inventive humor
- columnistRecurring newspaper feature writer
- Dorothy ParkerRazor-tongued New Yorker
Mark Twain · Oscar Wilde · P.G. Wodehouse · James Thurber · Ogden Nash · parodist · wordsmith · epigrammatist
Cheerfully optimistic temperament
- cholericEasily provoked to anger
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- phlegmaticUnemotionally calm, slow-reacting
- dispositionInherent character or arrangement
constitution · medieval · bodily fluids · personality · Hippocrates · Galen · blood · bile
comedian
Professional humor performer
- stand-upSolo comedic performance
- entertainerOne who amuses others
- comicFunny performer or publication
impressionist · monologist · after-dinner speaker · compere · roast · timing · punchline · deadpan · delivery · audience
satirist
One who mocks through wit
Mark Twain · Oscar Wilde · P.G. Wodehouse · Dorothy Parker · James Thurber · Ogden Nash · parodist · wordsmith · epigrammatist · raconteur
sanguine
Cheerfully optimistic temperament
- cholericEasily provoked to anger
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- phlegmaticUnemotionally calm, slow-reacting
disposition · constitution · medieval · bodily fluids · personality · Hippocrates · Galen · blood · bile · phlegm
humouristtragedian
Actor of serious drama
tragic poet · elegist · doomsayer · prophet of doom · moralist
humouristtragedian
Actor of serious drama
killjoy · tearjerker · wet blanket · sourpuss · misery
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