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A 'humorist' is a person who writes or performs humorous material. The material written and/or performed by humorists tends to be more subtle and cerebral than the material created by stand-up comedians and comedy writers. The intention is often to provoke wry smiles and amusement rather than outright belly laughs.
Notable humorists include:

★ Cecil Adams (''The Straight Dope'')

★ Douglas Adams (''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series'')

★ Scott Adams (''Dilbert'')

★ George Ade

★ Sholom Aleichem

★ Woody Allen

★ Michael "Atters" Attree

★ Arthur "Bugs" Baer

★ Russell Baker

★ Linwood Barclay

★ Dave Barry

★ Rick Bayan

★ Robert Benchley

★ Stefano Benni

★ Ambrose Bierce

★ Josh Billings

★ Roy Blount, Jr.

★ Erma Bombeck

★ Art Buchwald

★ Christopher Buckley

★ Guy Wetmore Carryl

★ Al Clouston

★ William Combe

★ Will Cuppy

★ Ivor Cutler

★ Tha-D

★ Dick DeBartolo

★ Raymond Devos

★ Horace J. Digby

★ Gad Elmaleh

★ Evan Esar

★ Will Ferguson

★ Scott Fivelson

★ Ian Frazier

★ Stephen Fry

★ Mark Garrison

★ James Finn Garner

★ Veronica Geng

★ Strickland Gillilan

★ Janey Godley

★ Don Herold

★ Don Imus

★ Roberta Beach Jacobson

★ Jerome K. Jerome

★ George S. Kaufman

★ Garrison Keillor

★ Doug Kenney

★ Harvey Kurtzman

★ Hugh Laurie

★ Gary Lautens

★ Stephen Leacock

★ Fran Lebowitz

★ Martin Lewis

★ Lennie Lower

★ Paul B. Lowney

★ Maddox

★ Don Marquis

★ Bruce McCall

★ Stuart McLean

★ H. L. Mencken

★ John Bingham Morton (pen name: Beachcomber)

★ Ebrahim Nabavi

★ Petroleum V. Nasby

★ Ogden Nash

★ Richard J. Needham

★ Aziz Nesin

★ Eric Nicol

★ P. J. O'Rourke

★ Dorothy Parker

★ S. J. Perelman

★ Roger Price

★ Bolesław Prus

★ David Rakoff

★ Sean Reiley ''aka'' Seanbaby

★ Paul Rhymer

★ Bill Richardson

★ Will Rogers

★ Helen Rowland

★ David Sedaris

★ Dr Seuss

★ Richard A. Sherman ''aka'' Mr. Modem

★ Herb Shriner

★ Wil Shriner

★ Max Shulman

★ H. Allen Smith

★ Ron Sparks

★ Howard Stern

★ William Tenn

★ James Thurber

★ Calvin Trillin

★ Yosef Tunkel (pen name: ''Der tunkeler'')

★ Mark Twain

★ Brian Unger ''The Unger Report''

★ Orl Unho

★ Kurt Vonnegut

★ Artemus Ward

★ Ellis Weiner

★ E.B. White

★ P. G. Wodehouse

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★ Comedian