Humorist

This article is about a person who uses humor in writing or public speaking. For a person who believes in the theory of humors, see Humorism. For the racehorse, see Humorist (horse). For the magazine, see Der Humorist. For the film, see The Humorist.

Samuel Clemens, American humorist who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain.

A humorist is an intellectual who uses humor, or wit, in writing or public speaking. A raconteur is one who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.

Henri Bergson writes that a humorist's work grows from viewing the morals of society.[1]

The term comedian is generally applied to one who is performing to an audience for laughter.

  1. ^ Bergson, Henri (1900). "The Comic Element in Situations and the Comic Element in Words". Laughter: an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. Translated by Brereton, Cloudesley; Rothwell, Fred. The Macmillan Company (published 1912). Archived from the original on 2022-04-08. Retrieved 2021-01-17. A humorist is a moralist disguised as a scientist, something like an anatomist who practises dissection with the sole object of filling us with disgust; so that humour, in the restricted sense in which we are here regarding the word, is really a transposition from the moral to the scientific.