humorist
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Judith Viorst, 94, author and humorist, tackles how to age well in her latest book, offering lessons from her own life and fellow oldsters on making meaning in later life, even as much slips away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
Yet he acquired a reputation as a dandy, a clever humorist and an intellectual showman, distinctly apolitical and seemingly a man of no convictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that we are living in a time where people are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians are a joke.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025
In 1901 a fictional Chicago bartender named Mr. Dooley, the alter ego of the humorist Finley Peter Dunne, observed, “The Supreme Court follows the election returns.”
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2023
It was the cantankerous, curmudgeonly talk show humorist Jean Shepherd who entranced him.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
