humor
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The humor writer, whose new essay collection comes out this month, does not want to hear about your feelings: “Please don’t finish that sentence on me.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
“But our audience that’s watching the roast ... you get why they’re doing it, you get why the racial humor is on the table.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
They can take something really funny and just say, “I’m gonna add my stamp to it so when you see this type of humor, you know it was from me.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
And the person had enough humor and humility to submit the mistake to my scroll, making fun of themselves.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Vocabulary lists containing humor
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