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

“When I was a teenager, every girl in the entire Western world wore a poodle skirt,” the humorist Erma Bombeck wrote in a 1984 column.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2024

In a recent essay at the New York Times, author and humorist David Kamp engaged in some critical self-reflection about the wisdom of making fun of Donald Trump in a time of such peril.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024

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 had to do with the death of Josh Billings, the great humorist.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck