jokesmith

He approaches joke-telling with the care and thoughtful precision of a jokesmith, in the truest sense of the word: a gimlet-eyed professional calibrating and tuning each bit until it hums.

It dawned upon the proprietor that right here was a brilliant opportunity for a practical joke and at the same time put an end to Jim’s assertions that he could not be tricked by any practical jokesmith on either side of the Rockies.

The supply is not equal to the demand, and the jokesmith often has to set his wits to work when the stock of raw material is running low.

After graduation he hung around Broadway theaters, cadged a job with Jack Paar as a jokesmith, wrote for Johnny Carson and tried his own nightclub act as a stand-up comic.

Sigourney Thayer of Manhattan, spasmodic theatrical producer, Wartime aviator, Atlantic Monthly poet, socially prominent jokesmith, son of Rev. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.; to Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt of Manhattan, who last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan.