DEVIL DICTIONARY
humorist
n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar
austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with
his best wishes, cat-quick.
Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind
See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined --
Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray,
His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day.
He thinks, admitted to an equal sty,
A graceful hog would bear his company.
Alexander Poke
THESAURUS
humorist
advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, banana, banterer, belletrist, bibliographer, buffoon, burlesquer, card, caricaturist, clown, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, comedian, comic, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, cutup, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, droll, encyclopedist, epigrammatist, essayist, free lance, free-lance writer, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, ghost, ghostwriter, inditer, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, kidder, lampooner, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, madcap, magazine writer, man of letters, merry-andrew, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, parodist, penwoman, poet, prankster, prose writer, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, reviewer, satirist, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, word painter, wordsmith, writer, zany
ROGET THESAURUS
humorist
Humorist
N
humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster, bel esprit, life of the party, wit-snapper, wit-cracker, wit- worm, joker, jester, Joe Miller, drole de corps, gaillard, spark, bon diable, practical joker, buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown, wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley, motley fool, pantaloon, gypsy, jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy, wiseacre, wise guy, smartass, fool, zany, madcap, pickle-herring, witling, caricaturist, grimacier, persifleur.