What's the difference between humorist and jokesmith?
Humorist
Definition:
(n.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.
(n.) One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
(n.) One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(2) He had to be content with the immense joy that he did give, apparently effortlessly; with being the most consistently funny raconteur of his time, recognised as a peer by virtually all other humorists, such as Frank Muir (obituary, January 3 1998), who called him "one of the best-loved people in the world".
(3) He lacks what Amis and most of the later English humorists have possessed - sentimentality.
(4) Although much of his work was comedy, like many professional humorists, Waterhouse hated people telling him jokes.
(5) Robert Charles Benchley (1889-1945), an American humorist, critic, and actor, was known to say that when the thought of exercise came upon him, he would lie down until the thought passed over.
(6) But - along with a few others, including Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock and perhaps the early Mel Brooks - he came as close to genius as any humorist in his time.
(7) An Apple spokesman says that the company’s guidelines now make explicit that that “professional political satirists and humorists are exempt from the ban on offensive or mean-spirited commentary”.
(8) Roth would probably agree with the American humorist Peter De Vries who observed, of American literary life, that "one dreams of the goddess Fame – and winds up with the bitch Publicity".
(9) For a humorist who came on the scene in the 1960s, Coren was surprisingly prudish.
(10) Despite a move to London in the 1970s, he remained an essentially northern humorist - or anyway, a Manchester United supporter.
(11) Charles Dickens is known as a novelist, humorist, humanist, and a social reformist.
(12) Bradbury was a prolific writer - as an academic critic, as a novelist and humorist, and for television, a medium which increasingly fascinated him.
(13) I am a professional humorist, and objectively the third most critically acclaimed British standup comedian of the 21st century.
(14) It is a therapeutic method, which allows in a rather humoristic way, without provoking lots of resistance, to contact the subpersonalities of a client.
(15) The German physicist and writer Lichtenberg (1742-1799) was well known during the nineteenth century as a humorist, thinker, and psychologist.
(16) There’s Amy Sedaris and her brother (celebrated prose humorist David) and, Amy and Greg Poehler, now running new US sitcom Welcome To Sweden together.
(17) Beaconsfield library was "the cannabis", "the coke" came when he discovered a nearby secondhand bookshop, "the right kind, it smelt of secondhand books", and devoured the Molesworth books, Sellar and Yeatman – all the best humorists.
(18) One of my favorite quotes is taken from a book title by humorist and author Lewis Grizzard: Shoot Low Boys--They're Riding Shetland Ponies.