List of Humorists

A humorist is a person who writes or performs humorous material. The material written or performed by humorists tends to be more subtle and cerebral than the material created by stand-up comics and comedy writers. The intention is often to provoke wry smiles and amusement rather than outright belly laughs. This list contains only those humorists for whom there is a Wikipedia article.

Notable humorists include:

• İncili Çavuş
• Kajetan Abgarowicz
• Cecil Adams
• Scott Adams
• George Ade
• Moin Akhter
• Sholom Aleichem
• Henry Alford
• Baba Ali
• Woody Allen
• Michael "Atters" Attree
• Arthur "Bugs" Baer
• Russell Baker
• Linwood Barclay
• Dave Barry
• Robert Benchley
• Stefano Benni
• Ambrose Bierce
• Josh Billings
• Roy Blount, Jr.
• Tom Bodett
• Erma Bombeck
• Victor Borge
• Andy Borowitz
• Art Buchwald
• Christopher Buckley
• W. Bruce Cameron
• Nicolas Canteloup
• Al Capp
• George Carlin
• Jimmy Carr
• Lewis Carroll
• Guy Wetmore Carryl
• Al Clouston
• William Combe
• Alan Coren
• Will Cuppy
• Ivor Cutler
• Hugleikur Dagsson
• Bertha Damon
• Dick DeBartolo
• Raymond Devos
• Daniel Dickey
• Drew
• Gad Elmaleh
• Evan Esar
• John O'Farrell
• Max Ferguson
• Will Ferguson
• Scott Fivelson
• Michael Flanders
• Michael Frayn
• Ian Frazier
• Lewis Burke Frumkes
• Rémi Gaillard
• Neil Gaiman
• James Finn Garner
• Veronica Geng
• Michael Gerber
• Strickland Gillilan
• Janey Godley
• Jonathan Goldstein
• Lewis Grizzard
• Robert Grossman
• Jack Handey
• Chelsea Handler
• A.P. Herbert
• Don Herold
• Carl Hiaasen
• Bill Hicks
• Nasrettin Hoca
• John Hodgman
• Andy Offutt Irwin
• Donald Jack
• Roberta Beach Jacobson
• Jay Jason
• Douglas William Jerrold
• Jerome K. Jerome
• Dom Joly
• Chris Kanik
• George S. Kaufman
• Garrison Keillor
• Walt Kelly
• Doug Kenney
• Ronald Knox
• Harvey Kurtzman
• Christian Lander
• Ring Lardner
• Gary Lautens
• Stephen Leacock
• Fran Lebowitz
• Tom Lehrer
• Virginie Lemoine
• David Letterman
• Martin Lewis
• Lennie Lower
• Paul B. Lowney
• Bill Maher
• Merrill Markoe
• Don Marquis
• David Martin
• Demetri Martin
• Steve Martin
• Bruce McCall
• Stuart McLean
• Patrick F. McManus
• Michael Moore
• John Bingham Morton
• Ebrahim Nabavi
• Petroleum V. Nasby
• Ogden Nash
• Richard J. Needham
• Aziz Nesin
• Eric Nicol
• Jay Onrait
• Raffaele Palma
• Dorothy Parker
• S. J. Perelman
• Terry Pratchett
• Roger Price
• Bolesław Prus
• Joe Queenan
• David Rakoff
• Bob & Ray
• Paul Rhymer
• Bill Richardson
• Will Rogers
• Andy Rooney
• Anne Roumanoff
• P. J. O'Rourke
• Helen Rowland
• Paul Rudnick
• Tim Sample
• George Saunders
• David Sedaris
• Dr. Seuss
• Tom Sharpe
• Harry Shearer
• Jean Shepherd
• Herb Shriner
• Wil Shriner
• Mark Shulman
• Max Shulman
• H. Allen Smith
• Jill Sobule
• Ron Sparks
• Jon Stewart
• Ed Subitzky
• Herbert Tarr
• Catherine Tate
• Jeremy Taylor
• William Tenn
• Thomas Bangs Thorpe
• James Thurber
• John Kennedy Toole
• Calvin Trillin
• Mark Twain
• Aisha Tyler
• Brian Unger
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Sarah Vowell
• Artemus Ward
• Bill Watterson
• Ellis Weiner
• E.B. White
• Oscar Wilde
• Marshall P. Wilder
• Connie Willis
• Justin Wilson
• P. G. Wodehouse
• Frank Zappa
• Lorna Jean Moorhead
• Walt Disney