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Humorists Quotes

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

Example, Classic, Humorists

"I Am Your Father: What Every Heart Needs to Know". Book by Mark Stibbe, 2010.

Great humorists are great insulters.

Humorists

Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.192, Macmillan

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

Garrison Keillor

Audience, Humorists

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

Heart, Courses, Humorists

"Twentieth Century Authors". Book by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, 1942.

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

Mordecai Richler

Jehovah, Ifs, Humorists

Mordecai Richler (1983). “The Best of modern humor”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

Comic, Humorists

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Reporters, Humorists

"David Sedaris: 'If you tell a funny story at the dinner table in front of 10 people, nine will laugh, and one will say: that's not true. I've always hated that person'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. Jun 21, 2009.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Garrison Keillor

Surprise, Humorists

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

Notes, Note Taking, Humorists

"A Conversation With Colin Powell". Interview with P. J. O'Rourke, www.theatlantic.com. September 2004.

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