humorist

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Judith Viorst, 94, author and humorist, tackles how to age well in her latest book, offering lessons from her own life and fellow oldsters on making meaning in later life, even as much slips away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that we are living in a time where people are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians are a joke.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025

“When I was a teenager, every girl in the entire Western world wore a poodle skirt,” the humorist Erma Bombeck wrote in a 1984 column.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2024

In 1901 a fictional Chicago bartender named Mr. Dooley, the alter ego of the humorist Finley Peter Dunne, observed, “The Supreme Court follows the election returns.”

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2023

When the humorist James Thurber was writing for New Yorker editor Harold Ross in the 1930s and 1940s, the two men often had very strong words about commas.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author