The British humorist and musician Neil Innes died on Sunday.
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You are not just a humorist, you are a (funny) humanist.
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Merrill Markoe is an Emmy award-winning humorist, author, and sometime comedian.
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He was an art snob and a humorist till the end, really.
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"I am not a humorist," McKenney once insisted, according to her obituary.
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The man is not a thrilling writer, or much of a humorist.
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Olsen, along with pop culture humorist Charles Phoenix, went along for the ride.
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And Roth is a comedian, really, rather than a humorist or a satirist.
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But it is the first by Patricia Lockwood, the talented poet and humorist.
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"If you scratch the surface, every humorist is a tragedian," Justice Bransten said.
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It turns out that the most effective kind of diplomatic envoy is the humorist.
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The prize was named for a playwright, poet, novelist, cartoonist, and general-purpose humorist.
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Humorist Tom Lehrer declared satire dead when Henry Kissinger got the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Half my articles around race are completely humorist in nature because racism is absurdist.
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"I love you, it's not you, it's the socio-economic situation," adds the humorist.
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But my favorite writer at that time was Flann O'Brien, the great Irish humorist.
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Once revealed, Onion property Clickhole was quick to lampoon the improbable poaching of humorist talent.
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Carrie Fisher built a remarkable career as a writer, humorist, activist, and Hollywood script doctor.
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The designer is a noted humorist, but what exactly was he trying to pull here?
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Fox News commentator and humorist Andy Levy commented on Obama's political future following the speech.
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There is also a welcome whisper of misanthropy, indispensable equipment for the nonconforming serious humorist.
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He is, in this adroit translation from the French by Steven Rendall, a gentle humorist.
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She said she was inspired by the political humorist Art Buchwald of The Washington Post.
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It's something humorist and "Dilbert" comic strip creator Scott Adams calls the "psychic psychiatrist" illusion.
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Noted humorist Chris Paul got in on the act as well, giving Pierce CPR chest compressions.
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Although comic artists tend to specialize in specific genres, Ms. Severin was also a skilled humorist.
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But the star was so much more than Hollywood's beloved humorist – he was also a devoted father.
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You've launched this Latino humorist website that's called Más Mejor, what can you tell me about that?
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Born and raised in Georgia, Lewis was a beloved columnist and humorist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Rex is a talented humorist and Robinson is one of the best children's book illustrators working today.
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This time the comedian John Fugelsang and the writer and humorist John Hodgman will join the discussion.
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As a performer and humorist, she's been featured in Cosmopolitan, Mic, and RuPaul's "What's the Tee" Podcast.
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"I keep fixating on his wedding ring," the film critic and humorist Eric D. Snider wrote on Twitter.
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The Library of Congress acquired the archive of the Pulitzer Prize-winning political humorist and commentator Art Buchwald.
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I'm a humorist, or at least I'm shelved that way, so this question is too big for me.
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While Mr. del Río was a militant humorist (and a vegetarian), he was also considered a public intellectual.
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The humorist reunited with Cupp by signing on as a producer and panelist on "Unfiltered" over the summer.
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One reader has suggested the humorist Dawn Powell, and we regret we haven't found an acrostic-worthy nugget (yet!).
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For book lovers, we spoke with David Sedaris, the humorist who just released a compendium of his diary entries.
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The humorist and author created the folksy "Prairie Home" variety show and hosted it for more than four decades.
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The humorist tweeted out a joke yesterday that purported to show an excerpt from the new book about President Trump.
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As a political humorist, the Chinatown segment was intended to be a light piece, as all Watters World segments are.
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Sure, he's a "famous comedian" on a "television show," but I'm a self-described "humorist" with almost 50,000 Twitter followers.
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CHATHAM "Red Hot Patriot," staged reading by Nancy Rothman of a play based on the columnist and humorist Molly Ivins.
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Given my disparate professional pursuits (actor, humorist, woodworker), I don't get to read nearly as much as I would prefer.
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Nabokov is particularly good at capturing the humorist in Gogol, a writer often misinterpreted as a kind of Russian Dickens.
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Stuart McLean, a Canadian journalist who found fame on the radio as a gentle and optimistic humorist, died on Feb.
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"What shall I do when laughing is a kind of illness for me?" the great Yiddish humorist Sholom Aleichem asked.
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"Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere," wrote humorist Erma Bombeck.
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Ms. Rosenthal was an established humorist and writer before Mr. Green became a star in the world of young-adult literature.
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" In the Washington Post, humorist Dave Barry provided an acid-laced year in review: "Can we say anything good about 2019?
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That term was coined by the 1920s humorist Will Rogers to skewer President Herbert Hoover's policies meant to save the banks.
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I began by suggesting that Shields is an ironist or a humorist or both, but there's something more going on here.
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The humorist tweeted out a joke back in January that purported to show an excerpt from the new book about President Trump.
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Andy Borowitz, the humorist known for his work in The New Yorker, will join the hosts to add some historically informed satire.
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"He can sleep with whoever he wants, Yann Moix, who cares?" the 20-something humorist Agnès Hurstel said on France Inter radio.
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In addition to being a celebrated actor, Eisenberg is a playwright and a humorist who's written for the New Yorker and McSweeney's.
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Specifically, author and humorist David Sedaris, who moved to West Sussex, developed a Fitbit habit, and started walking for 9 hours a day.
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Film Club In "Electoral College 101" the political humorist Mo Rocca consults a third-grade class on the fairness of the Electoral College.
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Black Mirror, Season Five — TBD (Netflix) Charlie Brooker, the British humorist turned critically acclaimed writer, is a wizard in the land of dystopian storylines.
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Our favorite of the bunch, The Humorist, includes two iconic, full-sized Aesop products that will transform your ordinary bathroom routine into a ritual.
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He was Dracula's valet in the 1979 movie spoof "Love at First Bite" and frequently narrated audio books, including several by humorist Dave Barry.
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"When I cross the river into Vermont, I can see the difference and feel the difference," said Rebecca Rule, a New Hampshire humorist and storyteller.
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After all, the gleefully transgressive humorist, who regularly launches little satirical missiles in The New Yorker, was about to publish his second young-adult novel.
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In one of the most notorious cases involving Hollywood accounting, humorist Art Buchwald sued Paramount Pictures over the 1988 Eddie Murphy hit Coming to America.
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Mr. Watters, who responded to his critics on Twitter on Wednesday, said he considered himself "a political humorist" and regretted that he had upset people.
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Within an hour, I was retweeted by writer Celeste Ng, activist Bree Newsom, and humorist and podcast judge John Hodgman (a personal favorite — hi, John!).
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This isn't just more of the same from Baumbach, a talented humorist, but a nuanced and highly accomplished collaboration that ranks among his finest to date.
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Garrison Keillor, the humorist who hosted the popular radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than 30 years, has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio.
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David Sedaris, the best-selling author and humorist, is known for writing letters to his fans, his boyfriend and everyone he works with on book tours.
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" The humorist Andy Borowitz said it best some time ago when he wrote a New Yorker article titled "Trump Blasts Media for Reporting Things He Says.
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"The humorist as the neutral player can be super powerful if you are willing to make sure whenever hypocrisy happens, you are calling it out, " Winstead said.
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Thomas McArdle is humorist for the new app ElectionWarz, was Senior Writer for Investor's Business Daily, and was a White House speechwriter for President George W. Bush.
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In a new video, Billboard dance editor Matt Medved conducts a straight-faced interview with the humorist and his hype man, the New York DJ Maachew Bentley.
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Thomas McArdle is humorist for the new app ElectionWarz, was senior writer for Investor's Business Daily, and was a White House speechwriter for President George W. Bush.
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There's no better reflection of that idea than the words of Mark Twain — a man who made a living as a humorist and wrote stories about jumping frogs.
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Now 32, Hale lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the TV writer and humorist Simon Rich, and their 2-year-old daughter in an internet teetotaler's dream.
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Her house in the village of Sonning sits by what Jerome K. Jerome, a Victorian humorist, described as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river".
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And, in "political humorist" Jesse Watters' recent segment for Bill O'Reilly's hoary Fox News gabfest "The O'Reilly Factor," the sound of that refrain was paid off in full.
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The author and humorist Fran Lebowitz said she regretted saying the Saudis should do the same for President Donald Trump as they did to the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Aside from her film work, she was also popular as a writer and humorist and her memoir "The Princess Diarist" was released a few weeks before she died.
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This might not come across in the first few minutes of the film, a recording of a one-man show performed in Wilmington, Ohio by political humorist Moore.
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More than a humorist, more than a storyteller, he's a moralist , an independent and significant student of the struggle to tell right from wrong, good conduct from bad.
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"CNN Launches Manhunt After Lester Holt Vanishes From Debate," The New Yorker declared in a parody piece by the humorist Andy Borowitz, published just halfway into the debate.
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Over more than 40 years, she has been, sometimes all at once, a poet, essayist, novelist, humorist, naturalist, critic, theologian, collagist and full-throated singer of mystic incantations.
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Paper Chase The beloved British humorist — the creator of Wooster and Jeeves — was arrested by the Germans in 1940 and spent the remainder of the war in custody.
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From his earliest incarnation, when this folk-singing humorist was mislabeled a "new Dylan," critics called Mr. Wainwright a genius; New Dylan or not, that description that still applies.
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Our father, with all his cantankerousness, was a humorist, and Sati's idea was that during this time our father was considering the family grief and having a good laugh.
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Humorist-activist Dick Gregory was a man of many words whose fighting spirit helped transform conversations and action around race and justice in an often divided and discriminatory America.
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"Electoral College 101" In this episode of the Op-Docs series "Electoral Dysfunction," the political humorist Mo Rocca consults a third-grade class on the fairness of the Electoral College.
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Like Lewandowski himself, now one member of a growing CGI humorist community, thousands of floppy bodies swarm the streets, squares, seas, and skies of the land of the rising sun.
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On a recent episode of the humorist John Hodgman's podcast, "Judge John Hodgman," a woman asked if her husband should stop wearing his red promotional caps from a software company.
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Mr. Sun, an emotionally transparent Canadian who is also a humorist, artist and screenwriter, is working on a screenplay for "Paper Lanterns," a film for Fox Family and Chernin Entertainment.
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" In a 2000 homage to his vehicle's lack of swagger, NPR humorist Peter Sagal said: "A minivan is a vehicle that says to the world, 'Hey, I'm not in a hurry.
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The author and humorist Fran Lebowitz said Friday she immediately regretted calling for President Donald Trump to meet the same fate as journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of the Saudis.
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During the ceremony, Dave Barry, the humorist and a friend of the couple, is to lead the couple in the smashing of a glass and other Jewish traditions, and the Rev.
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Not unlike the political humorist Will Rogers, who appeared in three films for Ford, Fonda's homespun Lincoln uses reason and humor — as well as knowledge of Scripture — to make his case.
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When a young Harlem humorist on the uptown 3 train performed the "magic" act of making every white passenger disappear at Ninety-sixth Street, I felt tried and found guilty of whiteness.
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Contemporary far-right figures like the propagandist Alain Soral and Dieudonné, who calls himself a humorist, have followed in his footsteps, but none have had the long-range tenacity of Mr. Faurisson.
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This bioplay, "I'm Not a Comedian … I'm Lenny Bruce," which Mr. Marmo also wrote, tries to retrace the life and art of that prototypical shock humorist and de facto free-speech crusader.
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Jesse Eisenberg (who played Zuckerberg) is flat-out brilliant as an actor, author, and humorist for The New Yorker, so it was with pleasure I could obliquely tip my hat his way.
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"A dog is the only thing on Earth that loves you more than he loves himself," the Spanish police force wrote in their tweet alongside the video, quoting 19th-century humorist Josh Billings.
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Roz Chast, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, and Patricia Marx, a humorist and staff writer at that magazine, have been friends ever since Marx's mother forced them together in the late 1970s.
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Read: The humorist Dave Barry describes emulating his dog's grace in "Lessons From Lucy," which is new this week on our hardcover nonfiction and combined print and e-book nonfiction best-seller lists.
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Abnormal psychology may not reveal Ephron, a seasoned novelist, screenwriter, essayist and humorist, at her merciless best, but she excels at characters' unintended comedy, their emotional warfare and witty observations of travel and consumption.
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His father, Joseph, was a well-known speech and drama teacher at Brooklyn College whose students included the humorist and television host Sam Levenson, the actor Alfred Drake and the film director Paul Mazursky.
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Critic score: 88%Humorist Lindy West's memoir "Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman" is the inspiration behind the Hulu series of the same name, which is executive produced by Lorne Michaels and Elizabeth Banks.
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Among the "Showgasm" regulars in the XXL event are the absurdist stand-up comic Kate Berlant, the downtown character comedian Cole Escola, the humorist Isaac Oliver and the comedy dance act Cocoon Central Dance Team.
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BIG NIGHT An Academy Award-nominated actor's life is about to change on Oscar night in this new comedy by the playwright-essayist-humorist-satirist Paul Rudnick (the controversial "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told").
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During an interview in 1993, Topor is shown sipping hard alcohol and convivially smoking a cigar; he said that he considered himself to be a déconneur—a smart-ass or piss-taker—rather than a humorist.
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Since my work as a humorist and writer requires me to travel by airplane much more frequently than I would prefer, I find that my books provide more solace during turbulence than any other distraction might.
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Leo Rosten, the great lexicographer and humorist, pointed out that words like "boychik" (young boy), "boarderkeh" (female boarder) and "nextdoorekeh" (apartment-house neighbor) were concocted by immigrants tailoring their Yiddish to the English of their adopted land.
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Sara Wasdahl, age 17: "Everything's a Little Mad Here" Perceptive and cynical, filled with droll observations and wry humor, "Me Talk Pretty One Day" is a sharp and witty collection of essays from American humorist David Sedaris.
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An unlikely hero in his own right to the new nationalist movements, Faye spent years as a radio humorist and occasional porn actor before penning a series of books calling for a "reconquest" of Europe from Muslim immigrants.
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The iPad, which launched in 2010, met a broader stable of reviewers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, PC Mag, the Houston Chronicle, Boing Boing, The Root and Time magazine, whose piece was written by British humorist Stephen Fry.
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But many years later, when the woman discloses the relationship that underlies her interest in this callow youth, I found myself thinking of another humorist, Mark Twain, who observed that although fiction must be plausible, truth needn't be.
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He brought the Everly Brothers to the label and signed a young humorist named Bob Newhart, who had been working as an accountant in Chicago and moonlighting as a radio performer but had never performed for a live audience.
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Now a work zone, chairs and tables are piled up and covered in plastic around other tables that are still decorated with plaques for such famous regulars such as former President Richard M. Nixon and the humorist Robert Benchley.
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An "anarchic humorist," stern authoritarian, Tory-government polemicist, enemy of partisan politics, and lifelong bachelor whose closest relationships were with two women, he exhibited many personae, which Stubbs deftly contextualizes in the English and Irish history of the time.
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In 20133, Fran Lebowitz, the humorist and noted nemesis of Michael Bloomberg, who was then New York City's mayor, sneered that the billionaire businessman and philanthropist could not stand the thought of someone having a bigger job than his.
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As long-standing scholars of globalization and competitiveness, our response to that alleged demise was uttered most appropriately 2202 years ago by American writer and humorist Mark Twain, who exclaimed: "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated".
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Jacobson has an unmatched reputation in his homeland as a humorist, but not all of it translates for an American reader, since the jokes seem to depend more on extreme aggravation of tone than on close observation of life.
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Marshall Efron, an actor and humorist who was a core figure in two of the quirkiest television shows of the 22006s, "The Great American Dream Machine" and the children's program "Marshall Efron's Illustrated, Simplified and Painless Sunday School," died on Sept.
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The backlash was big enough that Watters even felt compelled to offer a sorry-if-you-were-offended apology on Twitter: As a political humorist, the Chinatown segment was intended to be a light piece, as all Watters World segments are.
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Now regarded as a popular symbol of a helpless creature made extinct by humans, the dodo first gained attention as a memorable character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), illustrated by the well-known humorist and political cartoonist, John Tenniel.
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But today, one of the links in the "News Reports" header also includes a satirical article of Trumps' ludicrous budget from Washington Post humorist Alexandra Petri titled "Trump's budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why."Oops!
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Setting aside that the first four words of Petri's Wikipedia entry are "is an American humorist," the second paragraph of her article reads: This budget will make America a lean, mean fighting machine with bulging, rippling muscles and not an ounce of fat.
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Author and humorist Sean Carter, who practiced law for 10 years, said the poem was a bit graphic and the humor may have been better used in a corporate security lawsuit, but the poem did not affect the legality of the decision.
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She speaks with great tenderness of the embellished wooden box made for her by the late humorist David Rakoff, a close friend, and seems pretty crazy about the framed ad for Aunt Jemima pancakes in Yiddish that hangs on the kitchen wall.
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And there's British humorist, writer, actor and Apple fan Stephen Fry (middle), who was — rather famously — one of the few people to review the iPad before it launched in 2010, in conjunction with a Steve Jobs profile he was writing for Time magazine.
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"Maybe Donald Trump is the kind of dry, deadpan humorist who does great material about how terrific dictators are - but if that's the case, he should wait until he retires as president to start breaking out that particular part of his act," Litt said.
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A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2018 He later worked as a humorist for a newspaper, the art director for a direct sales company, and a freelance artist, before being hired in 1979 by Clarín, which served as his base for decades.
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During the 1968 student protests at Columbia University, he and his fellow humorist Paul Krassner (who died in July) pretended to be students and said they had taken over the station; some listeners who didn't get the joke are said to have called the police.
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The compilation Mario Ruspoli: Five Short Films (on Saturday) groups some of Ruspoli's recurring interests: "The Whalers" shows whale hunters who practice their trade as it was done in Herman Melville's day, while "Chaval" and "Le Chavalanthrope" celebrate the illustrator and humorist known as Chaval.
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"We at the Alamo Drafthouse would like to officially apologize for our role in the end of mankind as we knew it, and the ascendant Gynocracy that followed," wrote humorist Bethy Squires (who to our knowledge isn't at all affiliated with the theater chain) in a Medium spoof.
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A skilled humorist as well as a tender yet trenchant observer of human behavior and the social forces that so often control it, Gaines has a particular gift for sustaining a tension between self-loathing and self-grandeur — his own as well as that of the people around him.
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And some odd jobs we love: CBS journalist and humorist Mo Rocca said he was a psychiatric hospital model ... and tweeted a picture of it (we're not sure if he's kidding, but it sure looks like him.) Actress Mira Sorvino was an ESL teacher in Beijing and then later a Chinese tutor.
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Just about everything that is good about "A Christmas Story" can be attributed to Jean Shepherd, the novelist and radio-television humorist who wrote the book "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash," from which the screenplay was adapted by him, by his wife, Leigh Brown, and by Bob Clark, the director.
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One semester short of graduation, Mr. George had gone to Paris on a break and was rooming with the writer and humorist Art Buchwald when both got coveted job offers: Mr. Buchwald with The International Herald Tribune and Mr. George with the Marshall Plan, the American effort to rebuild war-ravaged Europe.
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One of the most frequent causes of death listed for people my age, as well as some younger and many older folks, is "complications from a fall," the explanation given for the death last month at 93 of Russell Baker, the much-loved Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and columnist for The New York Times.
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Art critics, like Peter Schjeldahl in his 21983 New York Times article "Marisol: A Humorist in Three Dimensions," accused Marisol of narcissism as she regularly included her face and cast body parts in many of her works, such as "The Party" (21994–21975), "Dinner Date" (21960), "Women Leaning" (280–285), "Three Woman with Umbrella" (20163–22016), among many others.
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In response to widespread outrage over his "Watters' World" segment ambushing the people of Chinatown with offensive, racist questions, the Fox News correspondent issued a "That's humor, folks!" and "Sorry you were offended" set of tweets: As a political humorist, the Chinatown segment was intended to be a light piece, as all Watters World segments are.
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Director: Daniel Farrier, Dylan Reeve Distributor: Magnolia Pictures for theatrical distribution; HBO for TV In the fine tradition of twisty Sundance docs like Catfish and Exit Through the Gift Shop, this bizarre and absorbing film starts with a kooky idea — New Zealand humorist/journalist Farrier investigating an online video of an "endurance tickling" contest — and then takes multiple sharp turns.
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Dear Jane, Although I understand the type of warmly comic novel you're looking for, don't mistake P. G. Wodehouse as fringe: The master humorist edges out "The Goldfinch," by Donna Tartt, "All the Light We Cannot See," by Anthony Doerr, and "Stoner," by John Williams, to claim the top spot on the list of favorites sent to the Match Book inbox.
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" David Litt, a speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, told Reuters' Roberta Rampton after the "sit up at attention" comment: "Maybe Donald Trump is the kind of dry, deadpan humorist who does great material about how terrific dictators are - but if that's the case, he should wait until he retires as president to start breaking out that particular part of his act.
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I declined the slaw — the Southern humorist Lewis Grizzard once said that God sent North Carolinians Jesse Helms as punishment for the sin of putting slaw on their 'cue — and watched as a handful or two of meat was stuffed into the kind of pillowy bun that would spur a thousand Brooklyn-blog posts on the evils of white bread.
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Wordplay FRIDAY PUZZLE — I am nothing if not efficient, and now that the 75th birthday of The New York Times Crossword has been celebrated, the Atlantic has been crossed, the holidays have been holidayed and we wind down to New Year's, I have finally found the time to come down with what the humorist Dave Barry once called the Martian Death Flu.
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The place sprouted barroom tales: Ernest Hemingway broke a walking stick over John O'Hara's head, and the shattered shillelagh was hung from the ceiling; Marilyn Monroe received gruff service when she ordered a vodka screwdriver from an unimpressed waiter; the celebrated humorist James Thurber drew murals on the walls of the saloon to pay off his Depression-era bar tab.
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Whether you classify her as an investigative humorist or a funny reporter, Mary Roach is an author with a formula: She tackles a subject that, to many a layperson, is forbiddingly icky (to use the clinical term), conducts loads of research and interviews, and then relates her findings in a series of conversational, disarming dispatches that don't read like typical, stock-serious science writing.
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Among this year's shows are "The Majority Report With Sam Seder," a political talk show (the comedian Janeane Garofalo and the reporter Matt Taibbi will be featured guests); the variety show "Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show" (with the actor and comedian Mike Myers as a guest); the storytelling show "Hold On With Eugene Mirman" (featuring the comedians H. Jon Benjamin and David Cross); and Michael Ian Black's interview show "How to Be Amazing," with the humorist Andy Borowitz.
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