A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.
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.
Great humorists are great insulters.
one of the greatest humorists of the last half-century.
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.