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.
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.
Great humorists are great insulters.
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.
one of the greatest humorists of the last half-century.
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.
God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.
I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.