Humorists Humorists Andrew J. McClurg is a professor of law at the Florida International University College of Law, specializing in torts, products liability, and privacy law. Although he has published a number of articles in his areas of practice, he is best known as a legal humorist, having written two legal humor books, and having written a legal humor column for more than four years in the American Bar Association Journal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrew McClurg"
Arthur Guiterman ( November 20, 1871 - January 11, 1943) was an American writer best known for his humorous poems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Guiterman"
Beachcomber was a nom de plume used by surrealist humorous columnists D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and John Bingham Morton as authors of a Daily Express column called "By the Way". Other authors who used the name were Major John William Arbuthnott MVO and William Hartston. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beachcomber"
Blake Schwendiman (born May 23, 1970) is the author of several PHP software development books and of the fiction and humor short story blook Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook . ...more on Wikipedia about "Blake Schwendiman"
Cecil Adams is a pseudonym identifying the unknown authors of The Straight Dope, a popular question and answer column published in The Chicago Reader since 1973, which has since been syndicated in thirty newspapers in the United States and Canada, and available online. Billed as the "World's Smartest Human Being", Adams responds to often unusual inquiries with humor (often directed against the questioner), and at times exhaustive research into obscure and arcane issues. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cecil Adams"
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American essayist and radio contributor. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Sedaris"
Edward J. Sperling (?, 1889 – July 22 1946), born Ezra Sperling, was a 20th century writer, humourist, and zionist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Sperling" http://www.shortopedia.com moments.
Flann O'Brien was the best known pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan (in Irish Brian Ó Nuallain) ( October 5, 1911 Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland - April 1, 1966 Dublin) who also published under the name Myles na gCopaleen. He was a twentieth century Irish satirist and humorist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Flann O'Brien"
Frank Lovece is an American journalist, author, comedy performer and comic-book writer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frank Lovece"
George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937 in New York City) is a Grammy winning Irish American stand-up comedian, actor, and author, noted especially for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology and religion along with many other taboo subjects. He is considered by many to be a successor to the late Lenny Bruce. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Carlin"
Géza Hofi (born July 2 1936 in Budapest; died April 10 2002 in Budapest) was a Hungarian actor and humorist. He is probably the most popular Hungarian parodist and was a strong in influence on Hungarian cabaret. ...more on Wikipedia about "Géza Hofi"
John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton, better known by his preferred abbreviation J. B. Morton ( June 7, 1893– May 10, 1979) was a British humourous writer noted for his authorship of a column called By the Way under the pen name Beachcomber in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975. ...more on Wikipedia about "J. B. Morton"
John R. Powers is an American novelist and playwright. ...more on Wikipedia about "John R. Powers"
Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist born Henry Wheeler Shaw ( 12 April, 1818 - 14 October, 1885). He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the 2nd half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not fared so well with later generations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Josh Billings"
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Les Inconnus is a French trio of humorists formed in 1986 following the departure of Seymour Brussel from the quartet named Les Quatres Quarts (means "The Four Quarters" or " The Pound Cake"). The members of this trio are Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Legitimus. They first achieved success on stage and then on television with La Télé des Inconnus, starting 1990, and finally in music and movies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Les Inconnus"
(List of humorists) A humorist is an author who specializes in short, humorous articles or essays. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of humorists"
Lore Christian Fitzgerald Sjöberg (originally Shoberg?) (born June 27, 1970) is a noted internet humorist. He first entered the public eye as one of the Brunching Shuttlecocks in 1997 along with David Neilsen (the Self-Made Critic) and a number of other, minor contributors. This online humor magazine picked up a considerable following during its run, but was, ultimately, terminated after a long period without updates in May 2003. The Brunching Shuttlecocks gained notoriety when Newsweek magazine mentioned the Alanis Morisette Lyric Generator . Sjöberg published a print version of his "Ratings" feature (in which he would give a short commentary and a letter grade to a handful of items in a category, such as " breakfast cereals" or " Scooby-Doo characters") as The Book of Ratings ( 2002, Three Rivers Press). ...more on Wikipedia about "Lore Sjöberg"
Michael Breckenridge (born April 23, 1969) is an American humorist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michael Breckenridge"
Frederic Ogden Nash ( August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy, funny, light verse. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ogden Nash"
Paul Francis Jennings ( June 20, 1918 - December 26, 1989) was a British humorist. He mostly wrote short articles; his most famous collection is "The Jenguin Pennings", published in 1963 by Penguin books (hence the Spoonerism of the title). ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Jennings (UK author)"
Pierre Desproges ( May 9, 1939 - April 18, 1988) was a French humorist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pierre Desproges" Tell your opinion about http://www.shortopedia.com
Reuben Lucius Goldberg ( July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was a cofounder and first president of the National Cartoonists Society. He is one of the most famous cartoonists in history. He earned lasting fame for his "Rube Goldberg machines"—devices that are exceedingly complex and perform very simple tasks in a very indirect and convoluted way. He was posthumously awarded the National Cartoonist Society Gold Key Award in 1980. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rube Goldberg"
Sidney Joseph Perelman, almost always known as S. J. Perelman ( February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979), was a United States humorist, author, and screenwriter. He is primarily known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker magazine. ...more on Wikipedia about "S. J. Perelman"
Scott Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scott Adams"
Stefano Benni (b. 1947) is an Italian satirical writer born in Bologna, Italy. His books have been translated into several foreign languages and scored a notable commercial success. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stefano Benni"
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