humourist

I take this to be part of the trade of anybody labelled a humourist and paid as such.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

I have no sympathy whatever with the idea that a humourist ought to be a lugubrious person with a face stamped with melancholy.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

_ -- It was, no doubt, by way of brightening an unutterably gloomy week that Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE, who has not hitherto been known as a humourist, invited the Government to intercede at

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 Various 1898

The lawyer who is a humourist is a man of ten thousand.

Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848

My uncle was known as a humourist; and prove that a man differs from others in one thing, and the world will believe that he differs from them in a thousand.

Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

My uncle was known as a humourist; and prove that a man differs from others in one thing, and the world will believe that he differs from them in a thousand.

Devereux — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Mastiffe Whelp, with other ruff-island-like curs fetcht from among the Antipodes, which bite and barke at the fantasticall humourist and abuses of the time.

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

Gally, who sets up Theophrastus as his model, apparently fails to realize that a "humourist" like Sir Roger verges on individuality.

A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) Henry Gally 1732

This year, Rien à Déclarer Nothing to Declare, directed by the humourist Dany Boon, has sold almost 8m tickets.

Cyrille Falisse on film in France 2011

The main thing I'd define myself as is as a humourist, and there's so many jokes to be made that haven't been made, because we haven't talked about this stuff, you know?

The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran 2011