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«A humorist is a man who feels bad but feels good about it»
«The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself»
«The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.»
«There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you»
«HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.»
«WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.»
«ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.»
«You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one»
«It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.»