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I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
Great humorists are great insulters.
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
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.
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
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 think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.
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.
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.
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.