Word: funnyman
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...LOVE NEST AND OTHER STORIES - Ring W. Lardner - Scribner ($1.75). The tall morose funnyman from Niles, Mich., gives no indication of having been disconcerted by the jubilee chorus of critics that lately discovered he was a Great Mind. He just goes steadily along, more silent than ever: honing his wits on the leathernecks he meets; pruning his technique down finer and finer; laying out, in patterns that grow increasingly simple and subtle, the terrific banalities that constitute life for the average Americano-that ubiquitous creature that no one ever sees in his own shaving mirror. Husbands and wives...
...Wodehumorous idiom that created Jeeves, Psmith and their fellows is more agile than ever. It teeters, like a clown on stacked tables, atop absurdities whose sickening crash never comes. It rides the handlebars of logic backwards, reaching its points with convulsing speed and accuracy. It convinces you that Funnyman Wodehouse must be the world's most amusing conversationalist or its sourest nervous wreck...
Thus, in lugubrious tone, sang the late Bert Williams, Negro funnyman of the Ziegfeld Follies. Since his day, new sports have been added to the repertoire of the indoor athlete...
Harper Brothers has issued a set of Arthur Guiterman's light verse in brick-red jackets; and I am reminded pleasantly, on a drab morning, of this slight, serious-minded humorist of quick movements and real wit. I suspect that every really funnyman must take himself seriously. Mr. Guiterman, of course, has not confined his writing purely to gay verses. He has had serious moments not without power. To be sure Your Puppy's Valentine is not deep; but there is a poem called The Pioneer which has much grace and beauty...