Word: humoristic
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...psychologically destroy my beloved Maryland Terrapins for years now," says Tyrangiel. "During the interview, I felt like I should be the one crying." Observes Beyer: "The thing that struck me as the most common element running through this group was a kind of fundamental humanity. Take our best humorist, David Sedaris. He sends up his family members in shocking ways, but still you can tell, reading him, that his loved ones are really loved...
DIED. JUSTIN WILSON, 87, Cajun chef and humorist for public television whose trademark expression was "I gar-on-tee"; in Baton Rouge, La. Bedecked in red suspenders, Wilson, a former safety engineer, studied his mom's cuisine as a boy, wrote five popular cookbooks and was host on such shows as Cookin' Cajun and Louisiana Cookin...
...word suggests cardigan sweaters," says David Sedaris. The word is humorist. He doesn't like it. It's not as bad as funnyman, but it's close. "The humor section," he whines into the phone, speaking long distance from Paris, where he has been living because he's a smoker and so are most Parisians, "is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons...
...have myself written a couple of memoirs (called "The Chief" and "Heart"). I admit there is something hilarious in my having done so, especially at a comparatively young age. One autobiography would be bad enough, but TWO? While working on the second, I ran into the humorist Christopher Buckley at a party. He asked, "Well, what are we up to now? 'The Hinge of Fate?' 'The Gathering Storm...
Public radio humorist Garrison Keillor delivered a witty, self-effacing oration at Phi Beta Kappa’s literary exercises yesterday, bringing folksy humor to the 211th annual ceremony honoring Harvard’s inductees into the country’s oldest undergraduate honors society...