Word: humoristic
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...Lawyer. It is almost ironical that Ervin's reputation as a humorist has obscured his standing as one of Capitol Hill's most learned students...
...ways, Shut Up, He Explained is a curious book. For a generation to which Lardner is largely a distant figure of the 1920s (he died in 1933), familiar chiefly through textbooks and a few anthologies, it does not do full justice to the lasting appeal of the great American humorist. Nor is it likely to satisfy the Lardner buff (there are still a great many), who likes to sample his Lardneriana over the wide range offered by a box of Mother's Day chocolates. When Lardner was good, he was very, very good; when he was bad, he could...
...Blood of the Lamb, by Peter De Vries. The humorist abandons gaiety, if not humor; in this bitter and wholly serious novel of a man's loss of faith, life is seen to be a cruel joke...
...Blood of the Lamb, by Peter De Vries. Humorist De Vries continues to deal with absurdity, but in this bitter novel of a man's progress from religious to secular faith, absurdity is of the existential kind: life is a joke, and a bad one at that...
...business to overthrow one institution or another; if he's only in the business to poke irreverent but gentle fun, to amuse without biting, to comment without caring then, in my terms, he may be a lampoonist or a parodist or a light humorist, but he's not a satirist. A humorist will hold up a mirror, look at its reflection chuckle warmly and say "Well it's silly but its not such a bad reflection after all"; a satirist will have a darker view. That's why the night satirists were mislabelled as sick comedians. They weren't sick...