A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick. Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. Alexander Poke

One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll; especially, one who writes or tells jokes as a profession.

someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.

a comedian with a tweed jacket and a pipe

a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that

a man who feels bad but feels good about it

a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it

an author who specializes in short, humorous articles or essays

One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.