Editing Humorist (section)

{{Short description|Intellectual who uses humor in writing or public speaking}}
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{{Use American English|date=March 2018}}
[[File:Mark Twain by AF Bradley.jpg|thumb|upright|Samuel Clemens, American humorist who wrote under the pen name [[Mark Twain]].]]

A '''humorist''' is an [[intellectual]] who uses [[humor]], or [[wit]], in [[writing]] or [[public speaking]]. A '''raconteur''' is one who tells [[anecdote]]s in a skillful and amusing way. 

[[Henri Bergson]] writes that a humorist's work grows from viewing the morals of society.<ref>{{cite book |last=[[Henri Bergson|Bergson]] |first=Henri |translator-last1=Brereton |translator-first1=Cloudesley |translator-last2=Rothwell |translator-first2=Fred |year=1900 |chapter=The Comic Element in Situations and the Comic Element in Words |title=Laughter: an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4352/4352-h/4352-h.htm |publisher=The Macmillan Company |publication-date=1912 |quote=A humorist is a moralist disguised as a scientist, something like an anatomist who practises dissection with the sole object of filling us with disgust; so that humour, in the restricted sense in which we are here regarding the word, is really a transposition from the moral to the scientific. |access-date=2021-01-17 |archive-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408170314/https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4352/4352-h/4352-h.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

The term [[comedian]] is generally applied to one who is performing to an audience for laughter.