Editing Humorist (section)

==Comedians who become humorists==
Sometimes a comedian will adopt a writing career and gain notability as a humorist. Some examples are:

[[Will Rogers]] (1879–1935) was a [[vaudeville]] comedian who started doing humorous political and social commentary, and became a famous newspaper columnist and radio personality during the [[Great Depression]]. He is an exception to the education rule, as he only completed a [[tenth grade#United States|tenth grade]] education.<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news| title =Adventure Marked Life of Humorist| work =[[The New York Times]]| date =August 17, 1935| url =https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1104.html| access-date =July 20, 2007| archive-date =October 15, 2009| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20091015051028/http://nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1104.html| url-status =live}}</ref>

[[Cal Stewart]] (1856–1919) was a vaudeville comedian who created the character Uncle Josh Weathersby and toured [[circus]]es and [[medicine show]]s. He befriended Twain and Rogers, and in 1898 became the first comedian to make [[sound recordings]], on [[Edison Records]].

[[Garry Moore]] (1915–1993), known as a television comedian who hosted several [[variety show|variety]] and [[game show]]s, after his 1977 retirement became a regular humor columnist for the newspaper ''[[The Island Packet]]'' of [[Northeast Harbor, Maine]], with a column titled "Mumble, Mumble". He later released a book of his columns under the same name in the early 1980s.

[[Victor Borge]] (1909–2000) was a Danish-American comedian known for bringing humor to [[classical music]]. He wrote three books, ''My Favorite Intermissions''<ref name="BorgeSherman1971">{{cite book
|last1=Borge
|first1=Victor
|last2=Sherman
|first2=Robert
|title=My favorite intermissions
|url=https://archive.org/details/myfavoriteinterm00borg
|url-access=registration
|access-date=3 October 2010
|date=August 1971
|publisher=Doubleday}}
</ref> and ''My Favorite Comedies in Music''<ref name="BorgeSherman1980">{{cite book
|last1=Borge
|first1=Victor
|last2=Sherman
|first2=Robert
|title=Victor Borge's My favorite comedies in music
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R7rBAAAACAAJ
|access-date=3 October 2010
|year=1980
|publisher=Dorset Press
|isbn=978-0-88029-807-0
|archive-date=16 October 2023
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016110250/https://books.google.com/books?id=R7rBAAAACAAJ
|url-status=live
}}</ref> (both with [[Robert Sherman (music critic)|Robert Sherman]]), and the autobiography ''Smilet er den korteste afstand'' ("The Smile is the Shortest Distance") with Niels-Jørgen Kaiser.<ref name="BorgeKaiser2001">{{cite book
|last1=Borge
|first1=Victor
|last2=Kaiser
|first2=Niels-Jørgen
|title=Smilet er den korteste afstand -: erindringer
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYlWAAAACAAJ
|access-date=3 October 2010
|year=2001
|publisher=Gyldendal
|language=da
|isbn=978-87-00-75182-8
|archive-date=16 October 2023
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016110248/https://books.google.com/books?id=RYlWAAAACAAJ
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

[[Peter Ustinov]] (1921–2004) was an English comic actor who wrote several humorous plays and film scripts.

[[Woody Allen]] (born 1935), known as a comedian and filmmaker, early in his career worked as a staff writer for humorist [[Herb Shriner]].<ref name="timemag">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,877848-2,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220114009/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C877848-2%2C00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 20, 2007 |title=Woody Allen: Rabbit Running |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=July 3, 1972 |access-date=June 8, 2007}}</ref> He also wrote short stories and cartoon captions for magazines such as ''[[The New Yorker]]''.

[[Steve Martin]] (born 1945), comedian and actor, wrote ''[[Cruel Shoes]]'', a book of humorous essays and short stories, in 1977 (published 1979). He wrote his first humorous play ''[[Picasso at the Lapin Agile]]'' in 1993, and wrote various pieces in ''The New Yorker'' magazine in the 1990s. He later wrote more humorous plays and two novellas.

[[Hugh Laurie]] (born 1959) is an English comic actor who worked for many years in partnership with [[Stephen Fry]]. He is a fan of the English humorist [[P. G. Wodehouse]], and has written a Wodehouse-style novel.<ref name="actors">{{cite episode|title=Hugh Laurie|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013111/|series=Inside the Actors Studio|series-link=Inside the Actors Studio|credits=Host: James Lipton|network=Bravo|airdate=31 July 2006|season=12|number=18|access-date=21 July 2018|archive-date=10 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210070142/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013111/|url-status=live}}</ref>