'Advertising," according to the Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock, "is the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it".
Secret location, Sat SM With his rather silly moniker and shouty lol-repository of a Twitter feed, some would call DJ Paypal a mere internet humorist, but his juke productions put paid to that.
Daniele Luttazzi, my favourite Italian humorist, had a popular programme cancelled on RAI (the state-owned television channel) because he attacked Mr Berlusconi too heavily.
Laureano Márquez, a humorist, suggested in Tal Cual that Rosinés might ask a few other favours: "that he not get so cross with those of us who don't think like him", for instance.
Correction to this articleIN THE mid-1980s Rolling Stone magazine published an essay by P.J. O'Rourke, a conservative American humorist, with the splendid title "Among the Euro-Weenies".
Earlier this year, when Mr Hollande made the contraceptive pill available free to all 15- to 18-year-olds, it barely caused a stir.One reason is that the protest movement found an unusual leader: a one-time humorist calling herself Frigide Barjot, whose pseudonym alone grabbed attention.
But the shoe-removal theatre which this blog has complained about for years always reminds me of a New Yorker item by Calvin Trillin, the humorist and novelist.
Communism was "brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes," as P.J. O'Rourke, an American humorist, has put it.
Their unofficial spokeswoman, who calls herself a "Catholic humorist" and goes by the exquisite pseudonym Frigide Barjot, is demanding that the law be scrapped and a referendum held.
Hadi al-Mahdi, an Iraqi radio humorist, was shot dead in 2011.The region's leaders might pause to ponder the words of Ahmed Sanoussi, a Moroccan comedian better known as Bziz.
And if Gary Shteyngart is any indication, fiction will continue to be the place where authors ponder the survival of most everything else that matters.Mr Shteyngart is a humorist whose novels mix timeless eastern-European dread with a more contemporary sense of absurdity.
