#humorist__humourist  someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way
  supertype:  entertainer  a person who tries to please or amuse
  instance:  Robert_Charles_Benchley  Samuel_Langhorne_Clemens  Ringgold_Wilmer_Lardner  Stephen_Butler_Leacock  Edward_Lear  Donald_Robert_Perry_Marquis  William_Penn_Adair_Rogers  Henry_Wheeler_Shaw  James_Grover_Thurber
  subtype:  parodist__lampooner  mimics literary or musical style for comic effect
     subtype:  caricaturist  someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner
        instance:  Sir_Henry_Maxmilian_Beerbohm__Beerbohm__Max_Beerbohm
  subtype:  punster  someone overly fond of making puns
  subtype:  satirist__ironist  a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
     instance:  Juvenal__Decimus_Junius_Juvenalis  Francois_Rabelais__Rabelais  Jonathan_Swift__Swift__Dean_Swift
  subtype:  wag__wit__card  (informal) a witty amusing person who makes jokes

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