entertainer - a person who tries to please or amuse

lampooner, parodist - mimics literary or musical style for comic effect

punster - someone overly fond of making puns

ironist, ridiculer, satirist - a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

wag, wit, card - a witty amusing person who makes jokes

Benchley, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley - United States humorist (1889-1945)

Clemens, Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens - United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)

Lardner, Ring Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner - United States humorist and writer of satirical short stories (1885-1933)

Leacock, Stephen Butler Leacock, Stephen Leacock - Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944)

Edward Lear, Lear - British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888)

Don Marquis, Donald Robert Perry Marquis, Marquis - humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)

Rogers, Will Rogers, William Penn Adair Rogers - United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935)

Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings, Shaw - United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)

James Grover Thurber, James Thurber, Thurber - United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)