humorist, humourist - someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Juvenal - Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140)

Francois Rabelais, Rabelais - author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)

Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift, Swift - an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)