Someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

Usage examples of humourist.

Who, says the notable humourist, in allusion to this Book, who can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now capable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pulmonary snips and shreds of leagues dancing on their toes for cold, explorers tell us, and catching breath by good luck, like dogs at bones about a table, on the edge of the Pole?

Mel heard it she might be hurt, and she gave the humourist a second, frowning look.

I decided that no one but a poet could have contented himself with a lyric in one word, unless it might have been a humourist, to whom sometimes a single small word is more blessed than all the verbal riches of Webster himself.

Can HE be the large and patient thinker, the delicate humourist, the impassioned poet?

Dickens--perhaps even those who read him a little--may acclaim him as a humourist and not know him as a wit.

But let it be granted that Dickens the humourist is foremost and most precious.

Once only does Steele really afford the recent humourist the suggestion that is apparently always so welcome.

He had the pleasant and easy way of imparting his great general and curious information, that a man, partly humourist, partly philosopher, who values himself on being a man of letters, and is in spite of himself a man of the world, always ought to possess.

Eric Wobblewit, our tame humourist, but I could tell that his joke was even more forced than usual.

It should be explained that Roger was a keen admirer of Don Marquis, the humourist of the New York Evening Sun.

There were a newspaper man--the editor of a fashionable journal--and a middle-aged man of letters, playwright, critic, humourist, a man whose society was in demand everywhere, and who said sharp things with the most supreme good-nature.

Western humourists were not slow to mingle the fragrance of their thought with its aroma.

All genuine humourists may in this sense be called tea-philosophers,--Thackeray, for instance, and of course, Shakespeare.

And every creature has a right to security from the banterings peculiar to the humourists of a succeeding age.

Western humourists were not slow to mingle the fragrance of their thought with its aroma.