jokesmith

The oddball jokesmith is a maths genius this week.

It was the first time I'd seen Magritte in bulk, and then I saw he was a jokesmith, a brilliant jokesmith.

Mr. Simon's growing sophistication about characterization has also paid off in his increasing liberation from both well-made dramaturgy and the professional jokesmith's equivalent catechism of set-up and punch line.

Up to then, Simon had thought of himself as a jokesmith, providing material for Sid Caesar and Phil Silvers, both of whom he respected, and a fair number of other comics, whom he didn't.