Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.
Keillor in 2009
Keillor in 2010, wearing his signature red shoes
Keillor with Richard Dworsky on the 40th anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion
Keillor in 2016
A humorist is an intellectual who uses humor, or wit, in writing or public speaking. Humorists are distinct from comedians, who are show business entertainers whose business is to make an audience laugh. It is possible to play both roles in the course of a career. A raconteur is one who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.
Samuel Clemens, American humorist who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain.
Oscar Wilde is the most cited humorist in the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations.
