Jean Shepherd
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Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted, based on his own semiautobiographical stories.
Shepherd circa 1969
Shepherd circa 1973
Jean Shepherd posed as Frederick R. Ewing on the back cover of Ballantine's I, Libertine (1956).
Humorist
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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.