Thesaurus results for JOKESTER

jokester

noun

ˈjōk-stər

as in comedian

a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor hired the hot new Hollywood jokester to write the sitcom script

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Recent Examples of jokester Our actual political landscape, in which government officials are adding journalists to top-secret group chats or running around in wrong-sized shoes as a form of flattery, has too far superseded anything even the most cutting jokester could ever have dreamed up. —

Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026 And, of course, radio jokester and provocateur Stern. —

Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026 There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. —

Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026 Sam, meanwhile, was a jokester much of the time but took his pilot training seriously. —

Emma Hurt, AJC.com, 19 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for jokester

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comedian

Noun

But the stand-up comedian’s big-screen experiment is a bust.

— Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
The one-liners, which Foxworthy began cracking in the late 1980s, helped propel the comedian to mainstream stardom in the 90s.

— Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 6 June 2026