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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There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.
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Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
By the time deputies made their way down the long driveway off Lost Creek Road to the house Tony once shared with his father, the onetime jokester and basketball player had lost all sense of reality.
—USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
Sam, meanwhile, was a jokester much of the time but took his pilot training seriously.
—Emma Hurt, AJC.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Her jokester father worked for a railway; her realtor mother was a gifted mimic whose impressions of clients enlivened family dinners.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 10 Feb. 2026
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Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
By the time deputies made their way down the long driveway off Lost Creek Road to the house Tony once shared with his father, the onetime jokester and basketball player had lost all sense of reality.
—USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
Sam, meanwhile, was a jokester much of the time but took his pilot training seriously.
—Emma Hurt, AJC.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Her jokester father worked for a railway; her realtor mother was a gifted mimic whose impressions of clients enlivened family dinners.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 10 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jokester
comedian
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Club Kid, arguably the festival’s hottest title in terms of commercial potential, comes from Jordan Firstman, a comedian who built his following through viral Instagram skits during the pandemic before crossing over into features.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, announced last week that the Oscar-winning filmmaker and comedian has donated a major collection of previously unseen documents and photographs to the museum.—
Francie Ebert,
NBC news,
17 May 2026
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“Jokester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jokester. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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