The famous witty people included in this fun book are George Ade, Nelson Algren, Fred Allen, Minna Antrim, Tallulah Bankhead, Bernard Baruch, Brendan Behan, David Ben-Gurion, Robert Benchley, Aneurin Bevan, Ambrose Bierce, Lord Birkett, George Borrow, Bertolt Brecht, Vera Brittain, Heywood Broun, Lenny Bruce, Luis Bunuel, Anthony Burgess, William Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Herb Caen, Truman Capote, Emily Carr, Angela Carter, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Raymond Chandler, Charlie Chaplin, Lord Chesterfield, Sir Winston Churchill, Frank Moore Colby, Cyril Connolly, Quentin Crisp, e. e. cummings, Edward Dahlberg, Salvador Dali, Benjamin Disraeli, Albert Einstein, Ian Fleming, E. M. Forster, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Gallico, W. S. Gilbert, Paul Goodman, Ruth Gordon, William Hazlitt, A. P. Herbert, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hope, Kin Hubbard, W. R. Inge, Robert G. Ingersoll, Washington Irving, Alice James, Jerome K. Jerome, Douglas Jerrold, Gerald W. Johnson, Pamela Hansford Johnson, samuel Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Karl Kraus, Joseph Wood Krutch, Jean de La Bruyere, Jean de La Fontaine, Jean-Francois de La Harpe, Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Stanislaw Lec, Oscar Levant, Abraham Lincoln, Walter Lippmann, Anita Loos, Clare Boothe Luce, Archibald MacLeish, Harold Macmillan, Don Marquis, Groucho Marx, Mary McCarthy, Marshall McLuhan, Lord Melbourne, H. L. Mencken, Wilson Mizner, Marilyn Monroe, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ethel Watts Mumford, Ogden Nash, George Jean Nathan, O. Henry, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, Cesare Pavese, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Anthony Powell, V. S. Pritchett, James Reston, Will Rogers, Helen Rowland, Saki (H. H. Munro), Carl Sandburg, Dorothy L. Sayers, George Bernard Shaw, Dame Edith Sitwell, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Logan Pearsall Smith, Madame de Stael, John Steinbeck, Adlai Stevenson, J. August Strindberg, Jonathan Swift, Booth Tarkington, James Thurber, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Orson Welles, Mae West, E. B. White, Oscar Wilde, and Alexander Woollcott.
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