The American satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer has been rumored to have been the first to invent the gelatin shot in the 1950s while working for the National Security Agency, where he developed vodka gelatin as a way to circumvent a restriction of alcoholic beverages on base, but the claim that he was first is untrue.

* 1952 – Will Durst, American political satirist

* 1956 – Steve Doocy, American television satirist

Thomas Andrew Lehrer ( born April 9, 1928 ) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician.

* May 13 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian and satirist

** Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, American disc jockey and political satirist

* December 21 – Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist ( d. 1993 )

* May 27 – John Kendrick Bangs, American author and satirist ( d. 1922 )

* June 24 – Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, American writer and satirist ( d. ca.

** Pat Paulsen, American comedian and political satirist ( d. 1997 )

" O ' Rourke ( born November 14, 1947 ) is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author.

William Melvin " Bill " Hicks ( December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994 ) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician.

Henry Louis " H. L ." Mencken ( September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956 ), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English.

Vincent Canby, in his November 1976 review of the film for The New York Times, called the film " outrageous ... brilliantly, cruelly funny, a topical American comedy that confirms Paddy Chayefsky's position as a major new American satirist " and a film whose " wickedly distorted views of the way television looks, sounds, and, indeed, is, are the satirist's cardiogram of the hidden heart, not just of television but also of the society that supports it and is, in turn, supported.

* John Trumbull ( 1750 – 1831 ), American political satirist and poet, was born in Watertown.

Maddox, an American internet satirist famous for his site The Best Page in the Universe, and author of the book " The Alphabet of Manliness ", is a graduate of the Woods Cross High School.

* Stephen Colbert ( b. 1964 ), American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host

* Stephen Colbert ( born 1964 ), American political satirist, comedian, and television host

* Mo Rocca ( born 1969 ), American writer, comedian, and political satirist

Neoism was coined in 1914 by the American satirist Franklin P. Adams as a parody of modern arts.

In 2002 the Chicago Tribune, in a review of The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo, noted: " The wry, ornery, brilliantly perceptive satirist will go down as one of the Great American Humorists.

And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

* Kate Austin ( 1864 – 1902 ), American writer, feminist and anarchist

* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer

* Phil Austin ( born 1941 ), American comedian and writer

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer

* 1983 – Dash Shaw, American writer and artist

* 1916 – Beverly Cleary, American writer

* 1949 – Scott Turow, American writer

* 1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American writer and illustrator

* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

* 1968 – McG, American director, writer, and producer

* 1981 – C. C. Swiney, American actor, writer, and director

* 1983 – Elisha Yaffe, American actor, writer, and producer

* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer ( d. 1891 )

* 1904 – Clifford D. Simak, American writer ( d. 1988 )

* 1964 – Flannery O ' Connor, American writer ( b. 1925 )

* 1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer ( b. 1933 )

* 1942 – Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host

* 1964 – Anastasia M. Ashman, American writer