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Douglas Adams

English writer and humorist

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Eddie Murphy

American stand-up comedian, actor, and singer

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Ellen DeGeneres

American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer

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Georg Kreisler

Austrian–American Viennese-language cabarettist, satirist, composer, and author

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Kurt Vonnegut

American writer (1922-2007)

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Stephen Colbert

American comedian and writer

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Tom Lehrer

American singer-songwriter and mathematician

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Vladimir Nabokov

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

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William Makepeace Thackeray

British novelist

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William S. Burroughs

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914-1997)