Along with Brother Theodore, a few others have been misunderstood as nasty, dark, curmudgeonly, bleak, misanthropic, or otherwise dissimilar to such icons as Mickey Mouse, Jerry Lewis, The Nanny, and the cast of Friends.

Perhaps you don't laugh at Andy Capp or Cathy Guisewite, you find more humor in the books of Edgar Allan Poe than in Roy Blount Jr., and when it comes to sitcoms, Everybody Loves Raymond EXCEPT YOU. Then click some of the humorists below...

MARXISM

RUNAWAY TWAIN


WILDE NOTIONS


MUDDY FIELDS

BITTER BIERCE

G.B.S. EYE

ACHIN' MENCKEN

THE TAO OF MOE