RIO DE JANEIRO - Aristófanes, Plauto, Terêncio, Ovídio, Petrônio, Boccaccio, Aretino, Goldoni, Shakespeare, Swift, Henry Fielding, Thackeray, Cervantes, Alarcón, Rabelais, Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Molière, Voltaire, Sade, Feydeau, Labiche, Alfred Jarry, Sacha Guitry, Sholom Aleichem, Arthur Schnitzler, Giovanni Guareschi, Ionesco, Boris Vian, Mikhail Bulgakov, Jaroslav Ha?ek, Karel ?apek, André François, Steinberg, Siné, Sempé.
Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Stephen Leacock, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, H.L. Mencken, Noël Coward, P.G. Wodehouse, Anita Loos, Evelyn Waugh, Ring Lardner, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Ben Hecht, Damon Runyon, James Thurber, Charles Addams, Peter Arno, S.J. Perelman, Ogden Nash, Philip Larkin, Groucho Marx, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Art Buchwald, Lenny Bruce, Al Feldstein, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Monty Python.
Manuel Antonio de Almeida, Lima Barreto, Juó Bananère, Oswald de Andrade, Agrippino Grieco, Barão de Itararé, Mendes Fradique, Noel Rosa, Lamartine Babo, Nelson Rodrigues, Haroldo Barbosa, Max Nunes, Silveira Sampaio, Antonio Maria, Sergio Pôrto, Leon Eliachar, Oscarito, Grande Otelo, Ankito, Golias, Agildo Ribeiro, José Vasconcellos, Chico Anysio, Jô Soares, Billy Blanco, Miguel Gustavo, Ivan Lessa, Telmo Martino, Verissimo, Miele, Aldir Blanc.
Angelo Agostini, J. Carlos, Millôr, Hilde Weber, Carlos Estevão, Péricles, Borjalo, Appe, Lan, Otelo Caçador, Claudius, Fortuna, Jaguar, Ziraldo, Zélio, Ciça, Henfil, Caulos, Redi, os Caruso, Angeli, Glauco, Laerte, o Clube dos Cafajestes, a Banda de Ipanema, o "Pasquim", o Asdrúbal, o Ubu, o Casseta & Planeta, o Porta dos Fundos.
E, claro, Haroldo Lobo e Nássara, autores de "Alá-lá-ô, ooô, ooô/ Mas que calor, ooô, ooô". Todos humoristas. Todos Charlies.