ARTEMUS WARD AGAIN. Share full article. Oct. 2, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 2, 1865, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Browne, meanwhile, published Artemus Ward Among the Mormons in 1866, shortly after his own stay in Salt Lake. He contracted a form of typhoid while there, and was nursed back to health by a ...

Ward’s lectures were designed not to inform but strictly to entertain and amuse his growing audiences, arguably making him the world’s first standup comedian. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers.

Oh, to give you an idea of the humor of Artemis Ward, let me quote him at the end of his program, he often said, And now I bid you *** welcome adieu. As do I. Updated: 1:58 PM EDT May 30, 2025 ...

MR. HINGSTON was the agent of Mr. Charles F. Browne during that humorist’s career as a comic lecturer in this country, and here is what he remembers of him. It is not much, nor particularly ...

Artemus Ward is a worthy companion of Irving, Holmes, and Lowell, and nobly excels Mark Twain and Bret Harte, in that his wit is never impure, never immoral, never irreverent.