gagwriter
- n someone who writes comic material for public performers
- After lean years as a TV gagwriter and obscure success as one of the creators of I've Got a Secret, Sherman achieved instant stardom with such lyrics as "Do not make a stingy .
- He is an ex-radio gagwriter who severely judges his own work by the standards of the great English novelists.
- Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as his wife but would continue as his manager and gagwriter, said: "It had to be one or the other.