Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

D. Cobb was honored in 1915 with the march "The War Correspondent" by G. Cobb's granddaughter was Buff Cobb a TV personality of the early 1950s and second wife of journalist Mike Wallace.

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23 1876 – March 11 1944) was an American author humorist and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.