[1][2] The paper was published by Aser Zelig Weiss, a badchen (Jewish wedding entertainer) famous in the city.
[3] It featured local news and comments on current events, as well as anecdotes and jokes.
[2] The language used in Munkatsher Humorist was distinctively folksy and idiomatic, showcasing a rich repository of the local Yiddish dialect.
[2] The paper ridiculed local Jewish internal politics, in particular joking about the struggles of the Hasidic courts of Munkács and Belz.
[7] In 1927 a rival Yiddish daily, Yidishe Tzaytung ('Jewish Newspaper'), was founded by Chief Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapira.