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Buzz on street about Boris barely making it as a comedian (8)

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I believe the answer is:

humorist

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'comedian' is the definition.
(I have seen 'A comedian' mean 'humorist' so perhaps 'comedian' could also mean 'humorist')

'buzz on street about boris barely' is the wordplay.
'buzz on' becomes 'hum' (synonyms. I am not sure about the 'on' bit.).
'street' becomes 'st' (abbreviation).
'about' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'barely' means to look at the middle letters (the word is bare of its external letters).
The central letters of 'boris' are 'ori'.
'st' put after 'ori' is 'orist'.
'hum'+'orist'='HUMORIST'

'making it as a' is the link.
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(Other definitions for humorist that I've seen before include "Card" , "A comedian" , "Comic story writer" , "Perhaps Thurber" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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