Your three are the first off the top of my head, and it's sad that
they haven't won the award.  I'd also add:
Jon Stewart (equally as political as Tina Fey, but funnier, and more
consistently funny), Chris Rock, and Sam Kinison.

Michael


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Harold Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ps:
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>
> check out the list of past winners and drop a few names of very funny
> Americans who have never won and whose body of work far surpasses Tina Fey
> (a humorist I greatly admire, by the way):
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> www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/marktwain/#past
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>
> for starters I will name a few fairly obvious choices:
>
> Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and Jerry Seinfeld
>
> and of course there's our old buddy Hal Holbrook, but don't get me started .
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