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Subject: Re: and the winner of this year's MT Prize for American Humor is . . . .
From: Harold Bush <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:50:41 -0500
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ps:


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):

www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/marktwain/#past


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 .
. . .



-- 
Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
Professor of English
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO  63108
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