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: > > > 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 > 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) > <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml> >