Besides Chuck Jones -- how about nominating another novelist, esp. considering his rather profound debt to Twain-- I mean, of course, Kurt Vonnegut. Certainly, Vonnegut is not nearly as "funny" as he seemed to be during, say, the Nixon era. Still, the guy is generally and consistently a gas, and the Twain-Vonnegut connection is really quite pronounced. I just re-read Tom Sawyer last week -- and noticed the many times that Twain writes, "And so on" or "And so forth" -- this stylistic feature really reminded me of Vonnegut's (sometimes overused) reliance on the same thing. By the way -- "Take the Money and Run" was shown here last night on PBS -- remember how funny Woody Allen was back in the (post)Nixon era?? Dr. Harold K. Bush, Jr. Saint Louis University