Kafka is clearly literature's best coming novelist, with Beckett a close second, then a whole lot of nothing, then Rabelais, the a whole lot more of nothing and then finally Waugh, followed by Kingsley Amis

ho-ho-ho, but c'mon, calling Beckett "comic" is the equivalent of a secret handshake among mordant grad students; it's the Spinal Tap equivalent of blacker than black: so funny, it was beyond laughter man... Still, think about add Shakespeare to your reading list...