We're expecting Churchill, a master orator and rhetorician if there ever was one. It gets our attention: "oh, he must be talking about rhetoricians." That comes first and sets the bar. Kimmel is a more recent but less expected example. It gets our attention in a different way. ("Oh, he must know something about Kimmel.") It makes us think about who else we might put in that series.

Another example: When, in the Big Lebowski, Walter sums up Jewish history as "three thousand years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax."

This is not a catalog. A catalog is simply a list. This device derives its power through its association with the epic tradition and, though it may suggest "range", this is effect is secondary to its principle function: the firework display of the supernumerary. There is no need for prepositions, which you suggest. Catalogs are fun and easy and, really, the key structural feature is only the initiating and the final term in the sequence. Here's one I just made up: "One encounters all manner of wonders in this fine internet: teachers, frauds, freaks, prophets, hucksters, fiends and phonies."

Catalog's are a blast. Milton's dominate on one side of the pond; Whitman's, on the other.