If I have a list of functions, each of the type a -> a for some type, what is the most shortest, elegant and idiomatic way to combine them; preferably withou         
        
Another one, which may not be shorter than foldr (.) id but which I think is cute:
foo = flip (foldr id)
I'd say you're not going to beat
comp = foldr (.) id
Why? Well we have a list of things and we're trying to reduce it in a right associative way.
If you look at the implementations of and, sum, maximum and similar, you'll see that this is how they're implemented in the standard library, I don't think you get more idiomatic than that :)
Tangent: I hesitate to add the foldr1 variant mentioned in comments because I'd say that it's unexpected behavior for this to be partial, unlike say maximum where it clearly must be.