The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize
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Posted Monday 4/25/22 at 10:17AM EDT
Jon Stewart warns during his Mark Twain Prize speech that "authoritarianism" is the greatest threat to comedy.
"You know, there was the slap….
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Posted Saturday 4/23/22 at 2:05AM EDT
Jon Stewart isn't sure he's ready to look back at his legacy when he's honored Sunday with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
“I remember thinking like, Oh, that can’t be.
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Posted Wednesday 1/19/22 at 10:31AM EST
Jon Stewart will be honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
The 23rd Mark Twain Prize will be presented at a gala performance on Sunday, April 24, in the Kennedy Center...
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Posted Tuesday 8/04/20 at 3:01AM EDT
Dave Chappelle and George Carlin are the only comedians to have Emmy-nominated Mark Twain Prize ceremonies
There have been 22 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremonies, but last week Chappelle's 2019 Kennedy Center honor became...
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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 1:25PM EDT
Kennedy Center Honors and Mark Twain Prize postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus
The 43rd annual Kennedy Center Honors on CBS and the 23rd Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on PBS will...
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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 10:37AM EDT
Tina Fey may have predicted her 30 Rock blackface episodes being seen as racist 10 years ago
Fey said in her speech while accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2010: "And yet I hope...
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Dave Chappelle accepts Mark Twain Prize for American Humor: "I love this genre, it saved my life"
Jon Stewart described Chappelle as the "black Bourdain" during Sunday's ceremony, which PBS will broadcast on Jan.
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Posted Thursday 8/01/19 at 1:34PM EDT
Dave Chappelle's Mark Twain Prize ceremony will feature Jon Stewart, Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish
Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Bradley Cooper and Trevor Noah will also pay tribute to Chappelle during the Oct.
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Dave Chappelle to be honored with the 2019 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Chappelle, who celebrated 30 years in comedy in 2017 by releasing four Netflix standup specials, will be honored at the...
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepts the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
"When Mark Twain first emailed me about the Mark Twain prize, I have to admit I totally misunderstood," the Veep...
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Posted Wednesday 10/17/18 at 3:23PM EDT
Julia Louis-Dreyfus established a new kind of sitcom actress on a new kind of sitcom
The Veep star gets the Washington Post profile treatment ahead of Sunday's ceremony honoring her with the Mark Twain Prize...
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Posted Wednesday 9/05/18 at 3:54PM EDT
Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony will feature tributes from Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and Jerry Seinfeld
The Oct.
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Posted Wednesday 5/23/18 at 2:17PM EDT
Julia Louis-Dreyfus to be honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
“Like Mark Twain, Julia has enriched American culture with her iconic, unforgettable, and outright hilarious brand of humor,” Deborah F.
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Posted Monday 5/07/18 at 8:06PM EDT
Bill Cosby stripped of his Kennedy Center Honors and Mark Twain prize
"Today the Board of Trustees of the John F.
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Posted Friday 4/27/18 at 9:17PM EDT
Kennedy Center mulls revoking the two awards it presented to Bill Cosby
The disgraced comedian was presented with the Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime achievement in the performing arts in 1998 and...