The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said on Monday it would go ahead with plans to present its Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to the late George Carlin, making him the first ...

In the 1970s, George Carlin's seven dirty words routine was the center of a famous obscenity case. More recently, the comic was named the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

As a recipient of The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, O'Brien joins a who's who of American comedy that includes Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Kevin Hart.

Carlin's 'Seven Words' Spell Trouble," Style, Nov. 15]. I certainly don't think that the famous "Seven Words" piece is funnier when all the verboten words are bleeped in succession. It's not.

And so, the ceremony in which Carlin was posthumously awarded the annual Mark Twain Prize in American Humor — taped last November at the Kennedy Center, and airing on PBS on Wednesday, Feb. 4 ...

Mark Twain recipients are honored with a night of testimonials and video tributes, ... along with George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett and Dave Chappelle.

Mark Twain scholar Kevin Mac Donnell holds a stereoview photograph near the spot where it was originally made at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Conn, on May 13, 2024.

The biographer Ron Chernow has written about the Rockefellers and the Morgans. His book about George Washington won a Pulitzer Prize. His book about Alexander Hamilton was adapted into a hit ...

By ASHRAF KHALIL WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday. O’Brien, 61, has ...

Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain is enormous, bland and remote — it squats over Twain’s career like a McMansion. Chernow, who has previously written lives of financial titans, war ...