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.

Mark Twain scholar Kevin Mac Donnell holds a stereoview photograph near the spot where it was originally made at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Conn, on May 13, 2024.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

Chernow, the prizewinning biographer of Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, tracks several themes throughout these pages, most notably Twain’s attitudes toward Black people and his gradual ...

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.

The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony set for Saturday, May 11 at 10 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. PDT) only on Netflix will honor Kevin Hart for his extraordinary contributions to the ...

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 ...

In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) cement… ...

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 ...