Lily Tomlin receives the 2003 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor this fall. Watch the gala celebration at the Kennedy Center on your local PBS station.

Kevin Hart receives this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — now moving to Netflix, which struck a multi-year deal with the Kennedy Center.

Among the other comedians who've won the Mark Twain Prize are Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jon Stewart.

‘Mark Twain ’ By Ron Chernow Penguin Press, 1,200 Pages. Writing a biography of Mark Twain is a little like building a playpen for a lion. Soon enough the big cat will get loose. Biographer Ron ...

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor recognizes individuals who have had an ... Carl Reiner (2000), Whoopi Goldberg (2001), Bob Newhart (2002), Lily Tomlin (2003), Lorne Michaels (2004 ...

By comparison, Justin Kaplan’s penetrating 1966 biography, “Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain,” which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, came in at a brisk 424 pages.

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of Mark Twain, one of America’s most popular authors. In the five ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the ...

O'Brien thanked the pre-Trump Kennedy Center leadership. O'Brien gave tribute to Mark Twain, espousing his American values in the modern political landscape. Conan O'Brien took an unusual jab at ...

Twain wrote, ‘Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time, and your government when it deserves it.’” Conan O’Brien’s Kennedy Center ceremony will be streaming on Netflix on May 4.

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