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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Mark Twain and fellow novelist George Washington Cable in 1884, when they shared top billing in a lecture series later dubbed the “Twins of Genius” tour. Courtesy of The Mark Twain House ...

Mark Twain. By Ron Chernow. Penguin Press; 1,200 pages; $45. Allen Lane; £40. T HE OCTAGONAL study overlooks the green of Elmira College in upstate New York. In it, Mark Twain wrote “Adventures ...

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 ...

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 ...