The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was first given to comedian Richard Pryor in 1998. Over the years, it’s been handed out to everyone from Carl Reiner and Neil Simon to Steve Martin ...

The New Yorker will reach 100. Yet here’s an anniversary fewer will mark and no one will celebrate: Soon, we will have been without Richard Pryor for two decades. He died in 2005, and as the New ...

Previous recipients of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor include Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Carol Burnett, Eddie Murphy, David Letterman ...

The “performatively rubbing hot sauce on your nipples”–to–“winning the Mark Twain Prize for American ... of previous recipients including Richard Pryor, Jon Stewart, Julia Louis-Dreyfus ...

"I am honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized not ... Past recipients include Richard Pryor, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Stewart, Dave ...

Conan O'Brien will become the latest late-night comedy king to be crowned with the Mark Twain Prize for American ... several leading comics. The late Richard Pryor was the first to ever receive ...

By Rick Porter Television Writer Conan O’Brien will be the next recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American ... joining a list of honorees that includes Richard Pryor, Carl Reiner, Whoopi ...

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.

As a recipient, O'Brien will receive a copy of an 1884 bronze portrait bust of Mark Twain sculpted by Karl Gerhardt (1853–1940). Previous recipients include Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg ...