Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts annually since 1998. It is named after the 19th century novelist, essayist and humorist Mark Twain.

The Kennedy Center organized this "Celebration of Humor" weekend and established the Mark Twain Prize to recognize those who create humor from their uniquely American experiences.

The first annual Kennedy Center Celebration of American Humor took place in October 1998. The celebration included lectures, symposia, and master classes, and culminated when Richard Pryor was presented with the inaugural Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize. The program featured a gathering of leading American artists including Chevy Chase, Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Damon Wayans, Robin Williams, and Neil Simon. It was taped by Comedy Central for cable television broadcast.

Since then, the award presentations have been taped for broadcast on PBS. The 2006 presentation to Neil Simon was held on October 15, 2006 and was broadcasted on November 20, 2006. Presenters included Jason Alexander, Christina Applegate, Lucie Arnaz, Matthew Broderick, Richard Dreyfuss, Heather Headley, Patricia Heaton, Jane Kaczmarek, Robert Klein, Nathan Lane, Robert Redford, Carl Reiner, Paul Reiser, Jonathan Silverman, and Allen Toussaint.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../m/a/r/Mark_Twain_Prize_for_American_Humor_8ba0.html"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.