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COVID-19 Pandemic Cancels Mark Twain Prize For American Humor in 2020
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COVID-19 Pandemic Cancels Mark Twain Prize For American Humor in 2020

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJune 23, 2020June 23, 2020

The Kennedy Center has announced there will be no Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2020, postponing the ceremony until June 2021 due to …

Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus accept her Mark Twain Prize
News / TV / Video

Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus accept her Mark Twain Prize

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyNovember 22, 2018

It’s fitting that the best and only part of this year’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony that you really need to watch is Julia Louis-Dreyfus herself …

Watch David Letterman receive the 2017 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
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Watch David Letterman receive the 2017 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyNovember 21, 2017November 21, 2017

In case you missed it Monday night on PBS, here is the edited full telecast from last month’s celebration of David Letterman for receiving the …

Jack Black and Richard Linklater on their unlikely partnership on 2003’s feel-good hit, School of Rock
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Jack Black and Richard Linklater on their unlikely partnership on 2003’s feel-good hit, School of Rock

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 24, 2017

Scott Rudin needed to persuade both star Jack Black and director Richard Linklater that Linklater was the right choice to direct 2003’s film, School of …

The PBS broadcast of Bill Murray: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize
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The PBS broadcast of Bill Murray: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 31, 2016November 1, 20161

In case you missed it due to a Halloween party or the World Series or college football, there was a major comedy event on TV …

Episode #119: Norman Lear
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Episode #119: Norman Lear

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 24, 2016October 24, 20163

Norman Lear is a television legend. Writer, producer and creator of all-time classic sitcoms of the 1970s – including All in the Family, Sanford and …

Bill Murray to receive 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
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Bill Murray to receive 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJune 13, 2016June 13, 20161

The Kennedy Center announced today that it’ll award Bill Murray the 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Said Murray in a statement: “I believe …

Joan Rivers: Exit Laughing, on PBS (review)
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Joan Rivers: Exit Laughing, on PBS (review)

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyApril 1, 2016

Can we talk? There already just was and still is a great documentary, made just six years ago, that reminds us what it meant to …

Reliving “The Great American Dream Machine,” on PBS from 1971-1972, and now on DVD
TV / Video

Reliving “The Great American Dream Machine,” on PBS from 1971-1972, and now on DVD

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyDecember 17, 2015

Four years before Saturday Night Live, and three years before Monty Python’s Flying Circus would land on this side of the pond, New York City’s …

Eddie Murphy receives his Mark Twain Prize: “Did y’all make Bill give his back?”
TV / Video

Eddie Murphy receives his Mark Twain Prize: “Did y’all make Bill give his back?”

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 19, 2015October 19, 2015

Dave Chappelle, Whitney Cummings, Kathy Griffin, Arsenio Hall, Sam Moore, Kevin Nealon, Trevor Noah, Jay Pharoah, Joe Piscopo, Chris Rock, JB Smoove and plenty of other …

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