COVID-19 Pandemic Cancels Mark Twain Prize For American Humor in 2020
by 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 …
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Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus accept her Mark Twain Prize
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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?”
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 …