COVID-19 Pandemic Cancels Mark Twain Prize For American Humor in 2020
The Kennedy Center has announced there will be no Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2020,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Episode #119: Norman Lear
Norman Lear is a television legend. Writer, producer and creator of all-time classic sitcoms of...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Margaret Cho on her mother’s Korean accent, father’s lack of one, and their acceptance of her
Margaret Cho famously has impersonated her mother in her stand-up routines. In this outtake from...
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The Friars Club celebrated in PBS “Treasures of New York”
Enjoy this Throwback Thursday with a look back across a century of laughs and comedian-on-comedian...
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