Kevin Hart got emotional when accepting one of comedy's highest honors: the Mark Twain Prize for humor. "You remind me … why I love comedy so much," Chappelle said at the Sunday night ceremony, noting ...

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Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive / ...

The “performatively rubbing hot sauce on your nipples”–to–“winning the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor” pipeline has been completed. On March 23, Conan O’Brien, the former Conan and The Tonight ...

Comedian Conan O'Brien, center, and his wife, Liza Powel O'Brien, looks out on the crowd at the start of the 25th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Conan O'Brien, Sunday, March 23 ...

Comedians love to rib each other. It's almost a requirement for the job and there was plenty of it for Kevin Hart Sunday night as he received the 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The ...

Kevin Hart got emotional when accepting one of comedy's highest honors: the Mark Twain Prize for humor. The 44-year-old comedian and actor accepted the award from the Kennedy Center with friends and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On a night when half a dozen people made jokes about this being the last-ever Mark Twain Prize, Conan O’Brien made sure the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ...