Before hosting this year’s Oscars, comedian Conan O’Brien will accept his own big award. The Emmy Award winner, set to host ...

"I am honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized not for humor, but for my work as a riverboat pilot," ...

The comedian, podcaster and former late night host will be the 26th recipient of the award from the Kennedy Center.

The “performatively rubbing hot sauce on your nipples”–to–“winning the Mark Twain Prize for American ... of previous recipients including Richard Pryor, Jon Stewart, Julia Louis-Dreyfus ...

As a recipient of The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, O'Brien joins a who's who of American comedy that includes Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Kevin Hart.

Conan O’Brien has been selected by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to receive the 26th Mark Twain Prize ...

As a recipient, O’Brien will receive a copy of an 1884 bronze portrait bust of Mark Twain sculpted by Karl Gerhardt (1853–1940). Previous recipients include Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg ...

Conan O'Brien will become the latest late-night comedy king to be crowned with the Mark Twain Prize for American ... several leading comics. The late Richard Pryor was the first to ever receive ...

Richard Pryor helped define modern stand-up ... But by 1992, he was too weak to keep performing In 1998, he was awarded America's first Mark Twain award for humour. And in 2004, he was voted No 1 in a ...