WASHINGTON — Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday. O’Brien, 61, has carved out an improbable ...

Conan O'Brien watches the ceremony honoring him with the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Clifton Prescod for Netflix Fred Armisen appeared in video bumpers portraying people from O'Brien ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday. O’Brien, 61, has carved out an ...

Fellow Mark Twain Prize winner Will Ferrell was among those on hand to celebrate O’Brien. He couldn’t resist a reference to current events in Washington.

Other comedians joked that this would be the last Mark Twain Prize awarded by the Center. John Mulaney cracked that the facility, which is seen as a memorial to slain former President John F ...

Conan O'Brien was named the 26th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Thursday, Jan. 16, joking it's for his 'work as a riverboat pilot.' ...

T he Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is one of the highest honors in American art and culture. Presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Mark ...

Comedian Conan O'Brien received the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night, which David Letterman called "the most entertaining gathering of the resistance ever." ...

Conan O’Brien, the 2025 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, said Thursday that he was not sure that he would attend the March 23 ceremony held at the Kennedy Center due to the ...

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor has been presented annually since 1998, except for the years 2020 and 2021. Named after the 19th-century humorist Mark Twain, it is presented to individuals ...