The Mark Twain Award recipient quipped about the ousted ... Throughout the night, several sketches paid tribute to Conan's body of work or filled out the ceremony. One new sketch was Colbert ...

He collaborated with Edgar M. Branch on several volumes of *Mark Twain's Early Tales & Sketches*. Since 1980 Hirst has been General Editor of the Mark Twain Project, so-called because it embraced two ...

O’Brien had been named the 26th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize in January ... chowed down on chicken wings as he did a sketch spoofing O’Brien’s “Hot Ones” episode that went viral ...

Talk show veteran Conan O’Brien was feted with the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Sunday in a lively production that blended accolades from numerous colleagues with ...

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 ...

Among those paying tribute to the comedian at Sunday night's event in Washington, D.C., were Adam Sandler, John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman and a dozen Mark Twain impersonators. By The Associated ...

In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute. By Jason Zinoman Jason Zinoman watched the ceremony at the ...

new video loaded: Conan O’Brien Receives Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center transcript The ceremony honoring Conan O’Brien with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was the first high ...