What is Mark Twain Prize for American Humor?
{{no sources|date=February 2016}} The '''Mark Twain Prize for American Humor''' is a prize for [[comedian]]s. The [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]] awards this prize every year. They first gave this prize in 1998. It is named after [[Mark Twain]]. Mark Twain was an American author. The Mark Twain Prize is America’s foremost award for humor. == Mark Twain Prize winners== * 1998 - [[Richard Pryor]] * 1999 - [[Jonathan Winters]] * 2000 - [[Carl Reiner]] * 2001 - [[Whoopi Goldberg]] * 2002 - [[Bob Newhart]] * 2003 - [[Lily Tomlin]] * 2004 - [[Lorne Michaels]] * 2005 - [[Steve Martin]] * 2006 - [[Neil Simon]] * 2007 - [[Billy Crystal]] * 2008 - [[George Carlin]] * 2009 - [[Bill Cosby]] * 2010 - [[Tina Fey]] * 2011 - [[Will Ferrell]] * 2012 - [[Ellen DeGeneres]] * 2013 - [[Carol Burnett]] * 2014 - [[Jay Leno]] * 2015 - [[Eddie Murphy]] * 2016 - [[Bill Murray]] * 2017 - [[David Letterman]] * 2018 - [[Julia Louis-Dreyfus]] * 2019 - [[Dave Chappelle]] * 2020&ndash;2021 - ''Cancelled due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]]'' * 2022 - [[Jon Stewart]] * 2023 - [[Adam Sandler]] ==Other websites== * [http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/marktwain/ Mark Twain Prize] from the Kennedy Center website * [https://www.pbs.org/mark-twain-prize/ Mark Twain Prize] from the PBS website {{Mark Twain}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mark Twain Prize For American Humor}} [[Category:Comedy]] [[Category:Literary awards]] [[Category:Mark Twain Prize recipients|*]] [[Category:Mark Twain]] {{lit-stub}}