This is FRESH AIR. Last December, Conan O'Brien was selected by the Kennedy Center as the next recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In February, newly reelected President Trump ...

WASHINGTON — Conan O'Brien took home the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday, where the spotlight was just as much on the Kennedy Center, where he accepted the prize, as the Emmy ...

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Conan O'Brien has been married to his wife, Liza Powel O'Brien, since 2002, and she was by his side when he accepted the Mark Twain Prize in 2025. Here’s everything to know about Conan O’Brien’s wife.

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 ...

The Kennedy Center has been the center of a nasty conversation about freedom in the arts ever since President Trump ousted the institution’s president and board in February. You’d barely know it from ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...