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 ...

“Congratulations to my friend Conan O’Brien on receiving the 26th and final Mark Twain prize.” Accepting the award, O’Brien thanked longtime Kennedy Center employees “for their selfless ...

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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 ...

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 ...

On Sunday, Conan O’Brien was presented the Mark Twain Prize for Humor at the Kennedy Center. With his comedian peers in attendance, the night doubled as an impromptu roast of Trump’s Kennedy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conan O'Brien Accepts Mark Twain Prize for Humor as Politics Roils the Kennedy Center WASHINGTON (AP) — On a night when half a dozen people made jokes about this being the last-ever Mark Twain ...