Before hosting this year’s Oscars, comedian Conan O’Brien will accept his own big award. The Emmy Award winner, set to host the 97th Academy Awards on March 2, will be honored with the 2025 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

As a recipient, O’Brien will receive a copy of an 1884 bronze portrait bust of Mark Twain sculpted by Karl Gerhardt (1853–1940). Previous recipients include Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Carol Burnett ...

Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett and Dave Chappelle. Bill Cosby, the 2009 recipient, had his Mark Twain Prize rescinded in 2019 amid multiple allegations of sexual assault. Khalil ...

Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday. Along the way, he survived one of the most public failures in the history of television on “The Tonight Show” — only to launch a successful,

As a recipient, O'Brien will receive a copy of an 1884 bronze portrait bust of Mark Twain sculpted by Karl Gerhardt (1853–1940). Previous recipients include Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg ...

The View is once again forging ahead without Whoopi Goldberg. As loyal viewers know by now, the show has been down a co-host since Tuesday (Jan. 21), when Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin ...

Mark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom, just like MLK quotes. Born Samuel Clemens, Twain was a very successful writer, publishing American classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in ...

When the ADL decides it has no grace for a Black woman like Whoopi Goldberg, and is quick to decry antisemitic comments from a Black man like Nick Cannon, I feel it in my neighborhood.

(JTA) — She may not have meant to, but this week Whoopi Goldberg waded into a charged discourse that has polarized the Jewish community — and those who seek to discriminate against them ...

Whoopi Goldberg shared an emotional tribute to her friend and Lion King costar James Earl Jones, shortly after the actor completed the Circle of Life. Following news that Goldberg's fellow EGOT ...

Goldberg was onstage during one of the most infamous moments in music history Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

LONDON (AP) — Manfred Goldberg was just 13 years old when — stripped to his skin and shuffling toward an SS guard at a Nazi labor camp in Latvia — a man leaned over his shoulder and ...