The late Hal Holbrook, in addition to a long career on large and small screens, did a pretty good job of recreating 19th ...

Emmy-winning actor Richard Thomas has moved on from playing one legend -- Atticus Finch in the national tour of "To Kill a ...

Beloved to generations as John-Boy Walton, Richard Thomas is the first and only actor authorized to perform Mark Twain ...

Comedians love to rib each other. It's almost a requirement for the job and there was plenty of it for Kevin Hart Sunday night as he received the 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The ...

Kevin Hart accepted the Mark Twain Prize for humor with an emotional speech on Sunday (March 24). Friends, family, and peers gathered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the ...

Kevin Hart got emotional when accepting one of comedy's highest honors: the Mark Twain Prize for humor. The 44-year-old comedian and actor accepted the award from the Kennedy Center with friends and ...

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive / ...

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 Performing ...

Comedian Kevin Hart is the latest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. One of the highest honors in the comedy industry, the award was created in 1998 and is given to individuals who ...