Conan O’Brien has been introduced because the 2025 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and will likely be honored at a gala occasion held on the John F. Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on March twenty third.
Yearly, the Mark Twain Prize is awarded to “people who’ve had an impression on American society in methods much like the distinguished Nineteenth-century novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, greatest often called Mark Twain.”
“I’m honored to be the primary winner of the Mark Twain Prize acknowledged not for humor, however for my work as a riverboat pilot,” O’Brien joked in a press release.
O’Brien would be the twenty sixth individual to obtain the excellence, following honorees together with fellow late hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman in addition to Richard Pryor, Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Fey, and Eddie Murphy. Kevin Hart was honored with the Mark Twain Prize final 12 months after Adam Sandler was acknowledged in 2023.
Netflix will stream the ceremony for the twenty sixth Mark Twain Prize for American Humor someday later this 12 months.
In the meantime, on March 2nd, the comic will host the 2025 Academy Awards. His journey present Conan O’Brien Should Go was additionally not too long ago renewed at Max for a second season.