The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
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Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech
This excerpt from Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is quite good. Twai ...
Conan O’Brien Accepts the Mark Twain Prize With ‘Unceasing Silliness’
These are the full remarks made by Conan O’Brien upon receiving the 2025 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy ...
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'Twain hated bullies.' Conan O'Brien receives Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center
It was a night of silliness, scatological humor, cutting political satire and poignancy as Conan O'Brien received the 26th ...