Kevin Hart Given Mark Twain Award

[Politic Negro]

The list:

Mark Twain Prize for American Humor awardees

Year	Image	Recipient	Notes
1998		Richard Pryor[21]	Those there to honor Pryor included Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Chevy Chase, Tim Allen, Danny Glover, Damon Wayans, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Belzer, Morgan Freeman, Ruth Brown and Dick Gregory;[22] Gene Wilder appeared in a pre-taped video.[23]
1999		Jonathan Winters[24]	Those there to honor Winters included Steve Allen, Sid Caesar, Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Robert Wuhl,[25] Eugene Levy and Michael McKean.
2000		Carl Reiner[26]	Those there to honor Reiner included Steve Martin, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Seinfeld,[26] Rob Reiner, Joy Behar, Richard Belzer, and George Wallace; Mel Brooks and Ray Romano appeared in pre-taped videos.[27]
2001		Whoopi Goldberg[28]	Those there to honor Goldberg included Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Wanda Sykes, Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Tucker, Alan King, Bruce Valanche, Caroline Rhea, Tommy Davidson and Harry Belafonte.[28]
2002		Bob Newhart[29]	Those there to honor Newhart included Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, The Smothers Brothers, Don Rickles, Tim Conway, Bernie Mac, Jane Curtin, Fred Willard, Julia Sweeney and Steven Wright.[30]
2003		Lily Tomlin[31]	Those there to honor Tomlin included Jane Fonda, Robin Williams, Dave Chappelle, Elaine Stritch, Doris Roberts, George Lopez, Darrell Hammond, Catherine O'Hara, Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton; Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin appeared in pre-taped videos.[31]
2004		Lorne Michaels[32]	Michaels, a Canadian-American, is the only recipient as of 2023 born and raised outside of the United States.[33] Those who honored Michaels included Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, David Spade, Paul Simon, Conan O'Brien, Christopher Walken, Senator John McCain,[34] and Amy Poehler.
2005		Steve Martin[35]	Those who honored Martin included Tom Hanks, Martin Short, Larry David, Dave Barry, Eric Idle, Diane Keaton, Claire Danes, Queen Latifah, Randy Newman, Paul Simon, Mike Nichols.[36]
2006		Neil Simon[37]	Those there to honor Simon included Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Jason Alexander, Robert Klein, Paul Reiser, Christina Applegate, Richard Dreyfus, and Robert Redford.[38]
2007		Billy Crystal[39]	Those who honored Crystal included Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Lovitz, Martin Short, Rob Reiner, Bob Costas, Barbara Walters,[39] and John Goodman.
2008		George Carlin[40]	The award is not intended to be given posthumously, but Carlin's death occurred between the announcement and the ceremony.[41] Those there to honor Carlin included Joan Rivers, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Lewis Black, Denis Leary, Margaret Cho, Garry Shandling, and Lily Tomlin.
2009		Bill Cosby[42]	Those who honored Cosby included Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Sinbad, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Steven Wright, Willie Nelson, Carl Reiner, Dick Gregory, Rita Moreno, and Phylicia Rashad. (Cosby's award was rescinded in 2018 due to a sexual assault conviction.)[43]
2010		Tina Fey[44]	Those who honored Fey included Alec Baldwin, Amy Poehler, Steve Martin, Steve Carell, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Hamm, Fred Armisen, Seth Meyers, Jennifer Hudson, Betty White, and Lorne Michaels.[7]
2011		Will Ferrell[45]	Those who honored Ferrell included Conan O'Brien, John C. Reilly, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Adam McKay, Tim Meadows, Matthew Broderick, and Ed Asner.
2012		Ellen DeGeneres[46]	Those there to honor DeGeneres included Jane Lynch, Sean Hayes, Jimmy Kimmel, John Leguizamo, John Krasinski, Steve Harvey, Kristin Chenoweth, and Lily Tomlin.
2013		Carol Burnett[47]	Those there to honor Burnett included Julie Andrews, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rashida Jones, Martin Short, Tony Bennett, Vicki Lawrence, and Tim Conway;[48] Carl Reiner and Ellen DeGeneres appeared in pre-taped videos.
2014		Jay Leno[49]	Those there to honor Leno included Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Robert Klein, J.B. Smoove, Jamie Foxx, Wanda Sykes, Chelsea Handler, Kristin Chenoweth, and Garth Brooks.
2015		Eddie Murphy[50]	Those there to honor Murphy included Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Arsenio Hall, Jay Pharoah, Tracy Morgan, Trevor Noah, George Lopez, Kevin Nealon, and Kathy Griffin.[51]
2016		Bill Murray[52]	Those who honored Murray included David Letterman, Emma Stone, Bill Hader, Aziz Ansari, Miley Cyrus, Jane Curtin, Jimmy Kimmel, Brian Doyle Murray, and Sigourney Weaver.
2017		David Letterman[53]	Those there to honor Letterman included Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Martin Short, John Mulaney, Norm Macdonald, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmie Walker, and Eddie Vedder; Michelle Obama appeared in a pre-taped video. Al Franken appeared but was cut from the broadcast due to sexual harassment allegations against him.[54]
2018		Julia Louis-Dreyfus[55]	Those there to honor Louis-Dreyfus included Jerry Seinfeld, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Bryan Cranston, Tony Hale, Lisa Kudrow, Keegan-Michael Key, Kumail Nanjiani, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, and Jack Johnson; Larry David appeared in a pre-taped video.
2019		Dave Chappelle[56]	Those who honored Chappelle included Q-Tip, Jon Stewart, Bradley Cooper, Morgan Freeman, Aziz Ansari, Lorne Michaels, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Sarah Silverman, Neal Brennan, Kenan Thompson, Michael Che, Colin Jost, Chris Tucker, Tiffany Haddish, Common, John Legend, and Chrissy Teigen.[57] Eddie Murphy appeared in a pre-taped video. The PBS broadcast of the ceremony was unique, because footage of the ceremony was interspersed with footage of Chappelle performing standup in a comedy club.
2022		Jon Stewart[58]	Those who honored Stewart included Samantha Bee, Steve Carell, Dave Chappelle, Pete Davidson, Ed Helms, Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Meacham, Olivia Munn, Bassem Youssef, and Bruce Springsteen. Stephen Colbert appeared remotely via video chat and John Oliver appeared in a pre-taped video that satirized a eulogy.[59][60][61]
2023		Adam Sandler[62]	Those who honored Sandler included Dana Carvey, Luis Guzmán, Tim Herlihy, Idina Menzel, Rob Schneider, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Judd Apatow, Drew Barrymore, Steve Buscemi, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock, Pete Davidson, and David Spade.[63]
2024		Kevin Hart	Kevin Hart will receive the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy[64]

 

[Gods_Debris]

Nah, he not on that level AT ALL, Sandler either

 

[TimRock]

How the fuck do they choose? Tina, Will and Ellen were given the award before Eddie and Carol Burnette.

 

[Deezz]

Kev has his moments, but overall he falls flat in the comedy dept for me.

He definitely gets the Hustle Award for pimpin' Hollywood as much as he has and making a ton of money.

He's also helped a lot of people in the industry.

 

[Gods_Debris]

How the fuck do they choose? Tina, Will and Ellen were given the award before Eddie and Carol Burnette.

Fuckin Tina Fey? Da Hell???

 

[KunningLinguist]

Nah, he not on that level AT ALL, Sandler either

comedy is subjective....

 

[donwuan]

Props to Kev. He seems like a stand up dude.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

He's achieved a lot in professional stand up comedy
Regardless if we think he's hilarious and all time great or not he's grown from club dates to several #1 comedy movies ( of his standup) and selling out stadiums around the world

Lots of savvy lots of work
Came from paper soldiers and soul plane to this

Props to him

 

[Pworld297]

Props to Kevin, I know some people are not into his stand up comedy myself included. Cacs love him though.. Lol When I see him just sitting around people just hanging out, he's hilarious.

 

[Politic Negro]

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/marktwain/

Emmy® and Grammy®–nominated Kevin Hart was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he launched his career as a comedian during an amateur night at a local comedy club. Over the years, Hart has become Hollywood’s box office powerhouse, opening 11 films at number one at the box office and grossing more than in $4.23 billion global revenue. Hart has also become a successful entrepreneur; he is chairman of Hartbeat, a global, multi-platform media company creating entertainment at the intersection of comedy and culture with a mission to “keep the world laughing together.”


The company unites Hartbeat Productions’ best–in–class TV and film production capabilities with Laugh Out Loud’s expansive distribution network, along with its marketing, sales, experiential, branded content, digital, and social capabilities. Hart is also the founder of HartBeat Ventures. Together, these companies play an integral role in building Hart’s ecosystem for extraordinary growth and creativity.
Hart continues to develop, star, and produce feature films, television, and podcasts via Hartbeat for his various partners, including Netflix, Peacock, Sirius XM, and Audible. Hart recently toured internationally with his eighth hour of stand-up material titled The Reality Check Tour. Hart filmed his hour in Las Vegas and, on July 6, exclusively released it as a comedy special for streaming on Peacock. The tour was named the number one Comedy Tour of 2022 by Billboard, and Hart was awarded the People’s Choice Award® for Comedy Act of 2022 on behalf of the new hour. In 2020, Hart released his seventh hour-long stand-up special, Zero F**ks Given, which quickly became Netflix’s biggest stand-up special of 2020, earned him a Grammy® nomination for Best Comedy Album, as well as an Emmy® nomination. Hart also earned Emmy® nominations for Die Hart and the sequel Die Hart 2: Die Harter, both for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. Hart is a New York Times bestselling author twice over and his first Audible original, The Decision, was nominated for an Audie Award for Best Original Audiobook in 2021.
Hart is a founding partner in three companies: the premium tequila brand, Gran Coramino, plant-based restaurant, Hart House, and the nutritional wellness brand, Vita Hustle. Hart’s brand partnerships include Sam’s Club, Audemars Piguet, Fabletics Men, Chase J.P Morgan, Draft Kings, Hydrow, NutraBolt, and Therabody.

 

[Gods_Debris]

comedy is subjective....

And intellect is subject to inquiry

 

[nawlinsn931]

How long before they come for him

 

[Politic Negro]

 

[Politic Negro]

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

It's a Jew award with a layer of negroes every other year.

 

[Darkness's]

I came to see all the Kevin hart haters get mad.

 

[Darkness's]

We'll be heading from katt Williams soon.

 

[Tdot_firestarta]

He's achieved a lot in professional stand up comedy
Regardless if we think he's hilarious and all time great or not he's grown from club dates to several #1 comedy movies ( of his standup) and selling out stadiums around the world

Lots of savvy lots of work
Came from paper soldiers and soul plane to this

Props to him

This
Just watched the special on Netflix, it was dope to see people like Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Keith Robinson, Dave Chappelle etc show love to him

 

[TimRock]

It was pretty good. some funny moments.

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

This
Just watched the special on Netflix, it was dope to see people like Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Keith Robinson, Dave Chappelle etc show love to him

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