In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute. By Jason Zinoman Jason Zinoman watched the ceremony at the ...

He punched up, not down, and he deeply empathized with the weak,” O'Brien said. “Twain loved America, but he knew it was deeply flawed.” A Mark Twain impersonator then emerged from the audience.

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 ...

WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - Conan O'Brien accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday with a not-so-subtle broadside against President Donald Trump, whose takeover of the ...