Before hosting this year’s Oscars, comedian Conan O’Brien will accept his own big award. The Emmy Award winner, set to host the 97th Academy Awards on March 2, will be honored with the 2025 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

As a recipient, O'Brien will receive a copy of an 1884 bronze portrait bust of Mark Twain sculpted by Karl Gerhardt (1853–1940). Previous recipients include Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg ...

Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday. Along the way, he survived one of the most public failures in the history of television on “The Tonight Show” — only to launch a successful,

Mark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom, just like MLK quotes. Born Samuel Clemens, Twain was a very successful writer, publishing American classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in ...

When the ADL decides it has no grace for a Black woman like Whoopi Goldberg, and is quick to decry antisemitic comments from a Black man like Nick Cannon, I feel it in my neighborhood.

(JTA) — She may not have meant to, but this week Whoopi Goldberg waded into a charged discourse that has polarized the Jewish community — and those who seek to discriminate against them ...

Whoopi Goldberg shared an emotional tribute to her friend and Lion King costar James Earl Jones, shortly after the actor completed the Circle of Life. Following news that Goldberg's fellow EGOT ...

Goldberg was onstage during one of the most infamous moments in music history Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

LONDON (AP) — Manfred Goldberg was just 13 years old when — stripped to his skin and shuffling toward an SS guard at a Nazi labor camp in Latvia — a man leaned over his shoulder and ...

In response to the news that the Trump Administration is using both ICE agents and military equipment to carry out these deportations, Whoopi Goldberg asked her co-stars, “Is this the ...

Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor with his wife Shary display their wedding photograph, as he is interviewed in London on Wednesday. LONDON — Manfred Goldberg was just 13 years old when ...

Whoopi Goldberg tore into Karoline Leavitt over a comment she made denigrating "wokeness" — which Goldberg says is what gave Leavitt her job at that podium.