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Jon Hamm, Jennifer Hudson, Steve Martin, and Betty White will among the entertainers who will be on hand when The Kennedy Center presents the 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Emmy Award-winning actress and writer Tina Fey on Tuesday, November 9. The show will be taped for broadcast on November 14 on PBS.
Other participants in the ceremony will include Fred Armisen, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, along with Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.
Fey got her start with the renowned The Second City Improv Group in Chicago, and gained fame as a co-star and later head-writer of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. She is currently executive producer, creator, and star of NBC’s award-winning comedy series 30 Rock, in which she plays Liz Lemon. Her film credits include Mean Girls, The Invention of Lying , Baby Mama, and Date Night, and her voice will be heard in the upcoming Dreamworks animated film Megamind along with Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell, and Jonah Hill.
The Kennedy Center established The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in October 1998, and it has been televised annually. Recipients of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize have been Richard Pryor (1998), Jonathan Winters (1999), Carl Reiner (2000), Whoopi Goldberg (2001), Bob Newhart (2002), Lily Tomlin (2003), Lorne Michaels (2004), Steve Martin (2005), Neil Simon (2006), Billy Crystal (2007), George Carlin (2008), and Bill Cosby (2009).
