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Jon Stewart Receives the Mark Twain Award In Star-Filled Event at Kennedy Center

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(Editor's Note: This column by our own Roger Catlin, who attended the event, was originally published on April 27. Jon Stewart: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prizewill be telecast tonight on PBS. Please check your local listings.) After praise from an array of comics, most of whom he had mentored, and a serenade from a favorite rock star, Jon Stewart took the 23rd annual Mark Twain Award for American Humor at the Kennedy Center Sunday with a mix of humility and a challenge for comedy to continue challenging authority.

Roger Catlin

Roger Catlin is a longtime arts and entertainment writer and critic who lives in Washington, D.C. A former rock critic and TV critic at The Hartford Courant for many years, he has written for Smithsonian Magazine.com, The Washington Post, AARP the Magazine, … read more