Dave Chappelle to Receive 2019 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Over two decades after entertainer Richard Pryor was granted the first-since forever Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Dave Chappelle will get the respect at a Kennedy Center function in Washington, D.C., on October 27, which will at that point air on PBS in January 2020. Past beneficiaries of the honor have included Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin, and most as of late Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Bill Cosby was regarded in 2009, however the honor was along these lines cancelled in 2018. "As America's biggest stage for expressions of the human experience, PBS is pleased to proceed with our longstanding convention of broadcasting The Mark Twain Prize to family units the nation over," Paula Kerger, PBS president and CEO, said in an announcement. "We anticipate observing Dave Chappelle and his permanent commitments to American cleverness."