October 23rd, 2012
12:14 PM ET
Ellen DeGeneres honored with Mark Twain prizeWashington, D.C. had a busy night on Monday. While politicos were tuned in to the presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, the artsy set was busy celebrating Ellen DeGeneres at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The 54-year-old comedian and daytime talk show host was honored as the 15th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award given to those who've made an impact on American society with their work, as Twain did. Tina Fey, Bill Cosby and Will Ferrell are among the past recipients.
While accepting the award (and handily displaying why she won it), DeGeneres reportedly joked that she's "never read Mark Twain before ... But to be fair, he's never seen my HBO specials," according to the New York Times. Among the attendees were Jimmy Kimmel, former Mark Twain Prize recipient Lily Tomlin, and "Glee" star Jane Lynch, who thanked DeGeneres for opening doors for other LGBT entertainers. (DeGeneres, who wed Portia de Rossi in 2010, reportedly quipped of her career Monday, "I just thought I'd be a closeted gay comedian wearing parachute pants.") Lynch, who's also been open about her sexuality, told DeGeneres, “I’m pretty darn sure I could not have the career I have, that I could not live as openly as I’ve lived, if it hadn’t been for you. You really took one for the team.” Catch the full event on PBS next Tuesday, October 30, at 8 p.m. ET.
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DeGeneres started performing stand-up comedy at small clubs and coffee houses. By 1981 she was the emcee at Clyde's Comedy Club in New Orleans. DeGeneres cites Woody Allen and Steve Martin as her main influences at this time.,-
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It would have been nice if she would have said she had read Mark Twain. But I guess it's not PC to be well read.
She is a leisbian so of course Hollywood in going to honor her for being such a model citizen.
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No guy in his right mind would want that.
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I like Ellen a lot and maybe some day she should get this award. Same for Will Ferrell and Tina Fey–they just haven't accomplished enough to merit this honor. Instead, they should be honoring humorists like Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory, and the Smothers Brothers–they stood for something and made a difference and are really more the successors of Twain than DeGeneres, Ferrell, and Fey. These three are funny, but just aren't on a par with Cosby and George Carlin and some of the other honorees.
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Wow, LOOOOTS of negativity here. Get over it people. Ellen is a funny, charming lady, who GIVES ALOT to people and charity organizaions. She took a hard hit to her career when she came out publicly, but she made it that much easier for the rest of the closeted community to have the careers that they did. I applaud her for her strength, and ability to bounce back the way she did. YAY ELLEN!
She thinks she is on the same level as Mark Twain? She is delusional.
How could she think that!? She says she hasn't even read Mark Twain.
Dumb Beotch
Didn't she play one of the zombies in Resident Evil...? Yeah, I think played the zombie with blod hair...
Nope, she played the zombie with the weird nose....
I heard she is a D Y K E but it doen't matter because she is ugly!
I like Ellen soley for the reason that her humor is clean.... She doesn't have to resort to crassness like a that one redhead comedienne, or Chelsey Handler, Sarah Silverman... etc... Its like many comediennes feel they have to be over the top to be noticed in a field predominated by men. Ellen doesn't lower herself to that. That said... she should read more too, 'cause Twain was the bomb.
I am of the opinion that not reading some of Mark Twain's novels is not something to joke about. He remains one of the giants of American literature and anyone who has not read some of his works can call themselves truly educated.
Having read Twain, I am completely confident he would disagree with you.
"[I've] never read Mark Twain before ... But to be fair, he's never seen my HBO specials." Hardly the same thing. How she won this honor is beyond comprehension. There must be a slimmer group of candidates than the 2012 presidential election. Apparently, the adage that anyone can grow up to be president is absolutely true.
He was a humorist. She's a comedian. It was a joke.
Mark Twain wrote his own stuff, she can't say that.
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Instrumental
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Yep. I heard she's a lesbean. I hope they put her in jail.
Once I get past the surface level stupidity of your comment, I find a much deeper stupidity. You want to put in a place where she will be surrounded mostly by her own gender because she prefers the company of her own gender. Have you ever considered the possibility that you will just never be considered 'clever' and perhaps the best thing you could do for any cause that you believe in (right or wrong) would be to shut up?
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Ellen is ok, but she's not that funny – and she is DEFINATELY not one of the top comedians.
I guess its Hollywood being aplogetic for some reason.
This just cheapens the award for all those that really deserve it! While we're at it, why not give a nobel prize to Obama for doing nothing ... oh wait....
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She kind of looks gay to me. Is she one of those lesbeans?
lets go make fun of the hack whale some more....and then fool around all night.