Julia Louis-Dreyfus is this year's recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. "Like Mark Twain, Julia has enriched American culture with her iconic, unforgettable and outright hilarious brand of humor," Deborah F. Rutter, the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, announced in a statement Wednesday morning. "Over four decades, her wildly original characters and her gift for physical comedy have left us in stitches." Louis-Dreyfus accepted the honor with humility—and, of course, humor. In a statement, the beloved star of Seinfeld and Veep joked, "Merely to join the list of distinguished recipients of this award would be honor enough, but, as a student...
- 5/23/2018
- E! Online
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