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- Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn join Mark Twain on his airship to meet Halley's Comet.
- Mark Twain writes a screed against Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.
- The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley's Comet returned.
- A biographical film about the acclaimed American humourist and author.
- Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, 'Hal Holbrook' portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain's own words for a commentary on slavery, religion and politics, mixing the satire with comic yarns about life on the Mississippi and a very effective ghost story. The show's highlight are the lengthy passages from "Huckleberry Finn".
- An outstanding lineup of entertainers gathers in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall to salute Jon Stewart, recipient of the 23rd annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
- Dorothy Quick, a young girl, befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, during the final years of his life.
- 20201h 30mTV-MA7.5 (2.4K)TV SpecialIn 2019 comedy great Dave Chappelle received the 22nd Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The event was held in a ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Toasting Chappelle were a who's who of the entertainment industry.
- The comedy world gathers to celebrate, and roast, Kevin Hart, as he accepts the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
- Starring Dan O Herlihy as Mark Twain, this PBS special was created by renowned Twain scholars.
- This one hour programme retraces Mark Twain's 1867 adventure as a reporter who travels to Europe from Paris and Rome to the Holy Land and ultimately Jerusalem . We hear about his many opinions and criticisms about various places.
- 150 years ago, Samuel Clemens spent 88 days in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties in the winter of 1864/65. While taking refuge from the rain in Angels Camp, he was told the story of a jumping frog. That frog made him famous as Mark Twain.
- A lineup of top entertainers saluted Tina Fey at the 13th Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on November 9, 2010.
- Dangerous Intimacy reveals how Mark Twain, after his wife's death, enjoyed the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious and calculating secretary. With the help of Twain's assistant, Ralph Ashcroft, Lyon exiled Twain's daughter Jean, an epileptic, to a sanitarium and nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over Twain's household and estate. Based on the book by Karen Lystra and an unpublished Twain manuscript.
- 20181h 25m7.3 (26)TV SpecialA star-studded lineup salutes the achievements of comedic trailblazer Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the beloved Emmy Award-winning actress, comedian, and producer receives the 2018 Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
- 20151h 25m7.1 (21)TV Special
- 20161h 25m6.2 (27)TV SpecialActor Bill Murray is celebrated as the 19th recipient of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
- 20098.0 (62)TV Special
- A telecast of the October 23, 2011 awarding of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Will Ferrell (1967- ) in a ceremony in the concert hall at the Kennedy Center. With Ferrell and his wife, Viveca, looking on from the balcony stage left, 13 friends and co-stars from "Saturday Night Live" and Ferrell's highest-grossing films come on stage to tell a story or two (or sing) and introduce a film clip. Then, Kennedy Center Board of Trustees Chair David Rubenstein presents a bust of Twain to Ferrell, who promptly drops and breaks it. Ferrell, the 14th recipient of the prize, recovers from the embarrassment to offer his thanks, in particular to Viveca and both his former wives.
- Author and humorist Mark Twain works in a modern social media company.
- 20141h 25m5.7 (14)TV SpecialComic and television host Jay Leno is celebrated as the 17th recipient of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
- Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorn Clemens in Florida, Missouri. Twain drew on his boyhood along the Mississippi River for many of his characters and plots. His formal schooling ended early and he learned the print trade. In 1853, after writing for newspapers in Hannibal, Missouri, he left for St. Louis, Philadelphia and New York. He returned to the river in 1857 and became a Mississippi steamboat pilot until the Civil War put an end to river traffic. His fame as a humorist and story teller was established with the publication of the "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". Lecturing increased his reputation, but it was "The Innocent Abroad" that gave him a firm place in the world of literature. A careful and conscious artist, Twain as a humorist was master of the techniques of exaggeration, irreverence and deadpan solemnity. Sensitive to the sound of language, he introduced colloquial speech into American fiction. He was unsurpassed as a creator of character, preeminently in the immortal Huck Finn, and as a keen observer of the social scene.
- Interweaves Twain's life and times with the lives of current day enthusiasts of the 19th century way of life. Utilizing archival stereo-optic photos, powerful images from the past seemingly come alive in a larger-than-life presentation.
- Like 'The contact of flint and steel' this dramatized and finally cinematized version of Mark Twain's Autobiography reflects the genius and timelessness of one of America's greatest minds.
- A bad schoolboy grows up to be an axe-murdering senator. Based on "The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief" by Mark Twain.
- Mark Twain, the splendid, immoral, cigar smoking, wine drinking true American revolutionary, adapted for the screen and brilliantly performed by Ed Trostle.
- Ben Maguire, a hit man who uses the alias Mark Twain, is on the run from his violent past, with a cool million dollars in stolen money. But it's not long before his past catches up with him in the form of Max Poe, a dangerous hit man with plans of his own for the money. And is the new love in Ben's life, Claire, all that she seems to be?
- A young man asks his pastor about a spiritual dilemma he's having, which leads to a story about an old captain.
- The program combines the history of the Clemens family, and their years in Hartford, CT with the restoration of the house as well as the recent restoration of the kitchen wing.
- Sir Peter Ustinov, actor, comedian and raconteur, retreads the journey first taken by Mark Twain a hundred years previously, in order to take in a world on the brink not just of a new century, but a new millennium.