This fall, Ellen DeGeneres will join Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Fey, George Carlin and Will Ferrell in a very exclusive comedy club: recipients of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour.
The Emmy-winning host of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” is being honoured for her stand-up work, her daytime show, her various hosting gigs, activism and books.
According to the Kennedy Centre, recipients of the Mark Twain Prize are “people who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens.”
DeGeneres will have to make room on her already crowded awards shelf. She’s already won 12 People’s Choice Awards, three Teen Choice Awards, two Genesis Awards and a GLAAD Media Award, and her talk show has won 35 Daytime Emmy Awards.
DeGeneres will receive her award during a ceremony at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 22.
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