The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents the 22nd annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Dave Chappelle.
This program honors comedian, actor, writer and producer Chappelle, chronicling his extraordinary life and career through an intimate hybrid of documentary film and star-studded gala performance.
Chappelle is an internationally recognized stand-up comedian and actor whose trademark wit and sharp, irreverent social commentary explores race, popular culture, sex, drugs, politics and fame.
Chappelle, who could always make people laugh, set ambitious goals for his art. As a 14-year-old student at Washington D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts, he crafted his stand-up comedy act out of the realities of his life growing up black in the nation’s capital.
