Date 18/10/2015 - News People
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is honoring Eddie Murphy Sunday evening with the nation's top prize for humor. A lineup of funny men and women including Dave Chappelle, George Lopez, Kathy Griffin and Trevor Noah will salute Murphy with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Murphy gained national attention when he joined the SNL cast in 1980 at the age of 19. He went on to become the most commercially successful African-American actors in film history and one of the industry's Top 5 box office performers overall. The tribute will be shown on PBS on November 23.