WASHINGTON : Comedian Jon Stewart became the 23rd recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday, with tributes from late night television hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel plus music from singer Bruce Springsteen.
"Jon Stewart changed my life," said actress Olivia Munn, a former correspondent on Stewart's show. She then mocked Stewart for keeping his Emmys in a cardboard box."Because that's who he is: lazy and vaguely disrespectful.""I know now that what I was really saying to you was the best job on television was working for you," Colbert said."I meant that when I said it in 2000.
In his acceptance speech, Stewart took a serious turn when talking about the future of comedy, making a reference to actor Will Smith's onstage slap of comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars.
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