Dave Chappelle Takes a Mark Twain
By • November 6, 2019 0 687
Hometown favorite Dave Chappelle received the 22nd annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Oct. 27 — with tributes from yasiin bey, Neal Brennan, Common, Bradley Cooper, Morgan Freeman, Tiffany Haddish, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Lorne Michaels, Trevor Noah, Q-Tip, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, Frédéric Yonnet and others. Later, the group partied at Cafe Milano past 3 a.m., and on Oct. 28, Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed the theater at Duke Ellington School of the Arts — Chappelle’s alma mater — in his honor.
