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Eddie Murphy to be honoured with Mark Twain prize for humour
View(s):WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Comedian Eddie Murphy, famed for his roles in films like “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Shrek” will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour this year, bestowed by the Kennedy Centre.
Murphy is the 18th humorist to be honoured with the award and follows television comedians Jay Leno in 2014 and Carol Burnett in 2013, the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts said on its website.
The Kennedy Center called the 54-year-old Murphy “the most commercially successful African-American actor in the history of the motion picture business.”
Eddie Murphy (AFP)