This fall Eddie Murphy will step into the limelight once again, and hopefully give a speech longer than 72 seconds, when he receives the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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Murphy, 54, will be honored at the Kennedy Center in October during the 18th annual gala. The Kennedy Center said that Murphy was the “the most commercially successful African-American actor in the history of the motion picture business, and is one of the industry’s top-five box-office performers overall.”
Murphy, who recently made an appearance on Saturday Night Live’s 40th-anniversary show, joins previous honorees such as Richard Pryor and Whoopi Goldberg.
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