Topic: Mark Twain

SNL alum Tina Fey receives top U.S. humor prize

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comedian Tina Fey, whose parody of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin some say influenced the 2008 U.S. presidential election, accepted the Mark Twain prize for American Humor on Tuesday before a packed audience at the Kennedy Center ...
Any student writing an essay on examples of satire in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain needs to first be free and clear about the nature of satire. For example, in the novel "Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain was getting society to look at ...

They Never Said That

The misstep was probably inevitable, given the many compari sons made between Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. With seven weeks to go in Obama's presidential campaign, the young candidate from Illinois inadvertently committed one of the most common sins in American politics-he ...