Presenters Announced for Bill Murray’s Mark Twain Award Ceremony

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Next month, Bill Murray will be honored with the nation’s highest comedy honor, the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and doing the honoring will be a cast mate, a co-star, a relative, two late night hosts, among others.

According to the Washington Post, the Kennedy Center announced the stars which will be participating in the ceremony recognizing Bill Murray’s contribution to comedy. The evening will include tributes from David Letterman, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Hader, Paul Shaffer, Roy Blount Jr., Aziz Ansari and the person representing the Murray family, Brian Doyle-Murray.

It will be difficult for the presenters to completely cover Bill Murray’s body of comedy work when the show tapes on October 23rd this year. Murray’s comedy and its influence have been felt in television, blockbuster movies and independent films. In comedy, he’s been a Saturday Night Live cast member, a Ghostbuster, a golf course greens keeper, an Army private, a kids camp counselor, a bank robber, a championship bowler, an oceanographer, a network president and a weatherman reliving the same day over and over again. And that’s just naming a few of the roles which earned him the Mark Twain Prize.

Bill Murray’s upcoming projects include more voice work comedy, including the Dreamworks animated comedy “B.O.O. Bureau of Otherworldly Operations” co-starring the voices of Seth Rogen and Melissa McCarthy and a still untitled animated feature film from frequent collaborator Wes Anderson due out in 2018.

The Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring Bill Murray will air nationally on Friday, October 28th on PBS.

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