Billy Crystal, comedian, actor, and frequent host of the Academy Awards, will be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center Honor ceremony in October. Previous recipients of the honor include Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Simon, and Steve Martin.

“To be given the same award as Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Neil Simon is a great honor,” said the 59-year-old Crystal. “I told my granddaughter, who is 3, that I won the Mark Twain prize, and she said … `I have one too.’”

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