Tina Fey is to be presented with the 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center announced Wednesday.
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The "30 Rock" star and former "Saturday Night Live" cast member is to pick up the award at a ceremony in the center's concert hall in Washington Nov. 9.
"The award (presentation), named to honor one of America's -- and the world's -- greatest humorists, will feature a lineup of the biggest names in comedy, and will be taped for television by WETA," the center said on its Web site.
The show "will be broadcast nationwide on PBS on Nov. 14."
Fred Armisen, Steve Carell, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Hudson, Jane Krakowski, Steve Martin, Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels and Betty White are scheduled to pay tribute to Fey at the event.
