Silver Spring Native Dave Chappelle Receives Comedy Award

WASHINGTON (AP) — Boundary-pushing comedian Dave Chappelle is the latest recipient of the Mark Twain prize for lifetime achievement in comedy, an honor being bestowed Sunday night at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.
The event is a homecoming for Chappelle, who was raised in suburban Silver Spring, Maryland, attended Washington’s prestigious Duke Ellington School of the Arts and filmed his first HBO special in the capital.
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