Seinfeld To Salute Cosby With Top Humor Prize

 
 
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  • Bill Cosby and his wife Camille Cosby take the stage at the Apollo Theater 75th Anniversary Gala on June 8, 2009 in New York City
  • Jerry Seinfeld poses after performing at The Comedy Festival at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
  • Hugh Hefner and Bill Cosby talk about the upcoming Playboy Jazz Festival at Hefner's mansion

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    Bill Cosby and his wife Camille Cosby take the stage at the Apollo Theater 75th Anniversary Gala on June 8, 2009 in New York City

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    Jerry Seinfeld poses after performing at The Comedy Festival at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas

  • Hugh Hefner and Bill Cosby talk about the upcoming Playboy Jazz Festival at Hefner’s mansion

 
 

FIRST PUBLISHED: August 20, 2009 11:10 AM EDT
LAST UPDATED: August 20, 2009 11:18 AM EDT

WASHINGTON, DC --

The comedian who kept NBC viewers entertained on Thursday nights well after “The Cosby Show” was gone will salute Bill Cosby when he receives the nation’s top humor prize.

Jerry Seinfeld will honor Cosby on Oct. 26 with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.

The center announced the lineup Thursday and says the event will be broadcast nationally Nov. 4 on PBS.

Seinfeld will be joined by Chris Rock, “Cosby” co-stars Phylicia Rashad and Malcolm-Jamal Warner and others.

The 72-year-old Cosby already received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998 and a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002.

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