Julia Louis-Dreyfus's brilliant Mark Twain speech, and other great comedy acceptances

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Easily our most popular speech and transcript this week is Julia Louis-Dreyfus's masterful acceptance as the Kennedy Center's 2018 winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour. It's a pressure packed speech, because the world now watches, and if you're receiving an award as an all-time great of comedy, it helps if your speech is fun…