Snickering car collector Jay Leno, America's foremost mediocrity merchant, was today named the recipient of the 17th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Perhaps there has been a mistake?

Today at Gawker.TV, Snooki simultaneously disses The Situation and Dancing With the Stars, a look at Zac Efron's weird acceptance speech, Stephen Colbert celebrates the censorship of Huckleberry Finn, and the internet's beloved golden-voiced homeless man announced the Today Show.

An Auburn University professor, along with NewSouth Books, plans to release a new edition of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn with every instance of the word "nigger" replaced with "slave," hoping that will make the book more accessible.

When Tina Fey thanked Sarah Palin as she received the Mark Twain prize, she said "My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that ever happened to me." Here's what she said that PBS didn't air.

Last Tuesday, Tina Fey was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Last night PBS aired the entire ceremony for the rest of us. It was filled with Tina's colleagues cracking jokes and sending their warmest congratulations.

The Autobiography of Mark Twain just became the number one best-seller on Amazon. This means people have to come up with something new to say about Mark Twain 100 years after his death. Like: was Mark Twain a blogger?

Fall is the best season for reading—it's either the weather or a Pavlovian response conditioned by years of schooling. But: What are you going to read? Here's a preview of some of this fall's most interesting titles.

Apparently, Mark Twain had strict guidelines about when he wanted his autobiography to be published. When Craig Ferguson discovered that no one could publish his book for a hundred years, only one reason seemed logical; Twain was a baby hater.

When Mark Twain died in 1910 he left 5,000 pages of memoir with instructions that they be published 100 years after his death. This year! Want to know what part we're most excited about? It involves a turn-of-the-century vibrator.

The working man's author decided it was time to take out the iconic Mark Twain for being a bourgeois phony. But maybe old Tom is just upset that he was never able to write The Great American Novel himself?