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But most of them were deserving. Maher is by far the worst winner ever. No way does he deserve to share an award with the likes of Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, Bob Newhart and Steve Martin (among many other greats). It will be interesting to see who shows up to honor him.

Full list of past winners
1998 Richard Pryor
1999 Jonathan Winters
2000 Carl Reiner
2001 Whoopi Goldberg
2002 Bob Newhart
2003 Lily Tomlin
2004 Lorne Michaels
2005 Steve Martin
2006 Neil Simon
2007 Billy Crystal
2008 George Carlin
2009 Bill Cosby
2010 Tina Fey
2011 Will Ferrell
2012 Ellen DeGeneres
2013 Carol Burnett
2014 Jay Leno
2015 Eddie Murphy
2016 Bill Murray
2017 David Letterman
2018 Julia Louis-Dreyfus
2019 Dave Chappelle
2022 Jon Stewart
2023 Adam Sandler
2024 Kevin Hart
2025 Conan O'Brien

You can see who honored each winner on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain_Prize_for_American_Humor