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Comics Skewer Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center Takeover As Conan O’Brien Accepts Its Mark Twain Prize
As he presented the Mark Twain Prize to Conan O’Brien at the end of a ceremony at the Kennedy Center this evening, David Letterman said to the audience, “I’m not a historian, but I believe that history will show, in history for all time, this will have been the most entertaining gathering of the resistance, […]
Throughout the evening, comedians tossed in quips at the situation in their comic roasting and heartfelt tributes to O’Brien. John Mulaney: “Welcome to the Kennedy Center, or as it will be known next week, the Roy Cohn Pavilion for big strong men.” He added, “Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money excess of the Gilded Age and any expression of mindless American might or self-importance.
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