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Conan O’Brien Accepts the Mark Twain Prize With ‘Unceasing Silliness’
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My partner Greg [Daniels] and I had just lost our first job writing for television, and I’m sitting alone in a Du-Par’s Diner on Wilshire Boulevard eating pancakes very slowly at one in the afternoon to try and fill out the entire day. Now, imagine that suddenly some angel from the future appears in that Du-Par’s on Wilshire and tells me that 40 years from now, I’m going to be onstage at the Kennedy Center in Washington and that the most prestigious award in comedy is going to be handed to me by David Letterman. He populated his works with abusers such as Huck Finn’s alcoholic father and Tom Driscoll in Pudd’nhead Wilson, and he made his readers passionately hate those characters.
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