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Conan O’Brien Feted With Mark Twain Prize as Comedians Take Aim at Trump: ‘I Miss the Days When You Were America’s Only Orange A–hole’
Conan O'Brien received the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize on Sunday as presenters took aim at Trump and the upheaval at the D.C. arts institution.
Talk show veteran Conan O’Brien was feted with the Kennedy Center ’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Sunday in a lively production that blended accolades from numerous colleagues with occasional jabs at the Trump administration by participants — included the evening’s honoree. Comedian John Mulaney also quipped that the Kencen should be renamed “the Roy Cohn Pavillion of big strong men who love ‘Cats’ ” – the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that Trump has suggested that the center should present. The significance of the occasion was not lost on the honoree, who said that receiving the award from Letterman was “beyond my comprehension.” He recalled that in 1987, two years out of college, he was unemployed and living in Los Angeles, seeking a job writing on NBC’s “Late Night With David Letterman.” He was informed that the position was filled.
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