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Conan O’Brien Wants Us to Be More Like Mark Twain
In his Mark Twain Prize for American Humor acceptance speech, he made his case.
“Welcome to the Kennedy Center,” Mulaney said, “or as it will be known next week, the Roy Cohn Pavilion for big strong men.” That joke, and more, will air on Netflix later this year. Speaking of woke, O’Brien noted in his acceptance speech that Mark Twain held characteristics many would classify with that word nowadays. “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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