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Comedian Conan O’Brien responded this week to criticize for accepting the prestigious Mark Twain Award for American humor last month Kennedy Center.
President Donald Trump He has become the president of the Kennedy Center since he took office, in a move that made the theater a new front for the cultural wars and encouraged some liberal commentators and performers that he would announce that he would not attend shows in protest.
O’Brien took advantage of his accepting speech to address Kennedy Center leadership after Trump’s rise of the presidency. He also thanked the former president of Kennedy Center Deborah Rutter and President David Rubenstein, as well as other members of the staff “who are concerned about what the future could bring.”
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Comedian Conan O’Brien responded to criticism for accepting the prestigious Mark Twain award for the US humor at the Kennedy Center. (Getty Images)
“Obviously in the last few months with a new administration, some controversial things have been going on with the Kennedy Center,” O’Brien said in this week’s episode of his Podcast, “Conan O’Brien needs a friend.”
“It was a question:” should I go? Shouldn’t I go? “And I felt like it was important to show up,” O’Brien said in his show.
“We brought under the old regime,” he explained, adding that the old guidance of Kennedy’s center “is gone, but we should honor their decision.”
“We brought under the old regime,” O’Brien said. (Rich Fury/Getty Images photo)
“It was really nice because young people working at the Kennedy Center for years were delighted to come,” he said. “They don’t know what their future is.”
Other comedians present at the O’Brien Award ceremony, including Sarah Silverman, took the opportunity Attack Trump several times At the Mark Twain event, especially citing her 2016 look at Conan on TBS, where she dressed as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
“They wrote a little where Conan interviewed Hitler, who comes because he is embarrassed that he compares himself to Donald Trump,” Silverman said.
Fox News’ Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
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