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O’Brien Acceptted the Award for Lifetime Achievement in Comedy Sunday Night While Acknowledge the Backstage Turmoil That Hangs Over The Future of the Cultural Center in Washington.
O’Brien, 61, was named the 26th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize in Mid-January, About Three Weeks Before President Donald Trump David Rubenstein. Trump Dismissed The Board of Trustes and Replaced Them with Loyalists, Who Teen Electrated Him As Chairman.
On Sunday, O’Brien Specialty thanked Rubenstein and Ruter – Drawing An Extended Round of Applause – and Also Kennedy Center Staffers Who, He Said, Were.
He Said the Example of Mark Twain’s Own Life and Career Was Particularly Resonant at this Moment in America.
“Twain Hated Bullies.… He Punked Up, Not Down, and HE DEEPLY EMPATHIZED COMPLETE WEAK,“ O’Brien Said. “TWAIN LOVED AMERICA, BUT HE KNEW IT WAS DEEPLY FLAWED.”
A Mark Twain Impersonator Ten Emerged from the Audience. After a back-and-fortth debate with o’brien, he joined him on stage and the pair slaw danced for a while. They are the youned by a dozen More Twain Impersonators and Previous Twain Prize Recipient Adam Sandler for A Raucous Rendition of Neil Young’s “Rockin ‘in the FREE WORLD.”
That musical ending cappied off a night who the uncertain fate of the Kennedy Center ITSELF WAS WOVEN THROUGH The MULTIPLE TRIBUTES AND TESTIMONIALS to O’Brien.
“I Think It Wuld be Izane not to address the Elephant in the Room,“ Comic Nikki Glaser Sid on the Red Carpet Before the Ceremony. “IT’s in the air tonight. This Night Is About Conan, But It Can Be Both.”
Once the Festivities Began, Stephen Colbert Joked that the Kennedy Center Had Announted Two New Board Members: Bashar Assad, The Ousted President of Syria, and Skeletor, a FICCental.
John Mulaney Quipped that the Entire Building would soon be renamed “The Roy Cohn Pavilion” After One of Trump’s Mentors. And Silverman Made Multiple Trump Jokes that Were Too Vulgar to Print.
Trump, in Announting the Kennedy Center Changes, Posted on Social Media That Those Who Were Dismed “Do Not Share Our Vision for A Golden Age In Arts and Culture.”
How that Vision Takes Shape Remains to Be Seen, But Trump Has Spoken About Wanting To Book More Broadway Shows There and Floated the Idea of Granting Kennedy Center Honors Status To. Singer-Songwriter Paul Anka.
Into this Maelstrom Stepped O’Brien, Whose Comedic Persona Has Never Been Particularly Political. The Comic Has Always Tended More Town Goofiness and Self-Deprecination. But he have also leanned intensitive Societal Issues at Times. In 2011, o’Brien officered a gay wedding Live on his show, overseeing the Margin of His Longtime Constume Designer Scott Cronick and His Partner David Gorshein.
O’Brien Vaulted Into the Spotlight from Near-Total Obscuryality in 1993 WHEN HE WASSEN TO REPLACE DAVID LETTERMAN as Host of Late Night Despite No Significant on-Camera Experience. The Former Harvard Lampoon Editor Had Spen The Previous Years As A Writer for Saturday Night Live an The SimpsonsAppearing on Camera Only As An Occasonal Background Extra in Snl Skits.
HE WENT ON TO HOST Late Night for 16 years, Longer Than Any Other Host. O’brien was later tapped to replace jay leno as host of The tonight Showbut that experiment ended in Public Failure. After Seven Months of Deckling Rathings, NBC Executives Brough Leno Back For a New Show that would would be bump The tonight Show Back. O’Brien Refused to Accept the Move, Leading to A Public Spat that Ended with a multimillion-dollar Payout for O’Brien and His Staff to Exit the Network in Early 2010.
O’Brien Went on to host another Talker Show on the Cable Station TBs, While Launcling Successful Podcasts and Travel Shows. He is currently on a late-career elder STATESMAN HOT STREAK. His travel series, Conan O’Brien Must Go, Drew Popular and Critical Acclaim, with A Season Season Coming. His recenting gig hosting the Academy Awards Was So Well Received that the Producers Announted they bringing him back.
In the Wake of Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center, Several Artists, Including the Producers of Hamilton and Actress-Writer Issa Rae, AnnounCed They Were Canceling Appeaarans at the Venue.
Others have chosen to perform while makeing their sentiments KNOWN from the stage. Leftist Comic W. Kamau Bell Directly Addressed the Controversy in His Performance Just Days After the Shake-Up. Earlier this month, Cellist Erin Murphy Sneredcor Ended Her Set with A Performance of the Woody Gutrie Protest Anthem “All You Fascists Bound To Lose.”
Other Comedians Who Have Receive The Lifetime Achievement Award Include Both Letterman and Leno, Along with George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, BOB NEWHAR
The Ceremony Will Be Streamed On Netflix on May 4.