Conan O’Brien accepts the Humor Kennedy Center award for humor while Trump is moving to the remake of the Meke Roil Arts culture: ‘Twain hates violence’
On the night when half a dozen people joked about this is the latest Mark Twain Award, Conan O’Brien took care of the ceremony on the ceremony John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts ended on a high note.
O’Brien acceptedComedy of Lifetime Achievement AwardOn Sunday night, acknowledging Backstage restlessness that hangs on the future of the Washington Cultural Center.
O’Brien, 61, was named 26. Prize winner Mark Twain in mid -January, about three weeks before President Donald TrumpIn the middle of the Kennedy CenterBy throwing out longtime President Deborah Rutter and the Chairman of the Committee David Rubenstein. Trump rejected the guardian committee and replaced them with loyalists, who then elected him as the president.
On Sunday, O’Brien especially thanked Rubenstein and Rutter – drawing extended applause – as well as Kennedy Center employees who, he said, were “concerned about the future of the future.”
He said that the example of his own life and career Mark Twain is especially resonant at this time in American history.
“Twain hated the abusers. … He hit, not down, and he sympathized deeply with the weak,” O’Brien said. “Twain loved America, but he knew it was deeply flawed.”
Impersonator Mark Twain then got out of the audience. After his debate with O’Brien, he joined him on stage, and the couple danced for a while. They were then joined by a dozen twin Importator and the previous recipient of the Twain Adam Sandler Award for the tumultuous performance of Neil Young “Rockin in the Free World”.
This musical ending limited the night when the uncertain fate of Kennedy’s center himself walked through multiple honors and testimonies to O’Brien.
“I don’t think it would be crazy not to contact an elephant in the room,” said comic book Nikki Glaser on the red carpet before the ceremony. “It’s in the air tonight. This night talks about Conan, but it can be both.”
Once the ceremonies began, Stephen Colbert joked that Kennedy Center had announced two new members of the Committee: Bashar Assad, the Ovole Syria and Skeleton, a fictional supervillain.
John Mulaney has given up that the whole building will soon be renamed “Roy Cohn Pavilion” after one of Trump’s mentors. And Sarah Silverman made multiple jokes that were too much vulgar for press.
Trump announced the changes in the Kennedy Center on social media that those who were rejected “do not share our vision of the golden age in art and culture.”
As this vision is formed to see, but Trump said that he wanted to book more Broadway shows there and floated the idea of awardKennedy Center HonorsStatus actor Sylvester Stallone and songwriter Paul Anka.
In this Maelstr, O’Brien stepped, whose comic persona was never particularly political. The comic has always been more difficult towards fever and self -determination. But sometimes he tilted into sensitive social questions. In 2011, O’Brien served a gay wedding live in his show, monitoring the marriage of his longtime Costa designer Scott Cronick and his partner David Gorshein.
O’Brien got into the center of attention from almost total ambiguity in 1993, when he was chosen to replace David Letterman as a host “late nights”, despite a significant experience on the camera. Former Harvard editor Lampoon spent the previous year as a writer for“Saturday night live”And “Simpsons”, they appear on the camera only as an occasional background additional in “SNL” sketches.
He continued the host of the “Late Night” 16 years, longer than any other host. O’Brien was later eavesdropped to replace Jaya Leno as the host “The Tonight Show”, but this experiment ended up in public failure. After seven months of rating, NBC executives have returned Leno to a new show that would return “The Tonight Show” back. O’Brien refused to accept the move,which leads to a public splashThis ended with multi -million dollar payments for O’Brien and his staff to exit the network in early 2010.
O’Brien continued to host another talk show on the TBS cable station, while launching successful podcasts and passenger shows. He is currently on the hot path of an older statesman in a late career. His travel series,“Conan O’Brien has to go”,He attracted a popular and critical recognition, with the second season. His recent gig that hosted the awards of the Academy was so well received that the producers announced that they werereturning it next year.
In the midst of Trump’s takeover of Kennedy Center, several artists, including the producers of “Hamilton” and actress and writer Issa Rae, announced that they were canceling performances at the scene.
Others decided to perform while their feelings were known from the stage. Levicar Comic W. Kamau Bell directly addressed the controversy in his performance just a few days after the earthquake. Earlier this month, Celista Erin Murphy Snedecor ended with a set of Woody Guthrie protest“All of you fascists who will lose.”
Other comedians who received a Lifetime Achievement Award include both Letterman and Leno, along with George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnert, Bill Murray and Dave Chappelle.
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This story is originally shown on Fortune.com
