Konan O’Brien received the Mark Twain Award for American Beach in the John Kennedy Center for Dramatic Arts, and it attracts Sarah Silverman, Will Ferrell, David Litrman and Stephen Kulbert to the most amazing event in the center since President Trump has attached him to the center in mid -February, and members of the Board of Fire announced.
In the days before the big O’Brien night, the light question was great: with many funny people in one of the most disputed spaces in the country, will the joke on Trump be?
The answer – just as indicative jokes on the president’s expenses in the historical chamber, and now a front line in the cultural war – was unambiguous.
When Litrman presented the award to O’Brien at the end of the night, he said: “I am not a historian, but I think history will appear, in history all the time, this will be the most entertainment gatherings of resistance, at all.”
At another point, Silverman told O opera, “I just miss the days when I was the only orange America …” – The sentence finished with a colorful word for the exit point from the human digestive system.
The evening was a test of comedy, decoration, freedom of expression and the type of high comedy that tolerates the new administration designated by Trump at the Washington Center. Beings abound on whether the night celebrations will be the last for the floors prize – which is the best award in the comedy world. Among the former honors are Dave Chapille, Adam Sandler, Letterman, Bill Murray, Kevin Hart, and Trump’s prominent critic John Stewart.
The Kennedy Center observers who wondered whether O’Brien would address the Republican elephant in the room during the admission speech that he answered when the comedian made this blow: “Twin was suspicious of populism, genius, imperialism, and the obsession that was delivered to the money in the amazing era and any expression of American power or self -self.”
He repeated the indirect O’Brien comments Trump Zinger Without speaking on behalf of the president.
O’Brien said: “Anura” spends a good night, this is great news, two are already, “referring to the best winner of Shawn Baker about a fiery worker who marries a young young woman-and resists a campaign of intimidation and domination by the new regulations. “I think the Americans are excited to see someone finally standing to a strong Russian.”
The Mark Twain Award was imagined in 1997 as a comedy answer to the Academy and Grammy Awards, and Richard Briur won the opening award in 1998. The ceremony is usually a funny and funny festival-with comedians who are interested in distributing other comedians to the big prize. Jerry Cenfeld Julia Luis Drifus celebrated when she won in 2018; Operation was there to roast his friend Sandler in 2023.
Politics is usually not at the forefront and the center, although it is not unprecedented for the winner to a loaded comment. When Stewart won in 2023He said: “Comedy does not change the world. We peel bananas in the coal mine. When society is threatened, it is the comedians who are sent away first. It is just a reminder that democracy is not the threat. The tyrants are the threat of comedy, to music, to think, to poetry, to progress, to all those things.”
In 2025, policy became the basic conversation on the Kennedy Center after Trump made every appointment by former President Biden. The new council Trump installation as president His ally, Rick Greenil, called as a temporary head of the center after the launch of President Debora Rutter long ago.
Rotre was the one who praised Opion for the Mark Twain Award when it was so He announced for the first time in January. In a statement described that the host late at night and the world’s roaming comedian “the master of invention and innovative re -pushing the envelope in search of new comic altitudes.”
O’Brien respected his hat to Rotter during the ceremony, saying: “Thank you to the people who called me here, several months ago: David Robinstein and Dibora Rart. I don’t know why they were not here tonight. I lost Wi -Fi in January. I think they are in traffic.”
O’Brien is not strange to Trump’s joke. In 2018, when he was hosting his TBS dialogue program, Trump mocked To not watch his listening sessions.
“No, this new evidence against President Trump was called” the dreaded “, and some say that this may end his presidency,” O’Brien said, before he acted, before he behaved, “No, I waited, that joke was two years ago.”
After getting a round of applause, Operation remained wandering in his signing of the Fon-Funsif-Funsev.
“This joke has also been one year ago, and six months ago,” he said. “We used a braid card, like 15 times.”
