Conan O’Brien is working on criticism for accepting the Kennedy Center Award.
Comedian Conan O’Brien responded to criticism this week for accepting the prestigious Mark Twain Award for American humor last month. Kennedy Center.
president Donald Trump Since taking office, he has been chairman of the Kennedy Center. It made the theatre a new front in the culture war, urging liberal commentators and performers to announce they would not attend the show in protest.
O’Brien used his acceptance speech to address reforms in the Kennedy Center’s leadership after Trump was chaired. He also thanked former Kennedy Center President Deborah Latter and Chairman David Reubenstein, as well as other staff members who are “worried about what the future will bring.”
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Comedian Conan O’Brien responded to criticism for accepting the prestigious Mark Twain Award for American humor at the Kennedy Center. (Getty Images)
“Obviously, there have been some controversial things in the Kennedy Center over the past few months in the new administration,” O’Brien said in an episode of this week’s podcast, “Conan O’Brien needs friends.”
“I was asked, “Can I go? Please don’t go?” And I felt it was important to show up,” O’Brien said on his show.
“We were brought under the old administration,” he explained, adding that the old leadership at the Kennedy Center “we’re not there anymore, but we should respect their decisions.”
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“We were brought under the old administration,” O’Brien said. (Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images)
“It was really lovely because the young people who worked at the Kennedy Center for many years were happy that we were here,” he said. “They don’t know what their future is.”
Other comedians who attended O’Brien’s awards ceremony, including Sarah Silverman, took the opportunity Attacks Trump several times At The Mark Twain event, she quotes her appearance in 2016 in Conan on TBS, who dressed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
“They wrote a bit about Conan interviewing Hitler because he’s embarrassed to be compared to Donald Trump,” Silverman said.
Diana Stancy of Fox News contributed to this report.
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