Conan O'Brien decries 'bullies' while receiving Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize
Conan O'Brien accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday, March 23, with a not-so-subtle broadside against US President Donald Trump, whose takeover of the Kennedy Center, which awarded the prize, has shaken the arts world.
A host of comedians including David Letterman, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman and Stephen Colbert celebrated O'Brien for comic greatness while ribbing the Trump administration and putting a spotlight on the renowned arts facility that is now overseen by Trump allies.
But it was O'Brien, the longtime late-night television host and comedy writer, who aimed his comments most directly at the Republican president without using his name.
REUTERS / THE KENNEDY CENTER VIDEO
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Conan O'Brien accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday, March 23, with a not-so-subtle broadside against US President Donald Trump, whose takeover of the Kennedy Center, which awarded the prize, has shaken the arts world.
A host of comedians including David Letterman, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman and Stephen Colbert celebrated O'Brien for comic greatness while ribbing the Trump administration and putting a spotlight on the renowned arts facility that is now overseen by Trump allies.
But it was O'Brien, the longtime late-night television host and comedy writer, who aimed his comments most directly at the Republican president without using his name.
REUTERS / THE KENNEDY CENTER VIDEO
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00:00there to catch you before you really had to dig yourself out of a hole.
00:05Our country has been through many different sea changes and my thought is I will be here
00:12specifically to honor Mark Twain and the people that this award stands for and also all the
00:19young people, young, old, middle-aged that have worked here at the Kennedy Center for
00:23a long time and this is their livelihood.
00:26So that was my thinking and it's an incredible honor to be here.
00:32Twain hated bullies.
00:34He populated his works with abusers such as Huck Finn's alcoholic father, Tom Driscoll
00:38and Puddinhead Wilson and he made his readers passionately hate those characters.
00:43He punched up, not down, and he deeply, deeply empathized with the weak.
00:54Twain was allergic to hypocrisy and he loathed racism.
00:57So I accept this award in the spirit of humility, stupidity, inanity, irrelevance, fear, self-doubt
01:08and profound unceasing silliness.
01:12I thank you.
01:13It's the honor of a lifetime.
01:14Thank you so much.