Members of Hollywood took pictures at President Donald Trump on Sunday whereas gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to honor tv host and comic Conan O’Brien, weeks after Trump unveiled sweeping modifications to the construction of the Kennedy Heart.
Trump, who eliminated the Kennedy Heart’s management in February, is now serving because the Kennedy Heart Board Chair. New members on the Kennedy Heart Board of Trustees embody second girl Usha Vance, White Home chief of workers Susie Wiles, and White Home deputy chief of workers Dan Scavino.
Comic Sarah Silverman took intention at Trump a number of occasions on Sunday on the Mark Twain occasion, particularly citing a 2016 look of hers on Conan on TBS the place she dressed up as Nazi chief Adolf Hitler.
“They wrote a bit where Conan interviews Hitler, who comes on because he’s embarrassed that he’s being compared to Donald Trump,” Silverman mentioned.
“I am actually not an obvious choice for Hitler. I mean, I am an obvious choice for Hitler,” mentioned Silverman, who’s Jewish. “Not an obvious choice to play Hitler. But they chose me, and it’s this way of thinking that makes Conan great again. I just really miss the days when you were America’s only orange a–hole.”
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Conan O’Brien takes half in an interview after arriving on the twenty fifth Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Conan O’Brien on Sunday on the Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts in Washington.
Silverman additionally recalled when she took a sideways picture of O’Brien’s mouth, and positioned the picture on her telephone between her legs throughout an look on Conan in 2012, prompting TBS to censor the picture due to its resemblance to feminine genitalia. She then instructed the viewers to look beneath their seat, the place they’d discover a copy of the picture of O’Brien’s pursed lips.
“You can go ahead and leave those photos on your seat when you go – the guy who took over loves grabbing pussy,” Silverman mentioned, a reference to the leaked Entry Hollywood tape the place Trump bragged about kissing and groping ladies as a result of his fame.
The tape, initially filmed in 2005, leaked forward of the 2016 election.
Silverman wasn’t the one comic to poke enjoyable at Washington on the ceremony. John Mulaney additionally straight referenced Trump’s Kennedy Heart shake-up, joking that the president would rename the constructing after Roy Cohn, Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel who supported the Wisconsin senator investigating suspected communists. Cohn additionally had ties to Trump, and served as an lawyer for Trump within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties.
“It’s an honor to be here at the Kennedy Center, or as it will be known next week, the Roy Cohn Pavilion for Big, Strong Men Who Love Cats,” Mulaney mentioned.
Comic Will Ferrell, who beforehand gained the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2011, additionally took a jab at Trump’s government order on Thursday to upend the Division of Schooling.
“I don’t have time for this. You know what I’m supposed to be doing right now?” Ferrell mentioned. “Do you have any idea? I’m supposed to be shutting down the Department of Education.”
Comic Nikki Glaser, who hosted the Golden Globes in January, advised reporters on the crimson carpet it could be “insane” to not tackle Trump’s shake-up on the occasion, whereas additionally remembering that the aim of the evening was to have fun O’Brien.
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Nikki Glaser takes half in an interview after arriving on the twenty fifth Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Conan O’Brien on Sunday.
“I think it’s insane not to address the elephant in the room. And it’s like, it’s insane comedically, to not do that, because it’s, it’s right there,” Glaser mentioned.
Glaser mentioned the present political environment gives comedians with a chance to grab a “rebellious moment.”
“It’s an easy laugh to just say anything about it, but also you get to say something and have a little bit of a rebellious moment, which is always a fun thing to work in,” Glaser advised reporters on the crimson carpet. “But I’m not going to make a meal of it…that’s not what it’s about.”
Glaser additionally advised reporters she beforehand didn’t need to talk about politics as a result of she didn’t need to alienate any viewers members, and whereas she is extra inclined to take action now, she’s involved about loss of life threats and being doxxed.
O’Brien additionally addressed the Kennedy Heart’s shake-up, and thanked the Kennedy Heart’s former president Deborah Rutter and chairman David Rubenstein, in addition to different workers members “who are worried about what the future might bring.”
“Thanks to my people who invited me here a few months ago: Deborah Rutter and David Rubenstein,” O’Brien mentioned.
O’Brien additionally paid homage to writer Mark Twain, whom the award is known as after, claiming that “Twain was a patriot in the best sense of the world.”
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Comic Conan O’Brien, middle, and his spouse, Liza Powel O’Brien, look out on the group initially of the twenty fifth Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Conan O’Brien.
“He loved America, but knew it was deeply flawed,” O’Brien mentioned. “Twain wrote, patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”
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O’Brien, who hosted the Oscars this month and is slated to host the occasion subsequent 12 months as properly, advised reporters on the crimson carpet that his materials for subsequent 12 months’s awards will rely on present occasions, and that concepts for content material are at all times altering main as much as such occasions.
“I could no more tell you what next year’s Oscars would be now than I could three months out of it, you know, nine months from now,” O’Brien mentioned.
Different comedians who’ve gained the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor embody Ferrell, Tina Fey, Dave Chappelle, Ellen DeGeneres, Adam Sandler and Kevin Hart.
Fox Information’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
