Comedians use Mark Twain Prize ceremony to slam Trump following Kennedy Center takeover

Comedians gathered Sunday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony, using it as a forum to take shots at its new chairman, President Donald Trump.

This year’s recipient was comedian Conan O’Brien. While he did not directly mention Trump during his acceptance speech, the former late-night talk show host mentioned that Twain “hated bullies” and was also suspicious of “the money-obsessed mania of the Gilded Age.”