Washington – Washington (AP) – Conan O’Brien is configured to receive the Mark Twain Award Sunday night in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsWhere the Drama behind the stage From the host institution you can hang out on the celebration.
O’Brien, 61, was appointed the last receiver of the Award for life achievement in comedy In mid -January, about three weeks before President Donald Trump The Kennedy center overturned By expelling the president of a lifetime and the president of the Board. Trump fired the Board of Directors and replaced them with loyal, which then chose him as president.
When announcing the changes, Trump published on social networks that dismissed individuals “do not share our vision of a golden age in arts and culture.”
It remains to be seen how that vision takes shape, but Trump has spoken of wanting to reserve more Broadway shows there and the idea of giving Honors from the Kennedy Center State to actor Sylvester Stallone and singer and songwriter Paul Anka.
In these steps of Maelstrom O’Brien, whose comic personality has never been particularly political. The comic has always tended more towards nonsense and self -prosecution. But he has also inclined to sometimes sensitive social problems. In 2011, O’Brien officiated a live gay wedding in his program, supervising the marriage of his costume designer Scott Cronick and his partner David Gorshein.
O’Brien jumped to the Center for the Care of the almost total darkness in 1993 when he was chosen to replace David Letterman as host of “Late Night” even though there was no significant experience in the chamber. The former Harvard Lampoon editor had spent the previous years as a writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “The Simpsons”, which appears in the camera only as an extra occasional background in the parodies “Snl”.
Then he was the host of “Late Night” for 16 years, more time than any other host. Later, O’Brien was used to replace Jay Leno as presenter of “The Tonight Show”, but that experiment ended in the public failure. After seven months of qualifications in Declive, NBC executives brought Leno back to a new show that would increase “The Tonight Show”. O’Brien refused to accept the movement, leading to a public dispute That ended with a billionaire payment for O’Brien and its staff to get out of the network in early 2010.
O’Brien was the host of another interview program at the TBS cable station, while launching successful podcasts and travel programs. It is currently on a Hot streak of late elderly statesmen. Your travel series, “Conan O’Brien must leave” It caused popular and critical acclamation, with a second season. His recent concert that anfla the academy awards was so well received that the producers announced that they are bringing back next year.
Following the acquisition of Trump of the Kennedy Center, several artists, including the producers of “Hamilton” and the actress and writer ISSA RAE, announced that they were canceling appearances in the place.
Others have chosen to act while they announce their feelings from the stage. The leftist comic W. Kamau Bell directly addressed the controversy in his performance a few days after the shake. Earlier this month, the cellist Erin Murphy finished her set with an performance of the Woody Guthrie protest anthem, “All of you, fascists, subject to losing.”
Mark Twain recipients generally receive taxes and testimonies from a collection full of comics stars and celebrities. Given the nature of the comedians, some of them seems likely on Sunday night they address the issue of the institution’s uncertain future.
Other comedians who receive the Lifetime Achievement Award include Letterman and Leno, along with George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett Bill Murray and Dave Chappelle.
The ceremony will be broadcast on Netflix at the end of this year. The date has not been announced.
