Bill Maher will be the recipient of the Kennedy Center‘s Mark Twain prize for American Humor in a ceremony next month.
The prospect of awarding Maher the prize, first reported in The Atlantic last week, had the White House communications director denying it as “literally fake news.” President Donald Trump, the center’s chairman, has recently lashed out at Maher, even though they dined together last year.
Roma Daravi, the center’s vice president of public relations, said in a statement, per the AP, “For nearly three decades, the Mark Twain Prize has celebrated some of the greatest minds in comedy. For even longer, Bill has been influencing American discourse — one politically incorrect joke at a time.”
The ceremony will take place on June 28, just before the center closes for two years of renovations.
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