Conan O’Brien got in a few digs at Donald Trump in the initial hour of the Oscars, not just in the opening monologue but in between introducing presenters.
“We’re coming to you live from the ‘Has A Small Penis Theater,”’ O’Brien said after one commercial break. “Let’s see him put his name in front of that.”
That was a reference to the renaming of the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center. The move by the Trump controlled board to rebrand the center for POTUS is being challenged in court, as the cultural arts institution was designated by Congress to be a memorial to John F. Kennedy.
While O’Brien’s monologue included a few political jokes, the comedian is not known for his partisan humor like some of his contemporaries, like Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers.
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