The Trump administration insists Bill Maher will not be receiving the prestigious Mark Twain Award for American Humor.
“This is fake news,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday as reports circulated that the Real Time host was going to enter the pantheon of comedy with the honor. “Bill Maher will NOT be getting this award.”
“Literally FAKE NEWS,” White House Communications director Steven Cheung proclaimed today.
Handed out by the Kennedy Center (which the MAGA crowd likes to call a different name), the Mark Twain Award has inducted the likes of Richard Pryor, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Lily Tomlin and Eddie Murphy in the decades since it was first introduced in 1998. As of now, and maybe not until 2029 at the earliest, Maher will not be joining the list of recipients, which also has rewarded Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels,
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