Comics Brutally Taunt Trump At Kennedy Center In Historic ‘Resistance’

Comics battered President Donald Trump within the venue he now chairs on Sunday.

In a ceremony to award Conan O’Brien the Mark Twain Prize that can stream on Netflix Might 4, comedians gathered on the Kennedy Center to unleash sharp barbs on the president.

O’Brien’s award was introduced by the middle earlier than Trump took over and put in himself because the chair to root out perceived “wokeness.” So it was on with the present.

Listed here are among the greatest jokes, culled from Deadline, the New York Times, Washington Post and others.

Sarah Silverman to O’Brien: “I simply actually miss the times while you have been America’s solely orange asshole.”

Stephen Colbert: “It is a very completely different place. Right this moment they introduced two board members, Bashar-al-Assad and Skeletor.”

Colbert additionally ate spicy scorching wings in a “Scorching Ones” phase for O’Brien. “I simply need to begin by saying, in gentle of the brand new management on the Kennedy Middle, all of those are proper wings. And a few them are really insane.”

John Mulaney welcomed viewers to the Kennedy Middle, which he mentioned would quickly be rechristened, “The Roy Cohn Pavilion for Huge Robust Males Who Love ‘Cats.’”

Kumail Nanjiani on the Masturbating Bear, a recurring character on O’Brien’s discuss present “Late Night time”: “It is a becoming introduction to America. Nothing represents America higher than an unbelievably highly effective predator pleasuring himself on tv.”

Will Ferrell griped about having to attend as a result of “I’m presupposed to be shutting down the Division of Schooling.”

Fellow discuss present nice David Letterman proclaimed late within the ceremony, “In historical past all the time, this can have been essentially the most entertaining gathering of the resistance, ever.”