Bill Maher will get the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

It was announced officially on March 26

The chronology:

1. The Atlantic reported this last week.
2. The White House flatly denied this to be true. “This is fake news. Bill Maher will NOT be getting this award,” said secretary Karoline Leavitt.
3. But on Thursday, the center confirmed Maher was the pick.
4. The White House explained: “This was false reporting at the time of the Atlantic’s reporting, but the situation changed.”

So they lied, then lied about whether they lied!

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I wondered how Maher would react to receiving something that is officially named “The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor,” but he seems to be OK with it.

Thank you to the Mark Twain people: I just had the award explained to me, and apparently it’s like an Emmy, except I win. I’d just like to say that it is indeed humbling to get anything named for a man who’s been thrown out of as many school libraries as Mark Twain.

Trump, of course, has never been thrown out of a library. That would require him to enter a library.

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The capper on the story:

According to several sources, outgoing Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell wanted to give the prize to Fox News talk show host Greg Gutfeld. Then he actually watched Gutfeld’s show and asked, “When does he get to the funny stuff?”