Nikki Glaser was one of many few celebrities to stroll the purple carpet at this 12 months’s Mark Twain Prize — definitely not due to the honoree, however maybe due to the “elephant within the room.”
Glaser stated that she anticipated the night would give attention to honoree Conan O’Brien, however that there could also be a couple of “rebellious” figures who joke concerning the scenario.
She informed reporters that she does suppose twice now earlier than doing political jokes — together with these at Trump.
“Like, you simply are scared that you just’re gonna get doxxed and dying threats or who is aware of the place this leads, like, detained. Actually that’s not even like a joke. It’s like an actual concern. So it’s unlucky that that’s true, however I’m not gonna lie and say I don’t take into consideration that generally and go, ‘Oh, god. Can I simply say, I hope all of them know, I could be up on the gallows and say I used to be simply joking. I’m a comic.’ I hope that that’s a protection.”
The occasion was the primary main fete since Donald Trump took management of the Kennedy Heart. Trump fired board members chosen by Joe Biden, ousted the president and ensured that he would develop into chairman. Throughout a go to to the establishment, Trump made clear that he would oversee not simply programming and the bodily look of the venue, however who is chosen for the Kennedy Heart Honors, even suggesting that he himself could also be named host.
O’Brien was chosen earlier than the president’s purge, and it raises the query of simply who can be within the operating subsequent 12 months, given the shortage of well-known Trump-supporting comedians and simply how a lot humor satirists have mined prior to now decade at his expense.
O’Brien informed reporters that it’s not his present so he has no management over what his mates and colleagues will say.
“Nicely, I don’t have any say of what any of my mates are doing,” he stated.
