Conan O’Brien considered not going to the Kennedy Center event to accept his Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, he revealed on a new episode of his podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend.
“Obviously for the last couple of months with the new administration, there’s been some controversial stuff going on with the Kennedy Center,” he said. “There was a question of ‘Should I go? Should I not go?’ And I felt like it was important to show up.”
Trump’s firing of most of its board and installing himself as Chair of the Kennedy Center led some prominent voices to step down from their Center positions, cancel appearances, and even boycott future events.
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