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Bill Maher Defies White House Pushback to Claim Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center
Whitney Cummings, Louis C.K., Woody Harrelson, Arianna Huffington, Stephen A. Smith, and Jay Leno were on hand to pay tribute to the veteran comedian and host of 'Real Time.'
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Powerline
· Jul 4, 2026
The eternal meaning of Independence Day
On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience as Douglas prepared to speak. Douglas graciously invited Lincoln to join him on the balcony to listen to the speech. In his speech Douglas sounded the themes of the momentous campaign that Lincoln and Douglas waged that summer and
The Daily Signal
· Jul 2, 2026
Bill Maher, Liberalism’s Apostate
Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper—yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it’s only in Donald Trump’s Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves. He’s now the 27th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award first won by...
DNyuz
· Jun 26, 2026
Trump’s cognitive health and tiny fair crowds take center stage in brutal Jimmy Fallon bit
Jimmy Fallon spent a second straight night ribbing President Donald Trump’s new Great American State Fair on Thursday, saving his sharpest jab for a petting zoo bit aimed squarely at the president’s cognitive fitness. The “Tonight Show” host took aim at the fair, which opened to the public on Thursday on the National Mall as []
The Daily Beast
· Jun 29, 2026
Bill Maher, 71, Cornered on Trump Suck-Up at Kennedy Honor
Nathan Howard / REUTERSComedian Bill Maher has been cornered on his contentious relationship with Donald Trump while accepting an award that the president’s administration insisted he was not getting.Maher, 71, on Sunday received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, the prestigious venue that Trump tried to rename in his own honor, and whose facade has now been stripped of any association with Trump.The comedian has used his HBO show Real Time to praise and criticize the president. After a visit to the White House last year for a dinner brokered by their mutual friend Kid Rock, Maher said Trump was “gracious and measured,” and not like the “person who plays a crazy person on TV.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
Associated Press
· Jun 29, 2026
Bill Maher says 'Mark Twain' prize fits
As comedian Bill Maher picks up the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor he explains why comparing him to the iconic Twain makes sense. #MarkTwainPrize #BillMaher
Salon
· Jun 24, 2026
Why MAGA buys Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool hoax
The GOP base would love to arrest people who laugh at them
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